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Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words
Victor Davis Hanson: Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar: How Exactly Have Somalis Made Life in America Better?
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The real culprit here is the poster woman for the whole community because she took on that role, Ilion Omar. And she's on record saying in Somali, Somaliland is only. Is for Somalis only. No Ethiopian, nobody else. Why don't you listen to that very carefully, Ilyan, again and again and then say if your view of ethnic exclusivity or national exclusivity.
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Extends to the United States. So she says Somaliland is for Somalis only. What do you mean? Native born Somalis. Why don't you just say put United States in there and see what happens? The United States is only for America is only for Americans. So would you. You would support that or do you only support things that are in your supposed interest?
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Well, hello, ladies and hello, gentlemen. Welcome to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor is the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and he's a senior contributor to the Daily Signal, which is the happy home of this podcast and also Victor's other. The video thing. That's a technical term, Victor. The video thing he does on the Daily Signal four times a week. That's Victor Davis Hansen in a few words. And Victor's got a website, the Blade of Perseus. Its address is victorhansen.com and there's a.
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Lot of AI Victor Hansen's that we have to strangle and my old Victor Hansel alter ego Victor Hansen show we have to strangle.
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Yeah. Accept no imitations. The AI stuff. I know you discussed this a bit with Sammy, but wow, they are really brazen and it's like 90% Victor, but. So if it doesn't seem 100%.
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No, they. I think you guys, any. Anybody listening it can see it's not me, but they're putting things into my mouth. I would never. I never said and I never would say. Right. It's kind of scary because I get a lot of. Why did you say that? Type letters.
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It is. It is scary, Victor, because it's a. You can just imagine a few years from now someone being prosecuted for a crime. They committed, a threat they on which would be totally AI Contrived.
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I think it's going to happen. It already happens. I think.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, today is December 6th. It's the feast of St. Nicholas. I just have to throw that in there. Victor, he's the patron saint of toy makers, pawnbrokers, repentant thieves, brewers, and the falsely accused, among many other things. He also gives candy and lumps of coal out, depending on whether you're good or bad. This particular episode will be out on Tuesday the 9th, and we're going to talk about Congresswoman Omar and immigration and Trump derangement syndrome and other things when we come back from these important messages.
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Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. Mr. Chief justice, may I place the court?
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We are back with Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor, let's start off with Omar time and let's back into her.
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That's that sounds doesn't sound very good.
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Anyway, here's a headline from the back Endure. No.
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Okay. Kristi Noem says half of Minnesota's visas are fraudulent and accuses idiot Waltz of doing it on purpose.
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So this is the representative Omar said there's not one illegal Somali, illegal alien Somali there.
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Well the homeland Security secretary says told the president at a cabinet meeting the other day you told me to look into Minnesota and their fraud on visas and their programs of them are fraudulent. Which means that wacko Governor Tim Walsh either is an idiot or he did it on purpose. And I think he's both.
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Sir.
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Gnome said he brought people in there legally that never should have been in this country and they were somebody that they and they were somebody that they're not. They said that they were married to somebody who was their brother or somebody else. Added the DHS chief in a possible reference to Omar. Anyway Victor, let's you want to talk about that what's going on that crazy.
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Place she she there there's four people involved three or four people there's Waltz and you can he acts like they keep saying we went after them. There's no record that local or state prosecutors ever initiated anything even though there were many state and local crimes. They these Somali it was all the federal attorney in Minneapolis and Min and Minnesota in general. And then only after that did they get embarrassed and claim they were looking at Keith Ellison is record with a video saying basically give money to me and I'm going to take care of you. And then Waltz is on Waltz and the mayor of Minneapolis they keep saying the Somalis have enriched us. The 85,000 life is so much better. Could they please tell us exactly what they mean. I don't like those statements where you just make blanket proclamations without evidence. So Governor Waltz, Keith Ellison, Attorney General, Mayor, is it Fryer? Just tell me exactly the crime rate per capita in Minneapolis, Minnesota went down after their arrival. There has been less fraud, there has been less immigration.
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Abuse, less crime. Just tell us what it is. But you never do that. You just talk about diversity, diversity, diversity. The real culprit here is the poster woman for the whole community because she took on that role, Ilion Omar. And she's on record saying in Somali, Somaliland is only, is for Somalis only. No Ethiopia, nobody else. Why don't you listen to that very carefully, Ilyan, again and again and then say if your view of ethnic exclusivity or national exclusivity extends to the United States. So she says Somali land is for Somalis only. What do you mean native born Somalis. Why don't you just say put United States in there and see what happened? Right. The United States is only for America, is only for Americans. So would you, you would support that or do you only support things that are in your supposed interest? And then.
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They'Re going to look at, I think this is all blowing up and Tim Walsh is going to be, ultimately there's going to be a money trail. This is not the Biden administration. It's going to hush it up. It's going to lead to him in some fashion. I think it'll lead to Keith Ellison. And Ilyan Omar is already skating on thin ice. Remember she said, oh, on 911 something happened. Ha ha ha. And she said the country was trashy, that Trump was a dictator no better than the dictator that she left in Somaliland. She's got on record, she got a special exemption to wear the hijab into the Congress halls. She got a free education I think at North Dakota State. She's been lavish with DEI grants, exemptions in Congress.
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Everything. She married someone that she was giving campaign funds to as a consultant and then married him and then suddenly his net worth soared to of course on a financial disclosure, she may be worth $30 million. She talks about oligarchs, elite white, white, white, white, white, white, anti Semitism. Remember the Benjamin's baby, that song she kept echoing about Benjamin Netanyahu and then Benjamin Franklin, that we were in the captivity of the Israelis. She said no, we shouldn't have to owe owe our allegiance to a foreign country. That's a good thing to remember, Elon. So you're an American, you're not a Somali, so you should put your own country first. And you should be at the.
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Point of the arrow aimed at this fraud. You should be right there at the forefront saying, I want to uncover this. I want full transparency. Because my community, if you feel that.
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Way, she should be serious. All those kids didn't get all those meals.
