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As a leptist, that's typical because they pose as they're egalitarian and worried about the poor and the people,

but they're actually elite snobs that run the party. They always have been.

Do you think that the Democrats are losing this fight?

I think they are, but I'm not sure the American people think they are,

because there's no rationale to it.

They want to defund the Department of Homeland Security, but it's already funded.

They can't affect that.

So they're hurting FEMA and TSA, and they want to make that connection to the people and saying,

well, we're trying to protect you from ice, but here at the airport, there's ice.

So the only thing they can really do to win popular support is start to protest ice,

where ice is now at the airport, but they're handing out water, everybody likes them.

They're speeding along the lines, so they can't.

I have this feeling that something's going to happen this weekend,

some sort of ground forces.

We've seen Trump moving ground forces.

If he is going to open the straits of her moves,

you can see these missiles are being aimed at the Emirates, gutter, Israel, two or three solvals.

Well, they have these cluster munitions, so theoretically,

they could shoot them right at a aircraft carrier or a destroyer.

So he's got to go have a sanitary corridor on the shore opposite the strait,

and that would mean he puts troops there, and they would have to go house to house,

or feel to feel, and make sure there's not missiles, drones, speedboats with mines,

and that would be a very difficult operation.

He would say that that's not inserting ground troops on the war,

that it would be more like putting ground troops to rescue Maduro, rescue, I mean, kidnap him.

And it has a definite mission, a definite term.

And then if he were to do that, he would think that he could back off,

and he wouldn't even have to bomb very much anymore.

He'd say, we'll just sit here and wait till they go broke.

Politically, that's almost impossible to pull off.

So that's why he's frustrated.

That's why some days he says we're going to negotiate an end,

and he meant that we're almost done.

Some days he says, give me more troops.

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Victor is the Martin and Nile Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics

at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marshal Busky Distinguished Fellow in History

at Hillsdale College.

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So Victor, I just thought I would ask you a little bit if you have any thoughts

on the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen,

and or Jimmy Kimmel's bad joke that ended with,

we have a plumber of protecting us from terrorism now.

And I was wondering if you had thoughts on that derogatory statement.

Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel.

I mean, you could say so many things about that.

As a leftist, that's typical because they pose as they're egalitarian

and worried about the poor and the people.

But they're actually elite snobs that run the party.

They always have been.

Remember that guy for CNN, Mark Caputo?

And he said he went to a Trump rally and he had more teeth than everybody in the audience.

I thought that was cute.

Then of course you get to the clingers, the deplorables, the irredeemables,

and Joe Biden, common man using the word garbage and chumps and drags.

They do that all the time.

They can't help it.

They have nothing but contempt for the middle classes.

But Mark Wayne Mullen, first of all,

as someone who lives in a 150-year-old home

and has been on the house a lot doing plumbing,

every time I see a master plumber, they're like a heart surgeon.

They'll say, no, no, Victor, no, no, no,

long, not four-inch, three-inch here.

Inch and a half is okay here, pressure, hot water.

They know everything.

They're very skilled people.

They're much more skilled than a psych major in high college.

Then the second thing is he took that business

and then he made a multi-million dollar.

I think he has over 150 employees.

It was at one time one of the largest plumbing supply companies

in Oklahoma, I think.

So he was a businessman.

He had four or five companies.

Jimmy Kimmel's just ignorant.

He's just so consumed with the fact that he thinks he's smart.

He thinks he only knows what's wrong with the country

and it's Trump and nobody listens to him

and he gets more and more desperate to find an audience.

And he's gonna go the way of Colbert.

They're not very funny people.

They're boring.

You hear the same thing every night and it's sad,

but he represents that by coastal elites

contempt for people who work with their hands

or they don't have degrees,

even though in many cases they're as successful

or more successful than the so-called college educate.

What these people don't understand is getting a BA

from Stanford, I'm just taking the place where I work.

In 1940, you really knew something.

You really knew something.

Getting a BA from there now, I mean there's remedial math,

the high school math they teach.

And Yale gives 98% A's.

It doesn't mean anything anymore.

They're not teaching real stuff except for math and engineering.

So it's not hard to graduate from college.

It is hard to be a master electrician, a master plumber,

a skilled sheet walker, a really good woofer.

Those are hard things to do,

besides a toil on your body.

And so these people are dinosaurs or an aquanism.

They don't understand what's going on right now.

We have enough Jimmy Kimmel's in the world.

We don't have enough good plumbers.

And Mark Mullin will probably show himself, Mark Wayne,

sorry, Mullin will probably show himself to be very skilled

at his upcoming job.

He's been in Congress for years.

And he's done a lot in business.

Congress, he was a mixed martial arts guy for a while.

So he's got a very, very background, which is good.

Yeah, never hurts to be successful in business.

Well, let's turn then to the airports and the disruption

because the TSA agents are not being paid yet.

We all know they'll get their back pay, probably,

so that, you know, that in the long run,

it's not going to be problematic,

but it's still a problem for travelers

who are stuck in these lines.

And I was wondering one thing on this whole showdown

between the Democrats and the Republicans.

Do you think that the Democrats are losing this fight?

I think they are, but I'm not sure the American people

think they are because there's no rationale to it.

The they want to defund the Department of Homeland Security,

but it's already funded.

They can't affect that.

So they're hurting FEMA and TSA,

and they want to make that connection to the people

and saying, well, we're trying to protect you from ice,

but here at the airport, there's ice.

So the only thing they can really do to win popular support

is start to protest ice where ice is now at the airport,

but they're handing out water, everybody likes them.

They're speeding along the lines.

So they can't.

And so the problem is that they have a lunatic,

I can't use the word base anymore.

The base is expanded to the party and it's lunatic.

It's not just Lisbeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

It's the squad and AOC and Jasmine,

the ex congresswoman, soon to be ex congresswoman.

And they're not in touch with reality.

And then you have Chuck Schumer who's this old stegosaurus

that just mouse, everything he says

on conservative sides, Fox News,

all they do is pull up something he said in the 1990s

and he contradicts it completely.

Nobody believes him anymore.

This is he's gonna be gone pretty soon.

Then there's Heikam Jeffries.

And he, he gyrates from really awful things he says.

Sometimes there are foul mouth memories.

He was hitting, practicing with a bat

like he was gonna club somebody during the prior shutdown.

And then he, he said ice will shoot people in the airport.

And there's something about him that,

he doesn't seem to be process information

when you look at him.

And somebody ask him a question.

He looks like his eyes go blank.

Like his mind is blank.

And then it's like, oh, oh, what should I say?

And then he's, he, it doesn't come out right.

So he's a very ineffectual leader.

And they, they were wise.

They get rid of both of them.

And so that, that's hurting them.

And then the, the other thing is, is they go back to chaos theory.

Elon Musk is going to one dose.

