Victor Davis Hanson: Ilhan Omar Wants Accountability—Until It Knocks on Her Door

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It was a Europe in turmoil, but boy, when he went into the Caribbean and then parts Cuba, et cetera, within 1492 by 1521, and that was, that was only 30-some years later, they had landed in what is now Veracruz, Cortez had. And the first thing they, not the first thing, but after a rigorous march, they heard about this magical land of gold, they thought, the Aztec Empire. So when they got there, they walked about 170 miles in on, and they found Tenochtitlan, the city upon the lake. And they were all, they all at first were initially impressed with it. They thought it was like Venice. There was an empire of 4 million people, a quarter million people, right on the lake with causeways, living on, you know, small game, but mostly aquaculture. Very sophisticated, they thought. And then they started to uncover things. And they looked at the skull rack, they looked at pictorial evidence, and then they started to witness human sacrifice, where the heart was torn, torn out of the chest while it was beating. The incantations were said, and then the person was killed and rolled down the steps. And parts were carved up for, I guess you would call it salsa. And in some cases, cannibalism. But then they gave it to the imperial zoo, the body. And from their own records, they had surmised that a few decades earlier, they had killed, over 80,000 people that year. And at one point, during that mass sacrifice, they had teams that had to rotate. They threw 20 or 30,000 bodies into Lake Tenochtitlan, and it fouled it. They had to stop it. I mean, they couldn't use it for drinking water. They couldn't use it for anything. So what I'm getting at is this idea of the conquest of paradise is not true. I mean, the Europeans didn't come, you know, over there and see this peace-loving country they found. And the proof of the pudding is how did Cortes, that rarely ever had more than 1,000 people at one time with Navarrese's and his own forces, but my point is, how did he conquer an empire of 4 million? He did it with the Tlaxcalans and other peoples who felt that he was a liberator. As bad as they imagined he might be, and they thought that, by the way, the Spanish and the horses were centaurs. They were connected as one. They'd never seen a wheel before. They'd never seen gunpowder. They had never seen Spanish steel. They had never seen armor. They had never seen horses. They had never seen dogs larger than a chihuahua, basically. This was, so they thought they were superhuman, and for a while they did. They don't, I think it's wrong to think they thought they were gods, but they thought they were something other than human. And so everyone was scared of them, but very quickly they thought they would be useful. The Tlaxcalans, all these other conquered peoples had tried to attack them on their march, but they found them formidable and scary, so they allied with them, and they were very loyal, and they would have never taken Tenochtitlan and destroyed the Aztec empire if it hadn't been for the Aztec subject people, which tells you, my point was, they have to be pretty bad where an indigenous, people favors foreign Europeans to help them liberate themselves from a tyranny, and that's what it was. Well, thank you. That's an excellent history lesson. I must say I was a little afraid you were going to use this opportunity to attack Italians because you had Leif Erikson and envy of who deserves a founding of America award. Anyway, anyway, my friend, speaking of immigration, or were we, here's a headline. Ilhan Omar responds to raid on D.C. home with five-word warning to Trump. So that's happened today. Squad member Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, claimed that a Homeland Security investigations raid of her Washington, D.C. residence on Monday was part of a targeted effort by President Trump to intimidate her as a political foe. I'm okay. Make no mistake, though. This is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement Omar said in a statement on X, "For 10 years, years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in the campaign of intimidation. I will not be silenced, et cetera, et cetera. What was her five-word warning? I will not be silenced. Well, nobody's going to silence her. It's a free country. But the question is, if she's worried about impartiality, the question is simply, did she or did she not marry her own brother to facilitate his getting a residence permit in the United States? And did she or did she not lie subsequently about that? And if she did, she committed immigration fraud. And then the question is, is she getting impartial treatment now out of a vendetta because she's attacked Trump? Or was she getting impartial treatment by the Biden administration? And Obama administrations had never even investigated what had been widely reported. And I mean, I don't think that we got a SWAT team with reporters tipped off like CNN, or it wasn't something like the Mar-a-Lago raid. And the other thing is, her father, as we've reported before, was a colonel in the army of Saeed Barry, the president of the United States. And he was a colonel in the army of Saeed Barry, the Somalian genocidal dictator for 20 years. And so he was an elite. And she said that he was a teacher. But there had been Somali land dissidents and victims of that genocide who had reported and stated that he was central to many of the military operations that Saeed Barry conducted. So we have the word genocide is in the air often by Ilya Nomad. So the question is, not was there a genocide in Somalia? Everybody knows there was. They wiped out up to 200,000 people of a hostile, what they felt was a hostile tribe that wanted to break away. So that's clear. And it's clear that Saeed Barry was a dictator and ordered that. And it's clear that her father was in that army. What she's disputing was that he was actually involved in the military operations to ethnically cleanse the country. And so she's disputing that. And of course, the Somali land, some voices say yes. And she says no. So let's have an open investigation. And if he did do that, and he was granted at first a legal residency, then he has the same fate as hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans, Ukrainians, I shouldn't say hundreds, tens of thousands, and Germans who between, let's say, 1945 and 1970, came to the United States under dubious circumstances and didn't tell us things like they were a prison guard at Treblinka, or they helped rounded up Jews in Lithuania, or they mass martyred people at Babi Yar. So that was a, I think she doesn't understand, that was a frequent daily news event that an American, you remember them, they were all being deported. And finally, it got into the 80s where they'd get guys in wheelchairs. Yeah. But I think it's still an active, office at the Justice Department. And they got, they, you know, they didn't try them for war crimes. They just deported them. They said, even citizens, they said, you got your citizenship through false pretenses, and they sent them back. And the question is, A, was he a genocidal dictator? B, did she and her father come in under false pretenses? And C, did she violate immigration law by marrying her brother to facilitate, and lie about it? And it's either yes or no. And so they'll open an investigation, and there'll be people. And it raises the larger question, because the Somali community that