The SAVE Act Showdown, the Left’s Socialist Revolution, and Mamdani’s Netanyahu Threat

The Democratic Socialists are 85% white and 70% with a degree, and they are focused in Minneapolis, New York, Washington. They like big city enclaves and urban areas, and they are degreed, but they go to these schools and they run up a couple hundred thousand dollars of debt. Gender studies, race studies, leisure studies, recreation, you name them. They're poorly educated, but they've got a very strong sense of self. This is so unfair. I'm a socialist now. Well, you may be a socialist now, but you would like to be a capitalist, and you can't be because of your choices that you've made. Hello and welcome. This is Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. This is our Friday News Roundup, so we've got a lot on the agenda starting out with the Tuesday primaries and some of the important ones in Wisconsin and Michigan. And then also AOC is trying to roll back what she calls Walk One, so we'll have a look at Victor's ideas on that. And the Daughters of the American Revolution would really rather not, or at least some of them, have trans women join their organization. So stay with us for those stories, and we'll be right back. Hello. This is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I have a new book out on September 8th of this year, and I think you're going to enjoy it. It's called Counter-Revolution, The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement. It starts right after January 6th, and it details the lack of popularity of Donald Trump, the invective that he endured, the five civil and criminal trials, the effort to get him off the ballot, the raid on Mar-a-Lago, the two impeachments earlier, one in Washington, and one in Washington. He was tried as a private citizen, and yet he came back. How did he come back, and why did he come back? I explain in the book how he defeated his primary opponents, how he was outspent. He had a hostile media, and he defeated the Democratic machine and Kamala Harris. It starts on January 6th. It ends pretty much now in May of 2026. What's the title about? Donald Trump is not a revolutionary. He's not a revisionist. He's a counter-revolutionary. This time around, he is not addressing just the symptoms of the progressive project of the last 50 years. He's talking about the causes, not just an open border, but how to stop illegal immigration entirely, not just crime, but sending the National Guard in to make sure cities are safe, not just an Iranian nuclear threat, but ending that threat that seven other presidents had identified but did not act on. Not just addressing the transgender issue or the Green New Deal and all of those issues that are so dear to the Democratic Party, but ending them, defunding NPR and PBS. So it is a counter-revolution to unwind and to roll back the entire progressive project of the last 50 years. I think you're going to like it. It's pretty interesting. It chronicles the greatest political comeback in our recent political history. Thank you very much. I'm Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Welcome back. Victor is the Martin and Neal Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website, victorhansen.com. The name of the website is The Blade of Perseus. And please come join us. We have everything, Victor, articles, podcasts, and even links to purchase his books. And you can subscribe for $6.50 a month or a discounted rate at $65 a year to get the VDH Ultra material. And that is two articles a week plus a video that Victor does for his Ultra subscribers. So, Victor, there's something that's been bothering me for the last couple of weeks. And it has to do with a little story or a hint that El Saeed has scrubbed his social media posts. And what's bothering me is why would he need to scrub them? It tells us that there are things in there that he doesn't want the population to know. But also what's bothering me is that in the 1930s, mid-1930s, there was about 8%. There were about 8 million copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf that circulated in Germany. So 1 in 10 Germans had the book itself. And all of his ideas in there would come to fruition. Although while he was campaigning to be elected and to build his Nazi base, he talked about the economy all the time. And he said, oh, everything was about the economy. And then he just quickly reverted back. So that's why this El Saeed scrub. Scrubbing his posts of things he doesn't want to see has really been bothering me because there are things there that will come back again. Well, as a general rule, any movement, party, person that identifies with the word socialist doesn't, for whatever people say, AOC said the difference between communism and socialism and socialists believe in democracy. I don't think so. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Communists don't say. The Union of Communist Republics. They always, the Socialist Republic of East Germany or Germany. They never say communism. So it's a, communism scares people. So when you look at any movement that was socialist, it never said they were going to be communist. Castro said he was a democratic socialist when he started fighting against Batista. He said he was going to. He said he was going to have elections and create a socialist-oriented government. He was a communist. The Jacobins said that they had overthrown the Bourbons and they had a broad coalition. They were constitutional monarchy. And then they seized power. And they decided to create a whole new year zero socialist. We would call it socialist communism or not. Hitler ran with Hindenburg. And I, the great war hero, I'm not sure he was such a great general as he said he was, but he was the father of the early 20th century. He had fought and people had said he'd been stabbed in the back. They'd created this myth that Hindenburg Ludendorff would have won. So Hitler ran as his mate and he knew he was in his mid eighties. He was going to die. So as soon as the Reichstag fire, we don't really know the circumstances. What, who or what, why it was destroyed. He talked Hindenburg using Hindenburg