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Whether you're at home or on the go , stay connected to the stories shaping our world , stream Fox News on Fox One , download today . Every time he's called on something, he does two things He does not back down and then he lies about what he said . APAC is not a fringe organization . Mr. Mondami , this is not Antifa , which you don't seem to criticize. This is not Black Lives Matter, a crooked organization that caused havoc and then the architect stole all the money . I hate to say this, but all people who are Jewish American in New York City, if you're on the left , he hates you because he is an anti semite racist Hello and welcome to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. This is our Friday News roundup. We got lots on the agenda Vance JD Vance has signed an agreement with the Israelis that he Israelis with the Iranians that he is excited about Mandami has called the APAC the American Israeli public affairs committee a monster, and we'll talk a little bit about that. 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That's joinedf otcom slash Hansen or text Hansen to eight three , eight, four, eight . Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor is the Martin and Eiley Anderson senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at Hills dale College . Please catch him at his website Victorhansen. com, the name of the website is the Ballade of Perseus. Come join us there for all things, Victor . So Victor Vance came out, sounded pretty happy with the agreement that he's made with the Iranians . And but what I want to say he's got an agreement on easing sanctions for Iran , freeing up the straits of Hormuz allowing Iran to sell oil and so make some money so that their citizens are not completely impoverished. And I A inspectors going in. And so Vance was very excited. But I would like to note that there's a lot of skepticism out in the presses because nobody can rely on the Iranians and we all know that. So I don't know where to place myself in between those two poles there. Poor baby. I know. So I think maybe your audience is wondering what do you do about this? We all just say they are not Let start' withs a certain truth . Whatever the Iranians say false and they don't even believe it. So they're saying the strait is closed or they're going to get a nuclear weapon, let them say all they want. But here's the reality . On the face of it the agreement's not good because in an ideal world we wanted no missiles , no subsidies to Arab terrorists no drones . We want all the enriched uranium now . We want no terrorist activities. We want the straight commitment to keep it open . And I think we'll get most of that. However , Donald Trump won't be in any position if he's impeached and the whole Republican hierarchy is subpoenaed, which will happen if they lose the House. And the odds are they will, but I don't think that's necessarily true. So what is going on? He thinks he can finesse this deal giving them concessions which they will break and he can occasionally do tit for tat as he has done , but once there is a memorandum in place , then the price of oil is gone from twelve to seventy three dollars . Gas is about a dollar cheaper already . And more importantly , he's looking at the radicalism of this democratic Party, every single day, Ram Platner says something crazier or Tala Rico says something crazier or one of these crazy socialist congressional candidates says that we don't want to deport criminal illegal aliens or socialists in Los Angeles say they want the illegal aliens to vote or Mr. L Saeed's worried about the people might get their feelings hurt that the supreme leader was killed . So he's thinking we are redistricting red states got the advantage over blue states. We might pick up four or five seats , no more racial gerrymandering. Some of them will have to make those changes before the election. Two or three more seats . The Democratic Party once people get to know it and they spend a billion dollars the Republicans to show people what they are . Their popularity, generic favorability in the midterms has gone from plus twelve Democrat candidate to plus five Democrat . It's going down . And then Donald Trump thinks the GAAS will given the memorandum will go down . And he thinks people are sick of the Middle East , and he was counting on that. And was he right? Yes, because the latest poll said fifty six percent of Americans favor the memorandum of understanding. Is it a good one? No, it's not , but it is in this context because it allows him a shot of keeping the House in the Senate and therefore keeping the MAGA agenda online . And more importantly, he can reply to these trans gressions what do I mean? Okay, tomorrow Iran sends, as I said, I don't know, six missiles into Oman . And what are you going to do about it? And Trump says, Well, and I know he's said this to them , we have a target list . And it's we've exhausted your military industrial nuclear complex. Switch up the way you play slots with new flex spins on Golden Nugget Online Casino. Now you can earn and redeem spins on the slots you actually want to play. 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See terms at golden nuggetcasino dot com slash promos ends june twenty eighth at eleven fifty nine PM Eastern time We're not going to just chase around one and two missile launchers or one or two missiles. We're going to hit you where it hurts. Like the Israelis took out a whole petrol chemical when they had that exchange . So every time you send in three missiles, we're going to take out fifteen bridges. I'm just hypo hypothetical. That's what he'll do, but he'll limit it to one day or twenty four hours so that the markets don't get skittish . And then he thinks he's going to get over to the midterms . And to be frank , whether he wins or loses, he's liberated. If he lost , he's his last two years are going to be like Obama's executive orders . And if he wins, he's going to get more of the M AG ageAnda to counter revolution . So then he'll do, as I said, what Bill Clinton did Bill Clinton bombed all the bridges on the danube , got traction, and then he took out the power grid of Belgrade. I hope Trump can emulate Bill Clinton. He took out all the electricity in a city of almost two million people like ten hours. I remember when he did it. And then he got really apologize because hospitals were interrupted in schools. We hit the Chinese embassy and sorry about that. Well , I mean, everybody didn't say anything. Was there any Chuck Schumer saying, well, you don't have congressional authorization, the war powers like no . So my point is that he thinks he can finesse his way to the midterms without damage. He expects them to cheat . He thinks he can get by with hitting dual use targets disproportionately to make them . And then when they think they have him, whether he wins or loses after the midterms, he's on bound. And if I were the Iranians And you were humiliating Donald Trump through this agreement and bragging that you're going to be enrich and rich and the midterms were over, I would say around december first , I would expect him to not put one foot on the ground of U. S. soldiers and to unload on Carg Island and onload on everything if they continue Is it a bad deal? It's a bad good deal, but geostrategically, politically, tactically, you can see the logic to it . And that's why the American people want it. Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, I think I may have quoted him. He was famously said about the Balkans, or is Germany going to have a protectorate in the Balkans ? Because Austria, Hungary was having problems with Serbian even in the eighteen eighties, you know, Serbian nationalism Slavic nationalism. They weren't Hungarians, I mean Hungary was the overlords in Austria. And he said the Balkans are not worth the bones of one Pomeranian grenadier . Marty meant, I'm not going to send one soldier into that hellhole. And that's our that's the American people's attitude now. And do are we really a colonial power ? No, do we if you want to control all the things that everybody says has to be controlled a lot of my best friends say, well, you got to get the missiles. You got to get the drone? Yes, yes. You gotta cut off all the money to all those yes, yes . And you've got to tell them they can't have any production, and you've got to help the people and have it regime changed. Okay ? We did that. And how do you do that? You invade Iraq or Afghanistan, you remove the government, you put in a pro western government and then you dictate to them . And that lasted twenty years in Afghanistan, and they still didn't ch ange. And it lasted ten years and today Iraq is anti American and it's got terrorists on its soil . So if you want to go into a country that's ninety three million people and the largest area in the Middle East , one and a half times the Texas. You're going to need four hundred thousand Americans. Why don't you lose seven thousand? I don't want to lose any American seven thousand de,ath , fifty three thousand, wounded for what? I'm not saying that that wasn't and the climate of nine eleven, we were not attacked after nine eleven . As everybody said we would, so there was some value to what George W. Bush did. Iraq is a better place today. Biden could have stayed in Afghanistan, kept backworm air force base, you know, three thousand troops in a fortified air base with strategic advantages , but we are not going to make Iran a protectorate and then dictate to all the things we want. What we want is no enrichment and is straight open . And then we're time remember everybody is on our side . The Saudis, the Emir ates, the people from Qatar, say the Qataris , the Oman , the Omanians , Oman , Oman . They all are great next speed. They're going to build pipelines to circumvent the Strait right into the Arabian Sea, right into the Red Sea, even all the way through Turkey to the Mediterranean or through Israel . And that being said it could be in two years that Iran says, Oh my gosh, all they got to do is shut down the strait and we can't get our oil out and we can't do anything to them because they have all these alternate sea routes through pipelines that we can't touch . So I think there' re sounding off and it's embarrassing. And the only thing I would suggest is that JD and the people who are official spokesman , don't talk about the moderates in Iran or don't talk about it's a new Middle East yet . And don't talk about you've dealt with these people. How many Iranians do you have to kill and all that? I understand what they're talking about. Nobody wants a war, but until there is a regime change, anybody in that country will be subject to the rule of the theocratic Islamic revolutionary guard and they are killers and liars and cheats. And the idea that you can talk to those people and they're going to they're jihadist . That's who they are. So it's better just to say we're dealing with the powers that be in Iran and we're going to negotiate and they are going to be backed up by force . And it's going to be disproportionate force if they break their agreements. That's all you have to say . Yes, let's hope that happens. Well, Victor, before we go on to Mamdami's labeling of the American Israeli political action committee. No, public affairs Committee. Oh, yes, public affairs. I have a pack sponsor . I said that I want to apologize to all of you. I said APAC and I said American Israeli political action committee. It's American Israeli public affairs committee . 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And then they did lasting damage to the United States by taking over intersections or demanding the abolishment of the Sat . You don't ever criticize them. You criticize no other packs. There's a lot of packs. How about the Care Pact ? The Committee of Arab American Relations, huh? You don't ever mention that. So he's talking about Jews. And he's basically saying that Jewish people who stick up for Israel are monsters . And he says they have too much influence except, what he's doing right now he's a communist and full of himself to quote a novel by Tom Wolf a man and is full. He thinks he's at the pinnacle of his power. Now he's getting all of his staffers in this huge city with all this money multiple and he's staffing it with communists and socialists and he thinks it's a movement he's building and now he's getting brazen and he's being implicit about what he feels. I hate to say this, but all people who are Jewish American in New York City, if you're on the left, he hates you because he is an anti Semite racist and he hates you if you're not Jewish and you're in favor of Israel as you know a home a traditional home for the Jewish people . And he doesn't care anymore. He thinks he looks at all he looks at the architecture says, Well, Talerico , he's doing what I did. He's smiling and he's faking it out and he's doing what our Virginia Governor did Shellenberger. Is that her name ? Spamberger Spamberg 's an M, isn't it? Spamberger? Spamburger? Yes, I remember . So he's doing what she did. It's go act like you're a moderate and then once you're in office, go full comic . Platin , he's kind of befuddled , but he's got a very mean streak on. Every time anybody asks him a question, he starts grimacing and angry like he'd like to strangle a person . But Mandami looks at the squad and Omar and A OS and he thinks it's his moment that we're going to go communist Mandami in a much more volatile period of immigration even than now in the nineteen hundred and nineteen twenties, Eugene Debb was a socialist , perhaps a communist . He ran for president five times . He was in jail in his last bid in nineteen twenty. He only won one million votes out of about one hundred thirty million or one hundred forty million Americans at the time. We have never had a grassroots socialist communic movement Socialism and communism is a boutique creed of the elite wealthy , people who are wealthy. If you don't believe me, Mr. Mandami, look in the mirror. You are a settler colonialist . You came from Uganda where the Indian population was one percent and controlled sixty five percent of the economic activity of their colony, Uganda. Then you came over here with your parents and your dad is an endowed professor endowed professors at Columbia, I would imagine make about four hundred thousand dollars. Your mother is a subsidized filmmaker and look around you, Miss Illian Omar, another communist socialist , says she was worth thirty million until people said, That's impossible. So now she's worth zero, but you figure it out. And then you turn over to Bernie Sanders, the archetypical socialists. He's got three homes , three homes. One on a lake, one in Washington, and one