Trump’s Economy Is Stronger Than Voters Think | Victor Davis Hanson

I talked to a woman in town and she said that dialysis, I have to get in three times a week and I can't get in the door because there's all these illegal aliens. I had gone to the emergency room twice now, not one person spoke English and the people who were staff and exasperated were all Mexican-Americans. They didn't like it. I said to one of the employees, what's going on here? And he said, we are their personal physician. And we were never designed for that. The people who pay the taxes and we're in that emergency room that were Americans, Mexican-Americans exclusively are not getting the care that they should. Hello, and welcome. This is Victor Davis-Hansen in his own words for those who are new and to remind everybody Victor's main affiliations are. He is the Martin and Iliannisson Senior Fellow and Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne & Marsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. And we hope you all come join him at his website, The Blade of Perseus. The URL for that website is victorhansen.com and we'd like to have you all there. So Victor, we are going to be talking first about the economy and Jack Smith testimony. And we have a separate for this Saturday edition, middle segment, and Victor's two presidents this time are FDR and Abraham Lincoln. So probably at least it could be argued the two most significant presidents in US history. Besides Donald J. Trump. No, besides George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln, yes, not FDR. He's not in Jefferson or Washington. But we'll be doing this in the middle segment. Unless you want to go pretty on the Mount Rushmore. Yeah. So stay with us and we'll be right back. Victor is a close friend of Dennis Prager and has had the privilege of working with his remarkable team at Prager U. Victor has appeared in several five-minute videos reaching millions worldwide. 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I thought as I said to our audience, when I look at all the bylines for the new, not the op-ed, but the news, they all come from the Atlantic, Politico, Washington Post, New York Times, LA time. So they're left of center and they try to have them. When the terror thing was announced, they were doom and doom. Canada, Greenland, Trump is a mess. Tax cuts, deregulation, theory good, but it just handled poorly. Iran wore misadventure, oil, tragedy, get wiped out in the midterm. Maybe well. And then you start to see the last week, last week. Well, the Federal Reserve has revised their third quarter growth to 5%. Well, lowest poverty and history, 10%. That's all, 90% are out of poverty. Did more than the great society ever do it. Well, highest-fem familial and per capita income in history, familial and get 87,000 dollars right across the border. It's 35,000 less. Well, record, well, record highs in the stock market. But for the year, they're going to average about 10% growth. 4.2 unemployment, 140,000 new jobs. And that takes into consideration they've already eliminated 400,000. Then we hear today, you have a-- well, the economy is unexpectedly strong. And it might even kind of sort of maybe, perhaps, the booming because the Federal Reserve banks and colonists have looked back at the first six months. And they have revised 1.9 up to 2.4. So the economy was never as bad as we were saying. And inflation doesn't look like, despite the high gas, it hasn't spiked like we told you when the awful tariffs would do it. So it was kind of difficult, and the editorial board both basically said that everything was booming. So now the question is, are they going to vote in a party that gave us 21% inflation just two years ago, over 4 years, 5.1%. And 30% of staples, vehicles, fuel, housing, insurance, et cetera. Are they really going to do that? Well, the Wall Street Journal is sort of responsible for that. Because if you read the comments, they're mostly left wing now. I guess the strategy was on the Murdoch family to move it to the left and get a bigger readership. I would say that the readership of the Wall Street Journal is left winged based on the comments. So in any case, it was a shock to wake up and read, excuse me, it was a shock to get up and read that everything is going pretty well. And the question now is, time. It always was time. Do they have-- we always said, well, they had an eight month, seven months, six months, five-- but time is running out. Can they get that message across that every indicator is booming, that those tech lords that were at the White House the other day are leading the world in every category of their enterprises from digital media to software, to AI, to space launches, et cetera. And they're all-- they don't like Trump, but they're all on board because he wants them to make America preeminent, and they want to be preeminent. Well, that all convinced people that the economy is not the worst since the Great Depression, basically, and that gas prices, 98% of the oil has gotten through the straight aromones, and Iran is desperate. They're trying to hit tankers. They're one day they send a letter to the American people, mean the American left. Please, please, please call off your president. We just want to be friends. We never made fun of you. When we said death to the great Satan, we didn't mean you-- that was a misinterpretation. We love you. That's why we sent terrorists in your country all these years, and we love you so much. We blew up your Marines and the Beirut. We loved you so much. We blew up your embassy in Beirut and in Africa. We love you so much. We wanted to kill a Saudi ambassador in your hometown in the capital. That's why we love you. So they're pathetic, and they're at the end of the rope, and their only way out is to hope that the left takes power in a landslide in the House and Senate and cuts off a veto-proof resolution of cutoff. That's not going to happen. So the economy, as we've always said, it was here on this podcast pretty strong. And when the price of oil collapses, if I was a trader and I said, oh, I've been reading the Wall Street Journal, and things are so bad. And then I read all of these New York times and the war is lost, and all these iconic figures on the left say it's horrible, and gas is going to get to-- oh, I better go buy some futures at $120 a barrel, because it'll go up to $150, or $110, or even $100. Now what do they do? The price was at $93. It went down to $85, a little bit. It's going to get down to $80. When it gets to $60, gas is $3 under $3. So when those people start to see that it starts to go down without going back up, they're going to start panicking and selling. Selling their futures and get out of the market, because they're going to take big losses the lower it gets. So they are committed to buying oil at $1.5, $1.10, when oil's only worth $65 or $7. That's better than $110 and $15. I think things are going very well. I just want other commentary. I like Carl Wohl, but I met him. He's a very good person. I know people are critical, and he is-- I think what he's been doing is trying to help Trump. by being very critical of the campaign. And he was right that we didn't get the message out, but he's been so critical that today he came out, well, this week he came out and said, "Well, two weeks ago he came out and said, "I have to vote for a Democrat in Texas." He didn't explain it well because the headline says, "Rove votes for Democrat." Well, he didn't say that it was an ag commissioner who'd said kind of a racist thing, but he kind of vertu-signal that he wasn't for that. And then he attacked Trump and then he wrote another one that said, "This is an app." And then all of a sudden, he starts to get a sense of the economy. And when you look at these races in Minnesota, Michigan, Maine, Texas, even Ohio at some point, they're starting to tighten up. And the momentum is very subtly shifting and this news of all this investment in the tech lords and all these statistics will start to filter down the last month. And you haven't even spent the war chest of Elon and Trump and