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Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words
Victor Davis Hanson: Identity Politics Is Driving America Backward
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Updates on the conflict with Iran, the growing fallout from the Karmelo Anthony case, and a look at the legacies of George Washington and Joe Biden; this is “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
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Victor Davis Hansen
if you like Jasmine Crockett and if you like Half the Black Caucus cannot finish a sentence without saying white, white, white. And the whole intention of the civil rights movement, according to Martin Luther King, the archetypal leader, was to downplay race, the content of our character, not the color of our skin. But it has been accentuated with dei. She's also an abject racist. All she talks about is white, white, white, white people, white people, white people, white people. I said ignoramus without being defamatory, but evidential. She doesn't understand the law.
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Sammy Wink
Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. You can find Victor on his website VictorHansen.com the name of the website is the Blade of Perseus and you should come join us there for $65 a year or 650amonth if you just want to give a few months a try. Everything that Victor does is posted there. So all of his articles and podcasts and interviews and so you can find just about everything there, Victor. So let's start with Iran and an update on Iran. I know that Donald Trump has started strikes and that Iran is interestingly belligerent in telling Israel that it had better stop bombing the Hezbollah in Southern blah
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Victor Davis Hansen
blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, there, as I said last time on our show, there's something I don't understand. Apparently Donald Trump must have information that we, the public don't, because otherwise the sudden abbreviated abbreviation of the bombing campaign at 38 days followed by what, 60 days in which we had sort of kind of maybe negotiations and he got confident and apparently what was happening was the so called moderate elected officials were assuring him that they were going to concede to giving up the nuclear enrichment, to dismantle the missile with the vestigial missile fleet, to stop funding the terrorists, the Arab terrorists, and then to ensure the international control reversion to international waters in the strait. And they either had no power or they were paying duplicitous good cop. Why the Revolutionary Guard was continuing to hit Kuwait, uae, Oman, Qatar, Saudi, Israel. And we were not responding forcefully. And there was a word that was used by the administration I was very worried about proportionate. I hope they meant it in the context is if they hit us, then we proportionate in the sense that we reply, but it should be disproportionate. No war was ever won by proportionate proportionality. It's disproportionality. So I hope they understand that we should have a 10 times a magnitude of retaliation. So they send a missile at a US Carrier. Trump said, well, they were tapping, tapping, but. And then he said, but it didn't hurt anybody. That doesn't matter. That was their intent, was to hurt people. It was our skill that prevented it, not their intent that that stopped it. So we have to have a policy. And I hope he gives them just a sheet of paper and it says each time you launch a missile, this power plant goes out, this bridge goes out, this highway goes out. That's just what it's going to be. And then he follows through and then they will negotiate. And the other thing we don't know is maybe the negotiations are that he feels that the more that they're losing $400 million, if that's true in economic output, the weaker the Revolutionary Guard will be for prolonging and preventing the negotiations to come to a conclusion. I'm not confident about that exegesis. I think that we're too close to the midterms now and people have adjusted somewhat. But psychologically the economy is in worse shape than the data suggest. The stock market's good, jobs reports are good, GDP is probably good, foreign investment is great. The tax cuts and deregulations population are kicking in. But when you have the gas that high, and remember it's not as high as it was during the Biden administration, but when you have that, that just sends a chill through the economy that's magnified much greater than the actual output loss of income because of paying $1.50 more a gallon or something. So he's got to address that. And the only way you can address it is to hit them very, very, very, very hard. And then they will not have the ability, they have the intent. But you want to ensure they don't have the ability to keep closing the strait and to keep wheeling out these launchers. We should have a continuous. I think, I don't know why we didn't allow the Israelis to join in. They have 300 aircraft. We should tell the Gulf states, you have 600, we have over, I think 1000 to 1500. We should have a continuous no fly zone over Iran. And the first time anybody sees a thing, wheel out, blow it up and then get done with it. And everybody says, well, we can go home, we can go home if you do enough damage. They can stew in their own Jews. They've already bragged that they're waiting for Trump to leave and then they'll have another president that'll let him off the hook. That's an insult, really, if you think about it, to Joe Biden and Barack Obama, both of which they played. So it's time to draw to a close. And you can do that only by, not by the threat of force, not by negotiations, but the actual use of disproportionate. And if the left says, oh, you're hitting a bridge, you're hitting, just remind them that that's how Bill Clinton brought an end to the 72 bombing campaign, which if you go back and look at the record 1998, there was wide scale revolt among Republicans and some Democrats that we had been bombing for 50, 50 days and Milosevic was defiant and Russia was getting very angry and they said World War 3 and there's no authorization from Congress, no War Powers Act. And then all of a sudden he pivoted and he said, you know what? We're going to hit all the bridges on the Danube. You know what? We're going to hit all of their infrastructure, water, sewer, electrical plants. And they lost power for hours on end, day after day. And that stopped it. And so that's. And Obama, he bombed for seven months and he did hit. He claimed he didn't hit dual use, but he did. He hit port facilities, he hit TV stations, he hit communications. So I don't know why. I know that we were waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for the resistance. But they had lost 30 to 40,000 people. They were not going to rise up their biggest resistance. And I hope right now that when he hits, it's time to arm the Kurds and then use, smuggle arms into some of the resistance movements. You don't want to negotiate with a. It would be in the final days of Germany. You know, we, they had no ability to resist us, but yet they kept fighting, but nobody said let's negotiate with them. And the same thing with Japan. They hadn't. They killed 50,000Americans, excuse me, 50,000 casualties on Okinawa. They had sunk 17 ships. Among the dead were 12,000 total, but 5,000 seamen. And we had mined their Harpers. We had burned down 85% of the urban area of Japan with B29 raids. We had bombed bomb Korea. They had no ability to make war. Then we dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and then we dropped one on Nagasaki. And still the army was threatened to stage a coup and force the Emperor to continue. And based on the casualties at Okinawa and then calculated for the 7 million people who were under arms on the homeland versus 200,000 Japanese on Okinawa, and given the casualties of 50,000, the US army and there were a lot of famous people working on that study to calculate casualties. I think there was a lot of. It wasn't just scientists, it was corporate CEO Robert McNamara worked on it as a young man. And they came to the conclusions that if 200,000 had done that much damage and, and inflicted 50,000, what would 35 times that amount be? And that's where they got up to well over a million. And that was conservative. And we didn't know. And then they collapsed. We said, okay, we're not going to negotiate. It's unconditional surrender and we're going to keep bombing. And the B29s had enough napalm to destroy every city in Japan. And we had. The problem was with atomic bombs, we didn't really have more than one or two for the next six months, but that's how we broke the back of them. But they were just like Iran. They were defiant. They said, we're not beaten, we're not beaten. We still have overseas territory in China, et cetera. But you can't reason with the only reason that they were willing to negotiate. They were beaten and we didn't let up.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, it seems to me that he should continue your list, as you called it, even for signing on to an agreement. Just if you're an account, sign today, then we're taking this out. Get yourself together, sign tomorrow and we're taking this out. If you don't, I think that's the only way you're going to get a piece.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Well, if they hit Israeli, we should never say to Israel, you can't do this and you can't do that. Not when they're being shelled and they have drones coming in from Lebanon. You always go for the head of the snake. The drones The Hezbollah, they can't do anything without money and support from Iran, and Iran is afraid of losing that appendage, that leverage. So we should make sure that they don't. And Trump should say, you know what? I'm dealing with you on Iran. I'm not dealing with you on Hezbollah. We don't want you to give anything to Hezbollah, but if you do, the Israelis are going to hit you and why welcome it and that would change it. You don't want to. I know that he thinks he's close to a deal, and I think he feels that the moderates are playing the. The defectors from the Maduro regime in Venezuela. In other words, they have a caretaker government that was with Maduro, but they're going to flip them and we took the oil and put it into a trust account for the Venezuelan people, and they're going to do the same thing. We're going to get a couple of people who we negotiated with the president, maybe the speaker or something, and then we're going to split them off and then we're going to use them to keep order, and then we're going to put their oil in bank accounts for the people. That's not going to happen. Not with this regime.
