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Is Mondami going to be bad on religion? Yes, he's an Islamic chauvinist, and he has shady associates, to say the least. He's going to be bad economically because he's a socialist, although those who call him a Communist are not smerian because he, in his own words, has said that he believes in seizing the means of production, which is a definition of communism. If he starts bringing in food co-ops and free this and free that, the city that basically is free anyway because nobody that follows the rules. They jump turnstiles and stuff. It's going to be a disaster, and you're going to see a lot of people go to Miami or Palm Beach. It's going to be sad because New York is the greatest city in the world. It's located near Washington, DC. It's on the East Coast. It's a window to Europe, and it's the traditional financial hub of the United States. But if he does what he says he's going to do, there's going to be a lot of people who leave.

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Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. Victor is the Martin and Neely Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution, and the Wayne and Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him and links to this podcast at his website, victorhanson. Com, and the name of the website is the Blade of Perseus. So, Victor, lots going on last weekend with the No King's Rally. It seemed a little bit lackluster because we don't have a king, so No King's Rally didn't make a whole lot of sense from the get-go. But there were seven million people, and I believe that's a statistic worldwide, that participated in these rallies. And so there Was some oomph behind them? What are your thoughts on them?

They don't really know how many people. They were told to not wave Mexican flags. A lot of them did. We had that one teacher, I think, in the LA School district that was not not only were waving a Mexican flag, but she pointed to her neck and pulled the trigger on her finger to emulate the way that Charlie Kirk tragically died. Or was she in Chicago? Excuse me, I think she might have been in the Chicago School district. Nothing will happen to her since teachers, and speaking as a teacher myself, that's not aberrant among teachers being almost all left of center. But I couldn't understand the no king because kings are coronated and presidents are elected. Donald Trump ran for President more than Joe Biden did. He ran on three occasions, 2016, 2024. He was elected twice. He won the Congress, the House, and the Senate. So that's a majority vote, a consensus that people wanted that agenda. In contrast, Joe Biden in 2020 was coronated, essentially. He had lost the Iowa caucuses, the Nevada caucuses, the New Hampshire Prime Remember. He was going nowhere. Then the politicos and the party said to themselves, if we nominate Bernie Sanders, who was ahead, and/or Elizabeth Warren, or Pete Buttiging, Kamala Harris had already dropped out without winning a single delegate.

We're going to lose. So we're going to resurrect old Joe Biden from Scranton, and we're going to use him as a moderate wax and effigy. And then we're going to tell the other people there are various rewards. For Pete Buttigig, we will give you transportation secretary, which he did a very bad job at. All he did was turn it into a DI megaphone. And then for the others, they said to Elizabeth Warren, You're going to have veto power on appointments. We're going to go hard left. We'll give you an open border, 12 million illegal aliens will do the new green. You know what I mean? They gave them the most far left agenda since the Roosevelt administration. And so there was no will. That was just a backroom deal. And then he didn't He campaigned as a Democratic. He campaigned as a king at Versailles, only it was his basement. He didn't go out. He outsourced the campaign to the media, to the donors, to the politicals, and he won. Then when he was no longer deniably, you couldn't deny that he was sick, then they used a coup to get rid of him. They just called him in one day and they said, Joe, that debate was terrible.

And you've got to go off. And he said, No, I'm an elected President. And they said, No, you were never really elected. You were appointed by us. And us doesn't want you anymore, and you're not going to get any money. And so he said, Well, it's not fair. So he took about three and a half weeks. He put Hunter, he put Jill Biden out. No, no. So then they coronated somebody. They said... He came up and said, Well, I'm going to drop out. He didn't really tell us why. He didn't tell us also that he had stage three or four prostate cancer that had metastases. Then she, as vice president, just announced that she was going to be the nominee. And there had been people saying in the first hours, Well, Joel Manchin, remember he went on TV? I might be running. There were other people that were considering it, and they were going to have a constitutional... According to constitutional ideals, they would have some type, I don't mean strictly the constitution. I mean that the Democratic Party would emulate the spirit of the Constitution and have an election of the delegates. And they didn't do that.

They just appointed Kamala Harris, and everybody was relieved. They raised, I think, a record, almost 100 million in 30 days, and then they ratified it at the Democratic Convention. That was on non-democratic, non-democratic to the T. If you want to further define monarchy versus democracy, you could say that monarchs do as they please with the legal system. Donald Trump never, in his first term or so far in his second, has used the Department of Justice to go after a presidential political appointment, an ex-president, or anybody on the horizon that may be running against him. Joe Biden did. 91 indictments, and we've talked before how they were coordinated. On that magical day, November 18th of 2022, just a mere three days, three days, all it took. Donald Trump said on November 15th, I am going to run for re-election. Interrupted re-election, but I will be a candidate. Bing. They went into a panic. Three days later, here, bang. Jack Smith appointed special counsel. Mary Garland didn't even want that to happen. It was Joe Biden. He's special counsel. Bing. Same day, a few hours later, Michael Colangelo says, Well, I just got here from the Tita James Law Fair.

I engineered that $500 million fine, and now I'm here at the third at the top. I guess I got to go back out again and run poor, incompetent Alvin Bragg. And that's what he did. He waited a few days, but he left on the same Same day. And then Fannie Willis said, Well, don't keep me in the dark. Nathan Wade's on his way to the White House. And he was there on the same day, November 18th, and met with the White House Council. Charged him for his genius, I think, three or $400, no, $500 an hour. Or maybe it was $1,000. I don't know. So that is lawful. That was what they did. Donald Trump didn't call up as a... I'm King Trump. Facebook, Twitter, I you to suppress all information about the laptop. That was the FBI under Biden, I think, who said, The 51 intelligence authorities have sworn on the eve of my second debate that this this debate that this this this this is the Russians, and therefore, you're lying, Donald Trump. And then they suppressed the New York Post story that it was authentic.

But surely they are trying to make the prosecution of LaTisha James. I think it's Mueller, both of them, as law fair against the left by Donald Trump himself. Do you see any difference in it? Yes. Okay.

Yes. Number one, they are not the President of the United States. They are a relative minor officials in comparison. They tried to take out the President of the United States, number one. Number two, Donald Trump, there was not a chance in blank, given rules about presidential immunity, given this and this, that any of those convictions will stand. Latida James, the appellant court, threw out that ruling of the $500 million. I think basically said that there was nothing to the real estate fraud, and that'll be, I think, overturned. Alvin Bragg is up on appeal, but the idea that he's taking a federal campaign violation and says that a nondisclosure form, which was paid out to Stormy Daniels because he didn't report it. He reported it, I guess, on his taxes as a legal... I don't know what he did, but they are saying that was a campaign expense. It wasn't to protect your family's reputation. It was to protect your campaign's reputation. Therefore, even though the federal government and the federal attorney, prosecution attorney, in New York said, nothing's wrong, I am going as state official, excuse me, municipal Manhattan prosecutor, I'm going to take on the role of federal government.