to suspend habeas corpus freedom of speech. And then Hindenburg died. And then he got the Reichstag. He did this constitutionally to vote out their own powers. And by 1935, there was no democratic Republic in Germany. So that's what they do. And so now they're trying to disown all of that because people know what they do. They have all these lines. If you're Hassan Parker Piker and you go back to his record that he said, we deserve nine 11 or blood was, we wants people to be blood run in the streets, all of that. Then they say, well, that's just three or four things. He's you know, he said thousands of things. He regrets it. But I've said, I've said thousands of things. I've never said that. I've never said that I wanted 3000 people to be killed. And so AOC, remember she was on television last weekend and she said that all of her things that she said during woke one should be forgotten erased. Well, she wanted to defund the police. She said it wasn't enough to reduce the budget. She should defund it. And to the extent that some municipalities, almost did people die. She also went on a rampage about the Amazon, many regional headquarters at one locate in New York in her district that would have brought 25,000 jobs and a billion dollars in revenue. And she chased them out, but that had consequences. She was the one, one of the first socialist who really went on the trans bandwagon that had consequences. She was calling for an open to border and the abolition of ice as well as defunding the police. We had 12 million people came in 500,000 criminals. People died. People couldn't get social service. That was a disaster. So what I'm getting, I could do this all day long, but what I'm getting at is these socialists wanted media coverage. They wanted to, uh, force out the democratic mainstream. And the, the way to do that was to say these sensational things, which they believed in. And when they got elected, some of them, them, the squad was socialist. They tried to enact that. Now they're looking at a dilemma. We saw that Fong lost the election in Wisconsin. And I think El-Said is going to lose the election. And I think Tallarico is going to lose the election because the Republicans have enough money to show the country what they have said in the past and what they have written. And most people don't write or say those things. Most people don't say that Jesus was non-binary or there's six different genders or nobody should be eating meat in Texas or blaming white Christians. Saeed says that when he meets his maker, he said that he wants to make sure that he followed Sharia law. Well, if you read it and what they do for adultery and things, stoning and all these other things, cutting off a person's hand for shoplifting and things. So as they get out of their first stage, what she called woke one, now they're into woke two. Woke two means you renounce all the things that will lose you a general election. And that's what they're doing. Woke three is when they get elected. Then they go from socialist to communist. And we're seeing with Mondami, he never said that I'm going to send a letter to 900,000 people and assume you're guilty of being an enemy of the people by having two homes. And he said he was going to only go after a million. Now he went up to 5 million. Then he went down to 1 million. And now he's got a mess on his hands. He said he really didn't like the New York NYPD. He said he didn't like it. He wanted to fund it. Now we find out that he wants his Syrian, American born, but Syrian ancestry. His wife wants to go on a. A little jaunt to one of the most dangerous places in the world, Syria and Lebanon. And Mondami wanted three or four cops at New York expense to escort her. And so what they say, when they get into power, they're drunk with power and they're autocratic and they're communist. And everybody should know that. That's what they're going to do. That's what Mao did. That's what Castro did. That's what. Stalin, I should say, Lenin did. They liquidate the opposition. And that's what Chavez did in Venezuela. But in America, at their first woke one stage, they've got to get rid of that record. She's even. I mean, I'm not being conspiratorial, but she had a boyfriend, a white guy who. They were never married, but she was under house audit that she was bringing him to house functions as her spouse. Which is where he wasn't allowed. And treating him as. So don't you think it's a little bit convenient that just when she's now being mentioned, because everybody in the Democratic Party, normal Democrats or crazy Democrats, look at Kamala Harris and say, she's a train wreck. She will take. This is the third time she wants to run for president. She can't win. Or they look at Gavin Neal. And they say, she's a train wreck. She's a train wreck. She's a train wreck. She's a train wreck. And they said, everybody's onto that con artist. He'll do to America what he did to California. So they're looking at AOC. And so now she's cleaning up her act. She's saying she's more moderate. She's erasing or disowning the things she said. And she discarded this kind of conventional looking white boyfriend that she was living with. Because you don't elect a mainstream president who's living with somebody. And not when you're a part of the squad and you talk about people of color and what white privilege, white privilege that. And you have this sort of unimpressive white boyfriend. So she got rid of him. And she's a manipulator. And she's packaged. And so the only problem she has is that she doesn't really speak extemporaneously very well. But she tries to flirt kind of. She tries to flirt. And she's a the prime minister really ridiculous. And he said that, I said, they're being kicked out all over the world because people are tired of your currency manipulation, your one-sided tariffs, your manipulation of trademark and patent, or I should say infringement. And you're a mercantile imperialistic power that runs up debts and destroys countries, and everybody knows it. And now you want to invade Taiwan. He had nothing really to say. I was kind of shocked. Yeah, because it's all true. Because last time I