he's gonna be at 30 rallies. So today, yeah, today Carl Rove was basically saying, they can win if they do what I say, I'm not being sarcastic, what he says is pretty wise. So the fact that he's changing a little bit and that people on the right or not as depressed is Mark Halpern, who's a really smart guy. I like him, I've been on a show. He basically had been calling people on the right, not the left. He's a moderate Democrat. And they were, he said they're in panic. They don't know what to do. They're gonna be wiped out. And he's been telling them on all the podcast and the left loves him and everybody. And now he's sort of saying, take a deep breath. Carl Rove would have called him whatever all wrong about the midterm, you know what I mean? So something's going on. And I think that's something going on is the scent of an economic boom. - Yes, and with the Wall Street Journal, they don't wanna get to the end of the year and have all the statistics really good and all of their articles be doom and gloom, right? - Polsters on the left. - I know, they should-- - You say they're gonna lose, they're gonna lose. It's gonna, Kamela's gonna win by four. Is she gonna be in my 10? I always, they, Trump's gonna lose, oh wow. And Des Moines Register was stupid. They could have corrected. But the rest of them started correcting. So when you saw the last polls of a 2024 election, there were some that said, that's either dead even or point one for Trump. Because they, and they were the ones that said he was hopeless. So what the left does, they build up momentum and fundraising and they rigged the polls. And then the last week, it gets tight. And they say, unexpectedly, the race is tightened up. No, it was never that asymmetrical. You've tightened up and told the truth first change that it was always close. Trump was always either a head of Kamela or dead even. He was never behind for, and that's why these Democrats, when you saw them in 2016, they were crying on the screen. 2024, I can't remember. Because they were, they believed those lies. They believe all their own lies too, which is weird. They didn't, they were right in 2000, 2024. They were crying, 2006, but 2020, they weren't. Because they had switched from 70% in person voting and 30% mail-in to the other 70% early in mail-in and they were confident. And that was a record turnout. It was more than the next year, the next election, and then election behind. And they have been registering. I won't go further than that and impune their integrity. But they knew something was up that they had done structural changes in the balladine procedures. Mark Zuckerberg gave, Mark Zuckerberg was right next to Trump. Two persons down. I wonder if Trump said, hey, I want Facebook to be preeminent and I'm going to do, they're not going. The Europeans are not going to have any more surcharge and go after you and neither of the Canadians I'm going to protect you. I am FDR and you are the war production board and go to it and make us put Mark. What was that $419 million you put into 2020 that made me lose by appropriating the role of the registrars with your little drop boxes and your little get out the vote and your same day registration and your ballad harvesting and your ballot curing that you funded. He didn't do that, did he? - No, he sure didn't. Well, Victor, let's welcome back one of our sponsors, var watches. 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So wouldn't there be a judge that would also be connected to allowing these text messages? And then I just want to read you what Josh Hawley had to say in, as it went on. He goes, he said to Jack Smith, we are glad you failed because I can't imagine what our country would be like if you had succeeded. - Well, I don't know whether he got a judge's order or it was undone administratively by the DOJ, but the reason they know that he did it, he made a request and somebody approved it, whether it was a Biden and a person or a judge, I don't know. But people should dispense with this idea that Trump is an enemy of democracy. The left feels that it's morally superior, vis-a-vis Trump. And then any, gotta remember that, that's a theme that characterizes this last decade. Any methodology that they use is justified by their moral ends of destroying him or destroying anybody that supports him. So just a brief little flashback during the Obama administration, they went after James Rosen, the Fox correspondent. They not only went after his text messages and his phone calls, even to his grandmother, they monitored him GPS-wise where he was. They went after the AP reporters. I think there were eight of them. And they were preparing indictments of other reporters, they claimed that we're leaking stories. So that was a war on the press. And the press didn't say much at all. We're kind of bothered. It's kind of confusing that our constitutional law, your president, it was out of character no doubt. Somebody did it. That was their attitude. And so now we see that they come back in and Jack Smith thinks that he's going to find some coordination between Trump and the main senator. So he wants to know if they're talking to each other or they're advising him or they're leaking. Jack, he looked, first of all, he looked completely stunned like a deer in the headlights. There was only one coordination in this whole sorted law fair episode. It was you. You were appointed, I think on November 18th. And that was only because he had announced he was going to run for president three days earlier in 2022, okay? You knew you were going to be appointed. Then you knew also that very day that Nathan Wade, the boyfriend of Fannie Willis was in the White House for a long consultation, even billed I think eight hours. That same day your buddy, Michael Collangelo, in the DOJ, who was number three, most prestigious job he'd ever had, had come in from where Latina James's farcical law first suit. And what did he do? The day you were appointed, as Biden got his team into the field, his army, and the day Nathan Wade was being tutored by your White House Council to tell Fanny what to do and when to do it. He went back and helped Alvin Bragg, trump up that stupid federal campaign financed by a local Manhattan prosecutor. And people have argued they deny it, but there had been reports that Latina James was in the White House that day. So that's what Jack Smith did, and he knows it, and his wife made a, what would be the word, an obsequious little film about Michelle Obama. So he was a partisan from way, way back. And he had gone after the governor of Virginia, and the Supreme Court had reversed him nine to nothing. So he doesn't have a good record. I almost felt sorry for him, he looked, the only time he came to life was there had been a rumor that he was at an Atlanta Hawks basketball game, and may have been in contact with Fanny at Atlanta, or in Georgia, and they wanted to have some kind of internal communication. So they had bad info, the senators, I think it was, Senator Schmidt said, what were you doing? Did you ever go to a hawk? No, no. And he didn't. That was wrong. So, but that was the only reprieve of God, he looked just, you looked like an old man, he looked tired. He looked like I do. I've heard talk of indictment, do you have any thoughts on whether who get indicted? Well, we get any sort of criminal punishment for these things or, it's hard to say so, but it's hard to say. If you or I went to the Senate, and they put us under oath, and they said, Victor, as CIA director, have you ever spied on the Senate computer? No, we don't do that to CIA. Victor, as CIA director, have you ever killed a civilian with your drone attack? No, we don't do that. And I lied. He admitted, he lied. Or if I was James Clapper, and I said, Mr. Clapper, have the national security agency ever spied on, you said, no, we don't do that. Mr. Clapper, we have evidence that you do do that. You want to purge yourself? I gave the least untruthful answer. Did anything happen to either one? Anything happened to former intern Andrew McCabe when he said on four occasions that he did not leak to