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You know, where's he? I've talked about my friend Max Nikias. He was the former president of usc and he has a memoir that everybody should read, An American Trojan coming out from Encounter. And in it he talks about, you know, being a little boy born in Cyprus, having the Turks come in, ethnically, cleanse everybody in Northern Cyprus fleeing his home, Turks killing Greeks, flees as a refugee, then goes to Athens and becomes educated. Then comes the United States with nothing. He has a PhD, he works, gets to USC assistant associate full Dean Provost and works his way up to president. And then the whole book is inundated with pro American and how lucky we all are to be here as immigrants and et cetera. That's the antithesis of who she is. That's the old fashioned immigration model. You come with nothing and then you build yourself. And you have enormous gratitude to the country that allowed you to fully develop your talents. Hers is this is a racist country. And.
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I'm going to make this bicoastal liberal elite feel guilty and I'm going to shake them down for everything I can and call them racist and everything until I get free stuff. And then I'm going to have my own segmented community that I represent in tribal fashion. And it's going to really give me a lot of power as long as people take it. The only secret to her success is how long will the people she calls racist say, oh please don't call me a racist. And I think her currency's up, I really do. And when you add this thing and this billion and it's going to get bigger than a billion dollars. From what you read. When you add it all up and you collate the 17,000 driver's license that we gave mostly to Indian Americans who were here illegally and did know English and we're not living in California and other states did the same thing. There may be 60,000 of them. I see them driving all the time. And I'm not, I don't want to stereotype anybody, but it's Road Warrior now in California there's trucks in the middle lane. They're over the white line. They're going. Just this morning at 6:30 I walked outside five trucks full of gravel and dirt going to the high speed rail ramp. Project were going 65 to 70, it seemed right. A foot from my mailbox, 20 tons. Drivers just.
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Floorboarding it on a country road with a speed limit's 55. And there's a lot of people, houses, they pull in and out. And.
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There'S not a highway patrolman to B.C. with one highway patrolman just sat behind an almond tree. He could give 100 tickets a day to those drivers. They're all going 65 or 70 with 20 tons of dirt. And it's really scary. And I don't want to stereotype, but I look very carefully because I'm about one foot from them when I'm outside of the road. And almost all of them are from India. And I say that because they're wearing turbans or ethnic beards. I really like to seek community. But there's something wrong when people come here illegally and they get driver's license and they're not fully and not fully able to read.
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Can you imagine going to China and trying to get a driver's license and drive when you can't read the road signs at all? You'd be like, I'm not. Just not. I'm not doing it.
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I can't imagine that going anywhere. And then you add the students.
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You know, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, from the Middle East. They come over here and they play victim as if they're part of the DEI binary on the victim side. Even though they're very wealthy, wealthy kids from the Middle East. They get their Middle east studies professors funded by guitar. And then they get in river to the sea, and then suddenly it's Jews. And then suddenly they're chasing them in the library or they're roughing them up, or they're telling them to go on one side of the room and it's just pro Hamas. It degenerates into pro Hamas, pro Hezbollah stuff. And then when you say to Mr. Khalil, I think, you know, I think we're going to give you your wish. You are so happy about Hamas and the go back there and be happy. Don't come over here and be unhappy. Racist, racist, xenophobe. And then when you add the people coming across the southern border and all those Lincoln riots, all those people who were killed, dui. I can't even pick up the Fresno B anymore. Almost every single day, there's two things that happen. A body is found in an orchard. There was one today that no one knows who she is. She just found her and they're asking people who she is. Or there is a Hit and run, a wreck, and the driver left the scene of the accident and nobody says a word. And then when you try to, you know, Gavin Newsom just took 500 million of the budget, that's 17 billion in the red, and applied it to illegal alien healthcare. And now he's panicking because Medi California, which has 40% of all people in a state on it, is broke. And he needed $2 billion from the federal government and he promulgates a lie. There is not an illegal alien on it. I would say there's not one illegal alien who's not on it's not on it. And I have had a lot of experience with the California medical system the last nine months.
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MRIs, I don't know what you'd call it, CAT scans, PET scans, doctors visits, specialist visits. It's not the same healthcare system of 15 years ago. I can guarantee you that. When you used to say you needed to see a specialist, it was a week, five days. Today they say three or four months.
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Yeah.
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If you want to get a scan, if you want to get a PET scan, you better call every day. Every single day. It's just a different country. And then to hear these people who let in 12, 15, 20 million people who had no health care were not audited, from the poorest places, very ill. And then to be told you're a racist because you didn't. Nobody voted for this. And all of a sudden, when a person becomes ill, they can't get proper care. And you're supposed to feel guilty for thinking it might have something to do. At least in the Southern United States with an open border, it's really. These people are really nefarious, these left wing, because they're all elites. They always do things to other people, but that never apply to themselves. Yeah.
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Yeah, I feel the same way. I have a daughter, a granddaughter, Lila, that has Smith McGinnis. It's a missing.
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Missing genes and she's severely handicapped. That's what we ask. I don't even know if that's the right word. It's sort of similar to down syndrome. I think it's more severe in some ways. So I don't like, personally, I don't like. I don't, I've never used that word. I don't think retard. We, when we were, when I was in country school, I must be fair to Trump in the sense that he's from a different generation. But we had room six when I was first grade to fourth grade at Eric White School, and Mrs. Henry was the teacher. And it didn't say special need. It said retarded room. And she would come into all of our rooms once a year and say, I'm Mrs. Henry and I teach the retarded children. And these are children that have had problems. They didn't know what genes, I guess, were then or anything. They just said, they're. They're retarded and they're slower than the rest of you. And we're all going to treat them with kindness and compassion. And then when somebody's tried to ape or mimic the way they talked, then they were very strict. Do not do that. Do not do that. There was a person near me they would call the Thrill Kills. That was their last name. And Larry was in that class. And my mom took us over there to meet him when we entered that school and said, larry is going to be your special friend. Friends. Every time I was in the. The play yard, people would go and make a circle and say, retard. Retard. They didn't mean it in the way that was. It would be like saying, special needs. Special needs. Special need. Because the word wasn't pejorative. It was just a Latin word. Retard, tardio. It means to go backwards or not to proceed as to digress. And anyway, so that I would. I don't like. I know the words change and Trump is from an old generation, but he shouldn't use it. He should be aware that you should try to say another word. But everything you said about Tim Waltz is correct. Remember when they had that big Madison Square rally that, gosh, right before the election, it was just packed. And Tim Waltz said, this reminds me of Nuremberg, Hitler gathering in the 1930s. That's all he did is traffic and fascist Hitler.
