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another illegal alien. It was. The second thing I thought is how is this Pritz are going to blame

Trump? And I thought, well, he can't blame Trump because Trump has offered to go into Chicago for

months and do what he did to Washington and other cities. So he can't say that Trump wasn't there

to help him. And then I thought, well, he can't say that Trump's not going after criminals because

he's deported thousands of them and arrested thousands of them. And then third, he can't say it

because he's a sanctuary state. Chicago is a sanctuary city. So when Trump wants to get these

people like this person who was here illegally and then shoplifted and he was arrested and all

ice had to do. And they did obviously as call up the Chicago police and say, who did you rest

today that is illegal? Oh, we want to cooperate. We have this person here. And they would have turned

him over to ice. And then he would be back in Venezuela now. But that didn't happen because of

the governor, Pritz. I get frustrated because it's so nihilistic what they're doing. There's no rhyme or

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So Victor, headlines came out earlier today

and new ones pilot up on top of it

from late afternoon here on the East Coast.

The headline was Trump claims Iran agreed to give up nooks

as his war chief Pete Hagseth fumes.

Whatever, that is such like a side thing now.

There's supposedly a 15-point peace plan.

What else we have?

Jared, his son-in-law and Steve Whitkopf

are being rejected as envoys by the Iranians.

Anyway, what do you think about

all these breaking headlines and developments?

Well, I want to be optimistic,

but there are periods in history

that there are governments you cannot negotiate with.

You cannot negotiate with Adolf Hitler.

Every agreement, the onslaues,

Czechoslovakia, Poland he lied about.

You could not negotiate with Benito Mussolini.

You could not negotiate with the Japanese military government.

They were negotiating just with us

as they had six carriers steaming to Pearl Harbor.

And this is a government that over 47 years

has never kept its word, never.

And the most recent and greigious example was

they had sworn that they had no ambitions

to extend their lethality beyond the Middle East.

And they were not going to build medium range ballistic missiles

with ranges greater than 2,000 miles.

And then they shot one at Diego Garcia.

We don't know whether it was a lightened version

or whether it would have made it or not

had it not been intercepted in one case,

but that's over 2,500 miles away.

So why would you ever trust anything?

So the question is, Trump has been a master

of negotiating, negotiating with, I think,

people that he understands can't tell the truth

and won't be sincere or follow up.

And then that gives him an out.

So if he says, I sat down with these people,

whoever these people are, we don't know, not when he left.

And we've negotiated something

and then they will inevitably break it.

And then if that is true,

maybe he'll just go medieval on them

and take out their grid or something.

But it's going to be disturbing.

But if he, in reference to General Mattis,

we'll get to that later.

But he said there was no strategic agenda.

They were at the military and he was insinuating.

The military was almost on autopilot

and despite Trump, not because of him, they did so well.

Okay, I disagree with that.

But that's a legitimate view, I suppose.

But I don't know what he meant when he said

there was no strategic agenda.

He laid it out on March 1st

and he laid it out on March 20th again.

He said there were the first point was

that they shall not have a nuclear weapon

and we will take all steps to stop their procurement of one.

And that was the uranium that has been enriched

and it has been the facilities that enrich it.

And then he said, second,

they're not going to have ballistic missiles

and he's been doing exactly that.

He's trying to find all the silos.

He's trying to find all of the factories

that produce these or reassemble them from North Korea

or Russia.

And then he said, third,

they are not going to keep subsidizing

the Houthis, the Hezbollah and the Hamas terrorists

to disrupt the Middle East.

Now, he's destroyed almost all of their transport planes

they used to carry weapons to these groups.

He's frozen all their bank accounts.

He's those two groups, the Hezbollah and Hamas

are just vestiges of their former selves

thanks to the Israelis.

The Houthis have talked a great game

but last time they came in,

they lost all their port facilities

and some of their airports and they've been told

that if they want to come in again,

there's going to be gloves off

and the US and Israeli Air Force

can render them medieval to use that term again.

I mean, they won't have any power,

they won't have any,

I don't think they're going to do that.

And Iran is not there to help them.

And then finally, they said they're not going to be

a disruptor of Middle East calm.

And they're not going to do what they're doing now,

claim international waters and the straight of our moves

as if it's their own

and kind of be like a bandit and 15th century Greece

up in the hills and a bridge across the river

and you charge people tolls to use it.

That's what they're basically saying they're going to do,

outlawery.

So that was a very clear strategic agenda.

He didn't say in their regime change.

That would be a cherry on top of his dessert

but he didn't say that.

So I don't know what the anger is.

I think if you want to say, General Mattis could have said,

now he's had a brilliant campaign

and he's outlined three or four strategic objectives.

But those strategic objectives will not be viable

given the perfidy of that particular government

unless it is removed, but he said just the opposite.

He said, you know, then regime change.

That's just fantasy.

That's not going to happen.

Okay.

But then if you don't believe regime change is going to happen

but that the war could be justified

on strategic grounds and he named for strategic grounds

and it's incumbent upon you to say

the president named for strategic grounds,

the removal of nuclear ability,

the removal of ballistic ability,

ballistic missile capability,

the subsidies to terrorist groups

and the interruption of international waters

and common in the Middle East.

And I disagree with him or they're insufficient

and here they are.

General Mattis says, these are Mattis's strategic objectives.

One, two, three, four, but he didn't.

You want me to share with our listeners what Mattis did say?

Yes.

He was speaking to Katie Turr on MS now on Monday,

which was in the yesterday in Houston and he said this,

what we're seeing is a situation where

the target tree never makes up for the lack of strategy

and by that I mean 15,000 targets have been hit.

They have been significant military successes

but they are not matched by strategic outcomes.

Now some of the strategic outcomes early on

unconditional surrender regime change

were going to dictate who the next supreme leader is.