I'm going to say it's a campaign, but that's what it was. That'll be thrown out. Eventually, And then Latita James is already gone. And E. Jean Carroll, I don't know what's going to happen with that civil suit, whether it will be returned or not. But this is different. There's only one question that will determine whether this is lawful or not lawful. Will to take the Bolton case. Did or did not John Bolton take information that was classified not to be disclosed? And did he record it on his own pad, computer, phone, and email it to people who did not have legal access to it. They were not allowed to look at that. And the question, I think, is pretty clear that he did, but I'm going to withhold. He's only accused that. He's still innocent until proven guilty. But there's a good chance that that will be, I think, they're going to find him guilty of that.

But wouldn't they be... I don't know this at all, so I'm just asking a question and being the devil's advocate. But wouldn't they be prosecuting him for something that other people have done, but they've really done nothing about it?

You mean like Donald Trump?

Or maybe Joe Biden giving information to the- They did do that to Joe Biden, and they did investigate him and Robert Hearst said, yes, he did take classified information, and yes, he had no presidential prerogative, as did Donald Trump to declassify it.

And yes, unlike Donald Trump, he didn't put it in one... He put it in three or four places, and they were less secure than Marlago. And contrary to the media, he didn't call us up and warn us that he had classified information until he had gone after Donald Trump and was worried about the exposure and the hypocrisy. And yes, his ghostwriter, who did not have a security clearance, was given classified information to help write the book, and then he erased the tapes and destroyed subpoena evidence.

Okay, so based on what you're saying, I would expect, even if they find John Bolton guilty of that, there will be no repercussions on it, because there were no repercussions for Joe Biden. He did it.

There was in the sense that the process... Yes. If If the prosecutor says it's pretty clear, as the federal judge warned in 2020 in June when his book was... See, the context is important. Bolton was fired. He was angry. He should have been full of gratitude and said, I would have never been appointed to anything in the federal government that required any Senate confirmation. That's why I've only had two major jobs. One was UN representative in a recess appointment under George W Bush, and the second is National Security Advisor that does not require Senate confirmation. Therefore, I had a great 15, 16, 17 months. No. He was angry, so he said, I'm basically, I'm going to get Trump. So the moment I got in here, I took notes every day that included some information probably that I shouldn't have had. And rather than just write it down or put it on my computer where it would be obvious, I thought I could get around observation. And on somebody, Victor, do you know that? Yes, because he said, Don't tell anybody, and they wrote, Shh, an email back. So his person one and two, which has been reported in the media as his wife and daughter, were getting emails with classified information, allegedly, as basically pages in a book.

And that was the whole point to get the thing out quickly. So if he should be fired, and he was, that he could get an embarrassing payback to Trump in the 2020. And that hurt Donald Trump. It really did because it came out and it was really lured and bad and this and that. And Donald Trump said, Sucker, all that stuff. So yes, they did. And then as far as Joe Biden taking it, Robert Hearst said that he was culpable. But he said, I don't think as a prosecutor, I could make a jury find a conviction because he's an old, trouble, forgetful man. So the other point is, is he going after personal enemies? Or is your point like this? Well, if they hadn't gone after Donald Trump, they would have never been, probably. But on the other hand, we don't know that because they were high-profile individuals. A lot of people do what Latita James does. And by the way, as a very informative reader reminded me in an email, very, very informed letter. They say, Well, there's only 3,000 people a year in the United States that are ever prosecuted for mortgage fraud by claiming either this is your principal residence or a mortgage document to get a certain...

And the reason, as he points out, is the lending institutions are their own policemen. I can verify that. When I have bought in property, I bought a place in Clovis, California. The first question the lender said, Is this your principal residence? I said, No, it's not. And the second thing I remember is when I got the loan out, they said, Is this your principal residence? I said, No. Are you going to rent it out? I said, No. Person in my family is going to live there. So these are internally surveilled and internally enforced. So Yes, there's only 3,000 because most lending institutions, 99% of them to stay in business are honest. So when they see somebody who they obviously suspect of doing something, they don't give them a loan. And so the point that I'm making is that these were high-profile officials. What do I mean by that? If you were the national security adviser to the President of the United States, and you took out classified information through the airwaves. That's different than Victor Hansen doing it or Joe Smith that's listening, right? So yes, if you're the chief law enforcement officer in charge of a living in New York State as a statewide elected official by statute and enforcing the laws.

You would be under greater scrutiny so that you, of all people, wouldn't forge or lie or try to break the law in terms of taxation and mortgage or where you live. So these people brought greater scrutiny on themselves in addition to attacking Donald Trump. Then you get to your point, the third. Well, okay, Victor, they broke the law, allegedly, and they're high-profile people that have to be beyond suspicion of the law because of their positions, and they don't want to be hypocrites. But isn't it true that Donald Trump went after them? No. It's true that they abuse the legal system. To remind people not to do that, that the people who abuse the legal system should be held to account so they don't do it any more to other people and to the Democratic and left-wing people, it sends a message. I don't think you want to turn American jurisprudence into tit for tat, because unfortunately, at this late day, The conservative side does not believe on sermon on the mount in this case. Turn the other cheek. It's more, sorry, the old prophets of the Old Testament. Eye for an eye, tooth for two.

And that's what it is. And the point is, John Bolton will never do this again. And the next left wing's national security adviser that works for a conservative government, he won't do it either or she won't. So the point was to reestablish deterrence, and let's hope it stops there. But so far, we only They have people who have gone after the president in vendettas and then found themselves high profile and culpable with exposure. Juries will decide. This wasn't Mississippi or Wyoming that got these grand jury indictments. This was Virginia. You know what I'm saying? This is a left-wing place that this law fair, there's a big difference that people listening know, and I know you know, but I'm going to remind you of the mundane. When they went after Donald Trump, with one exception, the federal judge in Florida, and that's Florida's cast liberal, they were counting on a Washington, New York nexus of left wing people who would comprise grand juries and actual juries. That's how Alvin Bragg got that crazy conviction. That's how Latida James did. But when Donald Trump does it, or I shouldn't say does it, when the shoes on the other foot, they're still the same places.

So Trump is going to basically, if you think he's in a vendetta or you think the Trump DOJ, they're going to have to have a much harder case because they are going after left-wing people in left-wing jurisdictions and have to convince them. And that's a harder task for a grand jury in their case than the Biden grand juries were to get Trump.