she says that we're lucky to have here has been involved in a lot of gang violence, you know, the halftime shootings at sports events, the $8 to $9 million reported or alleged fraud in Minneapolis. And to what degree did that group represent people that were alive? Lined with Saeed Barry. And after he slaughtered so many tens of thousands of people, and his regime fell, were they afraid of repercussions for what that regime had done? Yes, they were. And did some of them plead to the United States? Yes. And were they ever investigated to see if they had ties with that genocidal regime? No. Hardly no. So that's, I think that's what's behind her furor, that she did get. Preferential treatment, and this is a correction of it. And did people in the administration, are they happy about it? Absolutely. So they're not apolitical. But the point is not whether political animus is the sole cause, it's whether she has culpability or not. And they'll find out, they'll find, they'll have liberal judges, they'll have all kinds of people that'll adjudicate these investigations at some point, and we'll find out. But we'll see. Well, in the meanwhile, Victor, we began recording. I looked at Breitbart, and I see the top headline, Bill Kristol urges, quote, all good men, end quote, to defend Ilhan Omar. I just. He has the zeal of apostate, doesn't he? He goes for 50 years telling us that conservatism is the last great hope of America, and that he takes credit for packaging Dan Quayle as a brilliant president, and he was chief of staff. He takes credit for, rightfully so, stopping the first version of ClintonCare, universal healthcare, single payer. He's the one that whipped up the opposition to it. And then, of course, the weekly standard for 20 years or so. And he was one of the people in the project of the next American century to take out Saddam, not in 2000, 2003, after 9-11. I'm talking about the 1990s. He, Fareed Zakaria, the Kagan's, Paul Wolfowitz. I'm not criticizing. I'm just saying that was a whole movement. So that's what he tried to convince everybody to do, and he kept it up all that time until 2015. And then he decided that Trump was so uncouth. I don't think he said Trump is so unconservative because, as in the case of or others, Marjorie Taylor Greene or Thomas Massey, if you took the Trump agenda, first term or second, and you took their agenda, and you said, check, close the borders, check. No mass amnesties, check. Two biological genders, check. Strong defense, check. Reduce crime by stiff penalties, check. Expensive and unreliable, green power, check. More fossil-fueled. It was all there. They would say, yes, he's my man. And then you ask them, well, where do you differ? And Bill Kristol was, he's unfit. He's uncouth. He's crude. And then you say to yourself, okay, compared to what? Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office? Or JFK deflowering a virgin in the presidential bed? Or what? Tell me, given. He doesn't take my phone calls, and he may not even know who I am. That's the basic problem, right? Yeah. So my point is, what was it? I think the answer was, he didn't come to Washington and call Bill Kristol or George Will up and say, look, I need you guys, your deep pundits, you know the Washington line. Maybe he should have. And you're very knowledgeable, but I'm a little different than you. I want to re-industrialize the interior. I'm not a nation builder. I'm a Jacksonian. I'm really angry at NATO because they're, as Barack Obama said, they're free riders. And I think tariffs will force people to invest in the United States to avoid them. And they've been asymmetrical. But other than that, I'm pretty much what you guys are. But they couldn't do that because it was their pride and their hubris. 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And I guess that's the truth. They were a multi-service facility, and they may have had mental. I don't know what I'm getting at is it's like Ilya Nomar. It either happened or it didn't, and we pride ourselves in the age of AI and that we can scan every news report, every blogger. So Tallarico either did go to a facility that treated mental patients or he didn't, and that can be discovered. Well, it says something about character too. Victor, because you're here, you did not work while you were recovering from having half of your lung cut out. But before that, you were doing four of these shows a week, four of the other, real Victor Davis Hanson in a few words, writing like a fiend nonstop, writing a book, and you showed up with something far worse than a flu. And if somebody's running for the. I'm not doing this to, you know. No, I mean, you're. I don't know. I'm not. Yeah. I'm not. I'm saying, yeah. I mean, there were days I went down to speak to, with my friend, for my friend, Megan Kelly, and I like her, you know, and I, I felt really bad because I didn't think I did very well, but I could hardly breathe. And that, that was in, I think, November. So right around August, September, October, November, whatever the problem was, and they had said I had to collapse lower lung, it started to affect me everywhere. And I never missed a day of work. Right. You always showed up. And I don't know how you don't show up if you're running for the Senate from Texas, but whatever excuse he has, the people will factor it in. I think they're trying to run out the clock. All he has to say is, this is where I was, here are the calendar dates, and where people are alleging that somebody named James Tallarico was discharged from a Ohio mental institution, or. That's a rough translation of a facility for mental problems. And here's the days that I've been gone. And I can tell you where I was on each day. I can give you my GPS, I can tell you anywhere. Did I ever go to Ohio? No. Did I ever check into a hospital that, for a mental? No. And he can do that. That's all he needs to do. But all, instead of, he's just getting, like they all do, stonewall and say, I don't have the flu, end of discussion, it's none of your business, basically. But if you're a Republican that stole a cookie, the New York Times would have an investigative unit all over you. Yeah, I mean, we had Joe Biden, who looked like at any moment he was going to fall over, or he was confused. He didn't know how to get off the stage. The Mexican president had to help him downstairs. Half, like Trump said during the debate, she said, do you want to respond to that? He said, I have no idea what he meant. Neither does he. So that same group of people that were covering that up are now talking, if you read the Wall Street Journal, I think Jeremy Raskin is one of the volunteers, are going to try to invoke the 25th Amendment. In other words, they're going to call in individual cabinet members, put them under oath and say, did you ever see Donald Trump enfeebled? And if so, da, da, da, would you? And they're going to try to do, these are the same people who excused all that. So they're completely without any credibility. By the way, Raskin, didn't he, is he since involved? Didn't he get hit up for some mortgage fraud? Did you see this story? I saw that a long time ago that he, I don't know what that is because I think a lot of them do it where they move to Washington and they don't go home. Yeah, no, no, this is different. About their prime residence? Is that what you're referring to? Yeah, but he was trying to take a loan. I think it had to do with, oh, oh, forgiveness of, of maybe forgiveness of student loans. And he was acting like it