Victor Davis Hanson: The 25th Anniversary of 9/11

- If you had said after 9/11, 25 years from now, you will have a Muslim radical Islamist. He will be mayor and he will have with him on the campaign trail, Hasan Piker, who said that you, you, who are falling in the air deserve this. You deserved it and your country deserved it. And on the commemoration day, he will hand a pen to Mr. Kassim, who will have been the attorney for one of the sponsors of terrorism that helped kill 3,000 people. Nobody would have imagined that. (upbeat music) - Hello and welcome. This is Victor Davis-Hansen in his own words. This is our Friday news roundup and we've got lots on the agenda. So if we don't get finished here, we'll go to our Saturday show. We're gonna start off with, of course, the 8/9/11 commemoration by Victor. And then we'll look into politics with Canada, a little update. I know we've been talking a lot about that. And the Iran and an update on Iran and maybe the Ukraine. 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Text Hanson to 83848 or go to join ADF.com/Hanson to have your gift doubled. - Welcome back, Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. Victor is the Martin A. Neely Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Besky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website, victorhanson.com. The name of the website is the blade of Perseus. Please come join us there. So Victor, before we get into anything I was wondering, I know your book just came out on Tuesday, October 8th. And I was wondering if we could have a little bit of, sorry September, what did I say, October? - That's cool. - Oh, sorry, I'm already in October. Anyways, I was wondering a little bit of an update on-- - Well, it came out. I was very pleased. I did Mark Levin show Sunday on Fox. And he gave me a whole hour. And the president watched that. He tweeted a long tweet, endorsement. He said that the book knew as much about him as he did himself. It's kind of a nice thing to say in a way. And between those two appearances, it went to number one Sunday night on Amazon. And it's been one, I think, until this morning. It's two. So I owe a great deal of gratitude, not just to the president and Mark Levin, but I've been doing-- I think I've done about 15 shows so far. So those hosts have been very kind. Today I did Ben Shapiro, Bill O'Reilly. I did Miranda DeVine yesterday. I did Megan Kelly, et cetera, et cetera. And I think I owe a lot to the people listening, because the people who took all that time to write cards about my health and emails are the kind-- I think they're responsible for buying a lot of books. So-- and it's-- I was a little troubled because it was supposed to come out in March. And then I was ill. So they postponed it. And then I thought it would be dated. But I did write an epilogue getting up through June. But I think it might be valuable for the midterms. It gives you a different view from the media of what-- the fall and rise. It starts on January 6, and says, basically, you're not going to believe what you're going to read. But this is what they did to him. And it was coordinated. And it was unprecedented. And every time they tried to destroy him, his polls went up. And this is what he did during the campaign. And this is what the Biden administration gave him as a gift, being so inept. And the new radical socialist dash, Islamist Democratic Party. And then it goes through the first two years, year and a half of his governance. OK, Victor. So today is the 9/11. And it's the 25th anniversary of 9/11. And I know that we've been watching New York and Mondami. And there are a lot of people who are not happy Mondami is might come to ceremonies commemorating those who died on 9/11. I was wondering if you could give us a commemoration, the 9/11 itself, and then address the controversy going on in New York. Well, we hadn't done anything to them. In fact, you could make the argument under the Clinton administration. This is 25 years ago. So 2001, we were still in the shadow of eight years of Bill Clinton. And they had bombed our embassies, for example. And they had done other stuff all over the world. And we hadn't done much. So they were emboldened and thought they really did believe one of two things, and probably both. We would not reply and try to go after them in Afghanistan, which we drove them out, and then we destroyed the Taliban for 15 years. And we would-- we moved one of the great sponsors of terrorism, Saddam Hussein. And they didn't believe that would happen. And more importantly, they thought that people would rally to their cause in the Arab world. And that didn't happen either. So their plans failed. Everybody said, I went back today and looked at what people were saying 25 years ago. And they all said that a second attack of that magnitude was not a question of if, but only when. And that did not happen. And that was because, for all the criticism of George W. Bush, he did clamp down on global terrorism. And for all the problems with homeland security and all the bureaucratic stuff, we did not-- we had a lot of terrorism incidents, but not anything of that magnitude. It did change our lives. You can't go to an airport and think, even remember what it was like 25 years prior to this. It changed everything. The only moment that I have-- and I think a lot of our listeners share it-- if you had said after 9/11, 25 years from now, you will have a socialist instead of Rudy Giuliani or someone like him in New York. Instead of all those fire guys risking their lives in YPD, you're going to have a guy who hates them. And he's going to be a Muslim radical. And he's going to represent the new socialist Democratic party and Islamist. And he's going to announce he will confiscate private property of landlords he doesn't like. And on the commemoration day, 25 years from now, he will be mayor. And he will hand a pin that he signed the proclamation of observance for 9/11, 25 years earlier. And by the way, he was in Uganda as a settler colonialist with the 1% Indian community that was running 65% of the wealth in his Victoria state. So he comes over here. And he will hand the pin as a gift to Mr. Cassem, who's standing to his left. And Mr. Cassem will have been the attorney for