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Yeah, Peter Robinson, Uncommon Knowledge. Well, Victor, now let's go ahead and continue with the no Kings because we had so much. The Democrats seemed to be excited that these rallies brought out a lot of people. It showed good movement for the election midterms. And we had some say that given that, there was a lot of pressure on Congress, Democratic congressmen right now that are opposing the new bill and have shut down the Congress to continue that shutdown. I was wondering your thoughts.

The polls were even, or maybe they even with the Democrats. But eventually, this is the second longest shutdown in history, eventually, the word gets out to everybody. And what is that word? The word is, at first, everybody's relieved. They don't like government. Most people don't. And they still get their checks for the first two weeks. And then it starts to get a little iffy, especially if you're on federal entitlements or you work for the government. So then the pressure starts to mount. Then people start to forget about what the issue was. If you ask most people, why was the government shut down? They won't say that initially it was because the Democrats want over a trillion dollars more in entitlements that they didn't want in the last... I mean, they didn't really demand it before, but they were under pressure by the primary candidates that are running to be tough. And they're angry because when they pass the Affordable Care Act, it was supposed to make things cheaper. But by bringing all these different people into the system and requiring really no responsibility for anybody as the private market, background check, this, that, that, it was not cheaper.

And it The insurance company said, This may be an affordable care act program, but we're going to go broke, and we're not going to do it. So they went to the Obama administration, Biden, and they said, We need a huge subsidy. And the Republicans bought to it by saying, We want reforms, but for now, we'll give you a multi-year subsidy, and then you've got to come up with a way. They never came up with another way. They were the ones that agreed to it. They were the ones that wanted the subsidy. They were the ones that said, There's a timeline on how long. So it was exhausted. And now they came and said, Well, we should have, when we were discussing things, extended the subsidy, but you guys didn't want to do it. We didn't want to fight about it. But now there's a midterm coming up. We decided to change our mind. And so the reason the Republicans are not going to do it is one of the reasons they believe that it needs a subsidy is because there's 40 million people here illegally. Some of you can say, Victor, it wasn't that many.

Well, it was 12 million under Biden, and it was anywhere from 20 to 25, if you look at certain studies before. And Gavin Newsom wanted $5 billion bailout of Medi-Cal from the federal government. I was really angry when I kept hearing all of these senators. Did you see that Elizabeth Warren? She said, This is a lie. There's not any illegal aliens. Excuse me, Senator Warren. In the last 18 months, I have been to an emergency room in California, and I can attest that I was the only patient, the most recent time, that I could detect that was speaking English in the waiting room. And on the earlier occasion, I was incapacitated, but I was only maybe one or two people. I can tell you that when I talked to people checking in, they were surprised I had Medicare Advantage or Medicare Plus. In other words, I had a private insurance plan to pay the 20% that Medicare did not. In other words, most people came in there either with no ID or no anything or with a Medi-Cal card. I I can guarantee you there was a police person there, but they were not asking for your legal status.

They weren't asking. They were deterring criminal gang members from coming after gang-related injuries. So everybody in California knows that 50 % of all the people in the state, 20 million use Medi-Cal. And out of that, Medi-Cal, there is a large percentage of people who are not here legally. And so we'll see what happens. But I think they're going to lose that argument, especially when Donald Trump says, We're going to have to lay off people. But I'm not going to just do it by seniority. I'm going to do these programs that I hinder things like the DEI type of programs or the green energy subsidy.

He has one in the Health and Human Services that he has just cut 31, given the pink slip to 31 different employees. That was such a program that it was basically DEI doing marginalized group.

When they tried to do it for either Obamacare or for budget considerations, when you're the out party and you've You've had an election and you don't win the House and Senate and you have no political power because the filibuster applies to these continuing resolution or whatever, shutting down the government and saying, I don't have the votes to make any difference, and I'm going to shut down the government and not play along. And to get rid of me, you have to have 60 senators, which nobody has. That works for a while, and then people are saying, You're just nihilist. If you really want to change things, you really care about Obama, go out and be reasonable people with common sense and campaign and win a majority in the House and Senate. But they're in a doom loop because what they're basically saying is we're going to shut down the government because AOC or Ilyan Omar or Jasmine Crockett candidates are sprouting up everywhere, and they're pushing LGBTQ, drag show, biological men and Female Sport Agendas, Open Borders Agendas, subsidize Wind and Solar Forever Agendas, pro-Hamas, pro-radical Palestinian agendas, and the people don't want it. But they know the primary voters who are energized who actually show up in these little, very small, turnout elections are left wing.

So to get nominated, you have to be far left. But the people in Congress to govern, and they're moved a little bit to the center. So they're saying, If I don't go back to be hard left in these primaries, somebody's going to primary me, and they're going to win, and then they're going to get in the general election, and they're going to say so many crazy, stupid things, I guess we'll talk about our senator candidate from the Democratic Party, that when they get in the general election, they will lose. And then they're thinking, Well, we can pull a hard left agenda off under two circumstances. We have to have a charismatic leader Nationwide, not Mondami in New York. I mean, nationwide. Barack Obama could say, Hey, I just want to say, I just got a red state, blue state, got to come together. I don't believe in gay marriage myself. We're not going to be pushing that. What do you don't understand about legal immigration? It's legal, isn't it? That fake, and he was charismatic, and he got elected with a left-wing agenda. Or you can be the Joe Biden route. You can get a wax and effigy and say, I'm Joe, good old Joe Biden from Scranton.

We used to be a conservative, and then just fall asleep, and then have puppeteers stringing, We're going to do this. But if you don't have a charismatic candidate, and they don't, and you don't have a wax and effigy, which they don't have anymore, then they're going to have to run on that agenda of the primary, and they're going to lose. And the last time they did this was 1972 with George McGovern. He said, We're going to take those 10 carriers, that big carrier fleet, we're going to cut them in half. We're going to give everybody a guaranteed income. And he just went nuts. And he was a very uncharismatic poor speaker, and they were wiped out. And they kept doubling down, and they did not really turn to power for 20 years. They had a little... They got together and they said, Man, we had a rule that we're all left wing people, that nobody wants our message, so we have to have a Southern accent, like a Joe Biden fake. So we had LBJ. We're not going to send American boys over there to fight wars. Southeast Asian boys should be fighting. Remember that?

