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Victor Davis Hanson: We've Had Enough of the Fraud and Failure to Assimilate
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On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Sami Winc discuss the Democrats’ acceptance of fraud and today’s immigrants who refuse to accept our culture.
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Victor Davis Hanson
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Sammy Wink
Welcome back to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. You can find Victor at his website, victorhansen.com, the name of the website is Blade of Perseus. And you can come join us there for exclusive Ultra material at 6:50amonth or $65 a year. And we'd love to have everybody. That's two exclusive articles a week and a Friday video. So, Victor, so Trump put out his national strategy statement and it included what was called the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. And I was wondering if you could expl his policies in the Western hemisphere and then if we can then turn to Europe, who seems even more disturbed by this statement of national strategy.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I would preface anything I said by reminding everybody that was John Kerry, Secretary of State, the second secretary of state during the Obama administration, I think in 2015, who said the Monroe Doctrine no longer applies. The it was a relic of the colonial period. And then he basically opened the door and China, Russia, North Korea, Iran started sending their agents. Cubans started to be very active. And by the time of the Trump second administration, China was controlling companies at the entry and exit of the Panama Canal. Maduro, the Chavez successor, was a narco terrorist. He was sending fentanyl products, cocaine, other opiates into the United States, killed 75,000 a year in conjunction with Cubans and the Mexican cartels, destroyed the election process, drove out 8,000 Venezuelans, took somehow it took the wealthiest country in Latin America that had the most. I think it has more oil and gas reserves in almost any country per capita in the world. And he destroyed it. And now there are socialist companies. So Trump comes along and says the mega base was right, we don't want to nation build in the Middle east anymore. That's in the assessment as well. So Israel is empowered, it can handle Hamas, Hezbollah, as long as we supply it. There is no immediate nuclear Iranian threat. I have adjudicated seven or eight other ceasefires, but I've got to be very careful because while we spent blood and treasure abroad, our enemies came to the back door and are trying to flip south and Central America over to their side. So that's what this doctrine is addressing. And we saw it with the Panama Canal, we saw it with the pressure campaign currently with Maduro, and we saw it with these 30 or so destructions of drug smuggling. The left will lose that argument if they keep saying that this is wrong because these people have killed more. If you say these people and you represent the drug importers, since 1990, they've killed 900,000Americans. They've killed more than all the Americans lost in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korea and the Gulf Wars. And somebody said, well, it's their fault. No, it's not. The drugs are designer drug design. They're trying to confuse people. Their idea is to get a bunch of kids and say, don't you want to buy this amphetamine, this Benzedrine, whatever it is, or Valium or anything? And then they use cheap fentanyl to approximate a buzz, but they never calibrate it right. And it kills people. And that's the design. And Trump is saying, now we're not going to do it. And they're going crazy over it. And I don't know what happened. They have amnesia, they don't remember Barack Obama, he droned almost Everybody, killed a 16 year old American citizen. He droned them in Afghanistan, he droned them in Iraq, he droned them inside Pakistan, he droned them in Libya. 500 deaths. And then he's, yeah, you know, I didn't I've been told that I'm well suited to killing. I didn't think that would be true, but it is. Predator everybody remember pre R E D a D O R if you want to date my daughters, you deal with the predators. And the left just laughed and gushed and now they're worried about 30 or so drug dealers. Boats have been blown up.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, that worry is very interesting. So the Trump corollary seems to be that it's added or it's included new conditions that are these cartels, drug runners, narco terrorism that is going on in the Western Hemisphere. But they added to it this about the Indo Pacific, that they want to keep it free and open, preserving freedom of navigation in all crucial sea lanes and maintaining secure and reliable supply chains and access to critical materials. And I thought that was interesting because it sounded kind of like Wilson's 14 points right at the end of World War I. I was wondering your thoughts.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Well, what they're saying is that we are protecting our interest in our hemisphere, but we are not going to let the Houthis shut down the Red Sea and the Indo Pacific is not going to be shut off to imports exports from Europe back and forth. In other words, if you let the Houthis have their way, they're going to shut down the Red Sea and you can't get through the Suez Canal with oil imports from the Middle east to Europe. So he's trying to say we're doing this for Europe as well.
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Sammy Wink
And they're defending the Pacific from the Chinese. I mean the Chinese are constantly making incursions and threats and threatening.