one of the hijackers that help kill 3,000 people. And in addition to that, he will, in addition to that, he will hand the pin not to Mr. Cassem, but take the iconic head, the commissioner of the NYPD, and almost as a little servant, who was the only Jewish member of his inner cabinet that he inherited, the commissioner, Ms. Tish, who is a very capable servant. She's the utmost professionality. She's wonderful, and she's in a beleaguered sense because this guy ran on the NYPD, kills people, and it's out of control, and it should be defunded. So then she has to hand this pin to somebody who's an anti-Semite and tried to qualify this horrible day on 9/11 by defending one of the hijackers in his family. So that's where we are now. Nobody would have imagined that, but that's where we are. And we're up to a midterms and-- If you had said, as we watched those brave people trying to determine whether they should be burned alive or smashed into smithereens and they dived headfirst from the world trade, and if you'd said to them why they're falling, in 25 years there'll be a Mr. L. Saeed, and he will be running ahead in Michigan for Senate, and he will have with him on the campaign trail and associate, as will Montgomery Hassan Piker, who said that you, you, who are falling in the air, deserved this. You deserved it, and your country deserved it. I never thought I could imagine that. And what is the reason for that? And very briefly, what is the problem with Europe, what is the problem with Canada? Why did we have this problem with these, and I'm not a nativeist, I'm not a protectionist, but it's immigration, both legal and illegal, because we did not vet immigrants. We gave them a blank check to come in. We have 53 million people who were not more in the United States, and we don't know who they are. And we have an additional of that 53 million, at least 25 to 30 million are here illegally. And they're coming from the poorest regions of Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. And since 9/11, we've had about 4 million people come from the Middle East. And they don't like us. And they are responsible not because of colonialism or American imperial takes. They allow their countries to be socialist communists, and they failed. And then they went over here. And they're in Canada, 45 percent, as I said, of the Canadian population. Either was not born in Canada, or their parents were not born. And they were used by the left as useful idiots, and let in by the left in exchange for pushing a leftist communist agenda. So when you look at the people right now, as we head to the midterms, who were the most vocal, they weren't even here. And their parents weren't even here during 9/11. And they haven't made no effort to learn what 9/11 was, or they wouldn't say stupid things. If you ask them, what was the Korean War about? How many people died on D-Day? What was freedom of fear speech by FDR? What was a Gettysburg address? They have no interest, not that they don't know anything about our history or product. They don't care. I'm talking about you, Ilian Omar, and said 9/11. That was something happened on 9/11. Yeah, it did. Muslims of your brand came over here and slaughtered 3,000 people. And you think it's a joke. And then you see Mondami, a radical, and then you haven't miscurus comes over here from a completely failed state and wins the lottery to come into the United States with their parents, and now says that we owe black people as herself reparations. You can be in a state like California. No history of slavery. Nobody is alive for five generations who was a slave. Nobody is alive in California that ever had relatives that were slave owners. The so-called white populations, 35% of the population, 35% of the state. And she's calling for reparations. And they're calling it in California. And you look at all of those. El Saeed, he doesn't want to admit that he's bragging about Sharia law. He was at a campaign event where one of the E-MOMs said he wanted to fight United States. He hates the United States. And he's had Hassan Piker all through him. Hassan Piker just worried, just warned the Jews. Here's the second generation American who's a multi-million or Turkey's family. He says, "Hey, you Jews. You keep pushing Israel. We're going to come out." The people are going to come out to you. So that's where we are. And I never thought it would happen. No. Me neither. It seems we're at a critical moment in our history once again, in fact. You should remember that when the midterm is when they said, "I'm not going to go for Trump." He said, "New America and Lake America." I can't do that. Why would he do that? Well, he did that. Maybe you disagree or not, but you do not disagree what he did at the border. And what he is trying to do to deport some of these people who came in here illegally and kill people or hate and want to damage the United States. For that one reason, that one issue they should vote for. Yeah. You're reminding me of that interview that Elon must did with that reporter who was talking about him cozying up to the quote far right. And he said, "I want to have a beef with you and the media. What is it that you have against secure borders, safe cities, and freedom of capital I can't remember what he said?" But nonetheless, she just looks at him. They're labeled that far right. She either didn't even know when she was mouthing that or she couldn't say what she knew and what she said is, "Well, we have an agenda that nobody wants. Nobody wants our transit agenda. Nobody wants our defund the police. So we have to bring in new constituents. So we open the border. We got 12 million people. We have 30 here. So we have 42, 30 or 40 million illegalans maybe. And they're going to be good loyal Democrats, especially under mail-in ballots. So take that. That's what they're saying to us. We hate your country. We hate the country. We imagine it. That's what the term is. We imagine the same thing. Canada is even worse. It only has 41 million people. And about 18 million of them are not born in Canada. Their parents weren't born. And they don't have a capitalist economy that can create goods and services to pay the enormous tab for welfare. And that's one of the subtexts of Mr. Carney's fantasy