Those were clearly nonsense.

Those were delusional and you don't hear those bandied

about anymore.

There are some that have been achieved in the military realm.

They no longer have a navy of any note.

They no longer have the numbers of ballistic missiles

and the defense infrastructure they had before.

But the bottom line is it is not matched by success

in the strategic area and that's a bad thing.

That means that we're now in a position

where either one side or the other side escalates

probably to be matched and you saw the threat rise

over the last 48 hours.

It's been pushed off five days,

but right now we're in a kind of show me.

One side is saying you show me that you're willing

to do something that we want.

The other side is looking for the same thing in return

and neither one of them is making a move in that direction.

So that's his attack.

I have great respect for him as a colleague of mine at Hoover

and we don't publicly try to disagree with our colleagues.

But I must say that he's confusing military objectives

and strategic objectives.

I just said that Trump outlined a strategic objective

that he did not want this government

to have even nuclear materials or ballistic mate.

And Matt has said, well they have had military success

in their objectives and we move a ballistic missile

capability in large quantities.

That's a strategic objective that Trump outlined.

It's not just a mere military fact.

And when he says they've destroyed the Navy,

that is a strategic objective

because that is part and parcel of making sure

that on the long term they don't have the ability

to permanently shut down the state of her moves

and be gatekeeper.

So they're integral.

And he said, well, they gave up on regime.

I don't remember Donald Trump said,

when he went to war, we're going to remove this regime.

He said, help was coming to the protesters and it did come.

And as far as unconditional surrender,

he did say that, but it was in a tactical sense.

We want them to quit, quit no discussions until they quit.

The other problem is he said, one side is going to do this

and then the other side is going to escalate.

Would he please tell me how they're

going to escalate beyond what they're doing

with the straight-over moves?

I want to know how.

How are they going to do that?

Are they going to suddenly open a missile factory

and start showering with more missiles?

Are they going to say China is going to come in

with a big load of more drones and don't dare touch it?

No.

Or are they going to say, we have the naval drone

and mine capacity to keep the straight-over moves

closed under our jurisdiction for the next six months?

No, they don't have that.

So what I'm getting at is it's one-sided.

It's asymmetrical.

And the only reason that perhaps General Mattis thinks

it's not is that there's self-restraint

on the part of the administration and it's self-imposed.

There's no symmetry there.

They have absolutely crippled, if not worse,

made all of the Iranian ability to wage war in NERC.

Now, I know that when they say 83% of this,

and I wouldn't do that, that's just a linguistic matter.

I wouldn't say that we have impaired or blocked

or destroyed 93% of their missile capability

because it doesn't matter what you've destroyed.

It's what's left.

When I was used to thin plums,

I wouldn't be had a really heavy set

and the trees were almost falling over

with these little plums about the size of your finger now.

And they would never size unless you thin them.

And so you're supposed to have a plum every eight inches.

And so I would climb the trees and you look

at the bottom of the ground, Jack,

and it was just covered with green little plums.

I said to my grandfather,

well look, I thinned the orchard

and he said, it doesn't matter what's on the ground, Victor.

It matters what's in the tree and look at that.

There's still too many in the tree.

You didn't do enough.

I said, but look at the ground.

What he meant was, it doesn't matter how many you take it out.

It matters how many are left.

So they obviously have secretive places

or they've sconce with some missiles

in certain deserted areas

or they're in the middle of the town

that we don't know about.

And they're gonna continue to use these

and couple it's doublets.

And that's gonna be a problem.

But it's not, we can say that,

that we've got the vast majority,

but they have hidden places that from,

they're gonna be sporadic and episodic.

That's fine.

But otherwise, there's no ability

on the part of Iran to resist.

And as I said, it's all self-imposed

and what are the self-impositions?

One, Donald Trump does not want to use

the full scale of the United States military

to destroy that country

because he wants somebody to take over

other than the regime.

He wants them to have water, power, sanitation, communications.

So he, and he knows that the regime will use those.

But he has decided that I don't want to

completely emasculate them

if it's at the expense of popular resistance.

Number one, number two, he's got the entire world

on his back yelling that the price of gas may go up.

So it's very, I'm in California.

People in states are going as $4.

It's, I can't remember when it was $4.

I mean, it's five, we were paying $5

when the, and California economy is still operating

with $5 gas, it has been forever.

So what I'm saying is it's an unfortunate situation,

but the United States economy can withstand this

for another two or three weeks or two or three months even.

But he feels that psychologically,

or the media driven narrative that that is a restraint

that he has to get a solution.

Then there's third, there's the midterms.

He's getting down to seven, eight month period

and he's got to get this out of the boater's mind,

a racer, get it out.

So you don't, I don't think most voters,

if I said to them today, Jack,

well, what happened in September?

They don't even remember.

I don't remember.

So this won't be a memory in November

if he can stop it within the next month.

And that is a self-imposed restriction.

There's a final one.

He's got very vocal critics, Joe Rogan now,

Megan Kelly, Tucker Carlson.

Of course, I don't consider Nick Fuinta

as a viable critic in his own category and Tucker Carlson.

And they have constituents, polls suggest

they have very few supporters,

at least in the sense that they think that one issue

in which they disagree with Trump nullifies

or neuters a whole Trump candidacy or presidency.

So that'll all work out.

But if push comes the shove,

when he says one side's gonna escalate

and the other and there's not gonna be any dialogue,

there's not gonna be any dialogue,

not because one side is gonna escalate

or that Donald Trump doesn't have any strategic agenda,

is that this particular entity cannot negotiate.

It's not trustworthy.

It's inherently a line, it's by nature, it's line.

It's not dependable.

So what does that mean?

That means that you set the parameters

of the damage that you inflict.