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Victor Davis Hanson
The Chinese strategy is they're not quite there yet. They don't quite have a platform. They have one or two, two carriers. But if they want a blue water navy and they want to. Every superpower wants to have a sore, open sore in the rear of its opponent. So we have Japan, we have Taiwan, Australia, South Korea and China says, well, we just have poor little Cuba, it's worthless. So we want to go in and make the United States vulnerable at it on its backside in Latin America. That's what it's all about. And Trump is the first president said, not yet, not yet, not this day.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, so let's turn to Europe then. And you would think that what it says here is the point about Europe, that we want to support our allies in preserving freedom and security of Europe while restoring Europe's civilizational self confidence and Western identity. But I want to show you what the the German chancellor had to say just yesterday. He said this I believe he was on a news program and he said, and I don't know if this is partly the translation might be, you know, a little bit difficult here, but he said some of it, meaning the national strategy statement, some of it, is unacceptable to us. From a European perspective, I see no need for Americans to want to save democracy in Europe. If it could be saved, we could manage that on our own. Own. And it almost sounds like he thinks that democracy is in the balance in Europe. Having said that. But then he said, dot, dot, dot, all the way down the interview, but the United States should, quote, at least make Germany your partner.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Well, how to start? You've outlawed the alternative for deutsche lands, like 40% of the electorate. And they're making it very hard for Farage's Reform Party in Britain. Macron is trying to silence his critics. They've demonized Victor Orban, so they don't want any objections to their ideology, which is new Green Deal on steroids, dei, open borders, anti Israeli foreign policy, transgender, the whole bit, subsidized socialism. Mandami. It's a, it's a continental mandami. And all Trump is saying is we're the upstart. So we know that, but we have the same problem as you do. We have open borders, we have. Your fertility, I think, is 1.39. Ours is 1.71. It's not that much better, but it's better and we're starting to deal with it. We're stressing the traditional family, we're deporting, we're closing the border, et cetera. We're rearming. You got to look at us. So what he's basically saying in that assessment is we both suffer from the Western disease and there's two remedies. There's your remedy and it makes it worse. There's our remedy and our remedy makes it better. So why don't you use our remedy? And they're saying, don't tell us what to do. Do. We're the birthplace of Greece and Rome and the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Magna Carta. Who are you? The irony, and I mentioned this in another venue. There's 27 EU countries, there's 32. NATO take away North America, Canada, United States, there's 30. They're almost identical. So we're supposed to listen to the European. One Eyed Jack says, we resent your criticism. You don't know what you're talking about. We can censor, we can find your companies, we do need your liquefied natural gas, but we're going to Yell at you because you're not hard enough on Putin, because why we buy is gas. And we're going to have massive rapes of our own people in London. That's not in the eu, but it's pretty much the same in Paris and the Netherlands. And we're not going to audit our Middle east illegal immigrants. We're not going to have kids. Just lay off. And then they turn around, they flip the other side. Hi, I'm Mr. European NATO. Don't listen to my evil twin. Mr. European EU. I love America. I call you Trump. Daddy, Daddy. Hey, Daddy. We're going to beef up our defenses. We're going to spend that 2%. We're going to lie to you and say we're going to spend 5%. We only have nine Leopard tanks at work, but we want you to spend 17, 18% of our budget for NATO, even though you're way over there on the other side of the world. We want you to supply Ukraine. You've given them pretty much well over $200 billion. And we want you to like us and we like you. So you have to be here on the continent. Phys. And then the NATO, EU says, well, the NATO Europe face says to the eu, hey, what are you saying? It's exactly the opposite of what we're saying. You're telling America it's terrible and it shouldn't talk to you. We're telling them it's wonderful and it should talk to us. So I think the NATO ministers need to talk to their prime ministers because they sound to us like they're schizophrenic.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, they sure do. So then the last provision, of course, was kind of for the Middle east, but I think it comes together with the technology statement that the Middle east and especially technology of energy. And so the last statement here is we want to ensure that U.S. technology and U.S. standards, particularly in AI, biotech and quantum computing, computing, drive the world forward. And so Trump's going to put his forces behind that. I think part of that is to implement his energy policy as well. And so either that statement or on his energy policy. I was wondering your thoughts.
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Victor Davis Hanson
This is all a reaction to something. It's a reaction to the misadventure in Afghanistan and the misadventure in Iraq. And Trump is saying, if you go back to the 2003 invasion and then the Obama humiliating pullout, and then the 20 years in Afghanistan, the humiliating Biden pullout, why do we go over to these antithetical societies, spend 2 trillion, $3 trillion in the middle east, when we're buying their oil at that time, at all time highs, we're running huge deficits. Our military is getting ragged. We're not going to do it anymore. So I'm going to write a strategic national security strategic plan in which I say that the economy is the force that sets security policy. And if you have a strong economy, you can do anything. If you don't, you can't do anything. So what he's saying is if we get high GDP, low unemployment, tolerable inflation, good stock market GDP, as I said, 3 or 4%, then everything good follows. But we're not going to waste those resources on optional military engagements on the ground. And then he's also saying how do we get these options? How do we get the economy? We get lower interest rates, a big beautiful bill, more deregulation, more tax reduction. We're going to pump 14 million barrels this year. We're going to go up to 16, 17 million. Record natural gas, we'll sell it to Europe. 100 new generation plants. We're told they're going to build new revitalized nuclear industry, nuclear power industry. 10 trillion, 12 trillion in foreign investment come in. Never happened before. All of this says that in 2026 it's going to boom. And that'll mean we have the money to spend what we need to rebuild our defenses.
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Sammy Wink
Have you heard much about the nuclear energy? What they're anything in the works? I mean, we hear all the time that the gas, natural gas, is just starting to boom because they've got all those. But what have you heard about the nuclear plant? Any sort of nuclear plant.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Everybody talks about France and everything, but we have the most nuclear plants anywhere in the world. 40% of our grid, I think, is nuclear. It was going to be about 70 until Three Mile Island. But now they're redoing Three Mile Island. They're going to reopen it, is going to reactivate those plants. So the new technology says that you don't have to build a multi billion thousand megawatt, megawatt big plant. You can make these little mini reactors and you can prefabricate them in factories so that you ship them on rail somewhere or fly them in even, I suppose, and they can provide 10, 12,000 people with their electricity and you kind of scatter them around.
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Sammy Wink
Isn't Italy doing that? I think they're trying to do that.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Yes, they're trying to do that as well. But Trump is saying that we're going to be the top in all these new technologies. But to do that, you need a better grid and more power. And the new green deal doesn't do it. It's today where I'm speaking. It's cloudy. We haven't seen the sun in 10 days. In the San Joaquin Bell, I have solar panels. I go look at the little daily output. It wouldn't heat one person. And some days there's no wind at all. So this idea, we're going to spend all this money to subsidize these inefficient and pay $0.40 a kilowatt. It's over with. It's not going to work. It's going to impoverish us. It'll make us look like Europe.