went out, I had to debate someone from the Middle East, and my heart rate went up to 140, I think. And I was looking, because I was getting kind of mad, and it was only 105 on my Apple Watch. So I'm healing. Yeah, you're either getting better or he didn't make you as mad as the other guy. I thought he would have some arguments, you know. But I said, where are you speaking from right now? He said, I said, you're in a Western country. And he said, yes. I said, now, why would that be? My family's here. Well, why would they be there? I said, I have some advice for you. You give advice to Americans. Why don't you go over to Shanghai or Beijing and in your little institute, write out that you believe in democracy and free speech and regular elections? I could do that. I can do that. I said, no, you can't do that, because you don't do that. And if you did do that, you would be jailed or shot. Ask what happened to the people. You know, the Wuhan lab, still missing. But all these socialists are authoritarians. They all are. And they have to be, because nobody would trade their liberty and freedom for a government-mandated equality of result. No normal person. But Hong lost to Crowley, who was the Democratic candidate in Wisconsin. She got 93 points. Sorry, 39.3% of the vote, and he got 39.8%. So by a hair's breadth, Crowley won. Yeah, the only problem for Republicans is the Crowley-Hong combined vote, I think, is 200,000 more than the Republican vote in his primary victory. So they're really going to have to get out the vote. Yeah, I think they're running against Tom Tiffany. Well, Victor, before we go on, let's welcome back. Our sponsor, Allegiance Gold. If you've studied enough history, you start to see a pattern. Nations don't lose their way overnight. They drift through debt and division until one day you realize the foundations you thought were permanent were never permanent at all. 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Under Joe Biden, the average was 5.3. And that was not, and if you looked at what counted, not paperclips, but car insurance, house insurance, food, gas and diesel, price of cars, price of home, they all went up over 21% over his four years. So this affordability, the Republicans have been really inept. Trying to show everybody that we had this huge COVID spike with the government just handed out money. We had all these low interest rates and it sparked inflation. And now they expect Donald Trump to lower that. You're never going to lower that 20. It's a big, like a rat and a snake. It's there. It's making its way through the economy. But my point is that you can't say that. I was on Piers Morgan and I tried to. You said, well, affordability, you can see why. I said, no, I can't see why they're socialist. I see people working all the time across America that aren't socialist. And they don't, you know, they don't do what these people do. They go out and they look at the job market and they say, do they need sheetrockers? Do they need plumbers? Do they need electricians? Do they need high school teachers? Whatever it is. And then they say, I want to get married and I want to have children. Can I do that in New York? No. Can I do that in Denver? No. Can I do that in San Francisco? No. Can I do that? I go to Palo Alto, right? And I have colleagues that work at Stanford and they tell me they're hurting because they're younger and they can't buy a house. Well, a 1,500 square foot home is 3 million bucks. Over here in Fresno County, you could buy it in Selma for 220,000. They would never live here. And yes, it's unaffordable if you have these certain demands, you know, that I have to live in this area and I have to have this type of house and I have to have this type of job. But, you know, and another guy came, he's looking at my foundation and he's very happy. He's doing very well. But I thought, wow, he has no student debt. And he likes, I said, what do you do every day? I crawl into crawl spaces. And I said, well, I know my crawl space. And he said, Victor, you have three feet of space. You have a lot of ducting, but that's heaven to where I go under. You know, and I thought, I thought of that scene with that Russell Crowe movie, L.A. Confidential, where they killed those two people and they put them in the crawl space. And the crawl space was like 12 inches. And Russell Crowe had to go in there. It was, so, I mean, but he crawls in there and he wasn't apologetic. He said, oh, no, I have to go in your crawl space. So, this is a neurotic. And then the question is, they have all the student debt. They have worthless majors. They didn't get a good general education. So, nobody talked about capitalism or socialism or the history of the country or anything. And they all want to be hip and cool with, what do they call it, swag. They want swag. And they want to live where there's a big sports franchise. And there's some, there's opera. There's a local NPR station. So, that's what they want. And I'm sorry, we can't make your, fit your demands given the choices that you made. If you want to be a brain surgeon or a corporate lawyer or a Wall Street financier, I wouldn't recommend it. Those are high demand jobs. You got to be brilliant to do those jobs. And the people I see in the socialists are not brilliant. I saw that poor woman that was a co-founder. She was just. Yeah, I felt sorry for her. I was like a target practice. She was the target. And Shannon didn't miss. Everyone was a bullseye. But, you know, they make their own bed and then they get angry that they have to sleep in it. And one of the reasons I also mentioned today on this, Piers Morgan, why is housing then, it is more expensive, but why? And the answer is, if you want to build a house, the regulations in blue states, because we're talking about blue places, is so incredible that you, that the builder is adding on all of those costs. You know, you got to get environmental impact statement. You've got to get, in Santa Cruz, I was going to remodel a house that my daughter was. And I got these demands from the city about remodeling. I had to get organic materials. You had to use special sheetrock that was