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What is the governor to do because he has been on record

that his whole state is a sanctuary state that ICE is a fascist organization

that he won't cooperate with federal immigration law enforcement

and so that there are going to be criminals in Chicago system

that are here illegally, thousands of them, and he won't turn them over.

Their supporters all say, well, it's not a criminal offense to enter the United States.

It actually is, but if it was just a civil offense,

that would mean that we can just drive 80 miles an hour in a school zone

and say, oh, it's a civil offense, especially when you couple that with

efforts to basically disarm the American population.

California trying to force every single gun you inherit to be registered

or to not issue concealed weapons permits.

And the idea is that, well, you could just cry and if you want protection,

you've got to come to us because we have a monopoly on guns.

And that's called the police.

And, oh, your neighborhood is a little dangerous.

You had a break-in, and who did you vote for?

What's your ideology?

Maybe we can get a patrol out there, maybe not.

That's how they think.

It's never them because they live in secure neighborhoods

and they have security patrols.

Unless you're Jasmine Crockett and your security person is a criminal

who tries to shoot it out with police,

but otherwise most security patrols are there to protect you, not to shoot police.

They don't know the guy's name, Geifbath or Geifbath, is that his name?

He's a speaker of the parliament, contradiction of paradox.

There is no free parliament.

There's a parliament that OKs what the theocracy says,

but if he were to have an emotion that we should have a secular city or something,

he would be dead.

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So Victor, I just wanted to talk shortly

about the Sheridan Gorman killing,

which was very sad, especially obviously,

and our hearts go out to her family.

But she was gunned down basically in the streets by an illegal alien.

And what I wanted to address on that is that there was an older woman in Chicago

who said basically that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And then JB Pritzker came out with a statement finally after four days.

He couldn't make a statement before condolences to her family.

But I was wondering, don't the Democrats realize that just as bad is getting to the

being on the losing side is getting there too late?

I, even four days before he actually came out to say something,

not to mention the wrong opinion by the older woman, but your ideas.

Well, the second question, what is the governor to do?

Because he has been on record that his whole state is a sanctuary state.

That ice is a fascist organization that he won't cooperate

with federal immigration law enforcement.

And so that there are going to be criminals in the Chicago system,

the judicial system, the penal system that are here illegally,

thousands of them, and he won't turn them over.

And that sends a message to illegal immigrants that somehow

and bewildering fashion, they're exempt from the law.

In other words, and their supporters all say, well,

it's not a criminal offense to enter the United States, it actually is.

But if it was just a civil offense, that would mean that we can just

drive 80 miles an hour in a school zone and say, oh, it's a civil offense.

It's not a criminal offense.

So he knows that he's culpable for it.

His policies are culpable.

He knows that Donald Trump has success in cities like Washington and Memphis

by bringing in federal troops to help stop these out of control murder rates.

So he refused all that.

So he gets together with his advisors for four days and he says, what are we going to do?

And one of them probably said to him, let's just keep it quiet.

Four days from now, it won't be a sensational article.

We got the Sun Times, the Chicago Tribune, and they're not going to report it.

So we'll just wait them out.

And then finally, people say, well, the right wing is reporting it.

So then they said, well, maybe governor, we can blame Trump

because he said he was going to concentrate on criminals.

You think, well, yeah, that would be the stupidest thing in the world

because that's exactly what Trump is doing.

And he's arrested and deported hundreds of thousands of them.

But that was the only avenue he had.

So he came out four days later and said, stone, Trump's fault.

He said he was going to get criminals and he didn't get criminals.

Now we didn't cooperate with him and we didn't want ICE here.

And he deported thousands of criminals in other places

and including at times in Illinois.

But he didn't get this guy to his fault.

The other thing is the city council woman

or the older woman who said wrong place, wrong time,

that's now a very common theme when there's particular types of perpetrators.

If it's a black youth who, and people might associate that increased

crime rate with black youth, then the left will deliberately downplay the victim

and blame the victim.

So, for example, the Ukrainian refugee

who was stabbed by De Cartel's brown with what, 11 or 12 previous convictions

it was let out.

What did the left report that story is?

A vicious, hardened career criminal who slashed her throat

why people just walked over her corpse literally?

No.

He said, it's a reminder when you go into a train, be aware of your surroundings

and don't fixate on your cell phone.

Because she was looking at this why he was, it was almost like a horror movie

that he was looking over his shoulder ready to pounce

why she was just a Freddy Krueger like.

And so that's what they did here.

They said they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Meaning if you're in our city and you're a co-ed

and there's the northern lights that are going to appear at 1 o'clock

you and a group of people who assemble in numbers

so your safe can walk out a few blocks from your dorm to appear

and look out at the, like Michigan and see the northern lights.

Well, that's the wrong place and the wrong, long time.

So what she didn't want to say is that we have a policy of a little immigration.

We know there's criminals here.

We know they shouldn't be turned loose.

They know that there are many of them are vicious

but we also know that under the mail and balloting system

and the lack of an ID and the number of states,

I think it's almost 20 states have registered more voters

than the voters in the state who are eligible to vote at 18 by a magnitude.

And so basically she's saying we're not going to endanger the system

in which we, under the Motor Voter Act of Bill Clinton,

that we automatically mail out registrations and ballots

to people who have Robert's license.

And that's a big constituency of ours

and we're losing our constituency.

So we're not going to do anything to endanger that stream of voters.

And as soon as the sun rises,

if Donald Trump leaves office in 28

and JD Vans or Marco Rubio do not get elected,

they will open the border again.

And they will this time get 20 million.

Because they don't care about the poor whose social services are swamped.

They don't care about the increased violence.

They don't care about the lack of medical background checks.

This particular person, I'm not just being by the way people listening.

I'm not just trying to be inflammatory.

This particular murder can't even come to trial

because he has an active tuberculosis case.

And so if you don't test people coming into the country

in mass for things like COVID or tuberculosis or worse malaria,

then you've got a problem on your hands.

And that the left doesn't care.

It's a very, I think,

maybe it's a psychological effort to square the circle

because they are such selfish, callous people

that they always pose as caring,

but they do things that are just utterly uncaring and destructive.

And they have throughout history.

Yes.

And I think that we have to all acknowledge

that when you bring in 500,000 criminals

and have a policy of allowing criminals back out on the street,

you make far too many places the wrong place at the wrong time.

Especially when you couple that with efforts

to basically disarm the American population,

California, trying to force every single gun you

inherit to be registered or to not issue concealed weapons permits.

And the idea is that, well, there's crime.

And if you want protection, you've got to come to us

because we have a monopoly on guns.

And that's called the police.

And, oh, your neighborhood is a little dangerous.

You had a break in.

Who did you vote for?

What's your ideology?

Maybe we can get a patrol out there, but maybe not.

That's how they think.

Yeah.

And their constituency thinks, well, it wasn't me.

Therefore, I guess it was the exception to the rule, right?

It's never them because they live in secure neighborhoods

and they have security patrols.

All right.

Unless you're Jasmine Crockett and your security person is a criminal

who tries to shoot it out with police.

But otherwise, most security patrols are on yours.