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Sammy Wink
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Victor Davis Hanson
We got to remember how the Democratic mind works. They create a federal program, they put people in it to run it. Those people have friends and contractor companies that do business with it. No one, no one salary is dependent on whether they do a good or bad job. They're there for life. They got a GS salary. Maybe the contractors have to worry a little bit. And so if they allow the contractors to cheat or whether they cheat, there's no downside. When you look at the Democratic reaction to this, they're not angry. And Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, I don't know why he did it. It was so candid. He summed it up. He said, what's the big deal? They buy cars and junk and stuff. In other words, in their way of thinking, you just steal money from the government. Poor people get to have it. They buy nice stuff, it gets. And reinvested. It's not the moral principle. Who cares about that? They don't care. And I think what's happening to people in this regard for the Democrats is the anecdotes are starting to add up. All over the 340 million people United States, there's been one too many Minnesota frauds. One too many stories about these thefts in Obamacare. One too many stories about semi trucks killing people with fraudulent driver's license. One too many stories about this person and that person raped, killed by someone that came across the southern border. One too many personal incidents. You go into a store and somebody's ahead of you that does not speak the language of the country. They wanted to come in and they find they pull out like they're playing cards. You know, it's like, here's a jack, here's a queen. Oh, here's an ebd. Oh, it doesn't work. Here's another one. Ooh, another Name, no problem. Here's another one, another one, another one. And people just, they're just saying it didn't work, doesn't work. And then they're saying they're going to stall our people. And then we look at obesity and its epidemic in people on EBT cards. So I just think they, they have something that nobody wants to buy anymore. And I think the whole welfare state is vestigial, ossified, calcified, that if somebody just kicked it, it would fall apart. Nobody wants it anymore. It has to have some free market substitute incentives.
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Sammy Wink
Can I ask you one thing on that? Since we did bring up the Somali fraud case in Minnesota, which one of your readers, as I was reading comments, said it's not one or two billion we're talking about, it's eight. And it's unconfirmed.
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Victor Davis Hanson
We don't know how much it is. But people have speculated. I'm always trying to use the conservative figure.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, so. But I was wondering how you think this case. I mean, it seems completely unusual how at least the right is willing to address this case as they are now saying the culture that came in here had flaws and it brought in flaws that is dishing and stealing from government that are destroying our own society. I mean, you just really can't have that on a broad scale. And my question is this, though. How do you think this is going to impact future assessments of immigration? Are people going to start considering the culture that's brought in with each of the immigrants?
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Victor Davis Hanson
But Trump just puts it in the crudest possible terms, third world. But when I wrote Mexifornia 23 years ago, I said, if a person comes from Mexico, they have voted with their feet and saying, this doesn't work. I don't have enough. Liberty, freedom, protection, prosperity, security. So I want to come to this gringo country. Different traditions. But once he gets here, everybody likes Cinco de Mayo, pinatas, tacos, mariachi movies. Enriches the culture. But if he has the same attitude that he had in Mexico, oh, I have a dog, I can't feed it. I'm just going to drive out and dump it in front of somebody's house or, well, I have a washing machine, I'll do what I do in Mexico. I'll just drive out, throw it outside the, into an orchard, or, you know, my kids are in gangs, everybody, big deal. No big deal. If they have that attitude, then immigration doesn't work. So it requires two things. It's called the. A brutal bargain, and that is the immigrant must disown his primary allegiance to his homeland. Endure the taunts of being a traitor, apostate. And the host must say, welcome. You want to be an American? Here's what you have to do. Check, check, check, check, check, check, check, check. Sing to me. God bless America. Tell me all about the Gettysburg Address. Tell me the difference between Queens and Manhattan. I want to know something about the country. You know, that's what we have to do. And we don't do that. And so then we get shocked. Wow, these Somalis are normal. I mean, Ilya and Omar said Somaliland for Somalis only. My gosh, she's. She's an ethno nationalist, isn't she? But she doesn't say that here. We should just say to her, if you're going to be an ethno nationalist in Somalia, you and there's credible allegations you married your brother for immigration fraud. Why don't you just go back and create a good Somalia so people don't have to flee their beloved homeland but don't come over here and make millions of dollars by playing a victim and call the president every day a racist. Racist Islamophobe. It's just like on spec. While you're the biggest anti Semit. I mean, she was almost censored by the house for her anti Semitism. So yes, there is no more support for it. And people are going to get more and more emboldened. They're going to say, you know what, I don't care. Call me a racist. You call me anything in the world, but if I have a choice from letting somebody come into this country from the Congo who or Nigeria that does not speak our language and has a whole different religious framework and has a whole different cultural assumption versus somebody who comes in from France or the Czech Republic who speaks perfect English and is educated and has no. Is here to make money and be prosperous, we'll take him. That's what we'll do. And we're not going to argue anymore and say, you can't bait us because you know what? You guys have run since the Hart Kennedy bill of 1965 and you changed immigration for the various point of not allowing anybody to come in a. Under merit and anybody to come from a European or British Commonwealth country. So you had your, what you had basically 60 years. 60 years. You got your way and you brought everybody in from the third world and it's been very expensive and it's, it's. We're not going to do it anymore. We're not going to go after people from the Third World. We're just going to say we're having a timeout. If you want to come, you have to have certain skills. If you're from Oaxaca and you have a BA and you've got some skills and you have an engineering degree, you want to come in, you speak perfectly with no problem, but otherwise, don't try. And that's. I think that's. The other thing is, as I've said before, if you keep hammering this, like Bill Maher the other day on tv, he had a comedian there, and she said that she came in a very, what, revealing plunging neckline and short mini dress. Is it Ann Kasparian? Is that her name? Anyway, she was a comedian, and she was basically arguing with him about Israel, of course, because if you're in Hollywood, it's like a little badge. It says, I hate Israel and you're accepted. And he's basically said, do you think anybody could wear what you do in any Arab? And she started to say things like, you mean the destabilized countries or, you know what I mean, as if some white cologne. And then he said, you're blaming whitey. And what. What he was saying is, you always have to come up with any excuse other than the truth. It has nothing to do a century and a half later after colonization. If it does, it, you know, a Uganda or somewhere has the English language. India has the English language. It helped them. But what Bill Maher is saying, you always blame whitey is what he said. And then he asked a question. Where could you wear that outfit