Victor Davis Hanson: Ilhan Omar and the Stakes of the Midterms

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Underwritten by Farmers Truck or Fire Insurance Exchanges or Affiliate. Products not available in every state. Did she or did she not get her brother over to the United States through a green card by marrying him? She hasn't denied it. She said anybody who just said what I said is a racist, horrible person. Did she marry her brother or not? Was her father a colonel in a genocidal army in Saeed Barry's genocidal regime and did not tell us that when she came into the country? Maybe we shouldn't have let any of them in. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Hello and welcome to Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. This is our Friday News Roundup and we've got lots on the agenda. The Ukraine war, Ilan Omar, the midterms. We'll be looking at California election officials and the voter rolls, the WNBA and stepping out when the anthem was, sung by Alanis Morissette, I might add, and that was a sad thing. And then at expatriates. So stay with us for those stories and we'll be right back after these messages. 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Victor's the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website, Blade of Perseus. The URL is victorhansen.com and you can enjoy all the free stuff there or join us as a subscriber and get two exclusive articles per week and then a video, all for the price of $65 a year. And you get ad-free long-form podcasts as well. So please come join us at the Blade of Perseus. So Victor, let's start with the Ukraine war. A lot's going on, but I think what we noticed this week is Donald Trump is, I don't want to say he's siding with Putin, but he is definitely playing a Putin card against Zelensky. And maybe a month ago or a few months ago, he was playing the Zelensky card in the other fashion. I was wondering what you make of this oscillation because people are a little worried about it out there. Yeah, I think he's got to handle the public relations because they have been. I think falsely accusing him of being a Putin supporter for over a decade. We should remember that he was the person who got out of the asymmetrical missile deal. He destroyed the Wagner Group attack in Syria. He lectured the Europeans not to buy Nordstrom gas from Russia. Joe Biden and Obama had not allowed offensive weapons to be shipped to Ukraine. And he did. And he had sanctioned the oligarchs. So he was pretty tough on Ukraine in a way that Biden and Obama had not been. Remember, the thing about all of this is the people who gave us reset were Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I mean, everybody should remember what that was in reaction to in 2009. It was 2008, George W. Bush's popularity was about 39% because of the Iraq war. Putin took advantage of that. They did Georgia to seize Osatia. And after that, we sanctioned them. And in the campaign of 2008, Obama said, George Bush is. They did the same thing later with Romney. They're stuck in a Cold War mentality that we've got to reach out to Putin. So they were going to. They went to Geneva and pushed the real reset button. It was a jacuzzi button, actually. Took from a hotel. It was mistranslated. But that ended up in a disaster. So they were the ones that really started to coax Putin back. And then, so why is it. What's happening right now? What's happening right now is Donald Trump is looking at Iran. And he wants to end it and get gas prices down. Russia is smuggling in weapons, he thinks, over land or through the Caspian Sea. And he wants that stopped. Russia has already lost its client in Syria. And it's bitter. And it doesn't want to do that. In addition, diesel fuel is really a much more dramatic spiker of inflation than a gas is. Because it's what all the products we move. Everything that's bought in the United States now is almost moved by diesel fuel. So he wants to lower it. And the real cause is we don't have enough refineries to have insurance against shortfalls. And the straightover moves, uncertainty. But Russia is trying to sell, take advantage of that, and sell refined diesel. And so Trump wants Zelensky to stop hitting these refineries. Zelensky says, well, they've killed 20,000 civilians. And we don't have any choice to stop them but to hit their sources of exchange. So we're not. We're not going to listen to you. So then Trump got angry. And then he said, we need a new president. And basically, the people told Zelensky, Netanyahu's having an election. He's in the middle, basically, of a Cold War. We had elections in World War II with FDR in 44. Britain had elections in 1945 and kicked out Winston Churchill right during the Pacific War. So what makes you so special? And why did you have to. So we've been telling them, have elections, bring back habeas corpus, don't outlaw political parties, and have a free press. And he says, if I do that, the Russians will interfere. Well, if you have that attitude that the only opposition or the only answer to a bunch of interference is a dictatorship, then. But you can't really say it's democracy versus Putin if you're not being democratic. So that was a big issue. The third issue was the Europeans came into it, and they all bashed Trump. They hate Trump. And they said, you know, you're a Putin puppet again, and you're buying stuff from the enemy. And then he made two counter-articles, or his people did. Don't lecture me on energy. You are the biggest source, the biggest buyer of Russian natural gas from the day the war started in February. February 24th of 2022, for the next 4.7 years, you have given more foreign exchange to Russia than anybody. Don't lecture me. And then they said, he's basically saying, and don't lecture me that we have to go 5,000 miles over and protect you from Russia. And that you're invoking our NATO solidarity when we think a greater threat is an unhinged Iran with a nuclear weapon. Because at least Putin has shown the Russians haven't, and you can deal with them for 80 years during the Cold War and after. And so basically, Trump said, when we had a common enemy and we wanted help, we didn't want to ask you for the help you're asking from us. We didn't ask for troops. We didn't ask for NATO forces. All we asked for was, could you please let us land on our NATO bases in Spain, Sicily, Britain? We don't have to fly everything all the way from And they said, no. And they said, not only no, we're not going to let you use Diego Garcia. We're not going to let you use Spanish airspace or French airspace. We're not going to, we're going to bail out terrorists that almost were trying to blow up your bombers. And Trump got very angry at that. So he said, basically, I'm saying basically, I'm piecing together things in the media. He said, basically, so let me get this straight. You feel it's an existential threat to Europe, and you want us to up the $200 billion and play a more forceful role, maybe help you have a no-fly zone so anything that comes into NATO territory in the air would be shot down? I can see that's a good idea. And you don't want to help us. In fact, it's worse than that. You want to stop us and thwart us, even though the missiles will hit