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And he's talking about hypotheticals that people come by and yell retard. I don't know if that's true or not, but I don't know if he's called the police. And he says it could lead to violence. But it did lead to violence in your case, Governor, because you. You called the presidential candidate of the opposite party a fascist. And then you compared his rallies to Nuremberg, and then two people tried to kill him, both on the left. And maybe your vocabulary and your reckless speech had something to do with it. So you are in no position to call anybody anything should be ashamed of himself. And you add that to his resume, where I was in Tiananmen Square, everything he said, I never left Iraq unit, everything he said was false, almost. And now he's knee deep in a jam that he can't get out. He is such a liar. Excuse the word, but he is a liar and so dishonest that he knew. And he had what we call in Greek a hamartia, a fatal flaw. And it was just a matter of time before nemesis caught up with him. And now it always catches up to a person in the most spectacular fashion. He's the governor of a state with the biggest welfare fraud in history. And there's no way he didn't know about it and excuse it, and he's going to have to deal with it. But he's a nasty person. He really is. And only good thing about all this is he's dead politically. His career is. Nobody would ever vote for that guy for any national office. And if they vote for him for governor, the people of Minnesota, it just says, you know what? We have a. Did you hear what Keith Ellison said? Did you hear what Keith Ellison said?
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No, what. What did he say?
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It was remarkable. This is a guy, remember, held up the antifa handbook and he was bragging about it during the George Floyd riots. Well, he said they got a lot of money and what'd they do with it? They bought cars and they bought houses and they bought stuff.
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And that's what happened. In other words, they were, you know, circulating the money. Who was the money was going back and buying things, helping the economy. Didn't matter how you did it. So that was critical legal theory and critical race theory in a nutshell.
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Right. Well, Victor, we're going to. Before we take a break, just quickly, I want to lump two last immigration matters together. One is that the Supreme Court seems like it is going to hear the case on birthright citizenship. And then separately, Donald Trump took action to freeze immigration applications from 19 countries, and that list could expand to 30. But the 19 countries were. I'll read it quickly. Afghanistan, Burma, Burundi, Chad, Cuba, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Atresia, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela, Yemen. Yeah, I don't have a problem with any of that. I've never been to any of those countries, I must admit, nor do I want to.
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Anyway, it's pretty aggressive action which probably will expand. Any last thoughts on.
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Things in the nation?
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He had his national security statement strategy published and everybody's angry about it because it said basically Europe was engaged in Civilizational erasure, because it's letting people in from those countries, they don't want to assimilate, they don't want to integrate, they do not want to acculturate, they want independent victims. And the result is when you hit a magic number like 15 or 16%, and we're at 16% of native born here, then you've got a real problem because the people feel that their primary identity is where they don't want to be and their secondary identity is where they really, really demand to be. And that's a disconnect that, that you can't bridge, so that everybody has to be very careful, but they have to be very honest. This whole immigration since 1965 and John Kennedy and Philip Hart changed the immigration and basically said we want as poor people as possible to come in from the Southern hemisphere and elsewhere. We don't want Hungarian refugees, we don't want Poles, we don't want South Africans, we don't want anybody from Europe because they're too independent and they have too many skills and they're not going to be dependent on the social welfare system. So let's get the poorest of the poor. And then we'll say that they're victims of racism and oppression and we'll give them stuff and they'll vote for us. And otherwise these great society programs that are not very popular anymore will be necessary. And that's what they did. And so.
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In this sick world that we're in, if you look at the View or if you listen to Ilyan Omar, if you let in 1 million foreign students, the majority of them are from India, China and the Middle east, or if you let in 2 million illegal aliens, the majority from Latin America and Asia, or if you let in 1 million green card holders, 95% are not European. So then if you turn around like Donald Trump and you let in 75 or 8500 Africana refugees who have to apply for refugee status where they are, then you're racist, you're a white racist. And that this dialogue has gone so far to the left that the only way it'll ever become rational again is for people to say, I don't care what you say. If you think 3% of the immigrants are white and that's racist to a country that was founded mostly by Europeans and then had a declaration of independence that said all people related or created equal and therefore welcome people without racist tendencies. And you call that racist that they won't. You don't want 1 or 2% of the world who is more like in the ethnic and religious considerations the founders and that's. You don't even want 2% because you're racist. You are racist. It's like that Aji guy or whatever his name was who let the cat out of the bag that New York Times occasional writer when he said get over it. We're here. We're the breeders, we're taking over. You're spent. Remember that was about a week ago he said that they are the racist. Ilhan Omar is a racist anti Semite. She really is. And well we'll see what happens. The only thing that's going to be interesting is will trump MAGA movement hold on to the Hispanic and 25% of the black male vote in the midterms. If he does does then they will turn on them. The left will turn on them and call them ingrates. They did after the election for a while now they think they've won them back over the sensational ICE deportations. But we'll see.
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Let's talk about that some of these polls, political polls about Donald Trump with ramifications for the midterms. And we'll do that when we come back from these important messages.
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We are.
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I have to.
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It's okay. We, we sneak in snacks when we can here on Victor Davis Hansen in his own.
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Sorry everybody.
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That's all right, Victor.
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An apple a day had a bad week. Yeah, it's.
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It's fine. We are recording on Saturday December 6th St Nicholas Feast.
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Tomorrow is Pearl harbor day.
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Pearl harbor day. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe I want to ask you a question about that at the end of this.
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Remember Kamala Harris said that 911 was equivalent to two events in our history. The 2400 plus that were killed at Pearl harbor and oh January 6th. Yes, yes. She said that 3000 that were killed on 911 and she's referring to the one person who died violently, I guess Ashley Babbitt.
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Yeah.
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Or Brian Sicknick who died of natural Causes the next day. But that was the type of. That's the type of candidate they ran.