you have on in the Arab world? And she said, you mean the destabilized. No, no, no, no. He said, they didn't do that. You can go into any Arab country that had no experience with the colonial or Europeans, and they will not let you wear that, but Israel will let you wear that. And yet you hate Israel. And you wonder why we get angry at you, basically. And so that's what's. So nobody can say under the education Dogma of the 1990s, up till now, you can't say one culture is more effective than the other. Who are you to say that? The Aztecs. I had this. When I wrote Carnage and Culture, I gave talks. I was younger then, all over the country, and I had an audience at the university. I think it was the university. Once in University of Tulsa, Paul Ray invited me. And then another time I was at the University of Tennessee, and somebody said, who are you to say the Aztecs couldn't have navigated into Barcelona? And I said, well, if they could, why didn't they? Well, maybe they didn't want to be oppressive. I said, they executed and beheaded and tore out the living hearts of 30,000 people a year. And supposedly somewhere around 1487, they killed over a quarter million people in a festive period and threw them in Lake Tenochtitlan. And the whole thing went stagnant and sickened everybody. So they had the viciousness, but they didn't have the technology. And the person said, well, they did. I said, they didn't have the wheel. They had little toys that had a wheel, but they didn't have the wheel. Well, that's because they didn't have animals. I said, well, maybe the Chinese had rickshaws. So they work pretty well, don't they? I said to her, I have a wheelbarrow behind, you know, I have two of them and I use them all the time. Does it mean that I should take the wheel off and then drag them without a wheel? When they have flats, they don't work. Or when the wheel's not turning, it's not very good. They don't have the wheel. So how are they going to get into a sophisticated navigation and navigate by the stars like the Spanish or the Portuguese and, and sail into the harbor, you know, any harbor in Portugal, harbor at Lisbon or the harbor of Barcelona, and say, we're here, we're going to conquer you. That's what the Spanish did, but they don't. And so all cultures, technologically, I mean, people are people, but these cultures are very important. So when she's speaking Somalia, her national, her natural tendency is to talk like an ethno nationalist. We're not going to let Somali. Here's what she does. Here is the real Ilhan Omar in her native language. And we're not going to let the Ethiopians. We're not going to let the Ethiopians and we're not going to let anybody else tell us that Somaliland is not for Somalis only. That's what she said. Then she speaks English and goes, these nationalist, racist people, they say, who's American? Well, you just said that you believe that Somaliland shouldn't have anybody else in it but Somalia. So if we transfer your logic to your own, your own position, bye bye America for Americans, and you came too late. Sorry. But she doesn't say, ever say in that dense skull of hers. She never says, my God, I came to this country as a black Muslim woman when I was 13 and now I am a representative in the halls of Congress. I'm only one of 435 people out of my nation of 340 million, that's a House member. I got elected by 95% white people. I am a multimillionaire. I'm worth $30 million. I committed likely immigration fraud here. I wore a hijab to provoke people. And they still said, you can wear it. We'll pass a special rule just for you in the Congress. And what is her attitude toward all that? She'd prefer Somaliland in the abstract.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. She says that it's worse here. The government is worse here.
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Victor Davis Hanson
She says it's the worst in the world.
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Sammy Wink
I know.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I don't know. I saw Black Hawk Down. It didn't look very inviting. I know it wasn't filmed there, but I just don't. I just don't get it. I think a lot of people don't get it. I'm in a bad mood because I walked across my beloved front road the other day, yesterday, an hour ago, and it felt like I was at seismic 7 on the Richter scale with these semi trucks, all driven by non American, I think, truck drivers. And they're going about 70 miles an hour with 20 tons in them, 3, 4, 5, 6, almost every other minute. And no one says, you're breaking the law. You're going over 55 miles an hour. Those trucks are heavy. They're dangerous. Do you have a license? Can you speak English? Can you read the road signs? We want to know, are you one of the 17,000? Why can't a Californian highway patrolman just pull people over and ask that? And that's where DEI comes in for?
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, it sure does. Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about Zoran Mondami. Stay with us and we'll be right back. Hi, I'm Jim.
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Victor Davis Hanson
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Sammy Wink
Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hanson Show. Victor's the Martin and Neely Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Instit and the Wayne and Marcia Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him on X. His handle is Dhanson and on Facebook at Hanson's Morning Cup. So if those are your social media outlets, please come join us there. So I know that you and Jack talked about Zoran Mondami and probably, I think the homeless shelters that he was planning on taking down because they were encampments. And then also perhaps, I don't know if you guys talked about this, but he has advised illegal aliens how to stand up to ice.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Yes, he has.
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Sammy Wink
And then the last thing, and I'll let you talk on any of these, is he has now formed a committee of community safety. And it's being and since we know the names of the people that are staffing it, it's being staffed with a whole bunch of warrior, I call them warriors for defund. The police close, the prisons, institutes, institutions are the mire are the things that have caused minority groups to become violent.
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Victor Davis Hanson
And what I don't understand is this. He's the one that's always talking about diversity and proportional representation and communities being if you look at some of his boards, they're inordinately Islamic. People who profess to be Islamic are 3% of the population, tops. And he's got 30, 40% on some of these boards that are Muslim. So he's got an agenda, right? He's got a person who was a felon, who's who, who held up an Uber car. He's an ex felon or a current felon. Ex. A current former felon. And everybody thought he's smiling. He's so nice. He talked to Trump. He's going to be so great for us. He's going to go tell those awful Wall street people to lower the rents. It's going to be so nice. No, he's going to take all he has certain locales where they put people who can't take care of themselves. They don't know how to keep warm or Cool. Or have medicine and they're on drugs, defecate, urinate, fornicate, inject. And they had areas that they. Eric Adams, as bad as he was as a mayor, had areas to get them off the street. And he's basically saying, no, I'm going to make it Medieval Europe. It's going to be Paris or London around 1100 A.D. people are going to sit out here and they're going to expose themselves to you. They're going to stagger around with maybe some of them be like decarlos Brown and, you know, they'll stab and cut a girl. So another one might be by Mr. Leon and light him on fire. That's what's going to happen. Because I like anarchy. And I want the Wall street people, I want the wealthy, just have to walk over these people. That's my. That's my. And he's going to smile and say, I didn't do that. I'm Mondami. Come on. You're just a white, old racist, xenophobia, Islamophobe, transphobe. I'm Mandami. I wouldn't do that. I love New York. I'm inclusive, I'm egalitarian, I'm ecumenical. That's what he does.