That's what he said. And he had a Southern Texas accent, and then he got a left-wing thing. Then they broke the rule. Hubert Humphrey lost. '72, McGovern lost. Then they said, We got to go back to that. They tried it one time in that 20-year period, and they worked for a while, Jimmy Carter. I'm never going to lie to you. And they thought, he's a Carter peanut farmer family Southern Georgia. He was left wing. So then they lost again. Then they had lost Just eight years with Reagan, four years with George. Then they got wise in 1992, and they had Bill Clinton, Southern accent, Al Gore, Southern accent, fake, moderate, and the, We're going to try 17-year-olds as felons. We're going to have school uniform, night basketball, 100,000 more police office. Remember all that? And they got in there for eight years. And then it wore off, and they won the popular vote in 2000, and they lost the election, but they still went with this Southern accented. And then they said, No, we don't have to do this anymore, and they ran carry, and they lost 2004. Then they got smart, and they said, We got to go back now.

We don't have a Southern anymore, but we have a first Black President. And as Joe Biden said, remember what Joe Biden said? He's the first clean Black President. I thought that was reprehensible, but that's what they thought. I'm not quoting it. And so did Senator Harry. What's his name? Reid. He said the same thing. He's that first Black man that was articulate, and so did Joe Biden. So they got a guy who was half-black, and everybody felt good about him, and he faked it like he was a moderate. He ran on close borders. He gave that 2004 Convention speech, There is no red America. There's no blue America. It was just America. Yeah, Barack. Before you tore it in two again. So that's what they did. And they were out of power, basically, for 20 years, except for Carter. And now they're going to run... They ran Kamala Harris, and they ran they/them commercials, that they/them commercial. And they ran the demonstrating where she said no deportations and borders are joke, and she lost. Hard lap, couldn't fake it, bad candidate, no charisma. And so if they keep doing that, I think they will until they get lose again.

And then somebody will come up and they'll say, We in the Democratic Party are for legal-only immigration. We want to pump a lot of oil and gas, and we got to build up the military, and then they'll start winning again for a while.

You say they don't have anybody charismatic, but I think that Governor Newsom thinks that he is their charismatic man. I don't know what the polls show. Polls must be showing something about him, or I don't think he would be out there so much thinking he was going to be their next candidate.

Compared to Pritzker. Pritzker.

Which is a lot worse.

Yes, he looks charismatic compared to Fritz Kuhr. Josh Shapiro is going to have a hard time winning because the Democratic Party is an anti-Semitic Party. Its base is very anti-Semitic. That's why he was not chosen. If he had been chosen on vice president, they might have picked up Pennsylvania. I doubt it, but he might have. So Gavin Newsom is a five-minute candidate. By that, I mean, when you first see him and he goes out on the stage, he has all these hand movements and his slick hair, and he has his Aberkombian fitch little vest or whatever he wears. And he razzle-dazzles with his hands. Then he says, and he just lies. We got one of the top school systems in the world, and we're the envy of we got the largest economy in the world, and then he doesn't get into, we have among the worst roads, high-speed rail fiasco, or states burning up with forest fires. We import all of our gas and oil almost. Our gas prices, electricity prices, taxes are the highest in the country, half the whole... All that stuff comes It comes out in the next minute six. So just to take one example, when he debated Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis, for the first five minutes, was stiff, and Gavin was roly-poly, razzled dazzle, dazzle, move, twitched.

And he was Mr. Cool with a slick back hair, and he just started spouting all these lies. Then Ron DeSantis had a high pitch voice, winding. He said, Yes, we have half your population, and we have half your population, and we have no income tax, and we run surpluses, and you've got twice the people we do, and you're running huge debts, and you've got the highest taxes in the nation. And then we're getting about 300,000 people a year. You're losing about 300,000. It just went on. And after about an hour, you thought, I go with a guy who's telling the truth and has all the facts. I'm not Mr. Empty-suit. That's what he is. He's an inflatable candidate.

He sure is. Well, you got off the topic by far, which was no king's. But I just have a couple of things before we go to break. One is that people were noticing that the dominant age group of the no King's Rally protestors was older. Wait, you're not supposed to- Was older, and I'm not going to say the K-A-A-R-U.

I promise the person that wrote a letter to me, a very earnest letter, that his wife was in shell shock. I'm not making fun of them. I just said that she felt that it was directed at her. I don't know who she is, but she said that her name started with a K.

I was going to call it the 1960s generation. Can we chalk this up as another bit of damage the 1960s generation has done to our country?

Well, I went to use, as I said, the UC Santa Cruz. If you go to victorhansen. Com, I have a whole series of reminiscence, four of them. But after looking at people that were 17, 18, 19, and 1971, too, and as a observer and watching the amount of drugs they ingested, the types of behavior they engaged in, the sexual antics they participated in, their general conduct. I said to myself one of two things at the time, or actually my father told me, these people are either going to be dead or if they're alive, I'm glad I'm not going to be alive, as my father said, because they are going to wreck habit on the country, and they are Because all those people that you see protesting, not all of them, but a lot of them were on campuses in the '70s, and that's where they learned that crazy behavior. They were open to any crazy suggestion. That's why as teachers and professors, that's where they learned it all, places like UC Santa Cruz.

Well, I would take us back to the French Revolution and theories that a wheat blight made the population crazy, and maybe the 1960s drugs made the population crazy. We're seeing the results.

They always bring that up, that certain types of grains, when you store them, they get a rust, a fungal disease, mold. And then that has an ability to gravitate to the brain and cause... They said that about a lot of things in Greece, ancient Greece.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break, and we'll come back and talk a little bit about the mayoral race in New York. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hanson Show. Victor has a website, The Blade of Perseus, and it has lots of free stuff on it. So please come and look at the things Victor does there, his articles and his podcasts. But he has also Ultra material, and you can subscribe to Victor's website for 6. 50 a month or $65 a year, and also read the two articles a week for Ultra, and he does a podcast or a short video at the end of the week as well. So, Victor, Mamdami has had some bad press recently this week as taking pictures with a one Sarah Wahhaj, who was a imam who-Imam, unindicted co-conspirator. Yeah, unindicted co-conspirator. That means that you have enough evidence in a non legal sense to know the person's probably guilty, but you don't have enough actionable proof to actually indict him.

So you try to mention that he's associated with the other indicted people.

Can I before you go on, and I just want to add that his son was the guy that took a bunch of teenagers to New Mexico and was teaching them to be terrorists, jihadists. And then he got arrested.