the wall, to any of them, about ongoing investigations of Trump? No, they didn't do it. He lied four times. They'd call me, anybody doing anything to call me? If I went to the IRS and they said, Victor, you wrote off your entire house as a farm expense. I don't remember that. I have no recollection. It doesn't appear that I know at this moment, it didn't pop up in my mind. That's what he did four, 245 times. They didn't go. Call me. James Call me FBI direct. No, they don't ever pay a price. The only people that pay a price are low echelon. Even when they're lower, like Eric Kleinsmith, the FBI lawyer that thought, now our Russia hoax steel is falling apart, but we've got to surveil people and get stuff on them. Carter Page is kind of autistic. He's got a bald head. Actually, the guy was brilliant, and he's kind of doesn't do well on TV, so we're going to go after him, but we don't have anything. He has emails where actually, when he went to Russia, he wrote intelligence agencies and said, "Could I be of any help?" Because I was near the top of my class in the Naval Academy and I understand intelligence and when I'm going to Russia to talk to people, I will come back and give you, so he changed that. He entered the email and then presented it as evidence to a FISA court judge and what had happened. Wow. Eric got a little hang. He must has hair up a little bit, so we'll give him probation and we'll kind of temporarily for a minute or two take his law license and now he's back with it. No, I don't think he, I think they even expunge the criminal, they should put him in jail for five years. Can you imagine an FBI lawyer lying on, and doctoring forging a document and giving it to a federal judge? If that had been a Trump lawyer in the FBI, they would have put him in jail for 20 years. You know, you mentioned how Jack Smith looked sort of diminutive in front of the Congress. Did you ever see those videos of Nikolai Chasescu and his wife being tried when they already knew they were dead people, probably? And did you see them? You're really going to shoot my wife and I. Yeah, I know. It was all on tape. I don't know if you can still get that on the Internet, but you used to be able to. And I was just, when they were in the court, as it was called, they, man, they fought like cats and dogs over every point that the judges were making about them. Jack Smith knew what he did. Everybody should remember that he was appointed special counsel, not for one reason. They were claiming that January 6 was insurrection. And that has never really been, I think, two cases in history. You can't say that somebody is for insurrection when he gives a speech and says, I want you to assemble at the Capitol peacefully and patriotically and express your anger. That's not, and there was nobody found with a firearm on, you know, a loaded firearm. It was a buffoonish demonstration that turned into a mini riot. There were five people killed, only one was, there were five people who died. Only one was not a Trump supporter. And that was an officer who died the next day, Ryan Sickening. Not when Camilla Harris said, these demonstrations are not going to end. And they're not going to end. And they shouldn't. And they're going to go on. And they're going to go on and get used to it. And they're going to go on to the election. That was when they were burning up Washington. And they said, no, you have to have contacts. Of course, they were burning things and killing people. But when she said they're going to go on, she meant the peaceful demonstrations. Remember that guy from the CNN, the flames are licking the sky as largely peaceful demonstrations. All right, behind him. Many Americans going to have a big wake up call. We have never seen net migration as high as it has been in the last few years. 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I was wondering what you made of Ken Paxton, who said that convention that he had in Texas, Dallas, Texas, he says it dragged down his numbers. It's dragged everybody's numbers down. Ken Paxton was his man and who, I mean, they caught him on a mic where he didn't say his war. He denied that, but he shouldn't have told anybody that. John Corning would have won that election and he was a rhino and he's very embittered like Tom Tillices in South Carolina. And he voted with Trump about 85% of the time, right? But on the key issues like the save act on those he wasn't with Trump, so Trump got mad. Paxton had a, what's the word, colorful record, personal and professional. And he was not, as Trump said, a charismatic guy. But Trump endorsed him with the idea that Texas is not going to vote for a vegetarian when they're famous for beef. They're not going to vote for a green nut when they're famous for oil. They're not going to vote for Jesus' non-binary when it's an evangelical state. So I think that Paxton will win, but he's a very weak. and I'll be candid with you. And he doesn't come across well, and they haven't been campaigning. Telluriko is slimy and anxious and smooth. Oliganeous, he's oily, and he's taking his, I never said that. That was a memory, that was a moment of exuberance. Then every time you catch him and his real self, so somebody ambushes him and says, "Who's your favorite drag dancer?" Transdra-- oh yeah. And he's like, "Oh, oh, I just gave a name "as if I know all of them." So he's running as something he's not, and when he gets elected, if he were to do that, he would go back to his socialist crazy roots, just like El Saeed and everybody else. - Yeah, as the Reverend at his church got caught on the moon. - You know what I'm most scared about right now? - What? - I, we just did some videos for Victor Hanson and his a few words about how the economy was booming. This was before the Wall Street Journal. I had so many comments on ex and emails saying, "You're just a psychopath." Come on Victor, just admit that we're in a depression. Don't just give us a straw roll. The economy's horrible. Nobody believes that. And what an article day I mentioned on our website about the 92 election. The economy was strong, not as strong as now, but it wasn't bad like Clinton and Gorset, but they won on that. So I'm afraid that because we have not been talking about the economy. We haven't explained the affordability issue that it was 20% under Biden, 5.1% a year. And the only way you can get rid of a 20% inflation over his tenure would have it be a recession. And we're not gonna do that. And it was 30% for vehicles, fuels, and staples. So the only way you can get out of that high prices is to cut the annual rate of inflation, which Trump did the first year by half, and raise wages, purchasing power, which he did. This year it's complicated, but I'm afraid that with all this foreign investment and all this AI, and the end of the Iran conflict soon, and the crashing of oil prices, and these boom that we see that it's gonna happen after they take the house. And they're gonna say, see you voted for us, and we got the price of oil down. And that's something everybody should watch. If anybody votes and believes them, that they have any ability or desire to lower prices, you're sorely mistaken. These are Islamists as socialists. They have bigger fish to fry than us. They wanna change the United States into a socialist Cuba. - Yeah, and we looked at some of those stories of in Seattle and California where our socialist states are destroying it, especially with the homeless and fraud. - They say we're honest, they should say this. If you elect us, we can do for the United States what we've done in California, Oregon, see Washington, Illinois, New York, Minnesota, and New York, and we can make every city in the United States look exactly like Los Angeles, Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York, if you'll just vote for us. That's our plan, 'cause these are blue states and blue, and it's a wonderful place. So vote for us. That's what they're basically gonna have. That's what they're running on. We're gonna make California nationwide. - And Joel applaud us when we get one crosswalk painted in seven months, just like