Victor Davis Hanson: How Obama’s Race Politics Backfired on America

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This is Victor Davis-Hansen in his own words, and this is our Friday News Roundup, and we'll start off talking about Canada, as it's been big in the news at the presses recently, and then we'll turn to England and independence movements from England, surprising ones, and then finally the primaries, so not the primaries, oops, the midterms, and at least one very important race going on for the Senate in Minnesota, so stay with us for those stories and we'll be right back. If you're like me, you have problems sleeping. Your heads at the wrong angle, you get too hot, your mattress feels like it's made of concrete, or you're sinking into it like it's made of quick sand. That's why I'm excited to try out my brand new Ghost Bed. Ghost Bed is engineered to help produce the reasons your sleep gets interrupted. It's designed to relieve pressure, help regulate temperature with cooling technology built into every mattress, and support your body. Better still, Ghost Bed is made in the USA. 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Come back to Victor's The Counter-Revolution, The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the Maga Movement. So, let's turn to Canada. I know that Karni is off into Europe trying to entertain greater relations with them, and I was wondering your thoughts on what's going on in Canada this week. He's thrashing about, he talked himself into a trade war with the United States. He left it as we said at the 11th hour, and he felt that the disdain for Donald Trump's mims and trolling of 51 states, all that would win him public support in the short term it did. So, he may save the Alberta and Quebec autonomy vote. They may vote to stay. That said, he's losing this war because he's invited China into North America over the United States. He doesn't understand the Monroe doctrine started in North America. He spoke and invoked it and said, "We don't want any Europeans or foreign entities on our West Coast," and that included the time even parts of Canada. So, now he's thinking, "Well, my middle powers will appeal to the EU." So, he went over to the EU and he begged them, "Basically, can I be a member of the EU?" And they said, "You're not in Europe." And basically, the subtext was, "We have the most restrictive tariffs to protect our domestic dairy and farm. Why would we give you access to it when we don't even give the Americans?" The problem is when he says, "Middle powers, that's an oxy moron." Remember that that's a Greek word that means "sharp dull." It's when you have two things going on at once that are antithetical. Yes, he's middle, but he's not a power. So, he thinks he's big and he's small, middle. So, a middle power that has 780 to 88 jets that are 45 years old, that have maybe 30 ships, that have the lowest annual per capita GDP growth of the modern Western industrial nations, that has $40,000 less per capita income than the United States, is not a power. And it's not going to be a power under this socialist umbrella. So, what I'm getting at, I keep pounding this, but he won't address the problems. 45% immigrants are their parents or immigrants. They're welcoming people to become a big power by importing bodies. They want 100 million Canadians there. That's the Centennial Initiative. They don't allow pipelines to interconnect the rich fossil fuel wealth between problems. It's easier to make a pipeline to the United States than it is for Alberta to go into Ontario or all the way into Quebec or something. So, it's a stagnant, neosocialist, ossified economy with a globalist who had three passports and over 90% of his investments in the United States trying to convince the world that he's standing up to the United States. And basically, they're going, he's taking on Trump. How brave. Seah wouldn't want to be because I'm not going to join this because I know Trump. And we're not going to go stick our head in an American guillotine on your behalf. So, go around, and then when this is all, this circus is all over, he's going to go home. And the Canadian people are going to say, we lost 41,000 jobs in office in August. We're going to lose a lot more. We're going to lose 2 million jobs. He lied to us. He didn't tell us exactly what happened and why he walked out. We're hearing alternate narratives and why he walked out. We have the best trade deal of any nation in the world with the United States. We are culpable of running up a $50 billion in perpetuity, trade surplus. We are culpable of not, for 15 years, not meeting our NATO defense investment requirements. And he won't tell us. He won't go to parliament. He won't tell us why he walked out of the $11. So it's all finding good for everybody on both sides of the political spectrum. He stood up to the United States, bullying me. OK, get it out of your system and then what are you left with? You're left with 75% of your trade depends on the goodwill of the United States. And he has turned this into, we all hate Trump and we're all united too. We all hate the United States and the American people and we're all united. So go play your go boo the national anthem and go do your little elbows up me. Do all of that. Get out of your system. But the final matter is you've got a million people here that have the best visa deal in the world. You come here six months a year. You can work. You can do anything you want without a visa. We can't do that. We go to Canada and we start working. No, no, no. We have to get a work permit for the first six months. And you have it better than any other country in the world. Both trade wise and visa wise. That's why there's a million of you here, including the prime minister's daughters. So yes, the whole thing is so misinformation. We all love Canada. We like Canadians, but they're not utilizing their natural wealth. They're squandering it. Yes. They're timber. They're potash. They're precious minerals. They're oil. They're gas. They're coal. It's amazing to the extent that they can make them a successful economy and military power. You had one reader who wrote in and said, I don't think this was important, but he thought that, well, you did not say that the United States has more trade with China by probably about tenfold. I don't know. It's exact statistic. than Canada does. But I don't think that was your point. I had nothing to do with. But yeah, true. We do. If we do, it's because we have nine times the population of Canada. And we have 13 times the size of the economy. And Donald Trump is trying to stop that. So they were running a trillion dollar deficit with us. He's the first president in either party who said, we're not going to subsidize China. And by the way, to the reader, I should remind him, the beef with the United States is they're not fair in trade. Forget the 250 percent tariff on dairy products over a certain limit. Forget all of that and the 50 billion. The worst trading partner in history as far as abuse of the international mercantidal system is China. One million people in labor accounts that waggers patent, copyright infringement, dumping product below the cost of production to gain market share, currency monopoly. I could go on and on. That's what they do. And you're going to lie with yourself with them. And so basically it's so it's he's doing what Panama did. Panama allowed the Chinese to come in and control the end the exits and the entries into the Panama Canal. And then Panama said, well, they paying us a lot of money. I mean, it's still our canal. And then Trump came, said, we'll be down. He said, I want to remind you something. We built that canal. We paid for it. We maintained it. We paid rent for years. And then we handed it over to you free of charge. All we ask you is to give us primacy in our own hemisphere. And you couldn't even do that. You brought in the Chinese. Now, if you don't get them out, we're going to unleash Donald Trump. He's the bad cop. I'm the good cop. And he will take it from you. And he will be justified because you're breaking the bond and the spirit of the negotiations. And they said, yeah, you're right. See you