And remember this guy Mamdani was attacking Cuomo and saying, How many mosques have you gone to? And I've gone to all these mosques. And so there's going to be, is Mamdani going to be bad on religion? Yes, he's an Islamic chauvinist, and he has shady associates, to say the least. He's going to be bad economically because he's a socialist, although those who call him a Communist are not smearing him because he, in his own words, has said that he believes in seizing the means of production, which is a definition of communism by Ingles, I suppose. Politically, as I said, he's going to be left wing. Economically, if he starts bringing in food co-ops and free this and free that, the city that basically is free anyway because nobody follows the rules. They jump turnstiles and stuff. It's going to be a disaster, and you're going to see a lot of people go to Miami or Palm Beach. It's going to be sad because New York is the greatest city in the world. It's located near Washington, DC. It's on the East Coast. It's a window to Europe, and it's the traditional financial hub of the United States.

You just can't But if he does what he says he's going to do, there's going to be a lot of people who leave.

Have you seen the argument over whether Cuomo or Sliwa should drop out? They say Sliwa should drop out because he doesn't have a chance, and Cuomo is better. But then there are all those commentators who say, Well, Cuomo's got the bad numbers of dead from his earlier administration.

There's two arguments. If you're in New York and you're scared to death of this, whatever he is, Communist Socialist Mondani, then you are presented with two arguments. Argument number one, you can't vote for Cuomo. He's not only a real Democrat, even though he's saying he's independent, but he's obnoxious. He told everybody, If you don't want to be for abortion, then get out of New York. He said that when he was governor. He deliberately directed connected COVID people into rest homes where people were vulnerable, and somewhere between 10 and 14,000 people died. And it wasn't just one sexual harassment allegation, it was serial. So he's not a good guy, and he's not only not a good guy, but he looks tired, weak, anemic. He's not the Andrew Cuomo, who battled Trump in the first term, like 2017. He was on TV, he was fiery, quick on his feet. He looks tired. He looks like he's confused, baffled, like, Well, I woke up. I'm Rip Van Winckel. What world is this? This guy's a Communist socialist. I'm Mario Cuomo's son. I'm Chris Cuomo's brother. Don't you know who I am? No, we don't. I'm sorry. The world passed you by.

It looks like he's... I think he took 10 days off the campaign on vacation. So that's the argument, don't vote for him. But the Silva argument is, Well, I'm a conservative. I'm crazy. I have a lot of things in my past I'm not happy about. They're digging out a lot of this stuff. The other part about the Cuomo is, and vote for... I mean, you don't want to vote for this guy. You want to vote for Silwa because he's the true conservative, and only one candidate can make it, so it has to be one. So you might as well vote for the person who reflects your view. The problem is this, that the guy who is more conservative has less of a chance to win. The guy that is abdominable is not as bad as Mondani. If you take the actual numbers of both of them, not that everybody who would vote for Silwawa would vote for Cuomo. But if that were to be true, he has a 4 or 5 point advantage over Mondani. I've never seen anything like it. If they had just said to themselves, all the conservative Democrats, all the moderate Democrats, all the Republicans, all had just got and said, Look, this guy is a nihilistic.

He's Satanic. Can't we get somebody like a Giuliani, or maybe if you think he's too conservative, a Bloomberg. Just get one person independent, and nobody else run, and we will back him. I mean, that's what the Democrats... It's on Democratic, as I said about Joe Biden. They selected him in 2020, but at least this candidate would actually have to get out of the basement and run. They could defeat him. So it's an off-year election. It's a municipal election. And there's no opposition, really, to Mondani that's credible. So there's going to be a very, very, very low turnout. I bet you, of all the nine million people, I doubt a million people show up. And out of that, the ones that show up are going to be energized people, mostly white and Asian, and they're going to be upscale, $100,000. Not that that's upscale New York, but middle class, upper middle class, and they're going to say, I'm educated. I went to Yale, I went to Brown, I've got degrees, but I work for the Washington Post, or I'm an intern at the hospital, or I'm a young lawyer that is prestigious, but I don't make any money to buy a $3 million house up near Harlem.

I'm sorry. And that's not fair because I'm a genius, and I've got all the right letters after my name, and I'm a liberal, and I feel really bad about all the good things you should be feel bad about. And yet my people don't help me, so I'm going to vote commy. That's basically what his support is.

Well, let's turn to Maine then, where a one gram platinum is trying to run against Susan Collins for the Senator of Maine. He's got some terrible stuff in his background, but I think the most important one is that he has a skull and cross bones on his chest, which is the Totenkopf of the German SS, Nazi SS. And so that is a problematic tattoo, which he's explained away as, I was a drunken soldier in Croatia and went out one night and got the skull and crossbones because I thought it looked cool on the wall. But he's also said other things. So I wanted to talk. He said he's advocated for communism. He's been anti police. He's called all cops, baskets. He said, White rural America is stupid and racist, and he's blamed sexual assault victims for their assault. I was wondering your thoughts on this.

He says it was all social media, read it. The problem with all of this is, these were the same people who lectured us that Pete Hexet's Jerusalem Clause that's emblazoned on his chest, that as the Jerusalem Clause that has the gospel of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John at each corner of the cross, that that was somehow dangerous or inflammatory, being a Christian. This isn't just the totenkopf, German, head of a dead person. It's a particular type of totenkopf. It's the insignia of the skull at a certain angle with a little fissure in the brain, I mean, the skull with two bones coming out representing the skeleton. It was the official image emblazoned on the uniforms of the third Panzer division, SS division. There's about 18, 20 SS divisions. There was the Doss-Reich division, and they were all volunteers for the most part from Germany. Austria had a higher percentage per capita than Germany did. They even had a Viking division, SS division for Scandinavian Nazis. And yeah, they did finish that volunteered. So when you look at the Totenkopf symbol, he didn't just go out and say, I want a skull. He went to a place where that was.

So let's just say he's right. I didn't know what I was doing. I'm drunk. I do not believe in the subsequent decade plus that somebody didn't say to him, Hey, that skull and crossbones that you thought was funny is actually the exact replica the phasmia. It is the Totenkopf insignia of the third Panzer division, the Totenkopf division. And they, as soon as the war started in Poland, That division was formed by Jew killing brigades. They killed Jews from the first month of the war, 100,000 of them. Then they went into France, they shot They shot prisoners, English prisoners, executed them right before Dunkirk evacuation. They were at the Battle of Kersk. They were at the Siege of Linnengrad. Everywhere they were, they killed people. They were completely wiped out by the wars, and they had been decimated. But they were one of the nastiest of all the divisions. They were right up there with DAS, Reich, and the Hitler, Adolf Hitler, Lebensart division. So he knows that. Somebody has told him that. I've known people that... I think the city of the county of Santa Cruz had a program that if you were tattooed and you wanted to go clean every Saturday gravestones, them.