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Yeah, well, I'm not. You know what, let's mention something now. I'm springing this on you. Have you ever met anyone who survived Pearl Harbor?
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I did. I had a cousin, a family, a cousin that brought over one of their neighbors. And he had. And he was a. In the. He was a mechanic at Clark Field, an airplane mechanic. And.
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I had a lot of people in my family. My mother's two first cousins immediately joined. Right. And they were on. They were. One of them served in the army. And he was killed three days. Three day. I saw his whole Cather. He was killed. Maybe he was in the artillery unit and he was killed. It was during the breakout after D day, so it would have been in early July he was killed. And the family lore was that he stuck his head up to look and a sniper shot him right between the eyes, literally. And then his brother was a wonderful man named Belden. I knew him very well. And he had been with MacArthur in the Philippines and got dinghy fever. He had about 107 temperature and it fried him. And he was completely unable to do anything except ride a bike and smile and be very nice. I just really liked him. He came out to the farm from Selma every day. And then I had a very quickly. My aunt's husband, Vernon, he served in the Aleutians. He was shot in the arm. And the person I'm named after, of course Victor, was killed on Okinawa on May 19, the last day of the sugar. He was in the 6th Marine Division, a division that was rendered, quote, combat ineffective. 93% casualties of the entire division. And then my father flew on B29s on 39 missions over Japan. And then my mother's other first cousin, he was really a great guy, Dick Davis. And he. I didn't know what he meant until I wrote it when I grew up. And we always said, what did you do, Dick? And he said, I rolled with Patton. So he was in the third Army. He made it through the whole thing. And then his brother Howard was an Air Force officer. And then my father's other first cousin, Bob Davis was a truck driver. Logics, a logistics person in Iran. And so when the ships landed trucks, he organized convoys to take them through Iran to the Russians that were fighting Army Group South.
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He was one family. One family.
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I think there was 11 of them that fought. And they always argued. I wrote that in a book once. They always argued about, you know, they were funny they would say things like, well, hell, you know, the Marines won the war and. No, no, the Army Air Force won the. More stuff like that. Or they'd say that European theater, you never, never fought anybody like the Japanese or the, you know, the Japanese were cruel, but they weren't. They weren't effective like the Germans. These guys were pros, you know, stuff like that. Then it was funny because everybody would come over to the house, you know, that they knew. There's a guy named Billy Mitchell, named after. He was a wonderful man. Yeah. He owned an auction sale. And he threw it a P38. And he would come up and they go like this to us when we were little kids. And he'd say, you know, I couldn't underturn. I could not out turn them, those guys. But, man, I got that P38 and I got up to 30,000ft and I just let her rip. And I'd go down there at 450 miles an hour and just blast away with my 20 millimeter, my guns, and then swoop. And they wanted to do this and play around and circle me. And I was gone back up to 20,000 with those big, beautiful engines.
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And I'd go, what is he talking about? And then he'd go, now go over there to the auction yard. And he was. He could, you know, he was an auctioneer, too. He was a wonderful guy. He was about 5, 5, 5, 6, and he flew a P38 Lockheed Lightning early in the war. And he was a great pilot.
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Wow. And then my dad would say, bill, you know, I'm really sorry we didn't get the P38s over there. You know, you had the. The Damn, excuse me, P47s. You know, it's not as. It was a better plane, the P47 Thunderbolt. And then you had the P51, but, you know, they didn't have the big two engine.
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Great men, great men.
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They were something else, I'll tell you. They came out of the Depression with nothing. And they were all mechanics. George Patton, they asked him once, how did the Third Army? He said, I had a nation, I had an army of mechanics. They grew up fixing their own cars. They knew how to do anything. They put those Sherman engines. That Sherman was a great engine. It was very reliable. And so, yeah, I was a great generation. They were a brutal generation.
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B
Change tires on a car.
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I don't mean brutal in a bad way, Jack, but they were a brutal generation, man. You grew up with those guys. And they said, and get on that tractor or, yeah, and then if you started, well, I'm tired. Let's see, try eating C K rations for a month. I don't want to eat this. It's better than C rations.
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B
All right, my friend, let's, let's get back on topic. Yeah, I want to get some your thoughts for our listeners and readers. Viewers, I should say about some of these polls that have come out recently. So let me give you two here. Gallup poll.
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Found Donald Trump with now a 36% approval rating, a 60% disapproval rating. This is a Gallup poll that came out the other day. His support has fallen most among Republicans, now only at 84%. And at independents, the support is only at 25%. So that's one poll. Then let me put this other one in. John McLaughlin. John and Jim McLaughlin, this is out of Newsmax. Newsmax says Trump remains strong. GOP needs stronger response. So this, let me just read this here. The results of our latest national survey of 1,000 likely voters revealed a mixed and increasingly challenging landscape for Republicans heading into the 2026 elections. While President Trump remains with strong approval, Democratic tax are showing erosion in support among independents. The surprising outcomes of this year's odd year November elections sharply shifted political betting markets. On November 1, Republicans and Democrats were essentially even in projected control of the House. Today, the odds have swung dramatically now giving Democrats 73%. I have just two more things to read here, Victor. 38% of the voters believe the nation is headed in the right direction, while 56% say it's on the wrong track. And then among key groups, the pessimism is even more pronounced. 70% of independents and 66% of undecided congressional voters believe the country is on the wrong path. Troubling stuff, Victor, because the consequences of next November's elections are really, really quite serious. Your thoughts?
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Well, I could say that he's right about where Biden was, especially after the pull out in Kabul. He's right about where Obama was after his apology tour, et cetera. But that's just normal. But I look at the other polls, Rasmus and Trafalgar, and they're low. They're 43 to 45.
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And.
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I think there's three causes and they're all correctable. There's about five issues that people are going to talk about. Number one, it's economy, stupid. Number two is crime or the National Guard and all that. Number three is the border.
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And number four is the culture, the cultural issues. Number five is foreign affairs. And all of them he's doing what he said he would do. But here's the problem. Take the economy.