you before they'll hit us from Iran. And so that's the problem. And I don't see any solution to it. I think he's, there is one thing that's clear. It's very funny about the left. They keep, Biden said, we're going to supply them whatever it takes, whatever it takes. I had a lot of really distinguished military historians, military and analyst. And I talked to some at dinner and elsewhere, mingling around our group. And there was a lot of divided opinion. I would say that 90% wanted to really help Ukraine. But the question I had, and I do too, but my question was, what is the plan? It's lasted longer than the Civil War. It's lasted longer than World War I. It's lasted longer than the war. It's lasted longer than the war in the Pacific during World War II. 2.5 million people or casualties, probably about a million and a half are dead. It's worse than the Verdun battle. It's worse than the Somme. It's worse than Stalingrad. Does any of you who say take whatever, what is your plan? Just tell me what your plan is. And the only plan that has any chance of working is a Oh, a Roman term, utte possedetis, which is stop, where everybody possesses something. And the battle line is at the Donask Oblast corridor. It's kind of the last defensive position before you get into the rich farmland. It would be an easy thing to go to Ukraine. I mean, to Kiev. So if we could tell Putin, they won't join NATO. You got Crimea. You got a lot of the Donbass, but we're not going to let you go any further. And they're going to fortify that. And then during the peace, arm them so that they can deter him. That would be the basis. But Zelensky wants all of it back. That's not going to happen. He doesn't, he don't, the country was 41 million people. It's got about 27 million there. So Russia's got now five times more people. You know, more than five times the population, 20 times the area, 10 times the GDP. And what's keeping them alive are drones, are brilliant engineers. And they've got, they are making a million drones a year. But they have killed, people forget that, they've killed about 8,000 Russian civilians. He wants the war ended so he can concentrate on Iran and that he can stop Russia from supplying Iran and eventually flip Russia, not as a friend, but as a triangulating third party to balance off with China. He does not like China and Russia to be so close as they are now because of the U.N. Middle East. He does not like the high price of fuel. So, and he doesn't like the Europeans on the one hand lecturing him and screaming at him and trashing him that he even considered buying any energy from Russia when they have given them billions of dollars. And they, as I speak right now, they're buying about 30 or 40 percent of Russia's national gas output. It's about 10 to 15 percent of all European energy comes from Russia. In the middle of a war. And he doesn't like them telling us, get off our base, get out of our airspace. You can't land there. Oh, take a deep breath. Ah, Russia's an existential enemy. Iran wasn't. Come over here. Increase that aid from 200 billion. Give us another 100 billion. Give us a tanker. Give us logistics. Give us your. And if you look at Libya bombing or Serbia bombing or the no-fly zones, over Iraq, if we were to engage in that, we would do all the work. They don't have the wherewithal to do that. So, I think he's tired of the whole thing. Yeah. And the campaign. And they left us saying that he's Putin's puppet. The left says, oh, he's so greedy. He's buying that. But it's, as I explained, there's a lot of dimensions to it. Yeah, exactly. I, every time I see these campaigners trying to make it look so easy, we can get out or we should finish. Push it off both ways, I think. I'm getting really tired. But you don't know what it's really like in there. I'm getting really tired of the left and some of the right because they keep saying forever war, miasma, Vietnam, Afghanistan. Take a deep breath. Eight and a half months, right? 22 people have been killed. That's tragic. But in that eight months, we would have lost, we'd lost about 250 killed by accidents. One a day. So, in terms of historical blood and treasure cost, it's been, it's been amazing that you could pretty much destroy the economy, the military, the nuclear industry of Iran. And it's about ready, if you would arm the opposition, it could just implode in the next two years. And they're not going to get a weapon with that economy and with the United States able to do whatever it wants to it. It's been an endless war and it's destroyed. I mean, I don't understand it. Gas got up to well over what it is now under Biden. And we had 5.1 average inflation. It's only about 3%, now a little higher. As I said last time, the Fed projections for the fourth quarter, it's going to be about two and a half percent for the year and maybe three and a half for the last quarter. So, it's just mind boggling. Democrats can argue that the, the economy is not going well for individuals. I see that. I understand that. Well, I can see that. But you know, oh, sorry, go ahead. We're leading the entire world in digital media, AI, software, space. All that is helping the economy with new investments. Elon Musk is building these huge new buildings. So, GDP is good. Inflation with all the problems with energy is still a little bit over 3%. I remind myself that I took a loan out from the Production Credit Association in 1981 for $7 billion. And I bought a used car for 19%. And we thought we had gone to heaven when we mortgaged some of the land and the Federal Land Bank gave us a interest rate of nine and a half. So, I think everybody's just got to get real. Yeah, exactly. Well, I just thought it was interesting. There was a debate between Senator Cory Booker and his opponent in New Jersey. He never debates, though, does he, Cory? No. He just screams and yells, I'm Spartacus. Yes. But Justin Murphy on the Iran war said, Trump needs to put, I'm paraphrasing, I might not be using the exact same words, but he said, Trump needs to put his cowboy boots on and get in there and finish that war and get it done fast. And Cory Booker just thought, we don't say that in America anymore, that we want to win wars. Yeah. What I was reading said he looked a little shocked. There's one thing that should be pointed out. How did this all start? I mean, just ask yourself how it all starts. How did we get a war with Russia to begin with? It started in 2008, as I said, when Bush was mired in Iraq and his popularity was low. And the last thing he wanted to do was save Osatia and Georgia. And Putin saw that he was weak and complacent. He wanted to compromise. So he took it. And then there was Obama. And Obama did the apology tour. He cut defense. He demonized Russia after he tried to have reset. Remember, he said that he was going to do it again. There's a red line, and if I see WMD moving around, that's a red line in the Middle East. And then they moved it around, and he didn't do anything. So Putin sized him up very quickly. He's arrogant, he's loud, and he's weak. So he invaded Crimea and the Donbass. Okay. And he was angry because they felt the Obama administration and the Kagan couple had been writing and influencing. And there was a conversation between