And maybe you don't get the ultimate solution,

you don't claim you will with regime change,

I would prefer that we try to seek that

and arm some of the, but that's something else.

And I understand people's reluctance,

I have reluctance after Afghanistan and Iraq.

Or you can take Carga Island,

which is probably gonna be mined,

it's probably patrolled by thousands of drones,

it will take a lot of care,

but you could stop all of their oil revenue

and squeeze them.

And just say, you know what, we like you,

we wanna negotiate with you,

but you know, we don't get along very well.

And until you wanna negotiate, we own Carga Island.

And you're gonna have no oil revenues, sorry.

We're just gonna sit here

and twitle our thumbs to you, we consider.

We can do it longer than you can.

And we're gonna open this,

we can't open this trade over mermaids and we will.

So that's where we are.

And I guess you can say we,

and the Israelis,

destroyed the Iranian ability to make war in the region

and threaten Europe and Western interests for what?

Three years, four years.

Depending on the next administration's ability

to restrict the importation of weapons

from China and Russia and North Korea.

So that's pretty much where we are.

And I think it's pretty clear

that he had strategic objectives.

He's obtained nearly all of them.

They don't have ballistic missile capability pretty soon.

They don't have the ability to resupply the Houthis

and Hezbollah and Hamas,

either financially or with a transport capability.

They've been, those people have been kicked out of Lebanon,

for example, their agents, the Iranian agents.

And they'll find the fishnable material.

If they have to barment underground,

they'll do something, but they, I think they'll find it.

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Victor, you mentioned the next administration.

And if it's a yes, sooner or later though,

someday in America God help us.

There will be a Democrat administration.

I can only imagine it will be in the same path

and mindset or worse than Obama slash Biden.

And who bankrolled Iran?

I mean, why were we even in this position

to be at imminent, I'll use imminent risk from them.

It's our past Democrat administrations

gave them billions dollars.

Starting with Obama, he was the one

that reversed anything that George W. Bush did

after they had sent shape charges,

IEDs into Iraq and killed hundreds of not thousands

and remained American.

Obama had this crazy idea that they were gonna be a counter

to the SUNY petrol nations and Israel.

And then he would step in once in a while

and be the referee between the Shia Persian crescent

from Tehran to Beirut to Damascus, Beirut to Gaza,

I suppose.

Ben Rhodes was the architect of that full hardiness.

And then they had the Iran deal

and they, Mr. Constitutional lawyer, Obama,

ran it right through it.

It was a treaty and he ran it right through the Senate

without the Constitutional two-thirds majority.

And he had people like Bob Corcor remember

the Republican Rhinals that joined him

and gave us lectures about what great guy Obama was.

And then we had Trump and Trump stopped him.

He sanctioned them.

He had the maximum pressure.

Mike Pompeo was very good on that.

And HR McMaster was very good on that.

Bolton was good on that.

They were all good on that.

And then Biden came in.

He lifted the terrorist designation of the Houthis.

They began shelling, missling,

droning the Red Sea.

Then he said that he was going to lift the sanctions

off Iran.

They made $100 billion in oil revenues

and began spreading their money to Hezbollah.

And then people in Syria and Hezbollah,

they tacked 200 installations in Syria and Iraq.

We didn't respond.

I think that any of them much.

And there's where we are.

Then Trump came in and he's got a deal with it.

But they did it.

And then we remember one other thing, Jack,

last year Trump was negotiating with him.

And he said, right before he bombed,

he didn't want, he was going to do this

and he was going to force them,

but he was willing to negotiate.

And then it just dragged on and dragged on.

And he said, I'll give you another.

And then Chuck Schumer and Heikham Jeffries.

And I think Heikham Jeffries is the worst speaker,

minority leader we've ever seen of the opposition party.

And when he was speaker, he said,

they coined this term taco.

Trump always chickens out.

Trump always chickens out.

And in other words, they flipped completely

and said that Paul McDonald Trump is that he's too weak,

that he doesn't back up his threats.

And then when he did bomb the nuclear,

then they said World War III, World War III, World War III.

It's kind of a nihilism on the Democratic party.

What, they have no consistent agenda

other than whatever Donald Trump says at the moment,

they're against no matter of the inconsistencies

that that poses for them.

Yeah, well, we've seen out of airports, Victor.

Let's get you take on some of these.

Oh my gosh.

When he said that they're going to kill people at airport,

can you imagine that?

Jeffries said, we don't want to put ice there

because they'll kill people at airports.

Yeah.

Well, you know, do you love America or hate America?

And it's kind of hard tough to see a leader

of one of our two major parties actually hating America.

Yeah, so we have ice agents now helping out at airports

in number of places it's relieved the wait times.

But I did hear you were,

tonight as we were recording on the 24th

and you were on earlier this evening

with Laura Ingraham on Fox News

and she said something about a friend in Houston

who waited four and a half hours in Houston

to get through today and missed a flight.

So it's still insane in many places.

I've also related interests.

I love this headline, Delta takes major perk away

from Congress until they end the DHS shutdown.

The airline has temporarily yanked

its special congressional desk service

to lawmakers and staffers on Capitol Hill

until Congress finally funds the DHS

quoting now the company statements

due to the impact on resources

from the longstanding government shutdown Delta

will temporarily suspend specialty services

to the members of Congress flying Delta.

Unfortunately Jack, it's not gonna hurt the Democrats

because as we know Bernie Sanders and AOC fly private jets

they went through $40,000 of flight jets

as we learned from their rally for the poor

in the middle class.

So Jeffrey said, well they're gonna put ice in there

and they're gonna shoot people and everything

and it was kinda good that if you think about it

what Trump did was pretty, his subtext was that ice

and by the way when you look at the ice people

whether they're in Minnesota or here in California

or at the airport I would say 40% of them

or would be minorities, mostly Mexican and Hispanic.