Then for each hour you work, they gave you something like an hour of removal. So there were programs in all these cities that you can get them removed from free from just token public work. Why didn't he just go take it off? Because he thought it was cool, and he probably bragged about it. It wasn't like they just happened to see him at the beach. He was at a wedding where he was boasting about his chest and everybody saw at the shock value. So he said, How could I be a Nazi when I said I was a communism? And we say, We're not stupid. You said that you really didn't mean that you were a communist. So you really didn't mean you were a communist because you're really a Nazi? Or you're neither a Nazi or a Communist, or what is it about the National Socialist Party you don't get? Socialist Party that most, Ribbentrop himself, Goebbels, were both Marxists before they went into National Social. It's called National Socialism. They fought the Bolsheviks, and yes, in the '30s, but they were the same type of socialist organization only on the right.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead.

He's not going to make it.

No, you don't think so? Well, he's running it against Susan Collins, so I don't know if you are.

He's got this little stick that the Democratic Party is a party of elitist, bi-coastal elites, and subsidized poor. And they've lost all the white working class. So now they're desperate for white working class emblems. So they think this guy was in the Marine Corps. True, he was in combat He works in oysters. He was the Harbor master. He's rural. He talked like a good old boy. So they get a pseudo-white populist candidate. But when you start to read about him, he doesn't represent the white working class. I could walk out here and in Fresno County talk to 10 people in the white working class, and I would probably find zero communists who would say they were communists. And I don't think any of them would have the Deaths Head, third Panzer Division, Logo on their chest.

No, I doubt it. Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break, and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about what's up with the Ukraine-Russia war. Stay with us, and we'll be right back. Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen show. So two things this week on the Russia-Ukraine war. One is that the news out seems to be that the big The argument is over the Donbas region, Russia refusing to give up any bit of it, and the Ukraine wanting some of it. So that's where Trump's negotiating point seems to be right now. And Putin and Trump were supposed to meet, I believe yesterday. It's Wednesday, today on Tuesday, and the meeting was called off. And I was wondering, your thoughts on this one?

I don't think they've changed. We know the whole parameter. Vladimir Putin regrets, not on moral grounds, but on political grounds, that his attempt to decapitate Kyiv and take it and absorb Ukraine, February of 2022, was an on God disaster. Almost four years later, we're getting up to 2 million dead, wounded, missing. Probably a million and a half Russians have been killed or maimed or captured, or they don't where they are. And what did he get for that? Well, did he get, well, Ukraine won't join NATO? Yes, but they were never going to join anywhere. There were people in NATO that didn't want them in. So they went Then, well, he institutionalized the Donbas in Crimea. Well, he stole that from Obama in 2014. They had a much greater claim as an integral part of Russia than Ukraine, probably. And more importantly, the Ukrainians didn't have the wherewithal to ever get them back. So that was a given. So what did he want? So if he goes back to the oligarchs, the generals, and says, Well, I got them out of NATO. They weren't going to go Vladimir. Well, I got the Dombas. We already had a Vladimir.

So I've advanced our front line 75 miles, 100 miles West. West of the Dombaus region. They're saying, yes, but it wasn't worth a million and a half dead, wounded, missing. You got to give us more than that. You got to break through this deadlock line and have a Patinesque or some type of Blitzkrieg and take half the country. And he can't do that because the Ukrainians are fighting much greater. They're getting European and American weapons. And they're on the defensive, and there's not some crazy person like in 2023, said, You need a spring offensive. And that was stupid. They should have a rope of dope strategy and just bleed the Russians out, and that's what they're doing now. And it's very, very costly for the Russians. So when will there be peace? There will be peace, whether there's two alternative scenarios. Vladimir Putin moves West, and at some key point, 50, 60, 80, 100 miles West of where he is now, he says, I got a quarter of the country. That was worth it. I'll take a brief, something like that. Or the people from the Ukrainian side says, Look, the United States gave us 200 Tomahawk missiles.

They can hit anything in Western Russia, a thousand miles. They can hit within two of your oil refineries, and we're going to use them. The United States will give us the go ahead anytime we want. More importantly, in addition to that, NATO is not like NATO in 2022. We've got the finest artillery in the alliance with Finland now. Sweden is a member. It's right on your border. It's got a very sophisticated arms factory. They make very sophisticated armor, and their jets, the SAOB jets, are among the best in the world. So you've got two frontline states, Finland and Sweden, that are anchoring the northern flank, and they're on your border, and they're very, very... You fought the Finns in 1939 and '40. It didn't go too well. And now, all but six nations have made the 2% out of the 30 defense expenditures of GDP, and they promise to go to 5%, and you've rallied the world against you. And now, most of the world is not buying your oil. Oil exports are down by 18%. India is the big question mark. Trump has turned on his best friend Modi, who was... That was really a costly thing to do.

He said, Modi, you're in trouble. You're buying Russian oil, and now they're reconsidering it. So what I'm getting at is there's either going to be pressure on Putin to stop where he is and keep what he's got, and then he'll come to peace, or he says, There's not enough pressure, and I can get more and more and more. But he doesn't... I don't know, and you don't know, and nobody knows what more means that he survives because there were actually people in Moscow, just a few hundred, but they were protesting against Putin, Old Man on the Throne, that were yelling. And then there was rumors that some of the old oligarchs that are expatriates are using their money and their influence to stage a coup. And you know, there's a lot of people in the Kremlin that think that Putin is old, he's sick, he's crazy, he's done damage to Russia, he's not popular among the population. If you told the average Russian, We got rid of Putin, and now we're having peace in Ukraine, and we've got some extra Ukrainian land, they would say, Great. So he's in trouble, and he knows he's in trouble, and he can't stop until he is able to say, as he did during the Chechen war, There is no independent Chechnya.

I destroyed Grozny, their back. And the same thing with the Dombas in 2014. It was a brilliant move, everybody. I just took the Donbas, and I took Kweime, and Obama didn't do anything. And so when Biden said, Would I react if he invaded? It depends on whether it's minor. Or when he said to Vladimir, Vladimir, if you're going to hack, don't hack our hospitals. Or he decided not to send them offensive of weapons, Ukrainians. That said to Putin, I can do what I did in 2014. I can do what I did in 2008 in Georgia and under the Bush administration, OSASHA. But it didn't turn out the way he thought it would.

What do you think Donald Trump is going to do?

Why waste my time by going to Russia? You said that. He has a summit schedule, and he just said, Why would I waste my time?

Yeah. A report Carter was asking him about the missed meeting with Putin, and he got a look across his face like something he was ready to move on to the next move on the chess board.