our NATO representative. Basically, it was kind of a conspiratorial, we're going to do this. And we were interfering in the elections in Ukraine. And the Biden family was interfering a lot with Hunter. So they looked at that as weakness. And then we skedaddled out of Afghanistan, the greatest humiliating. It was the worst retreat I've ever seen, worse than the 75 copters off the embassy in Vietnam. And then Biden was asked, what would you do if Putin is going to invade? He's massing troops in Belarus. And he said, it depends on whether it's a minor invasion. Well, he added all that up. And so he said, I'm just going to try to take Kiev. That failed. And then he tried to expand. He took his Donbass area further west. What I'm getting at, there's only one president he didn't do that to. And that was Trump. Because he'd seen Soleimani, Baghdadi, ISIS, Wagner group, right? And he thought he was too volatile. So now it's very ironic for the left to say that he's appeasing Putin. When Putin's aggressions over four presidencies did not include only one presidency, Donald Trump. All right. Before we go to a break, Victor, I wondered if you had anything to say about the Ilhan Omar investigation. It looks like they are getting evidence that she was involved in the fraud in Minnesota, selling fake wine, that she was channeling government monies to her relatives. You're saying the walls are closing in? Yeah, the walls are closing in and the DNA with her married spouse, brother. I don't know. They were reporting. I don't know. They were reporting leaks from the investigation that the DNA now confirms that she married her brother. That was a rumor yesterday. I don't know if it does or not. I don't. We can't talk about rumors. But if she is found to have married her brother and she did change or she is found that when she applied for citizenship, she was 18 as an adult and she lied about that. And then later changed her birthday officially because she didn't want to come in through her father once her father has been exposed as a possible war criminal, a genocidal colonel in Saeed Barry's genocidal regime. And she's basically saying two things. I was 18. I was not 18. So I was just a child. So my father sponsored me as his daughter. And I came in. I came in through him. And I can't be punished for his sins. You know what I'm saying? And I wasn't able to make these decisions. And if she lied about that, that she knew well and she should have been adjudicated on her own merits at 18, that's one thing. The second is, did she or did she not get her brother over to the United States with a green card by marrying him? And she's denied that. And she hasn't denied it. She's denied it. And anybody who just said what I said is a racist, horrible person, da, da, da, da, da. But again, it's not about, you can make, you can say, well, Trump is just targeting her. That's like saying Biden targeted her not to investigate her because this was all known. And they wouldn't let anybody, I mean, they had an investigation. They whitewashed her. So it's just, everybody should just ask themselves, did she marry her brother or not? Was her father a colonel in a genocidal army? And did not tell us that when she came into the country. In other words, if she was 17 as she lies, apparently, and attached herself to him, maybe we shouldn't have let any of them in. But if she was 18, as she later changed her, she later, she was 18, but she later changed it to say that she was 17, then she's responsible for all the mistakes and lies concerning her own. request. She's a very nasty person. I mean, there's so many things they can investigate. I've never heard that a congressperson can say, I'm worth $30 million the next year. What, $200,000? And then the next day not. Then they show that the winery had empty barrels and investors were buying non-existent inventory, and they show the winery, and it's closed, and her husband seems to be as shady as she is. And then you have this really strange thing where all she's been talking about is white privilege and white supremacy for 10 years. And you say to her, white supremacy, white supremacy. Then you just married a white guy. And AOC was saying, white supremacy, white supremacy, white people are the biggest danger in the United States. And she just dumped, after what, eight years, her white boyfriend. And so it's really strange how they separate that. I don't quite understand. You can't say, on the one hand, the country is full of collectively accused white people of being racist and likely terrorism, and then go marry a white person. Isn't she married to another white person now? Who? Isn't her and her husband's? Yeah, that's it. Elian Omar married her cat in pain, and she's under investigation that when they were dating that she was married to another white person. And she's under investigation that when they were dating that she was married to another white person. And she was filtering- Money to him. Contracts for him as her campaign helper. Yeah. I just have one question. Forgive my ignorance, but when they say that they might be able to prove the DNA, is somebody lurking around the guy who was supposed to be her brother or her husband, maybe, and trying to get his DNA or something? I mean, how are they- They're sisters, and they went into her garbage and stuff to find- they can find hers. Yeah. But I suppose somebody went to Britain where he's back- Yeah. And trying to get his DNA. DNA, yeah. And that will show it. All right. But it's- again, it's just she either did it or she didn't. And it doesn't matter whether Trump focused on her or Biden did not focus on her and gave her a pass. But essentially, she's the one that has most manipulated the DEI thing. Remember what DEI is, everybody. DEI is an indemnity policy. It's an insurance policy. You take it out, and you say you're a victim, and then you're free to do whatever you want. And then when people catch you, you're racist. So Karen Bass goes to, what, Ghana or Uganda during the palisades, and people say, you were just derelict. Oh, you're a racist. The assistant mayor, phones in a bomb threat, bomb threat, under house arrest. He's not even there. You're racist for saying that. The water and power woman gets this huge inflated salary as an incompetent, has hydrants that don't work, and leaves the reservoir drained for months. And people complain, said, you're racist in attacking a Latina. The fire woman is completely incompetent, doesn't get the hydrants fixed, is not proactively- You're homophobic. And so that's how it works. And so everybody has to have some claim on an indemnity policy. 