Nitya Rahman did. - You get Stonehenge. I have a reader, Gary, I never give his last name, so I don't want to embarrass him, but he, I had said on this program, "What do you do with Stonehenge?" Not one foot of track, but 170 miles, 78 miles, or something from Bakersfield and Merced. And he, I guess he photoshopped it or he got it, and well, why not have a Western pedestrian trail? And he had, 'cause he's a landscaper guy, and he had this beautiful bridges over railroad tracks, like from Fresno to Big, and I thought about it, I thought, wow, that's a brilliant idea. Then I was reminded of that little animal walk in LA where they were built a bridge, so the wolves were somebody could not. And it's taken millions of dollars, they can't finish it, but if they would turn it loose to a guy like Gary, and he could just landscape the whole thing as a private enterprise guy, and then you could walk from Bakersfield. Of course, you'd have to put a police station every five miles because of California's crime rate. And you'd have to say, if you rob somebody, it's not $950 or less, get free, get out of jail, free card. - Well, let's look at states that are doing things or just take a moment. I don't know if you have something to say about this, but Ron DeSantis in Florida has designated care the Council for American Islamic Relations, the Muslim Brotherhood and Antifa as terrorist organizations. So woo, woo hoo for Florida, I'd say. - He's very good, he's good, and I don't know who got the inspiration from whom, but Donald Trump announced that last month there were zero Muslim Islamic people coming in as refugees, that's how they come in. Basically, the argument is we destroyed our country with Islamism, and I want to go to a Western country and destroy it so it looks like the destroyed country that I left. So I want to come to France or Brittany, United States and wave my Palestinian flag or my Iraqi flag or my Syrian flag or my Iranian flag because I'm a refugee, but I don't want to integrate, I don't want to assimilate, I did not want to acculturate. And so Donald Trump, they're really angry at him. This is terrible, but he just said, we don't have to let anybody. And we're not gonna let in people, we didn't say Muslims, we said people from these countries that are, they're not gonna come in, and when you look at what they're saying, why would you want somebody like Ilyana Omar to come in whose father was a colonel and a genocide army under say it would be, why would you want one mandami who was a settler colonelist in Uganda where the community was 0.01% of they own 60% of the GDP. And he didn't say much about that mousse of A or whatever his name is, the president of Uganda has been there for 20, 40 years without a free election. God can you imagine, he's a dual citizen. He's a citizen of Uganda right now. What does he say? Well, I want to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, but because I have dual loyalties, I'm a citizen also of Uganda, I want to arrest the Ugandan delegation 'cause they're dictatorships. But then on the other hand, my family has a two acre estate with a view of like Victoria, so we have to get along to get along. Or why doesn't Hassan Piker, you know, he said he hates the United, gosh, I hate the United, God, I hate the United States. You guys deserve 9/11, what did you just stay home? We don't want you or any of your friends over here. Yeah, wearing, what was that, a mage dress? Hassan Piker was dressed up in a mage dress this week for his podcast. To the application for transvestism. Yeah, cross dressing. Cross dressing. Well, Victor, let's welcome a new sponsor, Ghost Bed. And I know you're getting one of those ghost beds, but it hasn't been set up yet, but we're in the works of getting Victor A Ghost Bed. Yes, it will help my breathing. And yes, it's supposed to really be supportive and you can adjust the head part of it up and down. I won't have to get a cowering inferno of pillows. And then I wake up and I fall off and they're all scattered over there. And then you wake up sore because your back has been-- Yeah, my neck is all over, yeah. 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In other words, the abolitionists were right about outlawing slavery but they were so puritanical and off-putting and you know, John Brown like advocating by that nobody liked them and people in the swing areas such as Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois they were kind of copperheads their attitude was we don't like slavery we don't have it here but we don't want to kill a bunch of people to get rid of it it'll die on the vine. The citizens were feeding that they were saying well by 1920 we'll get rid of it or something but they really didn't have an authentic Kentuckian who then went to Illinois who was a moderate in the sense that he didn't have any invective he wasn't a hateful person but he said we have a house divided cannot stand so the abolitionists championed him and in that election of 1860 it was divided between the northern Democrats the southern Democrats and the new Republican Party so he won with the minority of the vote and then I don't know what it was within seven or eight days they started the 11 states started succeeding on the news of his victory so when he got into office there was the Confederacy and Fort Sumnery was faced with you can and have been faced with it but now they were attacking a federal installation and he thought we're not going to start this war but we have to make it clear that they can't succeed it's not in the constitution how you get out how you get in but not how you get out if you're a state so he came up with this novel idea that we have federal property in every state post offices armories and you and Fort Summers are federal for it you attacked a federal incident so we're going to defend it so that was step one and then it was upon them okay we attack somebody we shouldn't we're the aggressor so they're just defending their property or their installations now what and the South then mobilize and he was able to say that the war was not caused by the north and then he wanted to eliminate slavery but he never wanted to eliminate slavery by destroying the United States so today left wing and especially black intellectuals fault him on the left and say that he said that Africans should go back to Africa or that slavery could be allowed in the existing states to die out but he didn't really say and he said that absolute integration inner marriage and all that with the South was alleging the North one it would not happen but all those were tactical he just wanted to preserve the union and have it get rid of it without a war because he knew two things the South had that Scott Irish tradition and during the revolution the most successful resistance had come in Virginia and the Carolinas they were magnificent fighters and he knew about Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian wing of the Democratic Party and he knew the Scotch Irish heritage of the South against that he knew that they had about one tenth of the manufacturing and assembly that the North did in terms of GDP they were entirely agriculturally dependent on low tariffs and export to Britain so in his way of thinking well the North is going to have all of these manpower advantages and they're going to have all this weaponry but the South is going to try to win the war on Marshall virtue and it's going to be a nightmare so we'll just avoid it and they floated all kinds of ideas and there was no there was no way to avoid it and then when the war started he had this little Napoleon little nap they called him McClellan who was railroad executive he was a brilliant organizer he organized the army but he was a lousy general and at Teedham they could have won at Teedham but they didn't press the advantage and they ended up the worst day loss in history at that time and he was inept so then he went through Burnside and then he went you went through Burnside and Hooker McClellan they were all incompetence and you had this big army and you couldn't defeat the South and their