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Sammy Wink
That is what he does. But I don't think he's the one that's going to be walking over the homeless industry.
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Victor Davis Hanson
He's going to be like Bill de Blasio.
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Sammy Wink
He's going to have his own little envelope.
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Victor Davis Hanson
He's going to send a memo to get a hamburger and then delivered to him.
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Sammy Wink
All right, so let's turn then to the New York Times this weekend wrote and this is going to stun nobody out there in your audience. The New York Times article confessed that they realized that the Ukraine has a corrupt government, that the article was puzzled about giving aid that is largely stolen by a government elite from. But they did go into some details from wartime industries on which these elites either board members or they're part of the administration of the wartime industries. So they steal money off of the top there. So there was something new. But it was pretty rich to read how the New York Times just discovered it was a kleptocracy.
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Victor Davis Hanson
The New York Times, Washington Post, npr, all of them have a predictable blueprint. If you are a Republican, President Reagan, George H.W. bush, George W. Bush, Donald Trump in a first term, okay, you trash them. You say you're Nazis. They're fascists. They called George H.W. bush, who flew a Helldiver torpedo bomber at 18 in World War II, a coward, a wimp. They said that George W. Bush was a digital brown shirt. He was a Hitler. You know what they said about Reagan? He was senile, he was going to blow up the world. He was horrible, greedy, racist. And then you had, of course, no need to get into Trump. But here's what they do. When Reagan was out of office and they were after Bush to destroy him, well, Reagan was a jolly old guy. He met Tip. He didn't have that squeaky voice. And then when George H.W. was out of office, they said, I wish George W. Bush was like his dad. He was sober, judicious, reached across the aisle, bipartisan. He wasn't like this, this W hick from Texas. And then George W. Bush is out. And then they say, Donald Trump, look at Bush. He retired to his ranch, he paints, he won't even tell us who he voted for. He's a wonderful guy, good old George. And then they have the flip side with Democrats. And so when you get all these scandal, hey, Biden didn't open the border, you didn't do that. It's Trump. And then now that the whole thing's over, they'll say, well, you know, I kind of, sort of went, kind of think it was kind of maybe a little bit too much to open that border, let in 12 million people. And now I just heard my aunt, she's trying to get a referral on that CT scan down there in, I don't know, Palm Desert, and she can't. I got a cousin in Lancaster and the ER, room's full and maybe it was a little bit too much after. They're not. And that's the same person who'll tell you you're a racist if you criticize them. And so it's the same thing with welfare. What are you saying that, oh, here we are again. Welfare, Cadillac, Johnny Cash, Richard Nixon, that everybody on welfare has a Cadillac. That's old, you guys. Oh, Somalis. Oh, well, they kind of overdid it a little bit, didn't they? And that's how they do it. But they always lie how great Democrats are. Then when they're out of office, they kind of admit they were awful, but.
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Sammy Wink
So they're doing the same with the Ukraine and its exactly the same thing with Ukraine.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Everybody said Zelensky did what he suspended A, habea corpus, B, he outlawed all political parties, C, he banned the media, the oppositional media, and D, he started surveilling people with preventing detention. And anybody. I wrote a column, I got a Bunch of hate mail. And I said, why don't you just treat Zelensky, you and the left, that was when Biden was president, the way you treat Netanyahu. So you tell Zelensky, be like Bebe. You have to have a coalition government. Be like Bibi. You have to have an open media. Be like Bibi. You have to keep local and regional and scheduled elections. Be like Bibi. You don't go after your enemies. And preventive detention. Be like Bibi. You have to have a ceasefire. Be like bb. No collateral damage. Be like Bibi. You have to text everybody where you're going to hit them next.
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Sammy Wink
That and the long and the short of it is for your audience and for me is that they're just stealing taxpayer dollars that were supposed to go to a war against Russia. Right?
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Victor Davis Hanson
Well, we've given them 180 billion. I think it's going to end up 600 billion. And their problem is not everybody says arms. It's not. They had a country of 41 or 42 million people and 12 million have left, and no one wants to fight between 18 and 23. And you look at those tragic pictures of the Ukrainian. These are really brave people, but they're in their 30s, they have gray beards, and the young people are all techies with the back behind the lines. Not that it's not dangerous, but they're running drones and stuff. But the guys out there with artillery and machine gun, they're old. And Trump is the only person for. I don't know what his motives are. I'm not saying he's angelic, but he's the only one. So this is a catastrophe that these people who used to be speak almost the same language, they have the same religion, they look alike, they're right next to each other and they can't iron this difference out. And yes, it's Putin's fault, but we've got to stop the killing somehow without rewarding Putin. And how do you do that when they have 6,000 nuclear weapons?
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Sammy Wink
This week, Zelensky has said he won't give up any of the Donbass. Trump got really angry at that, didn't really appreciate him saying he can't give up the Donbas.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Trump went over there and he said, keep it.