Putin actually blew it because Donald Trump took a lot of heat to do the art of the deal. Let's both sides talk. And people said, Oh, you're Putin's poodle and you're a appeaser. He wasn't. He was trying to do art of the deal. He made a sincere effort. If Putin had to agree, there'd be peace now, and Russia would be selling oil to Germany. And he couldn't do that. And he blew it. And Trump finally just said, I'm done. I'm done. So we'll see. To break this, there's going to be a dangerous... We're in a very dangerous situation. This is the most dangerous period of that war because when you don't have Donald Trump in power, you didn't in those first three years, it's very dangerous because Biden just let it go on. And it was on an autopilot. Now we're back there, but it's even more dangerous because a lot of peace efforts have been floated and burst. And everybody said, Well, if Trump can't do it and the Russians won't, and this, this, then what's going to happen? If we use Tomahawks, we being the allies, and they get a blank check to use them, that's very dangerous because just 10 or 12 of them could knock out the whole refinement system and grid of Western Russia.

And the Russian people would rally to Putin's side if that happened. I think they would. Before they blame him, they do both. But for the short term, they still have 7,065 nuclear weapons. So it's bad. But I think being as bad as it is, there's a better chance with Trump as President to get some type of agreement. There's still the momentum. A lot depends on Gaza. If Gaza can be settled and the killers Hamas can be neutered, and there's some agreement there. I think the biggest thing Gaza is afraid of, the Hamas is, is that the Israelis occupy about 60% of Gaza. When you look at the 2 million Arabs in Israel, they are the majority of doctors. They have political parties. Their per capita income is not that different than Israelis. They're wealthier than any of the surrounding Arabs. They're more free, freer. And Israel would probably say that within our sector of Gaza, we'll just stay here. And then we'll show Hamas that Gaza will immediately start to look like Arabs in Israel. Not that they were going to run them, but this quality of life, security, prosperity. And then you could just gradually expand that radius until Hamas was some little corner of just Hamas people, and then wall them off and say, This is Hamasistan.

No, that's a very optimistic- No, I mean, If Israel wanted to, they could just build a wall of 57% of Gaza and tell the Emirates and the Gulf sheiks in Turkey, We provide this security, but we'll be in the shadows. You get an all Arab peace force, and we're going to get rid of all Hamas and send them over to Hamasistan. We're going to make this a beautiful place. Get the beach hotels. Then when you're doing that, we'll stop Hamas from destroying it. And then just say the next phase is to go into Hamasistan and take more and just squeeze them and blow up the tunnels as you go.

As it is, though, there's recently two soldiers, Israeli really soldiers that were killed by Hamas as an indication that Hamas's violence is spreading beyond even what they've been doing to their own clans, et cetera. But also, Trump has said that Hamas has to be good, quote, has to be good, and if not, they will be eradicated. And JD Vance went to Israel and said, Erradicated. So what it seems to me is that the United States may be getting itself into a more precipitous moment in this war, just like in the Ukraine.

The Arabs are saying, We will rebuild them. We will spend the money and we'll put our people there. But politically, it's untenable for us to sideways Israel against Hamas, because that will hurt us in the Arab world and our own restive populations, of which we're not democratic, will turn on us and we'll create terrorism in our own backyard. So we support the rules, what they're telling the Israelis and the Americans are. We can't work with Hamas. We're not going to throw a bunch of money and have it stolen again for these stupid tunnels. On the other hand, we're not going to be visibly opposed to Hamas. So what we want to do is the old rules. You guys go and take care of Hamas, and we'll give you about 30 days, and then we'll start blasting you publicly. But in the meantime, we'll say, Well, we're very Really disturbed about this anti-Islamic attack on freedom fighters, and then call them up and say, I didn't mean that. Kill more of them. That's how they operate. But that has a shelf life. If you're Hamash, you get up every day and you say, I got to kill a Jew today.

I got to destroy Israel. That's what you are. Nothing less. You can't rehabilitate those people. You have to neuter them so they have no power and you ridicule them and You can't negotiate with them. They've already not turned back bodies. Nothing they say is true. So they're not a legitimate partner. So what you do is you just assume that they're not, and then you just try to act in concert with the Arab allies and say, We have to have some peace unless you want to turn it over to Israel, and they don't want it. So what would you want us to do? You give us the ideas, and then we'll do it. And they will say, Get rid of Hamas, but don't involve us in the eradication. And we're going to occasionally publicly attack you for getting rid of Hamas, but please ignore it, and then we'll pay the tab.

All right. So, Victor, I was wondering, last topic today. Donald Trump is making changes to the White House, and he started destroying the East Wing, I think, or part of the portico on the East Wing. And the presses have gone hot with anger that he's somehow treating the White House as though it's his own private White House when, I don't know, it seems to me there's been lots of changes to the White House, but go ahead.

Every time they do this, they just shoot from the hip, and then it takes about 24 hours. They look silly. They say, We have the right to stop federal troops from coming into our city. We have jurisdiction. Then people show George Wallace standing in the 1960 doors of the University of Alabama, or Orval Faubus in 1962, or Eisenhower getting rid of the segregationists in Little Rock, Arkansas. You know what I'm saying? And so this is the same thing. How dare him tear up the White House? Then it's like, Count 10, 9, 8, 7. Then all of a sudden, the Internet explodes with Well, Richard Nixon put in an ugly bowling alley. Well, they tore out FDR's swimming pool that he put in and tore stuff out for. And then they put an ugly press room where his pool was. Then they tore that down and made a new one. And then Jerry Ford built his own pool. It's still there. People criticized. They were all done with private money. I don't think FDRs was, but all the rest were. They do it all the time. And so within about five minutes, they said, well, it's $250 million, and it's all going to be private money.

And then they said, it's going to be Gary. But you look at the pictures, it's garish. If you think the inside of the White House is garish, it's going to have the same colors, it's going to have the same style. It's not going to be like the Louver Pyramid, or it's not going to be that phallic monolith that Obama calls his presidential library, right? They didn't object to that thing. They destroyed a beautiful park and made a phallus. And so they don't even think about that. They just shoot off at the mouth. How dare I? And then after about hour six, I started getting emails reminders from you guys, thank you, about Gavin Newsom. And he has dynamited the backside of the beautiful, historic California 19th century capital with a dome and everything. Because he wants to spend your money, my money, 100 million plus to expand all of these areas of the capital so our democratic supermajorities would have nicer home, nicer offices, everything. And when you look at it, it's said it dwarfs the damage to the White House. See, when you blow up something, they put a temporary wall, and then they blow it up, and then they take it out.

That saves people from getting hurt. And everybody takes a picture. Oh, look what he did. He blew up the White House. Well, nobody believed that. If you believe that, the California capital has been nuked. So I don't know why they do that. They just go hysterical. They rush to their little Twitter board. They say all these crazy things, and then somebody corrects them.