Let's go one Tesla's off the road.

Let's scratch them in parking lots.

That's a fire bomb Tesla's.

Donald Trump, he has a lot of executive order.

Let's do no kings.

No kings.

We'll just go out there and make all.

And they, they cause so much chaos.

As I said, they think we're gonna go in a fetal position.

So the ice is, this is the third shutdown that they have done.

And it's getting close, it'll get close to the longest the 42 day one.

And all three of them have shut down a department of Homeland Security.

But they have no, what do they want?

They want, I mean, it's a federal agency.

So these state governors and who say they're going to forbid ice to do this,

they can't, they're federal officers.

I don't know that, I don't know what they want.

They want, when you get an illegal alien who shoots somebody,

they want to keep them here.

I mean, they're so patently obvious now that three years ago,

you would say they believe in the great replacement theory

because they write books called Demography Is Destiny

and the New Democratic Majority.

And they destroyed the border to let in 12 million people

who were in dire need, our supposed dire need,

housing, food, educational supplements, supplemental income.

And then they wanted to grow the bureaucratic welfare state.

And now if you say that, everybody goes, yep, that's right.

That's not controversial, that's not racist.

That's what they do because they say it.

And then the other thing is their protection of illegal aliens,

when they couldn't stand up in Congress, when Trump asked them,

who do you prefer them or a citizen?

They don't prefer citizens because they think that illegal aliens

are more left wing than citizens, so they prefer them.

And they don't mind if they're violent, they don't mind at all.

That's collateral damage.

So when Lincoln Riley or his poor girl in Chicago was shot,

that's susceptible for them.

And that's why they say wrong place and wrong time.

Or that Mayor Johnson, who is the worst mayor

in the history of Chicago, going all the way back

to the gang killings.

He stands there and illegal alien who had been let out,

had not been deported, had tuberculosis.

And mayor may not have been outkilling somebody

so he could join the trend gang, shoots and kills

this innocent girl who runs, he shoots her in the back.

So it's got all of the classic symptoms

of a cowardly, despicable act.

And he can't even talk about it very much.

And then he says, and we're not going to let this affect

our concern for every, every, he said all, every all illegally.

Does this mean all the criminals that just happened?

And then he's speaking with a garbage truck

that has abolished ice on it.

He's the mayor, he's a complete buffoon.

And he's just had this huge riot.

It's all over the internet and it's on news

where dozens of not hundreds of black teenage youths

have gone through the million dollar mile

and just swarm things and beat people up

and looted on control.

And you think, given that, and the murders every weekend

that he would say there is a crime problem among black youth

and we're going to address it.

And he's not.

He's just blame, all he can do is blame white people

and call, call people racist.

Why the city goes bankrupt?

I'm really worried about Chicago.

It was, you know, Carl Sandberg's Chicago

was the second biggest place in the country.

It's going the way of LA.

We're going to lose two big cities.

Los Angeles and Chicago in a sense

that their downtown area is going to be uninhabitable.

And unless you get rid of this paradigm of a blue DEI mayor,

pandering to DEI constituents promising them more stuff

and more stuff and then we get the corrupt,

the Somali corruption, now California corruption.

It all has the same thing.

Democratic operatives, democratic officials

turn over billions of dollars to cook good NGOs

or whatever aid societies or bureaucracies

that don't serve the people who need it

and upscone with the funds.

And then if you say, this is wrong.

Oh, you're making fun of the Somali community.

Oh, you're making fun of the Latino community in LA.

No, you're not.

And that's, and that's a way.

And then they say we've got to raise taxes.

Washington's got to raise taxes.

Chicago's got to raise taxes.

So everybody's leaving that can leave.

It's not tied to a, you know, a business or something.

And I've never seen anything like it in this country

that the whole blue paradigm,

the whole blue state project is imploding before our very eyes.

And these were the most picturesque,

most beautiful places in the world.

You know, there was, Chicago was a beautiful city.

So is Seattle, so is Portland.

They've destroyed them.

San Francisco may be the best of all.

Yeah.

And LA has already just FYI LA has already,

its downtown is already uninhabited and uninhabitable.

And now it's got the destruction of the...

I used to go down to LA a lot to speak downtown

to one of the downtown clubs, Jonathan Club,

Capital Club.

And you had to time your drive carefully.

It was like bumper to bumper.

The sidewalks were full of well-dressed people, you know,

and that was this 1990s to 2010 Renaissance

where you had these new skyscrapers.

And everybody was bragging that LA finally had a downtown.

It wasn't just spread, it was beautiful buildings.

You had Wilshire area, rodeo, all this stuff.

And then I think it was three years ago,

drove down there and I thought,

oh, I'm back going down there.

There was nobody there.

We just zoomed right in and then when I parked at the hotel,

I could see why there was no one there.

You had canteens selling.

There was all the stores were closed,

but you had canteens, black market property.

And then you had homeless people everywhere.

And then you had to...

You look at the parks and there's all these thugs in them.

And all the storefronts were had windows broken

and were boarded up.

And then the high rises, like...

I'm not talking about the ground floor.

Five, six, 10 floor have graffiti all over it.

They destroyed it.

Karen Bass, more than anyone destroyed it,

but Villa Rosa did too.

And at some point, people are going to say,

they're going to be like my senior tyrants,

they're going to be micing in deserted cities.

And then everybody's going to go,

what were these things?

Who destroyed them?

Were they sea peoples?

Were they the Dorians?

Somebody came in here and destroyed all these beautiful cities.

Where are the people?

Will they destroy themselves?

Omega, man, Victor, love that movie.

One of my favorites.

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So Victor, let's go ahead and turn to Iran.

I have this feeling that something's gonna happen this weekend,

some sort of ground forces.

We've seen moving ground forces,

1,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division

into the region, also the Iranian naval commander

has been killed.

So I was wondering your thoughts.

We may, our audience may be listening to this

and there may be a ground operation already going on

is my feeling, but what is yours?

Well, there was never any chance that you could negotiate with them

because nothing they say or do can be verified.

They never tell the truth.

They just said that sent out a missile

that could have gone 2,500 miles.

They said they don't have missiles over 2,000.

They have, they just disclose,

they had enough fishable material,

which they supposedly didn't exist

to make immediately 11 bombs.

And they said they didn't kill them.

They killed 35,000.

They're killing them as I speak right now.

So you can't deal with that regime

unless it's completely defeated.

It's like you can deal with the Tojo militarist in Japan,

you can deal with Hitler if they're defeated,

but you can't ever negotiate with them

because lying is their brand.

And so then the question is, who's winning?

Well, they think that they can take

an enormous amount of punishment to their military assets

and their power, their water, their sewage,

their communications will be untouched

because they think we believe

that the people will rise up

and we don't want to hurt the people

by taking away their daily sustenance.

And so that's what their robodop is.