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The message should have been the economy gets 90% of the commentary and all the other four issues get 10%. But that's not true. They're not talking about it. And if you do talk about the economy, it has to be approached in two points. Two points. We are cleaning up the biggest mess in history. We inherited an aggregate 21% inflation, 5.2% every year under the Biden administration. We inherited $8 trillion in reckless borrowing. We inherited 12 million illegal aliens. We inherited the DEI monstrosity. And now what have we done in 10 months? That's the second half. Inflation is 3%. It's not 5.2. Gas prices are about $3. They average 340. Under Biden for five years, we are pumping more oil and gas than the history of civilization. Joe Biden got about a trillion dollars, his best year in foreign investment. We probably have. I don't think Trump is correct with 20, but I do think 10. We have $10 trillion coming into this country. We have the big beautiful bill that's going to go like gangbusters with deregulation and tax cuts in 2026. We're going to have oil and gas cheaper. And than ever, we have the foreign investment that's going to give thousands of jobs. We're going to in 2026 as well. We're going to have the World cup here. We're going to have the 250th year anniversary. This is going to be a gangbuster year. So everybody got to remember that we are doing things right now to correct the mess that we inherited. And it's already starting and we'll see it in the fourth quarter. And that is why we are told the market's going to collapse. We're in a recession, Tariffs will cause a destructive trade war. None of that happened. And that's what they're telling you. Do not believe it. Just wait. Just get patient with us. And then I think on the border, what's happening, they're saying, you're Gestapo, you're Gestapo. You're ss, you're Nazis, you're Nazis. And all they do is look at some person, one person who might be standing in a Home Depot next to a drug user or trafficker or felon. And then when they pick up the felon, they ask the person, what are you doing? And he said, and he runs. And then they tackle him. And that gets on the union move. So what they need to say is, every single day, every single Day. Tomo, you're going to have to say this is today's statistics. We apprehended this amount of people. Category one, these were people with prior criminal convictions. Category two, these were people who had already been deported and were facing deportation and broke the law and did not show up. Number three, these were people who were in the general vicinity when we tried to get these people who were here unlawfully. Four, this is what we estimate today saved the United States. These people aggregately were on X amount of public assistance, housing, food, education, health. And this is today's total number that we have deported and have self deported. That translates into you American people the following dollar savings. And I need to talk about that all the time. And then when they talk about crime, they need to say, this was the crime rate in Washington, this is the crime rate now. This is the crime rate in San Francisco, Los Angeles. And if they don't want us to go in, we're not going to go in. If they don't want us to go in there because we don't want a civil war and they are going to attack us as if we're northern troops and their Confederate secessionists firing on Fort Sumter. They are nullificationists. They are neo confederates. They don't believe in the Constitution. You got to say that. And then when he gets to Foreign affairs, he says, I know, I know you think I'm distracted. I am not distracted. What I'm trying to do is create a new foreign policy of no better friend, no worse enemy. We are trying to reestablish the deterrence that Joe Biden lost by the Kabul pullout and the 50 billion in free stuff we gave terrorists and the Ukrainian and the Middle east wars that his laxity caused. And we have restored deterrence. We have three major strategic China.
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Russia and Iran. And all of them, all of them are weaker than when I came into office. Russia is in a Stalingrad war that's wearing it out. China is coming. We're holding it to account on its trade. And we dismantled the Iranian. But that's just the beginning. We're going to deter them. Where they get in trouble on that is on Europe. Their message is really good. It's you guys have no borders. You have all these illegal aliens. You won't pump gas and oil, you got the green theft. Your GDP has just collapsed as a portion of the world's economy. And in reaction to all this, you're trying to ban anybody who objects and call them Nazis and you're disarmed and we need Tough love, because we can't keep subsidizing you because you're destroying yourself. So either start reforming and work with us, or we're going to have to say, you're on your own. And then they go crazy. But that message has to be articulated. So I would wish nobody listened to me, and I don't blame them. I'm a little farmer out here in Selma. But I would wish they'd have a rapid response to, like, the Bill Clinton one. And they would have it right around.
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Carol Levitt. Every, Carolyn Levitt, every time she gets up there, she would say, these are the statistics today. Gdp, inflation, da, da, da. This is what we saved. And just what I said. And then have two or three different spokesmans every day. One time on crime, one on foreign policy. And what do you. This person is going to make the case. And if they did that every single day, I think they'd be. And then the final tessera in this mosaic, Donald Trump is tweeting sometimes a hundred times, 150 times a week or more.
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B
He doesn't need selling watches.
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Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't. This is going to be controversial. I would pull all the watch commercials, all of them, and I would. Not that they're that important, but it just feeds the left. And then I would get a social media team and I'd say, every day, Mr. President, what do you want to tweet about today? And he would tell you, and he said, this is the way we're really going to show the left. And if he said, no, no, I'm going to do this, you say, it might be good, but it might also help the left. And you said, that's really good, Mr. President, but it might help the left. That's what they want you to say, State and then try to get more specific and less bombast. And that would, that would, that is very, I guarantee you his, his ratings would go up because he's got a great economic program. And I really, I know some of the people there, and there's no smarter guy than Kevin Hasservice. He's my colleague at Hoover. And Scott Besant has been wonderful. And the other thing I would say, and this is very controversial, I wouldn't say it publicly, but I would call in everybody in all the Cabinet season. I'd say, look.
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The left wants a scandal, and I want everybody that is remotely connected to this administration, my family, their friends, everybody. Ask yourself one question. Are you making money now in a way that you did not, not do before? If you are making money now and the answer is yes. Is that because you're a great business person and you're beating the competitors or is that because you are alleging, claiming, verifying that you have special connections to this administration? Because if you. It's the latter. You should look at what we said about Hunter Biden and the Biden kleptocracy and what we've said about the grifters during the Clinton and Uranium One and Bill Clinton getting $500,000 from the mayor of Moscow. And then go back to some of the cronies in the Bush administration that all ended up with big hedge funds and investment. We don't want to do that. We're for the middle class. And I think that would help. I really do. Yeah. Well, that's my rant for today, Jack.
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B
You're allowed. You have an unlimited amount of rants. And by the. Your. Your eyesight's a little. I know today. A little hinky. So I'm going to read this ad.