house. All right, Victor. So when you were commemorating 9/11, you made reference to, I think none of us should ever forget, which is the people that were on the top of those trade towers and couldn't get down. And they were making the decision between being burned to death and jumping hundreds of feet down. And that's a gruesome image. There's also another gruesome image these days, and it is with that trial of Lindsey Clancy, which met as a mistrial as everybody probably knows. But some jurors have come out to discuss what went on in the juror room. And they said, you know, things, oh, he, the one juror was very disconcerting. He finally understood having a reasonable doubt. And then they said this. And this is what ever getting a lot of play. The juror said, but I didn't understand because the guy, he had the hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsey viciously killed her children. That was is a mind boggling statement. Well, they heard a lot of the jurors. They were all therapeutic. He wasn't kind. He didn't worry. He didn't think about what her. She's going through. And I can tell you that there was already another copycat killing where a woman just killed her child, Hungim, Hungim. And when American sniper Kyle, when he, when he was killed by somebody who was trying to help who was traumatized, here was a hero Iraq. He took this disturbed. And I can tell you that I'm not making, I'm not deprecating postpartum depression, but it's not the same as going over to a rack. I went to Iraq twice as an embedded reporter. I can tell you it's not the same. And this distressed, traumatized guy, we paid the magnuminity of these are American sniper hero. And he shot him and killed him. And then he pleaded, well, I was disturbed. And a Texas jury said, you were disturbed. Yes, you were. And you were traumatized. Yes, you were. And so were 30, 40, 50,000 others that came over, but they don't shoot and murder their friend right next to them. And you did. So we're going to convict you of murder. And he is sitting in a state prison right now as I speak. And you would you think with there are a lot of vets that were outside the courtroom and said, this is terrible. We all suffer post. This is terrible. He's our hero. And not worry about the two people he butchered. No, there wasn't. So there's a sickness with this young generation of women and men. This is a Luigi Manjioni. This is this new song on the internet, where a woman has a million views. This roton young woman and she's play acting and what a song about killing Charlie Kirk and how happy she is. And then she puts the her finger to the her juggler vein and starts pulling the trigger. And this is great. This is Hassan Parker leading a cheer about his death. This is Luigi only getting a musical. It's the same concept of these young, completely arrogant and ignorant generation. that want to virtue signal their caring or their performance or pity, and they know that deep down inside they would not want to be a child and have the mother that we all love and say over here, and then see her strangle your older sibling and then strangle you and then look at a baby who's next and do this methodically, methodically and pre-planned and then said, "Why was depressed?" I was depressed. I had postpartum depression and I had too many. I have had problems after my surgery, I could not sleep because of all the drugs that gave me 50 different drugs and I had two huge incisions, one for our operation, another for our. I had a fib, I had anemia, I couldn't. I'd lost, did I ever say, "Well, I took a vicar than they gave me," and it must have. They gave me a shot in the. I think it was kind of like an oxy-contin shot, and I just freaked out. No, no, I didn't. there were days in the hospital, I didn't even remember what the surgeon told me, but that's no excuse to do something, and so millions of women have burst all over the United States, every. in the Western. in the world every year, and they don't go out and kill their children, and yet they were trying to make sure that she doesn't have to account for that fact. And then they think the second thing they were all saying, "Well, she fell out of the balcony, she fell 13 feet, she jumped out, so she kind of already did her. her. okay, so every time you got somebody who murders three people and they're going to prison, or right before their sentence, they're saying, "Well, I'm going to jump out my window, and I'll probably be paralyzed." That means I don't have to go to prison, I can stay home, no, no, there's something called deterrence, and for all you young men out there who were having problems as part of the lost generation, mostly of white males, and you're bitter that you've been passed over for affirmative action reasons, or DI, and your degree is no good, and you don't want to be an electrician or a plumber, and you're in your basement of your parents proverbially, and you're playing video games, and you're not going to get married, you don't want the responsibility, you don't want to have be a father, you better be very careful when you date one of these types of women. You should ask them when you're dating, "What do you feel about the classic case?" And if she said, "Well, I really feel sorry, would you want to have children with that woman?" Because she's basically saying she's sanctioning the killing of three people, and then, you know, and so there, this act, and the way that feminists react to it is only going to further polarize the sexes, and the key subtext of this whole debate was that the husband, and now there's a conspiracy theory that he was involved. I don't know if Candace is on that yet or not, but that the male doesn't have any say, he had no role in the procreation, because the woman bears a child, and therefore it's 100% her, her, her, her, not the husband. We don't know anything about it, but we don't even think, well, he loved these children, and he was raising them, and you deprived him of his own children. We don't even think about that. Yeah. Victor, we, well, welcome back, a sponsor, a legion schooled. If you studied enough history, you start to see a pattern. Nations don't lose their way overnight. They drift through debt and division. 