In addition to that, they believe

that Donald Trump is under pressure

from the midterms coming up in seven months,

from the Europeans and the Japanese

and the Western world about the economy

and his MAGA base.

If I had said six months ago, Tucker Carlson

who was at the White House or Marlotto all the time,

or Megan Kelly, or even Candice Owen

would be Persona and no one would believe it,

but there's a breach there and it's getting bigger.

We don't know how big that ultra MAGA's to quote Joe Biden

is, but it's something that in a narrow election

might matter, especially in the midterms

getting out the boat.

So that's what Iran is thinking.

Trump is thinking, I have destroyed

probably a trillion dollars of munitions.

They can't rearm for 10 years.

And I did a big favor for the Israelis.

I need to get out of here because I have different agendas

than the Israelis do.

My agendas were enunciated as stop the missiles, A, B,

get rid of the nuclear materials,

so they can't make a bomb, C, stop the subsidies

for their pterus proxy, the Houthis, the Hezbollah,

Hamas, or destroy them.

And that's pretty much done.

And D, protect the Gulf monarchies

and don't let them be the radical influence they were

in the Middle East.

He's more or less accomplished that.

And then there's a little asterisk.

And people said, but that's fine and good, Mr. Trump,

but it's not set in stone unless you change a regime.

So now he's story and I think, yeah, he believes that.

But he has Nancy Mays and he's got all the Rand Paul,

all these other people and say, you promise no ground troops.

You said we're going to get out of it

because they're all up for re-election or up for office.

And so he knows what he has to do.

If he really wants to stop the war,

he has to take an enormous risk.

And that would be going into Kharga Island,

which is not as risky because it's not the mainland.

But they know it's sort of like half a man hat.

It's got about eight miles, but it's big.

And it's probably been mined.

It's got labyrinth like Hamas underground facilities.

It's got drone coverage.

It would be, we would lose a lot of soldiers probably.

But that would stop all of their oil revenue

and that would starve them very quickly.

And then two, if he is going to open the straits of her moves,

you can see these missiles are being aimed

at the Emirates, Qatar, Israel, two or three savels.

Well, they have these cluster munitions.

So theoretically, they could shoot them right out

a aircraft carrier or a destroyer.

So he's got to go have a sanitary corridor

on the shore opposite the strait.

And that would mean he puts troops there

and they would have to go house to house or field to field

and make sure there's not missiles, drones, speedboats

with mines.

And that would be a very difficult operation.

He would say that that's not inserting ground troops

on the war that it would be more like putting ground troops

to rescue Maduro, rescue, I mean kidnap him.

And it has a definite mission, a definite term.

And then if he were to do that, he would think

that he could back off and he wouldn't even

have to bomb very much anymore.

He'd say, we'll just sit here and wait till they go broke.

And then they'll, they will go broke

and the people will take over.

But politically, that's almost impossible to pull off.

So that's why he's frustrated.

That's why some days he says, we're

going to negotiate an end in a minute.

But we're almost done.

Some days he says, give me more troops.

Come over.

Well, let's then turn back to the Gorman murder

in Chicago, because I know we talked about it

on the Friday news roundup, but a few things have popped up

since.

And one of them is the school newspaper

at Loyola University apologized for using the term illegal

immigrant, even however accurate that term is.

And I was wondering if you had thoughts on that.

And then also I just lay it out.

The tuberculosis that the assailant has,

there seems to be an epidemic recurring

in the world of tuberculosis.

I know that for a fact.

And then the third thing is, what do you make of Rod

Blagovich, who said, I've been in prison for eight years

before, he's not currently in prison.

He said, I could see this easily being

and killing to initiate into a gang.

And I was wondering, any of it or all this?

Well, that was the first that he wanted to be

in the trend gang.

And he just put his hoodie on and his black clothing

and just sat out there waiting for somebody

to stroll up here and then shoot them.

Why he was ever here, I don't know.

He should have been deported.

He was a shoplifter.

He's a murderer.

He destroyed this whole family by killing this wonderful girl.

And the mayor, Johnson, doesn't really care.

And Pritzer, all he wanted to do was wait four days

so he could figure a way out to blame Trump.

They let in 12 million people.

And then Trump's fine to find the 500,000 criminals.

And he says, well, the fact that you haven't found them

means it's your fault.

It's the most absurd thing I'd ever heard.

And then when you look at the sky,

then you look at the sick left-wing mind

of all these people, these Democrats and these leftists.

So the school newspapers more worried about the word illegal

alien, which is the IRS uses it, the Supreme Court uses it.

It's the only accurate term.

Are they aliens, a, alpha-privative in Greek or Latin?

And, you know, Leon, place, not of this place.

Yes, alien.

And are they illegal?

Not, they don't have lex on their side.

That's where the word come.

Yes.

So what's the problem?

Undocumented immigrant doesn't tell you anything.

It just says they're an immigrant.

And they don't have your, oh, this guy was coming in

from Venezuela and he left his passport and documents

in his card in Venezuela.

So now he's undocumented.

No, he deliberately came in without documents.

He never had documents.

He never wanted documents.

He's illegally here.

He entered illegally.

He's residing illegally.

And when these papers do that, this university academic

left-wing mind does that.

This just shows you how absolutely and utterly callous they are.

It's the same style.

I mentioned before, it's a Stalinist idea to make a socialist omelette.

You got to break some eggs.

And so you can get a Democrat might, literally a Democrat in the backroom would say, well,

you know what?

I didn't say we're not going to must up some people's hair when we let in 12 million

people without all of it.

But the fact is they're here and there are constituents and they're going to be voting

under mail and valiant.

And it's going to do cosmic good for the poor.

And if you have to lose a few people, it's not going to be us.

We live in safe neighborhoods.

We have security details.

But if she's in the wrong place in the wrong time, as we were told, then things happen.

That's how evil these people are.

And I don't know how you deal with them.

It's so...

It gives them a high to think that they're liberal and caring and magnanimous as long

as it doesn't affect them.

At somebody else's expense.

Yes, but their use of language seems very detached from reality.

So we could look back at all of their use of the terms.

But George Lowe said...

Yes.

That their terms racist or no Kings rally when you have an elected president.

I mean, it's completely detached from any real world thing.

So there's something wrong with them.

Not an aggression because they can't find any racial aggressions.

So they have to come up with a word micro-micro because they can't detect it otherwise.

So trigger warning.

What does that mean?

A trigger warning.

You have to pull the trigger on Mark Twain so people will know not to read it.

Is that what it is?

Safe spaces.

What does that mean?

That means a segregated place by race in a university.

And what does a micro-aggression means?

It means a complete fabrication or excuse to call somebody a racist.

Do you think, though, that the human nature really to seek out things or people, or in

this case, people who use vocabulary that really reflect reality and to reject people who

are living in sort of a delusional or hazy world where they can't decide what language

means here and there?