Chinese. Get out. And so he thinks he can do the same thing that Panama was doing. And he'll end up with the same result, not because we're bullying or imperialistic or shalvanistic, because in this particular case, he was disingenuous. And he is lied to the Canadian people why he got out of that agreement. And now he's politicking and with targeted tariffs and all the border states. And he thinks that he's going to flip Michigan, Minnesota, New York, rural districts, Maine, Montana, Washington, the Dakotas. And they're going to say, oh, we're high tariffs because the terrible Trump we're voting democratic. That's his whole plan. And when the, when all these elections are over in both countries, he's going to go, hi, Professor, hi, Donald Trump, I've been thinking about it. I think it's time we get back to the negotiating table. And he's going to say the train left the station, get your elbows up policy and see how it works. Yeah. Well, let's turn to Britain, speaking of the opposition parties to the mainstream labor party agenda in the UK in the various countries associated in the UK, which is Ireland, Wales and Scotland. All these opposition parties have met and they are talking about independence from Britain in this little conglomerate. So that's a very unique. There's two things going on. Oh, he's going from the fine pound and the fire. We thought Sturmer was bad. And he had 11% popularity rating. And the only thing that kept him in power was that the elections, the deadline to hold an election, he's still had a lot of time. And then his own party said he is the embarrassment. And then they bought this Andy Burnham guy who's an old-fashioned northern, northern Britain trade unionist. And he's further to the left in Sturmer. And they have this idea and the labor left of Britain that if they bring, if the EU allows everybody to come in and they all start coming, they start to come in. They can't get the Eastern Europe. Sweden's not letting us in. Italy's not letting us in. Germany's changing. France is dumping them across. It will be the receptacle and we'll get more people. It's the Canadian idea of immigration. So they are getting on assimilated, on sustainable levels of immigration from places that are antithetical to Britain, Africa, the Middle East, former British Commonwealth. And there's widespread opposition to it. And the British people say there's two countries in Britain now. There are Liverpool, Manchester, London, where all of these unassumulated immigrants and they've taken over. And then there's the British Shire, what Tolkien talked about. And these are the ancestral, small villages in town of Italy, Britain. And they were mostly white to begin with and now they're really white because of white flight. And Britain, people do not go from blue states to red states that don't work. They go from the big cities to the Shire and the government knows that. So they think we are going to pay those people back because they're opposing our open borders. So we're going to place 20,000, 50,000, 80,000, two. Will you name it? We'll go right into these traditional little quiet villages and put in immigration camps to process thousands of people. And they tried it in Scotland and the Scottish who were left wing as blank said no. And the British left even says, I got out of London. It was too dirty, too smoky, too many immigrants. They had to give them little instructions. If you come to Britain, let us define what rape is. Now rape actually means you can't rape a one because you want to. She has to give consent. You understand that? If she says yes, I would like to have sexual Congress with you. And it's sincere and she's not under duress. You can engage in coitus. If she says at any point, no, that is called rape. So please abide by British roles, subtexts, and not those you learned in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Congo, and you name it. And that's what people don't want in their town. So now they've created a second wave of resistance, a rural wave. This is a lot more serious because these people are not going to put up with dumping immigrants that are, you know, not sustainable in terms of a culture-ration, integration, and assimilation. And this takes place at a time when they're moving west because Germany is about ready to get the alternative for Deutschland, one way or the other. That's what the people want. Maloney has said no. All of Eastern Europe has said no to the immigration. Sweden is deporting people. Macron has got 11-12% popularity. The next government will be Le Pen. If they don't try to stop her unlawfully, the Netherlands are going to have a conservative government. You name it. And Britain will be the only holdout. And it will be the receptacle. They'll either deport all these people as many as they can or they'll say go to Britain or go to Canada. Well Victor, let's go ahead and welcome back our sponsor. Sorry, my Patriot supply. If you're serious about preparedness, like we are, you're going to want to head over to preparewithvdh.com right now. That's preparewithvdh.com. Let me tell you why. Our partners over at my Patriot supply are the experts when it comes to emergency food. And they're serious about making sure you have what you need. And in honor of national preparedness month, they're giving every customer who gets their best-selling three-month emergency food kit, a 72 serving mega protein kit free. 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And the Democrat is Peggy Flanagan. She was the lieutenant governor for, under the Saudi fraud scandal. So Minnesota is supposedly a blue state. And every time I've gone there, I've liked it. They all sound like they came out of Fargo. And they're, even though they're not a Dakota, that's from their Scandinavian traditions. Scandinavian English, I grew up with hearing that in Kingsworth. But they've got a problem the left because Flanagan is way, she's in Keith Ellison hardcore territory. And she was in a position of responsibility to deal with what may be the biggest fraud. It is the biggest fraud in the history of Minnesota, but it might be bigger as big as what's in Los Angeles. So she knew it was going on. And she knew that the Somali community was a 100% lockstep constituency and had mail in early balloting, get out the vote, efforts, and knowingly double check the status of the voters. So it was a lock solid constituency. And they knew that they were stealing. But they were stealing during the COVID period from the Trump administration. And then they knew that Biden would help them ignore it. And now she was knee-deep in it. The other problem is Michelle Tafoya is not a radical mega like coal. You know, he's not a controversial candidate. She is not a controversial candidate. She's not a Paxton in Texas. She is Hispanic. She was a Democrat. She's got a high visibility and exposure as a sideline commentator for ESPN. And she was well known to America for years as a very effective, competent female commentator about football and stuff. So and she is very adroit in what she says. And she's got a fighting chance in Minnesota. And that's almost impossible. And so does the Republican candidate for governor against Kobishar who is supposed to be a shoe-in. This is important because I don't think Syed and Jackson and Telleriko are going to win. Because there's a lot of things are in process right now. Trump is starting to unleash the 400 million in his pack. Elon says he'll spend over 300 million. Trump says he's going to hit the campaign trail and the rally for 50 days. I don't know if it'll kill him. I hope not. That's a lot to do at his age at 80. That's what he says he's going to do. We are learning more about the democratic socialists. Almost every day something comes out of the past that Hassan Parker or El Sayed or Mandame or Ilyana have said Ilyana Omar is facing denaturalization efforts because of her likely illegal entry into the United States by marrying or helping her brothers illegal entry by marrying him. And I think that will be proven true, that allegation. So think the gerrymandering as I said on race, redistricting, but especially the nature of the democratic social. Telleriko is