Victor Davis Hanson
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
So even though we have a fossilized 1.6 fertility rate, you can get an American and marry him with machines in assembly, in manufacturing, even in things like housing now, where you see entire walls made in factories, you know, the studs and everything, and then brought to the site and they're pre-assembled. And so we're very innovative and it's time that we could do both very well. And
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
It's kind of interesting what Trump is doing. He's kind of emulating very quickly the War Production Board. You know, we were the 17th largest army in the world. At the end of 1945, we had 12 million people, almost the size of the Soviet Union's army, and we had the largest navy in the world. But it was the largest navy ever. in the sense of greater than all the navies put together.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
We build 140 aircraft carriers of various classifications. And what I'm getting at is what Roosevelt did, the socialist, he said, I'm not going to be a socialist anymore during the war. You, Henry Ford, you, Henry Kaiser, you, William Knudsen, you go out and make bombers and liberty ships. And make a profit, but you've got to have the United States' interest.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And I think that's what Trump's doing with Andreessen and David Sachs and even to a degree Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. He said, I will protect you when the Europeans go after you or the Chinese cheat on you. But I want you to invest here and I want your abilities to be in service of America. And I want your rockets and your Facebook and your investments and anything you make, create jobs here first.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And it's kind of an appeal to a nationals patriotic element. I think a lot of the billionaire entrepreneurs are starting to react to it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Yeah, I've been there for 21 years in the fall, and I'm going to give the graduation speech in May, May 10th. So I'm looking forward to it. It's a wonderful place. First day I got there, I noticed two things that nobody locked their bike up. And there wasn't one book in the bookstore that had a dash studies, no environmental studies, gender studies, race studies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
It was all regular courses of the old style, math, science, literature, history, philosophy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Yeah, I came back and wrote a column and said, I think he's going to win. That's right. I remember this. I saw them everywhere. And I saw a guy painting the side of his barn. I got off and I thought somebody was vandalizing it. I didn't see the Trump, just part of the T. I ran over there and he was very nice. He just said, I can do whatever I want to my blank, blank barn.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And I said, well, what are you doing? I'm curious. He said, I'm painting the word Trump. So that was... I thought he had a chance. I really did, and I wrote that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Thank you for having me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And here where I live in the San Joaquin Valley, a lot of Hispanic males, especially, even as early as 2016, I was just stunned that so many of them in building, construction, agriculture were going to vote Trump for a variety of reasons.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Well, I think the way to look at it is long-term and short-term. Almost every country that we export with, we're running a deficit with. I mean, in terms of now as a farmer and, say, almonds with India, and they have tariffs, and they're very tough people. So if they retaliate, the easiest thing they're going to do is say, we're not going to allow almonds in without a 40%.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And they already have tariffs, but not that high. But long term, if you were able to achieve parity and we took a short term hit and you were able to tell India and China and the Europeans, we're not going to let in this, this, this, unless you let our soybeans or almonds or cheese in at the same rate that we let yours. And it would be it would be kind of fantastic. It really would.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And then I don't know to the degree which he is going to retaliate by putting tariffs on imported foodstuffs. The United States, it's not the largest producer of export food in volume, but it is in value. That's pretty amazing when you think we only have $335 million, $40 million, and China's got $1.4 billion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
But so what I'm getting at is half of everything we produce, we sell abroad and it's very pricey. It's things like high volume pistachios that are worth a lot of money or walnuts or processed cheese, things like that. It's not just grain, which is essential, corn or sorghum. But we have a lot of really specialty crops that the world likes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And people are paranoid about that, especially because you can live without almonds and you can live without pistachios.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
So if they think that they're going to hurt a particular sector of the American, and that's what they do, when they negotiate with Trump, they look at particular red state or areas that are his supporters and they want to target that type of commodity for these small towns and rural areas.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Well, it's very incumbent upon him and his team to talk in terms of symmetry and parity and to emphasize that his wish would be a tariff-free world. But unfortunately, that's been only half true, that the United States is the only country in the world with such low tariffs and has essentially a free market. And that was...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Well, Trump got 26%, I think, of the black vote and about 55% of the Hispanic male, maybe 48 in general. So there is a, part of that was cultural. In other words, they like a strong leader. Biden's mental and physical feebleness bothered them, of course. But they also, on cultural issues, they don't like the idea of biological males, crime issues.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
open borders especially here people didn't like but there was also something about i don't want to say macho but there was the idea that you want a strong representative of the united states that embodies our confidence and and so if somebody they don't like optional military engagements in the middle east or anywhere but if some it's more of a jacksonian don't tread on me but no better friend no worse enemy that type of foreign policy appeals a lot to males but class-wise
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
The idea of bringing jobs back in the United States and having, say, a worker and a half for every job, I mean, two jobs for every worker rather than, you know, two workers for every job is what they want because it makes them... more valuable and prized and appreciated.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
So this idea when Trump says, I brought in $3 trillion worth of foreign investment and in three years, most economists say for every $10 billion, some say 20, you get a million jobs. So if what he says is correct, you could see 30 or 40, 50 million jobs in the next decade. And that appeals to people. They'll say, you know what?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
I can be a machine operator and I'll have three or four offers rather than have to go beg and humiliate myself to work at minimum wage part-time. And so it's kind of like a can-do. We want to get the country moving. We want to be preeminent in every field, military, food, oil, gas, everything. And that appeals to, I think, men in a strange way.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Well, he's a counter-revolutionary, so he's mapped out his counter-revolution. And he's got, as you know, more lower district court injunctions in the first two months than any president – I mean, than Biden had in four years or any other president. So – They are trying to do everything they can to stop him, and we're right at the abyss.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
But if he should do just four or five things, achieve a peace in Ukraine, a peace in the Middle East, make Iran inert in nuclear terms, get somewhat symmetry or parity in trade. And if he can cut even a half a trillion and get on a trajectory within three years, we're gonna have a balanced budget.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
during the post-war era when we were rebuilding Europe and deterring the communist world. But 80 years later, the United States is facing $37 trillion in debt, $2-3 billion in interest per year, a $1.7 trillion dollar budget deficit and almost over most years, over a billion dollar, excuse me, a trillion dollars in trade deficits. So what we're asking for is not asymmetry, but just parity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Just those things alone would make him more successful than any president in the last half century, at least. No other Republican has ever tried that. Reagan, George H.W., George W., they all said the same thing. We're going to slow down the cultural revolution. We're not going to stop it. We're going to slow the growth of government. We're not going to cut it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
We're going to look at deregulation and taxes, but we're going to not talk about trade. So they knew that if they were to do – they wanted probably some of them to do what Trump did, but if they did do what Trump – they would meet a level of resistance that they thought would be incompatible, either socially or culturally. They just didn't want to handle that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And they got a lot of resistance as it was. But I think something about Trump's temperament or background or attitude or outlook makes him invulnerable or oblivious or protected from social opprobrium. He didn't care.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Yeah, I mean, they told us that you had to have comprehensive immigration reform, which was basically amnesty in their view. And if you didn't, you couldn't close the border. And he understood that the border was open because they wanted the border open, and they wanted 12 million people in here, both for cheap labor and for future political constituents and for larger federal programs, greater...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
taxes, more redistribution. And he just simply said, if you obey the law, and that means you fortify the border and you secure it and you turn people back and there's no catch and release and no refugee status once you're here, but you have to do it, you could stop it and create, more importantly, a psychological sense of deterrence.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And when he started to say things like, I have an executive order that if you come across the border illegally, you can't come back for 10 years. That was very brilliant because it told people, oh, I'm here and these people are serious. They might catch me and then I can't come back legally. So you're actually seeing a little bit of reverse immigration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
I think they really need to enhance that because it's something people had talked about in the past, but they thought no president would ever dare do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Well, I have a website, victorhansen.com. For $5 a month, you can get my usual stuff. It's two columns a week. I do 11 videos of various statuses there. But I also have about 2,000 words only for subscribers and a video only for subscribers. And it's fresh. I've done it for four years. Haven't missed a week yet.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
So every week, two long essays and a 10-minute video in addition to all the other stuff at the website.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
I think the messaging, I think, could be improved. I would get a little bit more tragic than braggadocio. In other words, I wouldn't have a chainsaw when I'm cutting. I would say something along the following. I don't like laying people off. I don't like the idea of getting in arguments with Canada, and I'm willing to hear things, but I didn't start this. I didn't open the border.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
I didn't let in 12 million people. I didn't run up $37 trillion. I didn't get us into $3 billion in interest a year. I don't like any of that. But I'm the one that's tasked with fixing all this. And that sometimes is a rough thing to do because in this transition, there's going to be people that are going to have to change their methods. They're going to lose jobs.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And that would mean I don't even think Donald Trump and his team have said we need parity right now. Just to take one example, they would say to Mexico, you were part of a free trade North American continent. What happened? You're running 50 and then 80 and then 100, then 150. Now you're running 177. billion-dollar annual trade deficit.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And I'm going to try to get as much federal investment as I can. $3 trillion worth. And for every person that we have to... eliminate their job. We're going to try to get them something better in the private sector. But I think a little bit more of that tone that we didn't ask for this, but if we don't do it, nobody else is going to do it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And they left it, they being the whole progressive agenda and project, and we have to do this and there's no, we ran out of time. It was on our watch, our station, our time, this task fell to us. We didn't ask for it, but we're gonna complete it. That kind of attitude I think would be a little bit better, or at least explain in detail.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
But if you just say, you know, we're going to invade Panama or we're going to take, you know, Canada should be our 50. I understand the art of the deal, but you've got to you. We've got about a 10 percent independent conservative democratic constituency that we've got to reassure that things are going to get better. And we're doing this radical things now. Because they were the radicals.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
We weren't the radicals. We're the counter revolutionaries. They were the revolutionaries. We're bringing things back to the normal. They were the ones that took it off the spectrum. That kind of explication very quickly, each time they have an important announcement, I think would help.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
I hope not. It's worse than Stalingrad. I think everybody understands. I don't want to admit they all understand the contours of a peace. They're not going to get the Donbass and Crimea back, Ukraine. No president ever advocated it. They're not going to be in NATO anymore.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
But on the other hand, they've got the biggest army of any NATO country, and they're well armed to the teeth, and they've killed or wounded, tragically, a million Russians. And so Russia... Thank you. you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
You're a conduit for the communist Chinese to get around tariff policies, which are asymmetrical in their favor. And this is in addition to you have $63 billion coming to your country in remittances, most of whom are people here, are from whom people are here illegally, and they're subsidized by our own welfare system. And then there's some $20 to $30 billion in excess
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
that's estimated to come from smuggling in the cartel's fentanyl trade, which was killed. That's not the behavior of a good neighbor, and we're just asking for parity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And I think he could apply that logic and tone, vocabulary, diction to all of these Europe, China, maybe not China because we expect it from them, but Europe, Canada, Mexico, and not let them get away with the idea that we're waging a unilateral trade war when we're just asking for parity and reciprocity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Well, to put it another way, We didn't have an income tax. It was envisioned in 1913, but ratified 1916. So then that begs the question, where did the federal government get their money? They had no other source of revenue other than tariffs, essentially. And that was... It wasn't just...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
the idea of protecting domestic industries, but it was also a revenue generating mechanism for the federal government. And one of the reasons, to be frank, why people did not want an income tax is because they felt that government by needs would be small and manageable. the federal government would be if it relied on tariff income rather than everybody paying a percentage of their wages.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
That was never envisioned by the founders. But tariffs were pretty much part and parcel of the American project until about 1916. And then all of a sudden, we substituted them with this vast new influx of the IRS and income tax revenue. And then people said, well, they're kind of obsolete now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
But they were designed both to fund the federal government, but fund a small federal government, and also to protect vulnerable industries. But remember what the opposition is saying, Charlie, the free but not fair opposition. They're saying... Well, we believe that free trade must be maintained at all costs without exception.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And when you say it hurts Americans, Americans lose jobs in American industries or offshore or outsourced, they say, no, no, it doesn't matter. because the subsidies of our foreign governments are not sustainable if they're dumping product here below the cost of production. And we found that not to be true. China's been fine doing it for almost a half century.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Then they said, well, it lowers consumer prices. because you're bringing in cheap stuff that domestic people have to adjust to. That may or may not be true, but if the other side is being subsidized and your own producers are not being subsidized, then it's a way to put people into bankruptcy. And I can attest for that as somebody who farmed
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
during the Reagan period when EU agricultural produce was subsidized and dumped in this country. And we were told that that was good for us because it would make us more efficient. And that's the third fallacy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
They say, well, if you allow foreign stuff to come in without a tariff, even though it's being produced at below the cost of production, then you're going to have to compete with it and that'll make you lean and mean. But there's only a certain point where you can compete when you're losing money.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
So it's a deliberate policy that, and I'm speaking as a conservative, but a lot of the libertarians believe that even the most abusive tariff, asymmetrical tariffs are in the interest of the target almost as if, you know, get with it or get over it. And it's destroyed the interior of the United States.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
There had been a view— In the 1960s and 70s and 80s, as we remember, in 1945, there was no China as an industrial power. Russia was destroyed. Europe was completely leveled, to speak, and Japan was destroyed. So we were providing about 85% of the washers, the dryers, even the vehicles, the planes,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And that started to end as we subsidized the rebirth of these once powerhouses by letting them send their products in here without a tariff, either in the case of our allies... that we owed it to them and they would get back on their feet and they wouldn't turn communist. Or in the case of places like China, they would be liberal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
The more affluent they got, affluence was the twin supposedly of consensual government, which didn't turn out to be true. So we were losing the Rust Belt in the 70s. And then what happened was, I think part of it was during the Reagan administration and the George H.W. and the Bill Clinton, there was this idea that finance was more important than assembly, global finance.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
So why this was, the trade was destroying manufacturing and assembly in the middle classes. Then the service classes, and I'm talking about insurance and law and media and academia and and all sorts of investment we were pretty good at. And now we had under globalization, not a 300 million person market at the time, but 6 billion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And so these areas, anybody who could have a product that was globalized, and that was mostly in these areas, made out like bandits and they sold it to the middle class by saying, well, you have 401ks. That's right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
So maybe you're not making what you want, but you've got all this investment now because, and the high tech as well, you know, we're selling a billion Apple computers or iPhones, and this is all good for you. But the problem was if you had muscular labor, that could be outsourced or offshored, and it was, then it was.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
So they said, well, we're gonna provide people with high-tech communication devices, social media services, financial services, law services, academia, all that stuff. But the muscles of the United States will be over with, and that's kind of passe. So even in the case of agriculture, millions of acres were being farmed in Latin America and Asia, and industries were offshore and outsourced.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And the idea was that the middle class, and you could see it when Hillary Clinton went to West Virginia and she said, we're going to get you guys out of business.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Well, it was the idea that we were going to be the brain of the world and the world would be the body, and the body was inferior, and that we were going to make so much money that it would trickle down to everybody in their 401ks and everything. And you saw that the vocabulary adjusted. Joe Biden said that people had to learn to code if they were minors or something.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
Hillary said something the same thing in West Virginia. We had this... kind of thinly veiled class disparagement vocabulary, irredeemables, you know, clingers, chomps, dregs, etc. So there was a kind of a demonization as if they were the losers of globalization. And there was a geographical element to it. It was in the interior of the United States. The
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And then the two blue coasts were going to be, were all Stanford, Caltech, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, federal government, big banks, corporate headquarters, Silicon Valley. These were going to be leading the United States and we were going to kind of be the tail or the drag force. you know, farming, mining, getting your hands dirty, extraction, production, assembly, manufacturing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
It wasn't really necessary. And then, of course, we started to notice things, Charlie, that we were producing one warship a year and the China was a month and they were producing over 200. And we, during COVID, we looked for our pharmaceuticals, masks, all these things we thought were mundane and trivial. And suddenly these countries were saying, well, we don't know if we're going to
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
ship it to you this week or not. And so we realized that our grandfathers were not stupid, that they wanted to be self-sufficient in the stuff of civilization, food, energy, housing, materials, ships, military equipment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
And so I think we're kind of... We're questioning in that, that we thought we were so wealthy that the financial sectors and the globalization was going to carry us, and now suddenly... we're $37 trillion in debt. And people are saying, well, maybe our grandfathers were not that bad off because they were producing the stuff that civilization and life needs.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Victor Davis Hanson Helps Make Sense of a Confusing World
It is because you see that it's not just a bunch of people mindlessly on an assembly line putting widgets together. It requires the most sophisticated robotics, artificial intelligence. And those are areas that we excel in. So when you start to see these people building these huge power plants, mostly by natural gas and AI plants, that technology can be married with assembly.
The Dan Bongino Show
Why Trump's Tariff War Actually Makes Sense | Episode 16
The Democratic Party is a party of the very wealthy professionals, the billionaire class, and the subsidized poor, and it abandoned the middle class 10, 15 years ago. All the data show that it's the party of the very wealthy. And what they're doing right now is they're creating hysteria on the left so they can empower Europe, China, and Japan and send a message, if you guys will just hold out,
The Dan Bongino Show
Why Trump's Tariff War Actually Makes Sense | Episode 16
We're creating such anger and tension here that you can win this trade war, humiliate Trump, and then we can come back to power and we're gonna restore the globalized status quo. That's what they're doing.
The Dan Bongino Show
Deranged Libs Go All In For Ukraine War and Govt. Corruption (Ep. 2423)
This Department of Government Efficiency is not a cabinet agency. He does not have to be approved by Congress. and only is going to last till July 4th, 2026. It's not a permanent agency. As far as the executive orders that created the Doge program and eliminated USAID, that was perfectly legal in itself. AID was created by John F. Kennedy in 1961 by an executive order. As far as impounding funds,
The Dan Bongino Show
Deranged Libs Go All In For Ukraine War and Govt. Corruption (Ep. 2423)
Joe Biden set the precedent. You all saw him on tape when he said, SOB, the son of I went in over there to Ukraine and I said, you're not getting this billion dollars until you do this. Well, that money had been approved by Congress. And when he became president, there was a statute that said, here's the money to build the wall. And Joe Biden canceled the wall. That was illegal.
The Dan Bongino Show
Deranged Libs Go All In For Ukraine War and Govt. Corruption (Ep. 2423)
But he came up with all these, oh, we have to do environmental studies or endangered species. But he didn't spend the money. All Donald Trump is doing is saying, well, I don't believe the impoundment act is legal. We'll see what the Supreme Court, but I'm just following the precedent that Joe Biden did. But now the shoe's on the other foot.
The Dan Bongino Show
Deranged Libs Go All In For Ukraine War and Govt. Corruption (Ep. 2423)
Yeah, it's like spring loaded.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Well, that was a gift. I mean, you would think they'd be quiet given all what's happened, the election and what's going on in Los Angeles, this confederacy of dunces. And yet they never learn. They decide they're going to make a big show. And then they'd embarrass themselves with these crazy questions. And it just he was calm. He answered the questions. He was funny. They were embarrassed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
They got angry. They should never get angry. And it ensured his confirmation. Any Republican senator that would not vote for him is going to be politically dead because you know what they're going to do. They're going to say, you voted for Pete Buttigieg. You voted for this incompetent Austin. You voted for...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
for all these comic characters that Biden, and now you're gonna vote against this decorated, it's not, so he's gonna be confirmed and that was good, but it was Kavanaugh redux, that's what it was.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Well, he used to kind of appear semi-quasi-normal, but now he's gone full Tim Waltz. He looks like Tim Waltz. He acts like Tim Waltz. He's as crazy as Tim Waltz, and he's kind of emblematic of that whole party. It's kind of like they're older people that want to be, I don't know, hip or something. They want to be in the AOC, and these younger people have taken...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
hijacked their party, destroyed it, and they're kind of deer in the headlights. So they kind of go through the motions of, you know, objecting, but they're silly. And he was another gift to Pete Hegseth.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
The subtext or reductionist truth behind that is I have 53 senators and you don't. So I can say whatever I can say, whatever I want. And nobody's going to be stupid after what Merrick Garland said and did the last four years with Lawfare. And he got confirmed by the Republican Party.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Some Republicans and anybody who objects and agrees with you is going to get primaried and they know it and they're not going to vote anywhere near you. And I'm home free and I can say whatever I want to you. How do you like that? That's what it was. And she's absolutely right. She's not going to play that game. And.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And she should have, you know, I think they're going to get even more emboldened as these go on, because I think the Republican wavering people, there's two or three of them are going to look at this and they're going to say, man, I cannot be allied with these nuts. That is political suicide.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
If I have reservations about Hexeth or Kat, I cannot say anything because these people are crazy and I've got to stick with my team. So I think they're all going to get confirmed, and that's going to embolden all of them to go back on the attack like Bondi did and Pete did. So I expect that they'll go after Cash.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
When they get to Cash Patel, and I know Cash pretty well, it's going to be a lot of fireworks. So I don't think he's going to sit up here and take that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Yeah, it is. And I agree with you. But, you know, I kind of grew up with watching J. William Fulbright and all those guys and Frank Church. I didn't agree with them politically. But these are dunces compared to those guys, those old Democratic stalwart guys that were young during the Truman era and they came into their own in the 60s and 70s.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
They were kind of misguided, but they were well-spoken and they were logical. They were professionals. These people are just, I don't know what's happened to the Democratic Party. I don't know if this older generation was suspect to begin with, or when the party was hijacked by the woke people, they had to make the necessary adjustments. But they are an embarrassing lot. They really are.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And I mean, to say what he did about finding that old Soviet Berea, Give me the man and I'll find you the crime. That's what he was alluding to after what Merrick Garland did without no one. The thing about Merrick Garland, his delegate, this was all court. And we know that about Fannie Willis and Bragg and Latita James and Smith. But in every one of those cases, there was one truism that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Donald Trump, if he had said he was not going to run for reelection, none of them would have indicted him, and they will never indict anybody else for those crimes. They're non-existent crimes. They will vanish and evaporate into the atmosphere.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
No politician will ever be charged with saying that his real estate is somewhat more than they think it is, and therefore he got a loan which he paid back with interest on time to the profit and satisfaction of the lender. And nobody's ever going to be prosecuted for that again. They know it. So she was really good. I thought she was excellent.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And I think they're all going to follow the cue of Bondi and Pete Hexeth. I mean, they set the establishment how to deal with these people, their children. And I think they're going to be treated such well.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Yeah, I mean, he knows he has the 53 votes. The thing about Cash is he gets... He can say things and he writes things that can be taken out of context. But what they don't... I've known him for about 15 years. He's got a photographic memory. He really does. And he was schooled by Devin Nunes about... And he's a brilliant guy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And what he's going to do, and I think everybody knows it, he's going to bring back all these guys and women that are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s that were driven out by the Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Ray regimes when they got sick of the weaponization. So he's going to be surrounded by professional FBI people that were dissidents and wanted to restore the reputation of the FBI.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
It's going to be restoration. And, you know, the other thing real quickly, Megan, is that this is all going on when Joe Biden, their president, our president, but especially their hero, is now pardoning 1500 people. He pardoned his son and they know what's going to happen. Maybe while these confirmations go on, because Biden is running out of time and we know he's going to try to pardon.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
I think he'll pardon Liz Cheney, Benny Sanders. Thompson, I think he'll pardon probably some more Biden family members. And he's made a mockery of that. And then we have the whole And competency going on in Los Angeles and the whole destruction of L.A. and the culpable blue models, blue state models. So the backdrops of this hearing is not good for progressivism is what I'm trying to say.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
That's a hard call.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Yeah, I don't know what that they they thought they were going to be very schooled and prepped. And Schumer had them all in and said, this is an occasion for us to make the argument that Trump is satanic and these people are incompetent. But they really didn't. Research it. Anybody who knew Pete Hexeth or Pam Bondi or met them or knows them or seen them in action, they're very quick on their feet.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
They're witty. They're smart. And they're perfect. I mean, they're masters of optics. They've been on television. So just the appearance of her and Pete, the way they handled the questions, the way they answered, didn't they understand what they were doing when they asked these stupid questions and they showboated and performance art? When Pete, you know, I'm not a general senator.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Didn't they understand that these people were far more capable in that venue than they were? But it's just that they're in an echo chamber and they're so arrogant. But they're ossified, calcified hacks and they don't understand it. And they're up against a new generation of really smart people who have mastered the medium of television. And impromptu repartee, and they just had them for dinner.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
It was embarrassing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Yeah. I mean, Kamala, she was offered a little soundbite about the disaster, catastrophe in Los Angeles. And you'd think she would say, whatever I say, it cannot be a word salad because I will be watching. And what did she do? In 60 seconds, she said something that was entirely incomprehensible. No one could understand the syntax, the grammar, the vocabulary.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
It was just a confirmation of her imbecility. Wait, we have it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Who was next to her? His eyes were sort of exploding in his head. I don't know who it was. It looked like Mayorkas almost. But his eyes went, oh, my God. What is this woman? She's insane.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Yeah. And so it's... You know, we've talked about this before, but I think a lot of it is fear because they – you know, and you've talked about that, Megan. They always project. What they're doing, they project that's wrong or unethical. They project onto their opponents.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
They know that if they were in power right now and they had suffered what they did to Donald Trump and they were Donald Trump, they know what they would be doing. And they would be going after their enemies like Merrick Garland did and Biden did. And that terrifies them because they think that Donald Trump thinks like they do. And I don't think he does.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
I think he's so concerned with getting these tech barons and common sense and opening up natural resources for development and artificial intelligence and bioengineering. He really has this dream of a golden age and he only has four years and that's what he's concentrated on. But that's not how they think.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
They think, oh my God, what we did to him and now he's in power like we were, he's going to go after all of us because that's what I would do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
I know. And I live here, unfortunately, in this state. Yeah. that's not going to go over well with the 10,000 homeowners that lost their homes. I don't think they understand that if you're in Los Angeles, it's not just Malibu, but Pacific Palisades is the example of tasteful, elegant, elite wealth. Some of those homes were built in the 20s. It's old L.A.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
It's got these classical Spanish architecture roofs. beautiful tropical landscaping, one of the most quiet, safe, beautiful places in the world. And it's completely been Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, Firebomb, Napalm. It's destroyed. And so when you're one of the owners, and a lot of those people, Megan, I know some of them, they're second and third generation, and they...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
They're not that wealthy people. They inherited, and through Prop 13, you don't have to pay the going rate on property tax. So some of these $5 million homes are paying $2,000 a year in property tax because they inherit from their parents. And they don't have that kind of money, but they're sitting on this huge investment of $5 or $6 million because everybody wants to live there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And there's no way in the world they're going to ever be able to rebuild homes any of their homes. They've been completely wiped out, what their grandparents, their parents lived. And when they listen to that and they think of 300 or so hydrants empty, the reservoir empty, that type of fire person mentality, it's just going to enrage them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And it's going to make them even angrier because they voted for these people. And they thought, you know what? We were good liberals. And we voted for all of you people. We voted for DI, woke, the whole green stuff. And you turned around and engulfed us. And that's not, they're irate. They're just shocked, those people. And I have empathy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
I'm not one of these people who blames them and says, you know, you voted for these people. They were voting for kind of a nostalgic liberalism that no longer exists.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And I don't know if they understood that, but they voted for a radical, Jacobin, French revolutionary movement in California that blows up dams, that does not build $7.5 billion worth of three new reservoirs, which would have given us 5 million acre feet, that doesn't clean the hillsides, that doesn't get rid of the chaparral, that doesn't allow grazing of
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
sheep and cattle as we used to, doesn't clean the forest, and then hires people on the basis of their superficial appearance. That's what they voted for. But I think they thought very naively, well, they're kind of Democrats and they're kind of good people and they'll do okay. And they didn't understand that they voted in a bunch of nihilist and anarchist
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
It's because it's narcissistic. It's all about her. And she understands one thing, Megan.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
had she done preparation and talked to all the relevant government officials, had she visited all these places, and if she had mastered the topic and taken four or five hours and just dropped that stuff that you mentioned and then extemporaneously without notes, like where you and I are talking, just talked in a convincing, authentic manner, she'd probably be fired. And she knows that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
So she thinks to herself, how do I advance using the Latina language and all of this other DEI stuff. And I know that I will never be adjudicated on my actual ability to master the knowledge necessary to make a difference or to remedy the situation. And that's why everybody's angry because they know that this is not just... a sin of commission by all of these pronouns, junk.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
It's a sin of omission. It comes at the expense in this zero-sum game that these people don't know anything. They don't know about reservoirs. They don't know anything about water pressure. They don't know anything how to get people out of a house who's a heavy male. They don't know about the chaparral. They don't care.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
because they feel that that was an old, white, stupid generation that built L.A., and they're all dead, and they made all of these non-green reservoirs, and they were so into infrastructure and water. But we're beyond all that. So they're kind of like children that inherited this sophisticated desert that exists as a paradise because of all this imported water that was always on the margin areas
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
of air, any little air could destroy that whole system. And they had some really brilliant people who built William Mulholland was a genius that got Colorado water, Owens Valley water, aqueduct water, and created that pair. Henry Huntington came all the way, 200 miles away and made the first transmission lines that could convey hydroelectric to run the, the, uh, electric cable cars in LA.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
They were geniuses that built that city. And now they're relegated to old white stupid guys that are gone. But these people don't have half the ability that that generation did. And they know it. And they can't even keep, they can't even be custodians of a system that they inherited. It's too complex. They can't figure it out. And they're destroying it. And everybody knows it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And there's a lot of people in LA that do know how to do it. And they do know how L.A. because they grew up with it. And they're furious because they're saying, if you had have just taken the system you inherited and stuck to your job and mastered it, my house wouldn't be burned up that is, you know, 70 years old, a historic place. place in Los Angeles.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And I wouldn't have lost all of these furnishings that my grandmother gave me. And we wouldn't have all these looters trying to find safes and things and burned out lots. That's what you did. So I think it'll make an impression. I really do on some of the Californians.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Well, she was nowhere. She didn't care because... The thing about the LA Fire that's tragic but also instructive is these people never suffer the consequences of their ideology because they have enough money or the right zip code that they're protected from the ruin that they inflict on other people. We're the lab rats, and they are the experimenters in the laboratory.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
But the laboratory scientists go home at night. They don't stay like the mice. We're the white mice, the lab rats that are experimental. And now something happened. And the people who created this mess, it boomeranged back on them and they don't know what to do. They're angry. And so Julie Roberts says, looters. And then she thinks for a second, well, wait a minute.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Maybe a lot of them are DEI types of people. Should I say this or not? And I guarantee you in a week from now, she will try to contextualize what she said. Right. Yeah, and so it's, you know, everything about DEI, Elon Musk was very prescient when he said it's a mind virus. It's a 360 cultural revolution and they just, it's got the on Midas touch. Everything they touch, they destroy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
MSNBC has been destroyed. They just fired, you know better than I do, the media market. But I can tell you from the books, after George Floyd, some great authors were blacklisted. And they all went with the DI. And then I get calls from a lot of people in the book industry. None of them sold, Megan. It almost bankrupt them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Nobody wants to read for the 900th time the anti-racist manifesto or why I was treated so terribly memoir. And It destroyed them. And now what are they doing? They're doing just what the media are doing. The publishing houses are getting rid of all the DEI titles, book lists, authors, and going back to what Donald Trump would call a return to common sense. So that's why they're so scared.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
This was a revolution. I don't think we appreciate it. This was like... It was like a French revolution and it's now failed and there's a counter revolution and they don't know how far the counter revolution is going to go. And they're very afraid because they know that they didn't earn these positions.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
They know they've done a lot of damage to society and now they're afraid they have zero public support.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
I think I know because she spent the last three weeks of the campaign screaming that Donald Trump was Satan and he was a racist and he was mean and he hated black people. And now she's going to have to sit next to him. And she doesn't know what
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Donald Trump would say to her in front of everybody, but she knows that if she was Donald Trump, as again, as I said, and then she had heard all of what she had said about him, she knows what she would say. And she thinks Donald Trump is even more trigger happy than she is. And Donald Trump would probably You know Donald Trump better than I do, Megan. You know what he would do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
He would walk up and just act as if he was going to say something and then smile and try to hug her or shake her hand, talk to Barack like he did. And that would even – he would think in his mind that will make her even madder than me saying something. And it did. He was an old friend of Barack Obama. So, you know, Barack Obama called him a racist too, but –
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
They don't they don't I don't think they get Donald Trump at all. You know, I was just thinking about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Yes, he's a Bill Clinton transactional politician. It's always the next day. He doesn't care. But the other thing is there's a subtext, I think, is that if he were to talk honestly to Barack Obama, he would say something like this. If Barack Obama would talk honestly to Donald Trump, he'd say something like this. Don, don't get angry. You don't have any idea what I put up with.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
You don't have to put up with her like I do. So let's just forget it and be friends and joke and talk. And then I have to go home to it. So be sympathetic to me. And that's what I think the subtext, because he's not happy, Barack Obama. He never was.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Yes, and that makes her even angrier and angrier and angrier. And he's smart enough, like Bill Clinton, to know that the only reason that they have half a reputation is they feigned that they were centrist. And Obama went hard left in the second. But for a while, he was talking about close the borders and all that. And Bill Clinton was famous for doing stuff like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And they understand politics. But they understand Michelle Obama is off the rails. And Hillary is even off. But that's what's in common about both Bill and Barack. It's almost as if, OK, well, our wives are crazy. We can't put up with them. We're not going to, you know, engage in this feuding because it's not transactional. It doesn't help us. They're utilitarian.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
He's thinking now.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
There's no way she wants to be seated next to Trump. Absolutely. His mind is going, there's going to come a time in the next four years I got to call Donald Trump and get a favor. or about anything, and he will have favors. I have a friend that wants this or this, and he knows that. And that's the same thing with Bill Clinton.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And they understand that Donald Trump, for all of the bad publicity, the weird thing about him is he doesn't really, he talks a great game, but he doesn't hold grudges. He said that. He said, I can give you second and third chances, but not fourth. And he brought in J.D. Vance after what J.D. said about him. Yeah. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Absolutely. But they share that vision because Trump has basically said to them, you maybe don't like me and I don't like you, but you guys are geniuses. Whatever your field is. He broke into the top three auto companies. Nobody's ever done that. Elon. Look at SpaceX. He bailed out NASA. He revolutionized all of social media. That's what you guys do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
David Sachs and Zuckerberg, whether you like them or not. And the world doesn't like you guys. And they're trying to... gang up on you in Asia and Europe, but you bring us money and prestige and power. And we got all these new technologies, AI, biotechnology, cryptocurrency, and that's where the future is. And you guys are going to work for me and we're going to make everybody rich.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Whether you make fun of it or not, that's his vision, Donald Trump. And they understand that. He likes entrepreneurship.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Yes. And the thing is, they know that they can make more money for themselves. And some of them have actually a sense of public commonwealth. They know that they can help the country. And they know they're in a deadly race against China and Russia and all these enemies abroad. And they understand that Donald Trump is saying to them, whatever you guys need to make our country preeminent,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
and help the middle class in the process. I'm going to do it. And I don't really care anymore what you said about me. But you're going to have to do this. And that's exciting for them because, you know, Andreessen said that. He went in to meet with Biden. They basically said, these are the winners in artificial intelligence and nobody else, no startups. And they understand.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Zuckerberg said that they'd call him up and scream at him and you're going to do this. Donald Trump's not going to do that. He's going to say, do what you have to do and I'll measure you by the results. And if you can help this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
It did. I don't think it's a good deal for Israel because there were about there's about 20 percent of Gaza they have to get into because that's where Hamas has fled to. And if they pull out. And they released hundreds, if not thousands of terrorists. And it's a ceasefire. You know what's going to happen. They're going to get the UN. They're going to get the moderate-era regimes, rebuild it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And then Hamas is going to threaten them, kill some, and take over again. So I don't think – but I think I know what Trump is doing. I've talked to a few people, but I think their attitude is you can't ever deal with Hamas because of the hostages. So you've got to get the hostages out and let Biden get the hostages out.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Everybody knows they're being released, as you said, Megan, because Trump is coming in. But Biden officially will be in office at least when the first iterations start. So he's responsible. And then when you get the hostages out and Israel gets out, Hamas will break all of their commitments. Everybody knows that. And at that point, they have no more leverage over anybody.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
And Israel is going to be under the Trump administration free to retaliate as it sees fit. I think that's what the Trump people are thinking. But I'm afraid that in the process, there's going to be a lot of damage done, even though I want all the hostages, as everybody does, to be released.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
But they're going to let a lot of terrorists out, and they're going to have to get out before they've destroyed Hamas. And I think they could destroy Hamas if they went into the last areas of Gaza, which they won't be able to do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
Yeah. And Biden, what Biden is trying to do is use the... And that's what they've been doing all along with Iran and everybody else. They're using the ascent of Donald Trump and his...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Three Most Annoying Senators at Hegseth Hearing, and Pam Bondi Crushes Dems Today, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 983
restoration as a lever and saying you know what they're thinking to themselves trump will do and say things we can't do and we're going to use him to get a last minute deal and trump is kind of using them and he said i'm going to be ronald reagan and they're going to be jimmy carter and they're going to release the hostages because i'm coming in so that's the matrix but uh i think
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Everybody expects that the people they release will be right back in as the apparat that restores Hamas.