Yeah.

I think that's why people were not offended by Donald Trump because he would give you an

example.

Robert Mueller really used the law in a very vicious way when he was in Boston.

And he destroyed Carter Pages.

That Mueller invested it.

They were evil.

So Trump said he's glad he's dead and he can't hurt any more people.

Everybody went outraged and they said he was a fine public server and he did it.

But Trump was actually closer.

Trump was cruder than the left and you shouldn't speak ill of the dead and he did and that's

regrettable.

But he was accurate when he said he can't hurt any more people.

He heard a lot of people by intent and so people appreciated that Trump was blunt because

they never hear it from politicians.

It's always euphemisms or sugar coated or misdirection in their speech and you know, it's

like Latinx.

Has anybody ever seen anybody who's Latinx?

I live in a community of 85 to 95% Mexican Americans.

I've been everywhere with them.

I have never seen one heard one person say Latinx.

That's a wealthy, white, academic world.

Well I hope, I guess the elections will tell us, right?

If human nature is inclined to people who have a attachment to a real world and are talking

about a real world of gravity.

You would expect that there's so many variables in the election.

There's human nature has another aspect that after about two years everything fresh seems

old.

I think I want to vote for Donald Trump.

I'm so sick of Biden, Harris.

Now I see Trump.

Now I want to go to get something.

So the president's almost an 85% of the cases lose the midterm.

And then there's a question of, it's women very lucky about the Save America Act, Save

Act because it shows you what these people really believe.

When you have 85% of the Americans in about 75% of Democrats and minorities saying they

want IDs and you have these Democrats in Congress that won't do it.

Then you can see why they won't do it because when you bring in 12 million people illegally

and you register anybody who shows up at the DMV and they get a special exemption on their

license, then they get mailed ballots and there's no ID.

And you can see what happens.

And that's what they won't give up because they have no confidence in their agenda.

They do have a lot of confidence in registering people who shouldn't be registered and getting

out of the vote.

And so that's a human propensity too.

And I don't know how you stop that other than you require everybody to show up at the

polls and pull out an ID and show it.

And then you have all of these white liberals and black elites who are so condescending

and say, oh, you're going to suppress minority, as if they just, they sound like Gavin

Newman making fun of black people.

I mean, it seems to me like every time I go into local supermarket, when I see somebody

asking for cigarettes, they ask for an ID and they ask for IDs, they ask me for an ID

at 70 years old, and I look 80.

So the point is they have to have an ID, but I guess in the democratic standard of value

that what would you do if you said you don't have to show an ID for buying beer or I don't

know, buying cigarettes?

Would they be for that?

No, they're always asking for IDs for people, they want the government to regulate it.

So they, in their way of thinking going to a bar or drinking is a lot more, it's a lot

more dangerous or needs to be regulated more and it's more important than voting.

Voting is just a way to get us in power, so we're just going to water it down.

Then they have to lie about it as they do and say that black people can't register.

When you, anybody go on the internet and you get a certificate in two seconds and then

you have a real ID, you're supposed to only have a license that's guaranteed by the federal

government, not just the states and they have to follow federal government protocols that

says you need a birth certificate or a passport and I look at the airports and they seem to

be pretty full.

So either everybody has an ID or illegals are coming in and using their Venezuela or

Salvadoria passports.

All right, Victor, so before we go to break, another break, let's, I just have one last

thing.

Did you see that John Brennan, the former CIA, is he the CIA director?

Don't get on John Brennan, you beat that horse to death.

Speaking of delusional things, he said on a talk show, I believe Iran more than I would,

I believe Trump.

We don't care what he says because he is a pathological liar.

He walked, he went into the Senate under oath and was asked by Diane Feinstein and other

senators, did you in the CIA, as CIA director, order that our Senate staff computers were

should be tapped?

And he said, no, I did not.

And then he came in again to a congressional committee and they said, have, is there

collateral damage?

Are we killing civilians on these 500 predator CIA target assassinations on the Pakistani

African?

No, there were 500 of them.

And then they call him back and then they said, well, we should get him for perjury.

They didn't.

And so he was a known liar.

Then you'd think that he would be totally discredited.

2020 comes up.

Laptop guys, he sees his laptop, Hunter being Hunter is so high.

Leaves a laptop.

He's got the Hunter's name on it.

He looks at it.

Oh my gosh.

And so he calls, he makes a copy, calls the FBI.

They take it thing.

They try to hide it, which they do.

They verify it, but they don't tell us.

And then Biden thinks, oh my gosh.

What are we going to do?

And then his future secretary of state, probably as other staff, they say, we got a, we've got

a solution.

We'll call up old Mike morale to CIA is a good liar and we'll, he'll round up the

usual suspects and that will be John Brennan and Leon Panetta and James Clapper.

And they'll all swear that this has all the hallmarks of a Russian, but we had to be

very careful because we know they're going to lie and we know that it's a thing because

the FBI has leaked it.

So we'll use the word information.

It has all the hallmarks of a Russian information operation.

So if they say disinformation, we can say, well, we said it was information, just providing

more information.

And so it was all a bonus, but, and then we had a poll.

It said, would you have changed your vote if you had known that Hunter Biden in his laptop

was talking about the big guy in 10% and theft by the Biden family and lying and he was

a co-cat and porn auger.

Yes, I would have changed my vote.

So that was, it worked.

And he was at the source of that, that con too.

So now he comes out of the woodwork and, you know, it's very funny with the left.

They say, you guys are using law fair, you're going after Brennan and Latita, they're

not very good at it.

They're not doing what the left did.

I mean, they put Trump in four, four civil criminal courtrooms and one big lawsuit, five

courtrooms and they coordinated them all and they impeached them twice and they get

tried to get them off the ballot.

But it's amazing that these people are still after all.

James Comey was asked 245 times questions.

He said, I don't remember.

I can't remember.

I don't know.

He just flat out light under oath, John Brennan light under oath.

James Clapper said, well, has the NSA spied on American citizen?

No, they have not, everybody knew he was lying, so they get the data.

Coming back in, they said, you just light under oath to us.

I did it for the national security and I gave the least untruthful answer and they didn't

do anything to him.

Yes, they didn't do anything to him, so they're all getting away with it.

And even recently, Comey has been in testifying and he's still nobody's on the jail.

Yes, and I'll tell you a rule in Washington about these people.

If you commit a crime or break a statute and you get away with it, like Clapper, Comey,

Comey was really the instigator of the whole Washington collusion.

He was the man on the ground that did it all.

Then you get empowered and your attitude is, if I can get away with this big crime and

they're afraid to indict me, or I can get a Washington or New York jury to equip me

and they know that, then I can do anything.

So I'm going to mouth off even more.

So Comey now is back in the news, mouthing off, Clapper is back in the news.

He called Trump a Russian asset, a traitor.