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Sammy Wink
No, not at all.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Even if they wanted to, they would kill them. Even if there's civilian moderates that Trump says and they called him the other day after the strike, they'll be killed off.
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Sammy Wink
Yes. So in addition to that, this week, news out of that region was that Netanyahu spy service was eavesdropping on the United States. I have to say, you know, whether they were or weren't, I don't know for sure that's what the accusation is. But I would be surprised if they weren't listening to things. We do it to them.
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Victor Davis Hansen
I'm sure we do it to them all the time. Remember, Obama got caught when he went. Merkel, I think, got angry because we were spying on our ally, Germany. Their cell phone conversation, Obama was doing that. They all do it to each other, but it's not quite the same. Spying on an ally is trying to find out what they're going to say to you or what their opinion of you is when you meet them. It's not how to defeat you and kill you. And that's quite different. But, you know, the left and the ultra right went crazy about that.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. And last thing, the Apache helicopter that was shot down, the airmen were saved by drone boats and new technology. Did you have any thoughts on that?
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Victor Davis Hansen
Yeah, I do. I mean, It My only worry is we're forecast to make 300,000 aerial drones. Ukraine's a little tiny country with a pathetic gdp. They're going to make a million. So we need to have. What I would like to see is get converted oil tankers that are huge oil tankers and then just put a short little, I mean the whole top of it is a landing and that whole oil carrier area that's all full of drones and maybe park each have them in a. I know they're slow growing anything but just have them there with say 10,000 drones. We need to think out of the box because that's where things are going and I think Hexith is doing that. I don't think we want to make these 20, 30, $40 million drones anymore. I think General Atomics, Lyndon Blues, a very smart guy and his brother that run it and I think they were doing the Reaper and the Predator but those are reconnaissance drones and they have much more capability to strike. They have heavy missiles and things. But I think even they are augmenting that fleet now with cheap drones that are suicide drones that they don't come back. They're cheap one way drones. One way drones have all sorts of advantages as the Japanese taught us in World War II with kamikazes. Japanese said a Zero can fly 1500 miles to 2000 miles round trip lightened, but it has limitless lanes. If it's one way you don't have to worry about the return trip. And it's a cruise missile with a pilot's brain substituting for a computer. And it was very effective. They did. If they had started kamikaze operations at the Battle of Coral Sea, we would have been in trouble. And that's. But they didn't think they had to. But once they did it at Leyte Golf they introduced it and then they did it around Okinawa especially. It was deadly. And so we need to work on that to get a whole fleet of suicide drones One way bombs.
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Sammy Wink
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Victor Davis Hansen
She's a lawyer and she's such an ignoramus. She really is. She reminds me of Graham Plattner. He was from the upper middle class. And then he plays Joe, working man, oyster man, while his dad's friend gives him an island to work on. His mom is his only customer and he went to a prep school. Right. She's the same way. She grew up in an upper upper middle class family in the suburbs and then she created, she didn't develop it naturally, this inner city ghetto accent. And she uses that and gets sassy and then she turns it, and then when she gives a serious interview, she turns it off. And then she's acting as if she's a professional, but she's also an abject racist. All she talks about is white, white, white, white people, white people, white people, white people. I said ignoramus without being defamatory but evidential. She doesn't understand the law. What does it matter if I take a rock and hit some? If he took a rock and smashed Metcalfe's head, the rock is a murder weapon. It doesn't matter if there was a two by four in the Tent and he charged him and hit him with a 2x4 and killed him. That's a murder weapon. The only distinction is if it's illegal to carry a knife of a particular, then that's an accessory felony. But it doesn't matter because that's an accessory charge. The main charge is murder, and he did. And using a murder weapon, it can be a rock, it can be a two by four, it can be a piece of steel, it can be a knife, it can be a gun. But she's all hung up on. And then she almost implied, she said, if somebody was beating me down, it was £300. I wouldn't just restrict myself to the fist. Everything about that was a lie. He doesn't weigh 300 pounds. He weighed 35 or 40 pounds more than Kamela and he was about the same size. And more importantly, he didn't beat him down and knock him down. He sat there about 15 times. He said to everybody, I'm not leaving and what are you going to do about it? So then finally he said he didn't want to fight, but he gently tapped him back. That's not beating you down. So then she's suggesting that he beat him down, he weighed 300 pounds and then he had no choice to shoot, to stab him through the bone into the heart. And then she would do the same thing. That's what she was implying. And then the worst was when they unleashed those thugs that were outside the courtroom and the family came out and they said, we're going to urinate on your son, your brother's grave. And people on social media said, go check his tombstone. I've already smeared feces on. It was horrible. Just pre civilizational and all these things. Now we hear that decarlos Brown is going to sue the FBI who cut our poor Iranian immigrant's throat. And we had a young kid walking near his home in Philadelphia and what happened? Two people came up, African American young people, and they stole his phone, he asked for it back and they shot him and killed him. Killed him right in front of his house. This is all happening at once. And then you superimpose that on what's happening in Belfast or with the attempted beheading and blinding of a person just to walk. And people are starting to realize that there is a common thread. It transcends just illegal immigration. The thing is, if you create in the west this binary which Obama started, that it's not black white anymore, it's non white versus white and class does not matter. The Sikh family can be A millionaire like Mandami's family, who's Hindu. And the Sikh truck drivers can be driving for a multimillion dollar trucking firm, but they're victims, therefore they don't have to have a license the way everybody else has had to to get one. But if you start saying that these people have innate grievances that have to be conceded by the majority, and you keep demonizing white, white, white, white, white, white, white, and then you add to that they can't do anything. And ha, ha, I'm a Sikh guy and I just took out my ceremonial sword that they let me have and which they don't let anybody else have, even though it was probably 8 inches rather than 5. And then you stab somebody and then you think, ha, this weapon, and I used it means they gave me preferential treatment. And the fact that all I have to do is hit the race button and they'll come out here and exonerate me as I kind of show them a superficial little thing on my eye, and then my family can hide the weapon and say he's a racist and they'll let him bleed to death. That's all predicated on the idea that I'm protected. And when you add the idea of immigration into it, that you come to a foreign country and the indigenous, and this is the Irish and British indigenous population, and you give them exemptions and entitlements and they reward that magnanimity with ingratitude and anger, then it's time to call into it. And here in the United States, if you like Jasmine Crockett, and if you like, half the Black Caucus cannot finish a sentence without saying white, white, white. And the whole intention of the civil rights movement, according to Martin Luther King, the Architect leader, was to downplay race content of our character, not the color of our skin. But it has been accentuated with DEI because it is a get out of jail ticket, and it is a ticket on the fast track to employment promotion, retention. All you have to do is play a minority person and you're going to get preferential treatment. And the final