South had brilliant generals not as good as the best of the North but better than anybody in the North at that time Robert E. Lee was a really good tactician on the defensive not so good as an offensive strategist but you had people like Nathan Bedford Forrest was probably the most brilliant Calvary commander and either side on the ward you had Albert Sidney Johnson who was kind of the heartthrob they wanted to lead it you had Joe Johnston I could go on you had Long Street they had really good commanders and so the question was how do you how do you defeat them and he finally came late in the war on a three-pronged strategy one was to keep the blockade on all the ports so they couldn't get out and build a Navy, Savannah, New Orleans, Mobile, Charles they couldn't get out northward they couldn't get out and export cotton so they had no income and then turn it over to he finally found two geniuses and they were exactly opposite and they got along William DeCumseh Sherman and Grant William DeCumseh Sherman's theory was you destroy the apparatus that creates soldiers and you win the war they die on the vine the army dies in the vine Grant's idea was just you destroy the soldiers you don't have to touch the apparatus but they were complimentary so basically Sherman said you grab them by the head and I'll go around kick them in the rear so they unleashed him and the march to Atlanta was brilliant the march from Atlanta to Savannah was brilliant and the march from Savannah to Virginia the Appomattox was brilliant lost very few army of the west all yeoman farmers tan big guys they had 20,000 free slaves they made a 50-foot swath through Georgia and the Carolinas and they brought the war home to the south they did not kill the southerners they did not burn people's houses they did burn plantations and Confederate property and they lived off the land and they lost almost nobody when the army came into Virginia it was almost better off than when it left it was it was it was it was that well lit it was a really it was the probably the most brilliant march in military history Lincoln said he went down into some hole and I don't know what hole is coming out of but he'll come out and grant mean time was pated Mary Todd Lincoln said I hate that man he's a butcher because in those five horrible battles around Richmond and the idea was to take this huge army of the Potomac and crush and ahead on assault they couldn't take Richmond but they lost seven-day wilderness cold harbor it was horrible and it was the summer and they there was an election coming out and so everybody thought Lincoln's out Maclellan was running against him and everybody thought Maclellan said I will end the war we'll just go back to a status anteque we'll go back to it in 1860 and reconcile and and Lincoln knew that and Sherman knew that and Sherman said I got to take Atlanta before the election and you humiliate these people and then take off and he did he took Atlanta on September 2 1864 and he wrote a telegram that was world famous Atlanta is ours and fairly taken and all of a sudden Maclellan was done with and Grant called him but Grant was everybody said Sherman is more brilliant than Grant he's now running wild behind the lines he's starving them he's not getting any Amer union guys killed killed, and he's bringing the war home to these awful slave owners. And people said, "Grant is losing thousands of people a month." And Sherman never said a ill word. So Lincoln had two boxing, you know. Boxing gloves, and that's how they won the war. And he empowered them. He said, "Grant is drinking after. Well, I wish I could find out what he was drinking. I could give it to my other generals." And Sherman is crazy, and he's, "Well, he'll turn up somewhere, the more power to him." And he was a brilliant leader like that. And he was very magnate. And then, of course, we don't have time to get in to the Gettysburg address and emancipation proclamation. But his duty was twofold. How can you square the circle of stopping slavery and keeping the union in one place? He tried and tried as a candidate before the war to do it rhetorically. He couldn't. So he had to do it with the most bloody 700,000 people killed. But when it was all over, he saved the union, and slavery was no more. And if he had been in lived, I think I don't know what would have happened. He probably would have. It was so impossible after the war with the reconstruction. I don't know if his reputation, but he was immortalized, like JFK. As far as very quickly FDR, he was 52. He was young too. They thought he was all done for it. He had run for Vice President in 1920 with a Cox ticket, when he was in his 30s. And they lost. He would be New York governor. And everybody thought he's done for. And he got paralysis. People don't know what type of was it? Jalambar syndrome or polio or what? But he was a vigorous man in his 30s. He was paralyzed. And they thought he couldn't. He went to enormous effort to disguise that with braces as if he could walk. He couldn't walk. Yeah. Wasn't that degeneration from having had polio, right? Didn't he have polio when he was younger? No, he knew what he had. People said later he had polio, but it wasn't post polio syndrome, because that's what happens when you're older. His muscles were destroyed. And he had braces and he had ways of standing up. So people actually thought he was walking. And 32. The market crashed in 29 and had Hoover just let the market adjudicate, but he was under so much pressure. He started to intervene and tight money. Anyway, there would be. We would have been a natural recovery. So he comes in January of 33 and the first 100 days. That's what they. When Obama came in and he goes, "That's the second 100 days." So he started national. I mean, they nationally cover association, the civilian corporation, CCC, civilian construction corporation. So he created government jobs and it started to work a little bit, but it didn't solve the problem. The problem was that you had to regulate the stock market so you didn't have another crash was wild, but you had to do it in a way that didn't punish investment. You had to have a tax code that would encourage people to invest. And then you had to curb the excesses. But when he'd nationalize things and he started telling people wage and price controls and this and that, it's stagnated. So although he had an overwhelming victory in 36 and 38, he got slacked in the midterms. And each time he ran, he lost a little margin. And then nobody had ever been present for more than two terms. It wasn't in the Constitution, but it was a Washingtonian from George Washington decorum. You don't go for more than two terms. Washington established that. It was 1940. He was good on, but he wouldn't do it. He wouldn't step down. So he won a third term. And he led the United States very successfully in World War II. He had a lot of black marks on his career. The Japanese internment that was signed the governor of California and Attorney General Earl Warren. I think Earl Warren regretted that. And then that was a federal mandate. And Roosevelt signed that. And there had never been any evidence that Japanese citizens or even Japanese residents, which I think were 30% they were not citizens. They were on visas, but they were all put in a camp in the American Southwest. They never found anybody who was guilty of treachery or treason. They didn't Hawaii, but not here. That was a black mark. And then he was very vindictive when the 1944 campaign has last one against Dewey. So why did we fight fascism and Nazi abroad to come back to fight it here? So he's calling his opponents out. He would bring in executives from the papers and he said, you will, it's some bad things about me. You want a special bill about inheritance tax so that we can tax you at 90%. You better be careful. So that's what he did. Everybody talks about Trump, his womanizing, there's no evidence he ever womanized during the last 10 years. I know people would not believe it, but his own daughter would arrange layazons with Lucy Mercer inside the White House to meet Trump. And Eleanor