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Sammy Wink
Either.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Yes, Trump went over there and he said, if you look at all the news accounts and collate them and what people are leaking, he went over and said the following. His people, the Trump people, you're not going to be in NATO, but you're going to be in the EU, you're not going to get NATO guarantees of Article 5, but you're going to get so much weapons, you've got such a good army, they'll never invade again. You can say you were a hero. You can say you saved 90% of Ukraine as it existed when you. They invaded on February 24th. Forget the Donbass, you were never going to get that. You knew it. You're never going to get back the Crimea, but you can say you saved Ukraine because you've got 90% of the territory. And then he goes to Russia and he says, this was really stupid, Vladimir. You blew it. And I know they're going to kill you if you go back and say you got a million and a half Russians killed for what, 60 miles from the Donbass in Crimea. I know you said you kept them out of NATO, but they weren't going to be in NATO anyway. I know you said that. You've institutionalized Crimea and Dombass, but nobody was going to take it. They didn't. They weren't able to. So what did you get out of it? You got. And Vladimir's, well, I have to. I had to get it 78 miles. He said, well, you're 60 miles. That's what they're arguing, does the DMZ the same as the battle line? And Zelensky says no, and he's got good reasons. They fought, they died. They have a fortified frontier right at the battle, and he doesn't want to give that land up and then have this huge Russian army looking at the Western Ukraine downhill with no fortifications. So he's saying no. And then we're telling Putin, you better just settle where you are. No. And so Trump is basically saying, okay, no, then you guys go do it. Go to it. Go get Mr. German and Mr. British and Mr. French and get them in here to help you. And then tell them to stop trashing the United States and saying, we're neo isolationists and terrible people. When we offered a peace plan that was pretty much 90% of Ukraine saved and they didn't want it, and yet they don't want to offer an alternative plan that Putin will accept. Mr. Macron, why don't you fly to Moscow and say, m. Putin, this is the best thing that you could ever want, and we the glory of Napoleon, we will enforce it. So should you dare come into Ukraine, you're going to have the same experience that the Germans had in 1940 when they invaded France. And Putin says, exactly, you know, and so that's where we are.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hanson
People are just so sad to see these people be slaughtered for nothing.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, very sad. A whole generation of young men.
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Victor Davis Hanson
The worst thing in a war is when you. You send young people or anybody to go fight it with no idea how to win. And it's just going to go on and on and on, you know, they asked Matthew Ridgeway about Vietnam, and they said, should be going to Vietnam. And Ridgeway, who saved us in Korea, and went In December of 1950, the Senior Commander was killed and he took over. He had no experience in Korea, never been there, and MacArthur was an imperious. He was pro consul in Japan, and he ran everything. And it didn't work. The Incheon was brilliant, but they had. Now that had petered out. Okay. They invaded across the Yalu River. They were. They were on their way to take Seoul second time, and Ridgeway stopped them. He said, they took Seoul, but he got it back. And he got back to what's the 38th parallel? So they called him. This was in 51. They called him in 61. Kennedy did. And Eisenhower had called him earlier and said, matt, you know more about fighting Asians in Asia than anybody. The French want us to get into Vietnam. And he said, no. And then Kennedy said, well, you said no to Eisenhower, but Now we've got 20,000 people there. We need to win this war. He said, you can't. The American people will not support it, and it's too far away, and you're too close to Russia and China. Okay? So he said, no. So then Johnson calls him up and says, I think we should just quit. We just pull out. Ridgeway said, no, don't do that. It's kind of like Joe Biden. Don't do that, Joe. And they said, why not? The only worse. The only thing worse than getting into a bad war is losing it. Meaning everybody's life is. Has been worth nothing. You have no plan to win it, and you're going to lose deterrence. And that's what Biden did it, and.
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Sammy Wink
That'S what Zelensky is doing. So we don't know where the end to that war is going to be. So that's unfortunate.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I'd like to know what would be so hard. Having a forensic audit of his personal finances.
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Sammy Wink
You mean Zelensky's?
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Victor Davis Hanson
Yeah, and dummy companies he owns. And maybe they can get the two Vindman brothers to go over there.
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Sammy Wink
So you're suggesting that he's just fighting this war because he's making a boatload.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Of money off of it? No, I Think he's a patriot. I think he's brave. I think he's, he earns a lot of legitimate admiration. But I think he also has an idea, something like the following. I've been so tired. I'm working so hard for the people. Nobody appreciates me. Nobody appreciates my team. So if Europe and the United States are sending us a trillion dollars in aid, what would it matter if we took a 1 or 2% for our dummy companies that for handling fees? Maybe if we each end up with 3 or 400 million, that's not asking too much for saving Ukraine. That's how they think. And I'm just saying don't give him any more money. And we're, I'm not just speaking when all everybody's listening is the first thing that comes on their mind is Barisma Burisma. Burisma that we've been here before Crooked country put on. I mean, everybody says Hunter Biden was a crook. He was. But somebody put him on that board and they put him on that board because they were crooks and they were paying his family off so they could get what, special treatment and make money from the US and by the way, I hope everybody in the Trump administration is digesting all of this. Not what I say, but what's true. Because I just don't think anybody in the Trump circle should be anywhere near these fantastic amounts of money. If you're talking $20 trillion of foreign investment and maybe you're talking 10 trillion that will actually materialize next year, there are quote, unquote, handling handlers fees, access fees, consulting fees, and they're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. I just hope that that middleman role to connect dollars from the Middle east to companies or development in the United States, that facilitation fee is not somebody who is in the political circle of Donald Trump. I just hope it isn't because it's because then it really hurts him.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, it sure does. Well, Victor, we have a sponsor, Prageru, and you have been a close friend of Dennis Prager for many years and have had the privilege of working with his remarkable team at Prageru. He's appeared in several. Victor has appeared in several of their five minute videos, reaching tens of millions, millions worldwide. What is most important about Prageru's audience is that over 60% are under 35, the very generation most in need of enduring American principles. At a time when education and media often erode confidence in our country, Prageru stands firm in defending truth, reason and the legacy of Western civilization. We are proud that that Prageru has a sponsorship with us. So please join victor@prageru.com VDH your tax deductible gift is triple matched through December 31st. So please give generously@prageru.com Vdh and we'd like to thank Prageru for sponsoring the Victor Davis Hanson show. And Victor is a, a, a advocate.