absurdity, as I said last time, when you have three generations of Americans, for that matter, Europeans that were born after the civil rights movement passed civil rights legislation, and they grew up not with Jim Crow, not with institutionalized discrimination, not with Lester Maddox, not with George Wallace, but affirmative action, affirmative action, dei. And they went along with it as everybod. And yet at the end of that three generational in 2026, racial relations are a lot worse because the more that you claim that a particular tribal group, white people owe you something for something that happened that they had no part in. And especially to a group that doesn't even understand like the present. Jasmine Crockett doesn't know what segregation was. She also made it. And so it's not sustainable. So I think what's going to happen is. And then after the Comello verdict, Anthony verdict, they showed pictures of black people going up and hitting white people. One guy was on a bike. Did you see that? He just knocked him off and said, you're a juror. He wasn't. And he tried to go to a bus stop and attack a couple. That's not going to be able. That's not sustainable. Because what's going to finally happen, the elite white who created this, the left wing elite white, is going to find out that they're not exempt because the people who are racist, who are attacking white people don't care about their politics. In fact, they have contempt for the elite white because they feel they're a lot easier prey. They do not do this. They don't go down to rural Alabama and do it. They don't come out here to southern Fresno county and attack the Hispanic population or the Oklahoma diaspora. They never do that. They go into big cities where they're in the plurality and then they attack tourists or other people. But they have no idea that America is not the faculty lounge at Stanford white America. It is not John Kerry and Bernie Sanders. It isn't. It's the deplorable and they're not going to put up with it. And you can see what's happening in Britain and it's tragic because when you have people like Jasmine Crockett and they're not being cross examined, then the entire black community suffers, even though they've got brilliant people and they have to speak out of it. Same thing about anti Semitism. When she said another thing,
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Sammy Wink
didn't she say something about reparations? Like we're going to demand reparations and
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Victor Davis Hansen
until not going to come. It's not going to happen. They already have reparations. The Heritage foundation years ago estimated that the repertory Great society programs over 50 or 60 years had already transferred $30 trillion in wealth to the black community. In terms of affirmative action insight advantages on college admissions, direct housing, legal food support. Yeah, and when you add Jesse Jackson shaking down corporations to give money to his Rainbow Co, all of that stuff, Al Sharpton, all of that. And so the other thing that is surprising is I think Larry Elder mentioned that we haven't heard a word out of the. Where's Jim Clyburn? Where is Hikem Jeffries? Where's Al Sharp? Why don't they, I mean they're usually demagoguing everything and they know. The reason they're quiet is two reasons. Number one, they know the facts of the case and they know what would have happened if a white person went over to the other side of the track meet and he went into a tent where there were black athletes, their families, friends and he walked up to somebody and he said I'm staying here, I'm not leaving. And then they said would you please leave, you're not welcome, you're on the other team. No, I'm not going to do it. Please, 15 times touch me and you're going to find out. And then some young black teenager just put his hand on him and the white person pulled out a knife and plunged it. You know what happened? We'd have a George Floyd. So everybody knows that and it's not sustainable and they're not going to put up with it anymore. Especially when Jasmine Crockett says all these things and nobody in the black community questions her or cross examines her and she's just spreading hatred. That's going to further polarize some people. I guess they want to give topics to discuss. I get about five emails a week with little attachments about YouTube or TikTok. There is a whole genre right now of young white provocative people going up to black people and saying the N word because they use it. And then when they get mad they say well you use it. So we're going to use it. Which is kind of a bogus idea but you can see what that represents. That's not a sustainable thing either. I think there's this guy called Chad Chud or Chad the Builder and he makes a career out of it. He's making a fortune in ads and he's. Somebody just finally attacked him and he shot in self defense. I think he's in Tennessee on trial. But you can't keep doing that and expect people like in Belfit not to react to that. And so the solution is, I hope Trump the wall by the way is going to be finished. Now there was a big report on the progress. It's going to be all finished in two years before he leaves office. There'll be some places with those steep canyons. It's electronic but basically from the Texas coast to San Diego you're not going to be able to get across. And Joe Biden tried to subvert that, remember, he took the materials that were paid for and let them rust and then sold them off. He was a very pernicious person. But my point is, I hope there's people in the black community who stand up to Jasmine Crockett and said, what are you talking about? Any weapon that kills somebody is a weapon. Anything that's killed, what did it matter if he used a knife or a rock or a two by four? He tried to kill him and he succeeded. That was his intent to hurt him severely. And you know, she said one final thing. She said, and every black mom knows when their kid goes out that they're in danger from a white person. If you look at Chicago, 93 to 95% of all those shootings on Saturday and they're all by black teens, that's a complete fabrication. If you look at rare interracial crime, and this is important, most of the blue cities will not report promptly or at all to the FBI. So any statistics you get now has been politically warped during the Biden administration. But to the degree they do report it, only 7 or 8% of all violent crimes are interracial. But within that rubric, it ranges from six to 30 to one. In other words, that black people are six times depending on the type of assault, rape, theft, muggings, killing, six to 30 times more likely to do that to a white person than a white person to do that to a black person. So when she says that, that is a demonstrable lie. Most women in Chicago, in Oakland on a Saturday night and their child, their male child says, I'm going out tonight at 10:30 at night. They don't think there's going to be a bunch of white people in MAGA hats with bleach and a rope. Like Jesse Smollett said, that's not going to happen. It's going to be another black gangbanger or an innocent person caught in a crossfire between gang bangers. Banger. It's really important that people tell the truth. And I feel really, I don't want to get cliche, some of my best friends are black. But I really feel bad for the stereotype that's developing again because we had made so much progress and we're getting to the point before Obama that race was incidental, not essential. But once people got this message that you accentuate your race and you accentuate all your grievances and all your individual failures and all your disappointments in life can be attributed to your race and a collective prejudice, then you're going to have A racially segregated college and high school graduation ceremony. We're going to call it an affinity. And you're going to have a racially separated theme dorm, and we're going to call it a theme house. And we're going to get a racially separated and segregated place just for you on campus. And we're going to call it a safe space. And we're going to give you 200 points on the satisfaction. And we're not going to look at the caliber of your high school for your gp. You do all of that and then you create. I'll tell you something very controversial. I won't mention the circumstances, I won't mention the university that I was teaching at, but I was teaching as a guest and I had a seminar and I had two students. I won't mention their names, but they were African American and they said they had to have special tutoring. Excuse me. They didn't want to take the test because they had dyslexia or something to that effect. And there was an honor code. So they went into a special room.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, they call that disability. They had some sort of disability.