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So, I just want to say one other thing that's sort of on my mind, and that is that isn't it strange that it's in New York that we get a Muslim mayor who seems to be on the side of the attackers before, on the side of the victims of 9/11, and in Massachusetts where 11 don't consider seriously the deaths of three very young children over the -- If you mean they're the blue state model? Yes. Yeah, the blue state model is in full full failure. It's in full as a full fall. It's just collapsing. In Chicago, there were 38 people who were shot this last weekend. The mayor couldn't say anything because he believes it's all due to racism, and the more that he has said there won't be any white people in the urban, the city municipal administration. It's all black. Everybody is black in Chicago that runs a city. So, we can't blame anybody, but he's still blaming white supremacy. And so, it's a complete disaster in Chicago, it's the most violent city in the world -- not in the world, but the United States, close to the world. So, these states, California -- California is -- we just heard this week that money that was allotted for moving expenses and temporary rent for the palisades victims of the fire was tapped by Karen Bass and half of the 10 million went to illegal aliens. So, they really do privilege. That's just not a talking point on the right. They do privilege illegal aliens more than they do U.S. citizens. And then the second story was that, allegedly, as has happened in Australia, New Zealand, a lot of places around the world, when there are natural disasters or depressed prices, the Chinese come in, and they buy up lots. And then they work behind the scenes to have them rezone for high density, high rises like in China. So, they can bring people over and rent them. I was in a apartment building, a high rise for 10 years in Palo Alto, and it was least -- I paid through the Hoover Institution, leased it. So, they had a long-term lease. It was 20-year, I think, it was a 20-year lease. And the Chinese company bought it, and they hadn't done -- they didn't know maintenance. And then they went to people and tried to buy out their rent. And there was only -- I think I was the last person that they could not get out. And they made it -- if I called up and said the garbage is full, they wouldn't come. They're the management. And so, there are whole ideas. We want to renovate the whole thing and then charge rent, either for Americans or bring Chinese students and scholars here. And that's what they're doing. That's what they want to do in the palisades. They hate the palisades because it was one of the most beautiful, one-quarter, one-acre lot places, picturesque, beautifully landscaped, that those Romanesque houses, you know, they're white plaster, tile roofs, three or four or five thousand square feet and larger, handed down from father to son or daughter. There were people living there for four or five generations. It was classical L.A. And they resented that so much. Who are those wealthy white people in that privilege? And now it's gone. We're going to make sure they don't ever get that again. You mean the left wing, not the face? Yes. Yes, the left wing. All right, Victor. So, let's turn to Canada. I know we've had a lot on Canada lately. I think the most recent thing is Trump has forbidden the importing of particular products, dairy being among some of those products from Canada. So right now he's deep in a war. It's becoming a farce. Stage one was Trump is picking on Canada again. So, Karney, had to walk out at the 11th hour because he wanted to strip us of our sovereignty and he wanted to squash the French and indigenous cultures of Canada. So you would do. Now all you people, here's a subtext. All you people in Alberta and all you people in Quebec, you're voting on a autonomy? No, no, no, we're all Canadians. We're against this horrible United States. So we're booing them at sporting events. And we have signs up when you come across a border. We're not your 51 states, be polite. And we're elbows up. We're like hockey players. And so he whipped up that national fervor. And he didn't really tell them. So then there's a few skeptics you can find online. And they would say things like, wow, if that's true, eh, eh, if that's true, man, if that, eh, eh, if that's true, we released a transcript. So we can know where you walked out with the 11th hour. Why did you? Because we were going to lose our sovereignty. But the Americans say that the Chinese were going to dump cheap below the cost of production, aluminum and steel. So we would fabricate cars and appliances and send it in here so that they would undercut Americans and destroy their tariff. And then no company in the world pays 5% on top of the income tax just so they can promote what indigenous language on Facebook. We don't do that. We don't have the Canadian broadcasting company. When they broadcast across the border, they have to say, well, you have to have Swedish content. So it was, it was completely not spoken about. And he was going along. He said, I'm the hero. And all the Europeans were clapping. Of course, they all cut deals. What he didn't tell the Canadians are of all the people who were running surplus and all of that, there were only two who retaliated against the United States because they all knew they had it good and they were taking advantage of us. And it was communist China and Canada. And they were offered the best only three countries had the deal they had. They can come in without a visa. Only three countries enjoy that. They had the lowest tariffs. He didn't tell them any that. And then he he said, well, don't worry. Oh, we're going to really. So we're going to go into Wisconsin and North and South Dakota and Minnesota, Michigan and New Upper State, New York and the New England. And we're going to target Americans products. These states have 60, 70% exports to Canada. They're there. We're going to really make them pay and red states, especially. So when these midterms, because he said Canada should be the 51st state, that was an interference. No, it wasn't. It was a mim meme. So he's saying, I'm going to interfere in their midterms. And I'll play him back. And you're sitting here watching this. And you