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That's preparewithvdh.com for $300. $300 off the complete bundle. And Victor, I know that you were recently down in LA and there were fires. Did you see people quickly trying to prepare for the, they had lots of outages all over the map in Southern California? It was very, that was the first time I've really been out since my operation, other than at work or at the med center. And the Pepperdine School of Public Policy had each year, asked me to go down and do a number of podcasts, a public lecture, go to a people's home to raise money. And they have a really beautiful house at Malibu Beach that they extend to visiting professors sometime. I've never really ranked enough to be at it, but the last two years, the dean, Pete Peterson, very graciously allowed me to stay there. And, it was wonderful. It was 90 degrees and I walked in the sand five miles every day, I felt. And I've had a chronic wheezing from this dirty air and almond and it disappeared, which, and then all of a sudden they, they gave a warning after we were there Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, said, Oh, the winds are going to come up on Thursday. Be careful because what an attitude that the power company, Southern California Edison, like PG&E says, if the wind, if it's windy, we can't deal with anything. We cannot deal with it. We're going to shut down the power. They said they would shut it down Thursday at 1030. They did not. You mean they were so afraid of the power line starting fires? Yes. Whipping around and starting fires. Because they're not steady. I lived in California my whole life. I don't remember that ever happening until the Newsom administration, which means that the PG&E, Southern California Edison grid is so, so wanting of, of maintenance that it, it, they're blamed for starting fires. So all of a sudden at 3:40, without any warning, I, I was doing podcasts and it, they, they shut the power off and the cell phone towers went dead and the internet went dead. And I was thinking, what if, what if some of these people have heart conditions or something? Now they can't call anybody. They're way out here in Malibu. They can't get on the internet, you know, like if they had mobile cardia and they wanted to look at EKG, it was really without warning. And, and then I saw, so we had to leave and we moved graciously up to the campus for the last two days. And then everybody at the service stations were filling up gasoline because I guess they were going back to their Malibu homes and they have generators and trying to have backup power. But it was, it was a mess. And it was windy and there was a fire. So it wasn't just, but, um, you can't have a sophisticated civilization when every time the wind comes up, rather that you just shut down the power and don't tell people and you shut down the internet and you shut down the cell phones and then you render older people. Cause I walked the beach and a lot of people were my age or older. And if they have a cell phone, you know, they're going to be like, I don't know. I don't know how old I am. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Or Ventura. So I thought that was, that was very, it was so beautiful there. There were dolphins, there were pelicans every morning and the air was just beautiful. And I wish, um, I had that air right here now, but, um, it, the school of public policy at Pepperdine is really a fine project. It's center, right? Yeah. And it's really making strides. And I always try to do a little bit to help it. And last night, the second time I'd been out, I, at 3.30, I was driven down to Bakersfield and there was, um, Pastor Brandon Holtus from the Rock Harbor Church. And he's quite of a sensation. He has a Columbia BA. He's very articulate. He's got a huge following. He's going on a podcast every morning. And they built one of the most beautiful churches I've seen. It's, everything was modern. They had all of the audio video. And then we did, um, question and answer for two hours in front of the packed crowd. And the people were very nice. I always liked Bakersfield. The people are wonderful. And then I got home, you know, at 10 o'clock, but, um, that was the second time I'd been out and I'm not going to fly. So, it's either by car or nothing, but I, uh, we'll see when you, when you shake 200 people's hands and you only have, you know, you only have one, basically one functional lung and I got to be careful. You can't, you can't live your life. I had my biopsy today. The very nice woman came to the house. They're coming to this Natera group that runs it, sends people to your house. And she was a nicest and most informed of the people who've come every 90 days. To take your blood, right? Yeah. And she was just saying, we were kind of laughing and says, now it starts because when they take the blood, then she does about 10 all over the Central Valley and then mails them in tonight. And then they get them tomorrow and then you have to count the days. Then you go on the website and you have, you know, and then it says, you want to consult your physician before you see this. Oh my gosh, it must be, turn the page. If you're positive, while it's 98% or something accurate, there could be, you know, don't go shoot yourself. And then you go there and it has all this data, but you have to go down. It has a little tiny, not detected. So, and then when you are in between these, I've had kind of a, I got a little bug this morning. So I'm kind of dizzy and stomach and my achy, and you think, oh my God, it's, you know, cancer or something. It's coming back. So to put rest to all that stuff, you just have to have the attitude. I'm going to live today on my own terms, no matter what. And I'm going to keep working and until I can't do it anymore. And I'm going to have an upbeat attitude that you're going to beat it. All right. You are going to beat it. And we know you are. You notice they always say, you're going to beat it. Full stop. Full stop. Period. You, period, are, period. When I hear full stop now, when somebody says that, I know they're lying. I didn't do that. And these rumors are crazy. I'm not going to answer it. Full stop. Which means I can't lie anymore. I'm out of lies. I have no more ideas. I have no more qualifiers. Oh, okay, Victor. So let's turn to the midterms here. I looked at the real, clear politics spread for Senate races, because that's probably our biggest thing. You can tell me whether you think the House is in play or not afterwards. But with the Senate, they're all very close with the Democrat ahead by one or two points, with the exception of the Iowa race for the Senate. Ashley Hinson, who's the Republican, is ahead, but by 0.1. So interesting. I don't know how a Democrat, Josh Turek, has any ability to win Iowa, but he's close right there at the margin. And then also Georgia, Mike Collins and John Ossoff. That is the Democrat. Ossoff is ahead by 8.6 points in Georgia. I can't understand. He's a hard leftist. He's slick. He's like Newsom, but he's a hard leftist in Georgia. Yeah. So I don't know if you have anything on those two races, and then we can look at some of the else. Well, you start, again, I've said this too many times, but you start with historical reality. And there's two realities. If the president in a midterm election is polling before less than 40%, he's in trouble. Trump is. From the last 126 years of midterms, going back to 1900, we don't go back before that because there were different, people didn't campaign. But since 1900, the party occupying the White House has lost seats in the House or Senate every single year except three times. And the three times are important. In 1934, Roosevelt hadn't alienated people. He had the New Deal. He was barnstorming. We're going to have a civilian corporation. But the economy didn't, they