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They're all Hamas people, and they're going to go right back and reform Hamas, and they're going to be free to do it because Israel will be withdrawn, there's going to be a ceasefire, and then the money's going to pour in, they're going to steal it, UN money, Gulf money, and they're going to start in on it again.
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And I think at that point, the Trump administration thinks, well, there's no more hostages and they can't leverage us or Israel. And they got their chance. So world opinion is going to be on our side, especially when the hostages tell everybody how they were treated. And we see these bodies of people who died weeks before this. gruesome apparatus that runs it.
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And we're going to let Israel then take care of business. I think that's what they think. I don't necessarily agree with that because I think there's going to be a lot of damage in the process of this piece. But I think that's what the Trump people are saying. It's Biden's deal. You notice that Trump didn't take credit for it.
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He just said they're released because I think the downside after the ebullition of the hostages return, the downside will be Biden's. And then Trump will start with a fresh slate and say, well, he did it. We got the hostages. There's no more leverage on us anymore. So I think that's what's going on.
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Constructive criticism. It says we want you to live up to your Western obligations to ensure free speech. And it's going to make it much worse because if you took the AFD's vote and Merz's vote, it's about 50, 51 percent of the people and they should have a conservative government. But he's going to reach out to the Green Party and the Social Democrats.
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And there's not going to be a conservative voice in Germany. And that's going to make people even angrier after they feel they voted for a conservative majority.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Yeah, especially given the hubris and arrogance of Fannie Willis and that whole prosecutor team. You know, you're a lawyer, Megan. But when I review all of these judges, I know the prosecutions in these five criminal and civil cases were weaponized. But when you think of the local and state judges, and I'm thinking of N'Goran, remember him? I think he was a lead to T.F. James.
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Then we had Mershon in the Alvin Bragg case. And then we had this McAfee and the Fannie Willis case. And then we had Cohen and the E. Jean Carroll. And they all were not just biased and really politicized and weaponized their courtrooms, but they were incompetent. And I think they're all going to be overruled. And I've never seen a level of judicial incompetence. I grew up with a...
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mother who was the second superior court judge in our county or Fresno County, but she was a second woman appellate court judge in California, Stanford graduate 1946. And I only mentioned that because I followed her as a young kid and sat in her courtroom a lot.
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And the judges that were surrounded him, they were just a different generation than these weaponized, politicized, media-hungry judges that we saw in the lawfare conducted against Trump.
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I agree. I think there was a little racial element, though, in the animus and the public announcements of Bragg. If you collate Willis, Bragg and James, they all in the case of James and Bragg, they ran on the idea that Donald Trump was this right wing illiberal person and they were part of the people, the DEI, the. retribution, the social justice remedy for people like Trump.
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And there was a thinly disguised, I think, racial element. But I don't think that was the dominant element, but it was there. I mean, Jack Smith, I think, was incompetent and biased as well, as well as E. Jean Carroll's attorneys that filed a civil suit. But there was something about what Joy Reid was saying.
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If you look at the flip side of what she was saying, she was basically admitting that she saw this in racial... And there were people like Joy Reid, whether or not James or Bragg or Willis encouraged that publicly or not, that did see this as a sort of a comeuppance for an old white guy who was biased, and this was the DEI remedy to him. And they did further that narrative in their campaign.
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Yeah, they did. Listen to this, Victor.
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Yeah, I don't think that works anymore. Whether across the political landscape, if you look at Mayor Johnson and look at his lock of city council meetings of average middle-class blacks who are angry about his elite idea of immigration, illegal immigration. and illegal immigrants being privileged over his own constituents. And then you look at the vote count in these states.
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I mean, Georgia went for Trump and black males, despite the propaganda, despite the pressures within the black community, were 25 to 30 percent for Trump. And what we're watching is there's a lot of.
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people in the black community that are realizing they have more in common with Latino and white working class people than they do with the Fannie Willis's and the mayor Johnson's and the Latita James and, you know, the joy reads. And they're saying, we have the same problem.
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You and the white community and the Latino community have, you have bi-coastal elites and others that speak for us and talk down to us and nothing, no, no one more.
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than those iconic moments in which Barack Obama came out of one of his four mansions, remember, and he said to those black activists that were working for Fannie Wills, you don't know it, but I have to inform you that you may be suffering from false consciousness, racism, and sexism.
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That's a self-condemnation. Yeah, that's self-condemnation because she basically proved to everybody she's not as good as the other judges. And it was not because she was black, but if she wanted to make that a case, then it's embarrassing. And of course, as you point out, the obvious answer is, well,
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Nathan Wade was treated differently because you hired him and paid him $700,000 and you were a beneficiary of that money when you knew he was incompetent. And he was even going to the White House and coordinating with the Biden legal counsel and charging them for the pleasure of doing that.
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So I think that a lot of black males especially, but the black middle class looks at that, and not all of them, the majority probably doesn't, but a growing minority of black males, black females, middle class people say, do not use us, do not demagogue us, just so you can live this lavish lifestyle. And then when you get caught, claim that it's...
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that you got caught because people don't like us. We're not going to serve as a foil for you. And I think that's going to grow. And the irony of this whole conversation is the person that the Never Trumpers and the Romney, McCain, Bush wing of the Republican Party said would permanently alienate minorities because he was himself racist.
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Donald Trump proved in this last election to really be very successful in a way that no Republican dreamed of substituting class interest for race and got a higher percentage of the minority vote than almost anybody in the last 50 years that was a Republican.
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And they did it repeatedly in five different arenas. And you can see how out of touch Joy Reid was because she had no idea that when Donald Trump had that mugshot and people knew that was unfair and he looked defiant, a lot of people who had felt that they had been on the wrong end of an indictment, they empathized with him. Even the ones who didn't said, this is not fair. And look at him.
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He's not weepy. He's not crying. He's defiant, just like he was after the assassination of Pence. And you wanted to tell these people, get out of your bubble. Do you realize that when you impeach him twice and you try him as a private citizen and then you spend two and a half times more than he does on a campaign, you try to get him off 16 state ballots?
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You wage five indictments, 91 indictments or 93 against him. And you fail on every occasion. It's not just neutral. You don't start back to square one. You lose your credibility incrementally each time. And they didn't understand that. They just kept it up. And finally, he made a mockery of them with the McDonald's. You know, when she said, I worked at McDonald's and you said, no, you didn't.
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And they all rallied to her side. And then he went to McDonald's. And that iconic moment when somebody drove in, I think he was Indian American, and he said to Trump, he kind of got startled, and he said, well, I'm just ordinary. And Trump said, you're not ordinary. And his wife said, you took a bullet. And Trump, the old Trump might have said, yes, I did.
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But he kind of stopped for a minute, and he got reflective, and he said, I guess I did. And you could see that all of this stuff that was doing to him, the only way he could survive was to fight back. But he also got really philosophical. It was almost like he had an animal cunning that he knew what they were doing.
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In the long run, if he survived one more indictment, one more day, it was all going to boomerang on him. And he had a marvelous staff. And when they started to stage these moments at a garbage truck, McDonald's, going into Madison Square Garden, it was just... I don't think the elite left is going to recover for a long time.
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And then it was a cultural phenomenon when people, you know, we were talking, Megan, just two years ago, we'd be talking about the absurdity of taking the knee and that whole BLM phenomenon, fad, hysteria. And then we had people in the NFL who had taken the knee. They were doing this YMCA dance. I'd never seen anything like it. It was a cultural phenomenon.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
It was a cultural counterrevolution, and people finally just said, stop it. We're sick of you. We want a border. We don't want people looting and shoplifting at this normal. There is really only two sectors. Don't push that down our throat. That humiliation in Afghanistan was the worst we've ever seen. It was just a rejection on all economic, political, social, cultural front.
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And Trump sort of spearheaded this counterrevolution. It was the greatest comeback in American history. much even more impressive than Harry Truman or Richard Nixon or Andrew Jackson. It was just amazing.
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A really good point, but I think even a better one is, where is the questioner right now? Because she, in a 100-day period of her campaign, refuted almost every position that she'd held. She used to demonstrate for deportation. She said she... For against deportation, she said in 100 days, I will have to deport people. And then she said she was for fracking.
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And then she said she was tough prosecutor and she wanted to prosecute people in a way that she had. She was on record in California for defunding the police and on and on. So now she's the election's over. And what Kamala Harris is it?
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Is it the old Kamala Harris that's going to run on this, her prior record for California governor, or was it the new Kamala Harris that tried to fool and fake her way into the presidency for 100 days? And no one is asking her those questions. Not one reporter is saying, Kamala, what do you believe about fracking right now? Is it what you said 100 days ago?
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for 100 days or is it what you said prior to that? And they could ask that along lines of 10 or 12 topics and they won't do it. The other thing that's really disturbing is I can't believe the Wall Street Journal didn't have people leaking this story for the last four years.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And I know that they didn't want to influence the election, but they could have at least had a little bit more honest reporting. Now, it's a pattern here, Megan. Now that it's all over, they're basically saying to the country, We kept things from you that we can now tell you.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And we're sorry that people called you all crazy conspiracy theorists when you said that Joe Biden was demented or had problems. But now we can kind of agree with you. Same thing they did on the border. New York Times wrote an article not long ago. Wow, this is the greatest conspiracy. influx of illegal aliens we've ever seen. This is the greatest number of foreign born we've ever seen.
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This is the greatest number of percentage of people who were residents of the country that were not born in the United States. They knew that the whole time. Now they're telling us. Same thing about Kamala Harris's campaign. Now all of a sudden we're told by the Obama advisors, well, we kind of lied about the momentum and we were kind of surprised about these polls.
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that were trying, they were kind of fake in our favor. And we would kind of look at each other and say, wow, New York Times, Washington Post says she's ahead. They really believed we had momentum. We told everybody we did, but not one of our internal polls showed that she was ever winning.
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And it's kind of, you know, it really makes long-term, it destroys your confidence if you had any left in this mainstream media as well as Kamala Harris.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
No, no. That was the most asinine thing she said of many asinine things. She didn't even realize that had he not said that, that was to the benefit of her and Joe Biden. Had he not said, and I thought he was almost inappropriate because the role of a prosecutor is to present the evidence. not necessarily to determine the cognitive status of the person who might be charged.
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That's up for a jury and a judge to adjudicate. I mean, there's a lot of people who would say to a prosecutor, I'm old and I can't remember. And the IRS, to take one example, is not very sympathetic to that. So what Kamala Harris was basically saying was,
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I wish Robert Herr had not given the excuse of not prosecuting him since apparently the evidence was there that he could have presented it to a jury. But he gave us the benefit of the doubt by saying Joga was confused. But he's not confused. Ergo, they should have prosecuted him.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
for removing documents in a felonious fashion to four different locations over 30 years, and then having a ghostwriter where he disclosed classified information to the ghostwriter, who then destroyed the tapes of it under subpoena, which is a felony. And then he said to Robert Herr, I only did that because I was afraid they'd be hacked.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And Herb gave them the benefit of the doubt all the way in those decisions. He said, well, I'm not going to prosecute the speechwriter for destroying evidence, and I'm not going to prosecute Joe Biden for disclosing classified information. And that was one of the things Jack Smith pointed out that allegedly Trump had done to an individual without a security clearance.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Harris didn't realize or she knew that Biden was the beneficiary of prosecutor discretion. And yet here she is damning him for the very reason that let Joe Biden get off the hook. That speech she gave the other day was she just gave a speech. You may recall that where she it was almost as if she was intoxicated. She couldn't form a sentence. She laughed. She was incoherent.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
She tried to make fun of this obscure language and pseudo philosophy that she espouses. And it was just the idea that she came close to the presidency is really scary.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
That's what he's done. Those are the three things he most egregiously failed at. He didn't bring integrity. He allowed his son. He tried to fix his son sentencing when with a sweetheart deal from the DOJ that would have gone through had not courageous people you had on your show. The IRS whistleblowers stopped it. And then he pardoned his son after he said six times that he wouldn't.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
He just pardoned 1,500 miscreants. He doesn't even know what they did. His staff probably did it for him and got it by them. He did not unite the country. That's the one thing he was at pains not to do. The only time he was coherent in four years is when he got angry. And when he gave that Phantom of the Opera, semi-fascist, ultra-mega speech, it was just gripping with hatred.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And he did that even in the State of the Union addresses. He went after the people, not just Trump, but the people who voted for him. And he did not. And he did not help the middle class. When he got through after four years, real wages were stagnant, if not declining. And more importantly, the cumulative inflation rate from the day he entered office to the day he left.
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on staple goods, food, gas, rent, insurance, power, was about 25 to 30% higher. And he really made it almost impossible for a middle class person to survive under him. So it was a complete disaster. And don't listen to me. These were what the polls showed. And retrospect, the economy, the economy, the economy showed that no voters had confidence in him. He was pulling
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
40% approval rate on the economy, 40% on the border, down the line. And, you know, they all said that this was not a referendum on Biden or it was not a blowout for Trump or it was not a landslide victory. It was in a way because Donald Trump won the popular vote for the first time for Republican in 20 years. He won the Electoral College.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
He now has, you could say, the Republicans, for the first time in my memory, control the White House, the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and more importantly, they have issues, every one of them, foreign policy and deterrence, crime, energy, the transgender issue, the border, et cetera, that the majority of the people were behind. So... I don't think they get it yet.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Joe Biden, if anybody adheres to what he just said, is delusional. I don't think anybody believes that.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Well, he's popular for a variety of reasons. You pointed out some. One of them is he was defiant, and he went through things that would have destroyed any other person as we talked about. But also, he's a very different 78 than almost anybody you see. He outworked everybody. He gave those merifying talks. He gave an hour-long press conference.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And even his critics the other day said, this is so needed and it's such in contrast that he'll talk about anything to anybody, anywhere, anytime in a way that Joe Biden, we've never seen him do it. He had 30 cabinet meetings, 19 one-year, total cabinet meetings was four times the number of Joe Biden. So he was a very vigorous, undaunted, indomitable figure. In addition to that,
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
He's coming into office after we saw four years. It's almost as if fate is saying we had to take the country through this nightmare and we had to almost destroy Donald Trump to show you what the left will do if you turn over the powers of government, the Senate and the House to them. They will destroy the border.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
They will inflict on you and infuse on you these crazy ideas about gender reassignment surgeries and abortion into the ninth month at the moment of delivery and withdrawing from Afghanistan, leaving $50 billion. They're capable of that, but you don't believe it? Well, we'll show you. And that's what we saw for four years. And Donald Trump had a record this time.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
So he was saying to everybody, look at the prior four years. And then look at what followed my four years. And that really helped him. The other thing was, and I think this is on the first day, is very important. A lot of people criticize his appointments because he's privileged loyalty.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
But for every appointment, the proper way to ascertain their suitability is to ask, what is the alternative last time when he was there? So we have Kash Patel. And he's qualified by any measure, but he's compared to what? James Comey, who was there? James Comey and Andrew McCabe, his interim successor, they did everything in their power to destroy their commander in chief.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Andrew McCabe lied four times to a federal investigator. James Comey claimed he couldn't remember 245 times into a House Intelligence Committee while under oath. You say, look at Kash Patel. And then you look at Lloyd Austin. I mean, I have regard, he's a colleague of mine, General Mattis, and the people who followed him, but they were not there to help further and empower the Trump MAGA agenda.
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They were not. And Jeff Sessions, maybe he was, but he's not going to do what Pam Bondi. And the people at the NIH and others, they were not there to mitigate the economic, social, cultural effects of the lockdown and the whole thing.
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Francis Collins as well. So what I'm getting at is he's coming into office with people that he can trust in the sense that when he says something, they will say to the president. That's what I will do. And I have some ideas how I can even make it more quickly and more effectively in power. And the other people's attitude was his own cabinet members for the most part.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
If he said something to a John Bolton, or to a Jeff Sessions, or to a Christopher Wray, or any of these people, they would have said, ah, that's Donald Trump. Nah, he just has crazy ideas. I'm Mark Milley. I've just psychoanalyzed him. I am going to call up my Chinese counterpart and tell him that my commander-in-chief is crazy and not. Don't worry, I won't obey an order.
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That's the type of people he had to deal with. And he came into office without any support from the Republican Party, opposition from the Democratic Party. And he was told these are the people who are the professional class and you need them. And he he followed that advice for two or three years. He's not going to do that now.
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And he only came to that realization after all the damage that they did to him and the ensuing four years where many of these people in his own party said he got what he deserved. And so I think he's coming in.
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That was that's such a good point. When I saw all of the things that John Bolton has said recently and all the things he said during the impeachment, when he was kind of winking and nodding and saying, I have a memoir coming out. I'm not going to say anything, but wait till my memoir comes out. And then you think, where were you, John Bolton? You could never.
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Under any imaginable circumstances, return to government. Even George Bush could not appoint you to the U.N. ambassadorship unless he had a recess appointment. And what did you do when Donald Trump brought you into a position where you didn't have to be confirmed by the National Security Advisor?
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You immediately started leaking and telling people that he was an idiot and you had ways to circumvent it. And you never thanked him. And to this day, you've libeled almost every one of his appointees. And you want us to believe that... Comey, McCabe, Ray, Mattis, all of these people that had a chance yourself were wonderful public servants and efficient and really did a great job.
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And that's not true. And people know it. And these people are very bitter because not only did they fail to destroy Donald Trump, but they're very venomous. directed at him has helped fuel his comeback because they don't have any idea how disliked they are by the American public. Donald Trump reached out to RFK and to Tulsi Gabbard and to Elon Musk.
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These people were like, whatever you thought about them, they were like. When they tried to emulate that and brought in never Trumpers, but especially people like Liz Cheney, she was dour. She was mean spirited. She had tried to destroy Donald Trump. And the idea that you were going to parade around with her and that was going to get you Republican or any support. It was just ludicrous. Right.
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Liz Cheney has no constituency. No constituency. She's bitter. She's angry. And Donald Trump, I mean, she voted 93% with him the first term. So he had a unique ability to, I know, and create animosity. But these people got so obsessed with him that they really revealed who they are. The only existential question we have is, are they where they are? Did they always want to be there?
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Or was it only their hatred of Trump that... I don't know, diluted them or turned them into crazy people. Maybe I don't know what the never Trump or the Lincoln Project, the John Bolton, Bill Chris of where they are now, but they're nowhere. And I don't know whether that's nowhere is what the political wilderness is, where they want to be or whether they were just crushed by Donald Trump.
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But they're pathetic figures now.
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I'd like to correct both of them and remind you that Barack Obama said when asked what he would like a third term, he said, I'd only like a third term if the person that was president had an earpiece and I could phone in all my directives to him. And if rumors are correct, Barack Obama helped engineer the ascendance of Joe Biden after he'd lost the first three caucuses and primaries.
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And Obama and his coterie looked around and they said, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders are not viable candidates or too far left. This guy, as crazy as he is, and don't ever...
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underestimate the ability, as Obama said, for Joe Biden to F it up, we will use him as a facade and we will have a hard left agenda and they will go for it because Jill and he always want to be in the spotlight. And that's what we've suffered through for four years.
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And the idea that Obama thought there was one president in time, I would suggest both of them, if they're worried about having only one president, why don't they invoke the Logan Act? And the Logan Act says that no private citizen can conduct foreign policy, why there's a government in power. Why don't they do what they did to Michael Flynn?
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He made a phone call supposedly with the Russians and they were ready to put him in jail, not just for being disingenuous about it, but for the very fact he talked to somebody before he was officially National Security Advisor. Donald Trump, in their own view, has violated the Logan Act.
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But the reason they're not talking, they don't mention the Logan Act one moment, is if they did, they would be shouted down by about 150 million Americans now. And they know that. Right, exactly.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Yes, and the reason that they're not saying the Logan Act is they're basically saying to themselves, kind of, I can't take it anymore. We've lied for four years about this guy. We always knew he was not up to the job. We always knew the border was a disaster. We understand why people now don't like it. We understand that Afghanistan, the whole thing was a mess.
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Just take it away, let us regroup, and let this guy come in, Trump. We're not going to fight it anymore. We're not going to call him all these names. We're not going to riot on inauguration. Madonna is not going to come out there and say she wants to blow up the White House in four weeks.
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We're not going to do that because we've had our chance and we look at ourselves and we were absolutely incompetent. I think that's the subject. Not that they won't be vicious and attack Trump within another three or four weeks. But right now, they should be if they were typical opposition opponents. You know, pundits, they would be saying, we've got a regroup.
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Joe Biden's got to get out there every day. He's got to end with a flourish. They don't even want they don't even make that case. They just well, he's just he's not there and he's not there for what reason? They don't tell us that he's been declining geometrically every day. Every day is much not just worse than the day before, but twice as bad. And he can't really function anymore. It's very sad.
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And they know that if he was out there the last 30 days and was going to the Notre Dame Cathedral and on this historic event, he would walk a different way or he would mispronounce somebody's name or forget where he was or somebody would have to shuffle him around. And they understand that.
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And and they know that every time Jill Jill Biden shows up like she did on that occasion by herself or every time somebody like Kamala Harris says it is a fiddle. They know that that only accentuates the idea that he is not able to be president. And if I was a I mean, just. for, I don't know, divine justice.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
They're lucky that Joe Biden, like Donald Trump, a week before Donald Trump left office, they impeached him a second time, historically so. And then they tried to, they should think about impeaching Joe Biden for, I don't know, not serving his oath of office because he's not there. He's just gone. And he's lucky he was never impeached. Forget about the pardons and all of the Biden corruption.
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But he got off pretty scot free. And and I don't think the pardon, by the way, or ended anyway. I think the Biden family will be the beneficiary of the last party as well.
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Yeah, maybe Kamala Harris, remember she said finally in the campaign that she was for the wall. Maybe she'll intervene as vice president and say, wait a minute. Sheriff Kamala. Sure. That was one of my new positions. Let's save the wall, as I've campaigned on. I think if we boil down what you said, Megan, you could kind of summarize it. Sure.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Joe Biden hates Donald Trump more than he respects or likes the American people. He knows that all of the American people wanted to change, whether they voted for Trump or not. Even the people who voted for him, I think, polls on a particular issues don't agree with him. So he understands that he's he's. promoting positions that have no popular support.
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And he's doing so over the wishes of the American people who just voiced them on election day. And he's doing them to hurt the ability to Donald Trump to enact changes, which most people want. And he's, he's a very bitter person. You know, there's, I know this sounds kind of cruel, but
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If you take away the cognitive problems of Joe Biden and you look at his career going back as a senator, whether he was a plagiarist or whether his law school problems as a student or how he demagogued Clarence Thomas or how he kind of sucked up to Southern segregationists or the things he said about race.
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First black candidate was articulate in the case of Obama or you ain't black or you're a terrorist or he called two of his African-American aides. Hey, boy, the cold corn pop. He's not a nice person. He never was. He was a very vicious politician.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
He demagogued and really destroyed the truck driver who was not culpable and slandered him for years, saying that he was drunk and he was in that tragic accident with his first wife. So. All this cognitive problems that he's been experiencing and have been excelling have accentuated all of those traits. So, you know, I never bought into he's good old Joe Biden from Scranton. He's a nice old guy.
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He's a uniter. He wants to bring us. I can't remember any case in which he tried to unite people together. He never did. And he always demagogued the issue. He was never ecumenical. He always had a mean streak.
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What was he doing as vice president when Hunter was referring to him as Mr. 10% and the big guy and paying his power bill? Cashing the checks. Yeah, loan repayment check, all of that stuff. And then he has the gall to say that he brought integrity back to the White House.
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Well, they settled because they probably had internal... Anytime these big corporations settle like that in a controversial case, they do it because they don't want their internal communications, you know, subpoenaed. And there was probably back and forth text emails that were incriminating both to Stephanopoulos and ABC.
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But the question is, I have is, if you really believe that you had warned him that, and that you had textual documentation of that, and you might even have more under... upon discoveries, why didn't you just fire him and say, you know what, we're not responsible? And the answer is they just gave him a $20 million multi-year contract.
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So what they're basically saying, we would rather have this pathological liar be a representative because we don't have anybody else in the morning and he gets us ratings. So we're willing to pay, even though we pay him $20 million, we'll pay the $15 million. It's small cash for Disney Corporation. And we don't really... We don't really care that he goes on there and says it.
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He probably will do it again. And we will pay as long as it's not too much. And I think that's the cynical attitude.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
There's also another strain I think that's really important is that they're angry about him, not for the sentiment. They agree with the sentiment. They deep down decide they don't care whether the jury or the judge or whatever the actual terminology was that he was. They hate Donald Trump.
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So they're not saying to George Stephanopoulos, how dare you accuse somebody falsely of raping when after a lengthy trial and civil suit, it was showed that he didn't. They don't care about that because they probably would do the same thing privately with their aunt. The only
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animus they have is we kind of warned you that there was legal exposure in your efforts to destroy this guy that we also like you to, we would like you to destroy, but we just disagreed with your tactics. So we're going to kind of slap you on the hand and be more discreet, George, but don't change your attitude about Trump because that's coming from the top.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
We despise him and we want you, we want you people, whether you're moderating debates or whether you're presenting the news to We want you to be prejudicial. That's who are that what our brand do. And then the other thing is we'll just throw money at this problem. Yeah.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
When you look at the E. Jean Carroll case, that was of all the five criminal, I think, and civil suits was the most egregious because she came. She had to get a special sympathetic New York legislature to. pass a law that suspended for one year the statute of limitations on supposed sexual assault. Then she refiled it. And then when she refiled it, she was asked, what year did it take place?
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
She didn't know the year. Then she tried to adjudicate the year by saying, I had this designer dress. Then people came out and said that dress was not in existence when you cited that. Then she gave these weird details And by the way, she had said in text messages that Donald Trump and the apprentice that that was a celebrity that she liked.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
But she gave details that she said she couldn't remember. But they were they were eerily very similar to a Law and Order episode in which one of the people in that episode. And I watched it is in the same department store and then invites a celebrity into the dressing room. And he said she said transpire. And then she's in a courtroom up against the celebrity.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And I'm not suggesting that she just made it all up, but there's she might have had embroidered a lot of those details. So and then the judge himself. And I think this is one of the reasons that Stephanopoulos was emboldened about the cases. You remember, he said he mentioned the word rape once and somebody corrected him. And they said, no, it's a matter of sexual assault.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
He said, well, they're kind of similar. And no, and I, that's one reason I think that, you know, Donald Trump, I don't know what the, was the ruling $73 million for this, you know, this very bogus civil. It was over 80. It was over. Yeah.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
Especially when you, and I think the statute requires knowing intent. The intent, when you look at that tape, was to hurt Donald Trump. And he knowingly, as you said, he knowingly lied, but he did so with the intent, not just It wasn't that he was just sloppy and he kept repeating a meme that he didn't really think about.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
He did it deliberately, precisely, emphatically for the purpose of defaming Donald Trump. And he did it because he felt that the people who hired him would... maybe disagree with, as I said, with the language, but the overall gist of what he was saying, they agreed with.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And when he looked at the political landscape in which he inhabits, he understood that it would be acceptable if not commendable, that type of venom. And that's what happened with the whole media. Again, getting back, I think the Shorenstein Center said at one point, 95%, 90% of all the media coverage was anti-Trump, and yet he survived it.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And that was another thing that was really wonderful about the election, that all the traditional barometers of what supposedly makes a candidate win or lose, overwhelming media, positive coverage, two and a half times more packet and campaign money, all the proper celebrity endorsement. They meant nothing, nothing. Trump got free publicity and the millions of dollars with his stunts.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
He brilliantly got people like Joe Rogan and Dana White. When he walked into the Medicine Square Garden with that menagerie of Dana White and Kid Rock and Joe Rogan and RFK and Hulk Hogan and Speaker Johnson. That was the most eclectic group of people and from all different classes and all different audiences.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And that was worth 10 times more publicity than a neon sign in Las Vegas they paid for or, you know, an endorsement from a multi-billionaire like Oprah or Obama jetting in from one of those four mansions and talking down to people. And that was what I think one of the real lessons of the campaign was.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I think they're going to get confirmed because I think Donald Trump is going to tell the senators that. the ones that he's worried about, he's going to say, it's going to be politically unsustainable for you to vote against these people when you voted for Mayorkas and you voted for Austin.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
So you're going to go back to your constituency and you're going to go back to me and you're going to say that you voted for the worst Homeland Security person in history that destroyed the border and you considered him fit But you don't consider a decorated veteran in a combat zone, Pete Hexeth, author of four books. You don't consider him qualified. So I think they're going to play hardball.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I think Hexeth and Kash Patel will get confirmed. The problem that RFK will have with Tulsi Gabbard is I don't think it's going to come from the right so much. It's going to come from the Democrats are going to really try to gin up popular support because they view them as apostates that were turncoats and that they were once liberal people. And now they've joined the detestable Donald Trump.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
And so they're going to put most of their effort and money smearing them. And they already have. They call her a Russian asset, almost as if she's traitorous. And.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I do think they're going to get confirmed because if RFK can stay away from that one kryptonite issue of childhood measles, polio, vaccinations, and just concentrate on the issues that poll positively, nutritious food, additives, dyes in the food, questions about the mRNA vaccination, things like that, if they steer him and say to him, these are off limits,
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
We appointed you, but you're not going to question whether people should have the polio or smallpox vaccination, things like that. I think you know, it's good.
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Fani Willis DQ'ed in Georgia, and Delusional Biden's Cognitive Decline, with VDH, Ashleigh Merchant, Mike Davis, and Phil Holloway | Ep. 970
I think he can handle it. All those other issues he's talked about, obesity, nutrition, food, the people vote are overwhelmingly in favor of that. And he'll be a very popular... He'll be a populist hero if he just sticks to those and takes on big pharma and big ag and process food. And Tulsi Gabbard has one. You're right.
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Merry Christmas, Megan.
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Yeah.
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Joy Reid Finally Fired, Bongino Joins Trump Admin, and Possible Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 1012
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the reasons they lost that iconic moment when Barack Obama started dressing down those staffers. You remember for Kamala Harris, those black, young, really idealistic people they were working for. And he came over and said, you really basically said to them, you're suffering from Marxist false consciousness. You don't know that you're supporting sexist and racist.
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Joy Reid Finally Fired, Bongino Joins Trump Admin, and Possible Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 1012
But I have to tell you that because I'm morally superior and intellectually superior. And I've got to tell you what you're doing because you're so stupid to find out.
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Joy Reid Finally Fired, Bongino Joins Trump Admin, and Possible Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 1012
And that condescending attitude was why people that were sort of on the grassroots in popular culture, some of the rappers, people like Stephen Smith, Charlamagne Tha God, not that they were for Trump, but they got so sick of all these elite African-American, bi-coastal elite, which they played the same role, Megan, to the African-American male community
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Joy Reid Finally Fired, Bongino Joins Trump Admin, and Possible Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 1012
that white liberals on the coast and the media universities do to the working class people of East Palestine, Ohio. It's that condescending, we're ashamed of you idea. You're of our same race, but we're ashamed of you. And that gave a lot of latitude for Donald Trump.
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Joy Reid Finally Fired, Bongino Joins Trump Admin, and Possible Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 1012
What he was basically saying is all you people who are poor whites or middle class whites or middle class blacks or poor middle class Hispanics, you all have more in common with each other than you do with these people. And he was able to, you know, he didn't get a majority, but he was really able to make inroads in that.
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Joy Reid Finally Fired, Bongino Joins Trump Admin, and Possible Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 1012
And it was a class, shared class anger and repulsion at elites of each of these groups. And what it did is under Trump, Trump really was a maestro at it. He was able to tell these people, if you're a white truck driver, if you're a black carpenter, if you're a Hispanic contractor, you have more in common, you guys, with each other.