So then you have this dichotomy of these Karen,

excuse me everybody, I promise they did not want to ever say

that I've had so many Karen's right me and say,

my name is Karen.

We love you Karen, you show a love of us.

We love you Karen's of the middle of the West

and the middle, we really do, I'm sorry.

But anyway we had this wealthy liberal stereotype

screaming in yelling at them and it was kinda funny.

They were very privileged and the ice people were not

and yet we were supposed to think

they were the liberal people and the ice people

were the reactionaries.

When in fact they were there too mostly

not all get criminals that would pray on people

like the people that were protesting against them.

So it was ironic but what Trump is basically saying is

if you take the protesters away and they insane

politicking in Minnesota and waltz and fry

and all those creepy people and just let walt the

just have people meet ice, there would have been no problem.

They weren't going out, they weren't going after pregnant women.

They were going after people that had criminal records

or collateral when they go into a house

when there's a molester and they arrest them

and they look around and they say,

can you give me an ID and they can't?

Then they have a, they're bound by the law

to arrest them and detain them.

But the point I'm making is once you took those people

and transplant them into the airport

and people were the victims of the third democratic shutdown.

I mean last year was the longest,

the current one is the second longest

and we had another one a week long

and all three of them involved DHS.

So three shutdowns because they couldn't win the house

after they gave lectures that if Republicans ever

did that, they were cry babies because they couldn't,

they were trying to do what they couldn't do

with the election box, but ballot box.

But then people, did you see the people's faces?

They had all these ice people, they were smiling.

This is great.

They were trying to help out.

They were polite to put, that's who they are.

Oh, and then they said, well, they don't have mask.

Well, they don't have mask on because they don't have

lunatics like you taking pictures of them

and putting them on the internet

so the cartels can go after them.

Gosh, it's just so simple.

And so what Trump did is he alleviated the problem somewhat.

They'll get better as they get a culture age to the job

and there's more deployed, but he also reintroduced ice

to the general public as public servants,

which they always were.

And so now the Democrats, what are they gonna do?

Are they going to get all those crazy people in LA

and Chicago and Minneapolis and have them drive

to the airport?

And try to disrupt a disruptive system.

The only thing I have a lot of,

I think you may be on to something though, Victor.

Yeah, I think they're stupid enough to do it.

I mean, they went down to Cuba and rented a private hotel

and they got all this gourmet mood.

Then they got this high end Irish rap group

and they got their own generator

and then they blew out the power grid to the hospital

apparently where people were being operated on.

And then the next day they showed,

it was almost like Marie Antoinette.

They were throwing candies to the poor, you know,

or maybe shiny dimes like John D. Rockefeller gave to people.

Yes.

We'll talk about that code pink travel excursion

to Comyland a little later on, but well anyway,

I'm glad you have given up traveling for the time being,

not by car, of course you got to travel by car.

You imagine if you were getting a connection

with your heart rate, you'd say,

I'm a Fresno Air Terminal and I have an hour connection

in Denver and you get there and the line is out

and seven hours later, you, all those, it's just,

it's like torture, they're torturing these wonderful people

that are trying to get to work or see their family,

Easter's coming up and they're deliberately doing it

because they could not win the house.

And they think they're going to punish so incoherent

because ICE is funded through the big, beautiful bill.

So they're just punishing people and just trying to,

and I don't know how they can punish.

Punishing people is part of how they operate.

It's chaos theory.

It's just like, we keep saying on this program,

whether it's shut down the government

or no kings or scratch Teslas, Keke Teslas,

or Firebomb, it's, or George Floyd,

it's, we're going to just cause so much mayhem.

You're going to be confused over who's at fault,

but we do know you'll get into a fetal position.

Put your hands over your ears, curl up and say,

make it all go away.

I don't care who did this.

And that will hurt the incumbent.

That's the strategy.

I haven't heard an agenda from them.

I still have on.

Well, okay, how's this the agenda, sir?

We're going to take a little break.

When we come back, we're going to talk about

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and this attempt to, in Virginia,

to pass a new constitutional amendment there

to Jerry Mander out some Republican house seats.

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Victor, this is terrible.

This girl is Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University.

Freshman, she was shot and killed last week in Chicago

by Jose Medina, a 25-year-old in the country illegally.

JD, J.B. Pritzker, the governor, Villanoi,

said, part of the blame, I'm reading now,

I think this from a new year post story,

the governor, part of the blame for the murder

belongs to the administration

because they have not stuck to their edict

of targeting the worst of the worst

when it comes to illegal migrants.

What does he think?

What does he think 500,000 people have been?

They think they've got almost 500,000 people,

400,000 people.

So, you know, it's funny you said that

because when I heard this tragic shooting,

first thing I said is it's probably going to be

another illegal alien.

Maybe that was unfair, but it was.

The second thing I thought is,

how is this Pritzker going to blame Trump?

And I thought, well, he can't blame Trump

because Trump has offered to go into Chicago for months

and do what he did to Washington and other cities.

So, he can't say that Trump wasn't there to help him.

And then I thought, well, he can't say

that Trump's not going after criminals

because he's deported thousands of them

and arrested thousands of them.

And then third, he can't say it

because he's a sanctuary state.

Chicago's a sanctuary city.

So, when Trump wants to get these people,

like this person who was here illegally

and then shoplifted and he was arrested

and all ICE had to do, and they did obviously

as call up the Chicago police and say,

who did you rest today that is illegal?

Oh, we want to cooperate.

We have this person here.

And they would have turned him over to ICE

and then he would have be back in Venezuela now.

But that didn't happen because of the governor, Pritzker.