in Burlington. Three homes for a childless eighty something couple . He's got a lot of money . And if you look at all of these socialists, maybe not Mr Talerico, he's on his mom's checking account . But Graham Platnert, his dad is a very well known, wealthy lawyer. His mother is an elite restaur owner and operator, and she's your only client. She is his only client. I could go on and on and on. Bill Ayers he was Bill Ayers the Socialist Communist bomber who disappeared when Obama was elected because it had been said that Obama admitted that he had written his memoirs in the Ayr's home, but you know , a lot of people looked at passages in Bill Ayre's memoir, and then they looked in Obama's, and there were metaphors and similes some quite long that were identical, meaning there was this accusation that Bill Ayers ghost writ , minute much of it. Who knows whether it's true or not. But my point is he was in the third row with Bernadine Dorne, the terrorist . I saw a clip. Meghan Kelly brought it to my attention . She interviewed Bill Ayres in twenty fourteen on Fox. And I remember that interview, but I didn't remember how bad it was . She the questions were just you killed people, yes. But that was it can you guarantee you wouldn't do it again? No you stole money? Yes , I stole money . And you lied to people and got fake ID's, yes. And the people that your wife was responsible for killing orphaned nine children, yeah he didn't he didn't apologize . That was a that was another thing Obama did. He's doing just like Spamager, all these other people like Talerica, they act like they're moderate because nobody wants to nobody in their right mind would elect a socialist or communist . But Obama got elected because there is no red state. There is no blue state, which is just American state. Remember that two thousand four Convention address? That was such a lie . And now he's back to his old he was like, I'm Walkama. I'm a socialist community organizer again because I got my eight years and I'm a multimillionaire out of it. It's just why Why can't a communist just say I am a socialist communist? I don't know any socialist is really not a communist. I'm a socialist communist. I'm proud of it, and I want to convince you to be a socialist communist and all my friends are socialist communists, but they never do that. Can I ask you something because you're right on there was a story it's not really significant but in the daily mail today of this billionaire and his wife who were out saying that they wanted communism for landlords and the global welfare state . And they were very young. I think he was he from India or something? Yes. I remember reading about them. Why doesn't they open his mansion up ? Remember that scene in Doctor Zhivago when he comes back in the aristocratic chalice has about ten people in it. Why don't they do that? I had a good friend. Wait a second. The aristocratic house had about twenty people in it, and they were bossing around his father and father in law and his wife and stuff. You know, one of my she was a very misunderstood person in this area, Carol Harris of Harris Farms. She was a wonderful person . I really liked her. And she was a staunch conservative and donated heavily as did her husband John, to conservative causes, but she had a good sense of humor, so I was over there once at a reception and she came up to misses Victor, I'm just worried about this Obama character . He's a socialist I shouldn't have done it, but I said Carol, Carol, Carol. Now you look here at this beautiful palazo you have on the Kings River. It must be , I don't know, fifteen square feet . She looked kind of like a deer in the headlights. And she goes, why ? And I said, Well, I'm from Selma. We got a lot of poor people. Now, if you'll let me intervene, that bedroom, that bedroom, that bedroom, we can put these Smiths and the Jones and everybody like Dr. Zervago. And she said, Oh my gosh, I remembered Dr. Zervago. And then she said and then she started laughing because I was trying to be real serious. I really miss her. She was a wonderful person , very eccentric, but in a good way and I think . Well, I was looking at those two and I was thinking, why are people supporting? It's not just socialism. Yeah, it's not just their socialism. It's the defund the police, get rid of ice, no prisoners. Why are they doing that? Have you heard those New York politicians? Yes. Yes. Why? What? It has to be just a whole bunch of young that don't know what the heck's going on. No, it's first of all , the attacks on ICE , the defense of Carmello, Anthony, all of that stuff is elite driven It's not, I mean, there are poor activists. The ICE look at the Ice Demonstrations. As I said earlier, they're wealthy, white retired people for the most part that are left wing and some college students . And they're demonstrating basically against working class Mexican American and poor white people who are the ICE officers who were very courageous and hard working. That'd be a terrible job to have to go into a person's home and find an illegal alien criminal and have no idea what is lurking behind the door, a gun, a knife . So when you look at burning sand all these people, it's an elite .' Theres no you can argue that the tea party or the MAGA movement. That was a real movement , middle class, but this isn't this is like the occupied Wall Street. That was a bunch of students that were pretty elite. So who are these people ? There are two types. They're the upper, upper professional class that doesn't really care about taxes. They have enough money. They don't care about und to the f police because they live in neighborhoods . I spoke once in San Francisco in a very tony neighborhood and once in Piedmont . And I parked my car and I got out of it. These were very safe, wealthy neighborhoods in the Bay Area. And I swear to the maker that within five minutes a car pulled up. And I thought it was a police car. It was a private security. Can I ask where you're going? I need to know the address. Tell me the address and your name and what the business you have. And I stood there. And then they said, We're going to we need a phone number . And I have known. I said, Well, tell us the people who are invited you to give this lecture. And they did. And I waited and said, Thank you, Mr. Hansen, do you want to drive over there? I said, No. He said, We would prefer you come with us and we'll drop you off because our job is to make sure you're safe and secure. That's the kind of neighborhoods they live in. They don't live like out here. Yes, but do you think they're also overwhelmingly relatively young? Yes, that's the second group of this coalition and those are people who have been told and told and told . The letters behind your name are very important. Your BA. You got to be Ivy League or at least pseudo Ivy Lig or pseudo pseudo Ivy League . And you need to graduate and it's going to cost two hundred thousand dollars . And you're not up to classical, I mean no offense, but classical languages was not easy . And physics is not easy and mathematics is not easy. And comparative literature, if you know French, German, Italian is not easy . But sociology , studies , psychology, environmental studies , all of that is easy , especially in an afflated great environment. So they go to school and the average rate to get a BA in America is six years . So they take ten units, quarter