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Joy Reid Finally Fired, Bongino Joins Trump Admin, and Possible Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 1012
And that iconic moment again at that McDonald's when the Indian guy from India and his wife were there. And he said, I'm just an ordinary person. And Trump said, you're not ordinary. That was right off the cuff. And then his wife said, you took a bullet for us. He said, you know, I guess I did. And those moments were really they resonated throughout the campaign.
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Joy Reid Finally Fired, Bongino Joins Trump Admin, and Possible Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 1012
And these people kept trying to play this 1960s. you know, Black Panther almost line. And everybody was sick of it. They were completely sick of it. And I hope that they keep doing it because I guess Mark Penn came out this week with polls that show that the Democratic, everybody was saying that the Trump honeymoon would end very quickly and he's doing such controversial things.
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And maybe he slipped a point or two, but you look at the Democratic polls and they're not getting any better. Whatever they're doing is not working.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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That's a really good point about James Carville, because he was always posed as the authentic voice of the working man Democrat, but he had become just like the bi-coastal elite. You could really see the other day when Stephen Smith said something about politics, and he just went into a profanity-ridden thing. You don't know anything about politics. You're an ESPN sports announcer.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You don't know anything. It sounded like a professor. You know, it sounded like a media grandee that was dressing down somebody. And here was this so-called white working class voice of the Clinton years acting like an elite, talking to this black man and saying, you don't know your rear end from a hole in the ground and started lecturing him. And and they can't help it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And and that's who they are now. They're a condescending, out of touch elite. And they keep they think that the more heat, the more profanity, the more screaming, the more threats, the more light they're going to get. And it's not working. And. We'll see what happens in the midterms. But their strategy of demonizing, it's not working so far.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Thank you for having me, Megan.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Oh, I don't know if it's Matt Drudge. I don't think it's Matt Drudge.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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No, I don't. I don't know. I don't know what happened to him. Something happened.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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No, you know, they were on the hinge before George Floyd, but somewhere between Me Too 2018-19 and George Floyd after that, they really did miscalculate.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They thought that the country, because of their hatred of Donald Trump, and then especially the George Floyd riots, and then the election of Joe Biden, they thought that this was a new frontier and that Joe Biden, we were into a revolutionary period. And Biden was this useful wax and effigy for all of these Obama people. And they were going to have this radical agenda.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And these people at MSNBC and to a lesser extent, CNN, were going to ride this wave and and propel it. And they could say anything they want. The the. Blinders were off. The muzzles were off. They could say, do anything. And they really did. And they didn't realize the mood of the country, where it was. They were we were in the middle of a counterrevolution because people were sick.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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of an open border and the whole transgendered stuff and the crime and the foreign policy in Afghanistan. And the more that they just kept doubling down, the more there were signs there that the lawfare or getting Trump off the ballot or the Mar-a-Lago raid, they were triumphing that, the more that they didn't understand that that was getting people angry.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And so they were doubling down rather than being introspective and saying, oh my gosh, I don't think that we're quite in a hard left revolution that everybody's supporting, and I think we're starting to get resistance. They could have said, let's try to be a little bit more analytical. Instead, they said, we've got to get more angry and more angry and get more angry guests.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And they blew themselves up. And I guess when Capehart says that he thinks that's that Kamala Harris lost because she was black and female, I guess he thinks that Joe Biden was what? I don't know. Was he was he going to to win or lose? Because Joe Biden would have lost as much as I think Kamala Harris. And he was a white male. So I don't know what his point is. It's silly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Nobody in that party was going to win no matter what color or gender there was, given that the key issues that they were trying to articulate to the American people were pulling about 20 or 30 percent support across the board.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, I don't think I don't want to advise anybody in the left wing black movement. But if you look at this multiracial democracy that they keep talking about, we have now. People from India, if we call them Asians in the same breath as we do people from China or Japan, they're up to about 15% of the population. We have about 15% of Hispanics. We don't hear from those same groups
The Megyn Kelly Show
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that they're going to protest. Sometimes we do, but I think what we're watching is that this is getting very tiring because we're a multiracial society now, and it's not just a white-black binary of the 1960s, and they haven't caught up to that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And they should look at these other groups because these other groups do have extremists that are demanding these entitlements and set-asides and quotas, but Most of the people are just ignoring it and they're going out in the workplace and they're competing and they're doing very well and parody.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think there's 16 ethnic groups that are not white that have a higher per capita income than so-called whites, whether it's Arab Americans or whether it's, you know, Taiwanese or Japanese Americans or people from India. And that's the model that the country is moving to. And this idea that the black leadership and a lot of the black average rank and file understand that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And that's why Donald Trump is picking. You've heard so many black people say, I don't really.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Absolutely. And then when she talked about the masculinity of Tim Walton in vitro, he lied about in vitro fertilization. That was a complete he was a complete pathological liar. And then if he's going to be so macho, he lied. He just kept spinning lie after lie after lie about his military background. rank service, conditions about going to Iraq. So he was a pathological.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He was a forced detractor on that ticket. And I'm talking as a white man about another white man. That white male was a he was he took votes away from a black female. He was so mediocre. He could not he could not tell the truth. He was herky jerky. He got on stage. He had this. He just looked like he was insane. He kept waving his arms and screaming and yelling. He was a buffoon.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He did. He did. That's a good picture, because that's exactly what happened to him. And the idea that he was a model of masculinity was a joke. Everything that she says is just not true. And ultimately, a person has to tell the truth, at least as they see the truth. But all these people just...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Get up there and they lie and they don't even believe what they're saying because it's so obviously contrary.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, in her defense, the president of the United States would actually read the prompts on the telephone. It was the leftist thing. Period. He actually said things like that. So she's doing a better job than the president did. And that's the lowest bar you can imagine.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, that goes right to the heart of why people don't, that Democratic Party is failing because anytime things do not go well for them because of their own incompetence or stupidity or they're on the wrong side of the issue, they have a choice whether to be introspective and self-critical and adopt or blame it on sexism and racism. And they always take the latter. They always do.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She was one of the worst press secretaries because every time that They ask her a question that was not just a softball. She was like a deer in the headlights. And she said, I'm going to circle back on that. And they finally called her circle back Saki or whatever. They made fun of her. That's all she said. I'm going to circle back on that. I'll circle back on that. I'll circle back. That's right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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She never had an answer. She was a mediocrity. It's kind of sad because...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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You know, there are so many brilliant African-American people out there, and I know that they're a left wing, but if they would get somebody like the economist Roland Fryer at Harvard, who's a public intellectual, or Glenn Lowry, just put them on there for five minutes and say, you know, we don't want to have you talk about politics. Just explain inflation to the people.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Just explain, you know, the electoral call. They would be so brilliant, and it would change the whole atmosphere, and everybody would just say, wow. it would have the exact opposite effect. And they keep talking about Kentucky Fried Chicken and they don't understand that they are submitting a stereotype of mediocrity because of their ideology. But if they really want to help black people,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And make black incidental not essential to who we are. There are so many black people out there who are brilliant. They don't want that, though. And they don't want it. They don't identify by black. But if you put them on and people would see that, that A, they're brilliant, and two, they could care less about what color they are and just listen to what they say.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But when you say they... I think what you mean is mostly white, wealthy elites that feel that they're left wing and they want to have these tribal constituencies. Them too.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, but who's running MSNBC? I don't, I mean, there was... I think, what's her name? Rashid, what's her name? Ranit. But mostly, it's a condescending, elite, liberal white person who has this image of blacks that they can't really be free thinkers and they're going to have to toe their line and they owe it to them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And that's why you get all this anger from very wealthy white people in the Democratic Party. Right after the election, they were saying things like, Oh, I wish we should close those borders. Those people, you know, they don't know all we did for them, the Hispanic community. They were disloyal. They kept saying disloyal. They have a very condescending attitude.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And that's the problem is that they hire black people that mouth the shibboleths that they say, and they don't want to draw into the rich talent, the pool of talent that African-Americans offer. Yeah. At least in some conservative outlets, you'll get a lot of African-American people, and they'll say whatever they want. Sometimes it's not always MAGA, but people let them on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And that's what they need to do if they're going to reclaim their name. But if they keep doing this, they're really – not just racially divisive, but it's very... It's hurting Black people because they are getting the least talented people, which wouldn't matter if you didn't bring in race, but they're doing the worst of two worlds. They're bringing in very...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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untalented or very limited talented people and then they're accentuating their race as if they're connected and so when people look at that or turn it in they say this person is crazy and he's black whereas if they they have a choice they can either get a very talented black person and then talk about being black or they can just say that this person is not very talented and we don't really care whether he's black or white but they don't do that they say this person is black i mean they're
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But don't you think they're in a jam? What would you she's going to she's going to go on the air and blast them and say they're racist.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And the next I was running.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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If I was running NBC and this was her last show, I'd say, I can't find her. I've looked everywhere and she hasn't reported in. That's what I'd say, just what they said.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I have a feeling she's home and she is glued to her phone and no one's called her. And they keep saying, I can't find her. Where is she? You know what?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, I don't think there's any way to enforce it, but I think he wanted to draw attention to how outraged they would get and then contrast it with what everybody puts up with every day. Even at a think tank where I work, When I heard this, almost simultaneously, I got an email and it said, this is time for your annual review, Victor.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Would you please list all the things that you have done for the entire year, day by day? And we do that every year. Everybody does that. And sometimes they do it by the month. Sometimes they do it by the week. But the idea that you don't have to do that. So when they got this outrage, I think it's sort of trolling them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I think it really helped Kash Patel because he said, well, we're not going to do it at the FBI because I protect the rank and file and they report to me. And that was kind of the criticism that that led to. You have now said that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah. I mean, if you had just substituted the word black for white and any other person had said what she did and just said black instead of white, they would have been fired in 24 hours. She knew that, too. So she I remember, though, you remember, Megan, when she first got on, she had this whole paper trail of being a homophobe. You remember that? And then she said that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, I think that was good because it shows there's disagreement that Elon's got good ideas, but everybody's not following him. And these cabinet people and agency heads protect their own. And that's the kind of message they wanted. And whether he was serious in the original in the beginning, I'm not sure, but it didn't hurt him at all.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, I think what everybody's upset about is that every single day we get plants that shut down or they move offshore or they're redirected or some corporation has an economy. They're on the bottom line. It's all red. So they're cutting. This happens every day to Americans and they don't get any type of. coddling like federal employees.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But when it happens to federal employees, we're supposed to feel like this is horrible. They're doing this now with the National Park Service in Yosemite and they have an upside down flag. And I thought when I read it, that there must be thousands of layoffs, I think it was 10 people. 10 people out of, I don't know, it was 1,200 or something. 10 people were found not to be essential.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So this cycle drama that all these federal employees have, and most studies show they're making 30 to 40% more than people in the private sector, and you think the private sector would make more because they don't have job security and they take greater risk, but that's not true.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And so I think, again, it's going to boomerang, maybe not in the short term, but when people start to see these employees who are better paid than they are and they have more job security and they're screaming and yelling about not wanting to do what people in the private sector have to do almost every week, month and year, it's not it's again, it's not going to work.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And I think that might be one of the reasons that Elon Musk did it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then she said, I'm going to get the FBI to investigate because I was hacked. And then she completely lied on the air. She was never hacked. And then she said she may not have been hacked, but she couldn't. Then she said she was almost as if she was in a suspended state of animation. I may have written this, but I don't remember ever saying this. And it was so pathetic. Doesn't sound like me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, Adam Schiff lied, and he may have lied under oath. We had the first impeachment when Alexander Vindman broke protocol and disclosed a classified or at least a maybe top secret call. And he called the so-called whistleblower, Eric Ceremela, and said that Donald Trump was trying to leverage congressionally approved aid for quid pro quo investigation of Trump.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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the Biden family, they went to Adam Schiff and they talked to Adam Schiff and they strategized with Adam Schiff how to impeach Donald Trump. And then Adam Schiff said that that didn't happen, that he had never discussed anything about impeachment and that was a complete and outright lie.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He has a very good point, Megan, when he says that we've always looked at this as in the realm of abuse of the FBI. And I would add to that,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They had the Hunter Biden laptop for one year, and they knew it was authentic, and they knew it was authentic when Clapper and Brennan and Michael Hayden and Mike Morrell were lying to the country on the eve of an election that this was a product of Russian disinformation.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Any time the FBI could have come forward and told the truth, but they couldn't because they were also working with Twitter and Facebook to suppress the New York Post stories. And so... When you look at Robert Mueller, who said under oath that he did not know what the Fusion GPS conglomerate was, he did not know what the Steele dossier, the two catalysts for his own appointment.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then you look at the next one, James Comey, who pled amnesia 245 times under oath to the House Intelligence Committee and then also memorialized a classified talk with the president of the United States, confidential, and then leaked it to the New York Times.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Yeah, she should have been fired for that. And then she had a big rant once, I remember, where she was mad that... So-called white women had cornrows and this was cultural appropriation and she was going to wear authentic black hairstyles. And then all of a sudden she started wearing blonde. She dyed her hair blonde and straight. She looked like Trump. Yeah. I thought, wow, you're culturally.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then you look at the next one, Andrew McCabe, the interim FBI, and he lied four times, according to Michael Horowitz, the inspector general. Four times he lied to federal investigators. And then we get Christopher Wray and we see that He would not tell us whether there were any informants that turned out to be, I think, 26 on January 6th.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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We had the whole school board mess going after traditional Catholics, going after that. That is what Dan Bongino is talking about. This was an utterly corrupt hierarchy. And I think he's a wonderful person to go in.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But he made a really good point when he said this had foreign policy ramifications because the worst thing we've been doing with Putin is we have appeased him in some cases, but then we've demonized him. Not that he didn't deserve it, but when you – tell Putin, well, I'll react if it's a major or minor invasion.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Or you say, I told Vladimir to knock off the cyber attacks on hospitals, or maybe I'll fly Zelensky out. But at the same time, you're appeasing him. And that was from Obama administration. You're calling him a murderer or a killer. And then you're creating this whole idea that the Russians threw the election to Trump. It was a complete lie. You can see that...
The Megyn Kelly Show
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We could have had a more realistic relationship with Russia and balanced them off against China well before. And so he's right. There were foreign policy ramifications. You didn't need to lie about Vladimir Putin. He was bad enough. But they kept lying and lying and lying.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And these were the same people during the Obama administration that appeased him with the reset, Hillary and the red button, and the hot mic in Seoul with Barack Obama, give me space and I'll be flexible, all that stuff. And yet... They did really damage to a workable relationship with this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He's going to look at why the House voted to censor Adam Smith, Adam Schiff. And they did censor him. And the reason they did is they said that he lied repeatedly about his involvement with the whistleblower. And he repeated the lie serially, especially in the House Minority Report. When the Nunes memo went out and Kash Patel was the main architect of that memo, he
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Why do you want to look like an Anglo-Saxon after you gave a lecture that nobody.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And they damned it and said it was a complete. It turned out that almost everything in that memo was accurate. And then when Schiff made a minority memo, almost everything in that memo was false. And he knew it was false. And yet he promulgated that. So I don't know if he's legally culpable, but.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He did a lot of damage and maybe Bongino can bring light and remind people about that because it did have a bearing on foreign policy. And it really was bad because Donald Trump, while all this was happening, Megan, he killed the Wagner Group in Syria. He got out of an asymmetrical missile deal.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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He was the first person to send offensive weapons to Ukraine that Biden would later put a hold on and earlier. Obama had put a hold on. He flooded the markets with cheap oil. He put sanctions on the oligarchs. And he told the Germans, don't do this Nord Stream 2. It's terrible. You're going to be a captive of Putin. So he was the toughest of the last four presidents on Putin.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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But yet these lies from Schiff that he was an asset or a toady and Clapper and Brennan, it really hurt. hurt our relationship because on the one hand, Putin was thinking, my God, Trump is pretty hard on me. And yet they're saying that I helped Trump.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And then we got to remember of the last four administration, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, there was only one administration where he didn't attack his neighbors. He didn't go into... Georgia or Sasha, or he didn't try to take the Donbass or Crimea, or he didn't try to take Kiev under Donald Trump. And yet Donald Trump was told, we were told that Donald Trump had appeased him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And of course he didn't, he was the only one that's deterred him. So the whole thing was really a dark chapter in American diplomatic and political history.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So all I'm saying is that she was a sad person. She had a horrible – I'm not trying to psychoanalyze her, but she was terribly insecure. And it came out – it just exuded from her insecurity, insecurity, insecurity, insecurity. And she was thrashing around. And it was really the problem of the management to put her out there. They should have yanked her from the very beginning.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Constructive criticism. It says we want you to live up to your Western obligations to ensure free speech. And it's going to make it much worse because if you took the AFD's vote and Merz's vote, it's about 50, 51 percent of the people and they should have a conservative government.
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But he's going to reach out to the Green Party and the Social Democrats and there's not going to be a conservative party. voice in Germany. And that's going to make people even angrier after they feel they voted for a conservative majority. And, you know, he better be very careful, Megan, because his country is running about an $80 billion trade surplus.
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And it's not based anymore on superior German productivity. They have four times the energy costs that we do. And they're not as productive as we are anymore, and yet they're having an $80 billion because they charge 5% to 6% tariffs on all our goods, and we charge either none or 1% or 2%. We've got three big bases there.
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We have about 75,000 American soldiers that protect Germany because of the 32 NATO countries – We asked them 11 years ago, can you just pay a measly 2% of your GDP on military expenditures? Nine of them or 10 of them haven't done that. And Germany hasn't. It's still down 1.5. And everybody looks and says, well, Germany is not doing it, so we don't have to. And then...
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After the Nord Stream 2 dependency, Merkel thought, well, we're going to shut down all the nuclear plants, all the coal plants, all the natural gas of our own because we don't want to deal with this icky, dirty fossil fuel. But we'll get it from Russia. Let them do it and give it to us cheap. And Trump said that is stupid because you're going to be dependent on Putin and he's going to know that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And that Ellie Mustel, he was an outright racist. I remember he said right after COVID, I got used to not seeing white people anymore. And it was a good feeling. And he just said things that were, I mean... They were horribly racist, and they kept spouting that filth, and it was horrible, and nobody ever said anything. And then finally, her ratings had stayed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Well, now that they need liquefied natural gas from the United States. So Trump is going to correct that trade surplus with them. And if you told Germany said tomorrow, we want all of your troops out. We don't want your stupid American protection. We don't want to be under your nuclear umbrella. Get out. Trump would do it. He'd say, okay, if that's your attitude, fine.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And he will make the necessary adjustments. So they are very dependent upon us. And they should also think that for 85 years, when we fought that country twice, we didn't want to go over there. We never wanted to go over to Europe. We had to go over there in World War I. I'm speaking to someone... who my grandfather was gassed in World War I. My father flew 40 missions in a bomber in World War II.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The person I'm named after was killed in World War II. None of us wanted to go over there, our country. We went over there and saved Europe twice. And then we did it a third time. We protected a vulnerable Germany from Russia for decades. almost a half century in the Cold War. And they took that free defense and they had the German miracle. That was great.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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They were spending all of their resources on being productive, but they developed a very harsh strain of anti-Americanism. And I don't know where it came from, but I have my suspicions that had something to do with the humiliation of defeat and defeat and then dependency on the United States. And if he really thinks that he, that Donald Trump is some
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crazy person with no constituency, he should look at the polls because... Right.
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He speaks for us now.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I don't think they were ever great, but the only reason they took them off is that people got sick of her after the election, or they would have kept her on. They were never bothered by what she said. They were just trying to adjudicate whether it was good enough to justify the advertisers. I don't know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Short-sighted because that issue, I know that Maine is a liberal state, but that issue runs 70% to 80% against her. Almost every poll, people overwhelmingly, I think it's only 20% to 30% of the people would like to see or like to allow biological males in female sports. It's a no-brainer. 20% at most. Yeah. And then the second thing, NCAA has already ruled against her.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So what is she saying that her... It's okay to do it, but all my athletes in all my state universities and colleges and JCs, they're not going to be able to, if you're a biological man, you're not going to be recognized in an NCAA event. And so she's not going to be able to affect that. That makes no sense at all. And then Maine, like all small states, are very dependent on federal funds.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And we're already seeing these statutes now about sanctuary cities that Trump is going to try to make the same case. We have 600 of them. If they violate federal immigration law and they think this neoconfederate idea of nullification, that's what she is, the neoconfederate. Like South Carolina, you know, I'm not going to follow the tariff law.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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These are the same things that started the Civil War in the South, that the South said we're not going to honor Civil War. This is what George Wallace did in 1962 when he said, I'm not going to follow federal integration civil rights laws at the University of Alabama. I'm not going to segregate it. It's got a bad tradition, states' rights, of nullifying federal law.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And every aspect, she's on the losing end. So I think you've come up with the only explanation that she feels that she wants to be some kind of cultural icon or get all this publicity, but it's short-sighted.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Not about him. He doesn't care. And there's 40 percent of the country that likes him because he doesn't care. And the other people don't. If he picks out his fights when he says he doesn't care like this one, the other 15% that are critical, he'll get 55% ratings on this issue because of the issue. She's on the wrong side of this issue. And she knows it. It's a very feminist issue.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And that when you look at the statistics in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s about what was then called transsexuals and then later transgender, it usually is something like 0.01, 0.02 of the population suffer from biological gender dysphoria. And only this publicity and this left-wing hype has created this minuscule group of people who have a... a clear biological problem of dysphoria.
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They made it into a civil rights that became a cause celeb. And so now you have undergraduates at elite schools say that maybe 10, 15% of them want to transition. But it's not based on the actual biological problem, which is very rare in society. And she knows that. And so I don't know why these politicians do that. But when you look at the issue,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And you poll, especially among minority voters, it polls very poorly. And I think she was the same mayor that went to this LGBTQ event and started gyrating on stage and dancing. Yes. So I don't think she's a very stable governor at all.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I think it's the first Trump administration where he had people throughout the cabinet, Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, John Bolton, that were not MAGA people. And they were In the second tier, they were everywhere.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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So every time he issued an executive order, you would find somebody like Anonymous that was leaking or bragging that there was a whole army of obstructionists in the federal bureaucracy, and they were all courted and feeded by the media. There's nobody like that now. When he's bringing these people in, one of the first questions I know from a fact is, Are you going to stick to the agenda?
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Have you stuck to the agenda in the past? So she's not going to find dissidents anywhere in the Trump administration, the 20,000 or 30,000 political appointments that are going to try to undermine this. In fact, all of these cabinet people are very different than the first administration. They're going to be force multipliers. It's more likely they're going to say to Trump,
The Megyn Kelly Show
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well, I think I can even do this and more and more. I can even do more than you suggested. Whereas before it was, yes, Mr. Trump, we'll do it. And then leaked to the New York Times, hey, I'm really brave. I'm trying to obfuscate or countermand. It's not the same world as 2017, 18.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I don't think she understands it, that there's some very talented people that are working for Trump and they believe in what he's trying to do. And they're very capable and they're very serious. And they're going to learn. You're absolutely right. What's going to happen to her?
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Here in California, it's even worse because Gavin Newsom went back and begged for federal funds to rebuild Los Angeles. Now we're saying they need—this isn't the price to rebuild Pacific Palisades and other places. It's what they need from the federal government in addition to what they little have. They want $40 billion from Donald Trump and the federal government.
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He had just had a $50 million fund to sue Donald Trump on this issue and on sanctuary cities. And they have no idea that our whole federal water system that transfers, half of it is run by the federal government and Donald Trump, doesn't have to build new things. He doesn't have to give any money if he doesn't want to, to Los Angeles. He's trying to help them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And they're trying to sue him on two issues that have no public support, illegal immigration and open borders, and then the trans issue. And yet they dig down. And Gavin Newsom started the year off with $76 billion in deficits. He ran the state in the ground. Now he has this Stonehenge, it's right near where I'm talking from, this high-speed rail that we've already blown $15 to $18 billion.
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The price to finish it is $300 billion. 15 years we haven't laid a foot of track, and he's broke, and he wants Donald Trump to keep giving him $4 to $5 billion. It's not going to happen. And they don't understand that on all these issues, Megan, the ones that you've talked about in Maine and here in California, they're on the wrong side of public opinion.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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And the public does not support federal funds for trans stuff, federal funds to go to illegal immigrants. They don't want to, the state governors are, I don't know what they're doing, but his popularity has gone like this, Newsom. He's down below, way below 50%.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Joy Reid Finally Fired, Bongino Joins Trump Admin, and Possible Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal, with Victor Davis Hanson | Ep. 1012
Well, I think you kind of summed it up pretty well. Donald Trump, as you pointed out, knows that Russia crossed the border. And he said that again to make it clear that when he said started the war, he meant something else. other than crossing the border. Donald Trump, as we just said, is the only administration, which he has reminded us that Putin did not invade a neighbor.
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So he knows Putin invades neighbors, but he didn't invade under Trump's term. So he's very sensitive to that. What he was trying to do, though, is say a couple of things, Megan. He was trying to say, you know, this thing has gone on for three years. There's probably a million and a half on both sides dead, wounded. are missing and captured. There's no real...
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change in the pulse of the battlefield. You're no longer the rock star you were of 2022 when you bravely stopped that Kiev attack, but the world is different now. We're a million and a half casualties from that.
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All of the European blowhard promises have not been actualized, and you're dependent right now on the two to 300 billion that we give you, and yet you're telling us what you're going to do and what you're not going to do. and yet you haven't won the war, and we've given you $300 million, and you're not going to win the war.
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And it's never been the position of any administration, not Obama, not my first one, not Biden, to militarily give you the ability to take back the Crimea and the Donbas. It's not going to happen. So let's not play coy about it. We're not going to lie and say this is a bargaining chip. Second, You're armed to the teeth. You're better armed than any other NATO country right now.
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You're at the point where Putin regrets what he did. And if we can get him back out to where he started from, you will be able to defend yourself. So now he's saying, essentially, I don't care what people say. You're not going to be in NATO. And you know you're not going to be in NATO. Europe knows you're not going to be in NATO. We know you're not going to be in NATO. And Russia.
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So why the pretense of saying, well, we're going to negotiate about NATO membership or we're going to negotiate Crimea and Donbass? Nobody believes that. So what's the only real contention to stop this thing? Can Donald Trump somehow get... Vladimir Putin back to where he was on February 23rd or close to it when he invaded.
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And I guess he's going to say, okay, Vladimir, you can tell everybody that you institutionalized what you already had at Crimea and Donbass. You were able to make sure that... Zelensky is not in NATO. You have your new anti-American alliance. Good. And then he can say to Zelensky, you were very heroic. You were like the Finns in World War II. You stopped the Russians. You saved your country.
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You were never going to get back what you lost in 2014. You may not be in NATO, but... You're armed and we're going to have a concession and we're not neo-imperialist. We're trying to have a business relationship. It's good for you because you will be able to develop your natural resources. It's good for us because we'll get some compensation and that will be a tripwire with the Russians.
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So when they see us and our businesses right in your country, they're going to be a little reluctant to take on a nuclear power and try to invade you again. So this is a deal, and we can stop this bloodshed pretty quickly.
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And the left pretty much, Megan, wants to fight to the last Ukrainian, and they really do feel they're going to bleed Russia white, and then all of a sudden it's going to implode, and they're going to get a left-wing Euro... And that's not going to happen. It didn't happen with the czars. It didn't happen ever.
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Yes. He talks exactly like he did with Panama, Greenland, and Canada. We're going to invade Panama. Oh, OK. China deal canceled. We should buy Greenland. Oh, Denmark's now investing in Greenland and rearming. Oh, OK. Canada, we might make you the 50. Oh, you're spending a billion dollars suddenly to patrol your border. So he talks like this and he gets results.
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And we're back to don't take him literally. Take him, you know, for what it is, art of the deal. Take him seriously because he gets results, but don't take him literally.
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Thank you, Megan, for having me.
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Yeah, and one of the reasons they lost the election, there were many, but one of the reasons is that they were so anachronistic. They looked at these legacy media, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New York. And they thought that because 60 Minutes, they thought that these were back, they were back in the 1960s or 70s with these huge ratings.
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And then they didn't realize that Joe Wogan, your show, all these podcasters, Fox is doing well, Newsmax had bigger than some of these people. And then there were online influencers. There was a whole new media. And you think that these hip people from Silicon Valley who... were left wing would have told them or somebody, but they were very out of date, old fuddy duddies.
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And they kept, they kept sending, they, they didn't put, they had an opportunity with Joe Biden at the Superbowl. They had an opportunity with Kamala Harris to go on Joe Rogan. They had, and they just were so, uh, Either out of it and they didn't understand that the whole media world had changed or they were afraid because they were not these sympathetic, obsequious, left-wing legacy interviewers.
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Or they had to pay them like Hopra or Cardi B or somebody. But whatever it was, they didn't understand the new media at all.
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If you have someone like that, that is so egregious and just flat-out lies, and then you keep her there, then that tells her, I can do anything on the air. I can say anything outrageous because I have said the most, done the most outrageous thing in the world, and they kept me here. And they knew that.
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And after that, they had no control over her because she always felt she could play the race card because she had. And the same thing with her guest. Yeah. I think here's a thought for one second.
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She's not very bright because you can make the argument that the 23 to 26 percent of black males that voted for Donald Trump might have made the difference in places like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and Milwaukee and Detroit that put him over the top on the electoral college. You got you split almost split the Hispanic vote. And he got a record number of Jewish voters.
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So when she said that about black people are going to make the difference, yeah, they did make the difference in getting them elected. And he kept pretty steady with white males, his base. He didn't lose any. But where he got that extra million and a half were from minorities. And the reason is, is that... They don't listen to people like her anymore. An increasing number at least don't.
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They look at things like energy prices and inflation and they don't like to hear all that because, you know, you know, Where I am at the Hoover Institution, you know, when I used to talk to Tom Sowell or Shelby Steele or Chiron Skinner, it was almost as if, it was as if that you didn't even realize what color you were.
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It was just on the strength of an idea that you assess people and that's, they welcome that. And a lot of African Americans do, and I think an increasing number do. And then she comes in and because she's not very well versed and she's not very bright, Then she has to play the race card. And then people who, you know, are very accomplished don't want to have anything to do with her.
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And because she kind of, she pollutes the whole racial dialogue. She's done a lot of damage is what I'm trying to say, Megan. She's not just an entertainer. She's a hate monger. And she's done a lot of damage. And she's brought a lot of people are angry at her. And she brought it on herself.
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And then she wrote these – pathetic, risque novels about sex and stuff that didn't go very well. But she became a hero of the left, and it was so incongruous because they were... Two years before and during that time, they were calling... that Trump was illegitimately elected in 2016, Russian collusion.
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And here they had a person who then after 2020, it became even worse because then they were saying Trump won't accept the election, but she had never accepted the election. And then when Joe Biden ridiculously pre-announced in panic over the George Floyd riots that he was going to pick Trump, essentially a black woman.
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He surveyed the landscape, and wow, there were people who said it's either going to be Kamala Harris or Stacey Abrams, somebody like Susan Rice. And she really helped Kamala Harris, because Kamala Harris compared to Stacey Abrams was mainstream. So what they did was... I remember that Kamala Harris, she went to Georgia and she said, we're doing something new.
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We're going to take this billions of dollars out of that $20 billion slush fund. I think it was $2 billion. And we're going to give it directly to these groups. But what she didn't tell us was two things, that Stacey Abrams would be the clearinghouse. And as Lee Zeldin said, that she had never had more than $100 in this defunct PA pack or whatever it was.
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And it increased by 20 million times to $2 billion. So you were letting sort of an arsonist dispute disperse fire prevention money. That's basically what it was. Somebody who was completely irresponsible with her own finances, would not accept elections. played the race card ad infinitum, and then you're turning over $2 billion.
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And the second thing they did is they didn't trust that everybody could waste that money quickly because they did it as they were going out the door. So they put it in a Citibank account. In other words, as if it was already spent.
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So they took it out of the EPA because they didn't want it to sit there and then have to disperse it because they thought they couldn't blow through $2 billion in time before Trump came in. So then they just took it all out and put it in a city. And that's what Lee Zeldin is doing now. He's suing to get that money back if there is any left. Yeah.
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So, you know, when they all talk about Elon, why don't they just say stuff like that? Why don't we just, why doesn't the left just say, look at this wonderful program. We've got this sober and judicious Stacey Abrams, known for her physical sobriety, and she is overseeing $2 billion. And, you know, the average person pays $20,000 in income tax. So she's representing the investment.
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into the government each year of thousands of households and tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. So why doesn't she just say... I'm very proud of what we're doing. Don't cut it. She's a wonderful steward of your money. But they never do that. They just scream and yell, constitutional crisis, and they never actually address the cut.
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You know, because of this podcast, I get emails now maybe three a day. And they're from people like the following. I am a Forest Service lifetime ranger, and I clean the trails, and I'm going to lose my job. Or I have been a soil chemist for EPA, Victor, and you need to point out that we're all losing our jobs. And I have no way to adjudicate that, right, with the program.
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But the other thing, very quickly, Jack, is And I'm not criticizing Elon, whom I praised to the skies, but they need to get a better narrative and the sense that it's tragic. In other words, you don't want to act like you're getting scalps. You've got to say something along the following. We didn't create the problem. You people, you were the revolutionaries. You hired all these people.
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You were the one that spent $7 trillion. You were the one that opened the border. You were the one that let in 12 million people. You were the one that canceled Keystone and put 650,000 acres off. You were the cancer. And it was not sustainable with 37 trillion. So then we came in and we are the ones, it's very easy to hire people and get patronage.
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It's very hard to say there's no money and have to lay them off. We don't like doing that. It's very easy to let in 12 million people and say, ha, ha, ha. It's very hard to find them and tell them you have to go home. You entered under illegal auspices. Very easy to destroy the border. Very hard to build a wall and reconstruct it. Very easy with it. Just say, oh, we're not going to have Anwar.
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We're not going to have Keystone. It's very hard to get those projects resurrected. So my point is... We are the counter-revolutionaries, and we've had the most radical revolution in our history. And it's not easy to undo what Joe Biden did and earlier Obama. And we're not bragging about putting people out of work.
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We feel bad, but we feel worse for the taxpayers who are strapped and have to give money to an irresponsible federal government. And they have to have more. They're starting to do that. They had a wonderful press conference. I looked at it on YouTube yesterday. Jack with Caroline Levitt. She brought out Kevin Hassert, who's wonderful.