Are there to protect you not to shoot police?

Yeah, that's the other thing about that.

Of course, no, we talked about that, did they?

No, and then...

Remember, Congress had a head of her security detail

who had all these false names, checkered record,

and stands off with police.

And they politely asked him to put down the gun.

He starts aiming it, you know.

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Well, Victor, let's turn then to an article

by Tim O'Brien in pajamas media.

And the title of it says everything

and he has lots of examples that he wants to talk about.

But he says, title.

Europe shows how it deserves to be conquered by Islam.

And he goes through a series of examples

of a man in Dundee, Scotland that was beaten

by four Muslims for walking past and a mosque

with his dog during prayer time.

And a German church that was forced to listen

to the call to prayer by an Iman.

Spain, allowing lots of illegal Muslims in.

And then finally, the acceptance of destroying Christian statues

but not touching Islamic statues in the European continent.

But I would like to add to that.

Many Phillips hadn't, was talking, was being interviewed.

And she said Britain no longer has,

knows how to defend itself

because of the anti-Western education and media.

And Britain, again, there is an exhibition showing Jews eating babies

in an art gallery, which is pretty offensive.

And while we're all for free expression, et cetera,

that's, is beyond the pale against, on anti-Semitism.

And then again, the long history of gang rapes,

of Muslims, of young British girls.

And I was wondering, your thoughts on that particular subject?

Well, it's very baffling.

Britain only has six or seven percent.

I know they say that the most popular name now for children

is Mohammed.

But that's because half of Muslim children are male,

or their name go Mohammed, where there's thousands of names

for so-called Christian children, right?

Jesus or Jesus is not half of the names.

So what I'm getting at is six or seven percent of the population

are Muslim.

Now, I understand that about 16, almost like the United States,

percent of their resident population is foreign-born.

And a lot of those come from the Middle East.

So I would be a little skeptical when they say six percent Muslim.

That's probably maybe 10 percent.

But nonetheless, it's a minority.

So what I'm getting at is,

if the British people are in a consensual society,

and they vote, and they feel this is a problem,

which they increasingly do,

then they have the tools to stop it.

And the reason that they don't stop it,

they say is because of diversity, equity, and inclusion,

and inclusiveness, and tolerance, and ecumenicalism,

I don't believe that.

I don't believe it for one second.

I believe, if right now,

there were Jewish gangs attacking Muslims and normal citizens.

And there was something called the Christian Crusade movement,

and they started letting off bombs at Christmas,

taking hostages, cutting off the heads of Islamic teachers,

and the Islamic community was not doing that.

Then they would start going out

and breaking up those Jewish gangs,

and if they were not citizens, they would deport them in two seconds.

So why the difference is because they are terrified.

If they make a cartoon,

and I think the two Belgian people discussing

why it was okay to hit a statue of Christ,

but they wouldn't dream doing that of the Prophet,

is they were scared.

And they have reason to be.

When you mock Jesus,

if you write something called the satanic verses,

and it's not about Islam,

but it's about the Christian Satan, for example,

and you're on a stage discussing it.

There's a very little chance that a Southern Baptist,

fanatic or a church or Christ person

is going to go up and stab you in the eye.

It's very rare that somebody in,

I don't know,

a Christian country, New Zealand, Australia,

is going to have a fatwa,

and say anybody who kills this author will go to heaven.

I don't think that's going to happen.

But they're scared of Islam.

And at some point,

we're going to have a reckoning,

which way it's going to go,

one of two things are going to happen,

insidiously,

because the Muslim community,

the radical Muslim community,

feels that it is here,

as they often say,

privately, to change the culture,

or the nature of Western civilization,

by demography,

and by not assimilating,

acculturating, or integrating.

But at some point,

if that were to be true,

it's going to get to a peak point.

You don't know what the resistance will say,

no, we're the country of Shakespeare,

and we're the country of Jane Austen,

and we're the country of Churchill,

and we're not going to turn over at this date,

or country, and our civilization,

or culture to you.

We're just not going to do it.

So you either integrate,

and you assimilate,

and you follow the rules like everybody else,

and be treated exactly the same,

or leave,

and we'll see what happens,

and we'll have a Churchill in them.

Maybe there's going to be a politician,

like Margaret Thatcher, or Churchill,

that comes out of the shadows,

and says, not yet,

not yet.

But we have the same problem in the United States,

and you can see it with Islam or full,

but you can't,

anytime,

a Jew is killed at a museum

as we saw in Washington,

or governors,

mansion,

in Pennsylvania's firearm,

or somebody ran the car

from the Lebanese naturalized citizen

into a Michigan synagogue.

You can't utter that without saying,

Islamophobia.

Islamophobia is kind of like

a little ghetto jail car,

so when you say

there was a Muslim person,

he went into Old Dominion,

he killed a decorated war hero,

who won't be with us anymore.

He yelled,

Allah Akbar.

There were two naturalized citizens

that were Muslims.

They drove all the way to New York.

They tried to kill

in mass fashion,

a counter-demonstration.

They put two IEDs,

they threw them out there.

Their purpose was to kill.

They yelled Allah Akbar.

They also said that they wanted to

kill three, but injured hundreds

at the Boston Marathon,

with the same type of explosive.

That was non-descript.

But when you try to contextualize that,

and say,

this is terrible.

There's no place.

I hate that phrase.

There's no place here

for such bigotry.

But they always say,

we condemn

radical Islamic violence

and we condemn Islamophobia.

Islamophobia. Islamophobia. Islamophobia.

When you hear me,

I said, Islamophobia.

I'm not, please don't get mad at me.

Please, please, please.

That's how they think.

Remember George Case?

I keep getting back to the chief of staff

of the army.

2012, so measure Hassan shoots 13 of his friends,

his colleagues, fellow soldiers,

who were unarmed.

I don't know how they were unarmed at a base.

But he's armed and nobody checks him.

He's a psychiatrist.

And he shoots them and he wounds 30 others.

And when he's asked a comment,

the chief of the army said that,

this is a tragedy.

And it would be another tragedy

if we were forced to alter the DEI program.

No, that's what you should do.

You should alter it so you don't have

any mass murders like that again.

And so we'll see what happens.

But there are people, I mean, they come.

I understand when a first-generation group comes here,

they'll be wildered by the United States.

So the Swedes went to Kingsburg, California.

And it was called the Swedish colony.

But they were not exclusive.

Anybody could live there.

And today-

They had Western values, too.

Yes, they had Western values.

But say the Japanese came from a non-Western country.

And they went to Ridley, California.

And felt that they were-

And yet, today, they're the most integrated,

intermarried, assimilated ethnic group.

The Islamic groups feel that they can withstand that.

And what their biggest fear is,

is the engine of Western consumer culture

and popular culture from the Kardashians to McDonald's

will corrupt their kids.

And they will not be about Muslims

as practiced in the other countries.

We'll see what happens.

But they feel they can be exempt from the melting pot.

You know, we have examples of the other side of that coin

where political officials have gone out and praised

the Islamic community.

And it seems to me unnecessarily.

So let me give you the two examples.