And so, I don't, it's just,

I don't know how to, I get frustrated

because it's so nihilistic what they're doing.

There's no rhyme or reason.

When you look at all the things they're doing,

I saw Adam Schiff, he was on some,

maybe it was Bill Marney was saying,

when we get back in power, just as Susan Rice

said, we're going to go out, I thought,

what have you been doing?

You worked the legal system.

You had five different courtrooms

and you went after Trump.

You tried to get him off the ballot.

You impeached him twice.

You tried him as a private citizen.

You raided his home.

And then they said, well, we're going to go after people.

And that's what you've been doing.

That's your brand.

You surveil Congress people.

You surveil senators as Jack Smith.

You work the law like Alvin Bragg.

You're gut.

Buyers judges like Judge Mershon, Judge Kaplan.

All of these crazy judges, roast, roastburg.

That's what you do.

You work the legal system and you say,

well, we're going to do this.

Well, that's what you've been doing.

And you're going to say, well,

you just see Gavin Newsom, Jack,

I don't know if you saw that today,

but he said, we're going to get ruthless.

Yes, we're going to get ruthless.

I'm thinking, well, you've already said

you were going to hit him in the mouth.

You already said people in Europe

that listen to him, I have knee pads

is if they have performing a foul sex act

and you're filthy mind.

Newsom, what else can you say or do

that would be ruthless?

That's who you are.

You're a ruthless person, you always have been.

And the dividends of your ruthlessness is

that while you're campaigning for president

and posting all these obscenities

and claiming that an investigative reporter

is a pedophile, which you did,

the state is falling apart.

It's crime is high.

It's economy is stagnant.

Gas is out of sight.

Electricity is unaffordable.

Homelessness is crested.

You're short billions of dollars

and you build an animal pathway to nowhere.

So bobcats and mountain lions

can get into the hills of LA County

and eat more cats and dogs in the backyard.

This is what you do.

Trying to bring bears back in.

Oh yeah, I know.

I know I think California is.

The woods here are already in the foothills

of the San Joaquin Valley that come down.

Now Victor, nobody's like,

you watch the end of the bridge on the river Quai

when the general would sue the colonel madness?

No, before the madness happens,

when Alec Guinness says mad.

Essentially says, what have I done?

It's very rare that there's an admission, right?

Like, oh my gosh, I've done something terrible here.

Thankfully, it falls on the plunge

and blows the thing up.

But we will never see an admission

from any of these people

about the palpable madness they've done, right in front of them.

They know that there's.

Yeah, I was thinking about the other day.

You brought up, we in California are like billholding

in that movie, Bridges and Riverside.

Everything we get perverberally taken advantage of

by all of these incompetent would-be moralists

that lecture the Alec Guinness.

He's like Alec Guinness.

He's a sanctimonious incompetent.

Yeah.

And that's actually not fair to the character of Alec Guinness.

But it's also like in the bridge of River Quai,

the guy always gets in, ends up in a ditch dead

and is billholding again.

And it's always because of some stupid idea

to go to the tertiary target when you didn't have to.

And the point I'm making is that Gavin Newsom,

he galavants around.

He compares himself to movie stars.

He does this little body gymnastics or wriggle.

I don't know what he's trying to do.

His wife mouse off every once in a while

about trans or gay or feminist issues

with why she's making a fortune consulting

highly unethical with a state that her husband runs.

And then he tries to write a book

about how he grew up in a log cabin kind of idea.

And he was a self-created spoiled,

nipple baby that had well-connected father.

They were very close to the Getty family.

They were very close to the Pat Brown senior

and Jerry Brown.

He had everything paved for him.

He's a child of privilege.

And you know that the way he acts.

He talks about dyslexia.

And then if everybody says, well, you don't,

you're historically illiterate, which he is.

When he talked about that,

federal troops had never been sinned into quail writing.

And when Ted Cruz called him, I said, oh,

I better go return to how dare you make fun

of a dyslexic person calling me historically illiterate.

Now that your problem is you're stupid

and you're uneducated because you don't know the difference

between not knowing history and the inability

as someone would dyslexia to read quickly and competently.

So he's been, you got to remember, Jack,

he was of all the people culpable for high speed rail,

blowing up dams, subverting the bond.

So we didn't build three reservoirs.

The delta smell, the pellicides fire, the paradise fire,

the Aspen fire, the high taxes, the 500 million

illegal immigrants, the bankrupt Medi-Cal,

the homeless 10 billion, who was at the center of that storm?

One person, eight years San Francisco Board of Supervisors,

eight years consecutive mayor of San Francisco,

eight years lieutenant governor,

and now six years governor.

He's almost got 30 years that he was at the center

of all that decision making.

And he takes no responsibility for the fact

that 300,000 people are leaving the state

are most productive citizens.

And he never mentions it.

He never mentions it.

And I don't know what's gonna, he's rowing the state,

but I don't know how a guy like that can run for presidents.

20, 30, 40 billion dollars on high speed rail,

I just, we drove over it today on the way home

from the Stanford Med and my gosh,

they haven't laid one foot of track.

He'll be dead and buried before that.

If it happens.

Yeah, I saw them, all they're doing

is building big berms where the track will be.

And the over, it's just a disaster.

And everything he's got the unmitage touch,

everything he touches, whether it's the Monterey battery

storage that burns up or the Mojave solar plant

that's being dismantled or everything he touches

is turns to draw us.

Yeah, it really does.

Except the, except the, the foothills in the forest

that turn to ashes.

Yes.

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Victor, just to return to the scene of the crime

up in Chicago, there's an all-the-woman Maria Hadden.

I don't know if our listeners or viewers have heard

this reaction to the story.

I'm going to tell you about that.

I'm going to tell you about that story.

I'm going to tell you about that story.

I'm going to tell you about that story.