Brennan now is back in the news.

They're all back in the news because they think there's no consequence.

Even the generals, when Trump was president, all of them, McChrystal said that he was

a liar.

McAfry said that he was Mussolini.

Matt has said that it was Trump was like the Nazis on the other side of the D-Day beach.

McRaven said he should be removed sooner than later from office.

I could hate and said that he was like the architects of Auschwitz.

All of them said it, but nothing happened to them.

Nobody enforced the code of military justice.

So then when Biden came in, they knew that they all started, and now they're doing it

again.

And so, you know, it's a very famous thing what Rousseau said and can do about Admiral Bing.

The English had this peculiar custom.

Every once in a while they hang an admiral for in Corage to encourage the others.

Admiral Bing was pretty much innocent, but he came late.

I think it was an Amsterdam or the Dutch campaign, I'm not sure.

And they just said, well, we better hang him.

And they said, well, Admiral Bing's a nice guy.

And he didn't do as nearly as bad thing, yeah, but we haven't hung somebody a long time.

And that will encourage the other.

Yeah, and still that hasn't been done, but we could go on this subject.

I'm sure a much longer we better take a break and then come back and talk about the ancient

Greek gods.

And this Saturday we'll talk about Hera.

So stay with us and we'll be right back.

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So join him there if you would like, okay, Victor, so I'm interested in hearing about the

ancient Godhara and her story and also how the ancient Greeks sort of conceived and understood

their gods in their daily lives.

That's my biggest curious.

I was talking graduate school and I had to give a report to a graduate seminar in Greek

religion and mythology and I said I was talking about the inadequacies of polytheism having

12 Olympic gods and all these demigods versus the Christian idea of monotheism and about

everybody in the seminar got really angry.

Oh, what are you talking about?

You right wing nut, polytheism is much better.

You get more gods, you get much more interesting gods, they have sex, they do, that was, and

it makes the Greeks look so much more confident that their gods are no better than people.

This line in Euripides Bachai, when at one point, they killed Pentheus and Tyrecyus

say to Dionysus, men should be better than gods.

God should be better than men, excuse me, because Dionysus being an insecure, horrific

god kills Pentheus for being arrogant and he says, you should be better than men.

That was horrible.

Anyway, so the thing to remember about the Greek gods is they represent historical processes.

All of these names, Zeus, Hera, Athena, are on linear B tablets of the Mycenaean period

from 1800 to 1200.

So all of those tholostumes, those big citadels that Tyre and those were Greeks speaking

people with these gods.

We don't know anything about them gods because they didn't have a literature.

We don't know whether Kronos and Reha, the first generation, and they're on there too,

and then you have this devastating phenomenon where all of the Mycenaean citadels within

about 70 years were destroyed, whether the Dorians, the sea peoples, of course, climate

change is now a cult explanation, or whatever the cause was.

Then you had a dark ages.

So now you have the ingredients from mythology.

Then civilization comes back around 800 BC under very different auspices, the Greek city

state, and they use a very different alphabet.

The Phoenician adopted alpha beta gamma, not the pictographs, syllabic bill they were.

And then in this dark age series, people saw the Mycenaean, the ability of Mycenaeans

to build these wonderful things, and population, when they crashed, dropped by 90%.

And people were not farming as much.

They were, had herdsmen, and there were no city states, and they were impolished, and

there was no literature.

Mycenaeans were, at least some of them were literate, that linear B was lost.

And so in that oral culture, oral bars like Homer started to sing about these wonderful

tales that their great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather, who was a Mycenaean,

had told them, the Mycenaean, they had gone to a citadel in Asia, Victoria.

They had fought thebes, but these were probably factual, factual events.

But in that cauldron of 400 years, they were exaggerated, generation by generation.

And it was this period in which those names on the Mycenaeaner B became the new gods of

the story started to occur, that Zeus had a thunderbolt, or Poseidon was responsible

for earthquakes.

So those gods were formalized, and then when the city state came in and people could

write, then these stories in Homer and Hesiod were written down.

And we had the official pantheon of 12 Olympian gods.

And you know, it's sort of like what's going to happen to us someday, well, I already

feel like I'm in the dark ages.

When I go by the California aqueduct on the way to Stanford, and I see that beautiful

aqueduct, and I see the San Luis project, and then I see that we can't, the high speed

rail for 15 years, who were these people?

Who were these Mycenaeans?

Wow, look at this dam, look at this aqueduct.

We couldn't do that today.

And then I was just reading about the animal parkway, it's, I think it's 50 feet, oh,

it's 200 feet long, excuse me, and it's taken four years.

It's going to take five years, $115 million to let bobcats and bobcats and mountain lions,

coyotes, so they won't get run over, so they can go in these upscale homes, backyard,

and killer cats and pets.

You know, it's from the more rural area to the suburbs, but my point is, it's taken

them already four years for this little 200, and they built the entire, I think it's

5,000 feet golden gate bridge in the depression in four years, and they built the 23,000 foot

day bridge, same time, started the same year, four years.

So you go by the, I think we're going to go by the golden gate and say, who are you people?

How do they do this?

Maybe you better take pictures of it so we can build this animal bridge, because we don't

know how to do it anymore, and that's where we are, but that's how you create myths,

and you would say these people were mythical.

So after the cataclysm, and most of these gods had, they were explicatory gods, they

explained natural phenomenon.

If you heard a title wave, or you saw a title wave, or you saw a thunder lightning, you

had to explain that, and it would say Zeus is mad, and he's hitting the mountains with

lightning, or we were wrecked by Poseidon, because we didn't sacrifice to him, or my husband

left me, because Hera was goddess of the household and marriage, and this stable female.

As opposed to the asexual Athena, who was warlike, and the very sexual Aphrodite, goddess

of love, but her role was, and these replicated what people in their daily lives did.

So in this male dominated society, Zeus is very promiscuous.

He's father's all these illegitimate gods and half gods, and Hera is always jealous.

And when people say, how do you know that, Victor, because there is nothing in the early

Greek mythology tax that say they're written, handbook of Greek mythology, we just look

it up.

You have to piece it together from poetry, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Hesiot's works in

days and Theogony, but she represents then the Greek idea of the perfect housewife and

protector of the house and realm and reputation, and people worship her not as widely as Zeus,

but she had three, all of these gods appealed to different people in Greece, different city

states based on their region, whether by the sea or their inland, whether they grow

all the way up to whatever.

And so her cult is most prominent on the island of Samoth, there's a huge harem, one of

the biggest temples, one of the first ones.

And then there was a Argyve harem at Argos.

Really, you can go there today, it's out in the country, but that was a regional worship,

the Argyves built it.

She was the patron saint of the city state of Argos, and then Sparta, Sparta really thought

because they really championed women, and they felt that they, you know, they had Artemis

was one of their patron gods, but Hera had a prominent place because they felt that men

were away for so long and fighting, and you needed somebody to hold down the home front.