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Victor Davis Hansen
I had gone through this at Cal State, Fresno, so I was prepared for it. No monitoring in a closed room. Well, they came back out and they. On their term papers. And to prevent AI writing these papers, I don't give them, go, tell me the date of the fall of Roman Empire. I give a very unique eccentric question. You know what I mean? What is the revolution in arms in the 4th century BC something like that. You can't get to AI but on these papers, theirs was very. It wasn't competitive on the exam. They were near perfect, okay? So I was doing this, I looked at it and I said, these answers don't correlate with the paper or the class participation. So I asked my wife, and she just said, take the answers and Google them. So when I had definitions, who was Pericles? What was the 5th century Golden Age pantheon? All this stuff. And as soon as you put it in, I didn't even have an AI spotter or anything, right? It just came out. Wikipedia. Wikipedia. And so all I could do is I mentioned to people and said, don't go there. Don't go there. Do not make this accusation. I said, it's demonstrable. When I was at Cal State, that was an fool. Do not go there. Okay? So in class, the only thing I could do is there was a couple of ones that weren't in Wikipedia. So I said to one of the students, we're going to go over the test. We're all together. So I said, you had some great answers. I don't know how you knew pelopidas and epaminondas, but I want to read your answers. So I read them out loud, and they got. I read. Excuse me, I read one of them out loud. This was two weeks later. So then I said, I was even more impressed with your Epaminondas, and I hadn't handed back the test yet. I had the test. So I said, you know, both of you just did wonderfully on your identification. These were the top identifications I really liked to your Pelopidus, and let me read it to you. And I read it out loud, and everybody goes, wow, suspicious. And then I said, and your Epaminondas was so great, and it's not fair for me to read it. It was so wonderful. I'll do you justice. And this was by Zoom that day. I'll do it justice. So you can tell everybody who Epaminondas. Well, obviously she had written it on Wikipedia, but she forgot who he was in two weeks. So she puts a sign up on Zoom, can't hear dysfunction. And so the next time, that was for the midterm and the final. I said, I can't do this unless you have to leave your backpacks. You have to take no backpacks. I said to the secretary, you have to monitor, but you can't make accusations. But the point I'm making is, I asked myself, why would that happen? And the only thing that I could make. No other students did that. And it had happened to me at least over 21 years at Cal State. Five times.
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Sammy Wink
You mean no other student had claimed disability so that they could get a separate room and extra time to do?
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Victor Davis Hansen
Not in those classes, no. And I had all sorts of people from India, from China, Mexican American. No, it was just two African American girls. And when I was at Cal State, this happened maybe five times where African American students would say that they had disabilities and they would go in at that time, we only had the Internet. We didn't have AI. But again, it was on the honor code. And the quality of their exams when they took. You had much more. You know, my exams were exams. You had to know it well to finish in an hour and a half, two hours, whatever. But you get unlimited time. In their case. Now, all the students would complain to me, why do they do it? And I said, here's the Cal State unit. If they say they have a. But they said they don't. They don't and they were very angry about it. But what created that environment where somebody can think that they could do that with impunity to a professor and the other people in the class? And the, the answer is that if you say racism, racism, racism, racism long enough and you make allegations that are not grounded in fact, then the people will be afraid of being called a racist. And they will create institutions that allow you to have exemptions that no one else has. And that ruins deterrence. Believe me, had those been two white males, I think I would have had a green light to give him an F. And I did that at Cal State.
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Sammy Wink
And are you trying to imply, given the ignorance Jasmine Crockett has of the law and that she has a law degree, that maybe she did a few of those things herself?
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Victor Davis Hansen
I don't see after listening to her, she was on TV the other night. I don't know how she ever passed the bar in any state. She seems to think that if you don't have an outlawed weapon and she. If you asked Jasmine Crockett, would you please tell me the rules about carrying a concealed knife or a knife openly in Texas? She wouldn't know. Would you please tell me which weapons are not allowed in Texas? She wouldn't know. It was kind of a variant of a swift knife. It was razor sharp and it was five inches, maybe six. Does she know how close the heart is? I do because I just had open a lobectomy and the pulmonary artery was bleeding right next to my heart. And I can tell you, even though my heart an inch away, that pulmonary artery being bleeding, it gave me three liters, six or seven pints of blood loss and I was close to. So does she understand what that would? You don't need as a sword. All you need is about 4 inches to break through. And there were bone was on the knife, it went right through it. But even that, as I said earlier, it wouldn't have mattered if he'd used a rock. She doesn't understand that at all.
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Sammy Wink
She doesn't seem to know the law. Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about Joe Biden and, and George Washington. Stay with us and we'll be right back.
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Bradley Devlin
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Victor Davis Hansen
I think they forgot the 1982 Falklands War.
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Bradley Devlin
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Victor Davis Hansen
The media. Thank you. You can leave now.
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Bradley Devlin
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Sammy Wink
Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. If social media is the place you find your information, then please connect with Victor on X. His hand is Ed Hansen and on Facebook at Hanson's Morning Cup. So Victor, anxious to hear your discussion, I guess of George, I mean Joe Biden, but George Washington even more so. So have at it.