off , semester, five units, and they drag it out to and even then half don't graduate . And so they go to this thing and they've been sold this b bigill of goods. And then they get there and they find out that it's easy in these social sciences and psychology. All of community studies, it's a joke, the studies and their professors are just rank partisans. They get up there and pontificate and talk stories about how they were at Berkeley when they were thirty or something and heroically on the barricades, or I'm on my way to an ice demonstration plap, plap, plap. And then they get out and they they're urban creatures. They're yuppies. They want to live in Chicago or New York or Boston or San Francisco or DC or, you know, and they go there and they're the most expensive places in the world five thousand dollars for a room and they think, Well, wait a minute. I have a brown BA and I majored in environmental studies . And then they go for a job like a nonpfroit , I'm gonna go, I work at Greenpeace. Okay, what does Greenpeace pay you seventy thousand dollars a year and try to rent a place? So they're frustrated. I can't get married. I can't have children, not that they would anyway , but that's what they say. And I can't buy a car, I can't do anything. No, you can't. You're in suspension. An electrician or a plumber in Fresno has a much better career path than you do. So they get angry I'm, but educated on the like Plumber and Fresno. I know where reality is and these people have false consciousness. I don't because my professor told me and I'm educated and I have a BA and I went to Brown, and I went to Dartmouth, and I went this . And then my professors and you want to shake them and say, No, you're an idiot. You went and paid all that money and you borrowed it, and you'll never pay it back. And the reason that you are stupid is that you were indoctrinated and you would just hear all this anti Americanism, this green crap, the DI crap, the transgender crap . And now what do you know? Nothing except debt and you're frustrated because you think you deserve you're glib and you're articulate and you think your lifestyle should reflect your educational and your title and it doesn't . Okay, but that's not enough to get Mom Dommy elected. Like you think that's enough people to get him elected. You know why? Why? New York has what? The Boroughfield Boroughs is eight million . I think seventeen percent voted . It wasn't even two million . So you get the hard democratic socialist organizers and the DI and the Muslim organiz ers and you get them out in the boroughs and you get everybody registered like California at the same day registered. You can get enough people to be motivated and most New Yorkers are not motivated . So they let him come in. If there was a poll , he probably would have won fifty five to forty five . But he won overwhelmingly. And the other thing was they split the vote. All of these conserv atives, what was Curtis Silwa doing? You know what I mean? What was Eric Adams doing? He'd already run. I mean, it was just it wasn't so they split the vote. There was no coordination among the traditional ists or conservatives . And every time they have if you if our listeners can tell me one place it worked , well, yes, Victor, Democratic Socialism in Scandinavia, no, they're getting rid of it. Sweden is going to deport everybody. The open borders didn't work . Everybody's on social eighty five percent of European migrants are on social welfare assistance . Where does it work? Soviet Union no. China no there are a communist political system with a crony capitalist economy. Cuba no Cuba is impoverished. Venezuela, no they ruined Venezuela. Tell me where it worked. Yeah, I agree with you. Once. Well, hopefully they can't at a national level, organize enough. I think that's where the Democratic Party is headed though, that they want to bring in and have as many voters that they could I don't want to say coerce but convinced that way and they might just win, you know ? I remember why socialism there was a story, you know, it was I don't know if it's a popular narrative, but it was Marx when he had people come over to his home . He said, everybody , put the money you can afford each according to your ability to give and each according to your ability to take and you put gold coins in and the idea was those that were making I'll just take an orbit a thousand German marks a year and those who are making twenty. The German thousand guys would put, well, how did that work? It turned out that the people all grabbed the money and very so I was thinking of that when I was in a really youthful bad mood at Cal State Fresno . So we had a refrigerator of all faculty members for their lunch. Faculty members are the tightest people in the world. The idea they would spend five dollars . Roose Thornton and I always budgeted so we could go have a hamburger , but they wouldn't. They had their little brown bags. Anyway , so I was on the farm and we had forty acres of organic fruit . I mean delicious tomatoes , old varieties, you know , beef steak, tomatoes, Alberta peaches, Santa Rosa plums, all picked that day . And I said, and I would give them to people , but I brought up a poppy fruit and I put it in there. And I said a little note on it. I said, I brought up for my colleagues take what you need , but I said, All twenty five of you take what you need. And I thought they would each take three. And I put it in at eight in the morning and at nine thirty I saw these guys with bags like garbage bags and it was completely empty . Four or five people just looted the whole thing . I thought, well, that's not very communistic or socialistic when you're all are left of sinner . So I learned very quickly it's a joke. He's sorry to be so cynical, not cynical about most things, but I am cynical about human bombings. Get that smile every time you could tell us the Roman poet talks about a Spaniard. He just detests. And he says, All he does is smile with these big glistening white teeth . And then he says, Of course, he does it because he washes he brushes his teeth with urine , which I thought was when I read that poem at eighteen, I thought that is so gross and I looked it up and Romans sometimes did. Or that was the myth that they did. But Montomi always smile if people say. Yeah, of course. Did you call people monsters? No, it's like his smile is the equivalent of Camela Harris's cackle. Gosh, the other day she got on to hope and be what was it hope ? And oh, she was talking to Don Lemmon. And she had just got on to hope before and it was just a disaster. She thought in this interview that she would be very careful not to get into aristotelian metaphysics, but because she knows nothing , has no detail, no memory, a vocabulary of five hundred words . She started in on this behavior and people expect they have to have hope and hope it turned and Don Lemmon, who's like as crazy as she is looked at his eyes and it was just like as I said, Hank Johnson guy with his eyes rolling . Don Lemmers thought, wow , those right wing SOBs are really correct. She is an idiot, isn't she? And then you never know whether how many drinks she's had because her eyes, she does look and I know I'm not trying to be malicious, but she does act inebriated . And so it's I hope that they're going to run her and she is leading. She is leading. She's actually gonna do that run though