Miki Sherrell, who was the elected governor of New Jersey,

who ran under being a moderate,

has gone to a local mosque that has a cleric

that has voiced support

or is allegedly accused of having supported terrorists,

you know, monetarily, in other words, groups,

but has, in fact, called for a, quote,

unquote, new intifada.

And she has gone there.

And this is what I mean by the other side of the coin

that these politicians are saying things like this.

You know, how wonderful this mosque is.

You're constantly under Islam, she means, quote,

looking to do good works.

And we need those things in our community

because it's missing.

Yeah, I have no problem with that.

But, but to me,

the second, let me give you the second example

and then I'll let you talk in Salt Lake City.

The mayor has gone to his local mosque,

Eric Mendel's, Mendel Hall.

And he's appraised their values of faith and kindness.

And Robert Spencer wrote an article on this.

I believe it was in pajamas media.

It could have could have been elsewhere.

But he says he went after that to recount all the talking about kindness,

killing of daughters who have not

suffered the war and the job.

So all the cases that we have.

So it's hardly kindness.

So why are these democratic officials, politicians,

who obviously need a vote, praising these Islamic communities

in that fashion?

I mean, I could see them going out and saying,

well, you know, what is that?

What are the troubles for the, they can go out and do this though.

What are the problems in the, his,

the Muslim community?

What do you guys, economic, you know,

the jobs, et cetera, all the things that they might need?

But why go the step further to say this?

It's not just the Muslim votes.

In the left wing mind,

you deliberately look for the members of the 30% oppressed victimized class.

And then you react in a very magnanimous way,

whether it's accurate or not.

And then you reassure the Muslim community

that they're special as victims.

And then you expect the Asian, the Latino,

and the black community to say, look at this.

She is saying this.

If she had any integrity, which she doesn't,

she would say, this is an intricate,

an integral part of my campaign.

And I'm running for governor.

And one of the things I want to do is go to a mosque

and say you people are essential to our community.

And just see if it helps or hurts.

What they don't understand is

that and they can't understand is there is a difference

between Christianity and Islam.

I have been to Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya.

I have part of my colon and appendix in Libya.

I never got it back.

And Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan.

I don't know.

You can count just one or two nights flying in,

places like Kuwait.

Okay.

And I knew that people were very friendly and hospitable.

I didn't know something though that there were boundaries.

If I went to Kuwait and I walked out that night

and I insulted the Imperial family,

or the ruling, I would be in trouble publicly.

If I said something about Islam,

or made fun of the Prophet, I would be in jail.

When I went into...

I think I changed planes in Saudi Arabia.

It's been so long. Maybe it was Kuwait.

They asked me if I had religious material.

If I had a Bible, I'd be in trouble.

So there's an asymmetry.

A Muslim comes to the United States

with his whole religious paraphernalia.

And then he quotes chapter in verse,

all his rights that he gets when he lands here.

You can't say this to me.

I'm basically quoting Ilyan Omar.

I can marry my brother.

Don't dare...

And suggest I did that.

Rashid Talib. Don't dare say that I'm a apologize for Hamam.

They have all of these acquired instant rights.

But they don't reciprocate.

They never say to you,

if you go to Somalia and you insult,

or you say something about the government or the religion,

you're going to go to jail.

Because they don't say anything because they agree with that.

If you ask Rashid Talib,

would you think the Palestinians

and Gaza should have a right

if they want to convert to Christianity?

Can they do that?

She'd say no.

If you say do they have a right to insult Hamas?

No.

So we should take it for what it is.

It's people who come from Islamic countries.

And as soon as they arrive here,

I'm not saying everybody,

but they become experts on civil liberties.

But they would never want to...

If they were in control,

and if they come into control,

they would never want to accord people

the same rights that they demand for themselves.

And we know that.

Because when we go to their countries,

or they go to those countries,

you can't do any of the things that they take for granted here,

but more importantly,

they defend those countries.

They defend those countries.

So Israel is a settler,

colonial, genocidal country.

Well, I've been to the West Bank,

and I've been to Israel,

and it's like not contrary to what Tucker says.

The Arabs in Israel are treated much better

than Arabs in the West Bank,

who are Christians, much better.

There's a reason why they have fled Bethlehem,

and it wasn't the IDF.

It was Islam and the Palestinian authorities.

And when you go to Israel,

it just functions on a very different premise

than the countries around it.

Anybody can see that.

I only mentioned that because Tucker was quoted at her day

as saying that he couldn't think

of any Western cities

that were as nice as Islamic cities.

And I forgive myself

and hope you give me forgiveness if I quoted him wrong.

I don't have the quote,

but that's what I remember looking at the article.

Okay.

I wish you would go to Old Cairo.

I spent a long time there.

I wish you would go,

I spent eight days in Tripoli.

Wish you'd go to Tripoli.

And then go to Copenhagen,

or Amsterdam, or Stockholm, or Paris.

And tell me that those countries

are superior.

They have better water.

They have better sewage systems.

They have better power grids.

I don't believe they do.

And I've been to Baghdad.

And I have been to Quates.

And I just don't believe it.

If you go to a golf monarchy

that's crystal clean,

it's because they have a huge

hell out population

that cleans everything.

Why the elite?

They're kind of like the E-Loy and the Morelox,

you know what I mean?

And the HD Wells Time Machine.

And if you go to the Emir,

in any of those countries,

they're ideal in Tucker's world,

he bought a home in Qatar.

Except you don't go

on a corner with a sign

and say,

long live Israel.

Or you're in big trouble.

If you go to Israel,

you say long live Lebanon,

you can say it.

Nobody makes that distinction.

It's hard to be a liberal society

and then a functional society

because you have greater tolerance

for aberrations.

It's easy to be an autocratic society,

and have the trains run on its time,

like Mussolini did.

But the West has been able,

most of the time,

to be both liberal

in the sense of consensual governance

and allows the oddball dissident.

Yeah, I think,

I think Riyadh in Saudi Arabia

is the city they always showcase

as because it looks very modern.

It does as long as you understand

the local protocols.

And they come over here

and, you know,

a lot of Saudis came over here

and blew up the World Trade Center

after partying at Pornow

and gaming and gambling

and drinking in Las Vegas.

Yeah, strange.

So Victor, let's go ahead

and take a break

and then come back

and talk a little bit

about the war in Iran.

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So Victor, there's,

as always,

a lot going on with the war in Iran.

We're all hoping that Trump can conclude it

as soon as possible.

But this week,

he has sent a 15-point plan

to in the war.

We're not really sure

with to whom.

And he's, Trump has said

he is having talks

with somebody that he feels represents

but we don't know once again

who he is having talks with.

So I was warning on those things,

your thoughts.

I don't know the guy's name,

Geifbath, or Geifbath.

Is that his name?

He's a speaker of the parliament.

That's a contradiction of paradox.

There is no free parliament.

There's a parliament that

okayes what the theocracy says.

But if he were to,

so I have an emotion

that we should have a secular city

or something,

he would be dead.

So they always use Western,

like the communist did in the 60s

and Soviet socialist republics,

the Republic of North Korea.