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Victor Davis Hansen
George Washington, after George Floyd, remember he was really tarred and feathered because he married, he married his wife who had children and she was a widow. And he inherited the Mount Vernon property and a sizable property in Virginia. And then he had been a surveyor and he had been paid by the colonial government at the time, the British government with sizable tracts near the Ohio River. So at one point he probably owned 30,000 acres and he probably had more slave. I think that the most that Thomas Jefferson had was 200. He probably had it 1.3 or 400. But like Thomas Jefferson, he inherited this property, but he was cash poor like Jefferson. And so, and because of the war and, and slavery was, people have pointed out that slavery was not an economical, I mean, it's superficially economical free labor, but when you enslave somebody, they don't have the incentive to work as hard as they would with wages. And then when you're responsible for their housing and food, you don't give them very nice housing or food and it's a whole corrupt cycle. So he, like Jefferson, expressed a desire to manumit slaves, but he did it in his will and not completely because of his wife, Martha Washington. The thing about him is that he was known. And he's a big guy somewhere between 61 and 6 3. He was born in 1732, so in his 20s, 30s and 40s, he was probably the best known colonial officer fighting for the British against the French in the French and Indian wars. And he raised. And so he was very loyal subject to Britain. But in that process, and by farming his widowed wife, previously widow's wife's farm, he understood that tariffs and taxes and the mercantile system were. So he became an adamant critic, critic of the British government. So when the Tea Party started to come out in 1775, before the Declaration, he was appointed the head of the Continental Army. It had no resources, no money. It never really fielded more than 15,000 people at one time, ragtag bunch against the greatest navy up till that time in civilizational history. And the British army, this is before the rise of the unified Germany, was probably one of the best, best armies per man in the world. And he was appointed. And then you had the Declaration of independence. So from 1775 to 1782, 3, he kept that army going. He crossed the Delaware, he survived Valley Forge, lost two or three thousand for disease and cold. He used smallpox vaccines. It was very innovative, to save his army. And finally he was able to work with the French. He got a Rambacho and Lafayette. He got along perfectly with him. And then they won at Yorktown. So at that point, he had been very young. He had been 45 when the revolution started, but he was still born in 1832. So he was about 57 in 17, 1789. That's when he took office. There wasn't mass elections yet, the electoral college. The states voted, and they voted unanimously. 17, yes. 1789. And he served to 1797, eight years. So his legacy is, unlike Napoleon, who followed from the revolution, was given power both in the consulate, the Directory and the consulate. And then he became a dictator or an emperor. He had that ability, that magnetism. Everybody liked him. During the Revolutionary War, there were setbacks, he lost battles. And there was rumors that Horatio Gates or people like that were better. But he always had his supporters. But the point I'm making is there's this new government, and the Constitution is only a year old, and it doesn't specify things sort of like the New Testament. I used to teach John, Mark, Luke, Matthew in Greek. And the actual corpus of what Jesus said is not enough exegesis to form a sophisticated church. So you have to bring in acts and letters and then the Christian exegesis, people like St. Augustine or later Thomas Aquinas the constitution doesn't really say how do you if you want to. It tells you how to admit a state. It doesn't say how to get out. And it leaves basically all powers not here by delineated go to the states. It doesn't say anything about slavery, whether it doesn't say how many justices the supreme court. It just says there's going to be a supreme court and there's going to be a chief justice. That's it doesn't say anything about lower court and doesn't say how many terms, four year terms. So he was the one doesn't say what you call the president. So he basically after talking to Madison, who was a good confidant of his, he was suspicious of Jefferson. But he made him secretary of state for a while. His whole point was everything that I do will be the model institutionalized and I have an enormous responsibility as the father of the country not to take bribes, to be absolutely transparent. And he came up with the idea I'm not going to be called your highness or Your Excellency, but Mr. President, President. He came up with the idea that you should only serve two terms and get out. And he came up with the idea that he took no pay as general, but you should not profit while you're in office. And he literally wore himself out after fighting from 1775 to 1782 and then being meaning thinking he was going to go into retirement and then getting involved with the articles of the confederation which he deplored and how loose and how worried he was. He was a Hamilton guy. He really believed in federalism and a strong central power. He'd seen the problem as a commander during the Revolutionary war. So then from 1782, 83 all the way till when he took over 1788, 89 he was trying to lobby the federalists to have a strong constitution. And then he was present for eight years. So when he left office he only lived two and a half years. And it was sad when he died because he had I guess what you would call today a strep throat. It was an inflammation of the back of the tongue epiglock and throat was infected. But he had gone out and inspected trees to be cut and it was wet. I know doctors kind of say that coldness can't give you a cold. But my grandparents grew up in the 19th century and every time it was raining they'd say don't go out and catch a cold or you'll get pneumonia. There was something to that. But here he Went out all day and was soaked. And then he didn't change his clothes and went to a meeting. And he got some kind of flu, but he got infected. And it was probably strep, that we don't know. And so what did they do? They bled him. They took a pint out. And then. I mean, I can tell you one pint would be bad. But they took four. Four, or maybe it was five.
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Sammy Wink
Out of you or George Washington.
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Victor Davis Hansen
George Washington.
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Sammy Wink
Oh, really?