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And then they had Steve Miller, who's got a photographic memory. And then they had Waltz. It's national security. And each one explained what they had done in one month. Waltz went over the foreign policy, which I hope we'll talk about in a second, about Ukraine. And then Miller went over the whole idea of the constitutionality of what they're doing and illegal immigration.
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And Kevin was really good on immigration. Just hold on, everybody. We're going to deal with inflation. We didn't cause it. We've only been in 30 days. But when we address this massive overspending and when we get we're not trying to put tariffs on anybody. We're just saying you have a tariff. We will have a tariff. You have no tariff. We will have no tariff. And it was very good.
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I think they need to do that almost every two weeks. Bring in Christy Noem. It's your turn, Christy. Tell us what's going on at Homeland Security. Your turn, Pam Bondi. And showcase them. It would be wonderful.
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Yeah, you know, I never had allergies my whole life. And after I got that long COVID, I got really bad. So I'm in the nut allergies now and I'm in bee allergies. And there's a million bees 10 yards away in the blooming, beautiful orchard. And I go places I don't want to go, and all of a sudden, within 24 hours, I feel like I'm 40 again. I come back here, I start 18, dizzy and everything.
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I don't understand how the argument the Democrats, it's almost like they're saying a federal employee is not subject to any of the conditions, risk, any of the real world that all of you are out there. What are they going to tell some farmer who's out there farming wheat or corn? He has no idea or she has no idea what they're going to have any money at the end of the year period.
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And they are living on borrowed money from the bank on their crop loan. And every day they go out, they don't know if they made money that day or if they paid somebody for the pleasure of being an attractor all day. And they won't know until that crop is harvested, if there's not a rain, there's not a frost, something.
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And if they actually get the crop, then they don't, the price, they're at the mercy of the brokerage.
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people and the world market and they're going to tell those people oh it's so bad that we have to go into work with a steady guaranteed income i don't think that's going to be persuasive for a truck how about a truck driver you know he's driving down there in the all you know 17 18 hours every couple of days he looks at what's the price of fuel in indiana oh god i got to go to california what's the price of diesel there oh my car my truck insurance went oh my god
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And you're trying to tell him that somebody with a guaranteed job you're supposed to feel sorry for? I don't think they're going to be sympathetic. Same thing like a guy on a forklift in Modesto and you say to him, how long you been on that forklift at 15 bucks an hour? I've been out here since I was 18. Do you want to pay your taxes to forgive 1.7 trillion in student loans? No.
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He's half the country. And that's why the Democrats don't quite get it, you know. Yeah. I know that the polls, as they did with Reagan, Reagan had terrible polls. And as you remember, Jack, in 82, he got hit in the midterms and in 83, and then all of a sudden, the Reagan revolution kicked in with tax cuts, deregulation, and the economy grew almost 7% in 84. He wiped out Mondale, but...
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It's going to be rough to administer chemo to this patient. It really is. That's us, the patient.
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Yeah, yeah. I got to carry an EpiPen. I passed out. And when I woke up, it was, I don't know, 75 over 45 heartbeat. Blood pressure in 180 heartbeat. And these Salma people, it was two very nice Hispanic women. Maybe there was a third one. They came out and I was all covered with welts. And I said, I woke up and my wife called them. And I said, I think I'm okay. And they gave me one EpiPen.
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No, people were very friendly. I flew in. It was kind of a storm, and the pilot was wonderful. He went right through the storm. We landed, and then a dense fog ensued in Dallas, and we took right off. I arrived right on time.
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I had a connection, and then it was kind of cloudy and cold in Naples, and I had to go to a Bradley Foundation meeting for two days, and then I took a car and went to Palm Beach. It was very cold and windy. It got a little warmer, and then I went to Scott Atlas' Liberty,
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It's a new institute that Scott has founded mostly geared toward young people, young professionals to see if they can create each year advocates for free speech and free expression all across business, health care, everything. So I gave the speech, had a nice – I sat at the table with the first lady of Florida who was just very – She gave a talk right before mine. She's brilliant.
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She's a very effective speaker. She's beautiful. She's competent. Gosh, that's a scary pair, the two of them, Ron DeSantis and his wife.
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Yes, she survived cancer and cancer. And then Laura was there, Laura Ingram. And I talked to Laura, and I owe a great debt to Laura because I had been informally, to tell you the truth, exiled from my rare occasions appearances on Fox. And then Laura Ingram brought me back in 2017, I think. So I owe her a debt of gratitude and gratitude. I had a little conversation. We were both a little worried.
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I don't know if she's going to bring it up Monday, but there can't be a triumphalist message that we're doing all this. It's like, you people put us in this position, so there's going to be some rough medicine that's being administered. We don't like to do it, but you made us do it because this was not sustainable, especially on the economy. We didn't create the hyperinflation. You did.
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We didn't create these huge deficits in the same degree that you did. And so, I think we were kind of on the same page on that.
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Well, what was interesting about this is the left wants to create this narrative that There was this small clique of Hamas radicals that, yes, they did get elected, but they canceled all the elections. And they're not representative of the Palestinians of Gaza. And... When you gave them evidence that on October 7th, when it was announced, these hostages, Jack, were not taken by Hamas terrorists.
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And they said, you know, it's not doing the trick. You got to get an ambulance. And they gave me another one. And they gave me Singular. Then they gave me steroids. And they gave me Benadryl. Then they gave me Zyrtec. And I said, enough already. But whatever they did, my heart rate Went down and my blood pressure stabilized within three hours and all my welts disappeared.
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They were taken by civilians and sold. I mean, there was a bounty on Israelis. You saw the picture when the bulldozer knocked down the fence. It was a free-for-all. Once the word got out, you can rape, you can kill, you can torture, you can steal right across there. You know, look at that beautiful kibbutz, all these affluent Israelis. Just go to it. They had hundreds of people who swarmed.
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And when you saw the bodies that they came back with or the people they were torturing, it was the Gazans. And then when they started releasing the first prisoners, they had Hamas people protecting the prisoners from the civilians. They wanted to kill them. So, and this whole idea that we didn't, oh, I have a, I'm in a mosque, I'm in a hospital, I'm in a school.
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I didn't know there was a Hamas headquarters beneath me. Of course they knew they were part of the thing. So my point is when you, and then they did the autopsies on the two young children.
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who came back battered, and it was very clear to them, very... I mean, you can't fool an Israeli pathologist and coroner, and what they found was that the children had been strangled to death, and then their bodies had been beaten up to make it look as if they were hit by falling concrete or something. So they killed little children.
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And as I said, even the Grand Mufti, that's pretty hard for him to get shocked by anybody. And the UN criticized it. But here's the point. Their whole currency that protects them is the international left. And so all they had to do was take off their mask, wear business suits, and conduct themselves like other people who claim that they are nations. And they couldn't do that.
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So they, as they are cowards, they put on their whole camouflage uniforms, their scarves, their headbands, the whole Hamas get up. They... were anonymous, you couldn't identify them. And then they started triumphantly bragging and boasting over coffins. Coffins. So they were trading corpses. And they didn't tell anybody they were dead. That came very late.
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It suggests to me there's a lot of people we think that are alive or dead. And here's the final point. There's a thin thread that protects them from annihilation. Just a thin thread. And that is everybody in Israel wants to get rid of Hamas for what they've done and what they are doing. But the United States uniparty diplomatic corps says you can't do that. We're not going to give you bombs.
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We're not going to do that. And that's not there anymore. It's Donald Trump. Donald Trump said yesterday that They ask him what Israel should do. He said, I trust them to do what they want. Whatever they want to do, go do it. And all of those people on the stage that were triumphantly boasting about the coffins, I have a feeling they're all dead men right now. They're all dead.
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They don't know they're dead, but they're dead because there's going to be informants and there's going to be people who know it and they're going to boast to people and they're going to have some sophisticated technology that can identify foreheads and they're going to identify them. And you haven't heard anybody said, I'm the proud leader of Hamas.
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You hear names, but not self-identification because to say that you are a leader of Hamas is a death sentence. And everybody laughed at Donald Trump when he said, you know what, we have to rebuild that rubble, but you can't do it when people are supporting Hamas, so we suggest they temporarily go somewhere. The criticism of him in the Arab world wasn't, well, we don't, that's a little extreme.
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And then I went to the allergist in a week and he said, you're a number 10 on bee sting and you got to have immunotherapy, Jack, where they inject you with bee therapy. And I said, how often of every 10 injections for the next three or four years does you have anaphylaxis? And they said, oh, it's not bad. Maybe one out of 10.
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It's like it was twofold. That came from an American with Israel support. Therefore, since we're illegitimate rulers everywhere, we've never won an election. We're afraid of the people, and they won't like that. And number two, we don't want these people. We do not want them in Egypt. We do not want them in Jordan. We do not. Kuwait must be saying, we had these people once.
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And when Saddam invaded Kuwait, they sided with Saddam. We don't want them. And remember... The Kuwaitis, once we gave them their country back, what was the first thing they did? Ethnically cleanse a third of a million Palestinians. They just said, get out. And so that's the only hang-up.
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And I think there's going to be a lot of support for rebuilding Gaza, but having passport control about who gets to come in. and make it a real nation and try to make it, you know, a situation where you don't let terrorists in. And that's going to be my only reservation. I don't think the United States should spend any money on it. Period. Not one dime.
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And number two, I don't think that we should allow anybody from that enclave to come in the United States. Not one.
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There's plenty of Arab money to do that. And we have 12 million illegal immigrants. We have students rioting and chasing Jews on our campuses, defacing monuments and graves. We don't need any more students from the Middle East countries that support terrorism. And I hope Donald Trump reinstitutes his ban, not aimed at Arabs or Muslims, just countries that Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iran. Ireland.
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My grandmother was Irish, so I have no ethnic... No, but they're twisted.
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They're running almost a $230 million surplus, and Germany alone is $60 or $70 billion. I should say billion, excuse me, $20 or $30 billion surplus. Germany alone is $70 or $80 billion. When you start looking in depth at the asymmetrical tariffs, depending on the particular commodity, electronics, pharmaceuticals, cars, food, it's about double R's. In other words, they charge us 5%.
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So, I said, well, if I do 40 or 50 a year, I'm going to have this for sure. Yes, but you won't die if you get stung. I said, I'll take my chances. Wow.
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We charge them either 0% to 2%. And then we're defending them. And by the way, everybody, don't tell me that we all, well, Victor, we only pay 16% of, 17, maybe a 20% of NATO budget. We don't pay half. That's not quite true. They're all under our nuclear shield, number one. Number two, they wouldn't be able to import oil, believe me, from the Middle East.
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They would not be able to ship stuff to China if the U.S. Navy did not patrol. They wouldn't even get through the Red Sea if it wasn't for the U.S. Navy. They couldn't even go through the Suez Canal. So we underwrite all of that. And then they don't even follow the Western tradition of free expression. And they hate us.
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We'll get into Donald Trump in a minute, but I don't think they know what... They kind of remind me of the Democratic Party right now.
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They think they're doing something that every... When they get Jasmine Crockett on TV and she starts screaming and yelling and racial epithets and horrible stuff, and they think, or you get Schumer out there and he does that, or that shrill Elizabeth Warren, or that Jamie Raskin. They think that's going to generate... You know, popular support. Well, the same thing about the Europeans.
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When they start attacking Trump and the United States and this, and then you say, fine, just don't.
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There's an election coming up, we'll see. I think the Christian Democrats and the socialists in Germany are doing all they can to get elected the AFD because... Almost every day there is an illegal alien who goes and runs over someone or knifes someone or kills someone. And this was Angela Merkel. Yes, we can do this program. Remember that? Yes, we can do it. Yeah, you did it all right, Angela.
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She was the worst chancellor in the history of Germany except for Hitler. She really was. She destroyed that country. Schroeder was bad, but not as bad as she was. She hated, she didn't like any conservative. She was an East German brought up under communism. And that country is in bad, bad shape. And we'll see. And then when this Ukraine, we'll talk about the Ukrainian settlement, but...
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I know. I used to love bees. I thought, poor bees, go out and work. In fact, when it was a shady day and they weren't pollinating the plums, I would throw rocks at the hive. I'd say, get out there and work, you lazy bees. And now I see them. I said, get back in there. Don't attack me. There's a theory a guy told me in the ER.
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When Donald Trump says, this is a problem on your border, it's been going on for three years, you have no solutions. There is no Ukraine now. It's lost a quarter of its population. It's been destroyed. And you want to just fuel it just enough so you can kill about 100,000 people a year. But you don't have any positive strategic goals because you don't want to win and you don't want to lose.
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You just want to keep it going. And you bragged and bragged after Linsky was the rock star of 2022 with his T-shirt, ex-comedian, that we're going to send over all – and you didn't send over all that stuff. And now, you know – You're free.
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If we had a problem with Mexico or Canada, I don't think the Europeans would butt in and say, we're going to help you with that border with Mexico and those cartels. You can't handle it, America. No, no, no, no. It's right in your backyard, and we have tried to help for three years, and we're nowhere. And there has to be some kind of solution. We can talk about that.
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When I was a little boy, my grandmother, who grew up in New Mexico, very poor, with a ranching family, and her father had spent his whole life looking for the Adams diggings. They made a movie about McKenna's gold. You remember that? Oh, really? The mystical. It's supposed to be on the rocket range somewhere. But anyway, he...
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Her brother was shot in a saloon and murdered, and her father sold what little cattle they had and went out to look for the desperado. And then he went out in the frontier mountains. They caught the guy and brought him back. And then... He looked for this mystical treasure. But every once in a while, one of her brothers or somebody would send back a little bit of gold dust in the mail.
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I don't think that bees are attracted to people who have a discernible allergy as if you give off a scent or something. I think that's an old wife's tale.
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So my grandmother, when I was a little boy in this house, I'm sitting and would say, look at this. It's worth $32 an ounce. Can you believe that, Victor? And there was like an eighth of an ounce. And my point is, before Nixon got us off the gold standard, The price of gold was set by the government. And the currency, in theory, I think they stopped that in the 30s.
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And I know a lot of economists are going to correct me. But there was a time in America that anybody could take their dollars in to a bank and get gold in return at a set government price.
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Yes, you could do that. It was a redeemable. Printed money was not currency. It was a certificate for redemption. It was just a way of not having to carry gold around. And there's a lot of people, I've talked to a lot of people, not nuts at all, who want to bring back the gold standard.
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They lost everything. They lost everything. They had gone to find the murderer. Her name, their maiden name was Johnston. They were a distant, distant, distant relative of the Confederate General Joe Johnston. And that was kind of a sticking point because my grandfather was a Welshman maternal from Missouri.
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And his great, his grandmother, Lucy Anna Davis, they came from Missouri because they were northerners. And he fought on the northern side, but they lived in the southern part of Missouri. So after the war was over, there was a family... saga that he was in a fight with someone and he fled. They decided that southern Missouri was not safe for Yankees. So they fled to California in 1870.
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They came out on the railroad and then they looked around here and they found an artesian pond and you could buy land within, I think it was two miles of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which we're still two miles from. And The government gave it to the railroad for development. I have the certificate.
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They bought it for $4 an acre, and they were given 20 years to improve it, and then the railroad would come back and examine. That was what caused the great riots about eight miles from me, the massacre that was written about in the octopus. When did that happen? That happened, the Muscle Slew Tragedy, it's called. That happened at the early, I think it was either 1888 or 89.
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And it's about six, eight to miles, there's a monument. And the railroad came in and basically told people who had bought land that that they didn't improve it. And they said, we did improve it, and they did, but we couldn't improve it as much as you would like because you kept raising railroad cargo fees because it was a monopoly and there was no way to get their grain or fruit.
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and so the railroad tried to take it and they had a shootout and they became folk heroes it was in that period that um 18 earlier that we were the i think one of the first families here and they bought the land and then she had three sons my great-grandfathers my great uncles Oren, Skyler, and Cyrus. What names? He was named after Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the threshing machine.
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Joy Reid lost her premiere extravaganza hit show.
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Anyway, he stayed here, and then he had his father. His son was my grandfather, who was born here in 1890. Rhys Davis. They were all Welsh men. And he had a little, they were very poor. They dried apricots. And this family had moved in from New Mexico in about 1905 or 1906. My grandfather was about 15 or 16. And he met this young girl who had a family of 11 children. They were dirt poor.
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and they waited till they were 21 and they got married and then the next thing he knew he told me his mother died of breast cancer and his father kind of went crazy when that happened so at 21 they had no money and he had a brother and a sister. Anyway, he bought 120 acres. He had a mortgage his entire life. And then he married my grandmother, and their whole family moved in with him.
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Yeah, they had a barn here. It's made out of eucalyptus poles. Anyway, then my grandmother was very different. Her family had come from the south. They lived in New Mexico, but they were from Alabama. And my grandfather was a very strong and
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union person and anyway my grandmother had kind of still when I knew her a slight southern accent and there was always a little tension there and all my parents of course were very strong democrat but they were very strong unionist And my grandmother wasn't, you know, she didn't refight the Civil War, but her family were cowboys. And her brother, when they moved here, he was 12 years old.
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Over a thousand miles.
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I knew him very well. He was born in 1900. He came much later. He was selling off their bankrupt little cattle ranch. And he came and they didn't have money to use the... She came on the train and then... They went broke when they got here. They bought a house. They all went broke. The weird thing about it is that family was all very successful.
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The guy that I told you who moved here became very, very successful. He was deaf, too. And he figured out the most brilliant for a person who was completely broke. He got a concession from the local sewer plant that put gray water, not sewage, onto alfalfa. He rented the alfalfa from a person. She said, it's not level. It won't irrigate. What do I do? And he said, if you, she had 400 acres.
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He said, if you level the 400, you can have 200 acres. So he did it himself, and then he got the gray water. He said, I will charge you a nominal fee to put the gray water on my 200 level acres, and I'll grow alfalfa. In those days, you could do that. The alfalfa grew very quickly, and then he went every... A few months to Montana, and we had this big cattle truck.
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And he brought the cattle back, put them there, and he deliberately picked that place because it was two miles from the feedlot, so he would get a cattle drive for two miles. So he explained it when he was about – he died at 98. He explained it to me. that there was no way to lose money.
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People were paying him to fertilize his own alfalfa, and then he got cheap cattle, and he fattened them up very quickly, and then he didn't have any transport costs. He was very right-wing, very right-wing, and he was 5'4", and he wore cowboy boots. And then he introduced me to my great-uncle.
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Yeah. Well, he came with his—I'll stop now—with his brother, who was Uncle Bill. Yeah. And— He came from Magdalena, New Mexico, and he literally came. He was 5'5", 5'6", big cowboy boots and a hat, and he had a Smith Wesson on his holster with a little sheriff's star when I knew him. And he was visiting. He was in his 60s or 70s. And he said, well, you know, I like your dad.
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When he married my niece... You know what your dad told me? He got out of that darn B-29. He came home. He said, you're the littlest man with the biggest gun I've ever met. So he wore a gun everywhere. So anyway, that was a pioneer family. Yeah.
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And, you know, he did it with a—he didn't do it with a D9 or a Massey. He did it with a 9-in tractor, or he had somebody do it. I don't know if he did it himself, but they had— You know, the 9N didn't even have overhead valves. I had a 9N. Sure, you still do up in the back there somewhere. The Jubilee tractor was a beautiful invention. When I was a little kid, I used to disc with it.
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Well, everybody, we know you're all hearing about this huge controversy. And it started when Trump sent General Kellogg over his special Ukrainian envoy, Marco Rubio, Waltz, his national security. And he said some things. And basically, Trump I want to be very careful and characterize it.
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He looked at this and he said, this thing has been going on, it'll be on the 22nd, and we're speaking today on the 23rd. Excuse me, tomorrow is the third anniversary on the 24th. And he said... He keeps saying millions and millions, but it's probably the aggregate Russian and Ukrainian dead, wounded, missing, captured, probably a million and a half. This is the worst disaster since Stalingrad.
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One-fourth, more than one-fourth. Twelve million people have left Ukraine. And there's no end in sight. So he looks at this and he says, Trump is saying, well, when this whole thing started, and it didn't start on my watch... The Europeans said they were going to pour all this stuff in, and they didn't do what they said they did.
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The United States, under Biden, gave enough money to save Ukraine, but not to win. And it's just a death thing. So I'm going to stop it. Zelensky then said he wanted to be in on talks and everybody said, you can't talk to Putin. And basically, J.D. Vance and I'm paraphrasing. And Trump said, we talked to Stalin. We talked to Mao. We talked to everybody.
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How do you have a stop a war unless you talk to even if it is a monster? So then Zelensky said, I want to be on this and you're going to sell me out. And basically they said, listen, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You don't tell us what you're going to do. I know this is your country, but your country wouldn't exist if you count on your beloved European friends.
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They talk a great game, but they do not give you enough. It came from us. And then Trump said some things. He said, by the way, he's a dictator. And he started it. Well, that got everybody upset because he didn't start the war. And I say that with all deference to Donald Trump because Donald Trump knows he didn't. Because Donald Trump campaigned correctly by saying the following.
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That war would have never started if I were president because Putin did not invade on my people. He invaded in 2008 when he went into Osatia in Georgia on George W. Bush's watch. He went into Crimea and Donbass on Barack Obama's watch. He tried to take Kiev and more borderlands on Biden, but not mine. So what did he mean by that? Well, I think what he meant was.
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that there were periods that this thing could have been prevented, and Ukraine acted in a way that might have precipitated. I don't know if I agree with that or not, but here's what he was trying to say very quickly. In 2014, there had been an elected pro-Russian Yanukovych, And he was overthrown. He was unpopular. He was corrupt. But they all are.
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And then a pro-EU, pro-NATO, pro-European, pro-American person. And the controversy lies with what did John McCain do when he flew over there? What did Victoria Nuland, what did the Obama, did they encourage this coup? Because he abdicated. And at that point, you had a government in Ukraine that was pro-NATO.
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And Vladimir Putin warned that we're not we lost the Eastern Europe, but we're not going to put a former Soviet republic as a NATO EU power right on our frontier. And they didn't believe him. And then he looked at the Obama administration and he said, wow, they are appeasing, appeasing, appeasing me this this. Oh, wow. We want reset, reset, reset, Hillary, reset, reset, and then the hot mic.
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Tell Vladimir, Mr. Medvedev, tell Vladimir that if you'll just give me some space, i.e. don't invade until I get re-elected in 2012, I'll be flexible on missile defense, i.e. I will destroy missile defense and disband it. And they both kept their bargain, and then he invaded after Obama was elected, and Obama did nothing. Okay. Trump is angry about that.
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So then, after they invaded on the 24th, and Trump, by the way, had said, you know what, I meant, I didn't mean that. I know that Russia invaded. He said that yesterday. But why did he call him a dictator? Well, everybody said... Well, he hasn't held elections, but Churchill didn't for a decade from 1935 to 1945. And that's very disingenuous.
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Right. Yes. And he brought people in that he did like, and he liked people that – he brought people like Halifax, who was all over the place politically. And he brought loyalists like Anthony Eden in, he brought Bette Bevin in, he brought all sorts of people. And the point I'm making is he had a wartime Israeli-type coalition government.
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And he censored the news that he thought was pro-German, but he did not hound his political opponents. Zelensky has suspended a lot of habeas corpus. He's suspended opposition parties. He's suspended opposition media. He has canceled elections. And I don't think he's a dictator like Putin, but he is a soft dictator. Okay, so that's what got everybody angry.
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And then the left said that Donald Trump is pro-Russian because he lied and said that Russia didn't invade. Well, the other thing that he was very angry about is in March, just... So this time three years ago, Zelensky's a hero because after 10 days or 12 days, that column we watched every day was blown apart.
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And Kiev was saved and he had a little t-shirt on, he was an ex-comedian, he was going all over the world, he was a rock star. And they said, the war is over. They lost. This man said, and it wasn't over. And then things started to happen. He kept making demands on the United States, and we thought Europe was going to shoulder it. Europe was not meeting their 2%, even though they'd been hector.
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There were still 9 or 10 countries in NATO that would not invest 2% of their GDP. And then things started to get very weird. The Ukrainian ambassador in 2016 had written an op-ed during the election attacking Trump, candidate Trump. We all remember Alexander Vindman, the U.S. dual citizen. He was U.S. and Ukrainian citizen that was offered the Ministry of Defense.
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He engineered, he broke the rules and disclosed a classified private call between Zelensky and Trump, magnified it, got Mr. Saramella, the person who never heard the call, cooked it up with Adam Schiff and impeached Trump. If that wasn't enough... In September, right at the height of the campaign, Pennsylvania is a swing state.
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Joe Biden, who is now abdicated for Kamala Harris, tries to get her elected by flying in on a C-17, Mr. Voldemort Zelensky. And where does he go? He goes to old Joe Biden's hangout in Scranton, Pennsylvania. And where does he go? He goes to a munitions plant. And with whom is he with? Josh Shapiro and the Democratic cadre. And what does he say? That these jobs are essential, i.e. be making shells.
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And the subtext is, if you vote for Trump, he'll cut off aid and you'll be out of a job. He was interfering in U.S. elections. So he had no goodwill from Trump. take a pause. And then we had a recent controversy. Um, I'll be very quick. And I was, I was in a car and the editors at free press asked me to comment on it. So I wrote the, I stayed up till 1230 that night and wrote the first draft.
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But, um, This was this past week. J.D. Vance. So, Neil Ferguson, my colleague, a good friend, a wonderful historian, he tweeted when Donald Trump... said that Zelensky was a dictator and then wrongly said that – he didn't say invade. He said that Zelensky started the war, and I explained why he said that. I would go back just for a second.
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In March, two months after the salvation, the saving of Kiev, there was a peace agreement, peace negotiation. And word leaked out that the Russians might have been willing – to cut a deal on circumstances that today look pretty good.
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But at the time, Zelensky thought he was going to be in NATO and they were going to get him out of Crimea and the Donbas, in which they had been there for, at that time, about eight years. And so Trump's view as well, you started it because you could have ended it with a negotiation. I don't know if that's true or not. But my point is this is then Neil Ferguson wrote, how dare Trump?
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Basically, he said the following. We used to have an American president, George H.W. Bush, who when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, he said, this shall not stand. What will Republicans say about a president that doesn't follow that example? I'm paraphrasing. And that got a furious response from J.D. Vance. And he's called him a globalist and basically a bankrupt moralist.
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It's a very tough response, but he outlined five things that Trump and the administration wanted. We do not want the United States in this mess. Number two, we have given them more money than Europeans. Number three, they don't have any plan how to stop this war. Number four, the real enemy is China. Number five, we are draining our critical stocks of shells and weaponry to subsidize this.
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And we do have a say. So then Donald Trump came back and said, after everybody was angry at him, he said, I want to get paid back for all this stuff. And you have rare minerals that are critical, lithium and other things. And we want a concession. And oh, my God, he's an imperialist. But everybody should remember what Trump was trying to do. He's trying to say you're never going.
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We know what Trump's position is and what J.D. Vance's is. And that's what we all talked about. They are not going to be in NATO, but it wouldn't even matter if they were in NATO because NATO would never come to their rescue. And if they did want to come to their rescue, look at them. How many people does Britain have that are battle-ready, Jack? 18,000, I think? 18,000 troops?
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Well, I mean, they have about 180,000. Yeah, I know, but battle-ready? Yeah. I mean, you can get like that. And how many tanks are—there's fewer than 50 that are running— in Germany, and I think Germany has about 10 F-35s, so even if they wanted to, they couldn't, and they don't want to. So what's holding...
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Vladimir Putin from absorbing all of Ukraine are the heroism of the soldiers in the field that are Ukrainian, and the average age is getting up close to 30, and they're worn out, and U.S. munitions and intelligence and economic aid. I think we pay for the entire salaries of the Ukrainian administration.
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Okay, so then Donald Trump is saying, we want these concessions to be paid back, and they said, how dare you do that? They don't understand Trump. They don't understand any of this. This is all art of the deal trolling. And what he's basically saying is, Mr. Zelensky, you are not master of your own fate. Don't tell me what you are going to do and what you're not going to do. It's your country.
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I'm not saying I'm going to get into your business. I'm just saying if you want me to get into your business, and apparently you do... then I'm going to have the say. If you don't want me to get in your business, fine. You go deal with the Germans and the Poles and the British, and they're going to protect you.
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But don't play this game where you come and fly during an election year to an ammunitions plant and start lobbying against me and then tell me that you're disinterested. I'm not going to believe that. So if you want United States aid, you from now on are going to pay for it, and we'll have a concession. But the real subtext was... Zelensky thought about, ah, this is horrible.
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And then he thought about it. And obviously, he said, people came to him and they must have said, hey, Zelensky, you understand what he's really saying? He's not going to send U.S. troops over there. And if the British sent troops and the French, that wouldn't be any good. But he's going to put a lot of American businesses and investment there.
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And so if Putin were to try to break whatever negotiation we have and try to overrun, he's going to be dealing with American investment money, corporations, employees, infrastructure. And that will bring the United States into conflict with Putin.
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In other words, we're trying to sort of kind of have an investment in Ukraine to get back the money, but also to tell Putin this is a nation that's going to open up investment to Western concerns. So don't go in again. So then in this rigmarole. And Neil said that it was like the Gulf War.
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J.D., correctly, I think, and this is no criticism of Neil, that that was not a historical, good historical account. I pointed out that this is exactly like, in my response to both of them, exactly like the 1939 Winter War. November, Hitler. had made a deal with the Soviet Union. The United States was isolationist. France and Britain were terrified over the loss of Poland.
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They knew they were going to be invaded soon, and they were invaded. And Stalin said, you know what? Germany is on our side. There's no other opposition. We're going to go take what we want from Finland, our neighbor. So they went to General Mannerheim and said, we want 10%, just like Putin. Oh, no, no, you can't. Okay, we're going to invade. And they invaded. And that was the worst.
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Like Putin, at Kiev, they had no idea about the metal of the Finns. They're some of the bravest, most courageous people in the world. And all of November, December, January, February, they killed, wounded, or captured 400,000 soldiers. The Finns were on skis. They had sharpshooters. They were dressed in white during the snow.
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They understood the terrain, the weather, and the Russians were just bled white. And then finally Stalin said, grind them down. They poured in artillery. They poured in tanks. They poured in another million people. And all of a sudden, this poor little country of two and a half million was overrun. So then what did they do? They were in the same position as Mannerheim went to Stalin and said, look,
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We'll give you the 10%. But if you try to take the whole country, we'll fight to the death. And Stalin said, well, that's what I... I only wanted to steal 10%. And what happened after that? Mannerheim was very careful in World War II. He helped the Germans, but he never invaded the Soviet Union. He promised he would never join Germany.
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And even though the Germans begged him at the siege of Leningrad, please, you've got a half a million of the best fighters in the world. You could break the siege of Leningrad if you just set foot on Soviet territory and stop the supply. And Mannerheim said, nope. I will help you anywhere way I can, but I'm not going to invade the Soviet Union.
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And when they lost, Stalin went over to Finland and said, I'm going to let you go. You're not going to join the West. You're going to be like Austria. No West, no Soviet. And it kept their freedom for 85 years. So that's a good model for Ukraine. They're not going to get the Crimea back and they are not going to get the Donbass. And that has not been the policy of Mr. Putin.
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Obama, Mr. Trump, or Mr. Biden to get it back militarily. Nobody believes they can. They're not going to... Another argument that Neil Ferguson made was, we're giving back... You're playing poker and you're giving away all of your leverage.
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You say you're not going to get back Donbass and you're not going to get Crimea and you're not going to put... Well, don't tell Putin that because now you're giving away the... No, no, no, no. If you're playing poker... And you're bluffing and you're going like this. Well, I've got a really good hand. They know you're bluffing.
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They know that Europe doesn't want them in NATO because they don't want to go have to rescue them by statute. We don't want them in NATO. Russia doesn't want them in NATO. And I don't think Ukraine wants them in NATO. deep down inside. And more importantly, nobody believes they have the military ability to take back Crimea and take back Donbass.
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And nobody wants to give them that, you know, a half, I don't know how many billions it would be, a half a trillion dollars in equipment to try and another 300,000 dead to try to take those things. But, and here's what I think J.D. Vance and Neil Ferguson and Donald Trump would all agree on. They can cut a deal.
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They can go to Putin and say, okay, you get to go tell the Russians that you institutionalized the occupation, the theft of Crimea and Donbass. You can tell them that you caused dissension in NATO and you stopped Ukraine from taking being in NATO and that was worth, it's a disaster for Russia. And then you got the sanctions lifted. And Russia now is going to be part of the G7.
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It's going to go back to the normal. And then Ukraine can say, we saved our country and we pushed them back to where they were on February 24th. And that would mean that Putin would have to withdraw 30 or 40 miles. They would make a South North Korea type DMZ. And that's the negotiation. And I think that Trump can, if he pulled that off,
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And to pull that off, he's saying some crazy things, but like everything he says, whether it's Gaza or Panama. You know, I had a talk with some people this weekend, and somebody came up to me and said, I won't mention the person, but not a friend, and a couple people wrote me really nasty things. Oh, you're a Trump sellout, or you're an appeaser. Shame on you.
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You've ruined your reputation for suggesting there should be a negotiation. We need to give We need to give him a lot more. We can give him a trillion. All this crap. We should have American troops and all this stupid thing. We should put him on the nuclear. No, no, no. But the fact is there can be a negotiated settlement that will stop the killing and Ukraine will have its country.
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It can get its refugees back. You'll get Western investment. and it's the best armed country in NATO right now other than us, and it's got the most experienced fighters, and Putin knows that. So all we have to do is have a DMZ, U.S.
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Western investment in Ukraine, get back its population, rebuild the country, and keep that army at the same size it is now and beef up NATO, and Putin will not go in again. And so that's what we're talking about. Donald Trump, but just one last thing, Jack, is that they don't understand what he says. I don't know what the word is, trolling, but he wasn't going to invade Panama, right?
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But he did stop that awful agreement in which China was going to have a concession and has a lot of extra legal influence on our Panama Canal that we gave. And we had a treaty that no foreign power should usurp our primacy vis-a-vis the Panamanians. Their foreign nation's closest relationship has to be us. And they got out of that deal. He's not going to make Canada a 51st state.
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What he's angry about is they had an open border. And all of a sudden, Trudeau is spending a billion dollars and putting... thousands of people to patrol the border, and more important, he's looking now like, uh-oh, they caught me with that $50 billion surplus and this asymmetrical tariffs. He wasn't going to attack Greenland or force Denmark, but he did want a concession that
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China and Russia are extracting key concessions in the Arctic Circle. Greenland is a North American territory. We've had a long history with it in World War II. It's a vital piece of real estate. The Danish have agreed now to give a billion dollars in development for Greenland as colonial powers. And more importantly, the Danes now says they're going to arm up to 3% or 4% of GDP.