You know what I mean?

The Republic of East Germany.

Why didn't they just say

the communist slave state of Germany

or the communist boot camp

or something,

but they always want to emulate us.

Same thing with China.

Every time I look at their big parades

and I look at their uniforms,

I said,

is there anything

that you can put on

in a military show

that is non-Western?

Can't you have uniforms

that show traditional Chinese dress?

Why do all your medals?

Why do uniforms?

Why do your hats?

Why do they just mimic the West?

Why do your missiles?

Why do your trucks?

Why do everything does?

Even your goose-stepping goons,

goose-stepping goons,

mimic Hitler, Mussolini.

Can I answer that for you?

Yes.

It's because there's been a long tradition

of recognizing that the West

is superior militarily

and all of the people

that have come to find out why that is.

The ones that have been successful

have realized that it's not just

the weaponry and technology,

but the culture that they need to bring in.

So they bring in,

in addition, all of the garb, etc.

I understand that.

But it's also a referendum

on their own culture

that nobody wants to point out.

So this is interesting

because we don't know what's going on

because the only,

again, the only venues

are out of zero

and seeing in,

there's not a bit of difference

between the two,

and they're captives

of their Iranian hosts,

such as they are,

and they're declining state.

So they're only going to report

good stuff from Iran.

I must say, though,

a little parenthesis.

If you read the Wall Street Journal today,

yesterday,

last week,

three weeks,

every single,

there's two things you notice.

Every single story

is a Debbie Downer story.

It's,

Trump thinks

it'll be two weeks,

experts say three months.

Straight of our moans,

our moans are likely

closed for weeks.

Missiles far more

remaining than thought.

Economy worries.

Recession in the air.

That's all.

And then when you look at the byline,

I only say this

because this is a Murdoch paper.

So you would think that,

its reason to be

was to be a better news agency

than its competitor New York,

which it is,

New York Times.

But when you look at the people

who write for it,

it's always political,

Washington Post,

New York Times,

Atlantic.

In other words,

they're bringing in reporters

from the most hard left venues

to write news stories.

And then they balance it

with a columnist,

which were about 60-40 conservative.

But when you read the columns,

they bear no relation

to a lot of the news stories.

You know what I'm saying?

So.

They're not reading their own news stories

to inform their own columns then, right?

I mean, it's diversity,

but the news story,

the columnist are more accurate

than the news stories.

That's what I'm saying.

And.

But.

So here we are.

And Trump, as I said earlier with Jack,

he's facing a lot of pressures.

He's got the mega base.

Now he's got Joe Rogan.

He's got Tucker Carlson.

Candace Owens.

Megan Kelly is,

I don't know how that happened,

but she seems to be more critical

of the war than supportive

of this fall and out.

Apparently, I don't fall very carefully with Trump.

And there's a constituency

that's growing.

And the Iranians said they prefer

to talk to JD Vance.

That's taken a needle in our stomach,

hitting us.

Oh, you have a mega guy who's vice president

didn't want to go in here, did he?

Ha, ha, ha.

And then you fired Joe Kelly,

who said that the Zionists were behind this,

just like we say.

So you've got that mega base.

You've got the economy.

And if you read the Wall Street Journal this week,

recession will be here in about a month

or two, world oil prices,

well, that are gloom and doom.

And then you have the midterms.

And then you have the Europeans,

the Japanese, the Chinese.

So we need the straight of our moves.

We need the straight of our moves.

We've got to get our oil.

We better get our oil.

And Trump says, okay.

Well, why I handled getting rid

of this vicious country of 93 million people

in that size, double, one and a half Alaska's.

And I've got to go in there with the Israelis.

Could you just help a little bit

and take each of your 30 NATO countries,

just send one little ship.

Maybe Japan, two ships.

Australia, two and a half.

And just make a little convoy.

So protect your oil.

And I'll try to protect attacks on you.

Just to show, can't do it.

They say they're going to do what they haven't done it.

So he's got all these pressures to stop.

And then he's got his inner circle,

says, Mr. President.

Your polls are going down.

We're going to get wiped out.

They're going to impeach you.

They're going to go after everybody.

All true.

And then you have to say to yourself,

are we mad if you look at the Gulf War,

if you look at Iraq,

if you look at Afghanistan,

we lost more people going into Panama

under George H. W. Bush.

It's terrible 13 people were killed,

but we lost 20 or 30 going into Panama.

Grenada was a more screwed up operation.

There hasn't been anything that's gone wrong.

Other than maybe the public relations aspect of it.

And by that, I mean,

Trump has already said on March 1st and March 20th

that he wanted to eliminate the nuclear program,

eliminate the ballistic missile program,

eliminate the ability of ran to bully and fight

and disrupt the Middle East,

and eliminate its terrorist proxies.

It seems to me that he's getting pretty close to all of them.

He never said,

I'm going in there and going to change the regime.

Everybody said he doesn't have a strategy,

but he has a strategy.

Now you can object to the strategy,

saying, Mr. President,

you won't be there,

and Vance won't be there,

or Marco won't be there,

and they'll get in a Joe Biden or Obama,

and they'll wait like a bouncing cat.

And as soon as you're out and the left comes in,

they'll get the Chinese and the Russians,

sweet oil deals, and they'll be armed.

And this time, they'll use it,

because they have missiles that can go anywhere now.

So that's a concern,

but my point is that there was a great Brett Stevens,

who is a never-trumper,

although he said he was kind of defecting

from the never-trump ranks a few months ago.

He wrote a very insightful New York Times column.

I mean, he had to have the requisite, you know,

Trump's a fool, kind of things,

but mostly he said,

if you look at all of our past major engagements

on the amount of time we were at war,

the amount of people we lost,

versus the amount of damage and success we inflicted,

Afghanistan, first Gulf War, Iran, Panama.

You look at all of them.

It's amazing that the damage that we have done to Iran,

the cost of it was not high.

Even oil, if you look at the first Gulf War

that was only a 42-day war,

42-day war, four days at a time

when the United States was very vulnerable on oil imports.

The price of oil in today's dollars was about $170.

The price of oil has gone down about $100 or below.

And so it's hard to see that we're going to be in a huge recession

or that the war is going to go on and on and on,

because when the war started against Saddam,

he had been attried it, but we were told by the New York Times,

I remember the Republican Guard,

Pedal Harden from 10 years with Iran,

sophisticated T-72 tanks, untested Abram tanks.

This is going to be a blood bath.

Everybody said that.

And yet, Iran is so much more formidable than Iraq was.

And yet, if you look at where the United States is,

in 21 days, 23 days,

and where we were after 40 days,

we've lost a fraction of what we lost,

and we've done so much more damage to Iran than we had to Iraq,

and it's so much more powerful.

And so, the only, as I said to Jack,

the only criticism I have is public relations.

I don't think they need to reiterate and keep it simple,

we went into Iran,

because we have negotiated with this country for 47 years.

We've had tough Republican negotiators.

We have had Democrats with the Iran deal,

the Obama Biden appeasement.

Nothing works with them.

That regime has been on Middle East conquest,

and the primacy of the Persian Shia over everybody else,

in that golf and Middle East in general.