was, and then borrowing against it, something to that effect, which just, anyway, my point is he's a well-heeled and well-versed in flimflammery himself to be accusing anyone of anything. Yeah. So, I mean, they all say that everybody does it, but what we're discovering about Christopher Wray, for example, he knew, he knew what Jack Smith was doing and about surveilling people and 44 lawmakers he was surveilling, not just when they called him, they called and to whom they called, but also where they were in some cases, where their phone was. And he was cherry picking judges in some cases. So what he, he was doing what he did a lot. That's why his conviction of Governor McConnell in Virginia was overturned 9-0 by the Supreme Court. And that's why he was picked. He was picked, not because he was a great prosecutor, not because he was sober judicious and, a master of jurisprudence, not because he had the highest integrity, but because he was an absolute rabid partisan bulldog. And they felt, well, he should be disgraced because he destroyed the career of a elected official by improperly charging him with taking illegal gifts. And on appeal, even the liberal four members of the Supreme Court couldn't buy his argument. And so anybody who's been rejected 9-0 would be disgraced. That was a recommendation for him to the Biden administration because they thought this blank, blank, blank is an attack dog. He doesn't care about rules. He'll go after Trump. He will ride him. He will speed up the election. He will speed up his writs. He will try to get this prosecution on the calendar with a cherry pick judge before the election. He will tell the FBI to go to Mar-a-Lago. He will have the FBI go in SWAT fashion. He will have them scatter dossiers all over. That's what he does. And it will really hurt Trump. And he's our man. Well, Victor, let's move on a little bit to the topic we talked about on our most recent podcast that had to do with the Nobel Peace Prize winner. And here's a headline, Nobel Peace Prize winner accused of helping China persecute Uyghurs. Multiple human rights activists accused the 2026, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, this weekend of having used her position at the Global Agency to help China persecute Uyghur people. Dalkin Issa, the president of the Uyghur Center for Democracy and Human Rights and the former president of the World Uyghur Congress, revealed in a public statement that Pillay had shared information about him with the Chinese government, potentially endangering him and his family. The non-governmental organization UN Watch also shared accusations that Pillay used her position at the UN to identify Uyghur activists and share information with China that could facilitate their persecution by the communist regime. Some peace hero, heroine, Victor. Yes, I would say as a general generalization that any representative to the UN or to a UN-affiliated commission like the U.N. Commission, I would say that any representative to the U.N. Commission like the U.N. Commission human rights or international criminal, that's separate but it's affiliated. Any of them who are from the proverbial third world or from mostly European leftist parties, they have two things in common, two things in common, Jack. Number one, they're obsessed with Israel and they will single it out for asymmetrical treatment, and she did. She was on record as basically despising Israel. And two, they will be an utter hypocrite and cozy up to China. And because China still has this emblem of being hard left, Maoism, like the Obama public relations director who said that Mao was her favorite man in history. Basically, she told a high school group that because he was left wing. And then because it's so powerful and rich, and it's subverted the WHO, all the international bodies have been subverted by China. So they have no credibility because when they open their mouth, you just wait and take a deep breath and says, it's going to be in some ways to excuse China, and it's going to be some ways to demonize Israel. And she fits both bills. And therefore, there was a third requirement of the Nobel Prize. And generally, you cannot be a Western diplomat. And if you are a Western, you have to be way off the cycle, like really left wing. But you cannot be Western-white, and you cannot be traditional. You have to be socialist, communist, or a person of color. And Obama fit that. Yes, or Arafat fit that. They all fit that. We're going to, hopefully, we'll have time to talk a little bit about Obama at the end here. But right now, Victor, if you- I feel sorry for Obama. He's lost his, what did Michelle call his swagger? He's lost his swagger, his starship tower. Or his monolith. Well, let's talk about it then. Yeah, let's talk about it now. His German flak tower in Berlin. The thing that's more concrete than anywhere else in the world, most likely. Let me see where I put $350 million over budget. And he bragged, I remember when they were bragging they were going to get diverse equity inclusion contractors. And the African-American brotherhood of contractors now claims they're owed, what, several million dollars they were shorted? Sure. And remember, they had to get other contractors who then criticized some of them and say, "Well, it was faulty work." And I can't believe that Obama's siding with the second group who said the first group was doing shoddy work. And then they hired all these employees. They're doing shoddy work. And Obama said he was on record, he wants people to unionize. So they're now beginning to unionize, but they're all leaving because they feel they're underpaid or they're not getting sufficient benefits. And then Valerie, isn't Valerie Jarrett running the whole thing for- A staggering amount of money. Yeah, for six-figure salary. Well, yeah, close to seven. Maybe it is seven. Sometimes these places have- And it just, every single day there's a story, whether he's on his beach, or- The global warming guru said that within two decades, we're going to be flooded. He's either on his seaside Martha's Vineyard, or a seaside beach Hawaii house, or he's right in his headquarters or in this $9 million Colorama mansion, or he's visiting his flak tower from his Chicago digs. And he doesn't care about anybody. No, he doesn't care about anybody. Yeah. He doesn't care about anybody. He never did, but himself. Right. And we now know, if you look at the actual people who were prominent from 2021 to 2000, January, it was mostly Obama people that were running the country. It was a veritable third term under the guise of the wax and effigy of Joe Biden. So I think all of that put together, then his lofty remonstrations with people of color don't be, you know, don't have false consciousness, don't fall for this, don't do this. Here's what you have to do if you're really going to be authentic. This is a guy who, you know, was inauthentic, very sortero for most of his early life. From Kenya, very, very early life. All right, Victor, we're going to talk about France in a second, but first to our listeners and viewers. 250 years ago, the American Revolution transformed 13 British colonies into an independent nation, but the revolution was more than a war. It was a struggle over self-government, natural rights, and whether Americans would continue to be ruled by a distant government. 