because she was with her husband. There had been rumors , they had tensions . I just can't believe I don't know what he's like, so maybe he's worse, but I can't believe being in the same room in there every day . Can you imagine what are we going to have for dinner ? Dinner . It's such a cosmic idea. I mean, think about it. Dinner , it came after lunch. But what is lunch? Who knows ? But everybody cares . Let's talk about it . Think about it. We're becoming lunch and then we become dinner and that's the process of becoming breakfast . It's fascinating. And I look at the stars and it's the same thing . And then she would be like, Oh my God, please, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than listen to this. Victor, it's that new age self improvement tapes that she listens to all the time. I thought that I was I got a lot of criticism criticism when she first ran I don't know if it was on Laura's or somebody's show and I said she has a vocabulary of five hundred words. People got angry but Kat Temp I was, watching the other night on Gutfield. Yeah . She was much more clever than I was but much better. She said, It's like listening to a person that you feel, you don't know English and that it's supposed to be like English, but you don't have any idea what she's saying. So you're wondering if you don't know the grammar syntax vocabulary because it's completely unfathomable what she said. Yeah , yeah. It's uninterested, empty, empty, emptiness . All right, Victor, so let's take a break and then come back and talk about Tucker and Marjorie Taylor Greene leaving the Republican Party . Stay with us . We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal , but they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. But among these are life, liberty , and the pursuit of happiness . But to secure these rights, governments are institut ed among men , deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends , it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as shall to them seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. 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He thinks that millions of people are going to go, Oh my gosh, Tucker Carlson left the Republic. I got to read leave too , or he means I'm representative of the people, and therefore if I leave people like me will leave but I don't know which way he meant it, but it was silly and then the question that the Never Trump's never answered . I'll just what's the alternative? So you're going to leave the Republican Party. Does that mean you're going to vote for eighty percent? You're going to have Graham Platinum, you seem to like him? He's a socialist. If Graham Platin and Talerico were in control, we'll have another ten thousand people coming across the border . We'll have seventy million foreign born . If you have those people , we're going to have DEI and like you won't believe you're going to have defund s it's going to be much more radical than Joe Biden's surrogate presidency. So is that what you want? He says he's not going to join the Democrat ic Party, but what does that mean? Are you going to be a libertarian? You're going to vote for a candidate with three percent of the electorate vote. We've never had a third party candidate . I think that has got , well, maybe Bullmoose Teddy Roosevelt, I think as a third party got more than William Howard Taft. He might have got forty percent . But basically you max out where Ross Perro, that was a record at that time. twenty one percent . So what's he going to do? The never Trumpers. And then both of them should take a deep breath and say , let me be empirical and look at all the people who were very close with Donald Trump, who turned on him that either worked for him they were close or they wanted something from him , or they were inhabitants of the White House or Air Force One or Marlago. And then they turned on him . Maybe look at Rex Tillerson. Where's Rex Tillerson? How about John Bolt on? Hmm, John Bolton. Liz Cheney, she's doing well, isn't she? And the point I'm making is that it doesn't end well. Oh, Bill Crystal , he was the voice of conservativis m and now he's relegated to , I don't know where he is. I guess the bulwark, occasional co written Ed Op Ed urging us to he likes Mandami. In the case of Bill C rystal, I think he's happy there. I think he was never conservative . I think he was always happy. It's not about being conservative or not . It's about being in the center of attention. That's what he wanted. Yes, you're right. But my point is whether you believed that you were conservative and now when you turned on Trump you feel betrayed and you're losing your influence or whether you're losing your media exposure. It's the same idea . And so it doesn't earn well. And the thing to remember is it's your ego. John Bolton, as I've said numerous times, was never going to have a political career again after he was UN ambassador. George W. Bush gave him a recess appointment . All he needed was a Senate Com.p They hated his gut s , I think unjustifiably at the time, but Donald Trump appointed him national security advisor . And I thought HR McMaster had been doing a lot better job than everybody said he was doing. I thought he was a point he did a better job than John Bolton . But my point is when he got there, he thought he was in control. And so he was so full of himself that he transmitted these classified information on secure server to write a memoir to trash his boss who selected him and saved his career. How did that end up? When he got fired and he's now in legal exposure or he's going to be sentenced what is it? Two million dollars? I can't remember how many million he's going to owe a million dollars and he's got a suspended sentence. I don't know I haven't followed the latest, but my point is he's consumed with it and he has no credibility and none of these people do. Part of it is they were too intimate, you know, when Rex Tillerson , did anybody know that he was the head of Enron ? Is that what he was? I don't know. I'd never heard of him, and all of a sudden he was secretary of state. So all he had to do was be a little humble , and then he got into a shouting match that Donald Trump was a moron, and Donald Trump said, What's your IQ and they went back and forth? And then he got fired and where is he now? Is he going to write a memoir the great career of Rex Tillers? It may have been in the oil, but when you when you take something from somebody and then you're obligated to them and you're a frequent companion with them and then you turn on them and you know that the majority of people agree with not you but the boss , you're not going to end up well . So Marjorie Taylor, Greene, and Tucker, you just have a little checklist. Did they go off into the White House? Yes. Did they talk about going ? Yes. Did they fly on Air Force One? Yes. Did they talk about it? Yes. Did they talk about campaigning? Yes , for Trump. Yes. Did they say that they did a lot to get Trump elected? Yes. Did they go down to Marlago a law? Yes. Did they feel betrayed ? Yes , did they feel disloyal that Trump was so what's the common denominator? They inflated their importance . They thought that they had the president's ear . And then when the question of Israel, Jews, and Iran came up, they didn't get their way . Well, Donald Trump owes his election to me or I have his six cell phone