thought it would improve. By 38, they knew it hadn't. But so they gave him a little boost. George W. Bush, after 9-11, when he got up in the rubble in New York and he says, the whole world is going to be hearing from us soon. Remember he had his arm around that really nice fireman? He was polling about 80%. And so he picked up seats. And then earlier, Bill Clinton in 1998, he had balanced the budget. He would do that for four years. And I give him credit for that. I give Genrich equal credit because he was the speaker and they had a compromise. But Clinton, the economy was starting to get good. We hadn't had the, well, we hadn't had the meltdown, the dot-com meltdown. The economy was good. The budget was balanced and they were impeaching him over his lie. I didn't have sex with that woman. I tell you, I didn't have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky. Well, they know he did. So they were trying to impeach him for lying under oath and he had been disbarred and punished. So the American people said, I don't really care whether he is a pathological liar. I know that he's a pathological womanizer, but who else balances? Who else can balance the budget? So those three instances. So what I'm getting at is that history is not on the incumbent side, Trump. That said, there are, to quote Donald Rumsfeld, a lot of known unknowns. Number one is the polls, the polls, the polls. It doesn't really matter what the real clear politics average is because they, they have a majority, they have no choice of left-wing polls. And when the Des Moines Register in 2024 was, they said that Harris on the eve of the election was going to win by three and she lost by 10, 13 points or maybe 12, 15 points off. And El-Sayed was supposed to win by 10. He won by one in the primary. So they're, they're off and they're always off in one direction because they're designed to raise money and momentum for the left. The other wild card. Donald Trump was given a great gift because there have never been a sorrier bunch of candidates than that Jackson guy in Maine. I just watched the debate with Susan Collins and it was just pathetic. He was, and then Mike Rogers is workmanlike. I thought, and, and El-Sayed is really slick, but he kind of boxed him in. It was kind of like a Muhammad, Muhammad Ali fighting Mike Tyson or something. He just kind of didn't let him dance around. And he just, you know, he was, he slugged him a bunch of times about his Islamist connection. And gosh, I didn't realize Michelle Tofoya was such a great campaigner. I'd seen her on TV a lot, but boy, she, that Flannery was just hopeless. And she's much more photogenic and charismatic. So those are wild cards and they shouldn't be wild cards if there's a blue wave because they're in purple or blue states. Tallarico, I just don't believe the Texans are going to let that happen. Paxson is a poor candidate. He doesn't seem to campaign enough. He's not a good speaker. He has some personal issues, but it's all going to hinge on two things. Two things, voter turnout and what, to what degree does Marjorie Taylor Greene or Thomas Massey or Tucker, Candace, to a lesser extent, Megan Kelly, who's kind of been really good on Islamic issues, but she's been very critical, Tom. Does that criticism suppress the vote? 10 to 15%. To what degree does the black vote, in and outside of Michigan, suspicious of Islamic candidates? To what degree do the Jewish vote feel that the Democratic Party is anti-Semitic? And does that override, all of those considerations override this historical pattern? And I don't have the answer to that, but I think everybody's got to get out and vote. The Democrats aren't doing themselves, many of them aren't doing themselves any favors this week. So if we could go over a few things that have happened. El-Said has said that he knows that some of his constituents have been at gas stations owned by Abdul, his archetype of an Arab or Islamic person, who hates blacks and catcalls. And he's not going to be able to do that. He's not going to be able to do that. So he said that to a black population. So I know you're used to that, but don't worry, that's not me, was the intent. He never had said that before. But the caricaturing of the black population or even the Islamic population. So he's doing that now because his internal polls show black voters are eroding support for him. And that's why Barack Obama has flown to Michigan. You know, it's like, we know what's going to happen. They call Barack. The black vote is a little shaky in Michigan. Just a minute, got to tie up my beach house, and I'll work out of my Chicago mansion, maybe Martha's Vineyard mansion, but I'll be there in my private plane. And then he'll get a bunch of young black men that are involved in. Now, you don't know what you're doing. You're a false conscience. Just because a guy's a Moslem doesn't mean anything. You know, they said that about me, and you got to get out there and vote. You just got to vote straight Democratic. I'll tell you. And that doesn't work. People say, you know, go back to your $100 million Netflix content creating, or go back to Hawaii, or go back to Colorama, go back to Martha's Vineyard. Yeah. But don't come over here and tell us at the last moment what we're supposed to do, like you were pawns to you. Go back to your flak tower library, you know? Yeah. You know, the left wing. Before you lecture us, just pay all the black contractors their legitimate claims about being underpaid by. The left wing media was very critical of El-Saeed for almost the same thing. They basically were saying he's somewhat arrogant and his lecturing manners, and it just sounds like Barack Obama all over again. Arrogant and lecturing. People are saying things to him, and they're so enlightened. The second thing he said this week was, and this is a quote, "It's time to realize Israel is not our friend." I don't know. Who is our friend in the Middle East, Mr. Saeed, your native, your parents' native Egypt, where there's a dictator in power right now, and they threw out an Islamist, Mohammed Morsi, whom you supported. So you don't like free elections, you don't like a constitutional government, you don't like an independent judiciary, you don't like habeas corpus. What are you trying to say? And I would tell you that if you look at the $2 million area, you don't know what you're talking about. I don't know. But if you look at the million Arabs that are in Israel, and you look at their incomes, their health plans, their safety, they're a lot less likely to be murdered or killed or impoverished, living with 8 million Jews around them as full citizens with Arab-elected legislatures than anywhere else in the Middle East. If you ask an Israeli Arab, "Would you like to give up your citizenship so you can find solidarity?" Would you like to give up your citizenship so you can find solidarity with your friends in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia? No. I like it here. Why do you like it here? Well, I can be elected to office. I have better facilities. The standard of living is higher. 