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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.
So I don't see the big problem.
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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
this terrible murder in Illinois
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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