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Victor Davis Hanson
For Yes, I know Dennis and I'm, he's been challenging health issues. He's one, he's somebody like Charlie Kirk or Mark Levin. They're multi talented and they have their radio show, they have their organization, they have television appearances. I went and spent the day down there with the Prager people. It was a gosh, it was a multi faceted organization that's trying to restore traditional American values education. It's kind of like Charlie Kirk. It's, you know, when you think about it, as I mentioned before, if you take away and they're kind of in their prime, I know Rush was getting in his early 70s, but if you look at if Andrew Breitbart had lived, he was very young, died I think 42 or something and the loss of Andrew Bitebart, Rush, right now we'd be listening to Rush three hours every day and Charlie Kirk would be barnstorming and warning about affordability and talking about the midterms and he was going to go out and get out the vote. And pre 2024, Tucker was warning about open borders and the Republicans, you know, had to get in one facet or another. And then Dennis was on radio every day and all of those talents have in some ways not been as viable. Dennis because of health issues, Tucker because of change of trajectory death for Andrew Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh and Charlie Kirk. I had met and knew them all and they were all very talented and it really hurt the conservative movement.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, it sure did. Well, Victor, on to a question about this accusation that Trump is an authoritarian. I know that we've heard the left come out there and the very banal they just say he's a tyrant, he's a Nazi, he's a tyrant, he's a Nazi. And I'm sure they have a large constituency that just buy into it, but there's the middle constituency who some of whom might buy some of their more I don't know if they're moderate arguments or more at least that they're an argument for whether he's authoritarian or not in real clear politics. And there was an article and I'm sorry, I Forgot the author of this article, but nonetheless, he wrote he wanted to demonstrate Trump's royal lack of accountability. And so he had three things that he said, and this article was actually about Marjorie Taylor Greene and that Trump should cool it on being her criticism and da, da, da. But here are some of the accusations against Trump and I was wondering if you could either refute them or what your thoughts were on them. That he's authoritarian because he had the Saudi prince and alleged in the alleged instigator of the Khashoggi murder into the murder into the White House and then just said, well, things happen. And that was where his words. The second, second example is he threatened to have a ABC light, ABC's license taken away because he was angry at a reporter's question. And then the third thing, and the final thing was he's said at one point that seditious six should be charged with sedition. And we've euphemized the.
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Victor Davis Hanson
There's about five issues here. Number one, and what you say is bombast and crudity, callousness, inflammatory remarks are designed for a purpose. That's what he does. So then the next two questions come up. Did he reify that language? Did he actually do something? And three, if he did do something that is called authoritarian fascism, does it have a parallel with someone else who did something like it that was not called fascist? Okay, so we know that he says things that are kind of out there. So how would we adjudicate whether he is an authoritarian? Well, he has had 500 lower court district injunctions stopping a legitimate executive order in most cases, because what about 90 of them, 90% of them were overturned at the circuit court level, the appellate court level. Trouble. So an authoritarian would say to Judge Brodsburg and the others, blank, blank, you, I'm going to do it. And Justice Marshall, as we remember in the Supreme Court, he, he gave me an injunction, let him enforce it. That's Andrew Jackson, I think, said that. So my point is he didn't. He followed them all. And I'd like to know, he wants to fire people in the federal government. Well, they were imported by the executive. Who says the executive can't fire people in the executive branch? The Supreme Court just said, yes, of course they can. So when you say he's a dictator, authoritarian, please give me an example. Not what he said, what he actually did. Now, then, then let me ask you, did you provide the same level of criticism to, I don't know, Joe Biden, Barack Obama? So when you said that he is Breaking international law and killing terrorists. Did you say the same thing about Barack Obama and go demonstrate at the White House when he killed 500 people with predators? Did you say he killed American citizen? That's a dictatorial act. He should be put in trial right now. The president killed American citizen. Probably knew it was there without a trial. Did he do that? No. Did Obama have inflammatory language after he did it? Yeah, he said he was pretty good at killing people. And he's joked about predators. I said earlier. And then the question is, did Trump do things that they did? Did he try to take, will he try to take Democrats off the bow ballot? Just say, you know what, these people are lawbreakers, all of them. So I'm taking them off the ballot. They're not going to be on the ballot like 25 states did to him. And then as he listens to Joe Biden, he says, you know, Joe Biden never really got out of that problem of taking those classified documents. In other words, they admitted he did. There's still a statute of limitations. And Robert heard the special counsel said he was guilty. The only reason he didn't press charges was he thought that he couldn't convince a jury because Joe was so debilitated. But I think I can. So, Pam, go back and charge Joe Biden right now. You know what? Go get a tape of that SWAT raid at Mar a Lago and do the same thing. Same guys, same thing. And go into Joe Biden's house and then go through Jill Biden's underwear drawer and tell Hunter he's debanked. No checks, no credit cards. Hunter, sorry. We're going to debank your family no matter what. Jamie Dimon says they did debank. They did debank the Trump family. He says, well, it was just because of. No, it was. They targeted the Trumps. So what I'm getting at is we have a lot of examples of extralegal occlusion. Or we could do this. Donald Trump, he's wedded for the midterms. He calls in John Radcliffe, head of the CIA. Hey, John, here's what I need you to do. I need you to get 51 former of our guys, conservatives, some general CIA, I don't know, National Security Agency. Just get them, round them all up, up. And we'll wait right before, right before the midterms. And then let's have all of them bipartisan, make sure you get some Democrats too. We'll give them some little awards right before the midterms. Let's have them issue a statement and say that and we'll just mention five or six Democrats have broken the law and they're engaged in a massive fraud. Fraud. It'll be a lie. But did he ever do that? No, he didn't. So yes, he says things that are crude for a fact. He shouldn't do that. Yes. And yes, Joe Biden did things, in fact not in word, that were much worse and so did Barack Obama and the same critics who are so honorable didn't say a word. So that's why I just wish people would quantify things when they say he's Hitler. Okay, tell me why Tim Waltz said that. Madison Square Garden rally was like Nuremberg. There were torches, people were in a particular Nazi like party and Hitler was promising basically to take over to destroy the Versailles Treaty and go to war. Did he say that? That? No. What would Tin Waltz know about anything? I mean, other. He can't even get his own war record right. He can't even. Everything he said in the campaign was proven to be almost untrue. So I don't know. I don't take it. I just want to see examples of dictatorship. When she says he's a racist Islamicist, then he doesn't like black people and Muslims, so he never met with Kano west or he, he never appointed African Americans to positions in his government or he doesn't like Latinos like Marco Rubio or he doesn't like gays like Scott Bessant or I don't know. He was one of the few people in New York that was friendly with Don King, the black boxing entrepreneur. There's all kinds of stories like that. In fact, the biggest big criticism of Trump when he came in, in the elevator down 2015. This guy is sordid. He has all these creepy people in New York that are kind of quasi criminals that he hangs out with and a lot of them are black.