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Victor, you and I, or you and Sammy, I don't believe yet we've gotten your take on what is happening in France with these riots, which are now also occurring in Belgium, supposedly about not enough air conditioning in French schools. But the root of this is the hard left, a labor in France, and of course, Muslims who hate. It's kind of like the people backing. There was some articles in the Wall Street Journal, I think today or yesterday, about the concerted effort of left-wing donors to fund a lot of the anti-I stuff and no kings and all of that. It's all whipped up. I'm not saying there's not genuine people, but I think they're useful idiots. It's control. And as soon as a democratic president should be there, it would cease. If you think I'm being a partisan, Barack Obama, I remember he gave a press conference. He was talking about immigration. He was under the hot seat because of open borders. And he, after about a year and a half, he said, "Tom Holman deserves this medal because he's deported 900,000 people." And now Tom Holman, who was probably deported about the same amount, a little bit more, now he's the Prince of Darkness to the Obamaites. So what I'm getting at is it's all politics. There's no consistency. There's no principle. Nobody takes it seriously anymore, the left. All it is is the quest or the Nietzschean search for power, any means necessary to get it. So no kings. It just boggles the mind. First of all, it was Tesla. Tesla. Elon Musk is the Prince of Darkness. We've got to go torch Tesla. There's a Tesla car blew up in Las Vegas. Oh my God. And then we took a deep breath. Then it was ICE and ICE in Minnesota and all these, and they're horrible. These are Gestapo. These are Nazis. And then it was no kings. He's a king. We got to go out and protest. He's dah, dah, dah, dah. And then it just keeps going. And they try to get the villain of the day. They whip up people and they, and I guess it's working because they're in some polls ahead in the House and it's even in the Senate for the midterms. But, and then lately they get a low, a low, very low ranking techie. And he gets, suddenly he's, this guy comes out of nowhere and on Google or something, he says, "All these people are going to destroy the world." And they, and we've got to stop AI. And you think, well, who are you? And Trump won't do it. And now, and then that becomes an obsession. And you think, well, from, if you look at some of the disinterested predictions for the economy at the last quarter of 2026 and the first quarter of 2000, people are suggesting it could grow at 5% and can crease because in part AI. So you get the impression that they just don't want AI because it might revert to AI. Well, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's true. Yeah. And I think, I think it might reveal good numbers for the Trump economic record. And as soon as they were to take power, they wouldn't stop AI. I don't think, I mean, Bernie would and most people, but most of the people would take credit for it and say, they discovered it, they nursed it. And that's, but it played no role in their, in their brilliant economic recovery. That's what they would say. Yeah. Well, Victor, let's, let's go to some campuses, two campuses. I'll throw both stories out there and your take on them. They both have to do with anti-Semitism. And one is at Columbia, which has always been a hotbed since October 7th for anti-Semitism. And the headline here is from Fox news, Columbia university says October 7th, dining menu listing was a mistake and part of what it said here on the menu at the school was october 7th blush sauce which is like like what the f this is this is oh that was a printing type how the hell does that get to be a printing type anyway that was one thing the other thing that's anti-semitic and really troubling has to do with this professor at uh haverford uh college in pennsylvania um his uh what the professor guan qian ha he's been arrested and charged with cyber stalking a jewish colleague he was posing as a maga a non-anonymous person on x and it let me just read this as an addition to posting violent anti-semitic messages he allegedly posted his colleague's home address infant child's name a photograph of the family's mailbox countless anti-semitic slurs and threats in reference of real-time observation of their home uh etc etc and he is a he was a wackadoo i think if you look at what his uh the courses he was teaching but that someone with that mentality could be hired at a prestigious college maybe it shouldn't be surprising he's dei he's di remember what di is di is just as if you and i go into an insurance uh company and say we're we're going to go take a trip and we we want to get insurance we're going to fly i want to get airline insurance and so we're indemnified or if you have a i have a small little 40 acres and i have a renter now and i get insurance that says if anyone he wants to sue me i have x amount if you basically in california it's happened five times if you're drunk and you're driving at a high speed and you go aerial and you go into an orchard or vineyard and you destroy thirty or forty thousand dollars worth of damage and you're driving at a high speed and you go aerial and you go into an orchard or vineyard you get nothing and the person leaves the scene of the accident and if you try to take the car of course you'll be arrested as a deposit but they can we've had cases where they sue people if they hit a pipe or something or that pipeline shouldn't be there so you get these expensive policies well that's what di is it's basically saying i got a dei policy and that means that if i want to make up a false identity and attack this person i'm not a part of the oppressor class so i get an exemption if i want to walk out of this store and shoplift i get an exemption if it's under nine hundred and fifty dollars maybe even above and that's the worst thing about di and that's all these things have something in common if you are a victim and you say the jews did this or the jews did that then you're going to be um protected i think the jewish community i think knows that i mean there are a lot of people who are in the jewish community who are in the jewish community who are right-wing anti-semites i think you can make the argument that tucker detest israel and his anti-semite given the things he said and i say that because i i remember he had no evidence of that but i remember when he in his early career he was a critic of pat buchanan remember and he said this place the buchanan is is really sending coded anti-semitic themes tucker said that so i think he's gone from that to something completely opposite but what i'm getting at is if it's fuentes or candace or tucker that's an isolated group what we're talking about is the whole left-wing party now is anti-semitic basically the mixture of socialism and the whole islamicism you get the people in the united states who are always accusing the jews of running cabals and you get the people from the middle east who say israel is the source of all of our self-inflicted problems and then you get the people from the middle east and they combine and they're powerful and people are not speaking out against it but it's from the left and that professor will be found out to be a left that's why he disguised himself as a mega person but i don't think they're i think it's accelerating so fast jack i don't think they're ashamed of it i think they're happy about it um well you you know you can see that with mondami he he uh they're talking now about firing a police commissioner in new york now the only jewish uh member of his i mean mainstream