environmentally sound. I had to get wire that had approved plastic. It was crazy. And then the permit, just to get a permit, was $10,000 just for like one room. And then I've written probably two columns a week for 30 years, 25 years. I've written a hundred times, 2,500 columns. You know what the column that I almost got lynched? I wrote a column in saying about the housing crisis. And I had to go speak in San Francisco to a group. So I filed it the day before from my Hoover office. And it said, there wouldn't be a housing crisis in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, because on the west side of 280, as you go, there's a housing crisis. And I had to go from San Jose up to San Francisco. There's, what, a hundred mile, 70 miles of open land all the way to the coast. La Honda, all that's open. And I said, you get, I was being facetious, but I said, people who clean your toilets and cook your food and mow your glass should not have to have five families in a Redwood City house for $2 million. So why don't we do the European thing and just, we'll make high density, low income houses and we'll have BART and the Metro go meet and they can go anywhere and we can go all the way to the ocean and you can put 500,000 people there in $200,000 condo. Of all the things I've ever written about the Iraq war, anything, I got the most hate mail. I got so much hate mail that I was speaking. That next day in San Francisco, and a family came up, very wealthy, and they kind of barged in and they said, this is a private land. I want to talk to that guy. We'll have a Q&A. Who do you think you are? I have a woodside home and I have a little polo field. My wife loves to feed the foxes and the deer. And you're going to put a bunch of homes there. Because you're envious and jealous that you couldn't make it. And I said, I have a home. It's near Selma, California. I'm perfectly happy. I'm just worried about people who don't and can't afford it. And I said, who did you vote for? Of course, he was hard left. And basically, that's the attitude of the whole Northern California, all the way from, actually from La Jolla to Berkeley. We are very, very left wing. We believe in climate change. I have a woodside home. And basically, that's the attitude of the whole Northern California, all the way from La Jolla to Berkeley. And so the house goes up in price as well. For zoning and everything. And land, you pay for the land, and you pay for the regulations, and you pay for the size. I said to peers today, we're not building 1,200-square-foot houses that have two bedrooms. I grew up in a 12—well, until I was eight years old, I grew up not in the house I'm speaking now. This is my grandparents. I woke up in a 900-square-foot, and three of us slept in one room. And then my father got the idea of building 800-square-feet for three more bedrooms. Actually, it was 10—it was 1,000 square—he built it himself, but he never connected it to the house. He said he was, but he fell down and broke his elbow and had to take it out. And he had a full-time job, so my mom said, well, what's now? And he said, my dad was the same. He smiled, and he goes, Pauline? That's my mom. This is going to be a wonderful experience. And she said, well, just how is it going to work, Bill? Well, now we have a guest room in the old house. And she said, yes. And now we have three little bedrooms and our own bathroom. She said, we don't have our own bathroom. We have one bathroom for three bedrooms. And he said, well, if you count the other one. But she said, we have to go out. You'd have to go out in the rain. You'd have to go out in the rain or cold to get to the other bedroom. And then he said, yes, but isn't it nice to wake up at 6 in the morning and look at the sky or at night when we go out to bed? We'll watch TV in the living room. We have a living room and a kitchen and kind of one bedroom. And it'll be really nice. We'll get everybody together and watch TV there. And then each person will kind of open the door and walk 30 yards over a stone. She said, we'll trip. It's going to be cold. This is crazy. This is crazy. We got to join them. And he never did. My twin brother lives there and he put a breezeway over it. That was good. But the point is that I never thought I was deprived. But my point is that we all lived in small homes. We don't do that now. When you look at a new home, it's 2,500 square feet. And everybody thinks they need 2,500. Well, that's a lot more expensive than a two-bedroom, one-bath house. And if you don't have that, you got to vote for the socialists. I don't know how you're going to get that out of the socialists. Yeah, I get angry. When everybody was losing their farms during the raising crash of 83 and then the corporate thing in 2003, our family kind of went broke. Kind of. I mean, there's only 40 acres in the family out of 180 left. And I could have said, this is unfair. We need to confiscate those big farmland. I look around and all my neighbors, every single one without exception, is gone. And the farmhouses are there and they're rented out to farm laborers. And they're part of a little tessera in a huge corporate mosaic of 10,000, 8,000, 6,000 acres. And mine is too. I rent it out. And I hate the person who runs it and bought it. He was a visionary. He understood what was going on. So I wrote stupid, I mean, not stupid. I think there were good books. I wrote books about family farming and agrarianism and the beauty of the family farm and raising kids over three or four generations. But as one reviewer said, you're just, the problem with this book is he's trying to find a romantic justification for his own death. He's trying to find a romantic justification for his own dismal failure. I don't think that was quite true. But my point is, I'm not too sympathetic to the democratic socialists because they created the regulatory and the environment and radical green environment and not in my backyard and council culture that helps drive up the whole price of houses. And they were the ones that ruined the university and they were the ones that brought in these worthless majors. What do you do if a DEI, you