numbers. And if they hadn't have created such intimacy, you know what I mean? I mean, I went to Marlago one time in my life . And what I saw there was very impressive, but there were people there that were obviously name dropping that they went all the time . You can't be objective if you go all the time there . And Trump , I don't know what he would think, but I think he would think that it would be healthier for him and for a journalist or a critic or somebody to have respectful distance . So you could say , what was so hard about saying , I admire Donald Trump. We disagreed with him . I went on occasion . Of course, I'm not responsible for his success. I gave him a suggestion that I disagreed . He slapped that down in Trumpian fashion. But then I looked at the entire spectrum of his agenda and I real ize I agree with him eighty percent . So I'm not going to let this twenty percent on Jews , Israel and Iran endanger my support that I otherwise have for it. They couldn't do that. You listen to me or I'm done with you. And what was she trying to say, Marjorie Taylor Greene, that the Epstein files indicted Trump? They didn't . And why did Joe can she ask answer that simple question , why did four years they knew about it? Joe Biden wouldn't release them. Donald Trump did within what a year and a half . And the answer is that there are ninety percent left wing people , all of them are in there . And she doesn't she just keeps talking about Epstein Frawl Espine Frawles, Epstein Frau. Well, yeah, we saw them . It's not an issue now, but I guess it's some semitic thing where she thinks that he was Jew ish and he's when you get refuted on your main thesis that it's all these powerful Republican donors and Donald Trump was and then it doesn't go. You go well, he was Jewish . Mossad was blackmailing people. There was no evidence of that. So they got upset that they felt that their influence warranted more presidential attention. It didn't . Yeah, the human ego, right? Victor. So fragile. Well, Victor, let's welcome back, our other sponsor here at Allegiance Gold. If you've studied enough history, you start to see a pattern. Nations don't lose their way overnight. 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I really think it's tragic we've lost thirteen soldiers , but it's equally tragic we're killing each other at a horrendous mount in one city alone . And you know what? I kind of coined a term a long time ago called the Bloomberg rule and that means when you have a natural disaster you have no idea how to solve or even talk about , you always find some minor issue to demagogue or put in layman's terms, when you can't deal with a felony, you deal with a misdemeanor. So if a cop sees a guy speeding and he's weaving all over the road and he's going one hundred and twenty miles and he can't catch him. He pulls over the grandmother and says that she doesn't have her signal working . And what's happened in Chicago, every time there's a Saturday night when the weather is above seventy degrees, there's a shootout . We all know why what's happening. It's Black Americans between the ages of fifteen and fifty, and they're in gangs and they have grudges and they grew up with a single mother . There's no father figure there and the state has been subsidizing young women who have numerous children. And it's not an environment that most people would say is conducive for nuclear family and sober behavior . He can't solve that. He doesn't even try to solve that. So one day it's trans , one day it's racism, one day it's Donald Trump, anything but talk about the real issue in Chicago , that that killing spree is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And it's pouring into the million dollar mile, it's pouring into stores in Chicago and people are fleeing that city . And he can't do that. It's like Mayor Bloomberg when you had the snow and he had he couldn't get the streets clean and everybody was snowed in New York. What did he do? He started talking about the danger of supersized drinks that had too much sugar . And I would too if I couldn't get and Karen Bass, when she's in what Ghana she was, and she can't have a clue, even if she was here, she wouldn't have known how to get the fiber hydrants or the reservoir full, any of that, 'cause of all these DI appointments she made . Then she started talking about all these other issues. Now she's talking about illegal aliens can vote and you think, why don't you just look at this whole burned out beautiful area of Los Angeles and let people build their homes ? And she can't do that. You know, since you went into the California area, Newsom apparently implemented emergency relief for a burning warehouse in LA this week. They couldn't put this fire out it burnt from Friday the seventeenth. I know that she didn't where was she? She was even there. Yeah And they but what was strange, they couldn't put it out. And then if I were a Los Angeles residents, I'd be very suspicious . They hadn't told me something because they started telling people , put these N ninety five masks on and the smoke was blowing in. So they know something was in that warehouse that was toxic. I have a Los Angeles the last time I was there , it is a third world city and I don't mean that in the idea that it's non white . What I mean is there are some very when I've gone to Tripoli or I've gone to Cairo or I've gone to Damascus or I've gone to Mexico City , you see enclaves , really wealthy, kind of like remember that movie with Denisella, Washington, Man on Fire, that family had a wall. And then you have abject housing. You don't have middle class housing . And that's that's what Los Angeles has become. It's a city of the poor and then there's these wealthy isolated Attals , but there's no the middle class is leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving and you go downtown and there's homeless people, there's these I don't know what you would call . There's canteens, there's all this sort of third world tables with fake knockoff watches and everybody. And then you look at Venice Beach and she said she clinged it up. There's a picture of the other day of an average sunrise and you see it at Venice Beach. And you look at the beach and it's just every twenty yards there's a sleeping person on it. They look like seals and they're all laying out there . And there's nowhere to defecate urinate but on the beach . So I mean, it is a third world and it was all created by brilliant people who figured out in a desert climate how to get water from the Colorado River of the Owens Valley, which they stole, and electricity from Huntington Lake all the way down. They figured out how to put a lot of people and give them a quality life . And my generation came in and destroyed it. And I mean that literally. No, I don't they don't know the quality . The same thing happened to San Francisco. They have people trying to restore it , but the forces of anti civilization are very strong . And they're going to get stronger if the socialists come in. Yeah . Well, it's we'll wait and see. We know that most of California or a lot of Californians are leaving I shouldn't say they come in. They are running California. Yeah. Gavin Newsom maybe not doesn't say he's a socialist, but his program is social socialistic. Did you since we're there as well , did you see the gun law coming into effect july first so you can't have glock