think, what is this imaginary him that you live in? What is the dream house? You idiot. You're a globalist with three passports until you became premier. You were citizen of Ireland. You were citizen of the UK. You were a globalist bank of England guy. You still have your associations with these transnational companies that have no allegiance. And you're 95% of your stock portfolio is in the United States that you're demonizing. And two of your four children went to Harvard and Yale. And they're living in the United States. And you lived in the United States. And you have property in the United States. And you're telling Canada to war on the United States when its population is nine times larger. And it's economy per capita. GDP is 13 times larger. And you represent 10% of all of their imports. And they represent 75% of all your exports. And you want to wage war with a guy like Trump. And you think he's going to back down? He just slapped more tariffs. If this continues, they're going to be two to three million jobs lost in Canada already. They've lost 40,000. And there's no way out of it for them because he's a hero now to everybody in the world he thinks in his mind. He's a hero in legend in his own mind. And he keeps talking about, but he every time he's asked, would you just prime when you just tell us what happened that on a Friday afternoon when you agreed to the deal, why did you back out? What were the issues? Because your explanations of sovereignty and indigenous French culture and doesn't ring true. We've heard both sides. So what was there has to be something? And he can't say, well, there was something. I wanted to drum up left-wing nationalism, which is hard to do. When you have 45% of the country was not born in Canada or their parents weren't born, I wanted to drum it up so that the Alberta people and the Quebec people would not vote to be autonomous and online Canada. And it worked. Everybody loves me now and we all hate America. And then you think you're going to and he said, we can keep matching them. We have we're 360 million people you idiot and there's 250,000 Canadians, Canadian residents that are Americans. Think of that. You're only 41 million, but one million of them you live in the United States. All Trump would have to do is say, from now on, you're going to have to visa. We're going to have a visa and we'll let our 250 Americans suffer a little bit, but your million candidate was the larger percentage of your population. We'll have to go. If you really want to make this go to crazy insane links. And so the other subtext very quickly is, why is he doing it? Why are the Canadians doing this? They've got the fifth, fourth largest oil reserve, the tar sound oil. And they've been lying about that. They said, we were going to shut that pipeline down. Okay, shut it down and we're pumping 95 percent. We're self-sufficient. We just won't import because you'll shut it down. But then you can what? Pipe it to Quebec? You can't. Why? Because the pipeline to Quebec is in the United States, because you won't allow pipelines very easily to be built between provinces and your green fantasies. So that the other subtext is, if you have a country that has a socialist command economy and a nationalized health system and they're all utility, everything are nationalized. And you have high taxes and a lot of regulations. And you have an enormous tab now to pay for 45 percent. It's about 18 million out of 40 million. Don't have enough money for housing, education, food, legal, you know, health care, all of that because you brought them in without audit in mass from Asia, from Africa, from the western hem, Latin speaking, Spanish speaking. And they're all there now and they're all leftist and they want free stuff. And you can't do it. And because you can't do that, then you want to be subsidized by whom? Us. So you don't want, you want to welch on your 2 percent defense. And you're going to say, wait a minute, we have 79 jets, F18s. Yes, they're 45 years older. We have 5,000 aircraft. Yeah, but we have the Canadian neighborhood. It was number four in the world. And yes, it was. It was very impressive when we admired you. But now you have about 30 ships of any size. And if the Russians tomorrow want to steam through the northwest passage to see where they can go or the Chinese or a Chinese icebreaker goes to the Arctic and plants a flag where your little Canadian sphere is or a crazy Kim Jong-Un wants to send a rocket to scare you into Canadian airsprays. Who stops that? Who sends up the Air Force to intercept their jets? Who sends up a ballistic missile? Who sends friggas? 10, 20 of them to stop those people from getting into North America. It's the United States because we subsidize you. We have spent between 3 and 4.5 percent on GDP the last 15 years. If you look at what Europe and Canada have spent, it's a $7 trillion shortfall. We have spent $7 trillion more on defense over the last decade and a half than they have. And that means why did we do that? Because we're not threatened in North America. We did that because we have global responsibilities and we protect them. But if they want to go alone and say we don't need you, elbows up, we're going to build 25 icebreakers and we're going to build two fleet carriers, nuclear fleet carriers. And we're going to get 1,500 typhoon jets and Raphael's from the French. And we're going to spend, I don't know, 5 percent GDP. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't give them their social welfare and their stagnant, ossified account. And so the final thing is they hate Trump. But let me ask them very carefully. If you're a Canadian listening, did Trump say to you, don't make pipelines to Quebec from Alberta? Did Trump say to you, I think we really want to destroy you and we don't like you. So you should have 45 percent non-indigenous. Canadians as your population. Did he really think, he said, "We want you to be so weak, you're so dependent, don't spend 2% on your defense. You can't do that, can you have to rely on us?" And then he said, "You know, I want you to be big hypocrites. I want you to hate us and then have a million of you come over here and I want your prime minister to have 95% of his assets." He didn't do any of that. He did just the opposite. He said, "I want you to be strong. I want you to be wealthy. I want you to close your borders. I want you to have a command. I don't want you to have a command. I want a free market, private property, non-socialized country." And you can say, "All you want, yeah, man, we're much more humane. We don't have your violence." Yes, that's true. Although there's just as many, I've been to Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, and I saw a lot of homeless people. Trust me. And I saw something else the last 10 years. The Canada that I first went to Calgary 20 years ago, that level of affluence is banished. If they were a state, they would be pretty low ranking in America. Our GDP per capita, GDP is up to about 96,000. And I don't even know if they're 60,000. That wasn't always true. When I was growing up, the Canadian dollar was worth more than our dollar. Canada has changed and maybe we could say Trump should cut them loose, huh? I don't know. I like Canadians and I want them to be strong and instead of maybe they can rename their national anthem, said, "Oh, Canada, maybe it could be. Oh, no, Canada." Let's sing, "Oh, no, Canada." Or maybe Canada, we hardly knew you. Yeah. Yeah. We have no problem distinguishing between the government and the individuals of Canadians whom we like. People who voted for this government were not even in Canada 20 years ago. They imported all these people. They have something called the Centennial Initiative, and their plan is within a few decades to have 100 million Canadians because like all western offluent societies, their fertility rates low, like 1.3 something, and they want to import poor third world people in here. When I say they, it's not the majority of Indigenous Canadians, it's the left and the coalition with immigrants, this 18 million people that came in the last 20, 25 years. They want more of them. And I don't understand the immigrants I did. I cannot figure it out. I mean, was she to leave? Ilyan Omar, Mondami, AOC. Her parents came from her dad from Puerto Rico, Mondami from Uganda, Ilyan Omar from Somalia. We sheeded to leave from the West Bank, LSAE, from Egypt, Hassan Pike. I've been to those places, except for Uganda. They're not nice places. And why would you come over here and want to change this country? It's the worst of human nature. It's in gratitude, as we often say here. Yeah, it is. I want to come to your country to escape the hellhole that I made at my home, but once I get to your country, I don't want to know anything about your history, your language, your literature or anything about your culture. I just want to change it so that it gives me more stuff and I can guilt trip all you stupid carons and white people and make you feel really guilty, and I'll call you racist and supremacists and reparations. And you're stupid enough. And that's what they don't understand the left. But if you're a, if you're called a white supremacist and a white racist for no reason at all by these left wing creeps and you say, "Oh, don't say that." They hate you more. They hate you more when you say, "I know what I, what can I do if you were defined and say, you should be ashamed yourself. You're a guest in our country." How dare you come into my country and dare say all of these slanders and invective. They're all lies. And if you don't like it, you can go back. And if you want to be a dissident, keep it to yourself. But I suggest before you start lecturing, why don't you take about two years to read about America and travel around it and then give me this litany? Then they would say, "Wow, I respect that person." Yeah, I know. Or I fear that person. Yeah, which would be just as good. So Victor, let's welcome back. Welcome back, but a new sponsor, Hydrolift. If you're tired of thin, lifeless hair, if you cringe every time you see another clump in the shower drain, then your hair 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. That's where Hydrolift volumizing shampoo by Purance can help. Hydrolift contains wheat protein that strengthens your hair follicles from deep within. This transforms thin and lifeless hair into fuller, more resilient locks. And also contains butane from sugarbeats, which draws water into your strands, making your hair feel silky soft. Right now, you can try Hydrolift volumizing shampoo, risk-free, and save 35% with discount code, Victor. Head over to purance.com. That's P-U-R-E-A-N-C-E.com to shop and save Purance.com. And by the way, Purance has many other fantastic products. If you're looking to rejuvenate your skin, hair, or nail appearance, these USDA certified organic, so they're great for your body and for the environment. Again, you can save 35% on your entire order with discount code, Victor. Go to purance.com. That's P-U-R-E-A-N-C-E. Purance.com to shop and save today. And we'd like to thank Purance for sponsoring Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. And we always love our sponsors. So, Victor, let's turn into Iran. And Trump has sunk five full oil tankers in retaliation to strikes against American battleships. And I think the Iranian's thought, oh, he'll never hit those because they're full. I think that was part of the whole deal. And I think Trump is showing them, no, we all do some very serious damage to guys every single day. Everybody talks about the night in Monty Python as the metaphor, but I went to a pretty tough junior high school and I saw a fight once. And it was so one-sided that everybody who was sympathetic to the person hitting the person because the person asked for it and was a bully. And he thought this other person was not very adroit. And the person was really skilled and started beating the blank, blank, blank, blank out of him. But the person that was getting beat up said, I'm going to hit you again. I'm going to kick your blank. I'm going to come after you tomorrow. But he was so beaten up. And every time he got worse and worse, he started melting off. And the guy just kept doing it. And finally, people intervened. That's Iran. I mean, these things cost some of these huge tankers cost half a billion dollars. So, we probably just wiped out two billion dollars of their reserve tanker fleet, which they were floating around so that they fill