found out about it. He'd had a affairs his whole life to meet FDR. You said Trump. No, yeah. I mean, Lucy Mercer was his layazon. And the name was Ann Roosevelt. The daughter was arranging them trist and Eleanor felt betrayed. Eleanor was far to the left of FDR. FDR was a pragmatist. He had a very mean streak, you know, at Yalta, he said to Churchill, you better let me do the talking because Stalin hates you and he likes me. That was a giveaway. He's going to give away everything at Yalta. He had communists in the State Department. We know that. And then he did one thing that saved the country in 44. He didn't want to. Henry Wallace was a communist, his vice president. He was about dead. And they said don't run for fourth, but he had to run for fourth because the war was going on. So they got together and said we got to get the most right wing Senator we can to be vice president. I was Harry Truman. No, and he hated Truman. Truman was treated terribly. But he won that election and he died on April 13th or 12th 1945. And Truman, he didn't even, he didn't even breathe Truman. Suddenly Truman was faced with you mean there's a big project to build an atomic bomb in New Mexico. I nobody told me and we're right in the middle of the Okinawa campaign and we thought it was going to be a walkover and they're killing Americans 50,000 casualties and soon there would be 12,000 dead. And you have a plan to invade Japan on the ground. So he had to learn very quickly. And then he said that SOB lied to me, Stalin. And so he very early figured out Stalin the way that Roosevelt. So yes everybody worshipped him. My grandfather was a very conservative farmer and he said you know they had a lot of leftists around him but we didn't eat until Roosevelt bought things. I think they bought raisins and soaked them in brandy and gave them to cattle. But they also you know destroyed crops to keep the price high. And he was either hated or he did more to if you say that capitalism, the big, the administrative state, the bureaucratic state, the government getting in everybody's business, the socialistic aspects of equality. That's responsible for two people. FDRs, New Deal, and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. And that's what we're dealing with now. But at the time people were starving. This house that I'm speaking in right now, this annex, I think my grandfather told me at the height they had 36 people here, relatives. They had them in the barn. They had them in this loft. This was a, a manger for horses. And in the main house, they had one brand new flush toilet. That was it. And one bathtub for 37 people. And they did not have enough meal for individual meals. So they had a huge kettle. I used to see it. It was huge and they hung it up over a fire all day long. And they just put vegetables, stuff on the farm. And then everybody they had a table and they just came in eight. And then they wrote their name on a list when they could take a bath. Or go to the bathroom, right? Well, I don't want to get into that. But when I started farming in 1980, I decided my brother's nice. This is a little bit too much to have three outhouses on the ranch. So my job was and my older brother, we tore them all down. It was kind of gross. We took a tractor, filled all the pits in. And then we built a leech line in the septic tank and made a really nice outdoor bathroom. but they they all had outhouses they had nothing they had nothing and they picked them up and they got federal support, you know, and then my aunt had nothing. She was completely crippled. She couldn't even move and my grandfather had to take her from college and bring her back. She got a BA. I don't know how she did it. It's a wonderful brilliant woman. I loved her, Lila, and she got a little disability check. And she'd always say, think FDR because I can order a ball of yarn for $12 a month, my yarn, and they built a little loan for her. And I'd see her there. She was so weak and she was doing the pedals and she made beautiful afghan and tried to sell them. So keep her, pay my grandfather for his key. Are you trying to say that the programs created by FDR were to some extent needed by people that were starving? People were starving. They were absolutely starving and they had nothing. The problem was is they got bigger and bigger and they never worked. We never got out of the depression. We got 1938. The unemployment rate was back up to about 18% and GDP was flat. It was declining again. It was another after all those years, what got us out of the war and FDR said that. Dr. New Deal is over and Dr. War War is on. And he basically called in, as I said, "Henry Kaiser and DuPont and Ford and Newts and all hypercapping." He said, "You hate me and I hate you." I'm kind of simplifying it. You go into Michigan at Willowrun and build a million dollars. Just take the land and I need a bomber an hour. You, Henry Kaiser, just plow out all of me to make a ship, assembly line. I need a Liberty ship every three days. You, Newtson, you organize the whole thing. We need 10,000 tanks a year. We need aviation fuel and get Louiseville slutter. Every business is going to go and those guys were, they were kind of like the guys with Trump had the other day. The Titans is the same thing. I think Trump must be studying that. You know what I mean? I've written a lot about it, but it's very similar that he's kind of taking these tech people. You said, "You're my war production board." So go to it and make all the money and I'm not going to confiscate it. I'm not going to regulate it. But I will go after you if you are not first. So Elon, you've launched more satellites than all the world combined. Next year, if you don't, you're going to get on my bad side. You know, Bezos, you've got rockets. You've got you've got all these products, but you've got to do stuff for us. And all of these mill, all we're now we're rare earth we're going to do. We're going to build oil refineries. We're going to do all the pipelines to Alaska. These guys are the people that, you know, AIB, first in AIB, first in digital media, be first in software. We need you. But if you do that and we're the most powerful country in the world, you're like the war production guys. So that's what it saved us in World War II. We just completely outproduced everybody. Yeah. And he did that, Roosevelt. A socialist said, "I can't win the war with socialist policies. I understand that now after the goal." And we didn't get out of it. But this stuff will do two things. It'll get me reelected because these capitalists will be so efficient and productive. They all get elected with a big booming economy. And number two, they're going to outproduce Russia or ally, Britain or ally, Germany, Japan and Italy all together. Put all their GDP together and ours, GDP will be bigger. Put all their fleets together. Our fleet will be bigger than all. And that happened. And it was because of those guys that did it. Yeah. And give him credit. He was willing to swallow his socialist poison and get a new elixir, capitalism. Well, someday we'll have to talk about how those handouts to people who were desperate and really poor during the Great Depression became entitlements. And now that should have been handled. I'm very worried. I have a severely disabled granddaughter and my daughter. I won't give any information. But when she had to go into the Social Security Office to be examined every year, or she talks to them, I mean, every time they see my granddaughter, they say, she can't even function. How do you even take care? Because she goes into outbursts and things. She's got a genetic defect. And basically they're saying we give dyslexia, pseudo-autism. So the disability of the Social Security System is just skyrocketing. So we have all these people. I don't even want to get into it. We just found out on Medicare and medical that wound service will patch us the heal wounds. What did RFK say? Something they were spending 12 times what they should have been. They're just stealing it. It's very weird about RFK. He's becoming a conscientious budget hawk, no old-style