taking a beating right now because everybody is looking at what he said in the past. It's absolutely lunatic. So is Syed. And so I think the midterms are not a done deal. And as I said earlier, on a broadcast with 55 days to go, the thinking is that Iran is going to ratchet it up in October for surprise and embarrass everybody in the administration. The war is still going on. It's more kinetic than ever. They've sent missiles. We said they didn't have missiles. The oil, it's as likely that the resistance who have lost thousands of people will say this regime is far weaker than when they when they shot us in January. They have endured 38 days of sustained bombing and targeted killing. And more importantly, we are a lot more desperate than we were in January. We can't find food. We can't kind of fuel. We can't find medicine. This is not sustainable. And more importantly, if the regime is gaming us by saying they're going to try to ratchet up attacks on the Gulf or American ships, that will only bring more retaliation. And they're only doing that to empower the Democrats. They remember the Iran deal from Obama. They remember during the Green Revolution of 2009, Obama had come into office. People said there's a million Iranians that are out on this street. They just want some words of encouragement. Well, you know, it's a Iran deal. I'm thinking about, I'm going to stick my neck out. I don't know. I like, she, I see our presence. Yeah. That's basically what he thought. So the point is they made a side. It's now or never. We'll go out now and that way if we can contest and mass they'll have to use an inordinate amount of force at worst. And we can the Americans will come in and bomb them. Or at best, they will see they have no public support. They bankrupt the country and they'll start cutting deals to get out. And the same thing with the Kurds, there's 10 to 15 million of them. They're all rumbling right now. And they feel that maybe this might be the last chance that American train is leaving after the midterms. And it's time to act. All hinges on to what degree they feel they have success. I don't know to what degree the Kurds are well armed. I don't know to what degree the CIA and the Israelis are arming cadres. But we'll see. There's a lot of things to can happen in 55 days. Yeah, they sure is. So Victor, let's go ahead and take do one more sponsor. And that is the allegiance gold. And then let's turn to the left and their propensity to lie and celebrate murderers. So let's talk about allegiance gold first. 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. Today, America is spending at levels once reserved for wartime. We've normalized deficits that would have stunned earlier generations. And policymakers now debate whether the only path forward is more intervention, more printing, more distortion. But here's the historical truth. 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I'm convinced of that, that I don't have a big platform like a lot of people do, but I do have some of the most loyal listeners. And I could tell that when I was very ill and I was, you know, I almost lost my life, but I was very weak in the next two or three months and I got cards every day. - Yeah. - I had to wear a thousand cards and I really appreciate that 'cause there's no better. And I've had advertisers tell me that your listeners are the most loyal and the most informed. And so I really appreciate that. That was just came, that was really good news. - Yeah. So Victor, let's go ahead and turn to the left's propensity for lying and then there's celebration of murders. And this week we had the big lie on the internet. This week was that there were black lynchings in the last five or six years. And you looked at every single one of them and they were ruled as suicides with the exception of one that was murdered by her own husband. And so that lie is out there and they just keep sending it out and perpetuating it. And then I wanted to just add to that for a picture that this week and last week there left was celebrating Kirk's assassination. They were defending Manjioni and Lindsey Clancy. - The devil. - And yeah. And they weren't commemorating those who died on 9/11. In fact, just if I could add one thing I had a friend from a college I used to work at. He wrote and said there was not one commemoration or anything about 9/11 or so. - And then you have to add the AOC, Mondami, Lafayne during the most solemn parts of the commemoration. This is not the democratic party. This is a Islamist socialist party and it's not just these young dissatisfied, downwardly, mobile, urban people that supposedly hijacked the democratic party. The democratic party was socialist before these people came in. Almost everything the socialists are now advocating packed the court in the filibuster, in the electoral college, bring in new states, defund the police, recognize BLM, DEI, men, biological men and female sports, ban fracking. That was the democratic party. They had gone socialists. All it's different is these people, the Syees, the Hassan Pikers, they were young, they were glib, they were photogenic and they said, "You got the great message but you are, "nobody wants to listen to Nancy Pelosi. "Nobody wants to listen to Chuck Schumer. "Nobody wants to, the buffoonish, high Kim Jeffries. "We are slick. "We can take that message that we both share "and we can and go to town." And that's what they did. And they don't like the United States. They really do not like it. This socialist democratic party. They don't believe that 9/11 and if you think I'm exaggerating, Hassan Pikers said that we deserved it. And Ilian Omar said, "Well, something happened "to somebody on that day, something happened." So I'm being literal about it. And they believe that any means are necessary to achieve their morally superior end. So if it means to take a middle class kid that worked himself up for United Health to provide health care for millions of people, use lay in weight and you shoot him in the back and you become a hero. Even though you're a trust fund, spoil rotten, nipple baby, or you murder your three children and you don't say one word that they were strangled, one after another as two of the children saw each per sibling murdered in front of them by their mother that was supposed to be nurturing. And then you say you don't just feel sympathy for the mother, you make that a cause to live and you don't ever mention the children or in the case of Charlie Kirk, you cut videos where you put your finger to your neck as if you're shooting him on his commemoration. And as far as the hoaxes go, that's gotta remember now that it's getting late in the game. We went through the duke lacrosse. A person of color was a Vietnam veteran and a Native American who was truly mocked by a bunch of spoiled white kids. Turned out they were middle class kid and this guy was a complete faker. He wasn't a Vietnam veteran. He started the entire thing to get in their face and then we were told, these horrible white, these horrible white lacrosse players are so entitled to bring a poor, struggling black woman and then they rape her. She was supposed to do a dance for them. It's just like slavery again. No, she was a murderer. She later murdered her boyfriend. She is in prison. She admitted that she made the entire thing up. This is going on from Tijuana Brawley and Al Sharpton. That's how we got to know Al Sharpton. He said to Tijuana Brawley that the district attorney of New York was involved in smearing feces on her and that was completely made up. Then we had Juicy Smollett. He defied the laws of chemistry. He threw bleach at 30 degrees actual weather temperature with frigid winds and it didn't freeze because he was Juicy Smollett. And then he did something like Spider-Man. He held his sandwich on one hand and he held his cell phone on the other and he was able to kickbox, I guess, to white guys with make America great red hats on that always inhabit the most liberal areas of Chicago at 2.30 in the morning. That's what he wanted us to believe. And Nancy Pelosi said this was horrific and Kamala Harris said this was a modern lynching. And then the whole thing blew up and they went silent. Never apologize. At Stanford, we had a rope hanging on a tree and we were told that somebody, a Stanford student, that was, we had the NASCAR. Remember the rope on the garage door? That was made up. In other words, what does it indicate? I could go on with 100 more. It indicates that there are too many victims for the small pool of victimizers, number one. So there's not enough victimizers. So you have to make up psychodromas. Number two, it shows you that a lot of people on the 30% DEI ledger feel that if they can continue to pass this lie about white rage, white supremacy, white privilege, they will get a continuance of the gravy train. 