jewish she's done a wonderful job and i and hasan piker whom they all invite to to be seen with he said that you will not orthodox jews are inbred he said and you will not see a jew nominated ever again as a democratic candidate for president so they're open about it and it's going to keep going and well he he by the way we should just since you stumbled into then stumble into this you brought us into this about mondami he did on october 7th pay lip service to what happened three years ago but then of course he also added all all those some some event but now he's being attacked by um could you be further left than mondami by those who say that his participation at an event that recognized the the the murders of on october 7th was uh inexcusable and people have been flying at some of these demonstrations not all but some they fly hezbollah flags they're happy they believe in terrorism uh el saeed said hurt people hurt people i.e translated people that are hurt by jews then hurt jews what do you expect the the funny thing is you take away october 7th right now and there would be no problem in gaza we would still go back to square one the gaza wall would be pathetic it's nothing compared to pictures or of the gaza egyptian wall in other words the egyptians were firmer that they didn't want gazans going in to eat fellow muslim arab egypt than they were than the jews were into jewish israel there would be 18 000 work permits people still going in making twelve thirteen dollars eleven to twelve thirteen dollars an hour in israel working side by side all the buildings would be there da da da da da all they had to do was not go in under the guise of you know being workers and and conduct um intelligence operations find out where the kibbutzes are plan the whole thing iran was the brain and the bank of the whole thing hezbollah was supposed to join in the houthis were supposed and they really did believe they would get further than 17 miles they thought they were going to go 50 60 80 miles because they thought that 150 000 rockets from hezbollah would come in houthis would come in they did fire right after people forget this they fired about 4 000 rockets after um october 7th into civilian centers before october 20th when the israelis went in and then they ended up firing almost 14 000 in total but they really did and iran it really did and they really did and they really did and they really did and they believe that it could have deniability of culpability and everything that we're looking at now wouldn't have happened i mean we might have everything on that point victor it's still hard to grasp that on october 8th what happened and that it wasn't latent it was there it wasn't created absolutely so we're sitting there waiting to be that's what i pointed out they they were trying to hide it yeah and everybody thought people on both sides of good good intelligence and a good heart said this was a horrible atrocity we have to look at this never in their right mind did they think that people would come out and cheer and think oh my gosh we killed 12 000 and we got to rape them and mutilate them and dismember them and torture them and take hostages this is so wonderful now we're going to celebrate this is so and then they really did go to the next leap and the israelis are losing we've got into inside israel with only 6 000 people and now they're surrounded and the hezbollah is going to wipe them out with the hutis and everything's going to get better and hamas has got 50 000 and hezbollah's got 100 000 and the hutis got 20 000 rockets and drones and iran's got all it's going to be wonderful let's celebrate that's that was the whole climate and the only reason gaza is in rubble today the israelis said sorry we're gonna we want all of them back we want all the people who did this send them back here we want to try them and by the way give give up the 251 hostages that's all we're asking and they said no why did they say no because we're winning we're winning we got people in the united states that are cheering on campuses we got all of europe is on our side we've got 50 000 rockets missiles and drones and our ring of fire and iran we're gonna win and then israel went in and when the a went in they were attacked probably 40 000 missiles and rockets have been shot at israeli civilians from lebanon from hamas from yemen from iran and they lost they lost badly and that was all they had to and if they they didn't want to give them up and they didn't want the hostages up all they had to do was do this they had to say you know what the israelis are to blitz us. We've got over 300 miles of tunnels. They have food, they have water, they're safe from bombing. We want all you Gazan people who live anywhere near us, who might be in danger, get in those tunnels because we're going to go out and fight these Jews. We're going to go out and fight the Israeli, the IDF. We're going to fight house to house, but we don't want you hurt. They did just the opposite. They put the entries and exits under hospitals, private homes, mosques, and schools, and they kept the civilians out. And they used it because they really did believe the Israelis would be more reluctant to inflict damage or death on their own Gazan brotherhood than they were in exposing them to that. So basically, Hamas made the calculation. It's easy. Anybody who knows any logic, A plus B equals C, will see that they said, you know what? Those awful Jews in Israel, in their naivete, care more about human life than we do. And even worse for them, they care more about the Hamas Gazans than we do. So if we put our people out there to be killed, a lot of them are going to get killed, but they're not going to hit our entry and exits in the hospitals, the mosques, and schools because they're going to pull back from those places. So we're going to sit here safe. And the Gazans will get killed, and that'll be good for propaganda. What they didn't count on was the Israelis went down and got them and pulled them out and fought. But that would have all been avoided. And we're not even getting into not one Jewish person was in Gaza for 18 years when 2020, since 2005. Or we're not getting out to they had an election. All they had to do was say, we're going to have an election. Let's not kill Palestinian Authority rivals. They're a different party. But please, Hamas people, don't throw them off houses anymore. Please, that's all we're asking. Don't kill 150 of our own people and throw them off. And don't go to people's houses and threaten them to vote for us. And then once we elect Hamas, let's have a free press, habeas corpus, a constitution, and let's every four years have a regular. They couldn't even do that. And then if they couldn't even do that, they could say, well, we're going to be an autocracy like, oh, the UAE or Saudi Arabia. But we're going to show the Jews in Israel that we're smarter and better. So we're going to build a Kuwait city or a Dubai right here on 24 miles of priceless Mediterranean beaches. And we're going to make this, we're going to put the Israelis to shame. We're going to have more money, nicer places, tourists. They were a complete death cult. They already had the money, but they spent it on tunnels and concrete. Exactly. Yeah. They had $40 billion that was given to them over the years. Victor, we're going to take a little break. And when we come back, we'll hopefully have one, we'll have one topic at least about Cornell and its sex guides. 