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A
Okay.
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B
What? I'm going to call it an ad. It's a lovely thing.
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A
It's from Prageru.
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B
And we. I know you have been a good friend of Dennis Prager's. I have.
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A
I like Dennis a lot.
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B
Yeah. And you've had the privilege of working with him and his remarkable team at Prageru. You've appeared on several of their five minute videos, having reached tens of millions worldwide. And we value that. Over 60% of PragerU's audiences under the age of 35, the very generation most in need of enduring American principles. And at a time when education and media erode confidence in our country, Prageru stands firm in defending truth, reason and the legacy of Western civilization. And that's why Victor Davis Hansen is proud to be part of their family. And he's. He's asking you fair listeners and viewers to join him@prageru.com VDH your tax deductible gift is triple matched through December 31st. So please give generously at Prageru. That's P R A g e r u.com VDH and we thank the good people from Prageru.
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Yeah, this is not an apple. This is not an ad. I'm just going to comment on what you read, which is absolutely accurate. But the genius of Dennis Prager was he is a multi talent. He writes books on history, culture, contemporary affairs. He has a radio show. But I had no idea until I began speaking down there to his group. It's a huge, huge, huge operation. It was Like Charlie Kirk. It's like the Hillsdale video operation. And then you start to study it and you see what it was kind of a tri part national effort. And by that I mean conservative young people go online and there's hundreds of these videos. I did some on and then they tried to ban them. I did one on the Korean and Vietnam wars. They banned the Vietnam War one.
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B
Really?
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A
Yeah. I think you two. They didn't tell me it was not political at all.
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They went after Dennis's. They went after all. But my point is that the Charlie Kirk people, when they started to become popular and they were the foot soldiers in the conservative movement to bring truth to the youth, they would rely on the Prager videos. And these were these short primers on the Constitution, on the political system, on history. And then for more in depth, Hillsdale started offering. And I did a lot for Hillsdale, Peloponnesian war, World War II, etc. But then Hillsdale started offering these wonderful three, four, five hour courses on the Bible. And what happened is that the last time I talked to Charlie Kirk and I had talked to him a couple of times when I visited him, I visited him for two days a couple of times. He would always say that all my guys are tutored and prepped on the Prager videos. For the short. The synopsis and for the in depth deep take, we would always go to the Hoover. I mean to the. And we do it at Hoover Institution. We have a wonderful outreach at Hoover. And I've done a lot of videos. They're on the Internet for Hoover. And I try to. I just wrote a 2, 2 part essay on foreign policy for the, for the new Hoover substack. But Hoover who. So it was kind of like.
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Charlie's group were the foot soldiers that were the missionaries and they went out to convince people that what they were seeing in school and hearing was not reality. And they were doing so because they had been prepped by the teachers and the publicist and the. And the enlightened people at the Prager who packaged a accessible model. And then at the. The other. More in depth if they wanted to explore further, to go like if Charlie wanted to go into a debate at the Oxford Union or something, then they could go right on to Hillsdale as he referenced a lot.
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B
Yeah.
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To a Hillsdale video. And so it was. It's a very successful thing and it's done a lot more than a lot of conservative money put elsewhere.
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B
Amen on that. Lots of. Lots of bang.
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The return on investment and very, you know, they were just, just the Prager group is just a wonderful group of people.
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B
Well, Victor, we're going to get your thoughts on one more topic before we have a final break and get to another topic. And that's that you wrote a piece for an Ultra piece. So your website, the blade of Perseus, victorhansen.com and people can subscribe to that. It's $65 a year. If you want to pay a little more a month, you can do 650amonth. But when you do subscribe, you get to read Ultra articles. These are the pieces Victor twice a writes exclusively for his website. We also do an exclusive video that subscribers can access. That's VictorHansen.com but you did write an ultra piece. Is Trump chemotherapy worse than the Biden cancer?
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Any you want to tell us what that was about? Is it, is the Trump chemotherapy worse.
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Than the Biden cancer? No, no, it isn't, but chemotherapy. And I had a daughter who took chemotherapy at the very end. She had this very rare leukemia and a massive stroke. That was the first symptom of it. But for three days before she was taken off life support, they were also, I didn't like the idea, but she was on chemotherapy. My mother was on chemotherapy, my aunt was on chemotherapy. Our family has so many people with cancer and it always made people sick. I must say that I never saw anybody in my family because they were from the earlier generations that took first generation chemotherapy. It's not like immunotherapy or more sophisticated. So I'm not going to trash chemotherapy. But it made them very ill. But the idea was it killed, you know, it made their hair and fast growing fingernails and all. Any fast growing cells like cancer or hair or fingernails or mucous membranes in your mouth, that was a side effect. But it did kill the cancer. So Donald Trump is facing these crazy things, you know, like.
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Boy, biological men and girls locker room. Nobody would have believed that five, 10 years ago an open border. They thought he had an open border, but never 10 million people a day at 10,000 a day. With this Alejandro Mayorkas looking at the television screen and saying there is nobody coming across, it's secure. Or when some rangers are trying to get their horses from bucking them off. And then rangers whip poor Haitians.
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All this woke military.
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Yes. And then you look at the Somali thing and Ilyan Omar and this billion dollar, you look at California and you're told that not one dime, as we said, goes to medical and yet 40 for illegal aliens and you've got 40 50% of the births are in Medicare. So it's just crazy. And so Donald Trump is the chemotherapy. And to get attention and to cut to the quick, he'll say things like, he's a crook or he's a nut or she's a liar. And that offends people, just like chemotherapy offends people. But if you actually look at the purpose and what he's critiquing, the greater offense is the cancer. Cancer. Because the cancer in Minnesota, to take that example, is by supposedly judicious and sober people. Well, we have a program that's very sophisticated, well run and audited, and it is here to help people of color from Somalia. And it's. Thousands of poor people depend on our autistic tutoring and our daily meals and our restaurants. And anybody who would question the need to give a little bit more to the poor. Is it racist? Well, how do you deal with that? Do you say, stop that, you're lying? No. Donald Trump comes in and said, go, get out of here. Go back to Somalia. You know what I mean? Somalia. Kind of crazy. And then people, does it hurt him? Well, chemotherapy's not popular. Nobody that has cancer says, give me that chemotherapy dose.