31 trillion, 23, I think it is, trillion dollars in redistribution since the start of the great society. Affirmative action, DEI, we want this to continue. We are oppressed. We bring in people. They do it in two ways. They bring in people that have no experience with the United States from Latin America after it. They sit one inch in the United States and they say, I'm a victim of white supremacy. And you say, well, you grew up in, you gone to you grew up in Kenya, you grew up in Morocco. How did you get hurt? I am now in the United States. I can feel the white supremacist, prejudice, invisible rays. It's like air. It's everywhere, but you can't see it. But only I can see it because I have racist detectors. I was trained to see it. And people are tired of it. So I did an hour yesterday without him, Corolla, who I always thought was a great entertainer and thinker. And he was talking about this topic. And people are fatigued, they're tired of it. And what's going to happen is it's exacerbated race relationships. At a time, if you take, and who started all this Obama, he was the one that cooked up DEI in 30% of all victims regardless of how wealthy or opus of victim, beances of victim, JC's of victim, Kenya West's of victim, doesn't matter how much money you have. Spartacus is a victim. You just have to be non-white. That we placed affirmative action and gave him a victimized class of not 11%, but 30%. People from India are victims. You can be the wealthiest ethnic group in the United States, like Mandame and Corolla, and you're a victim because you're a person of color. And the white population, this is another thing that's not remarked about. These victims in the DEI side of the equation, they hang around with a certain type of guilt, ridden, white, upper-mobile, college-educated, but angry socialists. That's who their colleagues are at the news desk. That's who their colleagues are in the university. That's who their colleagues are in the broadcast booth. That's who their colleagues are in foundations. But that's not who the average American white person is. So they play this game that I'm a victim and you're horrible on these white people. people who are very left, yes, we are. I'm so sorry. And so you have Talorie Goh goes, I have to get rid of my whiteness. How do I get rid of my whiteness? Whiteness, whiteness, whiteness, whiteness. Everybody's saying, oh man, I'm not white. Maybe they'll like me if I'll say, you all. So all of a sudden, it becomes among their white lead with a little nasal NPR board. You all, I'm with you, you all. It's sad. And then so they misinterpret that as the majority of white people who will not. But what they understand is 70% don't agree with that. And they're getting angry. And they represent 50% of the population. And they've had it because they get constantly called lynchers, racists, rapists, all these horrible things that are collectively. And the piece, the resistance was George Floyd. And now the more you learn about George Floyd, the stranger and stranger it gets. We were not really told that he was a lifelong felon, a prison in turn that he put, he was with a group of home invaders that put a knife to a pregnant woman's belly. We were not told that he was trying to pass counterfeit currency at a store owned by people of color. Who did call the police to help them out? Because they were afraid of the size of George Floyd. And they didn't tell us that he was recovering from COVID, that he was on a multiplicity of drugs, and that he was actively resisting arrest. Those were felonies. And then when he fell down, they could not deal with him. He couldn't breathe. And then Derek Jalen put an approved, he was trained to do that, to put a knee, not smashing his windpipe just so he couldn't get up against his knee. But the photogenics and the expression on his face were such that it went around the world. There is a white man with no empathy for a man as as I can't breathe. And out of that, we did the most crazy, it was like this AI craze, or me too craze, or population bomb craze, or algoirs, the planet's going to end craze, or the hula hoop craze, or the Dunkin' Yoyo craze on steroids. And suddenly there was no sat scores at our universities that were required. Suddenly, these fakers came out of the woodwork, the BLM people who were a complete con artist and got big lavish homes out of it, couldn't account for millions of dollars that they shook down corporations. The Antifa people came out. And all of a sudden, in my field, University of Chicago said, "We're not taking any white people for English PhD program, only black people." And suddenly the admissions were completely changed, 9% of white males at Sanford. And that was, that's where we are. A lot of people, and then when you saw East Palestine, a typical white working class, and you have a toxic, you had all the ingredients for national outrage. You had a derelict railroad company trying to cut corners. You had an inept rail oversight federal bureaucracy. You had a profit seeking corporation. You had a poor indigenous community. You had a toxic environmental disaster there. And you would think that it would have the same resonance as yours. And what happened? Nobody cared. Nobody cared about those people. Biden and Kamala Harris were afraid to go there. And Buttigieg finally came up and he looked like a complete buffoon with his little hard hat and his smug sanctimonious demeanor. And people just collectively, you know, I feel really bad because some of my best friends that use that colloquialism or black. And it's not the black community. It's a percentage of the race hustlers at the top and a dysfunctional inner city black culture where in which 2.5% of the American population is creating and conducting about half of the violent crime. And what's happening is, and it's a tragedy because what's happening? You're seeing a lot of white people disconnecting. They don't, you know what I mean? If I drive up in the California foothills from above Bakersfield all the way to above Sacramento, it's almost 90% white. And whites make up 35% of the population. And when you go talk, it's not Joe Hillbilly that hates everybody and has 20 cars. There's some of that, that caricature. But they are left wing, San Jose Bay Area San Francisco people, LA, and they're saying, I want out. I want to go back to what I remember as a child. I want, they're not racist. They're not white. They just want to go somewhere where they don't get broken into where they don't have to step over feces, where there's not syringe in the park, where there's little league and people are normal. There's not, even though they're leftist, I see them when I go to those places. And the subtext is we're out. We don't want to deal with it. We can't deal. We don't know how to deal with it. We just don't want it, we don't want it to get near it. That crime ridden attitude, the victimization. And so, you have a professor this week at Carnegie Mellon, a black woman. And she is saying, that she wants white people to die. And she, anybody else would have been fired. She's had a whole history of that. She's at one of the, the premier research institutions in the world, universities. And she has been doing this for years. And finally, it got so egregious that she went on voluntary leave. But anybody else would have been. And so, a lot of people are saying, anybody else but clotting game would have been fired for plagiarism. White, she would have never made Harvard. And anybody else who treated Roland Flot, fire a