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And that's all he wanted. That's all he wanted. So Panama, Canada, Ukraine, there's a pattern there. He tries to confuse, rattle, cause controversy, get people thinking. Same thing with the Gaza thing. And then once it all settles down, things happen. And I think there's a 50-50 chance that you'll get a negotiated settlement.
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He destroyed the turns. So how did Biden, everybody, when Donald Trump said that they had not invaded on his watch, and he said that many times, he reportedly told Vladimir Putin, the following will happen if you invade Ukraine. And Putin reportedly said, you wouldn't really do that. And he said, yes, I would. But the point is, how did Biden destroy deterrence?
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Number one, as Jack just pointed out, in August of 2021, he just skedaddled from Afghanistan. He left 13 Marines to die. He left contractors there. He left a billion-dollar brand-new embassy, a $300 million retrofitted embassy. Bagram Air Base and I don't know how many. The military said, oh, it wasn't 50 billion, it was just 7 or 8 or 10 billion in equipment, a military.
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But if you look at all the equipment, the vehicles, it was built much more than that. And then when they kept trying to use cyber warfare against our institutions, remember Obama had said, cut it out, Vladimir. That was really effective, wasn't it? And then Biden said, if you're going to do this, Vladimir, don't hit our hospitals or schools. Take them off your target list.
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And then right before the invasion, Jack, remember they asked Biden, what will you do? Because after Afghanistan, Putin is massing on the border of Belarus and Ukraine. And he said it depends on whether it's a major invasion or not. That's what he said. And then the first week when... The caravan of troops, that long column of Russian armor, was trying to take Kiev. What did Biden do?
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He called up Zelensky and says, you want to ride out? I can evacuate you. Otherwise, just give up your country. So he appeased Putin. And Donald Trump has a right to be angry because not only did Ukraine... I won't even get into Mr. Vindman and the impeachment. I mentioned the op-ed, but... They created a narrative that Biden was tough on Putin. Obama was tough. Both of them appeased Putin.
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And Biden, we just explained that hot mic with Obama, the reset. Donald Trump killed two to three hundred of the Wagner group. That's tricky to do. Russian in Syria. He really did. He destroyed ISIS. He killed Soleimani. He killed Baghdadi. He almost bankrupt Iran. He got us out of a missile deal with Russia. He sold offensive weapons to Ukraine. Not Obama, not Biden initially.
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Biden put a hold on them. He sent them javelins, artillery, everything. And they didn't. And so in his way of thinking is, I was the one that was tough on Putin. You guys appeased him, and yet your left-wing press makes me into a puppet and an asset of Putin, and yet everything you threw at me was a lie. Russian collusion was a lie. Russian disinformation laptop was a lie.
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And the worst thing you can do with an enemy like Putin... Is to a be weak and appease him and then smear him and say that he did all these things that he didn't do and then call him a killer. He is a killer. But if you insult him like Biden did and call him all these names and you're weak, that's much better to praise him and then get tough with him. And that's what Trump does.
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Just like he did with Kim Jong Un. It doesn't mean he likes him. It doesn't mean he really praises him. He just says, you know what? I'm going to let you back in the G-12 and you'll try to get back your country and be a normal country again. And then privately, he says, do not blank, blank with us.
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Don't. He talks softly and he carries a big stick. And Biden is a loud blowhard with a twig. That's the difference.
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Very quickly, everybody knew this was going to happen because the center-left has ruined Germany. And by that I mean in every aspect. They dismantled their nuclear and coal plants. They pay four times more for electricity than we do. They suppress free speech. 60 Minutes was trying to praise what they're doing, but they raid people's homes if you object to the orthodoxy in Germany.
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They let in 16% of the German population is foreign-born. They let in over a million illegal aliens from the Middle East. They get almost a terrorist incident. I shouldn't say incident, assault, killing, rape, daily rape, assault, and then killings often, mass killings. And that's driving people crazy. They're...
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Jamal Bowman, the fire alarm guy, the guy that was basically claiming that the Jewish community defeated him.
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They've deindustrialized, so their car companies, because of EV mandates coupled with the price of electricity, coupled with the United States is getting very angry at their asymmetrical tariffs. They haven't had no GDP growth to speak of for two years. This used to be the engine of Europe. So people are much poorer. They can't afford to keep warm in winter or cool in summer.
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They can't afford the price of gas. They're scared of immigrants that prey on them. And they're not allowed to object. And J.D. Vance comes over there and says... You've got a big problem for those reasons.
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But more importantly, you want us to be your partner and to subsidize your defense and to subsidize your economy by letting you have these asymmetrical tariffs and run up 80, 90, some years, 70, 80, 90 billion. We're not going to do it anymore because you're not a free Western country. And they went nuts.
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And he was speaking, as I said at the time, Jack, he was not speaking to MAGA as they accused him of. He was not speaking to that audience. He was speaking to the silent majority of Germany. And almost half of them, I guess, supposedly voted for one of two conservative parties. They say far right, far right, far right. I know that every...
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Party has extremists, there's probably some neo-Nazis, but that alternative for Germany is run by a lesbian woman. who has a non-German born girlfriend, wife or whatever. She doesn't fit the portrait of a far right. What they call far right is closed borders. You have to come legally.
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We're going to frack and we're going to develop our own natural resources and we're going to have nuclear power, et cetera. And we're going to have free speech. That's far right in Germany.
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Well, I don't understand the logic of that. You're going to go from the frying pan into the fire. It doesn't make any sense. Jory Reed was very strange. I wrote a column about her once because she went on there with cornrows once. And she said, I'm going to be path. Essentially.
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What he's basically doing to the rank and file, he's saying – You don't have to do anything but what I tell you and I'm going to protect your back. So you don't have to, whether it's smart or not, it doesn't matter. I think Elon Musk and Donald Trump will allow him to tell the employees you don't have to say what you're doing because he wants to create...
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a positive climate, and that's very hard to do when you've had a politicized FBI that puts informants on January 6th or goes after parents at school boards or goes after anti-abortion people or takes a laptop and hides it for a year while its intelligence brotherhood lies to the country. I could go on or is behind Russian collusion or pays Christopher Steele money to interfere with an election.
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Well, that's what they were doing. James Comey, Andrew. And then, you know, what Cash is saying is. We're not going to have a guy like Robert Mueller around anymore who says he doesn't know what the Steele dossier is under oath. We're not going to have a guy like Comey who feigns amnesia 245 times under oath.
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I'm not quoting her verbatim, but eventually she said this, that I'm going to be a path-breaking Africana Americana, and I'm going to wear my indigenous, and I don't like basically blonde-haired women, culturally appropriate, sort of like, you know, movie stars that have cornrows. And I thought, okay, that's legitimate. And the next thing I know, when I was channel surfing, she's got blonde hair.
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We're not going to have a guy like Andrew McCabe who lies under oath four times to federal execs. We're not going to have a guy like Christopher Wray that just won't answer a question. And so that's going to be good. But to do that, he has to get rid of dispersed people. And he's going through the ranks and he's trying to find out who gave the order to go after parents at school board.
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Who were the people who carried out the Mar-a-Lago raid and dreamed that way up? By the way, there were 14,000 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago. We were told by the FBI they were classified documents. A hundred and two were point zero zero seven. And they brought props in to put around top secret secret to place next to these documents. It was all scripted and choreographed. So he's trying to. Yes.
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He's trying to get get rid of the people who have destroyed the reputation. You look at polls that barely left and half the people have confidence in it. And make it a professional group. And if you're an FBI person and you join the agency to fight crime, then it shouldn't be considered Siberia to go to Huntsville or go to Victoria or Chicago. Yeah, Oakland is waiting for you.
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Yeah, that's what you're there for. And that's what he's trying to say. But you're not there to go to Washington and have your wife work for a Democratic operative or run for office or to be a lobbyist or to hang out at cocktail parties in Georgetown with Comey and... And Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
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And just get back to that famous iconic quote when Peter Strzok says to Lisa Page, don't worry, Andrew says that Andy says that Trump will not be elected. Or that Peter Strzok says, I went to a Walmart and I could smell them when I got there. So that's the kind of people there are.
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When you have a subpoena for FBI listening devices, excuse me, communication, and all of a sudden, I don't know where they are. They disappeared. Or when Kevin Clinesmith gets a document and he has to forge it. And an FBI lawyer commits a felony and then he gets a little slap on the wrist by his friends in the DOJ. That's what he's talking about. Yeah.
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No, it's a counter-revolution. It's not a revolution. It's trying to bring things back to normality and common sense where they were 10 or 15 years ago. That's all they're trying to do. And the left is screaming because they know what they've done and they're afraid of being exposed.
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I got a lot about Donald Trump saying that Ukraine started the war, but I don't think he meant that and he's corrected that.
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She's dyed her hair blonde. I thought, you don't believe in cultural appropriation. So white people cannot wear black hairstyles, but you can dye your hair like you're some Viking? Be symmetrical. And then I realized that every once in a month, I just wanted to see what the left was saying. And I felt really bad. Her parents were immigrants. They were upper middle class.
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She was given every type of fairness, if not advantages. And then all she did for six or seven years was she could not... She couldn't finish a show without saying white, white people, white people, white people, white people. And I thought, why are you doing? I think she's married to somebody who's white, isn't she? I think she is. I can't believe that she would.
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And so I thought to myself, Joy, stop it. Even your left wing, bi-coastal elite who are white are not going to want to hear that white people are the alpha and the omega of all mortal sins in the United States. And when you say that, you come off from a position of perceived self-doubt or inferiority complex or something. Just talk about issues without being upset.
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She couldn't talk about anything but race is what I'm saying. And to put Bowman on there who… You know, he committed a felony, and then he lied about it. And then he was anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic, so the Jewish community helped defeat him, and then he got mad and screamed. That was the rally. You remember when AOC did her rain dance?
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She got up on the thing, and she started leaping around, like jumping Jack Flash or something.
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Yeah, he kept using all these bad words. Yeah, he's gone. And then Cori Bush, she's just as bad. I think she wasn't the one that had the – her husband was doing the security detail or something. She got in trouble. Yeah. It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what tribe you say you belong to.
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Once you are perceived to have exemption or advantage, whether it's DEI, affirmative action, or asymmetrical application of the laws, then that's not good. And we know that from Jim Crow in the South. Poor white people or any white person who was charged with something and received either a lighter sentence or was exonerated and a black man was not treated the same.
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It wasn't good for white people either because they got a sense of entitlement. And then to take that asymmetrical, wrong, amoral system and flip it back. And I'm just basically quoting chapter and verse of the life work of Tom Sowell. That wealthy white people flipped this system over and put it on black people and it wasn't going to be good because it didn't hold everybody accountable.
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She was never accountable to the ratings game. And she had a brief moment... For about a year after George Floyd, where she capitalized on that, and if she had been a disinterested person, she could have offered analysis and opinion, but she just got obsessed with race. Race, race, race. I think her ratings were below 500,000. I think they were getting down.
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She lost half her audience, at least after the election.
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I'm sorry about that. I thought I was, I'm thinking of somebody else.
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There's another, there's another prominent African American, um, I think Elie Mestel, you know, the guy that's got the wacky hair, he's a Harvard Law graduate and he's always talking about white people. I think his wife may be white.
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Well, you know, I never understood her popularity because in – I think it was 2018. I'm doing this from memory, but she ran for governor. She lost by 50,000 votes. Immediately, she became an election denialist. She toured the country for a year, raising a lot of money for herself. I think she had a – she didn't declare bankruptcy, but she had all this credit card debt and financial problems.
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I like John a lot.
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Everybody always... They always look at the U.S. Postal Service and it requires, what, hundreds of millions of dollars of a subsidy every year. And they always... If by hundreds of millions, you mean billions, yes. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm ambiguous because they want to eliminate Saturday. I mean, I grew up with this idea that At 2 o'clock, I would say to my parents, can I go out and check the mail?
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Can I check the mail? Please, please, please. We have a rural mailbox. And I have one here, but of course, it looks like a safe. It's an armored mailbox with keys. And I do that because I've had it robbed so many times or shot up. I went online, Jack. This is off topic, but I looked at a company. I won't mention the name. I don't want to endorse particular companies.
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You know, they're not sponsors, but their ad was a guy with an M16 shooting at the mailbox and the bullets bounced off. And I said, that's my mailbox. So, and I've had people try to tamper with it and everything, but it's untamperable. Yeah. Well, I just want to verify. I like my Saturday. I get really excited on Saturdays. I say, I'm going to walk out to the mailbox and see what's there.
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But they're going to eliminate that. People have always suggested they eliminate Saturday service, FedEx. I will mention UPS. I had a very important package of medicine that came to my office and a book that I had to review. And one of my assistants tried to mail it overnight UPS and it came four days late. And I saw that it went all the way to Kentucky and back again.
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And I live 190 miles away from my office, but maybe that's the way they do it. But I'm not so sure. I guess what I'm saying is the post office is much cheaper than the alternative. And I used to be a lot less efficient, but I've had pretty good luck with the post office recently.
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when this is being broadcast it's the anniversary of of his death uh yeah it's it's a very it's a reflection of the wokeness of government but um anyway i both well i mean it's it's um it got hurt um because what i think it's 75 percent of all communications are through electronics now facebook social media email and then it it uh
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I mean, 30 years ago, my thing, it would be about this big, and now it's two or three letters. And it's a unionized postal service. It's kind of a... It's one of those situations in which... It's kind of like the NFL or NBA. We all talk about diversity, diversity, diversity. But when you look at the actual makeup of the post office...
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Yes. Yes, I'm going to go to a military history conference. And on the 4th? Wait. 5th, 6th, 4th, I'm going to give a talk on Hollywood World War II movies. Oh! Yes, I am. Well, do talk about... My three favorite, I'm going to say, are George Patton and Das Boot. And then one that nobody likes, but I do like it, and that's The Bridge Too Far. That is a very good movie.
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Minorities, it's a way of hiring minorities in percentages greater than their demographics. And no one says much of it. It's a very coveted position to work for the post office. It's guaranteed almost lifetime employment. And it pays very well. And it's not, I mean, it can be dangerous if you're a mail carrier, I suppose, with dogs and stuff. And it's an iconic idea.
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So my only point of all this rambling is that every conservative, even George W. Bush, I think Trump mentioned it the first time, they all look at the post office and they say, why is the government delivering mail? Do we have a federal power company? Do we have a federal gasoline company? And let's get rid of it because it's inefficient. It costs too much money.
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And we have FedEx and UPS and we have email. And every time they try to do it, they're on the wrong side of public opinion. Yeah.
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Well, the latter first, he's got a little bit of a problem because they've been so spectacular at discouraging illegal immigration through they've stopped catch and release. They've stopped refugee status applied after you get here. You have to apply for it in Mexico. I've been told they're restarting the wall. There's great morale there. And they've stopped these apps.
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I haven't gone to the Fresno Air Terminal lately at night, but I've been told that it's vastly reduced. My point is there's not a lot of people coming in the border now. I think it's less than 40. So the impetus or the direction of enforcement is now interior. In other words, we can live with probably... 30 or 40,000 illegal aliens.
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We're going to curtail them to zero probably, but there are 12 million under Biden and there was 20 million here before. And we've got the first iteration to deal with. We've only deported, I think it's 80,000. We've got 500,000 people that may have had criminal records and we've got another million and a half who've already been given their deportation orders. They were not refugees.
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They've gone through the system and they've fled. So we've got about 2 million people we have to deport. And it's very hard when you have 600 sanctuary city jurisdictions and you have uncooperative local authorities in blue states. And it's very expensive. And they haven't got enough authorization from Congress. And so Donald Trump is very impatient.
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Because they've got half the problem solved, but that problem of letting them in, it was easier to solve than asking them to leave. And what they need to do is start the deportations in mass of violent criminals, and they're going to have to find some way, I think Pam Bondi has been working on it, to coerce these blue state renegade officials to follow state law.
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As far as the cutting off, that's mostly a... Donald Trump can only do that on the federal level. And most welfare or electric bank transfer, most of it, not all, but is state and local. But there are a lot of people under federal reimbursements for Medi-Cal or Medicaid, I should say. We call it Medi-Cal in California.
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Medicaid, and more importantly, we have a big abuse of the Social Security Disability Program. It's a multibillion-dollar expansive program, and a lot of people who come here know that, and they get on disability on the federal level. So what he's saying is...
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we've got to stop this in california they we passed 187 there's a big myth jack that pete wilson who was that he was just he and he suffered terrible uh popularity problems because he backed 187 that passed by over 60 percent of the california population and that led uh to a democratic renaissance under Jerry Brown. That's not true, actually.
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There was, after we passed 187, Pete Wilson still enjoyed favorable, always did favorable popularity ratings. The courts will say, if you're here, then you're an American, basically, and you get everything. And that's not legally apt. And so, I'd mentioned that very controversial period. In 187, I was a professor at Cal State Fresno, and we had just demonstration after demonstration.
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It was really, and they were burning the American flag, and some of my own students were doing it. And I ventured out there and said, do not wave the Mexican flag if you don't want to go back there, and don't burn the American flag if you want to stay here. It's incoherent. And we saw that again with those, when they shut down 101, the protesters were doing just that.
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That's not a good thing for the Democratic Party, everybody. If you're here illegally, do not protest against immigration, your immigration status by burning the American flag and do not wave the Mexican flag, because that suggests to an outsider, whether that is a fair impression or not, that you love Mexico so much that you don't want to go back.
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And you hate the United States so much you have to stay here. And that's incoherent. Incoherent.
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I think the problem we have with China and the Europeans is, everybody knows it, but we don't really say it, is that they have been taking advantages of us for ossified or anachronistic reasons. In other words, the Europeans still think it's 1946 and we're the only superpower. They've been devastated. And so they get the Marshall Plan or they get asymmetrical tariff.
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China still thinks it's 1980 and the post-Mao era or the middle 80s, and they're trying to liberalize their economy. So we're going to let them with this George H.W. idea that we kind of let them cheat and then they'll become democratic because they get wealthy. That's both over with. So what seems a shock is not a shock.
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All that Trump is trying to say on a series of these issues are, I will go down to zero tariffs with you, Germany, with you, France, with you, China, if you do. They don't want to. They love this market here. They can dump stuff. And so no tariffs for you, no tariffs for us. You go 5%, we're not going to go 2% on you anymore. And China, you have 350,000 students before COVID, probably still 300.
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You dotted our landscape on campus with Confucius Institutes, which were PRC conduits. You have about 1% or 2%. of your students are active espionage people. That's probably 2,000 or 3,000, or if not more, you're buying key farmland, often real estate next to military bases. We saw what happened with the spy balloon. We don't do that to you. So don't do it to us.
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And then they, and to a lesser extent, the Europeans, then say, look at Trump. He's a disruptor. Or they write an article in Foreign Affairs or the New Republic, and they say, this is horrible. This is what he's doing. No, he's bringing us back to the middle, normal. And what Donald Trump believes, and we haven't seen, we'll see what happens. We'll keep an open mind. But he believes...
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that if you take the United States back to zero, and it has zero tariffs to any country that has zero tariffs, it has 5%, 10%, 15% with any country that does, then we will be getting a lot of money from either tariffs or from increased profits from trade exports. and we'll see what happens. But we are going to treat people the way that they treat us. And I think that's not asking so much.
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I'm getting really tired of people that are lodging these complaints against the United States. They say things like, you're interfering. Germany, for example, when Elon Musk interviewed Donald Trump on his own ex inside the United States, Jack, They said that that was an interference.
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It was in their own affairs and that Elon Musk was interfering because he commented on German politics and he praises the ADF and that J.D. Vance met with the AFD. Are you kidding me? Christopher Steele almost destroyed our electoral process with a lie and he was a British subject.
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During the last election, the Laborites broadcast that they were raising money to pay people to come over here in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and campaign in our elections. All Europe does and all people abroad do is interfere with our elections. They always do. And so all Trump is saying on all of these issues is we're going to treat you like you treat us.
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Not better, not worse. But they think it's going to be worse because it is worse in their case because they've been getting away with murder. And I don't know why the left, the Democratic Party, they used to be for protecting American jobs. And all of a sudden, they're the worst offenders. They're hand in glove with our
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trade opponents or military opponents, but they will not insist on parity, parity, parity, parity. When a German chancellor gets up, as Scholz did right after February 24th of 2022 and said, this won't stand what Russia's done. We're going to be sending everything over to Ukraine or after October 7th. And then they don't do anything or they do very little. We don't believe you guys anymore.
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We don't believe that what was so hard about spending 2% of your GDP on defense. You all promised in 2014 you were going to do it. And you still got 10 or 11, 9, 10, 11 countries that won't do it. And you want to be in NATO. And then you get mad when Donald Trump bullies you. What if the United States did not meet its 2%? What would happen to you people if that happened?
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And then they say things like, well, you've got a big base at Rammstein and you've got these 80,000 troops and we help pay for them and maybe they should go home. Promises, promises. If you don't like them, send them home. America is happy to send them home. But I was reading a pretty good sophisticated account when Europe says it's going to send troops to be peacekeepers.
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You hear that, Mr. Stormer? Stormer said that. They don't even have the logistical lift capacity to supply them. They couldn't do that. They depend on refueling from America. Their planes need to be refueled in wartime conditions by America. They need the C-17, C-130 lift capacity, et cetera. And that's talking about a debased form.
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We're not in the great shape that we were militarily, but still at this low level, we're heads and shoulders above the whole European continent.
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Exactly. Promise is made, promise is kept. And remember what happened with energy. He vastly increased by two or three million barrels. Biden came in and he canceled Keystone. He canceled new liquid natural gas terminals. He did it at the end of his term. He put ANWR off. He started lecturing fracking. He made an EV mandate. And then the 2008
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22 midterms came up and prices hit the ceiling during the inflationary period. Here in California, it was in the San Joaquin Valley, I paid $5.50 a gallon. And then suddenly, he started draining the petroleum reserve to get reelected. And he went from about 90% all the way down to 50%. And then they came to Joe Biden and said, you are not going to get elected. So here's what you're going to do.
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You're going to tell everybody that you're a new green dealer and you're you're going to talk up EVs, but you're going to drill. So they went back and they started to drill like Trump and they got it back to Trump and even a little above. Now, Trump comes in and says. that wasn't what I really wanted. That's where I was before I lost that election.
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And now I'm going to go back to what I had originally planned. And that's 20 million, 22. He's going to go full blast. The only problem he's going to have is he's going to have to produce the, he's going to have to convince these oil companies who have very sophisticated measuring, uh,
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capabilities of what their reserves are to go out and start producing a lot of oil and a lot more work with the price dropping and make the same amount of profits where they drain their long-term reserves. So how is he going to get around that? He's going to have to give them some kind of tax concession or he's going to have to open new fields and find vast new reserves. Gavin Newsom is...
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Theoretically, sitting on the Monterey Shale formation along the coast range, it has apparently a lot of natural gas, but we don't use it. And we could easily do that instead of we're outlawing national gas in new homes, you know? Yeah.
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There's a huge, huge gas reserves there on the shale. Yeah, he's become a, I can't figure him out. It's kind of like mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Now I want to get elected, so I'll say anything that is contrary to what I actually did when I was governor.
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The Me Too left turned on him and now he's angry. And Chris Cuomo, every once in a while I listen to what he says and it's... They fired him, of course, and he says some things that are pretty out there, but he doesn't sound like old Chris Cuomo in CNN anymore. He does not.
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So, that's a remnant. Remember shovel-ready jobs right after Obama came in? And then there was the... Then there was Solyndra, cash for clunkers. All of these government programs were failures. And then Obama, because he was so far left, he thought that he was going to use this prop. This is very important to everybody.
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The idea that we had this waxen effigy, Joe Biden, who they used and manipulated as sort of a cardboard, mixing my metaphors, cut out the last four years, that started in 2009 when they made him vice president. They said, you know Joe from Scranton. Good old Joe. He's a tough old hombre. He's going to watch every penny of you know, cash for our plonkers and shovel-ready jobs.
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And all the postmortems on all those programs showed they were failures. And the government, you can't have the government do certain things. It's envisioned for a particular role that private enterprise can't do, and that's things like national defense and collect taxes. And I know some people are listening and said, well, actually, Victor, we could get private companies to, like the Romans did,
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The Romans had a very effective, they just had the tax collectors get bonuses, and they were very effective and hated.
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What did they think? Yeah, yeah. So-called conservatives voted for her. That's one thing we could learn from Europe, because we know now that the United States could get all the ballots tallied within 48 hours if we just said this. You all have to show up on Election Day like you used to, or maybe 70 or 80 percent. You'd have a paper ballot.
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And if you want to request an absentee ballot, it has to be because you're ill or something or you're out of town. But there's not going to be any more early balloting or blanket mail-in balloting, and you have to have an ID. And it would work very easily. And we know the Democrats will always oppose it.
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And yet, when you poll the population, the citizenry, whether they're white or black or Hispanic, they all poll that they want IDs. The Democratic Party, you see, everybody, you know that better than I do. It has a message now that no one wants. This is not the Democratic Party of minimum wage, disability insurance, Social Security, 40-hour work, overtime. That's all done and settled.
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This is a different socialist redistributionist monstrosity, and no one wants it. So they have to use the courts. They have to use the deep state to do what you don't want. And nobody wants this system of election. This is more the party of Robespierre than it is of Dan Rostenkowski. Yeah, it's the party of Robespierre. It's Jacobin party. There's no doubt about it. And I say that not lightly.
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What did Robespierre want? Oh, he wanted a year zero. Oh, we had one called 1619. What did he want to do? He wanted to go after the church. They killed 6,000 priests and nuns. Oh, we went after anti-abortion people and said they were white Christian nationalists in the military. Almost every Jacobin agenda item is what the Democratic Party, the modern version of it, they embraced.
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They were Jacobin.
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Yeah, three quarters of the electorate lived on the coast. They all were very much for it. And then they said, you know what? We're going to connect what you should do. You were going to have a big high-speed rail line leaving Oakland, San Francisco area, go down the near the 101, tap in on, you get over Pacheco Pass, go down. And they said, not in my backyard. I voted in the abstract.
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And then they thought, well, we need a laboratory rat. And so they called all the local governments here and we were all broke and we have very low per capita income. And they said, would you want a big boondoggle public works? And we said, yes. Well, then... They gave a route from Bakersfield pretty much along the Santa Fe Rail route. And everybody said, well, wait a minute.
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For years, we've said that we only have one track on the Santa Fe route. That's the Amtrak, not Southern Pacific. And for just a minuscule amount of money compared to what you're envisioning, it's going to be $300 billion. And they've already spent about $20 billion. But we could make a parallel track right along the Santa with very little right-of-way expense.
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Instead of having these trains sit there and wait for the oncoming train on a side track, we'll have them parallel so they would go at the same time. We'll beef up the tracks. We can go up to about 90 miles an hour. And then we'll expand the rail. We've always envisioned going over the grapevine and going to L.A. and not having to go by bus. the missing link. And it was all talked about.
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And they said, no, we're going to do space age high speed rail was Jerry Brown's idea. And so we voted for it. And then we started seeing signs come up, Jack, that said, we have this percentage of minorities. We have this percentage of disabled. We have this percentage of trans workers, all the publicists. And then our road here was, where I live on was shut down for four years.
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So when I wanted to go every week to work, I had to find all of these securitist detours. It's reopened and they build... That was all for one overpass. And I looked down, there's no track there. It's just the same thing. I know a lot of... These were all left-wing environmentalists. And if you go down and follow the route...
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about 20 miles from where I'm speaking into Kings County, there was this historical floodplain from Tulare Lake. And the result of that were these 400- and 500-year majestic oaks, some of the biggest oaks in California. And every farmer that had one on his property, you were not allowed to cut them down. So you had these cotton fields with these beautiful... And they just went in and just, bam!
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pulled up every one that was in the way, and then you had all these farmers. They had 100 acres on this side, and then they had 300 acres. They said, no, no, there's only going to be, we have to drive eight or nine miles around to get to the other side of your farm. And it just got, they went through downtown Fresno and ruined small businesses.
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So what I'm getting at, they had a multi-billion dollar overhead in eminent domain suits before they ever did anything. And they build all, so now we've got all these bridges everywhere. There's one over Fresno and Bakersfield, all, and they're total incompetence.
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Every time that I say something like this on a podcast or on an air, when this podcast is over, after it's aired, I'm going to get some little official letter from a person who's on the California High Speed Rail Commission. And most of them are left-wing former functionaries and they're going to are developers who have a financial interest in it. And a lot of people do.
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And they're, you know, that subcontractors and they're going to say, Victor, you're just ignorant. You don't know what's going on. This thing is going great. And then you look at what the I'll just finish this, Jack, by saying what's scary is not the 20 billion or so that's going to get you from Bakersfield to Merced at about 20 miles faster than if you took the Santa Fe.
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Because they've already scaled down the speed. is two things are very scary. Given California rates 45th in the nation in test scores, and given that the public schools are completely failed, and given the level of education among the population, and given that we have an enormous challenge of integration assimilation because 27% of the people in the state were not born in the United States,
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The idea that you're going to have this public unionized workforce run this place, this system is very scary. And two, they've already come through with the amount of ticketing that would be necessary for you to go from Bakersfield, 110 miles or 20 miles an hour to Merced. By the way, people listening to this, is your idea of a vacation to go from Merced to Bakersfield?
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I'm not making fun of the two cities, but they don't come to mind. When I think of California tourist play, I think San Luis Obispo, Carmel, Santa Barbara. I don't think of Bakersfield or Merced, but that's where they're going, this lab rat experiment. And it's already been envisioned it's going to lose millions of dollars to operate. It's not the building it.
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If you built the system for free and you had to operate it, it would lose money.
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That's what people are talking about with the eventual Los Angeles all the way to Sacramento with laterals into the Bay Area. That's what they're talking about. But they'll never do it. everybody says, you know, I don't think they have the skill to do it. That's what's really frightening about this state.
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When I see the roads, if you look at the people that we all hate from our past, that we're told to hate them, that generation, and you look at the San Luis Dam, or you look at the California Aqueduct, or you look at Folsom or or Orville Dam.
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You look at any of the things these guys built, or the PG substation, main power plant up, or you look at Hetch Hetchy, built in, I think, 1910 or 12, or Huntington Lake, the Big Creek project. They were so far ahead of their time. They were so brilliant. And we're just pygmies compared to those people. We don't have the expertise to do it.
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I'm not saying that people coming out of Caltech or engineering programs at UCLA or Stanford are not good. I'm just saying that generally we do not have the skilled labor and we don't have the skilled engineering numbers to create these things anymore. If you disagree, then you ask why we couldn't have built high-speed rail or ask yourself what's going to happen in Los Angeles.
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When you look at all of those burned out homes and you tell me how they're going to rebuild that. Yeah.
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Does anybody think that? Karen Bass is going to go into Pacific Palisades like right now, like Donald Trump did when he built the Manhattan Central Park skating rink? Does anybody believe that she's going to go in there and say, look, I got a contract to get out all of the Crap. The bidding will open today. It'll be done next week. And it has an incentive clause. This is the date we want it.
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30 days. Anybody who can do it in 25 gets an extra multi-million. That's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. What is she doing, Victor? Well, you know what? She just fired the police chief. She fired the fire chief who was famous for bragging that as a gay woman, she was going to get... 30, 40 percent, or I don't know what their percentage was of DEI employees.
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And they're fighting back and forth. Her writ, Karen Bass says, well, she didn't tell me. She should have told me there was a fire danger before I junketed to Ghana. Well, Karen, all you have to do is open your eyes and be in Los Angeles. I was teaching at Pepperdine, and I would walk outdoor, and I'd see a 45-mile-an-hour wind at night.
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And I'd drive through Malibu Canyon Road and look at the dry, and I thought, man. And then I would see at night, if I drove home, these campfires everywhere from homeless people. And I thought, they are one homeless campfire away from Armageddon. Any idiot could have said that, but... We don't have, that's another thing that we don't talk about.
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We don't have the public schooling to create a workforce that is anywhere near where we were 50 years ago. And we don't have the public spirit in us. And we are leeches, parasites that are living on the infrastructure that they gave us. And we don't, we just can't. I just got back from Florida. I could not believe the freeway system. I know Floridians are being swamped by us.
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Millions of people pouring into Florida. But you look at that infrastructure... compared here, and you can't believe the public spiritedness. I got a car to go to the airport. I got a car to go to the event I was speaking at. I ate out three or four times. It was largely a Cuban-American workforce, not all, but the people were so competent and polite, and everybody I met at the events were upbeat.
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confident compared to this place? They built high-speed rail.
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Well, they did it. Texas could probably do it, but not this place. Yeah. Not this place.
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I said there's so much DEI and given the new Stanford admissions policy, From 2020 to 2000, well, until this year, and given that they're racialists, in other words, they made sure there was only going to be 9 to 10% white males out of, you know, I don't know. that averaged about 200 people out of 2,000 or so, 1,500 or 1,600 that were going to be admitted.
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And given that the faculty who are almost 100% left wing will tell you privately, I've either got to give everybody an A or water down the class or introduce a new gut. I just said on this and other places, I don't think an employer in Silicon Valley wants a Stanford graduate.
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And I got this guy, I got so many people talk to me, but one very prominent person in Silicon Valley, I won't mention his name, said, Victor, you're way behind. You're way behind. We've been knowing this for years now. We would like Georgia Tech or Texas A&M or places like that where they do teach engineering, computer science. There are no DEI elements in the curriculum.
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They don't say what, we don't have a class on what percentage of This community is underserved by laptop computer. They don't have that. Or what percentage of computer engineers are this color or this gender? They don't do that. And then more importantly, we get the worst of both worlds when we hire these guys because we get the act of the sin of omission.
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They're not qualified, but they think they are. So they often clog our HR. I thought that was kind of an exaggeration. Until Mark Andreessen gave that famous interview that we've been referencing with Mark Douthat. I mean, Ross Douthat. Ross Douthat. Yeah, Douthat. And when Andreessen said, my lieutenant came to me, my CEO came to me and said, it's not just that they're...
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The extremists, they want to destroy us. He's talking about his own employees that were hired. They used to want to get ahead, and now they want to destroy the company. And so ideology and incompetence are a bad mixture. I get so worked up because I see this thing every week, this high-speed rail monstrosity. And it's almost like a golden calf, you know, and we are pagans that worship it.