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It's always, oh, it killed the cancer. But, man, that was tough stuff. And that's what it is. And he's always in the position of trying to argue with sober, judicious diplomats, bureaucrats who always follow what they claim are the Marcus of Queensbury rules of decorum. The way they dress, the way they talk. But they're doing some very radical, horrific things to the country creep. But they do it under the veneer of no Joe. I'm just old Joe Biden from Scranton. Did you hear what he said the other day, his speech yesterday?
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B
I think I heard he couldn't pronounce the word America or something like that.
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Anyway, go ahead. You know, he gets into this little frenzy, like a. He's on some stimulant that is shaking him out of his dormancy. Like they must give it to grizzly bears after the end of the winter and get them woken up. But I don't know what it is, but he. Red Bull it might be, but he comes and he gets. His eyes get really beady and he gets into that. You know that Phantom of the Opera speech he gave?
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B
Yeah.
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It's dark. Just remember the United States of America said, where the United States. And then he goes, where the United States of America. Go get it.
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United States of America. Get it. United States of America. Go get it. I Don't know what it was. He couldn't pronounce his own country. And he goes out there and then even somebody who hates Trump and that's half the country, they look at that and they say, oh my gosh, I'm glad he's not president.
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B
Yeah, yeah. His speeches are like 54 car collisions. You know the words.
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They are, they are.
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B
Yeah. All right, well, let's take a final break, Victor, and when we come back, I would like to get your take on, on a Wall Street Journal piece that says pro Hamas students aren't the source of campus antisemitism. Very interesting piece. And we'll do that when we come back from these final important messages.
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We are back with Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor, this is a piece that appeared this weekend in the Journal by John Ellis, who's a teacher or at.
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Yeah, I know him very well.
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B
You do?
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A
Oh, yeah, I, I reviewed his book as one of the best books last year.
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On the, you know, the cultural. He was a professor of German at University of California, Santa Cruz. He was kind of the lone conservative there. He's a, I think he's from Britain. He's a really wonderful guy. And he's taken so much abuse at that most liberal of all UC campuses. My Alma material.
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B
Yeah, it just struck me to, I mean, it was a great piece, but a little Victor touch there. Well, he co wrote this op ed with Tammy Rossman Benjamin and let me just read this and you give your take, Victor. Administrators need to discipline anti Zionists who break school rules.
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Previously in this piece they'd written about all the crapola that happened on various campuses. But that alone won't remove antisemitism from higher education. The real driver is institutional. Politicized academic departments and programs are using official school platforms, courses, events and announcements to confer academic legitimacy on hatred of Israel and harassment of its supporters. Students are the foot soldiers who take the fall when administrators need a show of resolve. But the academic departments train and deploy them. I think it's Victor. Maybe it sounds obvious, but we do focus very much on the theatrics, which is, involves the students. But the headquarters are the academic departments.
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Yeah, they're the shock troops of Middle east when as I said, probably people are sick of me saying I have an apartment I rent at.
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Stanford and It's about a 12 minute walk to the Hoover Tower. So when I walk across campus during these four months of demonstration, I always was looking at the hierarchy, Jack, the hierarchy. The point people that were always talking with the Megaphones. They were from the Middle east, mostly women. That was what I'd say. 90% of the people who were screaming and yelling or writing things in chalk as you walked over were women. But then the crowds around them were all wealthy, wealthy Stanford kids. Kids. And where did they get, why would they be receptive to that existential destruction method message from the river to the sea? And that was because they had. If you look at the curriculum at Stanford, it's all one sided.
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A couple of liberal professors did. Liberal, liberal professors did a investigation of anti Semitism. It's 900 pages. They found that it was endemic at Stanford. Stanford. And yeah, he's absolutely right. It's a lot of these programs that were funded by gutter and Middle east countries. And you know, if you want to endow a Professor, it's about $7 million. So if you give $50 million, you can get, do the math, you can get seven, eight, nine of them. And then.
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They get on committees, they set the curriculum, the students go in there and if you're 18 and you're Jill Smith and you're, you know, when you went to prep school and now your parents dream is that you're at Stanford. And she calls up her parents and her parents say, Jill, you know, I know you're a straight A student, you got perfect scores, but we're going to have to pay about $400,000 for your room, board, tuition, summer program for the four years. How are you doing? And she says, I'm getting straight A's. Oh great. Well, what are you taking? I'm taking Middle east studies. And the Middle east studies course will be that the Zionists in Israel are settler, colonialist, genocidal people. And if she were to write something critical or say something critical, she'll get a C and then her parents will go, that class cost us 15,000 bucks or 20 if you prorate all your classes, how can you get a C? And she'll say I didn't, I did. Well. But they, and so the next time around she won't do that. And that's what they do. And that, that applies by the way to DEI and environmental studies and everything. They're indoctrination centers. That's. I have had 180 degree turn for the first 50 years of my life. I thought higher education because for me growing up on a farm and for my mom and my dad, who none of my, none of them ever had anybody that went to college, they thought it was a passage to upward mobility. And I think in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, it was maybe the data still, but it isn't now. It isn't. And it's a passage. It's a road to perdition for most people because it will indoctrinate you in anti American views, anti Semitic views, crazy ideas about the environment. And it's deductive. You start with a premise. This course will prove to you that the Israelis and Jews are genocidal. And here are the readings. And when you write your papers and take your test, you will come with that conclusion. Just the opposite of what a university was designed for. So, yeah, I think he's absolutely right. And I don't know how you stop it. I wouldn't let anybody give foreign money. I think they should just have a rule that says no university in the United States, public or private, can take money from a foreign government because the money is not given. Because they like the United States, the money is given so that that government's views indoctrinate students and change American public opinion. And it works. Cut it off.
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If I was the Department of Education before it collapses, I would just say any university that raises the rate of tuition beyond the rate of inflation is going to have federal funds pulled from it. And the same thing about anybody who does not respect the 23 court decision on affirmative action or civil rights ledger. It's going to have their money pooled. That's what Trump is doing.