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Sammy Wink
So you're telling me he never did charge sedition of the seditious six and he never did not yet take the license from abc?
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Victor Davis Hanson
All right, well he might have railed like, like murder in the cathedral. Who will relieve me of this man? Who will get the license from abc? Hint, hint. And then people got in the corner said, how long is he going to remember this? We'll just say yes, yes. And then he'll just blow over and it'll be that they're not. Hey, Ryan Reynolds here wishing you a.
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Sammy Wink
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Victor Davis Hanson
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Sammy Wink
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Victor Davis Hanson
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Sammy Wink
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Victor Davis Hanson
So that means a half day.
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Sammy Wink
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Victor Davis Hanson
Of $45 for a three month plan equivalent to $15 per month. Required new customer offer for first three months only. Speed slow after 35 gigabytes of network's busy. Taxes and fees extra. See mint mobile.com and he hasn't yet. He did sue them. But then on the other hand, what was CBS trying to do by editing a manuscript right on the eve of election other than to throw an election? That's fraud. That's what they were trying to do. What did George Stephanopoulos what was the point of calling Donald Trump a convicted rapist 11 times when he knew he wasn't he'd never been convicted of rape, maybe by a crazy judge in New York, sexual assault or sexual harassment, but not rape. So anyway, so let's take a break.
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Sammy Wink
And then come back and talk a little bit about the police chief in D.C. stay with us and we'll be right back. Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hansen in his own words on our new platform partnership with the Daily Signal. And the young crew at the Daily Signal I think are doing a marvelous.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Job with the yes, they are doing a very good job and they're having a Heracles act and that is out of the blue for no reason. Five stations are now doing VDH artificial intelligence. And they're it's terrible. They're using the F word with my face voice. This very place. I'm sitting in the background. I like JD Vance. They're having me attack JD Vance. They're they've got over a million aggregate views and they've got thousands of subscribers. So they're also taking away our base, our listener base. And they pop up. No sooner do you have an attorney contact YouTube and they try to and they don't really do much that they pop back up because there's no penalty unless and I wish we could get a class action suit.
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Sammy Wink
YouTube is not making it easy either. So your lawyer said that it is a good idea to tell as many people out there as we can to go and when you find an AI station, a VDH report, use the report function.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I wish everybody and report it.
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Sammy Wink
So that was your advice. If they get just masks coming in to do something.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I plead guilty. I've been lax because I'm dealing with this health issue. But I think that's our only hope. We have all these thousands, millions of eyes and ears. If you see one of these, just report it, report it, report it. And if it sounds like if they're using swear words, we never do on this program, the F word, the S, all those different. That's not us. If it doesn't originate ultimately from the Daily Signal, it's not us. It has to have some connection with a Daily Signal. And maybe they'll have a technology soon that the original podcast will have a brand on it, a watermark or something, and that if you don't have that watermark, you can't reproduce it. I don't know. We'll see.
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Sammy Wink
Well, Victor, maybe I, I'll save the police chief for our next episode. I just thought there was this week Newsom in a very strange pose with his elbows under his legs, almost like a yoga pose, trying to put his feet behind his back. And then he was also cross legged. Those were two images that had a lot of press this week.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I was wondering, I was wondering if he had. Contortionist. Yeah, gymnast. Because he does this and he has his legs and it's very amazing. They're all at different angles. He's obviously, I don't know what the purpose. And then he has some kind of restless hands syndrome. He does this. And I think all of that just articulation is because of a lack of a message or a lack of an ability to speak and outline something that's going on.
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Sammy Wink
And, and then. Did you see Jasmine Crockett's advertisement?
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Victor Davis Hanson
Jasmine Crockett, Jasmine, there's a rule in politics. If somebody attacks you, and no matter how uncouth, insensitive or cruel it is, it has some truth to it. Don't give them free airtime. So Donald Trump said that you're a low IQ person. Then you took that quote and you showed yourself in various poses, each time repeating it. So what you did was you showed yourself, but you're an attractive person, but it wasn't particularly attractive. And then you had Donald Trump commenting on your latest pose that you were a low IQ person. Jasmine, people who make ads of themselves and include an attack on themselves and says that basically they're stupid are stupid, stupid. If somebody says, Victor is low IQ and I say, I'm going to have an. I'll fight that. I'm going to have a thing here. Victor is low iq. Victor is low iq. And then people go, wow, what a dummy. He is low iq. He keeps showing us that. Giving free time to the guy who says he's low iq.
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Sammy Wink
Exactly. Victor, we are up against a Hard end. And I got two comments really quick.
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Victor Davis Hanson
That we're over today.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, keep me Lord. 05 is the writer here. Every time I, I find a fake, Mr. Hansen, I leave a comment saying it is fake along with their well hidden disclaimers. Those disclaimers are up for one second, one nanosecond, and there's about a hundred words on it make me. They make me so mad I could spit. And the second one is kayak basement. I. I want to watch, but it depresses me hearing all about the fraud in the tds. But thank you. I hope you're still watching.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Fraud?
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Sammy Wink
You mean the basement? Fraud everywhere. Tedious. All of that stuff. It's.
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Victor Davis Hanson
It is bad. I don't know what makes me depressed reading it. Yeah, the left is. I do think that the left is reacting out of a position of weakness and paranoia that people don't want their message. They're going to see Mondami. I, I know those people. I've seen them in academia my whole life. They're going to smile and they're going to be fuzzy wuzzy and then, man, when the rubber hits the road, they are going to go nuts. So you voted for them. You're going to have to live with him.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, exactly. Well, thank you, Victor Davis Hansen, and thanks to our audience.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Thank you everybody for listening and watching.
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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 Hanson
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