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We are a nation of immigrants. We're a nation of immigrants. The Immigration Crisis. Watch now on the Heritage Foundation's YouTube channel. We are recording today. We're back with Victor. David Hanson in his own words and we're recording on Monday, October 12th. This episode is up on Thursday, October 15th. You notice Victor's background. He is not in his traditional studio. He's down as he has talked about on the last podcast. He's going to be down doing stuff at Pepperdine University. It's my first outing out of my job. So I had promised a year ago and I was here a year ago and I didn't do very well. I didn't do very well because I didn't know what was wrong with me. I had just had a scan and they said it was a collapsed lung from valley fever or pneumonia. But I wanted to come back and try to do a better job this time. We'll see. I don't know. I was there while you were there and you gave a talk and I think we're pretty darn good. But anyway, that said, so this is from the Free Press, an article by Jared Letterman, who I believe is a student or has been at Cornell. And this is we're not talking about. The seven dudes. But what was the sense? What was the culture of Cornell that this all took place in? So here's what the headline is. What Cornell teaches its students about sex. In 2019, the university's official health authority, Cornell Health, authored a guide titled Sexual Pleasure, Finding the Sweet Spot. It opens by declaring that sex can be. Made for a make for a terrific study break. Students are encouraged to explore sexual fantasies and consider fetish gear. Exposure to pornography, Cornell assures us, is totally normal. And the guide directs students toward ethical porn and the feminist porn awards. Today, this report is available inside a sexual health resource library that has been handpicked by our staff. There's more of the same, Victor, including. Well, let me just see that there's another guide, the sexual inventory stock list, a copy of which can be found at Cornell's health website. The list, which is intended to help students feel comfortable exploring their sexuality, but reads more like the navigation menu of a pornography website, includes sex with two people at one sex with three people at one sex with more than three people at one cyber sex, open sexual relations, sex toys, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is this is what Cornell encouraged. And yet with something that you might read about happening, according to these guidelines, happens, all hell breaks loose. Your thoughts. Suddenly, it's suddenly, you know, it's Casablanca. And oh, my God, I'm shocked there's gambling here. So what they did basically is most of these universities. And I said at Stanford, there was a dominectrix on campus that was paid for, I guess, by a student organization. I did not know that. Yeah. So basically what these elite universities do, they take young 18 year olds and 19 year olds and 20 year olds. I'm not saying they're on. They're sophisticated. They're unsophisticated about sex, but they take them on these campuses and then they try to introduce them to kind of postmodern sexuality where there are no rules. Human nature doesn't apply. It's it's kind of pansexual or homosexual or transsexual. But one thing that you don't encourage. Is for a male student and a female student to date and have commitments to each other and be monogamous during their relationship. That's too bourgeois. So they have all these kinky things. And then on the weekend, they don't really enforce drug or alcohol. Most of the most many of the people in the fraternity, if you're 18, 19, 20 and 21, when you go to a university. Then you should assume 75 percent of the student body in many states can't drink, but they don't ever go in and say, see an ID. So they drank. And I don't think there are not narcs or are not allowed on campus. So drugs, I relate that story when my father came and dropped me off in 1971 at UC Santa Cruz. There was a poster and it said, has she's five dollars a cube lids, six, 15. Fifty acid psilocybin all pasted on his door. And then the next day, my dad, he left. He said, now, don't go near there. I said, I'm going to go look at there. So I knocked on the door and the guy had a book, a bookcase and he had them all with price tags. And he had a little one of those old remember those kind of Texas instruments thing. And they had also had a paper copy. He was out there typing and there were two or three people and they knew it. They didn't say anything. So they create those conditions. But then they also have this Victorian feminist idea that on all cases, the male is culpable. And so when the inevitable that they have encouraged happens under the guise of liberation and females define their own sexuality, et cetera, et cetera. Then we have something like the Cornell seven and boys act like barbarians, basically. And they're crude and they're uncouth. And they're. And then the girl says to be accepted and want to be liked. She wanted to be with one person, but maybe she would make him jealous. I'm just postulating, get another guy involved, and then people would broadcast that she's loose, come over and take advantage of her, and da, da, da. And then inevitably, didn't she ever think she was going to go home, and then she was going to wake up, and she would be sober? And she said, oh, my gosh, I've had unprotected sexual intercourse with a number of boys. I don't know any of their histories. They could have infected me with everything from AIDS to, oh, my gosh, what did I do? And now they're going to call me all these names. And so then they want to have damage control, and one or two of them, okay, okay, it wasn't rape. Well, what did they expect with all of this back and forth? So when it all boils down to you have three parties, and they're all culpable. You have a young girl who made mistake one by drinking underage. Mistake two. Mistake two by going in drunk to a fraternity of men. Well, there were other people, but number three, going upstairs with a person. Number four, ever allowing more than one person to be with her at once. And five, of course, what happened. Then you have the males who were like sort of predators, apex predators on the savannah. And then she was kind of like an antelope that came in, and they're all lions and tigers. And they wanted their fun. And they wanted their fun with her and kind of sexually manipulated her because she was drunk. Nobody said, not one person from what we can tell said, stop it, stop it. I know where this is going. I know she says yes. I know, but tomorrow she's going to regret this, and we are endangering her health. And stop it, no matter what she says. Nobody said that. And then you have the third and the most culpable. Cornell is saying, I want $125,000 for you. For room, board, and tuition. Maybe it's $150,000 now. I want it from you. And when you come to my campus, I promise you, I will introduce you to kinky sex. But if you engage in what I introduced you to, and it fits a me too, ma'am, we'll go after you. And we take no responsibility as administrators for anything that happens. And that's where we are. And it's the whole thing is just a con. It's just. They're not worth the money anymore. They don't teach analytics and inductive thinking and mathematics very well anymore. And they're acts of commission. They're ideologically. They teach people in that four to five years these radical ideas that are bankrupt, hate the West, hate