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I don't understand. There's no legal problem with that. But there's maybe an ethical problem that they act like they're independent contractors, right? And actually, they're bots or they're getting paid. The problem with he has is he ran in the primary against Jasmine Crockett. And she thought she was going to win. And she made it kind of a racial primary, get all the Blacks to come out and vote. And she intimated that he was sort of a, I don't know what, namby-pamby little white guy. I did a lot of damage to him. And then she didn't really come out and support him in the general election. And she's basically given that she is a racist and she is a narcissist. It would be to her advantage to, because she lost her seat. Now she's a congressman without a congress. And it would be to her advantage to say, see what happens when you cross Jasmine Crockett? I have power and I think. And that vote is, you know, can be important. It could be important in the sense they won't come out and vote for him. Yeah. The other interesting thing that happened with Tallarico was he skipped the Bernie Sanders rally. And I was wondering, I mean, that sounds like, okay, he's shorting the Black community and he's skipping the Bernie Sanders rally. I mean, is he trying to get middle of the road people and shaft his Uber left people or what? I don't know. I mean, is there somebody running the Texas Democratic Party and says, we have to get a candidate? And here's the ideal candidate for Texas. A, he has to be a vegetarian that hates Texas Longhorn beef and beef in general. Two, he's got to be a green fanatic that hates the fact that we are the largest fracking state in the Union and we're getting fabulously rich out of providing fossil fuel for our country. C, he's got to be a guy who never has driven a pickup truck or worn a cowboy hat or he despises Texas conservative culture. D, he has to be a Christian who says that God is non-binary, there's multiple, and that white skin is a part of the white virus. You add all of those up, you couldn't think of a worse candidate than him. And so I don't think he's going to win. I mean, he's Beto without Beto's, I mean, Beto was a normal person compared to this guy. Beto was active. Beto looked like he was, you know, he walked off the LA beach or something. And he had a little stick, even though he was Irish, he had that little Mexican sounding nickname. Remember that was, he was running against Cruz and it was really weird that Cruz was authentically half Hispanic and went by the name Ted and Beto was not at all. And he used the Hispanic name Beto. So you had one person that was showing that he was fully assimilation. He was proud of his heritage, but prouder to be an American. And he didn't, you know, he didn't add an accent mark and, you know, and Beto was trying to create a Hispanic identity that he didn't have. Authenticity matters. So Paxson, whatever he is, he is, he's not, he's not switching all of his position. Yeah. Last interesting thing in Texas. So Bernie Sanders was at a rally and he was criticizing Elon Musk for spending 350 million in the state of Texas. I wonder what he said about Zuckerberg. Yeah. Well, Zuckerberg spent a lot more than Elon, 420. And Singham in China spends a lot of money. And Soros probably spends 30 or 40 million. Reed Hoffman, he paid for the whole travesty against Trump with the E. Jean Carroll. He backed her. And he was a good friend of Jeffrey Epstein. And he's given a lot of money to, I think, So they're only mad at Elon because they thought that all the tech billionaires were theirs. And Trump came along and said, these people are telling you what to do. With me, I don't, I'm not going to tell you what to do. I just want to tell you, do what you have to do, but make sure it's for the United States interest. Interest. So then Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and Elon and David Sack. And then I don't know where Zuckerberg and Bezos are. They're not, they're in between Bill Gates and Elon. But that's why the Democrats suddenly are talking about billionaire taxes. And Elon's got such a huge investment there. Yeah, that's what I was just going to say. Yeah, absolutely. Well, Victor, before we go on, I would like to welcome our third sponsor this Friday. A quick update on the HydraLift volumizing shampoo from Purience. The discount code from our previous ads wasn't working because of a technical problem. But it now has been fixed. Use code Victor at Purience.com. That's P-U-R-E-A-N-C-E.com to save 35% off your entire order. If you tried it before, please try again. Now here's the original message from Purience about HydraLift. It probably needs more protein. Just like our muscles lose protein as we age and atrophy, our hair loses protein as well, leading to thin, dry, and brittle strands. 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So, Victor, let's turn to the WNBA. Oh, no, you know, Elisa Slotkin was out there, and I know that you and Jack talked a little bit about it, but she was threatening, what she wanted to do was to make it very uncomfortable for any young person to want to go work for Donald Trump in particular, but it just sounded like generally the GOP. And they actually have filed an ethics charge against her in the Senate. Yes, that's happened. The worst part about it was after people called her out, she played the victim. Oh, this is so mad. The rightist wing is going after me now. They're demonizing. They can't take any legitimate criticism from a proud woman. They're sexist. Grow up, man. What you basically said was that you want to declare war. You want to declare war on half the country, and you want to prevent any young idealistic person from ever setting foot in Washington because he might work for the Trump administration. And then what would you do, Senator? You'd go into their IRS. You'd go indict them on false charges so you'd bank them with legal fees. Elisa Slotkin, would you just listen a minute if you're listening to our nice conservative podcast? Number one, who got John Brennan, James Comey, and John Clapper, James Clapper, into the White House with Susan Rice, taking notes that it was all very well for fake minutes, and told him, go back to your intelligence agency and get me more stuff. That was Barack Obama. Who paid Christopher Steele to compound? A collate, an entire fake dossier that Donald Trump was communicating with Vladimir Putin to overthrow the election, and paid a foreign agent, Christopher Steele, which is illegal, and then hid that payment through the Perkins Coie, the DNC, the Perkins Coie law firm, and Fusion GPS. Three paywalls. Hillary Clinton. Do you remember Hillary Clinton? The IRS scandal of 2012, when the Obama administration's IRS, do you remember that woman, Lois Lerner, who tried to go after people's individual tax accounts? Do you have any idea what the FBI was doing in the 2020 election? They were going after social media accounts and stopping them from reporting anything about the Hunter laptop being an authentic computer laptop. And the lies that they were promulgating, that the Russians had cooked it up, were already known to be false because the FBI had it, A, in their possession, while B, they were pressuring groups not to report it. Do you have any idea that those 51 intelligence authorities lied, lied, lied