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Victor Davis Hansen
He kept doing it. Yes. And he probably died of vascular. Hematology killed him. He had too little blood volume. I don't know if he would have had the power. William Tecumseh Sherman had the same problem with. They don't really describe in the literature. They call it inflammation of the throat and things, but it sounds like it's a bacterial infection like strep that will get into the heart and kill you very quickly. Had he not had those blood things, I can tell you I had three liters lost over a day and a half. And that was a little over two pints per liter. Probably about seven pints. Pints. And I think you have about 12 pints or 13, depending on your size. And then I had five blood transfusions and one platelet transfusion, but they don't catch up. You can't transfuse one to one because you're making blood and you'll get too much blood and the blood pressure will kill you, the volume. But I can tell you when the first night they came in and they said, we got to get you up. And I hadn't been up and I thought I was normal. I took one step and fell over. The next night they said, we got to get you up. I took up one step and then everybody came in and said, you have no color at all. You're completely white. And I had almost the hemoglobin and the hemocrit were almost not zero, but they were barely registering. So my point is to have that done to you without transfusions. I had the transfusions, he didn't. So I don't want to say they killed him because they didn't know, but they thought that toxic blood, you could get it out and then the body would make good new blood. And that has a philosophy for people who have hemochromatosis. That's an innate blood disease. You have too much iron and you can. Can leech a person a pint every six months and lower the iron content. But that's not his problem. So he kind of died tragically at 67. And his legacy was John Adams was the vice president. And he became president based on Washington's success. And you kind of had the Virginia and the New England aristocracy. And then you had Jeffrey. When you get to Jefferson, he's a very complicated person because what he said sounds so radical. If you quote him up to the age of 40. But he lived into his 80s. But everything after that, slow down. Let's not get volatile. So then we go very quickly to Joe Biden. I have mixed emotions about that, that I'm not prejudiced. Jimmy Carter was a moral man, ethical man. He was a weak president and did a lot of damage. Bill Clinton was a complete rogue. You couldn't trust him as far as you could throw him. He was a serial philanderer. He probably used drugs. But he was a wonderful rhetorician, and he believed in making deals like Trump. And whether you liked him or not, he left office for the first time and we've never done it since. Four consecutive. And the Republicans will say he couldn't have done that without Newt Gingrich, who. He made the cuts. Yes, but Bill Clinton got Ginrich to go ahead with some tax increases. Not big ones either. And I keep quoting, I always read the 92 and 96 Democratic platforms at their convention. I think it was written by Mark Penn and Doug Schoen. And my gosh, you should read them. Closed borders. No illegal immigration. Not defund the police, but 100 extra cops paid for by the federal. 100,000 extra cops and violent criminals. 17 shall be tried as adults. And we are deportation and we're going to protect the American worker. That was climbing. Then Obama, well, we'll talk about him. But Biden wasn't really a president because he was non compos mentez from the 2020 election. He wasn't winning in 2020. He was so debilitated. He didn't win New Hampshire, he didn't win Iowa. There was Bernie, there was Elizabeth Warren, there was Pete Buttigieg, There were one of the Castro brothers, there was Spartacus. There was a whole array of hard leftists and they did internal polling and they said, these guys are going to lose and we're going to get Donald Trump again. And we've done all this work to change the voting laws and we're going to have mail in ballots and we can win with this, but we got to have a working class. We don't have tall ego yet. We don't have phony Graham Platner. We need a phony working guy. So they resurrected the. This relic, Joe Biden, who had brain damage, I think, from two serious brain operations. And they sold him as good old Joe Biden from Scranton. He sat in the basement, remember that thing? He was speaking to cars. And they honked like an outdoor movie theater. It's Covid. I can't go anywhere. And so they let the media and Surrogate's campaign and he stayed there. And once he got there, they essentially said to him, well, you pick Kamala Harris. That was good. You promised to pick a black woman. But the deal was when we used you as a veneer, you were going to turn over the real government to Obama. So what he did was he outsourced all of his major policy and appointments to the Obama crowd. So we've never had no border. He destroyed the border. He absolutely destroyed it. They let in 12,000 people. Some days there was 10 to 12,500,000 criminals. They're talking about all of these. I was just reading about certain types of diseases that have come in, affect animals, cattle, but also people. And they've vectored very high because there was no audit about anybody who came in from Central America, South America, Haiti, Caribbean, anywhere. No help. This is a time when they were telling us if you didn't wear a mask and you didn't get a vaccination, you could lo job, but not an illegal alien. And then he tried to destroy the fossil fuel industry with all these green subsidies. And then they came to him in 2022 and said, you're going to lose the midterm and you've got to now lie and pivot. So now you say you're green, but let us pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, and let's drain that petroleum reserve. And by the way, let's legalize marijuana and forgive suicide and we'll win the midterm. That's what they did. And they did. And then foreign policy. The skedaddle from Afghanistan was the worst military humiliation since 1975, when we were flying helicopters off the embassy roof in Saigon and we were pushing fighter jets off carriers to make room for the evacuation helicopters. That scene of those big C5s and C17s and people are clinging on the wheels. And then we have these left wing spokesmen for the Air Force saying, we're going to guarantee that when they arrive in the United States, they will be given suitable Mediterranean Afghan food. I'm thinking, do you know who they are? Because we just had the one that shot the two officers, Afghan. They didn't even audit them. And then they Left contractors and loyal Afghan translators behind. We lost 13 Marines. And then we don't know how much, but the ranges are 8 to 50 billion, depending on maintenance and civilian vehicles. We left all those beautiful trucks, cars, planes, helicopters, and then all the weaponry. And that became the source for Afghanistan to supply the world's terrorists. M4s, M16s, grenades, mortars, artillery, you name it, they left it all there. I don't know why they did that. When they had Baglam Air Force base, we'd put $300 million in it. They could have made it a citadel. It was defensible. It had an airstrip. All they had to do was say, we're turning it over to the Afghans and we're going to Bagram, which was completely defensible, and we are going to keep this space. And then if people wanted to leave, they could drive out there and they would have had complete air. Had been no city around, they could have done what they wanted. But Joe wanted. Why did he do it? He wanted to have a parade to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9 11. And he was going to say, on 911 we were attacked because of the Republican oxidy. And I got us out of Afghanistan that year. The 20 year nightmare is over. That's what I did. And that's why he did it so quickly. Then the Ukraine war, and I'll finish with this Ukraine war. He said, well, Mr. President, what would you do? He's mounting on the border, he's massing troops to invade. Now, the reason he was doing that was because when Joe Biden came in, unlike Trump, he said, I'm not going to okay offensive weapons like Obama said. And he said, well, it depends on whether it's a minor invasion or not. That was like candy to Putin. And then he said, well, there are. They're hacking all of our institutions, Russian hackers. So Putin, would you lay off that and tell if you're going to do it, don't do hospitals. Can you imagine that? And then, of course, he put daylight between us and Israel. So he started attacking Israel. He gave into the new Islamic system, Democratic Party. And as soon as Hamas heard that, we'll go in and kill a bunch of Jews and the United States will start lecturing Netanyahu not to overreact. That was true because he had been begging Iran, please, please let me get back in the Iran deal and give you more money. I can't think of one good thing he did. And then when he gave those Phantom of the Opera speeches with the black background and the red. Like he was, you know, he was in a Vincent Price movie or something. And then he just all he could say, alter my dangerous whites. It was all lies. So I don't have anything good to say. And then when Jill Biden basically confessed when they had the coup to get rid of him, and she was angry and said he was fit as a fiddle and he got all the data answering any questions. Now she says, I was afraid he had a stroke. No, you weren't. Because if you thought he had a stroke, you would have pulled him out of the race right then or you would have taken him to the emergency room. Instead, you had a big after campaign pain party reception and you told the world that he did great. So now you get the whole. Looking back, you can see what it was all about. He had married this younger woman who was a complete narcissist and megalomaniac. She had an edd. I don't think I've ever allowed anybody to call me doctor. I mean, in an academic you don't want to make a big deal, but if I'm somewhere And somebody said, Dr. Hansel, I don't want to embarrass him, but I don't feel like that's the proper title for a PhD. I know you have a PhD. I don't hear you saying Dr. Sammy, but the point I'm making is she took that EDD and then corrected everybody. And then she wanted to be in the center of attention and she wanted to be the conduit. If you wanted Joe to auto pin someone, something, then you went to her. And who were the people who went to her? They were all the Obama crowd. And he tipped it off when they asked him, would you like a third term? Only if I could. Well, I could, you know, call it in. You know, I don't have to wear a tie. Just phone it in. Yeah, well, that's what he did. And he made some of the worst appointments on judges, all DEI radical judges, especially at the lower district court. And of course, he engineered lawfare. I'll just finish, I promise, with this one observation on one day on November 15, 2022, as I've said before, three days after Donald Trump announced that he was going to run for president, guess what happened? Joe Biden had been complaining that they weren't going after Trump enough. And everybody on the left who's listening, remember you all make this charge that there's Donald Trump's doj. No, nobody was taking orders like Merrick Garland. And Joe Biden was complaining and so on that, three days later, they got together and they said, we're going to go after this SOB and really put him to the wall. So he did one thing. He appointed Jack Smith on that day to be federal prosecutor to go after the Mar A Lago and charge him with insurrection for January 6th. That all blew up. You know, what was it? 98 out of 14,000 documents were supposedly classified. They had to mess up the floor and put fake label. Da, da, da. And then Fanny Willis sent her boyfriend, Nathan Wade. He spent six hours in the White House. When has the White House ever had a local county attorney, prosecutor who wasn't even a prosecutor? It was the first time he'd been a prosecutor. Really. She appointed her boyfriend to run the thing about the prosecution of Trump. And then he was being schooled by the White House counsel. The same day, Letita James, who had just pinned him to the wall, she was in the White House. We don't know why. And the same day, Michael Cole, Angelo. Angelo, who had just been working with Letitia James on the real estate that had fined Trump at one point, $500 million. That was a phony thing. Then he left that thing and got the choices for reward by Biden. Oh, you got helped. You schooled crazy Letita James. You were the brain behind it, and you won with a biased judge in Garon and you got 500 million bucks. We're going to make you the third top person in the fifth. So he's third. But that day, that same day that I've been talking about, what happened?