I'm going to tell you about that story.

This reaction to this murder, and she has rambled.

I forget where I'm reading from.

I think it's Mediaite.

And I now viral clip, quote, from what police know?

From speaking to the students who were with her,

it seems that she, the surname Sheridan Gorman,

might have, they were just out.

People go out to the beach all the time, right?

And they go out on the pier.

They walk around so that the kids were out doing

normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood.

And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place,

wrong time situation, running into a person who had a gun.

In other words, it's kind of her fault.

I thought I read a sense of my wish.

Maybe startled them, you know?

Yeah, we love our illegal immigrants.

Not saying they don't must up your hair once in a while,

but they get to roam just as much as you.

Who do you think you are?

Or just because you're an illegal American citizen,

you're law body.

That's not fair.

That's her attitude.

It was so sickening and amoral.

But you know, it's so funny.

I don't know if all of these marks us,

and that's what they are.

If you, classical marks,

and they believe in a mandated level,

and the level everybody to the lowest common denominator,

take from these people, give to these people,

you would adjudicate it in your exempt

from your own ideological damage.

But what she just said was sort of like the Stalinist,

you know, if you're going to make,

when they're talking about the revolution in Russia,

and I'm not sure he's the first to say it,

when you make an omelet, you have to break some eggs.

So if you're going to have a bold new immigration policy,

there's going to be collateral damage.

We can't avoid that.

Of course, she can, as an older woman,

because she'll have security,

and she'll be away from the chaos that she helped create.

But they have contempt for people's lives,

just nobody's.

They're just collateral damage.

We're just like lab rats.

They have the white coats,

and they're in the lab,

and they think they're going to experiment

with all these utopian bromides.

So hey, let's,

why don't we bring up that old gender dysphoria

and make it into a civil rights thing called the trans movement?

And we'll operate on teens

and take off their sex organs

or do something or inject them with dangerous drugs.

Okay, why don't we open the border?

That would be great.

Who needs borders?

Let's let in 12 million people.

Ah, I got an idea.

How about critical legal theory?

It's society's fault, not the criminal.

Let's let these people out.

Let's not even indict them.

Critical legal theory.

How about critical race theory?

Everybody's a racist,

and the whole society's in a binary

of victims and victimizers.

That's what they do.

They have their little white coats on,

and we're all in cages,

and then they inject us with these wrong stuff,

and then we're collateral damage.

They're really a reprehensible people,

and I don't want to be, you know,

trying to stigmatize anybody,

but they do so much damage

just so many nice innocent people.

Yeah.

They're just mining.

Why don't they just say,

you know what,

you don't agree with me,

and I don't agree with you,

and we're all going to agree

that we're going to keep the roads working,

and we're going to keep the stoplights working,

and we're going to get the garbage collected in the power.

And beyond that, you know,

as the Romans said,

summa summa's hominez non-dee,

we're just you,

just men and humans.

We're not gods.

We don't have no pretentions

that we're going to remake mankind as they do.

Yeah.

That's what their whole idea is.

Give me enough money,

power,

and I can remake you in new man,

new man.

Well, Victor,

before we head to our final break,

and we'll talk about code pink after that,

just want to get your thoughts

about this Virginia gerrymandor referendum,

which could result in the Republicans losing for house seats

if it passes,

and it's interesting,

so voting has started on this ballot proposal,

early voting.

Should the Constitution of Virginia

be amended to allow the General Assembly

to temporarily adopt new congressional districts

to restore fairness in the upcoming elections,

while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process

resumes for all future redistricting

after the 2030 census.

So that's the resolution.

By the way, the state adopted a referendum in 2020,

so just six years ago,

that the Democrats supported,

and 60% of the people backed it,

that was aimed to prevent partisan gerrymandering.

So it's just, you know,

when it suits them,

it suits them,

when it doesn't,

it doesn't.

So, but this is an off year

or a special kind of referendum,

low turnout,

and there is real concern that this may pass your thoughts.

Yeah, I think it will.

In California, at least they were subtle.

They always said,

we're reformist,

and we believe in non-parsanship.

So we're going to have

non-partisan

districting by impartial boards,

and then they would get,

the Democrats would go in

and they'd get socialists

for their five guys,

and then they would look around

and find five rhinos

and say, it's bipartisan.

And then they would gerrymander,

and the result was,

under the old system,

of the 53 representatives in California,

I think we had 11 Republicans,

and then they said, you know what?

That's not fair.

We're going to get it down to seven or five.

So we're just going to get rid of the pretense

and just go full partisan,

and that's what they're doing in California.

And again,

it gets back to this idea

that they can't win

with people showing up,

and showing an ID,

and voting on election day.

They can't win.

They know that.

And they can't win if you have to register lawfully,

and according to rules that are enforced,

and they know they can't win

if the districts,

usually when you have a congressional

off-year election,

or even election-year congressional,

it usually reflects the Democratic

or Republican makeup in the state

and often the presidential.

They can't win that way.

So they have to cheat.

They don't call it cheating.

They're superior morals.

They're always moral.

We're going to do the right thing.

We're on the right side of history.

The arc of history,

the arc of justice.

It bends toward us.

We do it.

It's right.

I had sent you a few ex posts

about some guy was doing these analyses

of state of Delaware,

that has, you know,

let's say 279,000,

321 people who are a voting age,

yet the registered voting numbers are...

No, that's happened in more than Delaware.

Oh, yeah, much more.

Yeah.

So it's theoretically impossible,

given the number of people,

demographically that are over 18,

versus the number of people that are registered

and even vote.

And they know that.

But they have an explanation for it.

And that is that...

This is a recompense for years

of sexism and racism and colonialism

and that there's a few little

improprieties they don't...

they pale in comparison to slavery

and misogyny and racism.