deliberately to affect or throw an election? Do you have any idea that on November 18th of 2022, just three days after the election, the FBI was going to throw an election? Do you have any idea that on November 18th of 2022, just three days after Donald Trump said he was going to run for office again, that the Biden administration brought into the White House Nathan Wade, an obscure Fannie Willis boyfriend who was a prosecutor to go after Trump in the Fulton County indictment? The same day, Michael Colangelo, the third person in Merrick Garland's DOJ who had come, come, come from Alvin Bragg's pseudo suit, went back, excuse me, from Letitia James, went back to help Alvin Bragg? Do you realize the same day, November 18th, Joe Biden appointed Jack Smith to go after Donald Trump and raid his house? Do you have any idea that Letitia James was at the White House according to the logs that day? What do you call all that? What do you call the effort to get somebody off the ballot? What do you call putting leg irons on Peter Navarro and Stephen Bannon for refusing a subpoena, which Eric Holder said, I will do. I'll never obey a subpoena during the first Obama administration. Put that all together and see, that is so disgusting what she did. And if you think pardoning, who started the pardoning? Remember, I shall not, I'm not, I'm never gonna, I'm never gonna pardon. No, she's never gonna pardon Hunter Biden. And he did, didn't he? And he saved Hunter Biden for millions of dollars in back taxes that he owed us, the taxpayer, that he ripped off from us. And the whole Biden family was never held to account for their, you know, remember Mr. Big Guy, Mr. 10%? She's disgusting. And so go after young people who are idealistic and want to go to White House and help a candidate become a, help a president that they agree with. And all of a sudden, you know, there's a whole bunch of people who want to go to White House and help a candidate become a president that they agree with. What is that, I mean, what is that going to do? I mean, it just tells a person not to do it. And now we find out they have lists of people who bought MAGA hats, that Jack Smith was doing all sorts of stuff. He was spying on 41 congressmen and senators. Where'd he get that idea? He got it from Barack Obama, who went after eight AP reporters. She has a, she's an idiot. She's an idiot. She has no memory of all that. And now she says, and then the worst thing again was she gets on TV and then says, what's so fun? They criticize me. And all you showed, Senator Slotkin, is you are a weak-kneed woman who's weepy and weak and duplicitous and passive-aggressive because when you were called out for it, you didn't have the integrity or the intelligence to say one of two things. I'm sorry. I did not mean that. Or B, I meant it, but it was ill-spoken and that type of activity will lead to the dissolution of the republic. Instead, you said, well, they're going after me now, a proud woman in this, you know, because, and that's how they work. They're just, they're reactive and then they just attack people who tell the truth. There you go. Yeah. It just, you know, it just, they use all that stuff, but they're sectioning off of the voting population into women or blacks or whites or Asians. Every time they set foot in a university, they feel, these people are all socialists, so I can say whatever I want to get applause. So she was at the University of Chicago and she was basically saying, I'll go one up on you guys. I'll go after the people who work for Trump, the young people, people like from Chicago, maybe that want to work for Trump. Don't do it because you'll be, mired in legal morasses for the rest of your life. Ha ha ha. Yeah. She called that deterrence as though she were at war. By the way, after saying that, I think I'm a legitimate presidential candidate in 2028. That's what she thinks she is. Well, I think that this Democrats are finding that their sectionality is working against them with their just total inability of most candidates to bring all those people together. I don't think they have a Barack Obama who, I do think, brought all those. They're united by one thing. They all despise the white working middle class. And if you don't believe that, ask yourself why Tallarico has made all these derogatory statements about meat eaters, oil, and white people. Why does Mondami say, he can't finish a sentence without talking about white people? Why does AOC say white privilege all the time? Why does Jasmine Crockett couldn't say a word without white, white, white? Why did nobody go to East Palestine, Ohio when they had the taxic plume for months? Because it was just a bunch of poor white people they don't like. Why do they keep saying words like, we know what they mean, chump, dregs, garbage. That's you, Joe Biden. and clingers, that's you. Barack Obama. Deplorables, irredeemables, that's you, Hillary Clinton. And so that's who they are. Yeah. Last thing on the elections. California election officials say they have no independent way of verifying whether voters are citizens or not. It's all up to the honesty of those answering the questions on the voters' face. That means we have a ton of illegal aliens. And my one thing about all these illegal aliens on the voter rolls is nobody's saying that for every one of them, it negates a vote that some actual citizen has. Yeah. It does. And what's even worse than that, we're going to put a bunch of illegal aliens on the ballot rolls. And if you find some, we're going to call you a racist. So you'll never question us again. This whole state. Yeah. We were driving back late last night from Bakersfield. A driver was driving me, a very good driver. And we were going right at the speed limit and we get into Death Corridor. That's between Delano, California and Tulare, where it's only two lanes in each direction. It hasn't changed since the 1950s when the state was one third the population. And we're going and all of a sudden cones start to appear in the right lane. Can you imagine at 930 at night, the state Caltrans in the worst section possible with heavy traffic is cutting down one lane and there was no warning. But you know what I mean? So we look and here was a semi truck who was confused. So as the cones tapered off the right lane into the left, he had been going so fast, he just stopped dead. He was dead. He wasn't moving in the left lane. And where was one car in front of us and that car almost hit him. And we almost hit that car. But there was no warning whatsoever. But he didn't know what to do. So he would just stop dead. And he wasn't even behind a car ahead of him. He was just in the middle and like an isolated 80,000 pound truck. And you don't know who to get mad of. Did he get a license from the state and he can't read English? He couldn't read the yield sign or what? Why in the state of Jerry Brown and Newsom, after nearly, what, 14 years, they couldn't make wide one of the main thoroughfares in the whole state and where people are getting killed? Per hundred miles driven, that is the most dangerous corridor in the United States. And can, or is it just a problem that they gave out 24,000 licenses to people who were either here illegally or can't read English or