them up with oil. And then they kind of drift them out at night and then the Chinese hook up with them on the seas outside the street. And they sent all these missiles. Take this. Take that. And then we sharpened down. Or the Jordanians did. So, they can't do anything. And I did a lot of interviews on the book. And I won't mention names, but there was a couple of people, I think, or they really do believe the war is lost and that it destroyed Donald Trump. And it's it alone accounts for the midterm problem because of gas. There's an argument you can make to that. But this is a unique war. We don't know. This is the first war in my life that we have, even in the Serbia bombing, it was a western country and there were Western journalists in there on the ground. Even in the Libya bombing under Obama, there were even Al Jazeera with there were people in there. There are no Western media in Iran right now. And all we're getting is the propaganda from the state ministry of information in Iran. There's no US ground troops we know of. There's no embedded reporters, not like Afghanistan. And we only get phone calls to relatives from Iranians and they've they track that. They have the electronics so that anybody who phones to a foreign country, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard shows up at their door. And people have said, I talked to a high administrative station official not too long ago and he said the following. We think 45,000 were killed initially and we think there's been another 30,000 killed by night. So we don't know what's going on, but it does seem, given they can't sell oil, they can't import any, I live on a farm right here. If you said to me tomorrow, I can't get a part for the pump. or the sprinkler system or broken pipe from Amazon or can't go into town and get one, I can tell you that I don't think this place would function. And they're not getting any repair parts. And the food, they're getting no imported food. So, and we can do anything we want. So we hit car guideline. And so, I guess they're going to say, they've lost both limbs and both their legs, and now they're going to just roll on the floor and say, "We're going to get you again," and Trump will say, "Okay, we're going to take out two of your power grids." And they'll probably say, "Well, that will save us oil. We don't have to run them." Some crazy thing like that, because they're insane. But this raises a very interesting question. I brought it up on these two podcasts, and I didn't get a very warm. I said, "When the Berlin Wall fell, all of those Eastern Europe countries took up three to six months, and when it took Russia two years. So when we hit around, after the demonstrations, it's been almost six months, right? So I would say there's a 30% chance that we're going to wake up one morning, and these people are almost near starving, and they have nothing to lose. There were reports today that they're going into food markets, and they have no money, it's worthless, and just taking food, and the revolutionary guard count be everywhere. If everybody start that breakdown in society, and then they know if we were a droid, and we keep telling them, if you can get rid of this government, you're going to be flooded with international aid. You're going to have oil everywhere. You're going to have international companies don't want to help you. We're going to do everything to make you a liberal western consensual government, liberal in the sense of freedom, not politics, and the Gulf States will be ecstatic, and Egypt will be ecstatic, and the Israelis will be everybody, it'll change it. This is the most conscious. It's more consequential than flipping Venezuela, but flipping Venezuela already set off a chain so that when you looked at Latin America, the 32 nations when Trump came in, the vast majority were communist or anti-American, now only four or five are, and it'll be even more dramatic. So what I'm getting at is everybody says the Republicans are lost, and then all of a sudden we wake up one morning, let's say on, I don't know, October 6th, and all of a sudden there's a million Iranians out in the street, and they're chasing everybody, every revolutionary guard person, every guard post, and then we're dropping food and arms to them by error, and they get rid of the thing, what would happen? Well, all of a sudden people would say, you mean Donald Trump changed the entire Middle East when no president who promised that they would stop that nuclear acquisition, seven different presidents didn't do anything, and he risked that in an election year right before the midterms, and everybody turned on him and his poles were low, and now the whole world is changing, and oil will be, if they liberate Iran and the Russian war stops, with increased Venezuelan oil, increased American oil, and Canada says it's going to pump more. You're going to have oil down to 50 bucks a barrel, so what I'm telling everybody who's listening, it's not set in stone, they're going to lose the midterms. History says they are, 39 now, the last 41 election says they are, the polls say they are, but the polls said that Al Said was going to win by 10 points, he won by one. The polls said that that crazy, hung woman, and Wisconsin was going to win, she didn't even get close, so I don't believe Talleriko's up by five, I really don't, and I saw what they did with Trump polls, the Democrats and the left used polls to create donations and to create political momentum, and so I don't know what the situation is, but it's not over yet as what I'm saying. One thing that Republicans and I'll stop on this topic, one thing they need to do, they have to have a three-pronged strategy, I hope they do it at the convention. Number one is this is what we are doing now, this is what we are doing right now, we closed the border, it was not closed when we came here, there was 10,000 people, you want 10,000 people, a day, we closed it, we have the lowest crime rate in 70 years, there are no subsidized inefficient new green deal thing, we are pumping more gas and oil than in any country in the history of civilization. We have changed the entire Western hemisphere, the only holdouts are Nicaragua and Cuba, Paraguay, maybe Mexico, but those governments that are