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B
Yeah, you know, well, the money, the show me the. It's like Max Bialystock and the producers. That love of money is. Will make you do just.
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Yeah. When you talk about, you know.
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Chemotherapy and cancer, which is worse? Chris Ruffo, when Claudine Gaine was fired saying another scalp. Remember that? He said, I got an oh. Everybody got outraged. That is, you know, racist. Or Harvard University hiring somebody from Stanford that had not enough publications really, according to Harvard's own standards to be a full professor. She didn't. And there had been accusations that she, she had plagiarized and they didn't investigate them and yet they promoted her from full professor to dean Provost and she was utterly unqualified and she embarrassed. The more that they promoted her, the less qualification she had. She was promoted because she was a black woman who could speak well, articulate and was savvy politically. And then esophocalian plague at back. We're going to have Nemesis, but we're going to wait till the most catastrophic expression. So she gets before the nation in front of Congress and a two year old could have answered the questions better than she did and she blew up the whole charade. And now they gave her what Harvard always does, they give you a million dollars, you go back to your department and you fade into obscurity. Yeah.
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B
Hey Victor, very quickly before we leave, just like one minute because we're about over time, time. I just have to ask you about Jake Tapper calling Brian Cole the pipe bomber from January 6th. He called him a 30 year old white man on CNN the other night. And then he did say yesterday, this is Jake Tapper. Yesterday, minutes before we showed you the suspect's photo, I should have noted that I mistakenly said that the suspect was white. Obviously as the photo revealed, he's black. Apologies for that mistake. I mean how the hell can you.
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Why didn't he say. But this is my point, why didn't he say 30 year old Brian Cole Jr. Hispanic. 30 year old Brian Cole indigenous, pretty. You know what I mean? That's always. Do you remember the guy that went up, that horrible person that went and crossed the street and went into the CBS headquarters and he was trying to. He was a ex football player, a black guy and he tried to shoot, he shot two executives. Got the wrong.
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B
Yeah, he tried to, he tried at the NFL.
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They did the same thing to him too. Remember they said a white, a white perpetrator. And they always say that and they always give themselves away. I think it was kind of racist too because I watched that clip and they had pictures of his house and neighborhood. And so I think Jake Tapper thought, hmm, that's where white people live, you know, that's where I live. That kind of place. Black people can't live there. I don't know what it is. But for every action there's a reaction. And if you don't follow the golden mean and avoid extreme, something's going to happen. And this White, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, Evil, evil, evil, evil. Settler, settler, settlers of the settler presser oppressor. It's going to boomerang. It really is people. And I'm not talking about the MAGA people, I'm not talking about the independents, I'm talking about left wing whites, liberals. They're going to find out that there's no escape from it. And so I think everybody should cool it down and don't talk about race and talk about being an American for a change.
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B
Amen. Well Victor, this show gets lots of comments, thousands a week on YouTube, rumble your.
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Website and here are a few of those comments. One is from Bill B902 who writes thank you for addressing the AI fakes. So tired of seeing a video of your image and looking forward to enjoying your wisdom only to realize it is a fake. Keep doing the good work you do do. Then we have Marky 657 who writes VDH was blessed with wonderful parents as was I. When your mom told you never to cash that check and then tear it up then keep it is priceless advice. Advice from an honorable person from a time when honor and integrity was everything.
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I must confess I didn't want to do it. I argued with her. I don't have any money and I did do the work. I talk every Friday after Tear it up.
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B
You're a good boy.
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A
But don't throw it away. Put it in a nice sealed envelope and there'll be a time when you can pull it out.
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B
Well, Jesus listened to his mother and so did Victor.
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I listened to my mother everything. Yeah I did. My dad too.
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B
We have one from.
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Brakhak5896 who writes thank you so much Victor. Every time I listen to you I feel like having a conversation with very knowledgeable, warm hearted human being who is able and willing to listen. Plus I learn a lot about places around the world I know only on the surface. So there's plenty more comments we thank so much. The people that take the time to do that. I try to read them. I know the great Sammy Wink tries to read them too. So thanks for that. Thanks. I do want to mention also the good couple of things. Victor's on X. His handle is Dhanson. There is a Victor Davis Hansen fan club on Facebook. They're great people. So if you're on Facebook you might want to check that out. Also, VDH's morning cup is on Facebook. As for me, Jack Fowler, I work for the center. Actually I work for Amphil and Amphil has a related nonprofit, the center for Civil Society and I write a free weekly email newsletter for that comes out every Friday. It's called Civil Thoughts and you can sign up for it@civilthoughts.com and we're not selling your name, we're not charging anything and it has 14 recommended readings and I know you're going to like it. So thanks for those who do that. Thanks Victor for all the wisdom you shared today. Eat another apple my friend. Get better. And folks, we will be back soon with another episode of the Victor Davis. No Victor Davis Hansen in his own words.
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His own words. Don't go for that AI. That AI person, whoever he is. He's slicker than I am. I don't have false teeth because that person goes like this. His lips don't match. I have implants from a bike accident where I knocked out four teeth. Well, one last for the ultra. I have never missed an essay because people subscribe and I write the two essays in the video. Never missed one yet in I think four years. But I have a new series I'm going to start.
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Because it's going to be a travel log but it's going to be calamitous close calls and I'm going to go 10 near death experiences in various countries around the world and places in the air and engine cutting out, a plane headed down, things like that, fun things. And.
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They'Re going to have one common theme, these essays and ultra to him that it was all my fault. I was warned. Don't go there with an appendix pain. Don't get in that plane. Don't. Do not go to Luxor when you're sick. Do not. Do not. Do not ride that bike after a carbon crash. That I didn't listen. Recklessness.
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Do not go drinking with Roman Ginn. Well, there are no National Review Cruise stories.
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No, I never had a problem on National Review Cruise.
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Okay, well, thanks, Victor. Look, I hope folks look forward to that. You can read them. Of course you have to subscribe, so do that, Victor. Thanks everybody for watching listening. We'll be back soon with another episode. Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Bye bye.
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