know, I majored in Africana studies from Stanford. Okay. Can you go over there and code or can you go over there and write a memo about what our next five-year plan is? No. But she can clock somebody in the head on the basketball court. She can, as one Silicon Valley grandee told me. I said, well, why don't you hire Stanford people? Two reasons. They've had too many remedial classes after George Floyd because they abolished the SAT. And the grades can't be trusted because they're all inflated. And when we do hire them, they can't do math. They can't calculate. They can't, they're not analytical and they can't write. And then they go to HR and complain. So they're a loser, loser, loser. Kind of like what Mark Andreessen said that about the people today that they hire in Silicon Valley. Yeah. Or they do stupid things on social media like that Dijon who wrote that. The whole incident was Sophie cutting him on the basketball court where she hit her basically and knocked her. Although I, nobody's been saying this. Sophie made the basket. So that was pretty cool. Sophie, I just saw Sophie. She, she didn't, Sophie doesn't get enough credit. She's not an enforcer only. She's really good player. There was that almost six, 11 foot Chinese national girl. And she was shooting a half court shot almost. And Sophie ran at full speed and jumped up in the air and batted it away and stopped it. Yeah. And I, I, I, it's just something about Sophie that I think a lot of our listeners like because we like her because she's like an all American girl. I know that's not a racist thing to say. Because she's blonde and white, but she's so upbeat and bubbly, you know, and they asked her, why aren't you dating? She said, because I'm so tall. I don't want to be short, taller than my husband or boyfriend. And then they said, she goes, I don't have enough time. Look, we're traveling to every city. And, and, um, she said, nobody asked me out. Yeah. I doubt that because she's quite attractive, but it was so funny, her attitude about all of this. You know, that she drives, I think we all know that she drives people crazy on the left in general and the dominant culture of black, lesbian, angry women in the WNBA that want to destroy her and Caitlin. And she's, she takes it with a grain of salt, you know. You know, what bothered me though was when, um, she was on the basketball court, they were showing one of her games and, um, Riley Gaines showed up and had a support of herself. And, um, she was on the basketball court, they were showing one of her games and, um, Riley Gaines showed up and had a support of herself. And then they were, but when it came to Sophie, the crowd was booing her for things. I know. Largely. Wasn't that in Washington or something? Yeah, but it, it was kind of disturbing because I would think she would have more supporters than that. It sounded loud. I went and read what she said. She didn't say anything negative about trans. She was talking about protecting young girls and their rights and aspirations to be female athletes without competing against men. And, uh, and then I don't know if you saw that other conference when the coach, when she got clotheslined, the coach didn't support her at all. She said, well, that was a, that happens all the time. And that, no, it doesn't. Nobody just takes your elbow and tries to hit you in the Adam's apple and then starts to kind of flaunt it that what she did. And this was the coach of her team. And so everybody got angry. But did you see when the coach was saying that, Caitlin Clark was like this with her head in her hands, like, oh my gosh, no wonder where I'm getting beat up with a coach like that. That's what she was thinking. So then all the fans got angry and wanted to fire her. And then the PC owner came out and gave her full support to the coach. As a general rule in sports, you know, it's. It's like that scene in, um, For Whom the Bell's Toll. They're getting the Spanish villager and there's kind of a bad guy. And they said, um, you had to get, they had some prisoners. I can't remember the exact scene, but there were four horses and he's, he had to kill somebody. And he didn't need to kill him because the person was killed on their side. So he had an extra. And they asked him, why did you do that? And he goes, cause it's my village. I take care of my people. I take care of my village. It's a famous quote. And that's the attitude of a coach. I mean, you don't, you don't condone violence of your own players, but you protect them. It's kind of like an army and you're the general, but not when, you know, it would be kind of like George Patton said, would say, well, I can see why the Germans surrounded Bastogne. And, and if they muss up some people's hair, that happens. I, I, we do the same. Yeah. That coach definitely wasn't on her side enough, but I, I was worried too, that the crowd that goes to those games wasn't on the side. of her riley gaines and there's that other woman that is an athlete that supports just women in in sports but we'll see how that goes and we'll see whether um royce white and innis canter freedom are able to join with so much support of the trans he was pretty clever royce white when he started talking and he said there are times when i feel female and then he'll have a wig on too and it's very hard to how would you say one is sincere or insincere it's going to be very hard to do oh it's going to expose the whole the whole travesty of it yeah it'll just be political bias if they seem like they want left-wing things then they'll be okay and if they're not that's how their committee or commission there is a french trans athlete yeah he's really trans so they're going to let him play it'll be interesting because he went through the whole thing with hormone treatments and everything yeah but he looks like a muscular man yeah all right victor let's go ahead and take a break and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about gosh we have so much um how about we'll turn to um mike lindell just for a second that's still on the primary stay with us and we'll be right back i'm brendan steinhauser ceo of the alliance for secure