black scholar, the way she did, if that person was white and did that to him, she would be fired. So, the exemption that it's accorded, it's, and race race, because we want to get back to the Martin Luther King view of race as incidental. It's not essential, but it is the left. And the 30% of this binary that keeps driving home, I am a victim. And some of them, when you look at the latest generation of victims and the Democratic Socialist Islamist Party, go down the list, Hassan Piker, millionaire parents, he drives a $200,000 poor, he lives in a multi-million dollar West Hollywood check. Zoran, Zoran, Mandami, he comes from the settler colonialist 1% of Uganda. He is a child of two PhDs, Kamala Harris, her, she's a child two PhDs. She grew up, she says she was born and opened from short time. She grew up in the wealthier areas of some of the wealthiest cities in the world, Montreal and Berkeley, and she now lives in Brentwood. And if you look at Mr. El Saeed, he and his wife just filed a tax return for over $600,000 in annual income. And he was a chief medical officer of Detroit without a medical license. He got a degree in medicine, but he wasn't even a practicing physician. Usually you don't get that. And when you look at Taloriko and the same, he thinks he's a victim and he's completely what's the word. He was a nobody, Mama's boy, and he said all of these outrageous things to get attention. As if he was an honorary, he hated white people. He said that. I want to get rid of my whiteness and white people respond. And now he's scrambling to disown everything that he created. Is he lying now? Then both? I don't know. So what I'm getting at is there's no consideration of class as far as victimhood and it's never ends. And so now we're in the lynching mode. Next week it'll be a new one and the new one and the new one. And I think it's it accelerated after. And we had what did Barack Obama do? He said after the Henry Louis Gates cycle drama where guy had locked himself out and he was trying to break into his own house. And the police didn't know who he was. And I guess the police were supposed to know every single owner of every single house and Cambridge by recognition. And the next thing we knew he was a causal lab. And the policeman had to go to a beer summit. And Obama said, we all know that the police profile black people, which was a complete lie. There's no more unarmed black men shot than white men and less percentage of white men given their interactions with the police than black men. And so we don't suffer that. And so I just think that it's reached critical mass and people are having two reactions. Are they getting very angry in Europe and the United States or they're checking out. They're just saying, "I'm not going to deal with it." It's a lose-low situation. Just what I said today, I will have to report to somebody. Believe me, I will get a call from where I work. What did you say? You know what I'm saying? Even though it is a tradition, what I just said is a traditional liberal democratic position that we don't emphasize race, and we try to integrate and race is incidental. That's what the Democratic Party said, and equal opportunity. That's not what they believe. Now, it is a quality, a result is out the window, and it's a quality, excuse me, quality of opportunities out the window. It is a mandated equality of result, and your race and your tribal affiliations define who you are forever. End of round. Yes. I think as far as social media goes, the net effect of it is to expose the lies that the Democrats are telling, even if it does hope to amplify those lies. I feel kind of encouraged, because when they amplify their lie, there's so many people that come out and say, "That is not true at all." For example, they're lynching there. Did you see that in New York, Pennsylvania, near York College? It's hard to know what happens, because it's all over the internet, and it's all over the internet because the perpetrators were proud of it. You have a typical Barack Obama, a typical white person, but he said it in a derogatory fashion about his own grandmother who had scrimped and saved a send him to prep school. She earns typical white person from him. But there was a average white girl on the porch of a house in New York, Pennsylvania. I guess she was at York College or something, because the campus police had jurisdiction, the regular police, and a black girl came up and there were words exchanged. And the next thing you knew, a whole pack of black young women came up and they dragged her by the hair and they pulled her out and they knocked her unconscious twice and almost killed her. And she or the people with her called five times to 9/11, no one showed up, and they called the campus police. That's the allegations. We'll see if that's confirmed. But the reason we know about it was the people were not ashamed of what they did, but they were so proud of it. They took photographs and that went around the entire United States. It had a huge view. And so if that had been the walls of a reverse, it would have been like a George Floyd. So there was a black person manning their own business and a pack of white people washed up at the thing and then dragged him down. And that caused the whole civil rights movement. Because that happened in the cell. But apparently they think that's cute and it's not going to have a reaction. It is going to have a reaction. And the reaction is what I talked about. It's either anger and direct confrontation or it's resignation and isolation. Victor, let's go ahead and take our last break. And then we'll come back and talk a little bit about Maclamore and AI and the potential for an apocalypse that they are. Stay with us. Been too serious. I'll get a little bit mellow on that story. Many Americans are 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. This year there have been more people coming to the UK in small boats than ever before. You did an extreme thing to the country. Britain is facing a migrant prime epidemic. We don't actually know where they're coming from, who they are, how old they are. Why would you let in millions of people who are indebted if not to change the country from within? 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Israel is genocidal. And he came out wearing a mask that caricatured. Well, he had done that earlier. Yeah, he had done that earlier. And the owner of the stadium, Robert Kraft, who owns Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts said you can't play here. Which he's perfectly allowed to do. He owns the stadium. Yeah. And then two things from, oh, go ahead and allow that, you see. Well, I mean, AOC then thought she was going to make a big thing and deflect. He's not, he wouldn't say anything wrong. He's not. And then all of a sudden, the internet being the internet, social media, we get a picture of him with a fake beer, fake, thick black hair in this grotesque five times normal, droopy nose, which is a classic deprecation of Jewish people. And he's caught with it. And that amplifies what he was saying to this crowd who came not to hear him. Really, he was just filler space. And if they did come to hear anybody, it wasn't to get around on politics. So he was the classic anti-Semite. And AOC was defending him, which just, she's such an idiot because she wants to be president. They're going to run, if she were to run, they will have a commercial and they'll have a split screen. And they will show him just dedicating and wearing that ridiculous, horrific mask of Jews with her doing her little thing. And we have to know, you know, it's so, it's just a phenomenon that they censor people and it's going to be so syrupy and sappy. And then they'll show what he really was and that'll blow up her candidacy. And it's again, as well, it should. I don't know. There's, there's, we're in a fluid period right now in the United States. It's crazy. We've, we have mainstream hatred of Jews on the left and on the, the apostate right wing. We've got all of these immigrants that are first and second immigration coming in and rather than being grateful that they left failed places and they've, they've got wonderful opportunity. They