And so people would pray to Hera and keep the family stable.

These gods' names originally then they came out of Indo-European, they meant something,

so Zeus is coordinate to, I think it's Sanskrit Dias, and when you, when you decline the word

Zeus, the nominative is Zeus, sometimes you can say Zenos for the genitive case, but

the genitive is Dias, D-I, Delta, Iodo, Amaga, Omega, Sigma, and that means light bearing,

the light God, and Indian and Sanskrit, and so Hera, people don't know what that word

means, there's so many different ways, I think it might be heroes, she's heroic, or,

but nobody's ever been able to take a Greek word that sounds like Hera and say this is

what her original task was in a way that they can with other gods.

Do these gods ever, the belief in these gods, ever move people, do we have any evidence

like in a play or something, you know, Hera got angry there for all of the women went out

and, you know, tried to stop them in from doing something, or something like that, where

they moved in mass by the gods, I mean I could see in their private lives where they

think, you know, I want a strong household, I'm going to pay attention to worshiping Hera

carefully and what she wants, right? But, you know, do we have mass?

Yeah, we do, I mean, look at, are we up at his bachai when they reject Dionysus coming

in to the ocean thieves, then they pay a terrible price, and then when Cadna says you should

be better than men and you're not, he says that you basically should worship us.

So the problem is by the fifth century when these plays of Sophocles, Esclos, and Euripides

are put on, the gods are just all of the tales of the gods are like stock characters or

like Star Trek, you know, Captain Spock, Spock, Captain Kirk, and then you, you make, you

can change them. You can, any contemporary thing, birth control, put Captain Kirk on a

planet and talk about getting somebody pregnant, murder, you know, go to a different planet

and see what they're like. So that's what they did. They took these, got these tales, about

30 of them, and then they reworked contemporary themes into their mouths. So one of the themes

of the fifth century is a lot of people didn't leave them anymore. So the gods were angry

about that, or they were inadequate sometimes. They don't always appear, you know, Esclos was a

first generation of the fifth century. So he's more debout, and his, his are more using the gods

to reflect morality and laws that can't be changed, and the gods are more humane and just,

just as a Zeus. By the time you get to Euribides, they're not necessarily worthy of worship. But

you also at this time have people, the Socratic movement, Platonism, the Epicureans, the Stoics,

and the Aristotelians, and they talk about the prime mover or the one god or they believe in

trans, trans migration of souls, kind of like reincarnation, or the Pythagorean. So there's a

whole bit of, there's a whole group of sex, S-E-C-T-S, that are arguing for monotheism.

And the gods themselves have become institute, mostly they're institutionalized. So when you go

to Athens, their patron god is Athena. So if you go up to the croplies, you see the Parthenon,

that's Athena Parthenos. They all have subtitles. So aspects of the worship. So when you go into

the Parthenon, you are worshiping Athena the Virgin, who never married, chaste, smart. If you want to

go outside the Parthenon, and you can, if you go there, you can still see the Stylobate for that

huge, they had a 60-foot statue of Athena with a bronze spear. You could see it all the way out

it from Egana, out in the Aegean. She was Athena, Pro-Makos. Athena, the military protector of Athens.

And then she was also Athena, Pro-Polus, a protector of the civic sense of the city.

And so they all, each different city state, and there's 1500 of them, would pick a particular god

or gods, and then they would have a particular aspect, and they would put that apathet after them.

And then they had all of these mythological tales that they would enact out on stage,

or they would have blind bards, who were illiterate, that had memorized these tales to the dark ages.

We find them fascinating because if you add the Roman Rome was captivated by Greek gods and

renamed them, Zeus becomes Jupiter and Hera becomes Juno, etc. But when you add the Roman

mythologies to the Greek gods and Rome picks up some indigenous Italian agrarian myths that

are not Olympian at all, then you get a very rich tapestry of all these different stories. They

all have morals to them. And the gods are very intimate. In the Christian sense, it's very striking

for the first time to read the New Testament, see that Jesus says he will rise again and three days,

and he's there for four days. That doesn't, I mean, that's commonplace that you'll be walking out

in the country and a god, Hermes will see you, but he'll be disguised in how you treat him. Do you

offer him food as a traveler? He's a god of travelers as well as a messenger god.

So it sounds like maybe there's a subject for another time that the fifth century was

a time of obviously flourishing of ideas in a free society, Greece, or as free as it can get.

But it also was important to monotheism because some of the central ideas of monotheism came out of

that. I think they're in fourth century. The piety of the fifth century and their traditional

religion that had been codified when this city state arose, say, 800. You're now 300 years later.

Their degree of piety and observance was kind of comparable to America. So on Easter,

how many American families realized that it's the resurrection. And there's an Easter Sunday versus

Easter egg hunt and bunnies, right? And same thing with Christmas. If I watch Fox and I see

so-called Johnny on the beach asking people questions and they have an IQ, I shouldn't say IQ, but

they have a degree of knowledge just like a third grader in 1950, truly. And if you were to ask

them what is Christmas or Easter, they wouldn't know. Because we have mass scale, disbelief,

agnosticism, atheism. There is a Christian Renaissance going on, but that's kind of what the

fifth century was like. A person might go out in the battlefield and cut the throat of a goat,

and sacrifice him to Aries, the war god. But he did that because you were supposed to do that. You

didn't really believe that Aries then would come down in the battlefield, fight beside you or make

you a godlike to kill the enemy. All right, Victor, let's go to a break and then come back for some

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Welcome back. Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. So, Victor, I wanted to look at the protesters

in Philadelphia. They're protesting the war and we see this quite often that there's a war going

on. The US is involved. We have protesters. They want the US to be out of the war. They want to

protect the soldiers from getting into a weight useless war. That's the type of protests we're

used to. But these protesters are different. They're yelling things like we cheer on,

well, actually, I better say it the way they did. For every soldier brought back in a casket,

we cheer. So, they are happy that the soldier has been killed. And they also are yelling US

to its knees. This is a very strange protest. What would our grandparents and people listening

to me, many of your grandparents and great-parents? What would you do if, let's say, I don't know,

right when Okinawa was being fought, you had Americans saying go tojo and kill more Americans

in Times Square or something. They wouldn't have put up for that. So, yes, free speech, but

it doesn't. Nobody has a right. I looked at the crowd. I would say it's 50 percent.

Can't use the word Karen. But 50 percent democratic useful idiots,

students and stuff, 50 percent middle easterners, probably with a large component that are here on

work permits, tourist visas, especially student visas. But the left keeps saying they have rights.