ai we're working every day to make sure that ai is safe secure and aligned with american values welcome back victor davis hansen in his own words you can find victor on social media at on x he his handle is at vd hansen and on facebook he has a page called hansen's morning cup so just one quick thing about the primaries donald trump supported mike lindell and it seems to me he didn't really have much of a chance but i think that was a mistake but trump is loyal to his supporters yeah to his supporters and i think that was a mistake but i think that was a mistake he supported him in the governor's race and in michigan i think his attitude is that he has no chance of winning and he he has no chance of winning but he has no chance of hurting the republican nominee who will win the nominee and so he's going to endorse him but the it hurts his credibility because everybody hangs on every endorsement he does so it's um i think he could have just and he should have just endorsed the person ahead in the polls that had the best chance of winning yeah all right let's um turn to um mondami i know you mentioned that his wife requested or he requested for his wife that nypd officers at um security detail from the nypd when she went to syria and lebanon the nypd replied no we don't do this so i was mondami doesn't understand the nypd it's traditionally the most professional skilled you know that wonderful guy on fox paul morrow he just emblemizes the professionalism the knowledge of nypd and during the terrorism they had more knowledge of the terrorism uh than the fbi did they have a they had an anti-terrorist investigative group they're all professional they're all multi-generational they're all ethnics that you know the puerto ricans the irish the italians and they and ethnically and blacks they they do get along and they protect each other sometimes it has been bad in the past when there was corruption and internal affairs you see all these movies and news accounts but mondami waltzes in here and he tells them they're going to do this and this and this and they basically said who do you think you are we're not going to send four or three or four of our best people to go over on a holiday little jaunt jaunt to lebanon and syria to protect your wife after she trashes the country and spouts off this anti we have a million jews in this city and she's talking about anti-semitic she has all these anti-semitic rants and you said that we were blank blank blank he did and you wanted to defund us at one time so we're not going to do it and you know what this was the subtext they didn't say we're here you're here for four years so you're going to be gone and we know that and we're going to be happy when you're gone and we're going to vote against you but you don't you we're here forever so when we have mayors like bloomberg or giuliani that support us then fine but not you and he and he's shocked at that and he's blaming he always blames his staff when these embarrassing you remember last week it was he went to a function where the nypd was there and they started booing him and uh he's he's another democrat i mean it's whether it's obama when he goes to a black audience i just want to say you brought obama or it's he'll be i'm so tired i didn't get here all this time or it's um mandami that accent they had that he was only eight years ago well well i am uh i am zoron madami i'm from uganda and uh yes yes yes i uh i i play music from my and i am from uganda uganda it was all fake and he couldn't drop that accent in just seven or eight years these people have no identity they just turn them on and it's really insulting to the the audience that we're supposed to listen to that yeah i mean trump just can you imagine donald trump with that queen's act uh i guess it's a queen's accent can you imagine that queen's accent every changing can you see trump going before a group of black professionals and say you better vote for me are they going to put you all in chains like biden said he would never do that whatever he is he's authentic they had on uh something i was reading for this show uh the back to the oh what who it was fun to drink beer with used to be the test of whether you like something or not and they reminded me of the hillary clinton going up to that north carolina mining area and drinking beer with that wheeler maker and then dropping a and then shot in it and bowling and then shooting at a target yeah remember for hillary clinton she thinks she's annie oakley you got so angry i thought yeah she's trying to play your game absolutely all right victor we know that fauci has or i should say ran paul and um oh the other guy dot the minnesota guy uh not wisconsin center johnson yeah he's from wisconsin he's got that i love the wisconsin northern michigan it's the scandinavian accent and minnesota that's kind of it's like the fargo accent yeah sorry my sorry everybody my mic was off we're looking at the um new revelations of the fauci texts from ran paul's committee and senator johnson um of wisconsin and i was wondering if you had any thoughts the one thing that everybody's been talking about this week is that it was clear in his text that he understood concerns about vaccinating pregnant women and he didn't allow that out and said everybody should get vaccinated even pregnant women i remember that fauci's problem was that he wanted to ingratiate himself into the president inner circle and then leak he detested trump but he wanted to be the national spokesman and that required him to praise trump's operation warp speed the vaccination secretly he knew that it was not a vaccination as we know it with a weakened or dead virus the part it was genetic engineering it was an mrna messenger type of vaccine that would create on its own and we didn't know where these spike proteins would end up whether they'd all concentrate at a you know in the liver or the gut or the breast or the genital areas or the young men in their heart but they would cause inflammation as a foreign object and therefore they would not be able to vaccinate the pregnant women they would create antibodies i remember i got the two modernas