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Bradley Devlin
He.
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Victor Davis Hansen
He quit. And where'd he go To Alvin Bragg's thing to repeat the performance. So there you have it. You have a connection with Fanny Willis. You have Letita James, you have Michael Cole Angelo with Alvin Bragg, and you have Jack Smith, and you have real
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Sammy Wink
lawfare, which is, there was no crime there. They were just looking for something on Donald Trump.
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Victor Davis Hansen
The crime was, according to them, if you're a losing candidate and you call up as they all do the register and say, hey, wait minute a. Wait a minute. It's a close election. I know there's votes there. You got to find them if they're there. That's what he did. He didn't say, go create them. He said, go find those votes. My votes. He blew off steam. They tried to put him in jail for that. And then he disputed like Joe Biden. But the difference between him and Joe Biden on the classified documents were he had a much smaller percentage of the total documents that were classified. Number two, he had them in a very secure place with a guard tower outside, not Hunter's Garage and three different places. And number four, he had the right to declassify them as president. Joe Biden did not, as vice president. When he took them out, number four, they had only been out for about a year and a half and there was back and forth. Joe's had been out for 30 years. So the biggest lie that Joe Biden said was, well, I just was looking at them and I just thought I'd follow along and tell him I had classified. No, you told them they had classified documents because you just appointed a special counsel to go after classified documents and you knew that you were going to be a hypocrite. So you tried to preempt that, but you didn't tell us that your Ghost Rider had access, thanks to you, to classified documents, which is a felony. Then he destroyed the tapes. And then Robert Hur was kind of a joke. They thought he was too tough. He was a pathetic weakling prosecutor. He was very. He could have slapped that guy with destruction of subpoenaed evidence. He could have said Joe Biden took them to unsecure places. He had no right to declassify them. And it took him 30 years to tell us.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. So nothing I correct that they he was guilty of no crime that anybody had ever actually been charged with because they were so minor.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Remember what they were. Yeah.
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Sammy Wink
So. But my comparison is today the DOJ is for example, JD Vance has referred to our DOJ for investigation, Tim Walsh and Keith Ellison for the fraud and the gun. There is a crime there and they really need to know what role Ellison and Walsh played in that crime.
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Victor Davis Hansen
It always kills me when I hear somebody call him a felon. When Alvin Bragg took a federal law that the federal prosecutors said was not worth it, it wasn't about campaign. So they said that that shut crazy Stormy Daniels up. He did a non disclosure but he didn't report that as a campaign expense when it was just to protect his reputation. And then I like the Letita James thing. It would be as if Victor has this house I'm speaking in and I want to build an addition or I want to build one. So I'm going to take a loan at my house and I'm going to say, say it's worth, I don't know, I'll just take an arbitrary figure, $400,000. And bank of America gives me a loan for $400,000 and this is the security and I build my house with a 400 and then I pay it ahead of time and with interest. And somebody comes along and says, I think your house was only worth 200,000. And I say, you think you know better than the bank who has the liability, not you. We're going to prosecute you for false of your assets. They said at Mar a Lago was only worth 17 million. It's worth a billion dollars. Anybody drives by it, especially in this market. And then I would say to them, well, go ask bank of America. And they go into bank of America. No, we like the guy. He took a loan out, we assessed the property. It's our business. And he paid the loan back early with interest. We want to loan him again. And then they said, sorry, Victor, you owe the federal government 500 million million plus interest at 9%.
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Sammy Wink
Absolutely insane. Well, Victor, you got to take a break and then come back and we'll talk a little bit more about the Democratic Party's eccentricities with Mondami, Mikey Sherrill and the Seattle police. I think her name is Katie something. But anyways, well, stay with us. We'll be right back.
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Bradley Devlin
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Sammy Wink
Welcome back. Victor Davis Hansen, in his own words. We are a subsidiary of the Daily Signal. We both had Signal hats on today. Thank you to Rob Louie who provided us with them and runs the Daily Signal. He's doing an excellent job. So what is ringing in my head is Graham Plattner standing up in front of working class people and telling them that the Democratic Party is not going to be the spending party to cut into their checks more win. We have Mondami now this week he has an outreach office that he calls the Office of Engagement that is going to be spending $50 million to, as the New York Post said, propagandize Dami's things. We have a Seattle mayor that has created kind of an encampment for the homeless which is probably going to just become a den of drugs and prostitution
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Victor Davis Hansen
and it's going to be an ally style. Go to register them the same day, get the closest cross street is their address. They have no id, so you give them an ID number. And then once you have sign their mark, maybe a happy face, then you witness it, and then you give them a ballot and you tell them, because they're. Maybe they're illiterate or something, who to vote for. Then you get the bundle and go in and turn it.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. Which is reminding me that California is also under investigation for defrauding the federal government for.