They have rights. Yeah, if they commit a crime, they're accorded the all the protections of the

Constitution. They can say whatever they want. However, they don't have to be here. That's a

guess. You don't have to give them any reason. You just don't want that person. And so, why do we,

they can just say, you know what, we just, we thought about it in that visa. We kind of changed

our mind. You're under money in morale. You're causing grief and discomfort for families of the

deceased. You don't like this country. If you hate the country, you want Iran, which is a medieval

theocracy to win and kill Americans. So why don't you just go back to Jordan or Morocco or

wherever you want to go? Just go back. No hard feelings, but get out. And I think there's

going to be a lot of people. That comes from Philadelphia. At the same time that was going on,

their DAG. Is it Larry Krasner? He gave some kind of, wow, it was kind of like an on-hinge rant

at the airport saying that he was pointing, I think he was in an airport. He was pointing to

ICE people. And they were trying to help, trying to get all these lines. No, I want to tell you,

there's any of you people on on you doing anything I'm going after you. And I'm going to, we've got

a lot of men and you're going to be subject to the rules of Philadelphia. No, it's not right,

Mr. Krasner. I mean, if they commit a felony, obviously, as a private citizen, but you can't go in

and arrest them for things they do at work, they are federal employees, and you should know them

they're federalism. And that city seems unhinged. It really does. Well, they're all unhinged. All

these blue cities, these great cities, it's really sad. Do we have any similar times in history?

I mean, for example, is it any similar to the Vietnam protesters who were taking the side of

the vehicle? It's very similar. And they paid a big price. Jane Fondo was completely disgraced

until 20 years ago, excuse me, 40 years ago. She's 88. Well, when she was about 40, 48, almost 50,

I would say around 1983 or four, she wisely apologized. She didn't mean it, but she apologized

to veterans. And then she started doing exercise videos. She was kind of the first person who said

you could do a video and people would watch it and she would go, you know, she would do all of these

leg lifts and jump jumping jacks and say, oh, three more. Come on, girls, that kind of stuff. And she

mainstreamed, but she went to Vietnam and got on an aircraft, anti-aircraft battery and posed with

a Vietnamese helmet. And as if she wanted to shoot down American pilots. And that was really

when I was at UC Santa Cruz in 1971, the war was mostly over in the ground, but there was a

Cambodian invasion. I think the next spring, and it was Ho Chi men, they always chanted Ho Chi men.

They loved Ho Chi men. And it was always, hey, hey, I remember, am I just used to listen to them

from my dorm? Hey, hey, LBJ, how many babies did you bomb today? Killed today? Yeah. And there

was country, Joe and the McDonald and the fish, all that stuff. It was all pro. They got the biggest

shock on their life. A lot of leftist journalists said, we're so sick of the lies of the American.

We're going to stay here when the wonderful North Vietnamese come in. So they came in on highway

one. And the first thing they saw, they roughed up all the South Vietnamese and a million people just

took off and got on boats. And the next thing they knew, Cambodia was take the Khmer Rouge

started taking, they killed over two million people. They just sent every intellectual,

anybody with glasses, anybody with a wester out in this countryside to starve. And then you had

Vietnam fighting China. And it was just exactly what everybody said. They said, I guess that

we said at that point, and we had about 80,000 refugees coming into Fresno. And it was the

communist, we're just butchering people, reeducation camps, butchering, driving them out.

Yeah, I think that these modern protesters, though, the one thing that's maybe a little different

is there was nobody in during the Vietnam era saying, we want our soldiers to come home dead.

There were. There were. Yes. Absolutely. SDS. What do you think the Symbonese Liberation was like?

That's true. What do you think the weather? What do you think Bill Ayers was doing?

The difference is, are these people blowing up draft sinners? And are they blowing up police

stations? Because that's what they did in the 60s. There was a bomb in 1970, a bombing about every

week, 50 or 60 a year more. Yeah. And I listened to it because you see, you see Santa Cruz

it just opened. My grarian father thought it would be a really cheap place to put three kids in

the same place. No tuition in those days. We could rent a house together or something.

So we all went there and it was like, there's a nightmare. It had really good faculty. I learned a

lot, but the campus life was like living in Moscow. You know, it was just crazy. Absolutely crazy.

And that it was, hey, to America, I sat in a Greek, a Greek history class where they came in

overturned all the chairs. And it was to moratorium because we had gone into camp bomb

Cambodia or something. And a couple of us said, we're not leaving. And then Mr. Spaghetti Arms

started confronting. There was one guy with me. There's three of us who wouldn't leave. And he

was a penitentiary three years in a South Carolina penitentiary under a new UC Santa Cruz prison

program to bring prisoners. It was like a wolf among sheep. And he came in there and he just

flattened that kid. And then he took off and I'm sitting there and this kid's going, oh,

he's all bleeding. The campus police came and they had blazers because he didn't want to be too

offensive with their uniforms. The guy comes up and I said, what happened here? And I said,

X person, not this Y person down. And this Y person was trying to disrupt the class and

destroy things in the class. So he wanted to protect the class. But then he thought he wouldn't

get a fair hearing. So he left. He said, you know who he is. I said, yes, I do, but I can't

rat him out. And then the other person said, I can tell who he was. And so they had, you know,

and they got him. They don't know what they did doing it. There was no such thing as

expulsion. You could do anything at that place and they would not expel you.

Well, that's a scary thought that the SDS and the people like that were saying we want our

soldiers home dead. And Bill Harris still had some significant influence on the government after

that. They blew people up. They killed people. And they shot police when they all went to Cuba.

They were heroes in Cuba for killing police. Yeah. And the symbol, the symbol ease liberation

from the SLA was a big heroic that could not patty hers. All of that stuff was crazy. Yeah, sure

was. That's why when I see those protests in LA or Minnesota, and I see the faces of those people,

they're in their, they're my age. I'm 72. Some of the older,

squeaky, jointed people. I just think to myself, I must have met your twin or your avatar or something

at UC Sanctuary because they never grew up. Yeah. No, they haven't. Did you by chance see that video

of that? They kept calling him the male Karen going out in front of the guy who was driving his

motorcycle around. And he was the actor Jack Reacher of the TV series. And he's big. And that guy

just tore him apart. That was like a cultural contrast that Mr. physically fit. Tough guy is on

a motorcycle. Nice one with his two kids teaching him how to ride very young kids. And they're just

going around the block. And then Mr. male Karen's going to get out and like put his hand up and stop,

and try to knock them out because he thinks that's too noisy, maybe too noisy. So as soon as that

happened, he just threw him down the ground and punched him about three times. The guy got up and

he just kind of put his tail between his legs and walked over to his nice big beautiful home.

Didn't the police show up and kind of say, well, that's how things go. The police you could tell

were very sympathetic to see that guy beat up because that's exactly the kind of people they have

to deal with. Yeah. Well, Victor, that we're getting close to the end. So I'm going to just skip to

and these news stories, some where it shows that there are cultural victories in Trump's revolution,

revolutionary movement. We have the International Olympic Committee has announced that there will be

no biological males in female sports in the Olympics in 2028. And I think that's a big victory.