and then i got a i thought i'm gonna go to hillsdale hillsdale was open and i got the last one at the end of march so april may june july and i went in august five months later i got covid then i got a test my annual checkup in los angeles a friend of mine came out and he said your antibodies are off the charts i mean they're i think it was at that time one to two thousand or twenty five they're off we don't know how much they are and i said i guess i have mass cell disease i overreacted and he said this is really scary you've got all these spike proteins in you and he knew all these but he he uh he embraced the platonic noble lie that these people don't know anything i know what's good for them so i have to be paternal. And so, yes, I helped manufacture, create, birth this virus, but it wouldn't be good for people to hear that because they would lose confidence in me and the NIH and the National NIA ID, and it wouldn't be good for the CDC. So, I'm going to lie and say I had nothing to do with it. I don't know whether masks work. They probably don't. I said they don't. I said, but if they want to wear two, it couldn't hurt. I don't know where we got social distancing. Somebody dreamed up that there's no scientific proof that you have little squares six feet apart when you want to go into a department store. But I'll go ahead. It must be good. I'll lie that says that science and maybe these vaccinations will help older people for a while. So, I'll just lie and say you can't be infected. You can't be infectious. And the people who don't do this are basically your enemies because they're selfish. That was his line. And now that's all coming out that he deliberately lied and misled people. He's got three or four things that are really bad. The first is that he helped birth this virus. So, in one way, he's kind of the father, co-father, co-parent. And that killed in the United States a million people, and it's sickened for more than three months, 20 million. Some of them are sick. Some of them are not. Some of them are still sick. I was on a long COVID group, you know, just reading, not that I ever posted. I never post, but I just wanted to read about what people were doing, self-help supplements or medicines. And it was just crazy. I mean, people had been in bed for three years, four years. Really sad. And he did that. And then the second thing that he did, he lied about the vaccinations. And he could have said, this is. This is a new type of genetic engineering vaccination, and I think it will help most people. But that's a decision you have to make. And we're not going to kick out people in the military. We're not going to kick out people in the university. We're not going to force students out. But he didn't do that. He lied. And then the third thing he did is he used his power of grant-making along with Francis Collins at the National Institute of Medicine. And he did that because he wanted to make a difference. And then he did that because he wanted to make a difference. And then he did that to punish enemies and to reward friends. So he created Groupthink. And then he called Bacharia and Kullendorf and Gupta, the three stooges. I never heard of that before. Attacking, you know, sophisticated, competent, world-renowned researchers. And yet he knew when he talked about all. They were right. Because he said to Scott Atlas, he says about Atlas, Atlas is probably right, why he was bad-mouthing him to the country. And he got to Trump. I mean, we don't like to think about that, but Donald Trump kept him on. And Scott left, I think he left in September or October before the election, or maybe it was after, but he had lost favor. Trump had favored Fauci over Scott. And that was planned by Birx and Fauci. And then finally, Trump saw them for what they were. It was an election year. And they were trying to extend the shutdown, shut down the schools, slow down that booming economy that had been in January 2020, a ticket, easy ticket to his reelection. And they were being beloved and deified by the left. And then Trump all of a sudden said, wait a minute. We went from like 2.8 GDP to minus seven. We went from 3% unemployment to 10 for a period of a month. We went, you guys are trying to shut down the whole economy, the schools, everything. When there's evidence in Europe, you don't have to do that. And that's because it's an election year and you hate my guts. And you want to campaign on that. But it was too little, too late. Yeah, that's what happened. And one of the rare mistakes Trump made in his administration let's do a last thing before we go to comments. Cause I have a special comment section today. I know. But the last thing is just Trump recently was coming back from a trip and he, they put him on a different plane than he was scheduled to go on, but he left the reporters on the plane that he was scheduled to go on. And boy, did they not like that, that they were the target. I couldn't understand that. So he's on Air Force One with all of his preventive rocketry that, that takes missiles and leads them in the wrong direction. They can fire his, uh, F-16 or F-35 escorts are there. And then at the last moment, the secret service said, I think they're going to send a missile at you. Or they have people in Turkey that are working. Turkey's not necessarily antithetical to Iran. And so they said, you've got to get onto another smaller plane and get out of here. And actually the plane didn't have any of the defenses that Air Force One. So then they thought they were being Guinea pigs and this was cowardly or something. Or, and so first of all, one, what a high opinion of themselves that they're more important than the president. And two, they were never in danger, really. I mean, with the president, you have zero chance you have to have that. Maybe there was three or 4%, but they know that anywhere when they get in Air Force One and they fly all over the world in fog and bad third world neighborhoods, there's always a chance that they're going to be in danger. And so they're never in danger. There's always an element of risk. But it's the idea that he put them and exposed them to danger