liberal. Yeah. And probably for good reason. It seems to me that it's not the programs that probably all of us would agree. We would love to help people that are disabled or the elderly or, you know, but what we don't like is the fraud that goes on in the system that costs billions and billions of dollars. Or we don't like as I talk five years to a woman in town. And she said, I was walking. She said, dialysis, I used to get in very easy. I have to get in three times a week and I can't get in the door because there's all these illegal aliens. I had gone to the emergency room twice now. And my gosh, not one person spoke English. And the people who were over staff and exasperated, were all Mexican Americans. And they didn't like it. And huge. I said to one of the employees there, I won't mention too much. They don't want them to face repercussions. But what's going on here? And he said, we are their primary physician. They come in here and they have a sore ankle. And the next thing we know, they're diabetic or we see a spot on their lung or they have anemia. And then we go in full. We are their personal physician. And they came across the border, many of them from Wahaka and Michal Khan and Chiapas would never, ever seen a doctor until they came here. And that's very big of us. But that means that the people who pay the taxes and we're in that emergency room that were Americans, Mexican Americans, all exclusively are not getting the care that they should. Yes. Okay, Victor. So we are going to move on to the WNBA and maybe a little bit about the view. But first, I want to tell our audience about one of our sponsors, pure health research. And they've been sponsoring this Saturday show for many months now. If you want to drop extra pounds, boost energy levels or reduce swelling in your legs and feet, then this message is for you. Pure, pure health research is on a mission to make America healthy again. And two of their best-selling health supplements are on the way. First is liver health formula. Over 100 million Americans have a sluggish, liver riddled with fatty deposits. This can kill your metabolism, pile on the pounds and make you feel tired. Liver health formula takes care of all that. 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And I hope all of you who have who do use supplements give a give them a chance and go check out their site. So Victor, we have on in the WNBA Asia Wilson. It's I don't know if you were right about saying they become a fight club type of thing, but here she is. Federation. Yeah, they were. Her team was playing the fever and one of the fans stood up and said something. Who cares what a fan said. So this is she had committed a flagrant foul. Yes. And the fan pointed it was Sophie Cunningham fashion said this is on you. Which is perfectly permissible compared to what most fans do. And she threatened that spectator. She charged her, charged him. She ran off the court and violently kind of want not vitally. She didn't hit him, but she started screaming at him, gotten his face, and had to be restrained. And she got a flagrant foul, and then people looked at the tapes and said, "I didn't do anything wrong." He was just a partisan. But that. You know, can I say something in a news conference after that? She said that he was coming at her, and I didn't. They didn't know how he got out of his chair to point. It's as if I did this. I'm not going after you. But that. I don't know how to explain it with given the decorum of any language about race, but the league is about 65% black, and it's 30 to 50% gay, and it had a niche. The owners are all left wing, and it was subsidized by the NBA for gender equity, and nobody watched it. It lost money every year. They flew commercial, and they had their own little clique. And then. Caitlin Clark comes. The great sensation. Nobody had ever seen anybody play like that. Black are white. You know, she could dribble. She could pass. She could play defense. She could. She's quick. She could shoot these three pointers. It was just amazing distance and accuracy. So she comes, and all of a sudden, the whole Midwest is her, and everything soars. She gives a billion dollars in excess media contracts, attendance advertising, and all of a sudden, they're all flying private, and they're doubling their salaries. And then they bring in Sophie Cunningham. She was there, but she's older, 30 or something. And she starts looking at this thing and sees what Caitlin Clark did, and she's beautiful. And she points like that. The point now is kind of across the country. I've seen people, and Mamm's where Trump goes like this to somebody, or they do that to Trump. And she's funny, and now she's got. She's wearing revealing clothes, and everybody hates these people. So they try to injure them, and the coaches are on the side of the. And I'm not saying it, it's monolithic. There's a lot of black young girls who are heterosexual, not that it's okay. I don't care if they're gay or heterosexual, but they don't engage in that type of behavior. But there are a lot they do, and they're angry that they had a little domain, and it was being subsidized by mostly black men in the NBA, and these white girls came in and tripled or quadrupled the audience and made them rich, and everybody rich. And they can't. They can't fathom it, and they think they can still do all this stuff. And now, for the first time, they're under a national microscope. Look, you know, magnifying glass. So they may have been able to do this when nobody was watching, but when you see them, hits people, and chase fans, and threaten people, and you see after every game, Caitlin Clark's arms are all scratched, and they're trying to hurt her, and the coaches. All the left-wing coaches, all the left-wing referees, they know what they have to do, but they're afraid, so they go after the minority of people. It's a non-sustainable. It's not going to work at some point. Some entrepreneur or somebody in Europe is going to hire them to get out of that league, and then they're going to go revert back to what they were. You don't want to. The only reason it's getting audience now is because it's got the big-time wrestling audience. It's like, let me tune in and see how much they hurt Caitlin Clark, or let me tune in and see how she gets fouled, or let me see what she says to them, or what is Sophie. What will Sophie do next when they try to club her in the head? And that's not basketball. It's performance art, and. Yeah, that's just. It brings up an issue that's taboo in our culture, but it's very unfair, and there's a lot of black moderates and conservatives that have remarked about this, that when you look at the crime rate, and black adult males comprise about five percent of the population, and they overwhelmingly commit crimes, about 51 percent of all crimes, violent crime, of murders and assault. I can go on to other statistics, and the black leadership, which is left-wing, won't address that, and says that people's fear of that statistic means they're racist. That's an unsustainable proposition, especially in a multiracial society, where Hispanics, Asians, immigrants, and whites are all on the same page that they think that's a problem. And so what's happening now is. And people in the black leadership should be preemptive, because what's happening, half of the whole black community is not in crisis at all, it's thriving. It's professional classes, doctors, lawyers, everything. And yet there's this inner-city culture that gets all the publicity because of the crime, and nobody wants to discuss it, because you're racist. And some on the left will use that crime to demand more entitlements or exemptions or affirmative act of DI, because otherwise the crime will break out. That kind of disingenuous leveraging. But at some point people are going to start talking about it openly, and not taboo. So what we're seeing now is news story. Bob Smith says white, or Felix Hernandez says Hispanic, was walking down and he was jump by three juveniles, three adults, no description at all. And then you read in the comments. Local news, they were