or glock like guns ? We'll have to take the phantom mysterious non existent glock from Camilla Har ris. They exactly. That went away of her long work record at McDonald's. She gets grandfathered in, so they did have the grandfather. I don't think it ever existed. My clock. You don't even know what a clock is. So I guess people are going to say we got rid of gloks and therefore people because we got rid of glocks they won't use Smith Weson any other brand Remington or anything. We're just going to Springfield armory. We've solved the problem. All right, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then we'll come back and talk about Andy Briman, the new PM in Britain. Stay with us and we'll be right back . Welcome back. Victor Davis Hansen in his own words . We're a subsidiary of the daily signal. So go to the Daily Signal and you can find more things by Victor Vict,or Davis Hans en and a few words , which are his small shorter video podcasts on specific topics. So please join us there. So Victor as you and Jack talked about Kurestarmer has stepped down and we have a new Andy Vernon. So they've appointed somebody new, which is as you pointed out a, strange process. The Labor Party can bring their own guy in any sort of well the parliamentary system. Remember Thatcher was heroic and then one day all of her cronies got met in a little ante room and voted to get rid of her. And then John Major was running the Gulf War or a Britney British contingent. They got rid of the most substantial prime minister since Winston Chchrutell, and the people never voted on anything . Not just the conservative people never voted, but the people enlarged. And we went hysterical when they did that to Joe Biden , but I think I wrote at the time where I said at the time , all the Democrats are doing is doing the European coup, you know, get rid of somebody of their own party and substitute somebody else. I think the problematic thing about Annie Burnham Burnham is that he doesn't seem to be very different from Kirstrummer. So he's even further to the left . He's an old fashioned labor neo Kinick type of person . He's from the industrial Manchester. I think it was the industrial north, you know . He represents the burned out British industry and jobsis that globalization wiped out . And he still believes that the way you restore Britain is you create more entitlements , you raise taxes on the hated ar ouristocracy. You get more unions , and you buy more national utilities . And that's what made Britain poor in the first place and poorer now . Is he going to say, Well, everybody knows in the proem to Livi's monumental history of Rome , he said, We have reached a point where the medicine is worse than the disease. Everybody knows what Britain has to do . They know it. They have to go full blast and new exploration in the North Sea and tap , frac, horizontal and get themselves again self sufficient in oil and get down the price of electricity with coal oil. And then they need to follow the French model and build nuclear reactors . They need to cut entitlements . They need to close the borders. They need deport all their illegal aliens . They need to open up the society and not go after somebody who posts something they don't like . And that's worse than the disease. They can't do that. They figure that 's two Donald Trump. And the result is it's going to get poor and poor and poor. They have no military . They have no military at all. And they keep talking about NATO, NATO, NATO Well , NATO is their military, and they don't contribute that much to it. They've got lots of protesters out in the streets too, so we'll see what happens with this new guy. I don't know what's going to happen to I mean when you I turned on the television the other day and there was a woman dressed up in a frog uniform and she was walking along the reflecting pool saying , Yay, yay for algae . And then I looked on my computer today and I saw all of these left wing sites where they said Donald Trump lied. There was no sabotage . And they just and then I went to another news site that was apolitical and they just arrested somebody today trying to pollute the reflecting . Haven't they arrested six , I think, in that for destroying the reflecting pool in some capacity . They have we don't know to what degree they're responsible for to what degree of damage, but whether they put chemicals that ate away the plastic blue paint liner or they put algae in there, but it's they anything they touch, they have the anti mitus touch. Everything they touch turns to draws. They destroy everything . So you can disagree about Donald Trump's fixation on gold or whatever it offends your academic taste, but if you look at the lecture hall, dining hall, whatever you want to call it event center in the White House. It is a neoclassical building and it will fit in and it will be very secure and safe for the next ten presidents. And it'll have a basement where you'll have offices for security and everything, anti drone windows . And the idea that they'd stop that in this wreckage , just to spite them or they'd try to I mean, whatever you think about Donald Trump. I remember when Obama did it, everybody said, Well, he spent fifty million bucks. I said, I hope he spends it because every time I went to Washington, it was filthy dirty. And I was glad he was doing it. He didn't do much else . It didn't last very long, but this idea that it's sort of what Robert De Niro said that when Trump is president, you don't like the United States. And then those polls show that when Trump is president, only twenty four percent have a strong support of the United States. And then they showed when Obama was president, it was almost indistinguishable. sixty nine percent Democrat, sixty eight percent Republican. So there is a difference . Yeah, there is the universities have I think they're responsible for seventy five percent of that . Something really detestable about the modern professor who has a lifetime employment and makes about one hundred seventy thousand a year as a full professor, one hundred and fifty with lifetime employment and summers off with a very light and gets in front of a classroom and pontificates about this left wing utopia to students that are in debt and are not being taught and are not developing writing or analytical or oral communication skills and then they go out and they're unemployed and then you keep doing this year after year after year while you say that college is creating an educated America . They are very culpable . You know, I was listening this morning to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton , and they got onto this subject that a lot of people say is I can't believe there are billions in fraud money that's taken away from the government . But anybody who's worked in a government agency knows that this is what I always used to tell because I used to work in one . I would tell my peers , this is just an entitlement program. In other words, the point of the program was the people they hired and not the they were more than happy. I read a city journal article on the Medicare Medicaid . At the state level, they can get more money from the Feds , the more fraudulent people that they have on their center for there's no incentive. The center for immigration studies show that the majority of people who come here as immigrants, legal or illegal are on public