So all we're doing is equally...

we're trying to get a little equity back.

That's how they feel.

They really do.

Yeah.

Everything's fluid with them morality.

If it's for the higher cause of humanity,

then any means necessary to achieve that cause

or justify.

That's the whole thing.

If you think about what their agenda is,

it's radical equality of result in every aspect.

And if you keep that in mind, it makes sense.

So you're a criminal,

and you shoplift,

or you drive your stolen car into a jewelry store,

and then you get your buddies,

and you steal everything,

and you don't ever get arrested.

If you get arrested,

you don't really get undied.

If you get undied, you don't be convicted.

If you're convicted, you don't go to jail.

And then you think,

well, since they were a disadvantage

because of racism, poverty, discrimination,

I'm going to equal it out by not punishing them.

And maybe that will be...

that will be kind of recompense for the corporate...

corporate raider who sits there

and doesn't even work and makes money on his computer,

speculating.

And that works with the border.

Well, there's all these

wealthy, white, exploited people

who killed indigenous people,

and they live in this country.

And if they have to have 10 million people

from Michalcon and Wahaka and Ecuador come in,

well, that's going to level the playing field.

That's how they think.

With the one qualifier caveat,

that it doesn't affect themselves.

Yes.

You know...

AOC says...

I don't think I can have children

because I would bring them into

a climate-changed boiler.

This planet's boiling.

I can't do it.

But I can rent a jet

and have a carbon footprint

a thousand times more than the guy

in the middle seat going trans up, you know,

Pam's car, generally.

That's how they think.

And it's...

I think you've been giving a great gift.

You know, I was farming,

and I didn't understand that

because the people that I grew up with

and for four years, when I did it full time,

and then I did it as an academic for 15 years,

they didn't think like that.

But when I got into the academic world,

it kind of skips a friend of it,

go up to Cal State and come home,

and see two to go to Stanford.

But you really...

If you have that experience,

and you understand them,

because the nexus

where all these things meet as academia,

because it's law-law land,

and they're 10 year,

and there are no consequences.

You have lifetime employment.

You teach two or three classes at the most of semester.

Your summers are off.

You whine all the time.

And then you just dream about the lab rats,

and what you can do with your white coat,

an experiment, give them a shot, amputee...

Do whatever you have to do

to make...

Make Utopia heaven on earth.

Well, I think you're too nice.

Well, I think you would say...

That it goes back,

and I agree with you

to agnosticism and atheism,

that they believe that there's nothing out there

after you die.

Yeah.

And they want to make heaven on earth,

and they want to freeze their bodies

or take some kind of magic serum

that live forever,

because they're terribly afraid of death.

Yeah.

But...

But they do hate also.

I mean...

You've never talked about the guy

the lake up in the mountains, right?

They hate the fact

that the...

The electrician has that house.

They hate him.

They hate the idea

that he gets this Winnebago,

when he gets this little trailer

with two jet skis,

and he's got a big smile on his face,

and he's got four kids,

and they put her up there,

the grade,

and then they go into a campground.

They have a little generator

and a TV,

and they're beneath the pines,

and they're happy as larks,

and they're not bothering anybody,

and they come in there,

you know...

I mean, this I care, a club,

and who are these people are?

And they're polluting the alpine,

and then they do great damage.

They say, you know what?

We're going to let the bugs

and the sparrows eat the mulch

from the down trees.

We're not going to let you clean the forest,

and then every once in a while,

we're going to get a catastrophic fire,

and that's good,

because you deserve it.

Yeah.

Big Winnearest.

Well, Victor, we're going to talk about,

you mentioned before, Cuba.

We'll do that as our final topic.

When we come back from these finals...

It's not Cuba.

You didn't listen to J.S.R.

What did J.S.R.

Just...

Cuba.

Cuba.

Cuba.

Cuba.

We can't have missiles in Cuba.

We can't have missiles in Cuba.

Jack, we can't have missiles in Cuba.

We can't have missiles in Cuba.

That's how my in-laws talk.

I can't do it very well.

My dad could do it very well.

He would always say,

he was like, he was 1960 election.

He was Dwight Eisenhower.

We would be sleeping like at five in the morning,

and you'd get us up on Saturday morning,

five in the morning to go pick up walnuts or something.

Boys, get up, get out, and vote for Dick Nixon.

That's what Eisenhower said.

My dad was a Democrat,

and we go, no, he goes, get out,

or get out and vote for Dick Nixon.

I really liked that.

My dad did too, but he didn't vote for him, apparently.

All right, Victor.

We're going to take a break here.

We'll come back to more imitations

right after these messages.

Okay, folks.

We're back with the final segment, quick segment here.

Victor Davis Hanson in his own words,

coming out on the 26th of March.

There's the 26th.

By the way, you mentioned before,

Victor on a list of things,

to talk about trends.

And I want to thank you for allowing me to,

I did a special episode with Estella O'Malley

on detransitioning.

You did me a favor.

I didn't do you a favor.

I was temporarily incapacitated.

Well, we maybe did the world a favor.

She was terrific.

And I want to thank you for the opportunity

to do that episode.

So anyway,

P.J. Media, Sarah Anderson,

written a story about the code pink trip.

And you mentioned some of the things, Victor,

the opulence of the sheer poverty of the Cuban people

that doing without electricity,

the need for massive electricity,

for them to have their rock concert,

staying in hotel that costs 500 bucks a night,

flaunting it, flaunting the Michelin lifestyle

in the face of this poverty.

These people are just, they're right.

I'm not going to say the word,

but rhymes with asterds.

They are really nasty.

Yeah, if that's true,

that why they did the generator,

and then they needed more electricity,

and they had to crash the grid,

where the hospital didn't have emergency power,

and didn't have a generator.