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Victor Davis Hansen
It's weird how they all say that there are estimates that there was $250 billion in fraud. And a lot of outside auditors thought, think there's a trillion dollars in fraud that could be there per year. And the left always says, you're cutting this and you're doing this. You're throwing them out in the street. But they never talk about all this money that was stolen. They don't talk about it because that money is recycled to them by these NGOs and these handlers that take federal money at the state level and then they disperse it and to make a big cut. And they give all of their protection money to democracy Democrats. That's why the head of ActBlue, the biggest fundraising source of Democratic money, and is allegedly, allegedly, allegedly taking huge sums from overseas interests. She goes before Congress, I respectfully plead the Fifth Amendment.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. She says, I have been advised a counsel.
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Victor Davis Hansen
It wasn't my idea. I mean, I would tell you the truth that I'm a crook, but my counsel won't let me. And then they wanted to kind of make a character. Is your name. And she says, I respectfully can't even say your name. That would be incriminating. If a person does that, what's the purpose of a congressional hearing? Can't you hold a person in contempt? I don't know. But James Comey basically did the same thing when he said 245 times, don't know, can't recollect. Not in my purview, anyway.
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Sammy Wink
Democrats have a problem, though, because when they were in with Joe Biden, they kept saying, we need immigration reform to solve the border problem. And then Trump comes in and it's solved and Trump's in. And we've got this big effort to stop fraud, to save those programs for people who really do need the Social Security.
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Victor Davis Hansen
I would advise all of you who are followers of Tucker, Candace Owen, Megyn Kelly, Marjorie Taylor Greene, to take a deep breath, breath, and ask yourself why you disagree on the Epstein files and you disagree on the Iran. What do you think the border will look like if you vote for Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris? Because go look at Belfast Go look at what's happening in Paris today with riots. Go look at the attempted beheading and then look at all the stuff that's happening, happened under Biden from illegal immigration. And then ask yourself, there is no illegal immigration. It wasn't. We need comprehensive immigration. We just needed a new president. And the wall will be finished. It's already been announced. The guys, the people working on it say we're going to get done early and under budget, that enough is to vote for the Republicans in the midterm. That single issue, because that is one of the most dangerous things to a constitutional republic is to have an open border and a left wing that's openly recruiting people to come into this country illegally with no id, no English fluency, no skills and criminal backgrounds in the case of 500,000 of them. And then call everybody racist or restrictionist or protectionist or nativist if you even utter a peep.
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Sammy Wink
All right, Victor, we're at the end of our show and I have comments this time and we're not on such a hard break, so let's go ahead. And it's the comments on yours and Ray Ibrahim's the interview.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Oh good. I'd like to hear them. Yes.
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Sammy Wink
So one, one comment by Charles Burkhart. 800. Great interview with Raymond Ibrahim. We need the history behind the Islamic ideology. Thank you both. I don't miss either of of you on, on YouTube. So he watches Ray's.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Ray's very courageous. He gets a lot of existential threats. Yes, he does. Not ten times more than I do.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hansen
And he's out more than I am now.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. He another person said, and this echoes many, many things, many people saying free swimming says the west needs more Raymonds. There were lots of people that just said, oh, this is a great, great interview. Evelyn Santiago, 8870 says this is an excellent interview. People should listen and understand that England, Germany, Italy, Canada, etc are being invaded by the ideology. Watch Congress and mayors like New York City, states like Michigan, Virginia, etc, who are trying to destroy our constitution and ways of life. Then you will see how much influence they have over our, our government.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Yeah.
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Sammy Wink
Linda Stanley. 4715. I wish somehow that President Trump could hear this interview. Very informative. I like that one. And happy puppy. 77777. Wonderful to watch. I see the kindness and respect between these two men show each other and realize how beautiful our civilization can be. I suspect a genuinely good education and a discipline contribute immensely to yours and Ray's kind of.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Yeah. I think you should all look at Raymond Abraham's the Bin Laden Reader. He was working the Library of Congress and on his own found a manuscript written by bin Laden, but probably that was ghostwritten by Dr. Zawahiri, the Evil brain of Al Qaeda. And in that it's funny. I mean, it's chilling, but it's funny. They accuse us of carbon emissions, all sorts of stuff they picked up from the left. But more importantly, they have a plan. They say it in there that they want massive immigrations to the west and they want to create enclaves of Islamic communities within the west west that will not assimilate, acculturate or integrate. And then at the opportune time when they reach a particular thing, then they want their people to run for office and then from the inside out, take over. They say that. And when you look at what's happening, the Islamic population is almost as large as the Jewish population. Supposed to pass it by 2030. And when you look at Ilyana Omar and Rashida Tlaib, they don't have any gratitude for coming here. Everything that comes out of their mouth is how bad this country is. In the case of Ilyan Omar, she committed likely immigration flawed. She said the country was trashy. She said it was a dictatorship. She said it's the Benjamin's baby. An anti Semitic thing about Netanyahu. And she's probably got some financial problems. I don't know of any congressperson that on one year says they're worth 30 million and the next says they basically have no net worth. Which is it?
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Sammy Wink
And then just one more thing with Omar. She introduced the Feeding Our Futures bill into the Congress that she did.
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Victor Davis Hansen
And her sister ran one of those programs. Programs. And the Republicans are trying to pass a bill that they can deport recently granted citizenship to people if they engage in fraud against the government. That's very popular. Just a poll came out yesterday saying most Americans forget about the ICE demonstration. They want not closed borders alone, they want deportations of everybody who came in illegally. And I think people should realize that that's a winning issue. And I think people and you know, everybody says the Hispanic community is lost. I don't think so because I pick up the Fresno Bee or local papers every single day. There is a DUI incident with an illegal alien who leaves the scene of the accident. And I just say that anytime you see an accident accident in Fresno county and it says driver leaves the scene of the accident, that's likely to be an illegal alien because he doesn't want to be there without the id, et cetera, even though he can get a driver's license. But I would say nine times out of 10, the dead are Mexican American citizens.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. So they have a lot of.
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Victor Davis Hansen
They take the brunt of illegal alien
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Sammy Wink
illegal who either don't know the laws or how to drive.
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Victor Davis Hansen
The left doesn't understand. They're so fixated on race. If you said right now that we have 11 million Scandinavians coming here and we have an Eastern white and they're all white and they're going to settle here and they're not going to acculturate, they're not going to integrate and they're going to swarm social services. They're all poor, they're going to drink and they're going to feel exempted. They can can do anything. You think I wouldn't be upset? Would I say, oh, well, they're Swedish or they're white? No, no, no, no. I would say send them back.
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Sammy Wink
And with that facetious image, let's go ahead and end this podcast. We'd like to thank our audience for joining us on this weekend and thank you, Victor, for everything.
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Victor Davis Hansen
Thank you for listening and watching, everyone. We'll see you next time.
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Sammy Wink
This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hansen, and we're signing off.
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Victor Davis Hansen
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