You cannot reason with them.

They killed and then name it off, as what they have.

When you say there was no apparent threat,

that is like saying, there's no apparent threat when they've blown,

oh, they blew up the barracks and killed 241.

But why did they do that? There was no apparent threat.

They blew up our intimacy in Tanzania.

There was no apparent threat.

They blew up our embassy, no apparent threat.

They took prisoners and tortured them from the CIA.

There was no apparent threat.

There's always apparent threat with them, always.

They tried to kill Trump.

They tried to kill Bolton.

They tried to kill Pompeii.

They tried to kill Biden.

But there was no apparent threat.

I don't understand that.

It's so bizarre.

And so what I'm getting is that,

if you use history as the barometer,

we're in much better shape.

All that all administration has to do is say,

four goals, no nukes, no ballistic missiles,

no infiltration and trying to bully the Arab and Israel neighbors

and no subsidies to terrorist surrogates.

And do that and live in peace.

And sorry, you wouldn't do that when you negotiated,

so now you've got rubble.

And we're not going to give a red cent to rebuild you.

Good luck.

And then say to the Iranian people,

you came out and they slaughtered you.

And that's one of the reasons we went in at that time

because we thought that you might be slaughtered to extinction.

And we did enough damage where you weren't.

And we welcome you to, you know, now is the time.

We've taken out the leadership.

We've taken out the command and control.

We've taken out a lot of their wherewithal

and we will probably arm you if you want.

But we're not going to go in there and rebuild your country.

That's your business.

And if he would say that,

I think he could wrap it up pretty quickly.

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And there's over, I don't know, 900 shows.

Yeah.

Better in stock.

Yeah.

That it up here.

I get this question all the time.

I know.

And there's a whole bunch of imitators out there,

which we are trying to take care of.

AI imitators.

We're trying to put our fingers on the dyke.

Yes.

So Victor, I have a few more questions on Iran.

And I know that part of it, you kind of brushed aside.

But do you think that you could answer yes or no?

Do you think that Trump will be sending amphibious forces

to take over Carg Island?

That depends on these negotiations.

So I think when he talks about a 15 point plan,

that could be some renegade general that called him up,

or maybe a secular, maybe this parliamentarian,

and says he speaks in the vacuum for all of Iran,

and he has feelers out with the opposition,

and he wants to have a Venezuelan solution.

Could it could happen?

Could not happen.

It depends on how much disarray or the theocrats

versus the military, the regular military,

not the revolutionary, the regular military

that hasn't been paid probably.

So if he's dealing with elements that are subversive

to the theocracy, then there won't be an invasion.

There'll be a deal.

I would give that about a 30% chance.

Then he has to say that he's not going to put boots

on the ground on the interior mainland.

So he's bringing in probably altogether five or six thousand.

If he's bringing in the 82nd airborne,

I don't think he's going to bring in the whole 82nd,

but that's, you know, a division could be 16,000 men.

So that is a one of two operations to take Carg Island,

a very big island.

And it would be as almost somebody said,

we're going to invade your island in about six weeks.

And you can imagine what that means.

They booby-trapped that island.

There's IEDs everywhere on it.

There's ambushes set up.

There's subterranean tunnels.

It's like Gaza.

There's drones everywhere.

It's going to be a mess to get it go in there.

If you went in and occupied it,

then Iran would have no income.

And you would squeeze that regime into nothing.

So that's a very enticing option.

If they could keep the casualties to a minimum,

but that's going to be very hard,

because you can't bomb it,

because of all the refineries and storage

and facilities that you want to keep.

You want to sell oil to keep the world price moderate,

but under your auspices like you didn't Venezuela,

so the purpose would be to go in there,

occupy the island,

get some Iranian technicians

or European or American to go in there,

and then sell the oil to the non-Chinese customer

and have them go out the street of her moves

and take the money and bank it.

And it's trust fund.

And say to the opposition,

this is all the billions that you're going to have at your disposal

when you get rid of these thieves.

That's the one use.

The other use is that around says

that they can close the straight of our moves

and they own the straight of our moves,

even though it's international waters,

because you have to go close to the coast

and they've had this fleet of hundreds.

They're like power boats, you know what I mean?

They look like a super outboard,

like a 30 foot World War II PT bowl,

but it hyped up,

and they have our machine guns, torpedoes and mines,

and they're like fleas,

and they go all around.

And when we say we've sunk 130 warships,

I don't know if we count them as warships,

but they've got hundreds of them.

And so their idea is that we can, at night,

I think they've shot 30 or 40 missiles

from the shore at the Gerald Ford.

They've knocked everyone down.

That's pretty amazing.

And that's not going to last if you keep doing that

and swarming that.

But so what I'm getting at is

they've probably put mines in the straight,

and I don't know why we don't have our minesweepers there.

I think they're requested now,

and they're on their way,

but from the first moment we got there,

we should've had two or three.

We had a Navy.

Our Navy's been vastly reduced under Obama and Biden.

But my point is that you've got to clear the mines.

You've got to destroy all of these cartel-like speedboats.

And you've got to put some kind of troops on the shorelines

to get all these missile silos.

And that's why they put them there.

They have dug-in, fortified, reinforced, concrete missile silos

that are pointed at any ship that goes there to close it down.

So you've got to occupy that or bomb it.

And they've tried to bomb it,

and apparently they don't know where they all are.

And so that's a big task.

And then you've got to get the Europeans and the Japanese

and our allies to follow American lead and go through there.

It's been done before.

I think Jim Mattis, who was sent-com commander

if I'm mistaken, I read that he organized a normada

before the Obama administration fired him.

Partly for that was a wise thing to do.

I said, when Iran earlier said that the straightover

moves was theirs, he just organized a normada of allies

to go through and turn around and go back.

Because I remember, into the Persian Gulf,

and as I remember, they had a tale about 500 miles.

Everybody wanted to get in on it.

And so we'll see.

Yeah. Well, you know, I-

They've got to do something quick because if they don't,

put these are going to get active and say,

ah, they're going with their pipeline,

they're using the Red Sea to get in there

and get North African oil,

or they're going in to get the Saudi oil and the pipeline,

and they'll start doing what they do.

And then you'll have another headache.

I was wondering since you've sort of alluded to this

that what you thought about, you know,

we keep hearing in the news that they've

been a bit harder to, or, or, or,

or, um, masculated,

their air force, their ground forces,

their, um, Navy, etc.,

which is all probably true.

But we still see missiles coming from Iran,

um, day in and day out.

Of course, Israel's the one that's suffering most from this.

You see them hit their nose.

And it seems sort of strange.

I mean, the, um,

administration shouldn't be high-fiving each other

until they really do have.

I use the metaphor, similarly with Jack,

or when I was growing up thinning plums.

You never look at the amount of plums on the ground

that are no problem anymore.

You look at the number, they're still on the tree.

And it's very easy to fool yourself

that you've thinned enough of the,

the crop off by looking at it.

So it's very, um,

it's very enticing to count up all the launchers

and all the missiles that you've destroyed

and then say to yourself,

well, this was our pre-war guess of how many they had.