assistance, and they're four times more likely than American citizens . And yet, if you say that, you're called a racist. So the whole entitlement , I get back to that story. I was made an appointment at the DMV at a local office and I went over there and it was packed and it wasn't moving. And they were considering a strike. I thought a government agency . So all the people behind the window had purple shirts with white a SCIU service employees union strike , but they were working, but they were slowing down . So I went finally got my number. I was there about an hour and a half. And I don't know if it still happens that way, but I went to the window and I said all I wanted was someone stole my sticker off my license plate. I don't know if you can use him again or not. Can I have a duplicate ? And she's and then I just happened to remark when she came back ten minutes later , I said, Is it really wise to wear a union shirt here that you're , you know, expressing the highly politicized union and you're my employee too , you want your sticker or not ? And then I was and then I was, you know, I worked for twenty one years for the C alifornia State University system and I saw what was going on there. It was just it was a program for the professors and it was all about the administrators and professors and the professors all they talked about was parking . They wanted better parking and how they hated administrators . They hated administrators because they make more made a lot more money and they did even less and the students , but the students in the sense that how either they hated the students or their students adored them . It wasn't , you know, but they never talk if you talk to a French professor or you talked to it was never about their field. You never sat down and said, you know, I was reading Camus again and Lepest is a great novel. I didn't really appreciate it. Or you talked to a history professor and he would say , Hey, Victor, let's have lunch. And then it would be ,h G,os I'm teaching the Eastern Front on World War two. And I didn't realize how barbaric the Russians treated German presidents. Something like that. It was never that way. It was always about, oh my gosh , they gave me an eight o'clock class. I got three more years to my pension and I told them I won't be there until ten in the morning . They put me out in the lab school. It's a terrible place . The window doesn't open right. You know what I mean? That's all they talked about. Oh, coffee. Coffee they've added fifty cents to a cup . And you know, I had to park today and somebody didn't have a sticker, an R sticker and I had to park, you know, one hundred yards away . I just cloosy. I once said to somebody , why don't we talk about ideas because I drove a tractor for the last five years and the people in farming , I'd go out and meet them on standpipe, all the neighbors. Hey, Victor, now let's get to the bottom of this Raisin Administrative committee. Think about it. This is a socialist program. They own your they had arguments , they had ideas . But academics who were in charge of selling ideas to us . None. All right, Victoria, we are at the end of the show. We're gonna got some comments from yours and Dr. Quay's interview last week that Dr. Fauci doesn't deserve any respect. And this is from HRDNIPZ. I'm not sure what that stands for, but he doesn't deserve any respect. He deserves a prison cell for the rest of his life . And if it was up to me , it'd be a hell of a lot worse. Yeah, it was funny because that came up in our interview and Dr. Quay was so professional. You notice he was so professional and magnanimous. He didn't criticize Fauci by name really. I mean, but you read his book it's an argument against what doctor Fauci did. I didn't want to put anybody in the spot, but I wasn't trying to suggest that he be the new person, but I said he would be an ideal person after what we had , Fauci , again, it's mind boggling because if you follow inductively each little step , where was it where was the virus made ? Who helped subsidize it, who helped cover up the fact that it was the primary responder, who demonized people and had grants taken away if they didn't tell the line, who gave us the pangolin, the bat fraudulent story, who gave us the two masks, we'll keep you, who gave you the eight steps? Who gave you ? And then how many people died there's a straight linear trajectory to him . And there's a lot of people in the comments that were talking about their various experiences with it with COVID I had gone over for six months and five months. And I had one person who said to me, When you have a ground glass opacity or a consolidation of the lung , that's when from COVID, I had pneumonia, then it's not out of the realm of possibility that that was the primary cause of your mass that then eventually mutated into cancer . I believe it if not the vaccination. I know the second Moderna shot, I was sick as a dog for a week or two weeks, maybe three . This is from I think it's Venisian gold nine three nine zero. I hope I got that. Right? Early on, didn't the Wuhan female virus scientists sorry , before her death send the world the original COVID virus schematics . I think she's talking about No, she did post . No Batwoman I think is still alive, isn't she? But one of the researchers who did post that is missing . In Russia, they throw you out of a high rise window in China, they disappear you. There's some bat somewhere they throw you in, I think or something. Some call that definestation . Yes , defest. And they've done that for hundreds of years. Dewindow you . All right , and this one echoes a whole bunch of comments. So I thought I should bring it Christopher Q three , I five W . Only the great Victor can bring this context forward. Thank you, Dr.u iQ. And there were lots of people who made that comment on I thought he was fascinating and I thought we're going to have another one that I got a lot of inquiries about Bing West. I mentioned him. When does he air . He will already have aired on Wednesday before this comes out. I think he was fascinating about drones and quantity over just small number of quality weapons. It was really interesting. His son is really instrumental in the Trump administration trying to produce more drones and missiles at an affordable cost. Well, Victor, we didn't get to the primaries today , so we will look at them for our Saturday episode. So be sure to join us on Saturday and you have two more presidents that you're right. I do. Soon and you wouldn't let me talk about Barack Obama. Oh, that's right . Well, we'll start with Obama. I'll talk about Jefferson and Barack Obama. All right . So join us to confuse the two, everybody. And we're working from the first president to the forty seventh they're, going then to meet in the middle. But Barack Obama , although he took a train ride from Springfield, he's like, Oh another president from Illinois. He thought he was A Lincoln. Remember that? Yes. He would be he would thank that. Yeah. All right. Well, Victor, thank you for your wisdom today. It's been wonderful. And thanks to our audience for joining us on this Friday News roundup. Thank you everybody for listening and watching. again This is Sami Wink and Victor Davis Hansen and we're signed in . Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at Victorhansen. com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.