black, but they don't say they were black, they say they were in word, then they say they should be, and it's just out of control. So the more that you try to hide the truth, discuss the skies of truth, the more you radicalize groups against an eracious fashion against blacks. And the victims of this are the vast majority of blacks that are doing very well. And they get blamed for this inner culture that's crime-ridden, homeless, you know, there's no single parent, and nobody wants to discuss it. And all the $31 trillion great society transfers have not stopped. They made it worse. The only thing that will stop it is a cultural shift where people in the black community says, we're going to have the lowest abortion rate, the lowest divorce rate, we're going to go back to where we were in 1950s when we had strong families and businesses. But if you don't address it, it's coming to a head. And I say that not because I listen to white people, but I get people that write me and say, you should look at this podcast, you should look at this video. And they're almost all by black people. And they say, look at this. And one guy has a whole series of cop photos of black women and the black women are screaming and yelling, another one of shoplifting, another one jumping white, and the people narrating it are black. And they say, this isn't us. We're fatigued about this more than you are because we live in proximity to this pathological culture. And something happened that used to be that way with a white culture. They were very unfair, but also with, I can tell you a giving example, the first generation from Oklahoma came died into California, grapes of wrath, the jodes. They were very good people, hardworking. And there were three or four churches in our town. There was a Catholic church. There was a Methodist, a Baptist, I think, Presbyterian. Suddenly within three years, there was Church of Christ, Church of the Redeemer, Church of the Holy Trinity. And then there were 10th. When I was going up, there were 10th, healing people come into town. I went to one of them in high school with a bunch of guys to see if we could. Did anybody speak in tongues? Yes. One church half the congregation walked out and I was in freshman. I went and they said, hey, go down to foster freeze. They're all speaking in tongues on Sunday. So we went down there. It was like Max Katie and Kate Fear. Kate Fear, yeah. And then there was a high crime rate with poor whites. And there was terrible discrimination with them. And if you really, I went to all Hispanic schools to I was in high school. I mean, 90%. And when somebody wanted to be racist against the farmer kids, they always said the same thing. You oaky, you white trash, wasn't just gringo. And what they were saying is, we're better off than the poor people from Oklahoma. Now, I had a lot of friends from Oklahoma, but that culture was antithetical to the California middle class agrarian culture. And it had up much higher crime rates. And when we, when I grew up picking the main source of labor was not yet Mexican America. American in the 50s. There were some Mexican American great picker. It was mostly Oklahoma and still. And they came every year and my grandfather had beds in a kind of a dormitory and they, it was wild. They're fights and everything. And my grandfather, it was kind of like, they really respected him because he was so nonviolent, but he was so polite to everybody. And they said, "Mr. Davis is coming." And he said, "Now, I would go with him." And they said, "Now, Delmas, did some of you take a knife out? Were you fighting?" "Well, yeah, we had a row over here and pulled a knife and he cut me. I want to go get him tonight." "Oh, no, you're not going to do that." So that same cultural class, and then within two or three generations, there was no okis. They just integrated, intermarried, acculturated, and enriched the host, you know, they bought country. Western music was great and all this had diversity. But that same phenomenon could happen in the black community, but it takes people in the black community to say, "That's not us." That violent statistic of 5% committing 50% of the crime. There's thousands of victims. So when we, when you people on the left try to say, "We want reparations," somebody in the white has already done it. He's taken all the victims, and it's only 7% of violent crime or black on white. But they've taken all the numbers of victims, and then they've done an analysis of all the GDP lost and the lives destroyed by black on white crime. Not black on white crime. Black on white crime greater than the percentages that it should be of a 12 to 70% of the population binary. Anything other than what you would statistically suspect. And the reverse is just, it's six times less from white on black. So if you keep saying, "We're not going to address the crime issue because of root causes and racism, but we want reparations and we want this," but then you're, that a small minority is doing it 5% of the population is doing enormous, not even 5% 5% of black males, 2% of the country, 'cause 30% of black males. Well, I take that back, 49% of all black males have been arrested. And I think it's something like 32% of whites. So, or even less. So that's a problem. And people think I'm going to write an article about all the things we can't talk about, but we all know is a problem. Canada would be number one. We can't talk about our friends in Canada, but they're going down the tubes because of their self-inflicted suicidal policy. The pathology to lie on the part of the Democrats. They lie, lie, lie. They're just lies. We all know that. But maybe, well, we can talk about it. We can't really say that they're outright communist. Like, that's true. Yeah. And we can't really say that they're rooting for Iran. And that's why Iran wrote them a collective letter basically saying, "We like you guys." And the Iranians think they're for them. Yeah. Punish them. Doesn't matter what. Doesn't matter what El Sayed or Tel Rico say. It's what the Iranians say. And they look at America and they say, "We like you, people. You're on our side." Yeah. Imagine that. They're on the side. Of a murderous IRGC. You underestimate the left. Talk to a leftist. I have talked to a lot of leftists. And I think I, I, I just did a debate on Pears Morgan. I thought he's a, Victor will be dating Professor Wolff from the Democratic Socialist. And then he starts talking. And I was, I'm listening to him. I think this is word to word out of Karl Marx, the communist manifesto. Yeah. It was. And I thought, wow, he's a real old-fashioned commie. And he's proud of it. And no surprise. Praising China's economy. All right, Victor. We, I know I tell our audience all the time, we're on a hard break. We are. And we have been recently because Victor's book came out. And so he has a very heavy schedule of interviews to do about the book. So I do apologize once again. Yeah. I think I've done, I'll end up by tonight doing seven of these. Yeah. Our things. I'm losing my voice. Somebody said, well, Victor, you're losing your voice as your cancer back. And I said, I thought, no, I don't think so. I won't know for another three weeks. I think it's just my voice is tired. You know, what is, I've been talking now. It's so. I knew watch. Yeah. Two o'clock. Two o'clock. I've been doing this since 7 30. Yeah. So, so we would like to thank our audience for joining us on this Saturday edition. And thank you, Victor, for after I really appreciate all of you listening. Don't despair about don't listen to all the gloom and doom. The economy's booming. We still have a good chance to recover and when it keep the Senate and even win the house. There you go. The outfit just go out and boat. The optimistic side of EOR. And thanks to all. I'm not that pessimistic. Yeah. You aren't. All right. This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson. And we're signing off. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like, share and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhanson.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.