hate the United States. And they are damning, if I could use that word, not in the obscene matter, but they offer damnation for the United States, Israel and, or don't traditions. And nobody can figure out what's going on. And so far, the attitude is, I don't want to get near it. I want to move away from all this or I'm going to go on websites, the New York Post, pajamas, mute, any of the, any, but liberal and conservative. And I'm going to comment with a fake face. And I'm going to say some of the most outrageous things to vent. So what happens is they hate the news so much that when the news in the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times, in the New York Times, in the Washington Post and all of these liberal venues, when they run these stories and the perpetrator is black and the victim is white, they don't tell you. They'll say a person did this or they'll have a euphemism or they'll blame the victim. And then, then they will print things right out of the Ku Klux Klan in the comments. And it's almost like saying, well, we have to be PC and lie about what actually happened and don't give you any information if we do will distort it. But if we keep doing that, you're not going to want to read it because you know, it's a lie. So we're going to print the most outrageous thing. So you'll skip right to the comment, but either way, we'll get clicks. And that's what they're doing. And it's some of the stuff is outrageous the comments. I mean, it's like 19th century racism. And it's because people read this stuff and it's all lies and they are frustrated. It's a different, it's, it's a reaction and it's got to stop and go vote in the midterms and vote against these people. Socialists, Islamists, democratic revolutionaries. Yeah. Because they are dangerous people where they're taking us. Yes. And I don't see how an, you know, somebody who's an average person that was a Democrat can still be a Democrat. I just think that party can't have more than 30 people, 30% of the population. And it still, I think, has near 50% of the population. Did you see the article? I know. Bringing on this on the college fix about dorms. Oh, yes. Yes, I was going to ask you about that. So let's go right on into it. Yeah, the college fix in the article it said that because it was looking at whether Universities were still following their DEI woke policies after the executive orders and Trump administration have told them to stop that. And it found out that I think they're sample was 78 universities and colleges and 43% of them offered segregated housing still. So there are still trying to do their racist things on these college campuses, which is really sick. Yeah, they Got to remember everybody that left is the master of or well in language euphemism. So they're not nullification cities that nullify but they're sanctuary city. They're not segregated dorms. They're adjacent dorms. They're not segregated graduation. They're auxiliary or adjacent graduation ceremonies. But basically they think that Donald Trump only has two more years or they're going to wage such a lot. All fair and go after him if they lose the Congress that he won't be able to enforce the wall. The wall says you can't do that. It's great. You can't have a segregated dorm by race. That was the whole point of the fair housing acts of the 1960s. And then they say, well, they're adjacent. And I would say to Stanford Yale Harvard blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If or the Cal State system is one of the worst theme houses. What they call them that if you have a theme black house and you're white and you want to go in there and Maybe you want to you can't do it or they'll make life miserable. And there were there are no you're think if the right wanted to play the same game and use euphemism. We have a European civilization house where all we're doing is studying Western sieve from the Greeks to the Renaissance to the Enlightenment to the modern period. And oh, why the way we just have the one little requirement we require a DNA badge to show you that you're European. We're not going to use the word white, but we will make it uncomfortable if you're not European. Oh, got that. And that would be illegal and it would be shut down in two seconds. And you're going to say, well, Victor, you're the majority. No, in California, it's 35% white now. So they are a minority and it's so rotten segregated dorms and they lie so much and they break the law because they think that they're going to get a democratic administration that is racist as they are. And it it just What do you why would you go to a university and then you would self select to be only around people that look like you. That's the university is not a diversity. It's you know that's supposed to me. We bring people together not diva, diva that die route in Latin to divide people. What if you said this. I'm making a new housing development. I'm a developer and it's open to anybody, but it's white adjacent. It's a theme how it's European adjacent. So we used to call that red lining. Right. It was illegal. But if it's if the most liberal institutions in the United States. Say that there's communities can be segregated by race. Then why would they have any credibility or currency to tell the general public that they couldn't do it too. You could say every community. Well, we're we're European adjacent. We study European civilization and this so we have a you know, we have a wall around our and we have a gated community and you have to know the code to punch in and maybe it'll be socrates or maybe it'll be da Vinci or maybe it'll be I don't know Isaac Newton, but we would like people who feel like we are we're kind of a grieve now because in California we're a minority. And we're going to do this. And they would find they would find those people they would jail and they're saying that you're breaking this the law and they don't do it at university. I mean, I don't just blame the universities. I blame the students because if you're a student and you're going to stand for a Cal State L.A. or Cal State Fresno and you deliberately go into a dorm where you've selected that only people who are of your ethnic or racial category, you've made a decision and you are now a adult at 18 and you know what you're doing. And so the only reason that you're doing it is not because you feel that they're going to protect you from racism. There isn't no everyday racism, but you're doing it for personal advantage to accentuate your tribal affiliations for D.I. purpose. That's what it's for. And as I said before, I taught 20 years. I had five, four classes, five classes a semester, say an average of nine courses a year, probably at average, it had to average 25 per course. So say 250 students per semester, 500, 10 years, 5,000, 20 years, 10,000. I would say out of those 10,000, I had 80%, 75% have minorities and some of my best students were minorities. And I think the majority of them assimilated and that was a message we had. We never thought about race. I think every year I tried to send people to PhD programs and classics to law school, to medical school, to business school, to teaching credential. And I would say, I spent hours writing letters, calling admission officers up for minority students. In fact, I had one, one of the most brilliant students I ever had was a white student. He was very eccentric. I had some brilliant students. He was white and he was brilliant. And when it came time to get them to graduate school, I had minorities that year. And I placed them all in top rank. He got into a top, but he didn't get support. And he came to me and he said, do you really believe that these other three students, no Greek and Latin, are they tested higher in the GRE than I did? I said, no, I don't. He said, then why didn't you support me? And I said, if I send four students to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and they want them got into Duke, when I'm got into Princeton, you know what I mean? They were all very successful. And I knew none of them would have got in. So I suggested they all of you apply to four different cohorts of campuses. And I did my best for you, but it