And then the case, Missouri versus Biden, which was about Biden's agencies, federal agencies,

trying to force social media to remove and suppress stories they didn't like about COVID.

Like the Hunter Biden story. Yeah. And the Missouri AG got a consent decree. So if the feds come in

again and try to start suppressing stories, I think it was Eric Schmidt when he was a

he's been a very good senator. Yeah, he did that. So Trump loses in the lower district court.

And then he wins 60, 40 in the circuit appellate court. But for all the criticism of John Roberts,

he wins 90% in the Supreme Court and just takes too long to get there.

But two cultural victories, I thought those were really nice. So let's turn to comments from people

who actually write in. And I have one who wrote quite a long letter. So I'm only going to read

parts of what they wrote. Your stories of your mom being and wise judge and your dad being wise

are wonderful. We enjoy your stories of farming, teaching, travels, your experiences in the 1980s,

academia and family loss. And we know of sorry. And we know of your next phase teaching us history

and commentary and a special way. I especially like how you consider your audience to be practical

and wise. I really think your audience wants to write you and tell you our stories and support you

because we all we all know about you. So they feel they know you really well. Yeah, it's very

nice. I think all of them are I think are from the thousand letters I've been reading in comments.

They all we all have one thing in common. We don't hate our parents. My generation blamed every

neurosis and psychosis they had on a well-meaning parent. And I felt that I was very lucky. I had

two wonderful parents. Yeah, that was from Sue Bart Bart Kowia. Well, thank you, Sue.

Sorry, Sue. Your last name was hard to pronounce. And here is from oh, I don't have wait,

I do have his name one second. It is from oh, I don't have his name because it's hard to read.

Sorry about that. And he says this as a 60 year old disabled veteran, I love your stories and

sacrifice. I traveled all over the South Pacific in my 20s while I was in the U.S. Coast Guard

and felt all of those who died when I visited all of the Mariana Islands many times. Ten in the

side panel. Yeah. I thank you for serving your purpose, sharing the truth and history. You are

the real deal. Having lived in Sonoma when I was younger, I know exactly what you describe and I

missed that innocent beauty of California. And these letters were both much longer. Well, my first

memories of California was when I was four or five. Yeah. 1956, seven, eight, all the way to I would

say 1975. It was a golden age. Everything seemed to work. Can do. You had Pat Brown, wasn't a bad

governor. Ronald Reagan was a much better governor. Pete Wilson, George Duke, Mason.

It was really a wonderful time. They really invested in the state. They built the dams, the

aqueducts, the reservoirs, the highways, the airports, the UC system. It was really advanced,

the tripartite junior college, state college UCs, no tuition, no such thing as huge student loans.

I remember I came home and I said to my grandfather, I came home from UC Santergoos. I think it was

1971. I said, I could not believe it. Cast was 42 cents a gallon. Well, boys,

we have a lot of oil here, but there's some people who don't want to use it. That was even then.

But there was, you know, there was, we were developing our resources. It was cheap to live.

And so, it's a whole different world. Yeah, it was, think about it. We were three of us over there.

We were all living in the dorms. It was like, so my father went over and he found a failed.

There was a kind of a showhouse, you know, it was only 1,200 square feet, but it was new. And

they were going to make small little houses, but the development failed. So he was walked in to look

at it and he said, we're the houses. So we just have the demo house. And he had $4,000 and he put

it down and bought it for $25,000. Then he put, and the mortgage was I think $180. So he put us

three and then we had three renters to pay the rent. And the point of it, at that time,

that house was the same price as something here in Fresno or Selma. And there was no shortage.

People were starting to build and then they just put a little on it, not in my backyard. No,

no, no, not going to do that. And the housing just, everybody that went to high school was,

I came back home and they had all bought homes. It's so funny. They were all married and had

children in their early 20s. And then we created this ethos of, I'm going to kind of sort of maybe

take some classes. I'm going to kind of sort of date. And I'm going to kind of sort of maybe

have an illegitimate kid maybe, but maybe not because of global warming. And maybe when I'm 35,

I might get out of the basement of my parents' house and I'll kind of maybe have a half a child.

That's a grim tale, Victor. That's a grim tale. We think that fertility rate is 1.6.

It's 2.1 in 2000, 2.4 in 1980. Europe's 1.32. We're shrinking and aging and disappearing.

And with that, we would like to thank the audience for joining us today.

And thank you, Victor. I was trying with our cultural victories under the Trump era revolution.

There is a big backlash coming. People are tired of it. They don't want to, they don't want to turn

on TV and see a, a, a joy stewart and looted or a poor guy works his whole life at a 7-11, knocked

over 83-year-old veteran thrown into the subway by somebody or opened 10,000 people's

warming. They're just tired of it. Or some guy with a husky voice who says that he's a beautiful

girl, you know, knocking somebody with a volleyball down a girl's throat. People are, they just

tired of that. I think there's going to be, I hope it's a nice, peaceful correction. I think

it's already going on, but the left doesn't want a peaceful correction. No. And I worry about it.

Although I have to say those Chicago riots that just happened last night, it's Thursday today,

they already had eight people arrested by this morning for what been on.

I know, but given what I saw, they should have arrested 300 of them. Yeah.

They were kicking people on the ground. They were stealing. They were, it was just out of control.

Yeah, sure was. And, you know, I don't think anybody is responsible for people of their particular

ethnic affinity. But if you have Mayor Johnson there, always talking about race, always talking

about racism, always talking. And you're getting 20 or 30 people wounded on every Saturday night

in the summer. And then you have these rampages. Then he, because he's taken on that mannel

as racial spokesman of grievance, then he has to man up to it and say there is a endemic problem

in this community of broken homes and children going up without fathers. Yeah. And we need to

address that. It's far more important than saying some wealthy white guys are racist and he's made

all our problems. And that's what he does every day. Yeah. And Lori Lightfoot and all of them,

they need to say, this is the problem of the community. We're getting too many people killed.

We're creating havoc and we have to deal with people 12 to 30 that are growing up in broken

homes without fathers and just deal with it. Yeah. But they won't touch it. Anybody who says anything

about it is a racist. So then we play this dishonest game or you go to Chicago and you,

you talk to yourself, where can I walk in Chicago? What, where's dangerous? And then somebody

said, well, I think that's really racist what you're saying, because that's a code for you don't

want to be out with a young black teenager. Yeah, it is a code, you know. Yeah. So I don't know.

Well, Victor, let's go ahead and call it a day on this Saturday. We hope you all enjoy your

weekend. And thank you for joining us or choosing to join us on this Saturday. Thank you, Victor,

for all the wisdom. Thank you for having us everybody and watching and listening.

This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson and we're signing off.

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