when they had this very, very safe plane with all of its natural defenses, they built into it. And then you had fighter escort and Trump didn't. Then third, he is the only president, I looked this up. He is the only president in history that have had four assassination attempts in which Secret Service or the security detail fired at the shooter. They fired at the shooter in Pennsylvania. They fired at the shooter in Palm Beach. They fired at the shooter at Mar-a-Lago when he came and tried to break in, killed him. And they fired at the shooter in Washington, D.C. at the Correspondents' Dinner. That's never happened before. Nobody has ever been a target like he is. So that's number three. What do you expect when you get on a plane with him? Everybody thinks they want to kill him. And then four, why is that? Does it have anything to do with Robert De Niro? I'd like to beat him up. Joe Biden, I'd take him behind the gym and beat him up. Madonna, I'd like to blow up the White House. I dream of it. Kathy Griffin, here's the head of Donald Trump. Snoop Dogg, I'm going to shoot him. Royal Shakespeare troop in Central Park. Let's stab him as Julius Caesar. We'll make Julius Caesar look like Trump. Remember before he died, Peter Fonda said he wanted to put Melania and their kids in a cage and have people spit at them or torture them. So they have lowered the bar so much. And every time there was assassination attempt, social media lit up. Just like they did with, you know, why can't he be, why can't these guys shoot like Mangione? I've seen that. So they have no credibility. They don't, they're not even reporters. They're just adolescents. Yeah. Victor, you just did a wonderful segue into the first comment I want to read. I was going to read the nice one first, but since your segue was about violence. I don't even tell you I get them. Yeah. So this one is to make the point of how violent the left is. Here it is. In addition to what Victor just said. Frank DeVito. He writes, Your brain-dead, hyper-partisan political analysis is worthless. Please kill yourself for the good of the nation and the world. Today's white wing is morally and intellectually bankrupt. Kill yourself. Thanks. It's so violent. That's, I just. It's so worthless that you apparently listen to it. Don't listen to it. And I may die, but I'm not going to kill myself. That's a mortal sin. And the other thing, I got another one that said, it was funnier than that one. About three months ago, he said, Dear Professor Hansen, I hear you had your lobe or most of your right lung taken out. It's too bad you didn't have a tumor in your left one as well. What do you think about that? That was a little bit clinical. Yeah, that was cruel. All right. So the left is violent and they write violent things. I got onto. I got onto. I got onto Piers Morgan this morning, not to beat a dead horse. I thought he would say classicist and Hoover fellow or right wing pundit and historian, right wing. And they always have to say that. All right. And then here is the nice one. I had several history professors, but none of those wonderful men match your endless stream of wisdom. I don't think I get, I can get you a Nobel prize, but I'm telling my Indiana senators to recommend you to the president that he give you a medal of freedom. That's nice. a veteran, as a Vietnam-era vet, and as one of the last Vietnam draftees, I especially appreciate your brilliant military perspective. Finally, we're roughly the same age. I'm a few months older. My selfish prayer is that you outlive me. After many years of teaching, you make me still enjoy learning. I believe you are positively changing our country. You are a gift to our nation. Judy and I are praying for your improving health. God bless. Dr. Phil, and he says, not the one that makes the big money. I do think, I think I kind of surprised the oncologists that the first three signatera blood DNA were negative, because that does come back 40% of the time. And I think it I do believe, I know that this seems irrational to my agnostic friends, but I do believe prayer helped me. I really did. I've had a, I could feel it. There are certain times you get up when you've lost all that blood, and you have transfusions, and you've had allergies to them, and you have anemia, and your heart's not in sinus rhythm, and you think you can't make it. And then some days you can. You feel like, just, I can feel it. I'm getting stronger. I'm getting better. And those are, I think that's when I hear prayers. I really do, to be a little bit mystical about it. And those days, I hope, are more often than not. I do, too. I do, too. All right. Well, thanks to our audience for tuning in. And thank you, Victor, for all of your discussion, especially of the political primaries this week. Saturday, what are we looking forward to? Two presidents. I think it's Gerald Ford and Harrison. Poor Jerry Ford. Yeah. Poor Harrison. Didn't he die immediately in office? Maybe. Well, he had 31 days. He died of enteric fever. Fever, I think. Wow. Okay. All right. So that's what's coming up Saturday. Plus more news from the week. Tippy Canoe and Tyler, too. Yes. Thank you, everybody, for watching and listening. This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson, and we're signing off. Every state is home to significant historic sites that tell the American story. But not every site is telling that story honestly and fairly. That's why the Heritage Foundation created the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites. This interactive guide equips Americans, citizens with the tools they need to enjoy the sites that depict some of the greatest moments in our nation's history, analyzing them for historical accuracy, and provides resources for families or educators planning a visit. From Mount Vernon to Independence Hall to Gettysburg and more, Americans deserve transparency, and sites that steward our history faithfully deserve our gratitude. The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites invites every American to rediscover the places in history that are so important to them. 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