It seems to me they think the internet makes them stronger, but it's making them, the Democratic Party, weaker because they're not using it well.

Until It just seems like every time they have a protest, somebody is morbidly obese, or they have pink hair or yellow hair, or they're topless, or they've got all piercings everywhere, or they've got these obscene F signs. You know what I mean? It's just not an image that, as the Democrats say, it's not a good look.

Not at all. I think they want to jettison that, and they should get off social media, but I'm happy that they're on it. Well, Victor, we're at the end of the show, and as Jack and I both do. At the end of the show, we look at some comments made on your various sites. And this, I went to YouTube and you're in Jack's show. And I can't remember what you were talking about with the British government. But this person wrote, and it's L. Gunde, A-L-G-U-N-D-E. And they wrote, very short, The British Government has Stockholm syndrome. And I think you guys are talking something about Islam, a Yeah, that people who have been taken captives start to voice the views of the captives.

I think the letter writer commentator is right, that the British government has been taken over by radical Islamicists. And so the proverbial hostage is blindfolded with people, guarding them with AK-47s, and then they're trying to say, Please let me live, and whatever. And then after they're released, they think, You don't have to do this anymore, but they're so acculturated, they still mouth that. So what he's saying is that they still arrest English people for walking dogs on the road. They just arrested a woman who was walking a dog because she was too close to a radical Islamic demonstration. They took another person that had a Star of David around his neck, and they thought that would be provocative to Muslims. Or they want no music during the prayer hour. But it's never symmetrical because they have Stockholm syndrome. They're terrified with the Muslim community, which in Britain is still only about 9% of the population, more in the big cities. But if they wanted to, they could rise up and stop it. Yeah.

Another comment from Chris, last name, 6822. He writes, The reason Cuomo sent people with COVID to nursing homes is that people weren't going to hospitals to get surgeries because of fear of catching COVID. So greedy hospitals were losing out on profits. Cuomo acted entirely for financial reasons. I would prefer Cuomo drop out. If I lived in New York City, I would vote for Sliwa over Osama Mohamedani.

That's a good point. The hospitals put the pressure on and It didn't have to happen that way. All he did, remember during the first months, all he did is every night, he'd get in a fight with Trump and say, We don't have ventilators. And then Trump would just do all he could. Remember, He docked the hospital ship there in Manhattan off the Coast. They didn't even need them. Then the studies came out and said ventilators could cause as much trouble as they saved, helped people. It was just a terrible time accusation. I remember his brother, who's now calmed down, but he was really fiery. He was fighting with Tucker on back and forth. It was just a chaotic period, but he didn't shine. He didn't reveal himself to be a serious person.

It was a chaotic period, but it seems that it's almost as chaotic now. I don't know. The democratic world seems to be-It's gone completely crazy.

They are completely... I mean, it used to be when I think of Democrats and my parents voted Democratic, my dad would get me up every morning when I was, I think I was nine years old, and we were having to get murals, Fresno County, to go to our school on the west side of Salma. He'd get up and he goes, When Kennedy ran against Nixon, they asked Eisenhower, Could he say some good things about Nixon? He said, Give me a week. It was very unfair to Nixon, but one of the things he finally came out and did commercials, it was always, Get up, get out, and vote for it. My dad would say to us, Get up, boys. Get out and vote for Dick Nixon. And it was making fun of that. But then he also liked... He liked Eisenhower. If you asked my dad, he's a Democrat, but he would say, I like Kennedy. And he'd always say, Cuba. He'd say, We can't have missiles in Küber. Because Kennedy said, Cuba for some reason.

That's a Bostonian example.

Yeah. And the point was that Democrats looked normal, JFK. That was their trade. They were sober and judicious. There was the old lefty intellectual Adlai Stevenson that was irrelevant, wondering around every election when everybody wanted Ike. But he wasn't a bad guy. He was just It wasn't like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. Then Hubert Humphrey was a good guy that fought for civil rights in Minnesota. The old Farmer Labor Party was a progressive eight-hour But it wasn't crazy like now. There's nobody like that anymore.

They're crazy, but they are also violent, and they're advocating violence. It seems to me it's more civil war-like now than it's ever been in the last- Why?

They That's 50 years. Why? This Howard professor said that everything should burn like John Brown. John Brown was, well before he went into Harpers Ferry, went into Kansas. When they raided, there was that infamous massacre where they just went into that little town. He took five people, and he had his kids take swords and stick it through their heart. I mean, he executed five people. He was a bloodthirsty monster. And that was bleeding, Kansas. And then there was Quantrel during in the war who did it. It was horrible. So why would anybody advocate that tit for tat type of violence? That's what's really scary. They had another person in Chicago involved in some city government. He said, We got to go out and kill them and shoot them. The weird thing about all this is when you look at the ICE officers on the street that are trying to arrest and getting attacked, it's white affluent kids for the most part. And the ICE officers are often inordinately African-American, but most apparently, Hispanic. That's what's so strange about it. The protesters are all affluent. When you look at those No King's marches and you look at the aerial pictures or the episodes that are on the news, they're almost all white, white elderly people.

And the young people who are doing the Vial are almost all white, but they're attacking, which is very hard for the because they always talk about diversity and people of color. Well, it's people of no color attacking people of color.

Well, Victor, it seems like it's getting more violent.

You get the impression that the The same thing about bringing the National Guard, that the average African-American who lives in the cities like Washington wants them to come and is happy that Washington is safer now than it was two months ago. But their elite hate Trump and their all left wing. I think it was Clarence Thomas or Tom Sowell, one of the two. Maybe it was Tom Sowell said, Why would the Black middle class and underclass be any closer to their Black elite representatives than is true of White people and their White representatives. In other words, when you see Jasmine Crockett, I know they get elected, but a lot of their money comes from wealthy White people and the media because they're considered the authentic representation of the Black community. But they don't really represent it, their ideas, because if you look at polls, you ask Jasmine Crockett or Al Green or Representative Johnson, who thinks Guam flipped on its back. I can never get over that scene with a military officer saying, and he said, Well, aren't you worried that everybody went to one side of Guam and flipped? Yes, we'll look at that.

But when you look at those guys and then you ask them questions, do you think your constituents believe in biological men and women's... No. Do you think your constituents want free hotels for illegal aid? No. No. Do you think they want defund the police? No. Do you think they want open board? No. Do you think they want expensive subsidized energy? No. But that's who they represent because they just play that race card, race, race, race. But they don't really have a constituency.

No. Well, Victor, we're at the end of the show, and I'd like to thank your audience for joining us. I hope everybody's getting situated and finding us well. And thank you for all of the wisdom today. I really enjoyed it.

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Yeah.

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