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I call it Stonehenge for a variety of reasons. It looks like Stonehenge because you have all of these bridges. Bridges to nowhere. Bridges. Well, there's no tracks. So what they did, everybody, is there's all of these major thoroughfares that they had to go across on high-speed rail. It goes so fast that they can't make a lot of turns. So they had this route.
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And their idea was to build them all in very public places first along the 99. So everybody would see they were making progress and they had big billboards. And then in between them, they hadn't even got the land yet. And they were in court and they hadn't cleared the area. And the point I'm making is they had the most sophisticated people.
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publicity team, hit team, that any criticism was always counter, Matt. And I got sick of it. All these people, how dare you say that? How dare you do that? And when you look at the composition of the board, there was a lot of developers on it too, at least one or two or three of them at different times. So I just think the whole thing was a mess. I wish they would have.
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And now the question though, Jack, is what do you do with it? Graffiti. Well, I mentioned five years ago, Laura Logan came out to do a Fox Nation on gangs. And then she was here. She said, let's go do high-speed rail. So we went over there and she said... I really liked her, too. She was really very inquisitive. And I know people got very angry. I don't know why. I think she may be controversial.
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But she said, my gosh, Victor, it's just a receptacle for homeless people and graffiti that were around the bridges. So ugly. So they airbrush it out now and they try to pressure wash it off. But yeah. Well, Victor, we... It's too bad. It's too bad we wasted so much money.
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Well, they always ask. They don't say where it's come from. Why doesn't he say this? We need $40 billion of federal money. And the reason we need it is I was running a $75 billion deficit, even though I raised taxes to 13.3, the highest in the nation, because I was doing things like putting $50 million in a legal fund to sue you, Donald Trump. who I want to give us $40 billion.
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Or I gave $500 million for illegal alien special health fund during COVID. Or I gave another $30 million for immigrant rights legal suits. So all of that stuff. And then he hates Trump. And then he's asking for $40 billion. I think Trump will just say, why don't you go sell off high-speed rail to somebody? And then he never says this. They just demonized Elon. Why wouldn't he just say this?
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I'm Elon Musk's governor. I don't have enough funds to create sewage, water, infrastructure to allow this stuff to get rebooted. However, I need $40 billion, but I will help you find it. Now, Elon... How much can you find me $40 billion in USAID? Can we go into the C.C. Abrams stash and give me $500 million? Can I go into the Pentagon? I hear you're getting rid of $68 billion in DEI.
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Can I have $8 billion there? Why does he just talk like that? But instead, it's gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. And I hate you. Gimme, I hate you. Gimme. It's like a petulant teenager, you know, to her parent or something.
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It's two things drive California, you know, when you think about it. It's left wing, coastal, boutique politics. And by that is D.I. and radical environmentalism and then illegal immigration. And the Democratic Party feels that they flipped California from the Reagan, Dick Mason, Pete Wilson, Schwarzenegger era by allowing us each year to have half of all of the illegal aliens that came.
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The only thing that's ironic about this, Jack, is that we have 45 to 50 percent of the population declares themselves Hispanic. But after 30 or 40 years, many Hispanics, I think the majority are middle class now, and they're looking at their payroll checks and they're thinking, my God. I don't have anything left. It's California, 10, 12, 13. I think it hits you at $60,000. It's 10%.
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Then they look at the sales tax. Then they say things to me like this. Well, why doesn't other people pay taxes? I said, like who? Well, look at all these guys on the corner. They're selling stuff. They don't pay taxes. I said, yeah, I know they don't. We have the largest black market economy in the country.
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So what I'm getting at is that constituency that the Democratic Party created has matured, and now they are on the other end. They're not necessarily the recipients of the most generous welfare state. They are the payers. They have to pay for it. And they are saying no more. I do not want to pay for this. I can barely make it. Housing is so expensive. Insurance is expensive. Gas is expensive.
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I do not want to fly in 700 people a night from Oaxaca into Fresno Airport. I just can't afford it. That's a switch. It's not the majority yet, but it's getting there. Well, let us pray.
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Well, thank you.
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Yes.
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My eyes are half closed because I got home yesterday and I figured that from my farm to get to the airport, to get to a connection, to get to the East Coast, And back in five days, that trip was 26 hours of traveling.
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Yeah.
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No, but I'll just finish with something that really bothers me besides a lot of the other stuff is when people come up. And they want you to switch seats. You know what I mean? So if you want to use the restroom or you want a view, you want the window. If you want a view, put your head over. Or if you have to use a restroom or you want to get up, you have the aisle.
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And then somebody comes up to you and says, you know... I have a grandparent over there, and could you just give up your seat? And I was watching somebody do that to another person, and then I read a lot of stories that people are getting really tired of that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If I was going to go on a ramp, I would say that your group number means nothing now. You see people just head away.
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That's number one. Number two, your overhead bin capacity is not correlated with your seat. When people board late or... And they walk down the aisle, they just put their stuff over any, the first one they find, whether it's in business class or the first rows, that's bad.
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Number three, and I did this from Palm Beach, I'm not making fun of people from Palm Beach, but the number of wheelchairs that are used to board the plane is not in direct correlation with the number of wheelchairs to disembark.
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So, again, there must be a spa-like condition, health waters or something on that plane because people board first, get their overhead space, and then they sprint off when they land. It's the proximity to the heavenly choirs. Oh, I have one more complaint since I'm being Krabby Appleton from the old cartoon days.
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I'm not Tom Terrific, but I am Krabby Appleton, and that is... Air travel has really turned into the Greyhound bus, and that's a slur to the Greyhound bus days. What I mean by that is when you go on some of the people who are dressed, it looks like a slob-a-rama. I mean, there's people with...
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I mean, they don't have their sweatpants up so their posteriors are showing or they come in with some kind of weird socks as if they're shoes. And then they bring all of these smelly foods on. You know what I mean? They bring whole things. It's not like it used to be. There's no standards whatsoever. No, everybody breaks the rules. It's chaotic.
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And you can see why we've had these crashes and near misses the last four or five years. Free-for-all. Free-for-all. I just saw there was a big free-for-all at the Atlanta Airport, I think, yesterday. Oh, really? Yeah, on my favorite airline, Spirit Airline. Nice. I took a Spirit Airlines once. I mean, that is once.
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And I was like, yeah, it's not my cup of tea. It's what is it? Twenty nine dollars for a ticket. Yeah. Well, I don't want to sound like a snob, but flying is not I. It was not enjoyable. And the airports are not enjoyable. And the stress of making a connection. Exactly. I hate I hate I hate that.
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You know, I got on the plane just to finish in Palm Beach and I got my little app from the airline and it said, I had an hour connection and it said, you're going to be 30 minutes late. I couldn't know why we were boarding on time, right? But I guess it was air traffic.
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And then you get on the thing and you connect with their internet and it says, wait a minute, you're only going to be 12 minutes late. And then you look at it, you shouldn't look at it at all. And then it says, you're going to be 20 minutes early. And then it says you're going to be 10 minutes late. And then you get there and you're on time. And then you sit there, right?
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The taxing and you get in there and then you think, wait a minute, the A terminal is next to the B terminal. I can make it. And then all of a sudden you're halfway and you happen to look at the thing. It says, sorry, you're now at the D terminal. And then you go to the D terminal. You have to reverse your... It's just... They treat people like cattle, too. I don't know. I know they do a job.
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They move millions of people per day without injury, and it's very accessible, but I think maybe it's too cheap. I don't know. The fares are too inexpensive. Yeah, well, I don't blame you, Victor. You've made this change in your life. 50 years I've been doing this, and I keep telling people I'm not going to do it anymore, and then My institution keeps saying, would you speak here?
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Would you speak here? Would you speak here? And I found out, I just looked at my calendar. I'm going six times to the East Coast and Midwest. Yeah. I've had a lot of people. Can Victor come speak? No. Please. I confess I like being in my farm. Yeah. Well, I like doing Zooms. I see a lot of people. I don't mind leisurely driving over to the coast to work. I have a nice place to stay at Stanford.
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Yeah. I love that. But I just do not want to get on a plane and fly to New York, Washington, Palm Beach, you name it. I can't take it either.
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Yeah, there's two issues here, I think. One is, if it's about the majority of people, if you go back, Jack, and you look, if everybody would go back and take dates like 1970, arbitrarily 1980, and the word transsexual, I don't think the word transgender was used at that time, but there is a term that was used, gender dysphoria.
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And that would mean that people felt that they're in the wrong body, so to speak. And then you look at scientific studies that were conducted and demographic studies. It's about point... 001% of the population. And then you look at current news stories that say that 20% of the Ivy League campuses say they are gender dysphoric or 10% of
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And so you get the impression that this has been widely known through antiquity. I mentioned before a famous The Atheist poem by Catullus that was written somewhere around 045 BC in Rome, where he talks about a person who gets caught up in the ecstatic Eastern's cult of Sibylle.
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They go into these ecstatic rites, and then he castrates himself, and he becomes, and halfway through the poem, they start to use the Latin illa for illy, the feminine pronoun. He had his right pronouns, Jack. And then he sits at the beach at the end when the trans wears off and he sees that he's become Eastern and effeminate and he laments this.
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But my point is, if you read Petronius' Satyricon, this is all through antiquity. And there's little isolated cases in Diodorus with people who have disparate sex organs, a whole thing. But it's not the majority. And so what the...
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The Democratic Party has done, in search of a new civil rights cause celeb, they have taken the transgendered issue, which was always a very minute portion of the population, and they've magnified it. The second thing they have done is they have blurred the idea of mainstream feminism. normality versus tolerance. Nobody on the right is saying that they want to go out and hound transgender people.
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All they're saying is that if you are biologically one sex, that is, you have a muscular skeletal particular, and we're usually talking, Jack, about males, then And I think that's very important, everybody. We're talking about males who say they become women who compete in female sports. We're not talking about females who say they have become males competing against males with advantages.
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They don't have an advantage. They have a disadvantage. And that should tell you something right there, that women who transition to males for large part do not win male athletics. The second thing is, I don't think there's a lot of objections from the male community that when males come into their restrooms and they are biologically female, people do not care.
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What we're talking about is young girls who are dressing after gym or after sports events with people who have male genitalia. And the left used to be that we have to protect our children, we have to be careful about sexualizing, and they have completely thrown that out. The other larger question is, What Trump is trying to say is we want tolerance.
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And I say that because he has a gay secretary of treasury. Rick Grinnell was gay. He's had more people who were gay in top echelon positions than almost anybody. But what he's trying to say is in any society... The idea of a man and a woman and a nuclear family and fertility of 2.1, 2.5 children is essential, not about ideology, not about politics, but just statistically to that society.
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And what I mean by that is all of our sociological studies, if you believe anything from social science, show that a two-parent family, and I'm talking about people who are single, not that it's impossible, but it's a normative situation.
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But what the Democratic Party is doing is they are taking things that have minute constituencies, and they are magnifying them to try to leverage the Republicans as illiberal, and it's not working.
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So when you have trans people come in and storm in or you have Bud Light ads and it's not appealing to the mainstream and it's especially bleeding and hemorrhaging the Democratic Party support among black males and Hispanics. And they can't stop it.
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No, it's not the messaging. It's the message. You could have Cicero articulate the message, and people do not want the message. They don't want it. Mark Penn, remember, along with Doug Schoen, was the architect, I think, of the 1996 project. Democratic Convention statement, which I've mentioned before, which reads pretty much like a MAGA statement.
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Not that the Democrats ever followed through on all of them. And Clinton took, in the second term, he took the country to the left. But for a while... The idea of a closed border, legal-only immigration, strong support for defense, for the police, physical sobriety, that was a Democratic winning message. And that's why they won in 92 and 96 with a little help from Ross Perot.
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And that's why they won the popular vote in 2000. That's why they won the popular vote in 2008. And then after that, they went and Obama, as soon as he got elected, he took the party to the left. And even Obama ran in 2008 that he was opposed to gay marriage. Remember that? Yes, it was Joe Biden who... It was Joe Biden who leaked it. Unprompted. Yeah. Joe Biden, everybody's nemesis.
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I mean, he has done more damage to the country and to his party than any living Democrat. He really has. He really almost destroyed this country for four years and he's destroyed the Democratic Party.
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Yeah, he makes Carter look like Churchill.
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Sorry, Jack.
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But not in a way that you would... Anthony Fauci isn't... He's now, you know, he started... He didn't need a pardon. He didn't need a pardon. Well, I'll take it if you ram it down my throat. And now, thank God I got that pardon. Because... my fingerprints are likely over $40 million going to Wuhan when I claimed it was only 600,000.
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And people will go back to a system where they will apply for immigration for a green card, which allows them to work. And then once they're here, if they have not broken the law and they're self-sustaining, then they can apply for citizenship. At the same time, he wants to expand the special entry.
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We have all sorts of independent agents in the United States, and they make a pretty lucrative living by having a rich foreigner say, Mr. Smith, You're a citizenship broker. I want you to fast track my citizenship applications. So he's trying to expand that and he uses the word gold card. Green card is for everybody. Gold card is the person.
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And as he explained it, these people then would have a lot of money. It's not that they have five million. If you're going to spend five million, you have a lot more. So you would come in and you would buy things and hire people and pay taxes and it would be good for us.
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But most importantly, we would get around the special dispensation for techies and skilled people that's causing so much trouble because we're letting in people under certain visas to work. And we're told that they're PhDs and they're special and they're not always. And so they're taking jobs away from coders. But this time we're telling the employer, the Apples, the Googles, the Facebooks,
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So you need 1,000 highly skilled engineers from Taiwan, from South Korea, from India, anywhere. You're going to pay the $5 million to bring them in. And I don't know. There's wrinkles. And he didn't spell it. Would the $5 million be a one-time fee so then they could renew it under a regular green card process? Or would they have to keep paying? A lot of things that are up in the air.
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But here's what I want to make the point. Donald Trump really does believe that he can balance the budget if he does four things that no one's ever thought of before. Number one. massive cuts. I'm not talking about here and there, but a trillion dollars. We're spending a trillion point seven that we don't have this year. And that's down from Joe Biden's record.
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He had the record of the most debt piled up in four years, more even than the COVID Trump problem. So that's number one. He thinks he can get a trillion dollars. Then they believe that for all the braggadocio about the 25% tariffs, they were willing to negotiate reciprocity. Canada, you have 5% on average, we will have 5%. Germany, you have five or six, we will have that.
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And they feel that that is saleable. People will agree with that. Because it's just... Germany says, I don't want to have any... You can bring all the Dodge Ram trucks you want. Nobody wants them in Germany, but we won't have any tariff. And then we'll say, okay, we won't have no tariff at all on Audis or something. So that's... But he thinks he's going to get money from tariffs.
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I don't know how much he will be. I will say that as we get to the income tax, the income tax is connected to tariffs because the only source really of revenue were fines and tariffs. And the income tax was introduced... to eliminate or reduce tariffs, which were about 40% to give a break on pricing for the lower middle classes. But nevertheless, he thinks he's going to get money on tariffs.
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He's going to cut a billion. And then he's going to have this program, the gold card. And he thinks he's going to get a trillion dollars maybe once or twice in spurts. Or maybe every year there's going to be, I don't know, there might be 10,000 a year. And then he's also going to go maximum development of natural resources, but especially oil and gas. We are almost self-sufficient.
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By that, I mean not that we don't import, but we export about the amount in dollars that we import for oil and natural gas. Somebody's going to say, well, why do we import any natural gas or oil when we have it? It's because of the quality and the refinery and the transportation costs. Sometimes it's cheaper to sell natural gas and then import it or to sell oil, etc.
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But we're getting to the point of self-sufficiency. So the point then is that Donald Trump wants to build pipelines. He wants to open ANWR and he wants to get an additional, I don't know what that would be, 23, 24 million barrels, three or four million barrels of And I don't know if that would crash the world price to put that on the market.
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And I don't know whether people in the oil companies or the independent oil producers would want to do that because basically they'd have to invest more money produce more product at a cheaper price. And it's a finite commodity. So you're an oil company, you have a big oil field in Anwar, they open it up, you think, yeah, wait a minute, price of oil is 60, 70 bucks a barrel, $50.
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The more I produce, the less I'm going to have in the long run and the lower the price I'm going to get. So it's going to be tricky to I think one thing, people don't think this about Trump, but the more oil you can take off the world market, so you put maximum pressure on the two or three million barrels from Iran, and Russia has been restricted to China and India and Turkey, basically.
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So then you keep the price high, then we make money. That's my point. So cut a trillion dollars, maybe get half a trillion in tariffs, maybe... quarter, a trillion, 250 billion in oil or natural gas cell, and then maybe 200 million in the gold card, and you've got the ingredients for a balanced budget.
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That would be a Herculean... I'll make a statement that I'd never make predictions, but I will make a prediction. If Donald Trump, in the next two years, balances the U.S. budget, which we have not seen since the Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton compromise of 98, 99, 2000. And remember, they did that by raising taxes. Gingrich allowed some taxes to be raised. Clinton allowed cuts to be made.
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But that's never happened since. If he balances the budget in one of the next two budget years and the war in Ukraine is over with and he stops it, he will be reelected. I mean, excuse me, he will have his house reelected and he will maintain that majority and he will be an iconic president if he does those two things. And the left knows that. So the left is going to do all it can.
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In fact, I have colleagues at the institution in which I work, which will remain nameless, who are doing all they can to suggest that the war not be ended. In other words, that it's going to be a giveaway to Putin and you can't do it. And we know people in the Congress that are trying to stop this budget. They tried and they do not want any cuts. They do not want any more oil production. They don't
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will oppose the gold card and they do not want any tariffs. But if he's able to overcome that, as I said, it'll be something that's historic.
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Yeah, I mean, it doesn't help when they have a congresswoman... Marcy Kapoor, whatever her name is, in Ohio. And she's saying that Elon Musk has only been a citizen for 23 years. Therefore, he doesn't have allegiance to the United States. And who is he loyal to, Canada or the United States? And this comes from the left when they can't
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They can't go through a congressional session where they don't have a resolution faulting Republicans for harassing poor immigrants and being xenophobic and nativist. And now they're scraping the bottom of the barrel. They've called him a Nazi. They've called Elon Musk Hitler. They've called him a crook. And now they're calling him a disloyal, naturalized citizen. Naturalized citizen.
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And this is something that I thought only the far, far right did. Blood and soil. There are blood and soil Democrats now. You're not really a U.S. citizen unless you were. Is that right, Congresswoman, unless you were born in the United States? You're a nativist now. You don't trust him. It's just mind boggling. Everything they've said has no logic. He wasn't confirmed.
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Well, either it was a national security file. You're saying that Jake Sullivan was illegitimate because he was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate? Well, he's making money. Well, he's the richest. He came in worth $450 billion. Where is he making money? They ask him to bail out our astronauts that NASA can't save. And so I don't know where he's making money. He's losing money, actually.
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By doing what he's doing, you have Tesla dealerships that are being vandalized. You have people who have Teslas that are having their cars vandalized. You've had left-wing huge boycott of Teslas. You've got the German government after him where there's a gigantic Tesla factory in Germany. He's taken a huge hit. The stock has fallen by 10% or 15%.
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He's lost money by doing what he's doing, just like he lost money with X. I don't know where he's going to keep making money because he probably lost $30 or $40 billion by opening up all of social media, by taking Twitter, which was a toxic player in the social media world, and opening it up with influence on other people to do the same.
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And he's losing money on... I think he's losing probably tens of billions of dollars in the stock price on Tesla. And I guess SpaceX is a private company, but... I don't get the impression that he is buying estates. He lives in very simple. He dresses very simple. He lives very simply. He doesn't splurge. He does things that the left should be on their knees praising him.
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He's provided Starlink service for the people who were burned out in Los Angeles free. He's provided it for the Ukrainians so that they have a chance to defend themselves from Russia. He has not provided it for Russia. He has not charged them. He was a big icon among the left until about a year ago.
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Well, they had a brief income tax for the Civil War just as a one-time stopgap. But the problem was that in the Constitution, I think it's Section 1, Article 2, it says that the federal government cannot have an excise, a blanket tax without apportionment, without apportionment.
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And that has been, that had been, I don't think the founders knew what they were doing on that particular, I don't know if they intended it, but what it was ruled in a famous, I It was ruled that it was literal. In other words, if you're the federal government and you want to tax the population, you can't just issue a tax on everybody as individuals. You have to apportion it by the states.
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So that would mean, according to the court interpretation, which stood until 1913, it would say the following. we need $100 million. I'm just taking an arbitrary figure. Okay. The 50 states, each one will contribute to that based on the percentage of the population. So, California, whatever the state was, would be adjudicated, prorated. And then the state then would contribute as a state
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So say California is one-sixth of the population, they would pay one-sixth of the tax bite. And so that's how it was. And everybody understood that that was a... block. There were people who tried to get an income tax. They really wanted it throughout history.
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But because it's in the Constitution that all states have to be apportioned, all income taxes have to be apportioned, that was pretty much the rule. And they didn't know how to get around it. And Supreme Court cases had, by a very close margin, five to four, had upheld that. So the only way you can overrule the Constitution and or a Supreme Court decision is get a constitutional amendment.
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So to get a constitutional amendment, you need three quarters of all of the states and you need two thirds of the House and the Senate. It's almost impossible to do unless there's something with broad support, 18-year-old vote, women's suffrage. And there was. And why was there? Because... This was the height of the progressive movement under Woodrow Wilson was elected in 2012.
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He always wanted the income tax. And the reason they got it through was, as you pointed out, the chief source of revenue was tariffs. And the tariffs were not like... 3% or 5%. They were sometimes 30% and 40% of goods, and they protected domestic industry. But the left, the progressive, and to the extent that they were populist movement said, these tariffs, and correctly so, are taxes.
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So, they're increasing the price for goods on American citizens, number one. And number two, to echo an old
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nullification argument by South Carolina before the Civil War, people said they are protecting the Yankees, where I think there was about four or five states that were responsible for almost all the tariff revenue, New York, Massachusetts, where all of the industry was at that time, and around the Great Lakes area. So the argument was... Wilson, the progressive movement elected Wilson.
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He said, we're going to now, we have the mandate and we've got people who want to have cheaper prices by lowering tariffs and making up the difference with an income tax and the income tax will affect not everybody. It was 1%, just 1%. And then he needed allies. There wasn't enough Democrats. So they went over to
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The recently emeritus president, Teddy Roosevelt, and they said to him, essentially, if you have an income tax, it will be consistent with your progressive advocacy of helping people have lower prices and it will only be 1%. Okay. And actually had a gradation where it went up to 2%, 3% based on income.
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But it will also give you the revenue to rearm because Roosevelt was a big, you know, the great white fleet and he wanted to warm and they could see already. This is a year before World War I broke out, and they could see what was going to happen, and they knew we were disarmed. So he said, we need to have a military-industrial complex, and we need bases in the South.
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So this was a great period when they started to acquire land in the South for military bases to get Southern votes and to get the progressive Republicans involved. So it was very easy to pass. It wasn't that low. It was sold on the idea that it would give this huge amount of revenue and create a military for the first time that was permanent. And it would be very cheap, 1% to 2%.
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1% for most people. 40% of the people would pay 1%. Okay. So they passed it. And that made it legal. And then that same year, they had the Revenue Act that they put the specifics into it. Now that the Polack decision had been reversed, it was okay to have an income tax without apportionment. So then they went in and said they decided that, okay.
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And then they went back when we were on the eve of getting into the war in 1916 and said, ah, we need to go up to 2%. So you could see where this was going. This is all very relevant, everybody, to what we're discussing now, because Donald Trump is not stupid. They think he is. He's not. He's cunning. He's sly. He's really smart.
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And he understood that before there was an income tax, this country, mutatis mutandis, the necessary changes being made, was able to have enough revenue to with tariffs. So he's got that on his brain that there has to be other sources of revenue other than these high income taxes.
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I don't know if there is, but he has said in moments of candor that he wishes the income tax was either vastly reduced or non-existent, but we'll see. But that's how the government... Once you pass the 1913 and 1916 Revenue Acts, you could see where we are a century and 110 years later. It was going to be inevitable. There has never been one tax or one government program that ever got smaller.
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They always get bigger. And that was the nature of it. And it changed everybody's life. And so every once in a while, when I was in high school, I'd meet a conservative teacher. And they'd say, oh, Victor, you think you know everything? You know that income tax is illegal. And I said, no, it's not. I was like 16. And I think his name was Mr. Dudley. He was a really good guy.
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And he'd come and... Here is the Constitution, Article 1, Section 2. All taxes must be apportioned. I said, yeah, but... They passed the Revenue Act was illegal. I said, they passed the constitutional amendment. The constitutional amendment was illegal. They argued all for the original intent, et cetera. So that's where we are. And remember what we're doing, everybody.
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We're trying to find iconic moments, key moments in the 20th century. We're going to go from... the very earliest that I talked about the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War that was more than just Russia being humiliated. The humiliation had helped spark
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just a little bit more than a decade, the Bolshevik Revolution, because the Tsars had been, the Tsardom had been totally discredited by that catastrophic loss of their Baltic and Pacific fleets to the Japanese of all people. And by the same token, the Japanese throughout the government, because they negotiated from a position of strength as the victors in that war, They negotiated hard.
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They didn't get very much territory. They didn't get the Sakonai. And so they were discredited. And that was the beginning of the authoritarian, militaristic Japanese warlords that would result in World War II. And then we went to the Panama Canal. We have all this recent discussion about the Panama Canal. But yes, that was an American brilliant engineering feat.
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Mr. Lesseps and the French company that had been brilliantly successful in the Suez could not do it. No one could do it in Panama. It required two or three things as we talked about. You had to conquer yellow fever and malaria. The United States did.
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And you had to create new technology of steam shovels, trucks, special railroad cars of a magnitude nobody had ever seen before to get rid of the earth. And we did that. And we had... And Donald Trump was right about that, that we would have exclusive rights that no other country had.
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And so this China deal, I think, was a violation both of the letter and the spirit of that treaty, both the original treaty and the one that Jimmy Carter signed away in 1979 that was active 1999. And so now we have done the income tax, which I think changed the whole nature of the United States.
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Without the income tax, you don't have a federal octopus, you don't have a military industrial complex, and you don't have people working from January to May to pay their taxes. And you don't have social tensions when 40% to 45% of the American people do not pay any federal income tax.
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Next time, we're going to talk about the guns of August and what caused Europe to commit collective suicide in 1914 and the outbreak of World War I. And why did we get into it?
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He does. You can't finish any description of Elon Musk. I'm exaggerating, but not necessarily that much. When he tells that anecdote. And then the rocket started to descend. And then this mechanical erector set arm grabbed it. Can you believe that? They grabbed a missile in mid-flight. Elon did that. And by the way, Elon, no one else can do it. Only you can do it.
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And so, yes, he has genuine admiration. That's why the hatred of Elon is so bizarre. Because... Everybody understands that without Tesla, you wouldn't have an EV industry. It's a viable, working, reliable car, and the big three can't even emulate it. And then without Elon, you wouldn't have a space program. NASA has gone off the rails. I don't know what happened to it.
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Without Elon, we would still be censoring social media, and the FBI would be working with Twitter and Facebook to try to weaponize an election. So I don't know what the anger is about him. Without Elon, we wouldn't even be talking about cutting waste. All he's doing is basically Donald Trump said Joe Biden went crazy. I was crazy, but he went crazier with the debt. I had the excuse of COVID.
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He didn't. And then he said, Elon, you took over Twitter and they said that you had all this feather bedding and didn't you get rid of 90 percent? And Elon said, I not only got rid of 80 or 90 percent, it works just as well. Well, could you come over here? Yes, I want to come over here and do the same thing for the U.S. government. That's where we are. So, yes, he has a great admiration.
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And yes, he's 78 years old. Yeah. I can tell you I'm 71 and my level of energy from 71 to 60 or 68 is very different, but it makes him more reflective. So yes, it enhances his message. He still tweets with capital letters. He still calls people bird brain and idiots and despicable and crazy and stupid, but less so. And, um, And he looks tired because he is.
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He probably gets four hours sleep, 78-year-old. And it makes him, oddly, it makes him more effective. And he's flooding the zone. That's what he's doing. He's saying, you know what? He got all that cabinet. You saw that picture the other day. And he's saying to Sean Duffy, I want you to go in there and save the FAA. Everybody says, we're having all these crashes.
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We're not having any more per day than we did Under Joe Biden or Barack Obama or Trump's first term, but they're more publicized. But more importantly, he's only been in there five weeks. The FAA is Joe Biden's and it was DEI, just like United States.
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pilot training was DI'd, meaning people were being hired on the basis of their superficial appearance and fired if you didn't fit the particular favored profile. So then he's saying to Pete Hexeth, And recruitment, we're down 50. They keep lying. Every time they're short 40 or 50, they just said, we didn't need that many. We do need that many.
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And then all of a sudden, Pete Hegseth, 350 people a day, 10,000 a month. It's record he's been able to do. So everybody said he's crazy. He's tattooed. He's out there with the, he looks like a soldier. He's fought. And he's trying to radically change everything. We've talked about that. My gosh, I don't think I've heard one retired general. Have you?
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Who have said that Donald Trump was a pathological liar, that he should be removed sooner than later, that he was Mussolini-like, that he's an architect of Auschwitz-like cages, or that he is on the wrong side of the D-Day beaches and Nazi-like. Why don't they say it? Because they know that he is going to enforce the Uniform Code of Military Justice. And I think he's going to open up procurement.
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And the same thing with Marco Rubio. As I said last time, he is Patton, and Trump is the chaotic armored thrust. And he confuses the enemy like Patton did, and then the infantry comes behind the sober and judicious people, and they iron out. So Panama's in a frenzy. Oh, he's going to invade us. He's going to do this. Marco Rubio goes down and says, look, we want to be friends.
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Donald Trump gets a little wild sometimes, but you signed a... deal with the Chinese and you knew what they're doing. You knew that even if it was technically legal to put a Chinese controlled company at the beginning and the end of the canal, are you insane? And to turn this over to these people? Okay. And that's what he does. Ditto Greenland, ditto Canada. I will say one thing.
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Donald Trump's got to be very careful about Canada because, yes, they have an inordinate asymmetrical tariff and they run up a $50 billion and they know exactly what they do. And they spend about 1.4 on their defense. They don't meet the NATO requirement. This is one of the most impressive militaries ever. per capita in the history of the West during World War II.
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The Canadians, they had a huge fleet. They had wonderful soldiers. They sacrificed. The Dieppe raid, the British planned that, and the Canadians got bled white on that. They were very courageous. For them not to be armed. But here's my point. This was Trudeau, Trudeau, Trudeau. If he keeps the pressure on Canada, and it's already worked. I'm not criticizing that.
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He's got a billion dollars invested by the Canadians to close the border. All they have to do is up their defense a little bit, and they can do that. And the second thing they do is just say, we want reciprocal tariffs. That's all. If we charge you for milk and butter, you charge us for milk and butter, timber, timber, oil, that. You know what I mean?
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But here's the problem when he, if we, and I understand the art of the deal, you have to be crazy and talk. But what we're doing is we're taking this Nen Kampuk Trudeau, who had rock bottom liberal labor, et cetera, ratings of the left wing parties, and we're making him into a victim and a protector. the protector of Canadian sovereignty.
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Every time we say, well, you're Governor Trudeau, 51 state. Meanwhile, we have these wonderful conservatives, the Stephen Harper wing. And the others, there's four or five of them. And they are put into an impossible situation because they have to, as politicians, defend Canadian sovereignty. And they have to defend them from whom? Kindred spirits, Donald Trump.
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So the conservatives want to do to Canada what Trump's doing, that is lower taxes, lower deregulation. have a good military. But when he attacks Canada generically, then Trudeau said, look at them. They're Trumpers. They're just like Trump. And the result is it's wacky now. The conservative popularity is going down. And if it continues, they might not win what would have been a landslide election.
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And so I think we have to find a message and thread that needle. We have to say, we're angry at Trudeau and what he's done to Canada. We need a conservative. And once we have a conservative government, every issue can be worked out. Now, that's interference in Canadian elections, but that's what they do to us. Everybody does that to us.
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So I just think somebody in the administration, not Trump, but maybe J.D. Vance or someone should say, Boy, if we had a conservative, stable, normal government, not this crazy man Trudeau, we would have everything negotiated on a symmetrical basis. And then I think the conservatives would win.
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This is not Gavin Newsom. You should have just had nobody show up because that's what he is, an empty suit. I don't know. I mean, I've talked about this a little bit. He wants to talk with MAGA people. I'm a MAGA person. Everybody listens to MAGA persons. If all of our audience who's listening right now could go on his show, they would say this.
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Gavin, you have 13.3, the highest income taxes in the United States, and you're, I think, number nine in sales taxes, average per county, depending on the county, 10% to 12%. You have the highest gas taxes. Gavin, we rate 45th in schools' test scores. We have the highest per capita crime rate in San Francisco and Oakland of any major city. We have one third of all the welfare recipients.
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21% of the people live below the poverty line. You're bleeding out 300 of the most productive, 300,000 of the most productive citizens are leaving. Gavin, the reason they're doing that is you have the highest tax. And I didn't mention the gas tax. That's the highest. You have the highest property tax. the highest housing values, the highest gas tax, the most regulations, the highest income tax.
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And we wanted something in return. And what we got are crime-ridden cities, San Francisco, Los Angeles, full of homeless people. And we have schools, the LA public school system is dysfunctional. And we have a teacher's unions that run these schools and they don't work. We have infrastructure that is among the worst.
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I think the American trucking industry has got the California freeway system down either last or close to the last. And I know that per miles driven, the 99 freeway is the most dangerous freeway. It's not even a freeway, really, in some places.
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So you have the 101 that's decrepit, the 99 that's decrepit, and then he's spending $15, $16 billion to continue Jerry Brown's mad idea of a high-speed rail, which is beyond the ability of the present competency of California. California's elite whether you're talking about the government lawyers or the government politicians or the government engineers, they're not competent. They can't do this.
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And if they... So they had... 2009, we voted for this high-speed rail. We were talking about $30 billion, $40 billion, $50 billion. They have spent over $15 billion. They have not raised, laid one foot of track. And now, are we going to get the 500 miles from L.A. through to Hatchipi, to Bakersfield, to Fresno, up to Chowchilla, over to Pacheco, and get to the Bay Area? No.