America, da, da, da, da, racism, racism, racism, meaning they are racist. And they're not worth the money. They would all be. Does anybody? Does anybody really believe that if you were 18 and you had a four-year scholarship, excuse me, you were going to pay four years at Cornell or five to go through all this, or maybe join your dad's electrical business or become a plumber, you would be any worse off? I don't think you would be. I know that we need educated people. I know we need bachelors and masters and PhD, but not at the number we're producing. That is a effort on the left to say everybody needs. Everybody needs a degree to be a bureaucrat or, you know, an Uber driver. What we heard for 20 or 25 years, we must prepare our children, high school students, we must prepare them for the economy of the 21st century. Wait, wait. I thought the message. We have to prepare our new generation to be completely familiar and at ease with transsexualism, homosexuality, threesomes, foursomes, right? Right. Right. Oh, boy. Well, Victor, one last thing. I didn't tell you about this ahead of time, but I thought I would send you a note on it just for a lark. It's headlined, Kamala Harris's husband, Doug Emhoff, doesn't want her to run again. Does anybody want her to run again? No. She doesn't want to run again. Yeah. I mean, most of her doesn't want to run again. She probably will run again, but it's going to be very embarrassing. She can't, as I said, she has a vocabulary of 500 words. She has no grammar or syntax. She just repeats wash, rent, spin, wash, rent, spin, around and around and around. And whether it's a coconut tree or a bean or thyme, it's just this platitude. She has everything she's ever done as a senator, as the border czar, as the space czar. Can you imagine that she's very critical of Elon Musk and she was our space czar? She's very critical of, she and Mayorkas told us day after day the border was secure when 10,000, 15,000 people were crossing. And no, they don't want her and they're going to make fun of her because she's going, because she has no identity and no sense of self. So she's going to embrace the whole socialist Islamist agenda. Her husband's Jewish, but she'll flip on that and she will be anti-Israel and she will be. For radical green power and she'll be for decriminalization, mass amnesties, open borders, socialist medicine, and that's what she'll be. But they will, they will find her inauthentic and a loser and compared to AOC or somebody like that, they won't, they won't want her. And she'll try harder and harder to be hip. She's, she's like, it's kind of funny because they criticize each other, but they're very much alike. Newsom. And Harris. They're just bookends. I mean, they, they do all these hand gestures and they talk in silly platitudes and in circles. They never say anything. And when they've ever been in a position of responsibility, they've destroyed everything they've touched almost. And they're totally incompetent and they're very arrogant and they're men and women of the people, socialists, but they all end up in either Marin County or Brentwood or Malibu where she is. I'm in Pepperdine. I'm going to, I'm in Pepperdine. Maybe I'll go down to Starbucks and I'll see her. Well, do you? Maybe I'd drop by. Lucky you. Yeah. Yeah. The, on the hand gesture thing, I noticed the other day watching, I don't know what I was watching, but Hakeem Jeffries was on. He just, every syllable, he does a hand gesture. It's, do watch it, Victor, because I'd love to see you do an imitation of him. I have, you know, when you get older, I noticed after I had, you know, 10 hours of work, I'm like, I'm going to do a hand gesture. I'm going to do a hand gesture. You know, 10 hours of anesthesia that I have a little brain lapse between an idea and vocalizing. When I see him, I don't know what his problem is, but he does look like the proverbial deer in the headlights. It's like, you ask that question, take one, two, three. I have an idea, Representative Jeffries, how many, what do you think the chief issue will be when you take over the house? Well, we're going to, there will be serious discussions of impeachment and we will, we won't back down and Donald Trump will not know what hits, hit him and we're going to be fierce in our resistance. That's how he talks. He never has any ideas. He never is any explicit. And I'm not saying that because a Democrat, because I know. Certain Democrats, Bill Clinton would have answered that question in two seconds and rattled off 55 examples by memory. Yeah. And Obama would have done his hope and change, you know, song. They were effective in their own different ways. But this guy is not, and Harris is not, and Newsom is not. And I don't know anybody is really on that party. AOC is eloquent, but she's, she's like Harris. She just goes on that loop. And she does, she's not, she can't answer extemporaneously ad hoc very well. But she can dance around at, at campaign events and provides a certain entertainment. For somebody who was, who was a, somebody had been a barista in the nightlife scene and young and hip. And she's always talking about her Puerto Rican ancestry. I thought she would be much better dancer than she was. She looked like very awkward and. She just needs to jump up and down. I felt sorry for her. I felt sorry for her boyfriend. I really did. I mean that sincerely. He was kind of like a fixture in her life and he was kind of a little bit roly poly and kind of, and they were making fun. People were very cruel to him on social media. They call him Mr. Flip-flop and he had flip-flops and he, he was kind of a, what was the word adjacent to her? You know, like an ornament. An ornament. Yeah. And then when, as soon as people started talking, it was like, see ya. I don't want to, you're gone. Cause I'm now going to be presidential timber. And you have to be, I have to have a first man at some point and get married. I'm not going to marry you. And you're not first man material. And she just cut him loose. He was a little too wonder bread, I think for, for her aspirations, maybe. Yeah, I think so too. You don't want to talk about white privilege and white supremacy and white rage and then marry a white guy. Unless you're Kamala Harris and talk about white privilege. Unless you're Kamala Harris and you're going to talk about white privilege, white rage and white supremacy. And marry a white guy. be a white guy or you're, or you're alien Omar and you're going to talk about white rage, white supremacy, and white privilege, and marry a white guy. But it happens. Yeah. Well, at least you didn't talk about fraternal sex. I don't know if you do collectivize and stereotype an entire race as being supremacist and privileged, then obviously it includes everybody because you're generalizing, stereotyping. So why wouldn't your spouse fit the same bill? Are you saying everybody's, the majority of whites are supremacists and privileged and racist, and they have to pay reparatory money and time and privilege to the oppressed, but not my husband, not my husband. Or in the case of Obama and Colin Kaepernick, right? You know, they're parents or one of their parents anyway, right? You remember that old Star Trek where there was a guy and it was trying to lessen about 1970s? 1960s racism. And one guy had a black, there was a race and some of them had the left side black, the right side white, and the other were, the left side was white and the other side was black. And they were split. You know what I mean? It was, it's kind of, I don't