I was thinking,

because I had two back-to-back surgeries,

and I think, what would it be like if,

when I heard them say,

we got to get another operating room,

you're bleeding,

we got to go back into it,

and then all of a sudden the power went out,

and I heard a bunch of wealthy Cubans that were here,

and they were kind of demonstrate on behalf of somebody,

and they sucked all the power out of power out though.

They have no conscious.

They really don't.

They're just performers.

Yeah, I don't know where they,

I mean, I don't know if it's an innate brain defect,

or whether it's their affluence and leisure.

The Greeks and Romans said it was affluence

and leisure corrupted people,

and if they had too much free time,

and they didn't have moral instruction and religion,

then they would end up where we are.

And that's where we are to tell you the truth.

You have had major surgery in Cuba-like conditions.

I did.

I had E-30.

I woke up,

and I will say that I have a soft spot for a round,

because when I ruptured my appendix,

I couldn't get back to my minders.

We couldn't get back to Tripoli for over a day.

When I came in the next morning at two in the morning

to the hospital wouldn't let me in,

and there was a red crescent clinic,

and there was an Iranian there,

and he was a tech,

and he said,

I had a ruptured appendix,

and he said,

you can't get in broken English,

you can't get operated to get your AIDS test,

and we can't give it to you because you have to have a proper...

So I waited from two in the morning to almost seven in the morning

for the AIDS tester to come.

And once he said I was negative,

then they had to get a doctor,

and they called,

and they found an Egyptian smoking a cigarette

who walked in his pajamas.

A wonderful man.

I didn't speak English, I didn't speak Arabic,

but they had a Pakistani nurse,

and then the Iranian guy who was at the desk,

then doubled as an ether operator,

and he had a big tank,

and he put this thing,

and I recognized the smell after 50 years,

because when I was six years old,

my twin brother and I had our tonsils out.

If we did, both of them at the same time,

we got two for one,

and they put that awful smell on,

I could smell it,

but then I woke up,

and I kept seeing all this stuff piled on my,

you know, my chest on a towel,

you know, like,

they had to take out eight or nine inches on my colon,

because it was getting dirty.

They put it on your chest?

Yes, they put it on my chest,

and then they yelled,

get him back, yeah, yeah, yeah,

and then they put it back,

and then I woke up,

and that was what,

anyway, on the fourth day from all that,

I went home,

and I never realized

that this recent surgery,

I thought,

when the doctor said,

well, this is going to take,

if nothing goes wrong,

it'll take about a month

for partial,

and then three months,

but it's not,

I mean, I'm pretty wiped out,

three,

and I had the two,

but I thought,

how can I do the other one?

Then I remembered,

I was 20 years,

almost 20 years younger,

but more importantly,

they didn't give me

eight hours of anesthesia,

they gave me a light ether,

you know what I mean?

Just enough to,

and then they had a law

that said no narcotics,

no pain killer,

whatsoever,

and they had no antibiotics,

I had to wait two days

for the period tonight

to a guy,

a Libyan American came with it,

but my point is,

and then they made a big incision,

and they just

washed it out,

like with a hose,

and my point is,

all of that primitivism

allowed me not to,

you know,

be constipated

and be full of drugs,

but maybe the operation

of taking out a rupture

of appendix

is not nearly as traumatic

as taking out a cancer

as long as

and having aneurysms.

I don't know.

You did come out of the ether

during the surgery, didn't you?

Three times, I think.

Yeah.

But it didn't,

you know, I just woke up

and they just,

it was kind of like,

put that mask on him,

and then I just remember

that the guy had a long tube

and the surgeon

every once in a while

would smoke

and ether is combustible.

So they'd made him

get the tank

and the other room,

and there was a snake-like thing,

and then I wanted to wash myself

in the bathroom,

and it was overflowing

in the toilet was,

so I thought,

they yelled at me

in the pack of sand.

He said,

why do you want to get

all dirty before surgery?

I said,

well, the point was

to get clean.

She says, no,

you don't go in there

to get clean.

You go in there to get dirty.

Get out.

So it was a learning experience.

Yeah.

Wow.

Well, Victor,

that's,

I don't have any,

I had notes here of

nice things people have said.

I'll find them

for the next time.

We record plentiful,

again,

many, many people.

Very nice.

I forget every day.

I just wish I could,

I'm,

I think we've got

well over a thousand now.

I get them,

at Hoover,

and they're all the same.

They're very sweet.

They offer prayers.

They offer support.

They mention some things

that they went through

that were more horrific

than I did.

And they give you confidence.

You know,

they say, I know you,

you've had this cancer.

I know you've had

some problems.

But I had stage four

and I'm alive.

You know what I mean?

And they said

I would be dead.

So it's very encouraging.

That's the people

who keep the country going.

Those people.

I'm not saying

just our listeners

are those people.

But basically,

people who care about people,

they believe in

a deity,

Christianity,

in most cases,

Judaism.

And they follow the rules.

They don't get,

they don't cause trouble,

but they add to the

security and prosperity

of the state

and they don't get any recognition.

Instead,

the people get recommendations

or the Hollywood buffoons

and people like

Jasmine Crockett

or Nancy Pelosi.

It's very disturbing.

Very disturbing.

But if you ever tamper

with those people,

you know,

they're irredeemables,

the clingers.

If you tamper with them,

and you get a man with it,

that's a bad thing to do

because if they ever

went on strike,

we'd be done for.

Yeah.

Well, they get up

in every morning

and go do it

and keep the country prosperous.

And I think,

Will,

I think we're coming

now.

Well anyway, Victor,

you've been terrific.

Thanks for all the wisdom you've

received here.

Thank you so much.

Thank you everybody

for listening and viewing.

Thank you, Amen.

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