So this represents the percentage.

But then, unknowingly,

you give the impression to the world

and your own constituencies

that at the rate that you're going

to say they were doing this the first 10 days.

After 10 days, they said they destroyed 90.

So then you just calibrate,

well, in 10 days, if you destroyed 90,

in 24 hours, it'll be the last 10%.

But what that didn't account for was

the enemy having to say,

and you know what they did,

they took their long-range ballistic missiles

that they had never disclosed the proper range

that went to Diego Garcia.

And they're scattered all over in hardened silos.

And then they had much more drones

and underground bunkers,

and they were scattered with no,

with the kind of a mosaic chain of command

that each Tessera had its independent autonomy.

So they said, given what we've seen the West do

when the Israelis do,

they will probably kill our top commanders

like they did in the summer.

But when they do that,

we want all you local people

that have under your jurisdiction

and control 10 missiles here,

15 there, you're welcome to do whatever you want with them.

And so they save their worst and most lethal

for last, the cluster thing.

So when you hit these things,

the missile does what it was going to do anyway.

It releases all of these bomblets,

and they can be very deadly.

That said, there's not that many now.

There's only two or three, four, seven, a day coming in.

They're just more lethal,

and they're more depressing

because you had expectations.

They wouldn't be any.

So how do you square that circle?

If I were the, and I'm not, of course,

and I think the spokespeople are doing very good.

But I would just say,

we have an approximation that we've probably got nine in,

but I want to warn everybody,

I've never had years to anticipate this.

So there is scattered all around missiles

and hardened silos in apartment buildings

and the manner of Hezbollah and the manner of Amos underground.

It's going to take us a long time to find every single one,

but we're working on it.

That's what they need to say.

And the first Gulf War,

they sent 40 missiles

into Israel, I think they did.

And they sent a lot out,

we weren't able to find, they had those people in,

because they were on trucks in the desert.

And we had the scud patrol,

these were, you know,

up-armed Bradley vehicles

and they were driving all night trying to find them.

As soon as they launched one of satellite gave the GPS,

then it was rudimentary in those days

and they would try to find,

and we didn't do very good.

So they're doing much better.

Because, because the media hates Trump,

the left hates Trump,

the Europeans hate Trump.

They give him no margin of error.

So three weeks you're not done yet, it's a failure.

You haven't got 100% of the missiles yet, it's a failure.

You lost 13 soldiers, it's a bloodbath.

You know, you lost a C-130,

it's a catastrophe.

That's how they look at everything.

Then you've got all these people.

So I just wanted the economy.

I just want cheap gas.

I liked Trump,

but I just wanted to go away.

I just want to get back.

And, you know, he had all these great ideas.

Let's get back on track.

Yeah.

And he's trying to say,

well, we could get back on track,

but these guys were going to get a bomb

and cause havoc to us in the future.

Yeah.

And if you don't believe me,

go back and listen to what Bill Clinton, Barack Obama,

and Joe Biden said.

They swore they wouldn't get a bomb

and then they made the conditions

by which they eventually get the bomb.

If Joe Biden had come in

and just left the maximum pressure on,

they were losing $100 billion a year in oil revenues.

And the Houthis were terrorist organizations.

They were debanked.

They were defanged.

Nobody was sending missiles at us from bases.

Anytime they tried to send missiles

at an American installation in Syria or Iraq,

we bombed them.

We bombed, we destroyed ice.

That was all lost.

I can't believe that Jake Sullivan,

the former national security adviser

to Joe Biden is actually criticizing.

He's out there saying

the Trump team didn't understand.

Jake, you were the one that told us

what, 10 days before October 7th?

Well, you know this.

We've been pretty successful in the Middle East.

That Middle East portfolio,

where mine is one of the quietest.

It was almost like you were an anti-Nostradamus.

So whatever you predicted would be the opposite,

it would take place

because the whole Middle East blew up on your watch.

And because of the appeasement,

and Iran was at the center of it.

And you're trying to tell us that you know

you're an Iranian expert.

You guys oversaw the greatest military catastrophe

in the last 50 years with that Skadaw from Kabul.

So you have to put everything in historical perspective.

Yeah, you know, you mentioned Obama

and that they already understood that Iran was,

you know, you've either got to tolerate them

having nuclear weapons

or you got to do something about it.

But there was a bird's eye view into the Obama administration.

And I can't remember what article this came from,

but it's one about Dennis Boyle.

Yes, where he said,

I went into a meeting

and we were addressing Iran.

And all I said was,

you know, here's the quote from,

are you going to tolerate Iran having a nuclear weapon

or not?

And then after that meeting,

he got pulled aside by Obama.

And Obama said,

don't ever put me on the spot like that again.

Yeah, and that shows you what, you know,

what the Obama administration.

And maybe they knew it,

but they certainly didn't want to have to consider it.

They didn't want, they didn't want to have a bomb.

Why else did they have the Iran deal?

It was a trajectory to a bomb.

Why did they send $400 million on a pallet at night?

And Obama was a very strange person

because under that thin,

veneer of compassion,

humility,

he was one of the most self-centered,

honorary presence we've ever had.

So when he said,

you're basically you're done.

And the guy was done.

It's not like he didn't say stupid things.

He went to South Korea and sold in 2012

and said to him,

a debit,

tell Vladimir that this is my last election.

If you'll give me space,

I will be flexible on missile defense.

This involves a round,

meaning you guys are all worried about Iranian missiles.

And I have started a missile program

to knock them down and Poland.

And I've knocked them down with a check with public.

And we can cover the Eastern flank of NATO.

The Russians object to this

because they feel that in a nuclear standoff,

it might be used against them.

And I'm willing to just sacrifice it all

for my own personal selfish future

because I'm in an election.

And the last thing I need

is an invasion of Ukraine

or something like what happened to Bush in 2008

when they went into Ossation and embarrassed him.

So let's make a deal

at the expense of my country.

And that's what they did in Obama.

And sure enough, they lived up to it.

Obama did dismantle those two projects,

which would be very handy now

to protect Ukraine and Europe.

And he did,

the Russians did.

They gave him space.

And they did not invade Ukraine in 12 or 13.

They did do it in 14.

And they said,

well, the deal's done now.

Now we're going to go into Crimea in the Donbass

and embarrass you and show you how weak you are.

But you did get elected,

which we wanted.

So it was a great deal for us, Barack.

We knew you were weak.

You were an appeaser.

You wouldn't do anything.

So we wanted to help you out.

So we didn't embarrass you.

And you helped us out by dismantling

this supposedly anti-Iranian missile defense,

which we didn't want anyway.

So it was a win-win for us

and a lose-lose for you.

And that's very funny

because just four years later,

these same people

who watched that were saying to us,

the public,

Russian collusion, Russian collusion,

Russian collusion, Russian collusion,

Russian collusion, Donald Trump,

and it was all I,

but there was Russian collusion.

Barack Obama colluded with the Russians

for his own personal political benefit

at the expense of the security of his country

and they said nothing.

And remember what Ben Rhodes said

when he was bragging in that interview?