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We're doing phase one travel. Minus. That is Bakersfield to Merced. I'm a chauvinist of the San Joaquin Valley. So everybody, I love Bakersfield. I love Merced, but it's not the time, the place you want to go take a high-speed rail. If you get from that 178 miles, if you get there in three hours driving, you're not going to feel cheated that you got there in an hour.
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because you didn't get there in an hour. And by the way, it's not going to go 250 miles an hour. They've already downgraded it. They've already showed you what the ticket price would be. They can't run it. Look at BART. It's a complete mess. It's just a spoil system for unions and DEI and all of that stuff. And it's so tragic because Jerry Brown's father, Edmund Brown, was very gifted.
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He sued the Sierra Club to create the California Water Project, and they approved the California Water Project in 1968. Five years later, they had the first phase of the aqueduct, and that's 400 miles long. They had it all the way from the Delta down to San Luis, about 80 miles. They had the O'Neill forebay, and they were pumping it over the highest pinstocks in the world into Los Angeles.
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And then phase two, where they had a lateral into San Bernardino, and then phase three, they were all done within 10 years. That was a brilliant group of people, the engineers, the politicians, the lawyers, the workers. They created the most sophisticated aqueduct system in less than 10 years and much of it in five years. This is now 15 years, 15 years, and we haven't laid one foot. And
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When I go down my avenue, most of the I see workers are, they're spraying graffiti, they're sandblasting graffiti over the bridges. Remember what he did, everybody? They took all of the overpasses that were most highly seen and they started those first and then they had big billboards, your taxpayer... dollars at work, high-speed rail, sophisticated overpass. And then you drove down the 99 or 41.
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You saw them. Oh, my gosh. But they didn't do anything in between. In between, they were hung up for years and lawsuits with farmers and preservationists. It was a mess. So that's Gavin. And he's not going to talk about any of that stuff. And I wish he would. And why is he doing it now? He's doing it now because... He his little antenna have pricked up anything. Hmm. Let me see.
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They're opposing Trump, but they're gone nutty. All they do is scream and yell and they call Elon Musk untrustworthy and Hitler and Mussolini and they have all these horrible names. They scream and yell at Congress and yet. They're dying on the altar of transgenderism in Maine. The border is closed and they think that everybody wanted it wide open and another three million.
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These people are crazy in my party. There's going to be a little seam in the next election for a liberal who sounds a little traditional. I'll have a little bit of I'll get a little teaspoon of Al Gore and Bill Clinton circa 1992, 96. So I will have a podcast. And the thing I'll do about it is I want to talk to mega people. I'm inclusive. I believe in inclusivity. D-E-I.
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It's not diversity, equity. It's inclusivity. So I want all you mega people to call in. We'll kind of joust them when it's all over and I lie to you about how great everything is. We all part friends. I say, you know, Gavin's a miracle worker. He's a can-do guy. That's what he's doing. It's not going to work.
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Well, he's going to do exactly what he did with Donald Trump. So- He went to the White House and he begged, begged, begged. And he said, and then Trump came out and didn't want to meet him because who wants to meet him? It's all, who wants to meet him with his Abercrombie and Fitch vest, his slick back hair, and then He looks for the latest camera or wherever the cameras are.
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Then he gets a shovel or he puts on gloves and picks up trash. It's all fake photo op guy. That's who he is. So he comes out and he forces himself onto the tarmac to meet Trump and basically said, we need $40 billion. And I'm so wasteful. I started the year with $77 billion deficit because I opened the borders and we have Medi-Cal and they... We need the $40 billion.
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But you're such a wonderful person. And I've always liked you. We've always got along. Flattering Trump. So Trump goes back and he said, I got the $40 billion. And then he goes to the legislature. I need $50 million because we're going to sue that SOB. And that's what he's doing. And that's what he always does. So this whole thing as part, this is the podcast version of Kissing Up to Trump.
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It has nothing to do with his ideology or his politics. He is a captive, even if he wanted to be independent, he's a captive of an insane assembly and state senate. And they're all run by coastal elites from San Diego to Santa Rosa. And their main, they have two main agendas.
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Green, green, green, green, destroy nuclear energy, natural gas, and illegal immigration, illegal immigration, and identity politics. That's it.
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Gosh, they might as well burn it up if it wasn't. Meanwhile, Lee Zeldin's got the EPA, and I think they've already helped green light the removal of toxic stuff out of there. They should just let Trump come in with a czar and just say, we will have everybody
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With permits, green light, they can have all their plans and all the toxic stuff and all the infrastructure, the sewer, the water, all the power will all be done in a year. And we want you starting with your independent contractors within a year.
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Yeah, it was very disingenuous because Laura Trump said he's not able to finish a sentence and stutter. Oh, he had a childhood stutter and you're making fun of disability. you can't diagnose people. You're not a doctor.
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It didn't stop you, Jake, when you guys all said that Donald Trump was subject to 25th Amendment removal, and you said he was demented, and you got Bandi Lee up at Congress to lie that he needed a straitjacket intervention. And you did it so much that Trump finally said, I can't take this anymore. I'm going to take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which he did. And he told his
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that he could tell the difference between a camel and a dromedary. And that was what I looked at the test versions and stuff like that. Two humps, one hump. Anyway, the point I'm making is, Jake Tapper, and you mentioned Laura Trump. So if you go and look and say Joe Biden plus stutter, and you tick a date, 1980, 1990, you don't find anything.
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You do it 2020, 21, 22, then all of a sudden the left said that he wasn't demented, that he was a sympathetic, vulnerable person that had mastered his stutter. So you're supposed to believe that. That was not a true thing. Jake Tapper and people like him demonized anybody. I wrote a comma. I don't know if you remember in the 2020 primary, he was on the stage and he lost every debate.
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There was, I think, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, one of the Castro twins, Spartacus, and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and they were raving and stuff. And he was just, and then every once in a while, Sean Handy and Fox or somebody would show that thing. And he said, if you want to help Joe Biden go to, or then he said, and you know, the 1776 and all that stuff.
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And it was obvious that he, and then there were, they were quoting Barack Obama and Remember, he said off the record, Joe, Joe, you don't have to do this. You don't have meaning. You don't have to take the country down the drain and embarrass yourself. So that was known. And Spartacus was on the stage in one debate. And Joe, they asked him a question. I can remember.
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I don't know which particular debate. And he said something like, I should have done. Yes. Yeah. And Cory Booker, I didn't understand any of that. It was just like Trump. He said almost the same thing Trump did in the debate years later. So everybody knew that. And I kind of got angry when I saw that title of that book.
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because he, the co-author, and all the left were part of the greatest media conspiracy in the history of the United States to do something that was very dangerous, to take someone who was obviously cognitively challenged and not up to the job, physically or mentally, and reinvent him as old Joe Biden from Scranton, and then in the primary tell
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Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Spartacus, Bernie Sanders, you can't get elected in the general election. You're crazy. You're hard leftist. The only guy that we can fake the American people out is Joe Biden. He's our veneer. So you're going to drop out. And Pete, you'll get a cabinet post, even though you have no experience in transportation. And Elizabeth, you and Bernie get your hard left agenda.
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And Brock, you and Michelle get all your appointments and Joe will just come. He'll just, I hope he can make it, but Joe, it's COVID and you stay in the basement. You don't go anywhere. And if you want to go anywhere, you kind of like a drive-in movie, you sit there in your car and they sit there and they honk. Remember that? And you're not going to do anything. And you turn it over to
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the money will out-raise him 3.5 million, will change all the voting laws, and we'll have 70% of the people not showing up on election day where the error rate of particular ballots will drop from a normal 5% to 6% to 0.3%, 0.4%. And Molly Ball summed it all up in time.
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Left-wing reporter now working for the Wall Street Journal, and she just said, she called it a cabal and a conspiracy, how he got picked and how they won. Okay. And then when he came in, he's worked... two to three days a week. And remember, Barack Obama had said, he was on record saying, they said, Barack, is there any chance you could ever think of a third term? We miss you so much.
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You were so brilliant. Yes, I was. Of course I was brilliant. I'm always brilliant. Well, what would your dream be? Well, yeah, I just stay in the basement and work out. I just every once in a while, I'd phone up my orders and I didn't have to do anything. And that's exactly what happened. He tipped us off. And so that's who ran the company, and they created this cabal. The only irony or nemesis
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The Greeks said from hubris, overweening arrogance, comes ate or disaster, and then nemesis, divine retribution, chaos. So they were arrogant. Then they got the chaos. And then they got the retribution. And the retribution was Donald Trump. And they couldn't pull it off. He almost pulled it off. They lied to us and lied to us.
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I take it very personally, as I said, because I wrote columns about it. As early as 2000, I said he was unhinged. And I got so many angry letters. I got attacked in print. I won't mention the network and I won't mention the anchor. But I went on a major television show and I said that he was reptilian because he looked all pale. And he only had that grimace from the repeated Botox treatment.
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You know how he kind of grimaced when he would say, semi-fascist and ultimate. Didn't he look lizard-like? Well, I didn't say lizard-like. I thought it would be scientific. And somebody said, well, what do you make of that, this person? And I said, you know, it's very disturbing. He's reptilian almost. And my God, I never went on that show again. They never asked me to go. I was kind of ostracized.
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But now we learn from Jake Tapper. All you nuts out there that we demonize. Hey, Laura Trump, that we cut you off and ridicule you are all right. But guess what? We were right, too. We just kind of sort of maybe a little bit said that he he might have been perfect, but we kind of didn't mean it. And now we're going to redeem ourselves by writing a book and how bad it was.
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You think Edith Wilson was covering up the stroke ridden, bedridden Woodrow Wilson? This was worse. We're supposed to buy this book now and believe all that. No, Jake Tapper, you've lost all credibility. I suggest no one buy this book. It's just going to be, it's not about Joe Biden's dementia.
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It's about Jake Tapper and the mainstream media trying to wiggle their way out of the biggest conspiracy in our history between Democratic insiders and media insiders. And they're probably the same people. And they lied to us and lied to us and changed rules and regulations and protocols to allow this, as I said, waxen effigy to be precedent.
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I don't think any of them are going to buy it. No, I can guarantee you our audience was not going to buy it unless they wanted to have a comic relief.
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Comprehensive immigration reform.
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That was always a lie. Yeah. They caught what they called comprehensive immigration was to try to fool. two or three senators into thinking that they were going to have a solution when it was basically amnesty. And people are not stupid.
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When Ronald Reagan signed the Simpson-Mazzoli Act of 1986, which really took the Border Patrol off the border and gave I-9 forms to the employers, there was massive fraud. I know that when I was farming in those years, it was a joke. You had to keep records of I-9 forms, and somebody would give it to you, and then you'd had no idea who they were. You had no idea, and no one ever checked.
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And the old system, they called it La Migra, and they were everywhere, and they stopped. But my point is that That was a complete failure, Simpson-Mazzoli Act. So the border was open. Obama opened it at first to get running. Remember, he said it's only legal. And then he got elected, and then he kind of opened it.
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Well, it's a lot to talk about. There's a general rule that Everybody knows in the healthcare industry, Medicare, Medicaid, and the local equivalents, say here in California, Medi-Cal, there is so many people on it now that we've never had a higher percentage of the population on it because we're aging and we're impoverished.
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And then when he was up for reelection in 2012, he kind of remembered it's only legal. But then he just opened it wide. Trump came in with it. He started... Everybody criticized him because he didn't build the new wall. But the old wall, he did 500 miles of it. It wasn't a wall. It was under George W. Bush. It was just a rickety fence. So he worked. And what did they do?
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He tried to get the military, the Secretary of Defense... opposed him. I mean, you had Jim Mattis at Secretary of Defense and John Kelly. They were not on the MAGA agenda. They weren't. Rex Tillerson was not on the MAGA agenda. He had a team that did not believe that you should stop all illegal immigration. He tried. Then they cherry-picked judges. Then they said that he was putting them in cages.
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Remember that? I was on an NPR broadcast, and I tried to very carefully say the cages were made by Barack Obama. He inherited them. And they're not cages. They're facilities that if you didn't have that security, you would have no security, given that 90% of the people do not show up for their deportation or their immigration status hearings. And then after I got off...
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The host that was interviewing me started trashing me, which you never do in journalism. You don't interview anybody. If you want to interview somebody and you don't agree with them, you ask them tough questions. You don't have them go off and then start attacking them when they can't. And that's what happened.
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My point is that with all of that, if you look at the last year, he's finally stopped it. He had no more catch and release. You had to apply for refugee status while you were in a different country. He beefed up the Border Patrol, and they were starting to build the new wall, 20, 30 miles. They just started. And then the election happened.
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And then Joe Biden, for the first year, if you look at that first year, he was just saying, well, I'm not for illegal. And what I mean is the fumes of the Trump administration had deterred people. Don't go north. But they didn't. And then Joe Biden, somebody said, well, you know, Wait a minute. In 2020, in the primary, he said, come north. Remember that? Hey, everybody, come north.
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We're not going to do anything. Maybe we'll try it. And they started trying. And then by the second, third, it was off the charts. And then Donald Trump comes in and they say, wow, he didn't do anything in the first 30 days. Yes, he did. But it's just beginning because he's getting the message out that you will be deported.
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The other really important thing to remember is here's the left's argument. Donald Trump said he was just going to get 500,000 criminals. Well, they're hard to find. But here's the point. You go in, you hear there's two cartel members in an apartment building. And so you go in and one guy's got his nephew there and one guy's got his girlfriend, his buddy but there's no felony record on them.
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So you get the two people and then you just, what do you do? I'm not allowed to ask your immigration status because we're giving de facto amnesty for anybody who entered illegally. Oh, don't tell me whether you did or no. They're not going to do that. They're going to say the law says you cannot enter the United States. By the way, you're next to these criminals. Can I see your...
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I don't have any. I entered in legal. Well, you're going to be deported. Oh, my God. They deported people who weren't criminals. They were criminals. They broke the law. What is it you don't understand? There is either a law or there's not a law. If they're not criminals, then anybody can come across the border.
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That's a felony, by the way. And I think some of our governors got that message when they were bragging. Was it the New Jersey governor bragging he was going to put somebody illegally above his garage? And then somebody said, well, we're going to charge you with a felony. If you don't believe that, everybody.
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If you don't believe that it's against the law to come into the United States without documentation or permission, then just leave your passport at home when you fly in from Holland or Britain or France. Just leave it back in your hotel or tuck it into your suitcase and say you don't have one and see how far you, a U.S. citizen, get by trying to enter the United States without a passport.
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And we brought in 30 million people who were impoverished the last 30 years from south of the border. Okay. Everybody knows that millions of people are dependent as their only source of income and their only source of health care. Everybody knows there's massive fraud and abuse. So when Elon Musk looks at that, he has two warning signs. Number one.
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I've seen it in my 50 years. At least...
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five times and these are people who somehow got on a plane either without a passport but more likely somewhere in their overhead luggage they dropped it or in the seat and they come in there and you can see what happens they have no passport the person at the window in all five cases that i saw they call security and they take the person into a room i don't know what they do but i have a feeling they
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make sure they're legal or they're US citizens and they go on a computer and find out and maybe they find them or they let them come in with a Xerox version. But you cannot do that. And if a citizen can't do it, why would you allow a foreign national to do it?
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I like Gene Hackman a lot. He came to notice, and I'm just doing this because I didn't know what you were going to ask me. Bonnie and Clyde, that's when he really, he was... Wonderful in Bonnie and Clyde, but he came very famous with the drug movie, two of them, The French Connection and French Connection 2. He was Popeye Doyle and he was every man.
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He was always, I think people have and the obituaries have called him believable. He did, I think it was with Al Pacino called Scarecrow. It was a really good movie. and he was kind of a protector of... There were two inmates, and he was kind of the rugged big guy that made sure that Pacino wasn't molested or taken advantage of, and he was really good in that.
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He had a very sinister role in Unforgiven as the local sheriff that was a bully, and he was kind of a psychopath. He was building his retirement house, and Clint Eastwood comes in with Morgan Freeman, and they kill Morgan Freeman, and they whipped him, and then He was a psychopath. He had that great scene, kind of morbid scene, morbid. When he comes in, he thinks everybody shoot him.
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And the character, once he gets alcohol, he reverts back to his natural proclivities as an accomplished killer. He's incompetent unless he drinks, but once he's, he doesn't care. So he's, Basically, nobody wants to shoot him. If they all shoot him, they're free. But somebody's going to die. And then they shoot him. I mean, they being Clint Eastwood shoots him. And he's on the ground.
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And after he's killed everybody, he sees him twitch and he walks over. And he says, this isn't fair. I was Billy Niles. And he goes, whoever said anything about fair? And he finishes him off. And that was kind of weird. Remember Richard Harris had come in as, I think, Bob. What was it? Something Bob. He was a killer. And he was coming in.
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The prostitutes had hired somebody to get even with a person who had disfigured one of the prostitutes. And then Gene Hackman kind of baited him as if they were friends. And then he just beat the crap out of him and almost killed him. So he was a bully, but he played it in a brilliant fashion. Everything he did was great. He was...
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And then about, oh, I think Unforgiven was this last movie about 20 years ago in his early 70s. He just said, I can't do it anymore. And I think his point was, I'm forgetting lines now or something. I don't want to be remembered. So then he had a big estate in New Mexico. And he had a younger wife, as you said, 30 years.
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So it's kind of odd because when I read this this morning and I'm speaking on a Thursday morning. they said there was no foul play. So he was obviously in very poor health from the pictures, at least of the last year.
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So either he fell or maybe she fell, and that seems hard in the early 60s, but maybe she was injured and he didn't know what was, he was by himself or he didn't, or he fell and then she was trying to revive him. Who knows? But it's hard. I guess to anybody who reads a story, they can't make sense of it.
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If you mention the word, I'm going to have to cut Medicare or Medi-Cal, under any circumstances, you're going to get a blowback that has not happened on any other. USAID, EPA, no problem. Defense to budget, go to it, Elon. But those people do not want to even hear it. Once Dan Raskowski, the Republican... majority leader mentioned cutting Social Security, but also Medicare.
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By the time you're listening to this, you will have the answers because they said there were blunt trauma. Well, nobody can commit suicide by blunt trauma to your head.
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But they were in separate bedrooms, weren't they?
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Yeah. You can see that he fell and then maybe trying to pick him up, she might have fallen. And that's the scenario where he fell in the bathroom. She tried to pick him up and hit her head and then was dizzy and went to lay down and then got a hematoma or something. But it's very tragic. It's very... Odd. So, well, and the dog was dead. Maybe he starved it. The dog wasn't fed or something.
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But if you just ask the average person and say, you're 94 and your wife is 63 and you have a dog and you're all three going to be found dead in a week with blunt trauma. It's going to be, I think it has to be someone had an accident if it wasn't foul play. And it's apparently it wasn't. And then the other person tried to react to it and got incapacitated.
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And then they weren't able to call somebody or feed themselves. And they got, I don't know. And then the dog was not fed or neglected. But it's really sad, but it shouldn't overshadow what was a great career.
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He was from a very working class family. I think his father left him when he was 13, just got up one day and drove out, waved to him. See ya. So he was. Wow, that's sad. He was a self-made person.
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He was kind of a crooked.
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lawyer that at the end realized how flawed and terrible person he'd been and tried to do some good and knew he was going to be killed, but he allowed Tom Cruise's wife to be alive, to escape. Yeah, that was... Everything about him was... He was a great... He played a role that Sobalski in A Bridge Too Far, the Polish paratrooper, that they had a Polish airborne...
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That according to the Market Garden, I'm doing this by memory, so the Market Garden plan was a flawed plan from A to Z. Terrible. Montgomery's disaster. He didn't get the harbor secured at Antwerp, but he did get on this crazy idea of leapfrogging into the Rhine across five bridges. But nevertheless, the last one at Arnheim... They were supposed to get there in 48 hours, but it was five days.
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And so finally, the idea was to give the first British airborne reinforcements from a Polish division, but it was so foggy and they... landed him on the wrong side of a tributary, and it was just a screw-up because they came late because of the fog. They landed under difficult positions. They had to go across a river to help. They couldn't do it.
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They almost got away, and he played that police general. People flawed him, and the reviews of that movie, I remember they said that his accent wasn't good. But he looked Polish. He acted Polish. I thought it was a good role. I thought he did a wonderful job. But I noticed later that for some reason, critics who didn't like that movie, I liked the movie.
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In fact, I think I'm going to, as I speak, I'll be in Hillsdale next week talking about World War II films. I'm going to talk about that film along with Patton and my favorite World War II movie, Das Boot, The Boat.
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He worked harder than he was known in Hollywood as the hardest working. He was in his 50s, because he started late. He started in his 40s to get known. He didn't have a 20, 30 year. He was unknown. And he was doing five or six films a year. He worked himself just to death almost.
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Thank you, everybody. I appreciate listening. And call into Gavin's show and get on there and tangle with Gavin Newsom. He wants your voice to be heard. That's what he said.
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He was swarmed by his car. They went after him. On the other hand, that's where a lot of the abuse is. So it's kind of a lose-lose situation. If you want to really cut, you're going to have to go in there because there is a lot of fraud. But the fact that you're cutting anything, the left is going to destroy you. As far as the measles epidemic,
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Thank you, everybody.
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The problem with measles was always, it was, I had measles. We used to call it the German measles, the three-day measles, the red measles. But we all had it when we were growing up. In most cases, it was not dangerous. I think that, and people, please look this up, but I'm pretty sure it was about 500 deaths per year, about 50,000 cases.
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The problem with it, with measles, of course, is if a woman is pregnant and has measles, it is one of the And I had a sister, Georgia Ann Hansen, who died, I think, at two years old. And my mother had German, what they call German measles, and she was born blind with heart defects. So it's a very, it's a, and it's a, it's a treatable disease. So we have been vaccinated.
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And this is interesting because RFK has been skeptic of vaccination. But here's the intricacies. I want to be very careful what I say. It's such an emotional issue. The left is saying he wants to cut measles as a requirement. But there are people right now who... don't have measles vaccinations.
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In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of parents who do not trust any vaccinations and their children are not allowed in most states in the public school system. So they're being homeschooled, right? We haven't, I don't think we've had a death in the last five years from measles, a death. We probably have four or 500 cases per year, if that. I think that's too high.
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But now we're starting to see an outbreak. So if we were a rational, informed society, we would say something along the following. Because if a parent chooses not to have their child inoculated against childhood diseases, which whooping cough, measles, mumps, then they can't go to the public schools because That's a rational thing to do.
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But why then would you let in 12 million people the last four years from one of the poorest areas in the world that is rampant with childhood diseases and say that you're a racist or a xenophobe to even mention the fact that these people coming in unaudited might have diseases? And Texas, where the outbreak is, might be indicative of that.
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I can tell you that in rural southwest Fresno County, we've had one years ago, we had cases of leprosy, Hansen's disease. I think there was two cases one year, but nobody was allowed to talk about it. So my point is, yes, you should be inoculated. And yes, RFK will probably widen the window of exemptions if you do not want to be inoculated. You don't want your children...
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They're not going to be at risk, but here's the catch with all vaccination. You say vaccinations are dangerous, so I'm not going to be vaccinated. But the fact is most people will be vaccinated. I think just like 95%. So those people, in your view, are taking a risk. But by taking a risk, they're suppressing the ability of the virus or the infectious agent to transmit.
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And you're a beneficiary of that. So if everybody did what you did, we would go back to the 40,000 and 50,000 cases a year. And I don't know how many deaths, 400 or 500 deaths per year in the United States of 330 million, maybe more now with the population increase. So that's what we're talking about. But surely...
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If you're going to have an open border and you're going to let in three to four million people a year and you make it taboo to even discuss the fact that they're unaudited and they're coming in without health checks and they're coming from areas where these diseases are not rare, and then you're telling people who are citizens in an area where there are no outbreaks that they can't put their children in the state schools because they're unvaccinated, then you've got a disconnect.
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And so I would think that you should, under our new immigration policy, there should be a health check at the border. And nobody should be let in who's legal, and anybody who's coming legally should have a vaccination history and a checkup, as was true in the past.
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Well, we do have that program already. It's kind of difficult. And according to Mr. Luknik and the Commerce Secretary, there may be as many as 200,000 people queuing up that we have not been able to accommodate.
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It's not such an easy thing because the people who had that means of $5 million, some of them may have got their money through illegal or illicit means, so they have to have a very careful background check. But the simple thing is, as he said, if you do the math and you're paying $5 million And you've got $200,000 lined up, right? $200,000 million. And you've got a trillion dollars you could get.
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And you could apply that right to the debt. So, it's enticing. And then the criticism of it, well, we're an egalitarian society. Yes. But... We are bringing in 12 million people the last four years who have made enormous claims on the state in health care, on education, on housing, on nutrition, on food, everything.
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And some people have argued that it could be as high as $30,000 or $40,000 per year per illegal immigrant. And that's aside from the law enforcement problem. So what Donald Trump is saying, we're going to stop that and it will be expensive in the short term to deport people. But once we get the border control, we'll have legal only immigration.
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dot edu slash vdh i'm going to be there on march as i said i'm going to be on i'll be in hillsdale on march 5th to give a talk on world war ii film if anybody wants to listen to it three best more than that right you have more than uh the second world wars don't you teach uh the end of um those i have an online course that i taught in a conjunction with paul ray on the peloponnesian war and
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I have an online course on the Second World Wars, number two. I have a third one about the dying citizen that talks about the challenge to citizenship and why it's eroding. And then I did a mini one on the end of everything. And... I think I'm going to be asked to do another one soon. I'll be there on May 5th, as I said. Also on May 10th, I'm giving the graduation.
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I was very honored that the senior class voted to ask me, so I'll be doing that. And then in the first week of September, I'm there for my annual visit.
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Well, I don't even think they were employees. I think they were contractors. So they were... I mean, they were misrepresenting their status. They were contractors. Contractors usually have a much more volatile tenure. The thing about all of this is the federal workforce is so inured to the idea that they're sacrosanct. They have no idea what the people who pay for their salaries are like.
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It came home to me... When I left graduate school for five years, I farmed. And one year, I remember, as I've said, I went to the Federal Land Bank and the old crusty loan officer looked at all of my books and he said, well, as much as I can see, given your losses farming, you paid about $25 an hour for the hours you work.
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Do you like paying to get on your old tractor and sit in the sun and disc all day? Because that's what you did. And then I looked at my social security for five years and my income net to me as a salary, there were three of us and we each took a little hours. We paid ourselves $6 an hour. I made about $6,000.
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So then I go to Cal State Fresno and I start part-time, part-time, full-time after a third year. So I'm sitting in a lounge my first third year. I was so happy, $21,000 a year and medical benefits. four classes to teach. I was writing a book. And here I will not mention anything about the person talking. He is now deceased. But it was a 60-ish professor, and he was angry.
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I was making 21 and had already published one book and was publishing another. He had never published a thing. He was a nice guy, but he was saying that – It was so unfair that he'd only got a two and a half percent step increase. And I just politely said, well, we only work 30 weeks a year. And I said, you come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays and you teach a night class and then you teach.
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So you're home Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. You know, that stuff. I'm preparing classes. I'm correct. I said, I do that, too. But I also farm. And my point is, I tried to say to this lifelong who had never worked in the public sector, I tried to say, do you know what it's like not to have a check in the mail?
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Do you know that a guy with a pizza parlor or a truck driver, he has no idea. There is no some Oz behind the screen that writes him a check. He doesn't know whether he's making money or he's not making money until he looks at his books at the end of the week or into the month or the end of the year. For all he knows, everything is up there.
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He doesn't know how many people he can have a great day at the pizza parlor and 100 people can come in. He can have two people. Two people. But he had to stay there for 10 hours. But one day he'll make $8 an hour. The next day he'll be $100. That is the uncertainty that most people have. And to just act as if you have a God-given birthright to these jobs.
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And then most people who are on salary, they go into their office. And if they're late or they do something, the boss fires them. And there is no appeal. They're gone. Jamie Dimon, the head of, as we talked about, Morgan Chase Stanley. Is that what it was? Yes.
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He gave a big rant about how angry he was about this, of these employees that were not coming in and had a sense of entitlement and how he was going to stop it. So my point is that a lot of these federal workers – can go back into the private sector.
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And I think they will see what a great thing they had, but I'm not, I'm not, I don't get the idea that they have a lifetime tenure and it's, you know, not when so many people have such a tenuous day to day existence. I'm sorry, but I'm more worried about the people that have to pay their taxes.
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Yeah. So Donald Trump wants some rare earth concessions. If I was Zelensky, I'd sign it because that would get a huge American company on the ground in Ukraine and it would give income to Ukraine and you would get other, if it was secure and there was peace, you'd get other foreign investment if a big American company was there. But it's not the key issue. The key issue is
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that Zelensky has taken $200 million. He says he doesn't know where some of it is, but we think we've given him $200 in military and economic aid. And we don't have a strategy from the Biden administration. Nobody knows what the strategy is. I think I do know. It's something along the line.
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We're going to give Zelensky enough money so he is not going to lose, but we're not going to give him enough munitions to kill. Because the war is unwinnable. Because Russia has four times the population, 10 times the GDP, 30 times the territory. But we're going to give him enough not to lose. And the strategy, and this is not my strategy, this is the Biden previous administration strategy.
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And we don't really care about what happens to Ukraine. It's lost a quarter of its population. Its infrastructure is destroyed. They have 600,000 dead, wounded, and missing. And if anybody says that, Victor, that is a horrible thing to say. How unfair. You please quote me chapter and verse where Bill Kristol or John Bolton or Joe Biden said this is a human tragedy.
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that all of these people are dying. I haven't heard any of that. No emphases at all. So the strategy seems to be, let's not worry about Ukraine. Let's give it enough so it doesn't lose. And it teaches Putin a lesson. And let's bleed Putin white so he never tries to do this again. We didn't get him on Russian collusion, disinformation, the alpha ping caper.
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But this time, we're going to bleed Putin white. And in fact, we have. He's probably lost near a million dead, wounded and missing or captured. So that seems to be the strategy. And nobody ever asked themselves who are now criticizing Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal never asked itself. Nobody ever says, how did we get into this mess?
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We got into this mess because in 1989, Hillary went to Geneva and pushed a red jacuzzi button. And the people around here are now the fiercest critics of Donald Trump. And what did she say? She said she was going to have a reset. Translated wrong, by the way, in Russian.
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The whole premise was that awful George Bush who got us in Afghanistan and Iraq, that cowboy, he was okay when he looked in Putin's eyes and saw a good kindred soul, but he was so mean. He really clamped down on Russia when they went into Osatia, and he did it. That was the idea. So we're going to do the opposite. We're going to reset. And then they just appeased him. What did appeasement mean?
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Oh, Assad has maybe WMD. Mr. Lavkov, can you and the Russians please go back into Syria after 40 years of hiatus? We don't want to deal with Syria and Assad and all this and WMD and killing. Just come on back into the Middle East as our buddy. And that's what John Kerry did. And then it was, oh, you have an asymmetrical treaty? Oh, all right. And then we had an ambassador.
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I won't mention his name. He's a colleague of mine at the Hoover. But then at the same time, we were resetting. We said, and you know, Vladimir Putin, we really do know you deep, deep, deep, deep inside. We'd like to finish the interrupted vision of Yeltsin that you're going to become an EU like Russia. And you don't object at all that Ukraine now is moving. And then you know what he said?
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He said, screw you. He didn't just say, screw you. He said, I don't want any of your Western. Do you think we've ever had a Western elected official in Russia? Do you know anything about the czars, the commies, or us? We don't like that idea. We're dictators. So we don't want and we do not want your social, cultural, you know, LGBT, all that stuff.
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So that got him really angry that he turned down, looked at their magnanimity as weakness. So then they went in in 2014. They said, we're going to have a great revolution. Victoria Nuland, John McCain, they all went in there and they got rid of Yankovic or whatever his name was. And they put Poroshenko in and this was going to be an EU. They started selecting who was going to be the government.
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This is going to be an EU government. project, NATO project. And Putin's, you know, he's 2014. He looked at these guys and he said, they are pressing me. They are pushing me. And the last time I went in during the Bush administration, nobody did anything to me when I went into Ukraine and Osatia. And these guys looked at my invasion and they blamed Bush. Not me.
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So I'm going to go into the Donbass and Ukraine and just take them. And we'll see what this bunch does. So in 2014, he went in. And Obama said, well, you know, he went in the Donbass and Crimea. Well, let's give him some jail. Oh, you know, I don't want to give him offensive weapons. No, you can't get him to do that. Well, you know... And, you know, he gave me space for, you know, two years.
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You remember the hot mic over there in Seoul? And I said, tell Vladimir I need space for two years, and I'll be flexible on missile defense. So I got rid of all the missile defense. I appeased them, and they didn't invade for two years. I got reelected. That's what his attitude was. And so then we had Donald Trump, and Donald Trump said, no mas.
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And for four years, unlike the Bush administration and the Obama administration, he went nowhere. Then, and by the way, Donald Trump did green light offensive weapons. And what did he get for all that? He got from Clapper, Brennan, you're an asset. You're a puppet of Russia. And you thought, well, he didn't go anywhere under Mr. Trump, the puppet and the asset.
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And then they said Russian collusion, Russian disinformation. He's communicating with Putin, with his bank, the ping, ping, ping, all this nutty stuff. And then the next thing we know, Donald Trump. Hey, Mr. Trump, the Wagner Group is attacking a small installation in Syria. Kill the SOBs. That's what we did. Mr. Trump, we've examined this missile treaty, medium range missile treaty with Russia.
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They're cheating. Get out of it. Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, we've decided that this percentage of oil is, let's flood the world with cheap oil and bankrupt the SOB. Okay. Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, the oligarchs are starting to proliferate. We need more. Yes, give them more sanction. That's what he did. And Putin didn't go anywhere. And then he leaves. And what did Biden do? So he canceled them.
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And then they said, Mr. Biden, President Biden, we're worried that Putin might be on the move again. Keep some hospitals at least off his target list. Mr. President Biden, that's not deterring him. What do we do if he invades? Well, it depends on his major invasion or not. Then they say, well, what do you do about the offensive weapons that Trump has already signed and when he left office?
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After all, we're an administration that doesn't impound things. We may have impounded the wall funds, but that was a mistake. So what do we do with all this approved offensive? And then they said to him, well, he's invaded. What do we do? And that was what we did. Now, all of that is suddenly turned into Trump's fault right now. And that is absolutely crazy. They had no strategy.