wasn't me. I wrote, superly, it was that you were a white male. And he said, and he got so upset that he it was tragic. He not that he's not better off. I haven't followed him, but he quit the academic world. And one of the professor said he was one of the most brilliant guys they had there. And he quit. And I know that the D.I. people, that's just a lie. No, it's true. By the same token, I had maybe three or four hundred in that 10,000 who were really, I mean, they were minorities. And I follow them. And I notice a pattern. The majority of them race became incidental. And they made it, but people who had been not necessarily conservative, but traditional, integrating. Once they got out of there and they went into the job market or the graduate school, they went full D.I. I mean, all of a sudden, they changed their name. They started to change their ideology. They added accents. They thrilled. There are you name it. And then they would call me for recommendation. I said, no, I'm done. I'm done. I'm not going to do it. Well, why not. One person visited me in the Sierra's. And he had a, he was a minority and a girl friend. And they started to walk in because I had an open house for students and things. And she said, I don't think I can walk in your house. And I said, why? And she said, well, you're a white conservative. She didn't know me. I never had it in class. But he did. And I said, I think both of you should turn around and walk out and drive the two hours back to Fresno, because I'm done with you. And I think everybody has to have that attitude that if you see people who are tribalist and racist for whatever reason, whatever color they are white, you should have to treat them as such. And it will end if everybody does that. Yes. But not if we keep playing this game that we lie to ourselves. What's going on? Yeah. It's a racist, tribalist, pre-civilizational movement. Yes. It really is a way of thinking. It absolutely is. So let's avoid it. So Victor, let's turn to comments. And I have one comment that I think a lot of people have felt or I've read a lot of comments from your readers and listeners. This is from Gail Joyon. Victor, JD Bans was born in August of 1984, which makes him 42 years old. Personally, I didn't agree with Trump. regarding appointing him as the nominee. He had five minutes in the U.S. Senate, which I think is her exaggeration. - He was an Obama. Obama was the same thing two years. - Which was his sum total of participating in presidential politics. Personally, I have preferred Marco from the get-go. He is a smooth operator. So I think there's a lot of people that that reflects. Thank you, Bill. - Well, very quickly in response, he was not picked on traditional criteria, the traditional criteria on both parties is you get complimentary people, but they have different, they bring in different voter bases. So you get John F. Kennedy, and you get LBJ from the South, et cetera, et cetera. You get John Nance Gardener, and I guess it was FDR, and R, you can do the other way. You get FDR who's left-wing, and then you get a comedy Henry Wallace. JD Vance was a mega adherent, just like Trump. JD Vance was a white male, just like Trump. JD Vance came from a red state that no matter what Trump did, he was gonna win Ohio. It's a red, hard red state now. So people said, why are you picking him? And Trump people said he is a forced multiplier, and he will tear up people in debates, he will tear up the, and he did, he did exactly that. But, but, he is now in a role that has, what is the vice president do? John Nance Gardener said it's not worth more than a warm bucket of spit. He was so, and I mentioned that JFK used to, they used to make jokes, is Lyndon around? Is he doing anything? He said they didn't use him, and they said that, Spiro Agnew was, you know, but they were attack dogs. That was, he was like the, a foul links, and he protected the president. So when the media people got, the person who really was a master, that was Dick Cheney. So when Dick Cheney was vice president, and they started calling, before he got ill, when they would call Bush Hitler, he'd get on the phone, or one of his aides like Scooter Libby or somebody, and they'd say, what did you write? Now, you, you know what I mean? Or they go out and they attack them, and they left it that very well, and Joe Biden, that's where he became the attack dog. He wasn't old Joe Biden from Scranton, under Obama, he was just, "Rah, ah, ah!" So JD, that's his, that's his job. So now you have his close friends, Tucker, saying that he really wants to also eat against the Republican micragers. And then he says that Donald Trump is satanic, that Donald Trump should be removed, that Donald Trump, everything about him is awful. They hate him. And then you have Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massey, all that people. And the vice president's not saying anything. And they are, and they, you know, they have endless and all these people. So he says, I don't, I don't abandon my friends, but your friends have abandoned you because they were amping, they were turning up the amplitude. They were turning up the amps. They want a confrontation. Each day they say more and more outrageous things so that you're put in a more embarrassing spot. It's not just about Trump, it's about you. Well, if you want to be president and people watch this every day, you're going to have to come out and say something. At some point, you're going to have to say, I don't seek retribution. I want, I am a big, I'm to use the Democrats for, I'm for a big tent. But we have people who have said anti-Semitic things. They have attacked our best ally in the Middle East. And most importantly, they have called my president names and horrific things. He is not satanic. He's not in the Epstein for all of that stuff. And I can no longer abide by that. And if you attack the Republican party, and if you do so in the terms and language you've used, and if you're attacking the president of the United States, why he's trying to save the country, I have no other choice but to say I'm done with you. And if until he does that, he's going to have letters like we just read. And they have a point. That's a good letter. - Not so trouble. And Marco Wubio said, I will not run if JD answers running. I'm loyal to him. But if that's not the question, that's not what Marco wants to do. If JD keeps stonewalling that decision, or if he says things like the Israel is murdering people in Lebanon, or things like we're dealing with the moderates in Iran or whatever, he won't have a choice because people will come to him. And I'm not endorsing either one of them. I like JD. I think he helped save the Trump campaign the way he dissected all those journalists. He basically destroyed Tim Waltz with a smile on his face and with kind to him. And he basically said to America, this guy is an utter buffoon. I just proved it to you for 50 minutes. But do I really want to destroy him? The poor man, he's so sympathetic. He's a roly-poly jerk. And I feel sorry for him. So I'm going to be nice for him the next 20 minutes. That's what he did. That was smart. It was very smart. And he did a wonderful job. So I hate to see this happen. And I know this letter very well because I've had about 100 of them to me. And I go to, I do interviews. And that's the, I did four interviews today on the book. And I have a chapter in the counter revolution after MAGA. One Trump person said, "Can you have the sunshine without the sun?" But the point is that came up every time. What's going to happen? What's, what should JD do? What should, it's simmering and simmering and simmering. And he can just stop it like that. And I can tell you that if he does, there will not be any, he can stop it. 