I think it was with the New York magazine

or Atlantic.

I can't remember which.

And he said,

we created an echo chamber.

And these young kids

that are, they know nothing.

So we just gave them the narrative

and they bounced it right back to the public.

And the narrative was,

the Iran deal was wonderful.

That's what he said.

Yeah. All right.

Victor, so let's go ahead and take a break

and then come back for our last segment

and talk a little bit about that California gubernatorial race

and maybe Gavin Newsom if we have some time.

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Welcome back.

Victor Davis Hanson in his own words here.

So Victor, the California gubernatorial race

is taking a strange turn already.

USC was supposed to have a debate

but then they backed down and canceled the debate

because there were not enough non-white, non-male candidates

or female candidates.

So I was wondering your thoughts

on that very strange back down.

It's so ironic.

It's like karma.

They came up with the idea

when they have 66% of the state or Democrats,

they came up with the idea of these jungle primaries

so that there would be no Republican candidates at all.

In other words, the two top Democrats

would get more than the Republican.

And so never in their right mind

did they think Sheriff Bianco and Steve Hilton

would be the two leading candidates.

And I think they may be the two leading candidates

who win the primary.

And I do think then they will have a right in candidate

and they'll get all united and they may win,

but I hope not.

So they have all these candidates

and they have in the Democratic Party,

Kathleen Porter and Chris Fung Fung Stahlwell, right?

Swalwell.

So Swalwell and Porter have the highest.

And the rules were that the four or five people

who participated have to have the highest polling

by a non-partisan poll.

Everybody agreed on it.

Then the other four candidates said,

essentially, were Hispanic,

were Black, and were Asian.

This is systemic racism.

Now this has nothing to do with the Republicans.

They used USC, they wanted a university platform.

So then they went to USC and said,

your race says, race says, race says, race says,

you're having a multi-racial state

where whites are 36% of the population.

And they're Neanderthal of you.

They don't believe that anybody who is white

will vote for a minority or anybody's minority

will vote for a white over another minority.

Ask Kamala Harris how that worked out.

So anyway, at the last moment,

USC being an academic institution

with academics running it, caved.

And they said, oh, don't call me racist.

Please don't call me racist.

You can call me a child molester,

a thief, a rogue, a rave, anything.

So they canceled it.

And now the...

See, Elton and Bianca are saying,

see, they can't build a dam.

They can't build a reservoir.

They can't rebuild the palisades.

They can't build high speed radar.

They can't even hold a debate.

They're so incompetent.

They're just like a bunch of little kids.

They feud, feud, and call each other names.

We had nothing to do with this.

We agreed to go to the hostile territory called it.

A university.

And just two Republicans go in there

and actually get in that debate.

And they had two Democrats.

And it was going to be, how many you want?

How'd that work in the Democratic primary of 2020

when he had 16 candidates on the stage?

Everybody gets a 30 seconds.

So it was really an embarrassment.

And I guess what the spokesman,

Villagerosa and the rest of them were saying is,

we don't believe in democracy.

We believe in racial politics.

And we want a quota.

And so even though we're not very...

It's also a commentary on the state

because the comment...

The state is 66% non-white.

And the 66% non-white voted for the top four people

and two in each party were white.

Which is odd, but it's encouraging that people

are not voting for their tribal...

on their tribal affinities.

It reminds me...

It's so California.

When I joined Cal State Fresno,

I hadn't been farming.

I went up there and...

The Union rep came and knocked on my door.

And she said, you're now permanent after two years.

And she said, you're a free loader.

I said, I'm a free loader.

I said, yes, you're given a union protection

and union wages because of our collective bargaining

for your behalf.

But only 35% of the faculty is paying dues.

So you're a free loader.

I said, I've never free loaded off anybody.

And they said, well, we're not a political union.

We're an old-fashioned union.

And we're here to help you from...

So I said, you really think I'm a free loader.

So go ahead and take my...

It was like a thousand a year or something.

Well, they got that.

And then they said, we have no money.

You can come to our Friday pizza parter, pizza thing.

And they didn't.

They were little Wagtag Union.

30% of the 22,000 faculty members in the 23 campus are 22.

And then they got Grave Davis to sign something

that said, whether you're in the union or not,

it doesn't matter.

We're going to take your union dues.

And so I saw that union organizer.

And I said, I left the union.

She said, do we don't care?

We do not care.

And she said something that was very funny off the record.

It's kind of...

The fewer members, it's better because we can control things.

What she was saying is, we don't want a bunch of people

in the union.

We just want your money.

And then I noticed that they didn't have fruit punch

and pizza.

They had extravagant dinners and they went out.

So they had all this money.

And the funny thing was, sure enough,

they had union reps elected.

So on some campuses, they've elected white people.

And the union came in and said, we're overturning that vote

until you get this amount of blacks, Hispanic

that are Asian.

And they did.

Exactly.

That's imprinted in their DNA, the Democrats.

They do not believe it.

It's kind of like the old Yugoslavia

that every, you know, Croatia, Serbia,

Kosovo, you name it, Massachusetts.

They all get votes.

And in their racial spoil system.

I think for the first time, there's a 50-50 chance

that a Republican could become governor.

I don't know what he would do with that insane legislature.

He wouldn't get anything passed.

But he could at least use the money allotted

as executive to build another lane on the 99 or something

or help rebuild palisades.

Rather than more bills on illegal 10 billion more

for homeless, they get six more hotels

and then spend 150 million to renovate them

and then put homeless people in without training

or guidance and then haven't trash it.

Or, you know, $500 million for illegal aliens for health care

when nobody asks what their legal status is.

Or reparations in a state that never had slavery

and the 3% African-American,

you're going to give thousands of dollars

to people six generations away from slavery.

That's the mindset.

And by the way, finally, Gavin Newsom

corrected himself today.

He said, he says everything.

But he said he was quoting Tom Friedman.

He said, and I went back and looked

and it wasn't quite like what he said.

He said, Tom Friedman said there were an apartheid state

mentioning Israel.

We mentioned that on one of our podcasts

he said, oh yeah, it's apartheid.

That means the Arabs can't vote and they have second class.

No, they don't.

If you're a Jew, you do in an Arab country.

If you're a Christian, you are a second class citizen.

You have your special religious enclave.

You can't go out.

But anyway, he said that Israel was apartheid

and then he got so much criticism

from democratic donors who were Jewish

that he went back on and he did his Twitch.

Yeah, I was quoting Tom Friedman.

He's like, he's a rapper and he just does this.

And I loved, I'm a big supporter of Israel.

He's, he's, he's, I can.

He's 960 on the SAT Victor.

960.

It was very funny because he said that

to his African American host and then he pointed to the audience

and said, I'm like you.

And I would bet you that a lot more people in the audience

had higher SAT scores than he did.

And number one, when it was so racist

because he's basically saying, I'm kind of an exception

to white people, but I'm like black, typical black person.

So he, and you know, he does that way.

All those left wing people who grew up very wealthy

and secluded and segregation, segregated.

And then they hang out with wealthy white people.

They don't feel comfortable with minorities.