both? That's what the left does. It's a very dangerous state to travel in. Yeah. And there's probably a lot of illegals that are going to vote in this election. So, Victor, let's go ahead and go to comments at the end of this show. I have a couple. One, just a statement by Michael O'Brien. Please rewatch the movie Shane. He's going to pick a fight with you here. I heard you refer to it again in the show with Jillian Michaels. I heard you say this before about the movie, and I used the example at dinner with a friend, and he's talking about the hero who's not wanted by the community. One of my closest friends who went through college noted that Shane was his favorite movie of all time, and the people did not reject him at the end. I had never seen the movie. And after watching it, I noted that my friend Dave, what my friend Dave had said, people were appreciative and wanted him to stay. So, he's saying that when Shane leaves in the end, that they really wanted him to stay. Who said that they wanted him to stay? No, but who in the movie said he wanted him to stay? And the little boy is eight years old, and Shane is a surrogate father to him, and he admires him because he told him how to shoot a gun. And the mother, Jean Arthur, said, we don't want guns here. And what does Shane say to him? Tell your mother that there's no more guns in the valley. Yes, there is a subtext that she's in love with him, and he's in love with her, but he's a noble person, and he knows that her husband is a noble guy, and he does not want to create friction, but he's also gone to a dance, and after their mourning the death of someone that Jack plans, the notorious Wilson gunslinger, has killed, they turn to Shane, and they ask him, given his dubious background, do you ever heard of this guy? And when he says, yep, I've heard that there's a guy named Wilson, and then one person says, well, I don't know, I don't put up with gunplay, and I don't know, how would you know that? In other words, so you're going to be our savior, and he didn't want to do it. He wanted, he. What kind of clothes did he have on? He had on ordinary work clothes. He wanted to stay there, but he couldn't stay there because he knew that these people were totally incapable. Jarrett was, if he went in there, he was going to get killed. If any, Elijah Cook went in there, and he got killed, the actor. Jack Palancin blew him into the mud. Anybody that tried to stop the cattle burn was going to get, they didn't have that. They didn't have that skill. They were sodbusters. But he came in, and then he understood that somebody had to stop them, that the law was either crooked or didn't care. So he was going to go in there and kill all the three bad guys and allowed Gene Arthur and everybody to be safe. But they couldn't be safe if he was there. So he puts on his buckskins that nobody had seen since the first scene. His killer clothes. He unstraps his gun, and they change the music for the first time. And Gene, the little boy, follows him into town and hides and actually saves his life. And he goes, Shane, watch out! And there's a guy up there. But once he's wounded and shot, if they wanted him to stay, they would have made it clear. You know, Shane, we think you should go in there. And kill that person. But they didn't, because they were ambiguous. They wanted somebody to bell the cat. The mice did. But they didn't want themselves to do it. And then the person who belled the cat, they didn't want around anymore. And that's what he said. He said, tell your mom, I'm gone. There's no more guns. It's over with. And I'm going to go all right off and be all alone and nurse my wound and give up the woman I loved. And I love you, too, little boy. But your dad is a good man. And he has a nuclear family. And now he's safe. And he doesn't have to go in. And it's very noble, because Jarrett knows he's going to be killed. And he knows that he has the best chance of stopping them. But nobody has a chance. So he's going to go in there, he thinks. And he says, you know, maybe Shane could always take care of the place. He might even be better than I. And what he was saying is, I've seen you look at Shane. I've seen him look at you. You're both too noble. But I can go in and sacrifice myself, and it won't be like a stained gunslinger. I will get killed, and then you can marry Shane and have my farm. And Shane knew that. And so they got in this terrible fistfight. Shane won by hitting him with a rock. That's what a tragic hero is. He knows there's a solution to save people. But the solution doesn't include himself. And that's what – same thing with the searchers when Ethan Edwards, John Wayne, he's done everything for years. He saved Natalie Wood. And he comes back and he hands them over to him. They all are ecstatic. And then they don't even thank him. So then he walks out that famous scene. He walks out the door and he just walks off by himself to oblivion. Same thing with the Magnificent Seven when the old man of the village, he says, they would really like to thank you. They're not there to thank them. And they really don't want you to leave. And Steve McQueen, they're not going to be sorry when we do. And they've saved everybody. And they've got five of the seven dead. But they know that they use methods that are not compatible with civilization. All right, Victor. And then we have two comments. Very nice about Jack. Douglas Germini says, Jack brings out the best in Victor every time. Massive hat tip to the man. And Patrick Tinslau373 says, not today. I'm all in. Not today. He liked your T-shirt. I have a feeling. Yeah, I have a. The very nice person who drew my blood, she does it eight or nine people a day. I was just saying, what's her reaction? And she said, people get obviously very nervous. And I said, well, especially if you have a mutation they can't treat because then it's not. You know, it's not. We'll start you on immunotherapy when there's microsurgery. coffee cup and then kill it. It's, you've got four months just to sit around until we see it on a scan. And then what do you do? Because you can't treat it. So anyway, she said, but you don't seem to, she said, you have my attitude. My attitude is, I don't know if she has cancer or not, but she said, live each day to its fullest and don't worry about the next day because you can't change anything. It's either there or not. It's either positive or negative. You can't change it. All right, Victor, thank you for your wisdom today. And thanks to our audience for joining us on this Friday News Roundup. Again, you can find Victor at his website, victorhansen.com. Please come join us there. You can also purchase his new book, The Counter-Revolution, or you can get a signed copy, both available at the website. So in the right-hand column on a laptop view, you'll find a offer for the book from Amazon or www.victorhansen.com. To fill out a request and payment for a signed copy from Victor himself. So please join us there. Thank you, Victor. Thank you, everybody, for listening and watching. All right. This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson, and we're signing off. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. 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