'Cause he has that ability. He's a wonderful rhetorician. He speaks well and he has a lot of stature. And he doesn't have to get personally just as I can't, I can't remain silent. We have so many vicious attacks on our party and our president. And I resent it and I'm not gonna put up with it because they come from sources that were my friends. And I thought we're part of our movement and we're loyal to the, and that's not true. I've been, I've seen that. And I'm no longer going to stay quiet. He does that, there's no riff. - Yeah. And those criticisms of Trump from his friends are generally speaking not true. That's the whole problem with them. - Yeah, true. - You know? All right, so let's go ahead and do Hilary Saviour's question. This one's a question, you're gonna like this question. The question. - I haven't heard any of these, everybody. So these are always sprung on me without preparation. - That's true. - The question I most want to put to you is this. When readers finish the counter-revolution, your new book, what part of Trump's transformation between leaving office in 2021 and returning to the presidency? Do you want them, do you want most for them to examine before deciding what the mega-movement ultimately represents? - Well, he left and there were three things that he learned. I don't want to say it was good for Donald Trump because he went through proverbial inferno. Remember what they did? They took him off the ballot in '25. They tried to in 25 states. They rated his home. They put him into five criminal and civil suits. They find him almost a half a billion dollars. They debanked him. They couldn't write a check. They took him off social media. They lied and through the debate of 2020 by promigating this 11th hour, a lie that Hunters Biden's laptop was Russian information and Biden lied to the country about that. - And didn't they do bank Melania and Farron? - Yes, absolutely. - So that was not good, but when he was in the wilderness, he learned three things. Number one, if you're a counter-revolutionary, you need counter-revolutionaries. He said he had not been to Washington very much. He almost implied he didn't think he was going to win in 2016. He got to Washington and everybody was bombarding him with advice. The never-Trumpers were coming back and, well, we'll give him a second chance if he points John Bolton or we need Bill Barr in there. Jeff Flake didn't work. Not Jeff, like, Jeff, what's, you know, that the Alabama wonderful guy, there was a attorney general. I think he was treated unfairly. But they wanted the, so we got Rex Tillerson. We got John Bolton. We got Steve Mnuchin. We got General, whom I know. I like Jim Mattis. but he was not a mega person. And many of them thought that Donald Trump was crazy and they tried to obstruct his full implementation. And they didn't come up. So Donald Trump said, "I am a counter-revolutionary." Number one, and if you're a counter-revolutionary, you need people committed to the counter-revolution. So when I come back to power, I'm going to hit the ground running and they're going to be loyal. And I'm going to have cabinet meetings where I just throw it open and they all try to outdo each other in their particular area of cabinancy. Okay, number one. Number two, he said, "I treated the symptoms." The borders open, I'll close the border. He tried. I'll speak it out against DEI. I'll say that there's the fake news. And then in the wilderness here, he said to himself, that's not enough. Why do they have power when they don't have the Supreme Court, the Congress, or the president? They have the institutions. I have to go to the causes. Next time I get in, I'm going to defund into your heart and PBS. I'm going to sue the media. Next time I get in, I'm going to deport all the people back. I'm going to say you can't claim refugee. Next time, if there's mayhem in Washington, I am not going to blink and send in the National Guard. Next time, I'm not going to play well green energy. I am going to stop the subsidies and I'm going to pump more natural gas and oil than the history of civilization and one nation. And he did, next time I'm not going to say, well, I don't like prejudice, I'm going to end DEI. So he was going after the symptoms. And that was the second thing he did that he learned in that period. And the third was, he said, I am going to remake the world. It's not to our advantage. I, we have the majority of the states in Latin America, hate us, their communists, their Chinese and Russian orientated. There is no more Monroe doctrine. There's a pink tie that used to break. Not anymore. I'm going to get rid of Maduro. I'm going to get the Chinese out of Panama. There is a Monroe doctrine. I'll send Marco. And all we know now, 32 nations only six are coming. It was amazing. He's trying to do that in the Middle East, but get rid of around that government and the whole thing changes. Every, that is the source of problems for 50 years. He changed the whole approach to China. So he said to NATO this time, I'm done with you. Last time I threatened, if you don't do the 2% and you don't commit to five, I'm done with you. And they are doing that. And now what has happened? All of Europe is embracing, I guess they're mega adherents. They want close borders. Sweden is going to deport people. I can't believe it. And now they're starting to-- He's going to pain them to deport them. He saw us for 20,000. 40,000 Corona. And then they're bringing back coal and oil and they're exploring for oil. And Germany's got coal plants after shutting down. Shutting them down. And the next thing I see is they're worried about fertility. They're trying to encourage family size. They're really angry at DEI. When the Europeans go right, they really go right wing. And so they're trumpers. And what I'm trying to say is he tries to change-- this time he's trying to change the entire Western world. And he goes over to Asia, the left-- they hate him in Asia. They hate him. The left wing government south to Korea hate him. Australian left-- hate-- no, no, no, no. They look at China and they say, if I don't like Donald Trump, if I call him and say the Chinese are flying over my country right now, would he react differently than Biden? Yes, he would. So Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Philippines said, we want to alliance with you. Because you're the only person who will stick up for us. And you're rebuilding the military. And we will do the same. And in Japan, we'll even name our carrier after the one that bombed you at Pearl Harbor. So that's what he's doing. Yes, and it's working magnificently. Well, we'll see after the midterm for the people. When you address symptoms, rather-- when you address causes, rather, and symptoms, give credit to some of the socialist party. They said to the Democrats that when they took it over-- again, not the ideology, just the faces. Donald Trump is a counter-revolutionary. He wants to destroy us, progressives. Do you understand that? We've got to go to war with him. Because if he wins everything from architecture to Fourth of July, to the military, we won't have any more transdancing at military bases. You won't be able to say that you're one-quarter aborigines, and therefore you should be hired. This guy is serious, so-- He was. He is, and he was, and he will be, so-- About it, I spent-- I didn't know at the time, but I know now, according to the young-- I had cancer at the time. So I was a little bleak, but I spent 12 hours a day, and I tried to back up everything with footnotes in the search. I had wonderful help from my assistant to check all the Megan Morgan Hunter and David Berkey. They checked all the sources for me. And then my team proved for it at three times, and it helped me that I had a left-wing editor, not the chief editor. She was very sympathetic, but the general editor that was assigned, so almost every page, I don't believe this, cite it. This can't be true. They really didn't mean that, did they? And so it made me double down. Yeah, so your editor was at war with your-- Yes. Photographic memory, but-- Not a good idea. Trust me, everyone out there. So Victor, thank you for your wisdom today-- Thank you, everybody, for listening. And thank you for buying the book. I believe I mean that deeply. And thank you for all the birthday cards, and I could feel your prayers, and I'm going to beat this. And if I do beat it, it's because of everybody's prayers. I really believe that. I know. This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson. And we're signing off. [MUSIC PLAYING] 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.