So they make this edifice, this square of the circles

of their discomfort.

And so they act like they're very liberal

and they're going to do all this.

But every once in a while, there's a crack in that edifice.

And you see the inner side and their racist.

And that's why they're very liberal in a way.

They want to say, I'm very liberal.

I'm so liberal, I don't have to live.

And you can see it, Joe Biden.

Barack Obama is the first black band

that I've ever seen in an articular.

Barack.

I'm going to put you all on change, you people.

Hey boy, boy, remember that he's called one of those things boy.

Let me tell you the cornpox saga.

I took a sick fear chain and confronted cornpox.

And he had just a whole litany of, remember that?

When that really nice journalist was trying to find,

trying to interpret his babble and he said, hey, junkie.

Remember that?

Yeah.

Harry Reid said the same thing about Obama.

And then everyone's, well, he'd have to be mine.

Biden not to use the word Negro.

Satchel paid was one of my favorite Negro pictures.

He did that.

And yet he acted very liberal.

And remember Nancy Pelosi about complaining about the border.

Who's going to pick all of our food?

Who's going to pick all our food?

You know, I don't, I mean, I live in a community where the city council,

the police, the school, they're all owned by competent Mexican Americans.

They're not, they're two generations away from first generation agricultural labor.

But it's so typical of the left wing elite wealthy privileged white class

that they can't repress their racism.

And I don't know why a lot of minorities put up with it because they know

that they talk down to them.

Yes.

It's condescending.

But even from Obama, it was condescending to blacks.

So the liberal blacks that are part of that world are just a group of really skilled organizers for hairs.

Don't be voting for, don't be voting against a black woman.

Don't, don't fall for that.

You'll fall for that.

Don't do that.

I mean, you idiots, you don't have my sophisticated political knowledge.

And you might be tricked by Donald Trump and not vote for somebody that looks like you.

That's what he was saying to him.

Then he did a lot back.

Actually, he said that three or four times.

Yeah, he sure did.

You always like thought, you know, it's like he was talking to Michelle once.

And maybe Colorado mansion or maybe they were looking at the sea from the rising sea

that was going to engulf them at Martha's Vineyard or the tidal wave from global warming

was going to wipe out their huge mansion on the shore of Hawaii.

And they said, you know, people are forgetting us, Michelle.

Get the Gulf Stream.

Get the Gulf Stream.

We're going to fly in there somewhere elected to some young black people about.

They don't know what's good for them.

That's how they are operated.

Well, Victor, we're at the end of the show.

We have comments that were sent into you.

And here is a card.

And it's very beautiful and let everybody see it.

And they say in the car, they say, sorry to hear you.

Very nice.

Very nice.

And this one says, we have learned so much from you since we first heard you on the Greg Garrison show.

I remember Greg is the one in the Annapolis, many years ago.

The wonderful person.

I actually went to Indianapolis and had a good afternoon with Greg on the way to Libya.

Oh, no.

To get your operation for you.

I apologize to him.

I said, I have a bad tummy ache.

And I didn't know it was a ruptured appendix.

All right.

And then the letter continues.

We also went on two of your wonderful historic trips to Italy and the South of France.

So that was very nice.

That's from Susan and Mac Thomas.

The cards are so nice and people write so well.

And so well meaning.

And as I said, I've had over probably at Stanford in here a thousand of them.

I try to read them all.

And they're very wonderful.

Yeah.

And they do things.

They're very beautiful.

I have to say I've read every single one.

Yeah.

This is a card that was sent.

There was somebody did drawing of a flower and put it in that old.

I don't know what they call that art, but putting plants into, you know, smash them up, dry them and put them in.

Anyways, so somebody sent that with a nice prayer from the book of common prayers on it.

And then the last one is a comment by Jennifer Dallas.

I am so happy to see you are feeling well enough to make regular recordings again.

You had said your wife had you on a schedule for returning to work.

I think she's done a great job with that.

Please thank Mrs. Hansen for all our hard work and helping you return to work.

I know I look forward to listening to your insights and knowledge.

I know how hard it is to see your husband in pain and struggling after surgery.

It makes even harder.

It makes it even harder to push them to do things that cause discomfort even though you will, it will help your recovery.

Please know my family's prayers are with you and Mrs. Hansen.

Thank you, Jen Dallas.

Yes.

It's been very nice.

Yes.

I love hearing your family stories and hope you continue to share them.

I would love to hear more stories about your grandfather.

Two great grandfather, the Swedish one completely Swedish and the other completely wealth.

Very different but very wonderful people.

I went to three doctors yesterday.

Two days ago and I was very frustrated because I don't have the energy and I think I should be.

They were very good.

They said, what planet do you live on?

You said the lower right lebeck to me, forget the cancer, the lower lebeck to me is a major operation.

You had a four hour operation.

That would be three to four months, only on week 11.

Then they had to add.

Then you had a second, almost four hour operation, 30 minutes later.

You had three liters of blood, five transfusions.

That can cause allergies.

You've got anemia.

You had AFib.

You had the trauma of taking all the sutures out and starting all over again and finding the bleed in time.

Why would you, are you a lunatic?

But I want to get back and it's sort of not the real problem.

The real problem I have right now is my heart, energy, and that.

But that's not the real problem.

The real problem is the cancer recurrence because you can't do anything for it.

I just sit here because the chemo won't work in immunotherapy.

You just sit here and think every 90 days I get a blood test at CT.

Do you have a little IED coin around in you or not?

Exactly. You worry for another 90 days before you're next.

I'm really tired. Do you think it's cancer need laughed at me?

You said you just had a biopsy 60 days ago that you have no cancer cell.

The first one was good.

You've had all these other things.

I said, well, I get all these heart spikes.

He said, funny. He said, I get rid of that Apple watch.

Just go by your instinct.

I've been doing that by my instinct.

Very good. That's probably some good advice.

Yeah, I think it is.

It's like to technology that sometimes fails.

I said, I won't mention any names.

I said, well, you know, I get out, I get out up a chair.

I've never had this before.

It's 55 beats and goes, zoom 100.

And he said, well, 105, 110.

As long as it just lasts a little bit and it quits.

You know, it's not pots, what they call pots.

It's just, and I said, well, I'll be walking at 73, 74.

I'm really getting coughing on my half a mile and all of a sudden.

It goes 90, 100.

It moves your heart's tired.

It's recovering.

It's had some trauma.

Give it a break.

But so what if it goes 95?

When you were well, what did you get up to?

Your target at heart rate?

120, 130?

You got a lot of room.

Just relax.

Get rid of that watch.

Don't look at your heart rate.

Yes.

Go by your feelings.

If you're sweating and dizzy, stop.

If you're not, keep going.

That was tough law.

I liked it.

It is.

But it's also true that the rising your heart rate is not the problem, but the recovery

once you sit down.

Yes.

I have really good.

That's what he said.

He said, if you get it, I had to lay, I do these little, they had these tests where you lay

flat.

You're almost like, go to sleep.

And your heart rate goes down like 55, 53.

And then he said, get out.

So you jump up like you're superman.

And then they see what your heart rate goes up to.