know. Yeah. Confederate. Well, anyway, Victor, let's conclude here with, I have a couple of comments from YouTube and thank folks for taking the time to write them, including the ones unfavorable to certain. But I'm not going to read any of them. Here's one from Charles Humboldt who writes, you remind me of my father born in 1934. My father passed in 2010 and I miss listening to him. Tell me about history's connection to present time. Listening to you talk brings me back to my kitchen table. Thank you for every word you speak. Well, I was born in, thank you, but I was born in 1953, but some days I believe I was born in 1934. That's right. So. Yes. Or 1934 BC. Detroit12870 writes, I went to college and I'm broke. My brother who struggles to read and write went into an HVAC apprenticeship and makes six figures and can work anywhere in the country. Then that's, we were talking about that a few episodes ago. PhilPerrier662 writes, Victor, stage four. Ted and next, Squamos, cell carcinoma survivor. Surgery in 2016. Came back in 2018. Another surgery. Died on the table. Came back. Chemo and radiation in 17. Chemo and immuno in 2018. I've been in remission since 2024 when all treatments ended. I'm still here. You can beat this. Will it by the grace of God? Praise be to God. So, a lot of people rooting for you. I appreciate. I had a doctor friend who read the 500 pages and he said, you know, you came within about 10 minutes of bleeding out. And then I asked another doctor, I said, you didn't seem very confident when I talked to you. And he said, well, 72 people who lose three liters and have six transfusions after a five-hour removal of most of your right lung. And then five hours, you got to go back in and find everything and take out all the staples. And he said, well, if you lose three liters and have six transfusions after a five-hour removal of most of your right lung. And then five hours, you got to go back in and find everything and take out all the staples, stitches, start over from scratch, suck out all the blood, get all the trans. And then AFib and that didn't look very good. That was kind of. So, I never was depressed though. I was like the letter writer. As soon as I got out, I tried to walk. I could only walk about a hundred yards and not even that. I can remember the nurse walked me on day three and she said, and they can pick up all your heart rate. I didn't know that. As you're walking, when you wear this little wristband, so you walk down the nurse's station. And I said, well, do I need to have a, and they said, no. And I was really tired. And she says, you're doing great. And I said, well, she goes, what is your heart rate when you usually walk at home? And I said, it's about 73 to 75. She goes, that's not bad. It's only 125. And I said, oh my gosh, are you serious? And so, I was in pretty bad shape, but I never, I never thought I was going to die. At least not now. I've got to go get another biopsy in two weeks and everything, but the letter writer, I had so many of like that. And they were, as I said, they were written in perfect cursive and they were stories about how they overcame horrific odds. Yeah. And I don't think the sense is they're trying to compare notes with you. It's to be encouraging. It is. It is. It's no, no. The purpose, anybody who's called me or written me or it's always to be encouraged and not to give up. And, you know, I, I had a mother who, if I sound a little tentative sometimes it's because I had a mother who was on, at a peak of her career as an appellate court judge, and she had worked her whole life for that. And they took out a tumor and it was a benign meningioma and they swore that and they biopsied it. And they were worried she's going to die of something else. And then I took her to Greece with my father and she had an epileptic fit and we got home and there was size of a golf ball again. And then they said, we're sorry, that is a malignant, a malignant tumor. And they took it out. And then they said, she'll be fine. We took it out in time. It's malignant, but we got it. It was encapsulated. And then they said, about a month later, uh, the second MRI showed nodules in the same place, but we want to give you chemo. They gave her chemo. And after four sessions, they took an x-ray and said, she's got seven tumors in her vertebrae, breast, and she died. And the same thing with my daughter, they called me and said, I was, I drove down there and they said, we think it's meningitis. She had a stroke, um, dah, dah, dah. And then they said, we're wrong. It's leukemia. But, but don't worry. It's a type of leukemia that can be treated with a vitamin D derivative. And it's a 90%. She will be, she won't have the use of her right leg or right arm for a while, maybe two or three years, but maybe she can get it back, but it's got a great prognosis. And then, you know, 12 hours, 15 days later, she's on a respirator and they said, oh, we made a mistake. This is one of the most virulent form of leukemias we've ever seen. And dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. So you gotta be, when you have that type of diagnosis, you know, I try to be realistic. I read, you know, I ask AI, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. But I still am confident. I think I can beat it. I really do. I used to, I should say one other thing. I used to text with Rush Limbaugh the last year of his life about every other night. And I don't think people realize how courageous that guy was. He was telling me he was taking immunotherapy and crawling on across the floor so he could, you know, use the bathroom. And then he was, he would text and say, I'm getting ready for my show tonight. But he, he, he almost worked to the very last day. He never gave up at all. Yeah. I really miss him. I mean, I know, I do too. He's another person that when you actually met him and talked to him, he was one of the biggest hearted persons you'd meet. No, he couldn't. We had the greatest visit with him once, Rich Lowry and Jay Nordlinger and I was long ago, but wonderful. Hey, Victor, I just want to end on one final, I think a little lovely and honest comment. Very short. It's from MiyakoPro49. He writes, that lady asking you questions absolutely adores you. So, you know, he's talking about the great Sammy Wink, but I absolutely adore you also, Victor. So I don't want anyone to think that Sammy out adores you. So anyway. Because we don't, all of us don't have all that many people in the world that adore us. So we have to prize everyone that does. And I can tell you one thing when I, when I'm walking and somebody comes up and wants to introduce themselves, 90, 95% of the time, they're just the most wonderful people in the world and the salt of the earth. And I like hearing what they're about. They 5%, not so 95%. They're wonderful people. Yeah. Well, you are, you are adored. Victor, thanks for all the wisdom you shared. Folks, go to civilthoughts.com. Sign up for the free weekly email newsletter I write for the Center for Civil Society. It comes out every Friday and has 14 recommended readings. And I know you're going to like it. I get lots of emails from folks who enjoy it immensely. So please do that. And we're not selling your name. It's total act of kindness on my part. For all the wisdom you shared today, Victor, thanks folks for watching and viewing. And we'll be back soon with another episode of Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. Bye-bye. Thank you. 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