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Let me just go on this rant and finish. What are America's strategic aims there? So we know what we should be doing. Number one, we do not want to get into the middle of a European theater war. We do not want ground troops. We do not want to get in a war with Vladimir Putin. This is on Europe's doorstep. Number two, we want the Europeans.
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Nine of the 32 NATO countries have never honored their 2% pathetic military. military expenditures of GDP. We want them all to make the 2%. We'd like to see three or four. They have an economy about 10 times larger than Russia, the EU, and the NATO countries. We want them to rearm and we want them to help Ukraine. And we want that Not because we're leaving NATO.
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We want them to do that because they and us are threatened, as in World War II, by a rising Pacific belligerent. Not Japan this time, but China. And we need to use a lot of our forces to deter China from what? Being aggressive with Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, and the Philippines. That's what we want to do. Number three, we would like to save the Ukrainian people.
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We do not want him to absorb all of Ukraine. We do not want to see 600,000 more dead, wounded, missing, and captured. This is a humanitarian. So we want a ceasefire. And to achieve a permanent peace, there is no way that any president, past or present, ever said they were going to give the wherewithal to Ukraine to militarily attack. Invade Russia and take back Crimea and Donbass.
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We're going to just say, you know what, this was the worst disaster of your tenure, Putin. You're unpopular. You've got over a million dead, wounded. But you can go give the bone to the Russian people and say you've got to institutionalize Putin. Crimea and the Donbass, which we were never going to get back anyway.
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We're going to have a DMZ along the February 24th embarkation point, just like South Korea, North Korea. You go back on your side of it. We promise it will not be in NATO and it's armed now to the teeth. So if you ever try it again, you're going to have another million cash. That's what we can see. And finally, as I said earlier, we want to break up the Chinese, Russia, Iran, North Korea nexus.
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That's very easy. Nobody ever did that under Obama. Nobody ever did that under Biden. And that's what Trump is. I got from a kind of a well-known person wrote me and said, you know, basically, he was basically saying, how dare you not criticize Trump? He's selling out. And I guess what he meant by selling out is that Trump and Hegseth
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have announced that we're not going to get back the Donbass and Crimea and we're not going to put them in NATO. And I'm saying to myself, so you're going to sit across, you're Putin and I'm Zelensky, you better watch out or we're going to go into NATO. Putin says, you don't want to be in NATO, and NATO doesn't want you to be in NATO. You know what's going to happen.
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You'd have to fight me right now, and none of those countries would fight me. So just drop the pretense. We're going to get back to Donbass. You're not going to get back to Donbass and Crimea. You can't even get me back to where I was. Come on, get real. I'm not going to use that as a negotiating point. That's where we are. So... I don't know.
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It's just amazing to me how the left, who talk endlessly about Palestinian collateral damage and all of the excesses of the Netanyahu dictatorship and all of this stuff, and coming out of Vietnam, all of a sudden, You say to them, well, Mr. Zelensky has canceled all the opposition parties, the press, habeas corpus, and scheduled elections. He's a dictator. Oh, no, no, no.
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There's a lot of collateral damage with these drones and missiles that they fire back, just like the rush. Oh, no, the collateral damage doesn't matter. Don't you think we should have a ceasefire like we had imposed on Mr. Netanyahu? Oh, no, that would destroy the momentum. They have a complete set of different rules that they apply to Israel. Cease fire.
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You've got to be democratic and schedule an election. We're going to try to overthrow your government when that happens. And... You have to be careful of collateral damage, etc., but not with Ukraine. Something is wrong here when you don't care about the people of Ukraine and to get a peace. And I think it has something to do in a nebulous way with the left's obsession with Putin.
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Victor how are you doing today I know you're on the east coast as everybody can see I'm in I'm not home I'm in Naples Florida and I'm in a hotel room and I'm at the Bradley Foundation meeting and I have to go to speak to a Scott Atlas event so I'm kind of I brought a carry-on on the plane and I am trying to get my computer it's on a pillow my microphone I brought kind of a
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And they think that the destruction of Putin, using the Ukrainians to destroy Putin will be the final. I know this sounds fantastic in the sense of mythical or crazy, but they do think it'll be the final blow. lever that they didn't have after Mueller's investigation collapsed, after the 51 intelligence authorities collapsed, after their beloved Christopher Steele collapsed.
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They finally think they have a way to punish Trump-Putin. And the irony, of course, is that Putin fared worse under Trump than he did any of his appeasers.
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As a general rule, I don't believe in red lines by anybody. And that was a thing on the hotel I'm in. Sorry about that. So when Obama gave a red line and said, if I see WMD moving around, he didn't do anything. Trump said that he was going to stop the war in the first day. You couldn't stop the war the first day. That was rhetorical excess.
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When he said that by noon on Saturday, I knew what was going to happen. They were going to meter out some hostages to get by that deadline because they did believe that he was going to unleash the IDF or they were going to bomb or something. But in general, you shouldn't give any red lines unless you plan to meet them. And usually Donald Trump was pretty good.
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When he said he was going to do something to Soleimani or Baghdadi, he did it. When he said he was going to bomb the SHIT out of ISIS, he did it. When he said he was going to corral Iran and maximum pressure, did it. So he's got to be very careful because the MAGA people, the MAGA agenda, they don't want to get into – on the ground in Gaza. They feel it's a hellhole. They can't stand Hamas.
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They just want the Israelis to take care of it. And so what is he going to do to get the hostages? I mean, you can bomb the rubble more, right? Or you can send special forces to take out the Hamas, what's left of the Hamas leadership. But all they would be doing is asking the Israelis who they are. The Israelis know much better than we are. So basically you're saying to Netanyahu, do what you want.
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And maybe he should. But then Netanyahu knows that he has restrictions. It's not Hamas. It's public opinion, the hostage family. And Hamas, why is Hamas metering them out? Because let's be honest, they have killed a lot of hostages. The ones that have survived have said they were beaten, tortured, starved.
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It's kind of ironic to hear from the UN and all the leftists how starved the Palestinians are. And every time I see a picture of Hamas people or Palestinians in Gaza, they look pretty well fed. And when I look at the hostages, they look like Holocaust victims. The only people being starved were the hostages. But they don't have a lot of hostages. They've let some go.
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I don't know what they say, 80 or something. I'm under the unfortunate impression that a lot of them are dead. So in their mind... you're going to do this for over a year. So you let out one, and then you just say, the Israelis did that. They broke this. They violated that. And that goes on like you're buying a rug from them. And then maybe in three months, they let another one out.
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Ad hoc is what I'm saying today, but I hope it works.
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And then they've got it metered out so they can maybe survive two or three more years until the new Hamas people are armed and they're back at it. And at some point, An Israeli leader is going to have to say, you know what, this is, I'm going to have to stop this. And not all the hostages are, he's going to have to try to rescue them.
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But he's going to, or he's going to have to go after the Hamas leadership. Unless they want this to continue, but you can see what it's doing.
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They've never had none of the European countries. I mean, they invented free speech in the European Enlightenment, or maybe you could say the Greeks did. They had a word for it, isegoria, that you had an equal opportunity to speak out in the assembly. But the thing about it is they have no First Amendment. They have no Bill of Rights. So they have...
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I would like to disagree with you. I just saw statistics that in the first 30 days of administration, there have been no more except for the number of killed because of the Delta variant. crash at Reagan, there has been no more number of accidents on average than any other administration. The other misinformation is that Chuck Schumer, of course, is blaming Donald Trump.
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And they, including the UK here, they consistently censor speech. And what they call hate speech is just speech that they don't like. What do I mean by that? So if you're a German and you say, I'm tired of all of these crazy immigrants that come in my country, I want to deport them all. They have no business here. And you get angry. You're probably going to be cited.
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If you are a Muslim and say, death to Israel, I want to kill the Jews, they're not going to do anything to you. Probably not. And so everybody knows that. Or if you're going to go across the street and yell, please don't get an abortion to a woman going to abortion, you're going to be in trouble.
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If you go to an anti-abortion office and you say, how dare you take a woman's right away, you're not going to have anything done to you. That's exempt. So that's what we're talking about. And that's what J.D. Vance was talking about. I think a lot of people and by the way, the 60 Minutes clip that I saw, they were admiring what Germany was doing. They want to do it here, too.
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And they have been doing it here. They remember the FBI. Everybody worked with Facebook.
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They worked with Facebook and they worked with Twitter to make sure that none of us got the message three days before the last 2020 debate and about 12 days, 14 days before the election that Hunter's laptop and all of the incriminating references to the big guy, Mr. 10%, paying his utility bill, all of the cocaine use, all of the nudity, all of that,
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We were supposed to think the Russians did that. And the FBI was insisting social media. Mark Zuckerberg testified to that effect. That's what they like. That's what they like. And they do not want a freewheeling, open society. And so that was what J.D. Vance was saying. He's saying how you people, you know, you keep saying that Russia, Russia, Russia.
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Well, yeah, I don't like Russia either, but you're employing the same tactics and we can't get along with you. And defend the West when you're eroding it. And again, it's what he was doing. He was telling not just MAGA and not just those ministers, corrupt though they were, he was telling the people in the populist parties of Europe, you are on the right track. Secure borders.
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legal only immigration, rearming, deregulate, detox, more personal freedom. And if you were to do that, we would be closer than ever because that's what we're trying to do. And the Biden nightmare that we lived through is now your ongoing nightmare. You haven't gotten rid of it. And that is what got them all so angry. But, uh, misinformation.
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And the other thing about Germany, they've never had free speech. The Weimar Republic had restrictions. Anybody, if you were Hitler in 1932, three or 29, I shouldn't say 32, go back to 26, 27, 28, you couldn't speak. They went after you. And maybe that was good. Or maybe the idea that you were
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outlawing Nazi speech made him into a martyr and made him neat to hear because it was so edgy and outlawed. And when Hitler took over, he did the same thing. He outlawed all speech, and they labeled with German terms that were equivalencies, disinformation, hate speech, Jew speech, all that stuff.
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You'd be much better off just opening it all up and letting people say whatever crazy things and hoping there's enough of us in the marketplace of ideas to stop it, unless that somebody gets on and says, I want to kill that person, or I want to overthrow this government, and this is how I'm going to do it. But that's not what we're talking about.
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No, I mean, it might have happened anyway, because people were not saying people do that, don't care about other people being shot in the head. They're mad because not they're mad that the wrong people got shot in the head. And here in the United States. I nor any other Trump supporter said we should outlaw what they're doing to Trump.
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And that's very hard to understand how he can even imagine that when the plane took off fine from an American airport and it went into Canadian airspace. So if there was, and we have no idea whether there was or not, and it doesn't look like it, an air traffic controller lapse, it would be Canadian, not American.
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But when you have Trump's picture as Hitler on the New Republic cover, and you have ex-generals for four years calling them Mussolini, Hitler-like, Auschwitz-like, and you have members like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden of the highest levels of government calling them a fascist, then some kind of crazy guy out there
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like Mr. Cooks or whatever his name was, is going to think, you know, if I shoot him, I can think of two things. The Secret Service seems pretty sloppy. They don't probably like him any more than I do. And I'll be famous because I will kill Hitler Trump. Did we say that we should outlaw that? No.
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What we're saying is we people who say that hate speech should be discredited and humiliated, boycott them, do anything. But you don't need to make a law against that. I have never in my life said that any politician, and I think most people out there haven't either, was Hitler.
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And Obama got, you could make an argument that some of the things Obama and Biden did with Lois Lerner in the case of Obama or Donald Trump weaponizing the FBI came very close to to what a fascistic state would try to do, and the selective prosecution or asymmetrical prosecution of certain people. But they weren't Hitler. Hitler was somebody who caused 70 million deaths in the Holocaust.
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Anyway, Germany has a tendency. It's not going to work. Why do people do this? Final rant. Why do they have hate speech? Because it's an indication that they are unpopular and they're failing. If the German government was popular and German, like, let's say, I don't know, not Merkel, the pre-Merkel helmet called. 12 years as chancellor, everybody liked him. The German miracle was in full blast.
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Merkel is the one that blew up the German economy, the German culture, the German reputation, and her hatred of Trump, among other things, and her open borders and her insane Green New Deal. That woman will go down in history as the worst German chancellor. And no, she wasn't Hitler. But my point is, this is, they are insecure. And why are they insecure? Because they have created a Germany.
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As I said earlier, it's like the Morgenthau plan of World War II, where you were going to make Germany by coercion after the war. The U.S. Treasury Secretary said we should turn them into a pastoral state, you know, and deindustrialize the rural. And that's what they're doing. So their energy costs four times more than it does in the United States. Their fertility rate is 1.5%.
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They let in 16% of their population is not born in Germany. They do not assimilate or integrate as well as we do. They have let in percentage-wise a higher number of illegal immigration than even Joe Biden did. Their companies are increasingly non-competitive. They lie about their percentage of GDP they spend on defense, but it's about 1.5. It is not the two, and they know that.
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And other countries who welch out on what they owe say, look at Germany. It did, so we can. So they are failing. They're failing, and they had exactly no, zero GDP growth a year ago. And this last year, they may have a slight in 2024. A year and a half ago, they had none in 2023. Negative economic. Negative. This year, they may have a slight.
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So they're failing economically, socially, culturally, politically, militarily. And everybody's trying to tell them to wake out of their slumber, deregulate, cut taxes, start using natural gas energy and nuclear energy, get cheap energy again, close your borders, integrate people, have legal-only bureaucratic immigration. Yeah. People are leaving.
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If there's any lapse, it looks like it's maybe, maybe, maybe, and I want to be very careful because I don't want to jump to conclusions, maybe a pilot error because they have released this morning views of the plane as it was coming in. And you get the impression for an area that is in harsh weather and snow on the ground with ice, the plane came in very, very fast.
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It used to be everybody was just leaving Britain, but we had a job at the Hoover Institution. We had 900 applicants for a junior fellow, and I could not believe how many brilliant German scholars and historians were applying. I mean it. And then I looked, and you looked at all fields, political science, economics, Silicon Valley is, the German elite is starting to leave.
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And that's hard because Germany is not a, it's not close to, I mean, it is closer than I suppose to English than it is to Spanish. It's not a romance language either, but it's a difficult language. And a lot of Germans have trouble, and vice versa, Americans learning these languages, and yet they're over here. And we don't have the same relationship we had with Britain. We were enemies of two wars.
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And yet here they are and they're fleeing the United States. If Donald Trump is successful and he deregulates and reduces taxes and he gets three, not he won't do it right away, but if he gets three to five percent GDP growth and he closes the borders and makes meritocratic immigrants, you will see a wagon train from Europe.
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And unlike Biden, he will not discourage them because they are not the right color or religion or background.
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Yeah. That whole Biden-Merkel mentality, Obama. I mean, we lost $5 billion. I think Ford alone lost almost $5 billion on this EV mandate. And it was even worse over there with Porsche and Audi and BMW and Mercedes and Volkswagen. It was just mindless when they were producing basically zero emission cars.
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Beautiful automobiles that you could only argue were polluting because they were producing heat, but not toxic fumes or chemicals. And then by their same policy of forest management here in the United States, we were letting, in California, we were letting more carbon into the atmosphere with all these huge fires every summer than all the cars in two weeks or three weeks combined did.
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Well, they had control of it prior to the 67 War, and they felt that it was an open sore. Remember, this is very controversial, but prior to 1947, there was nobody named Palestinians. Those were Arabs that were living in now what is Israel, Gaza, the West Bank. And they, as the state of Jordan was formed, became Jordanians. They weren't Egyptians.
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And then after the 67 War, after the creation of Israel, and some left and went into Jordan and Egypt, then they began to become radicalized. And the Jordanian government did not want to deal with the West Bank, and the Egyptian government did not want to deal with Gazan. So they declared their hands free.
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And it didn't look like – maybe the wind was the culprit and it wasn't the pilot, but it didn't look like – It was slightly, the nose slightly up, as you know, as planes come in like birds, they come in like this, and then they kind of go like that, and then there's a light touch on the front wheels.
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And that process of creating former Jordanian or Egyptian Arabs into Palestinians was formalized. And now all of a sudden there are Palestinians. And those countries do not want to get involved there because they're very radical, they're Islamicist, and they're connected with the Muslim Brotherhood in some ways that Sisi and Egypt had fought.
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So when Trump says, well, let's clear out all the rubbish, what Trump is basically saying is, look at all the wealthy Arab countries in the world, and we'll provide the security. And you bulldoze all this rubble.
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get rid of the tunnels, and then it's right on the Mediterranean, and you make just an antiquity, you know, Gaza was one of the wealthiest cities in the Roman Empire, that whole area of the West Bank. Let us then... make a Dubai or something, international capital, and then we'll only let people back in who are non-terrorist. We will have border passport control.
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We will give preference to Palestinians, but we will not let everybody back in who has a history of war. That was the idea. And, you know, Egypt and Jordan want no part of it because... They have restive populations in their own countries. And so now Egypt is massing tanks on the border in Sinai, kind of saying to Israel, maybe we'll replay this.
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I don't know why anybody would take that credibly, because they're dependent on the goodwill of the United States. One of the things Trump did when they went after USAID was, I think, immediately put off limits so you can't touch it, the $2 billion or so we give Egypt. And we do a lot of other things in favor of Egypt. We give them intelligence, satellite intelligence. We back them up militarily.
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So the idea they were going to attack Israel, they would fare worse. If you look at the militaries the last time they met in 73, Egypt has vis-a-vis Israel has become much weaker. Israel is much stronger. So that would be a one-day war. And they're not going to do anything but The bottom line is they don't want to get involved with it.
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And I don't think the plan is going to work because it requires too much lift from the United States. I wish it would. I wish, you know, that you would rebuild this. And I think if you...
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It looked like the nose was too far down, and the front wheels took all of the absorption, and they just, not that they were at fault, but they just crumbled. And when they crumbled, one of the wings then hit the ground and broke off, and then that allowed it to go on its side.
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Ask a Palestinian living there today in the rubble, and you got the Hamas revolver away from his head, and you said you won't be identified, and you put a tent around him and said, what do you think, with a voice disguiser? He would say, you mean you're going to build a nice apartment and it's going to look like the Paris suburbs or Dubai? Yeah, count me in, but not publicly.
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It reminds me, the first time I went to Israel, they were demonstrating, as I said, along Sharon's Wall's trajectory, and Sharon came up with the idea that they were going to go around key areas of Jerusalem that they needed, and East Jerusalem, and include it in the Israeli—it was de facto Israeli, but to concede—
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an approximate commiserate level of territory they were going to carve out from 67 Israel that no one had ever disputed after 47 to the Arabs. So when I was driving along, my driver, we drove all along this very long drive along the proposed final parts. I said, wow, these people are really angry at the Israelis. They stopped traffic and they're all demonstrating.
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It was up near, as we got near the Galilee area, or northern. And he said, well, what do you mean? I said, well, look, they're all protesting. They're angry. They want to get, you're going to put them on the wrong side of the wall. And he said, yes, we are the wrong side of But what do you think the wrong side is? I said, well, Israel said, no, no, no, no, Mr. Hanson, you have it all wrong.
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They just roll down the window. And so he said something and he spoke Hebrew and somebody came over and said, yeah, we don't want to be on. We don't want to be with Arafat. We want to stay here and get it's peaceful. We have good schools. We get pensions. We have government jobs with Israeli government. But if you told somebody that on a campus today, they think you were crazy.
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While all this is happening in Colombia, we're still starting to see some of these demonstrations. There was a park in, I don't know if it was at Queens or Bronx or someone, and violent pro-Hamas demonstrators went right into a traditional Orthodox Jewish community and started trying to provoke them, get in fights, etc., etc., etc., and
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So if there's anything, there's pilot error, and if there's any pilot error, whether that has anything to do with the much-broadcast DEI hiring, I don't know. I just know that of the major airlines, they have adopted DEI, and most notoriously –
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I think that's a very unwise idea if I were them because we have already established the principle in the United States that the United States government, when there's a demonstration that it doesn't like, like January 6th, that they take all their security cameras and then they do all of their voice photo reconnaissance or recognition, picture recognition, and they start indicting people
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And they'll go through all of those violence. If they see anybody who is starting to provoke a fire to use violence, they will collate that individual's name with their visa status. And if they're not a U.S. citizen and they were committing a crime, then they're going to be deported. It seems obvious to me that that's what they're going to do, and that will create deterrence not to do that.
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You don't do that when you're a guest in somebody else's country. It's fine to demonstrate, but not violently. Not violently. I led tours, and once we had a very good friend of mine, a wonderful person, that somebody ran up and said a policeman was talking to him.
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in Germany by a cathedral and somebody had insulted his wife and he had scuffled, I think it was with a Palestinian protester in Germany. And so I walked over to talk to the police person. But my polite suggestion was that if you were in someone else's country, that you withstand the provocations and not reply in kind because you're a guest there. And that's always worked well for me.
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And I've been, you know, in a lot of countries and I've lived almost three years abroad. And the cardinal rule is always the prime directive to use Star Trek terms. The prime directive is never, never attack the law enforcement or the laws of your host. Because if you don't like them, you can leave. And I lived under a Greek dictatorship.
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The Papadopoulos regime and then the Ioannidis, and they were pretty awful. 73, 74, then the socialist PASOK that were pretty awful. So you don't ever criticize and say that you know better what your host should be doing. You just never do that. And by the way, mentioning Greece... A friend wrote me and pointed this out, and I looked at it. USAID had for years...
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in Cyprus, in Greece, been trying to force down American cultural values through left-wing Greek and American fronts like LGBTQ and forcing the Greeks to accept, even though the Poles were very much against it, gay marriage, for example. And so some of you who are very angry and say that Trump should have no business with USAID.
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United Airlines about three years ago broadcast to all of us and the public that 50% of all its new pilots would be selected on the basis of DEI as well as other criteria. So I don't know what's going on. I flew here in rough weather to Dallas. uh, it was pretty bad. I mean, it was foggy and rainy and we, it was fine.
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I know you don't believe in cultural imperialism, but that's what USAID was doing. It was taking a left-wing, unpopular agenda here at home, and it was tying it to money with a carrot and a stick, and it was shoving it down the throats of traditional Christian and Islamic societies. It really was. It was the worst aspect of American imperialism.
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Well, first of all, I don't know how you'd get them over there. They don't even have any lift capacity. I don't know if they have any C-17s, but I'm being kind of facetious, but their military is hollowed out. And then you have the British public would not stand for losses. They would say, like we would,
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So, Mr. Prime Minister, we're being invaded by people from the Middle East and all over Europe are coming into our country, and you will not defend our borders, but you want us to go over and die for somewhere near the Donbass? Are you insane? We're not going to do that. So that's not going to happen. Putin knows it's not going to happen. Zelensky knows it's going to.
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What they want to do is send 1,000 troops over there, British, so then we get embarrassed and humiliated and say, okay, and we'll send 101st Airborne or something. That's not going to happen. It is not going to happen. And remember, there used to be certain – unspoken codes or themes of these alliances or these unions.
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So the founding principle of NATO, at least in the mouth of its first NATO high commissioner, was Lord Ismay. He was a very brilliant British general, maybe more administrative than battlefield test, but he was really a smart guy. And he said the purpose of NATO was three things.
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keep germany down down keep russia out and bring america in keep america in and it worked very well and that was manifested in the fact of the peculiarities that the united states even though it's called north american treaty north atlantic treaty organization finds itself in places like serbia right that's not very close to the atlantic
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uh, fighting as we did under Clinton and Germany was never with Germany was divided, but it was never allowed to have atomic weapons, nuclear weapons. So only France and Britain got them. So Germany was down and Russia during the cold war was out. That's the purpose of NATO. The purpose of the EU was, they didn't say it, but it had, uh, Two directives.
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Number one, make sure the United States, i.e. NATO, subsidizes our defense. Whether you're EU, EU countries are almost the same as NATO, but not quite. But we're not going to defend ourselves and we're not spending any money on defense. The United States will cover for us. And number two, guilt trip, weasel out.
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beg, coerce Germany to give us stuff, to write off our debt, to have asymmetrical trade, and then tell Germany, well, look, you have to have very few tariffs on our agricultural goods, our raw products, and then you have to let us charge tariffs on your stuff. But in order to pay you back for that, you've got to have 4% or 5% on American imports into you.
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And then on the way back to take off here to where I flew into the Naples, it was very sunny. Um, there does seem to be a little tentativeness about everybody though, the air travel business in general. I just noticed that everybody's on edge and, um, Our planes circled once or twice the runway, and I don't know whether that was just to take extra caution. But it does seem that.
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But they can't have any against you because we'll call them cowboys, selfish imperialists, creeps, horrible things. And that's what the EU was. It was subsidized by the United States military. And it was economically subsidized by Germany. And now Germany went nuts. It went absolutely crazy under Merkel. And this array of Lilliputians are now government.
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And so what did they destroy their energy sector? They completely destroyed. destroyed the idea of a German family and that they have no fertility. They destroyed their borders. They let in people who hate them, violent people from the Middle East. They're bankrupt. They can't afford it. They did all that was all self-inflicted wounds. And that meant the whole EU is in crisis. So the EU, when you
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When you look at the founding date, whatever, you look at the six nations that talked about being the EU out of the common market, or you look at the nine or 10 that said they were EU in 1998. Every year, almost from 1998 up until we have about 30 now, they added nations to the EU and population. So they should have had bigger and bigger GDP.
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But every year, vis-a-vis the United States, it's kept 50 states. Their GDP grew. smaller compared to ours. It grew, but at a smaller rate. So now two countries that were about the same, two continental systems that were about the same in 1998, the United States is 60% to 70% larger its GDP than the EU. So it is a mess. And yes, they don't like each other.
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And they like German money, but if a German... I don't know how to say this. I know, Sammy, I think you're of German extraction, so I have to be careful. But as a European said to me once, I'm not making this up. He was in Greece, though. He said, if it wasn't for their money, we wouldn't like Germans. And if they don't have money, they're not going to be a popular people in Europe.
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And they don't have money anymore. And they can't subsidize everybody. And if you're British... And you can't provide order, calm, discipline, the British system of professional ethics everybody looks for. You go to London, it's the nicest, most ordered place in the world. If you don't have that British civilizing input into you, what good are you? because it's not a very strong nation.
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And if you don't bring its civilizational values, which are under assault. So all of the contributors in the EU, each according to their station, is not participating. And who is going to subsidize Ireland and Spain and Greece and Italy when they don't meet their economic targets as far as debt ratios? And Germany is not going to be able to keep doing it. It's broke.
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And Britain, I don't know what happened to Britain. It's out in outer space somewhere. It's just drifting along. You hear all these weird things about it. It doesn't seem to have free speech. It doesn't have due process. It doesn't have a military. It's just the mayor of London is insane. It seems like they hate the British. Yeah.
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They seem to be ashamed of their British, their own history. And then you look at the other place, France is France. I mean, their biggest. They're just doing everything. They're like the Dutch government. They're doing everything they can to destroy democracy in the name of saving it from conservative right wingers. So the whole idea, it's all unraveling. And then they blame Victor.
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Usually when they're having trouble, they always blame Victor Orban and say it's Victor Orban's fault. And that's what Americans do. It's Victor Orban. But then when you look at. Hungary, it seems to be functioning better than their countries.
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But Donald Trump has not removed air traffic controllers in the tower. That's another point that was falsely alleged by Chuck Schumer.
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I wouldn't return anybody. I would pay down the debt. So would I, right? I think each person owes like $100,000. Everybody seems confused, but this is where we are, everybody. This is what Trump is trying to do. A. He is trying to maintain the 2017 tax cuts that come up for expiration and renewal with a very shaky two-person and maybe with an election or two, three-person margin in the House.
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And he wants to expand those tax cuts, maybe from, I don't know, 38 to 36 or something, our capital gains cuts. And he knows that if he does that, his revenue for six months to a year will fall as companies say, wait a minute, are you serious? This is not going to be revoked in a week? Okay, I will invest.
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And they know that if he does that, then the economy will have greater revenues, like it always does when you tax cut. But in the meantime, he's got to get over this huge deficit, right? And debt, deficit that Biden let. So what does he have to do? He has to cut over a trillion dollars. And there's only about 20% of the budget, the $6 trillion budget he can look at.
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And he can't eliminate everything. But unless he looks at defense, $880 billion, there's got to be stuff in there that are DI and junkets. And he can get rid of that. you know, high-priced weaponry that didn't work. So he can find some in that. But he's got to cut enough money so that the deficit shrinks and bondholders and Wall Street look at this and say they are on the right trajectory.
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Tax cuts, more revenue will come in next year and the cuts will mean less expenditure. But you've got to sell it politically, and the left does not want it to happen for two reasons. One, it wants Trump to fail so it can be elected in 2026 and 28, and two, Its main source of political strength is the 3 million federal employees.
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They really think, I mean, they're in key states, like there's a lot of them in Virginia, Maryland, et cetera. They make those states blue or purple at least. And they like the idea of spreading this largesse to their supporters. 90% of all the federal workers are left-wing, and some things like the media or legal professionals, they're all left-wing. And NPR is a good megaphone.
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PBS, even Voice of America, all of that was left wing. And they don't want to lose that. So they're going to make up things as they go. They're going to say you can't impound approved dollars. And that almost says, even if the Congress passed a law, and even if the law is being executed as was never intended, and even if people are stealing, because they've They approve the money.
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You can't cut anything. And if you can't cut anything, you have no control over the operation of the program. So, Mr. Trump, we're in a constitutional crisis. You have to make sure that you approve and ratify and support wasteful spending and fraudulent spending because Congress approved. That's not going to work. And that's what they're doing.
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And we know that they impound money, as I said, to stop the wall money and to impound money from Ukraine, like Biden threatened his vice president. They do it all the time. And he's going to have to fight, fight, fight for all of this. He only has four years. But because he's not up for reelection, as he was last time, he's liberated at the same time.
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So he can say, as he did on Hannity's interview, that MSNBC is the home of just awful people. They're just terrible. What if you're a reporter and you hear that? And that's what they do.
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Yes, I'm in a nice hotel room somewhere in Naples, Florida.
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Yes, I've got a lot of business at a meeting today, two or three meetings. I've got to go to Palm Beach and speak, and I've got to get home. I want to get home as quickly as possible. I'm 71. I don't like leaving my farm.
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For example, Mr. Bove, the Deputy Attorney General, was supposedly going after his enemies. See, that's what they're saying. They're going after enemies. But when you look at the people in the FBI hierarchy or the DOJ that are supposedly innocent and they're nonpartisan, they have a whole record of being punitive.
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As far as Eric Adams goes, that was the contention point that the indictment against him was dropped by the FBI. Trump acting DOJ and Pam Bondi. And then the question arises, why was he indicted at the time he was indicted by the Biden DOJ? And the obvious answer was, is he bucked them in a loud fashion on dumping illegal immigrants into Manhattan. And he was no longer on the team.
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He had been very, very adamant. Remember those film where he was film clips where he was welcoming illegal aliens with
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bottled water and then he he saw that it was a multi-billion dollar boondoggle and when he saw that he was out and so they were the ones that were politicizing him i don't know if he's guilty or not of taking turkish money in exchange for quid pro quo favors but i do know that the biden administration would have not indicted him for that had he not fallen out of favor
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So when Trump, the media blares that he is removing DOJ attorneys or inspector generals, he's looking at people who have had a history of partisan and selective indictments. On the Social Security and Medicare, this is not like USA. This is very delicate. That is a third rail. So they have to make the argument that And we don't know if a person is 100 or 120 and he's still in the system.
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We're not sure whether he's actually getting money or not or he's getting information. So they have to be very careful. But they have to get the information out to the public that they're not trying to cut. Social Security benefits, but they're trying to save them by tightening up requirements that have been abused.
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One of the ones is that, and we see it in our local area, that people say that their children are dyslexic and they have trouble reading. And then suddenly, even they're eligible for full Social Security disability payments. And that's been, if you look at the numbers of minors or minors young adults that haven't been, I mean, they don't have serious disabilities and yet they're getting them.
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They have to be very careful how they explain that to the public. There's going to be, and the IRS, they have to be very careful. They have to go after people in the IRS, like the lowest learner types that have a history of selectively auditing. Why was Pete Hexeth audited just days before he was nominated?
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It reminds me of I talked to some prominent conservatives once on a forum, and I asked if anybody had been audited. And they all raised their hand. This was during the Obama years. And I think I mentioned that. I had been reporting speaking religiously. In fact, I think my actual tax rate's been between 55% and 60%. I live in California. 13% is the top.
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With payroll taxes, Obamacare taxes, California and federal income tax, I was paying 60%. I did not write off anything. I didn't write off my office, my car, anything. I was so paranoid that they would go after conservatives. But I asked all these people and they had all been audited.
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And then all of a sudden, I don't know, about six months later, I got a letter from the IRS that you have inadequately reported your speaking. income, which wasn't a lot, but I had been religiously reporting it. But I had been reporting it under a agent who gave me a W-2 for all of them put together.
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In other words, there were W-2s sent to that agent who had got the check, deducted whatever the percentage was to me. And I had to hire my accountant, and he couldn't get through anybody. And finally, he tried to explain to them, you were counting as income Victor's individual speeches himself before he got an agent, as in past years.
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And now you're counting also the income that he reported from the agent. So if he got $5,000, you're charging him for $10,000. And there was no discussion. They just said, you're going to pay a point and a half interest every month. And then after he finally got through, I get a form letter. Please disregard prior. You are no longer in error and there will be a refund for your interest.
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And that's what they do. And then they say that they're professional and they're not worse. Yeah. So there's going to be two big things you have to be careful about. One is the Defense Department and one is the IRS and one is the. Social Security and Medicare, especially. They've got to go after people who have done things wrong and not just be punitive.
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And they have to explain it, explain it, explain it, explain it. I think the press secretary, she's doing a very good job. My only suggestion to her would be. At certain times, I would throw back the question to these hostile reporters. What is the alternative? What is the alternative? We're running $2 trillion debts. Where do you want to see the...
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We're already paying 38% income tax, and in many states it's 12 or 13, it's 50%. We've already said you cannot write off the SALT tax more than $10,000 a year. What do you want to do, all of you? Because you always say you want to cut waste and fraud, but you never do.
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So tell me exactly what you want to do other than just raise taxes to 60 or 70 percent of a person's income and destroy the economy. She needs to do that.
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If we just went back to the budget pre-COVID 2019 of six years ago, we'd be fine. We'd be fine.