left are not stable, but the whole continent now is pro-capitalism, pro-democracy, pro-American, a large part of Marco Rubio. There are no Chinese at the Panama Canal with their grandiose plans to take it or Venezuela, look at the Middle East, there are no Russians there, there's no Russians in Syria, there's no Russians in Iran, all the foreigners are gone, when you look at Europe, they are scrambling as fast as they can to meet not just their 2%, which none of them except 6% met, but they're 3% and 4% defense capable, who did that? We did, Trump can say, so that's what we've done, next thing is this is an existential test, everything I just said, they're the opposite, if you vote for them, you're going to get a defunding of ice and you're going to try to open the border, and they're going to, they love 10,000 people coming across with no vaccination, no audit, nothing, you're worried about measles, you're worried about mumps, you're worried about all these things, you can blame on RFK, yeah, you blame on RFK, well, bring people from all over the world with no background check and see what happens, and then they're going to say, these people will start trying to defund the police, they will defund ice, and let it go, they will cut the Obama cut the defensive budget, a hundred billion dollars, they will cut the defensive budget, they will raise taxes, we already have 37, they will go higher and higher, they will bring back wind and solar, and culturally, they're going to bring back DEI, they're going to have racial quotas again, and they're going to discriminate against people based on their appearance, and you're going to have George Floyd type of hysterias on steroids, that's what they represent, that's the second thing they need to do, they should run commercials, as I said, here's all these iconic events in America that made us unique, and then here's what they want, and just show pictures of the 2020 riots, and Karen Bass press conference, and El Sayid, saying 9/11 was our fault, excuse me, Hassan Piker, El Sayid, his clip about Shereel on, be careful about saying it was good that we got rid of the supreme leader and all that stuff, then the third thing, and this is what we can do in two years if he gives us a chance, we can really, really change the country, we are leading an AI, genetic engineering, bioengineering, satellite launches, space exploration, software, eight, nine out of the top 10 companies are America, because we created the conditions for them to foster, and we protect them from people like Canada that's trying to slap surcharges or Europeans, and that would be a powerful message, three-prong, what we did, what the alternative was, and what we planned to do, and I don't know why they haven't done that, it's just mystifying to me, one of the things they got caught up in, I'll just finish with this, under Biden, we had an aggregate 21% almost in inflation, so over four years it averaged a little over 5%, 5.1, 5.2%, in staples like insurance cars, major appliances, rent, fuel, food, it was 30%, so when they came in they didn't, they said we're going to lower inflation, what they meant was the rate of inflation, so the first year it went from an average of 5.1 to 1.9, even now without gas, it's probably not going to go over three, it's not the average of Biden, so they didn't say we're going to slash the inflation rate under Biden by half, and we're going to do that in two years, and then we're going to get it lower and lower and lower, and we'll try to bring it, but instead everybody said, well we're paying 21% more on everything, and 30 on the key things than we did in 2020, Mr. Trump, and you said you were going to lower inflation, why don't you lower it 30%, and they didn't explain to the American people, they didn't say, are you crazy? How can you in one and a half year cut one-third off the price of everything when they took four years and blew through seven trillion dollars and gave money to stuff and subsidized stuff and made competition hard and drained the, the petroleum reserve by, you know, half of it's gone. We can't do that. We lower the rate of inflation. We'll try to lower it even more and with wages will catch up and we can erase that, but it'll take time. But now when they say, "Oh, we're for affordability." No, you're not. These Democrats are left. You are for unaffordable. If you look at a house ownership, it's still 62 to 63 percent. It hasn't gone down from historical norms. If you look at labor participation, it's still 62 or 63 percent, just like it always was. So all of this stuff is being spread around and nobody's challenging it. Partly because people on the right are a few on the right, they've joined the left. Tucker is endorsing LCI over microturfing. Yeah, isn't that crazy? 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Visit historicsites.heritage.org to start your adventure today. Welcome back. Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. We are a subsidiary of the Daily Signal and you can find shorts that Victor does for the Daily Signal in particular on at the Daily Signal and other conservative content. So I highly encourage everybody to go to the Daily Signal. Victor, he was speaking of Tucker. I don't know if he had more to say on his joining al-Saheed supporters, but there's another thing about Tucker. He recently had an interview and it was a guy on, but they were talking about math and he said Algebra. He was a Potter. Oh wow. And he was talking about math and Algebra in particular. And he said Algebra is fake math and it's not and basically implied that it was unnecessary, which, you know, anybody who does anything on a daily basis knows that their brain is always working in an algebraic fashion. I am only men. I watch that and this Potter says, well, I bill kill, kill him. And I build an arch and I don't ever use Algebra thinking. Yes, you don't, but if you use machines and electric motors, there is variables. And physicist and engineers use letters to create formulas and then they plug into the variable various numbers to see which make it more efficient. So that's what Algebra does. It creates mathematical formulations and you see on every movie when somebody goes on the chalkboard and he says this explains cold fusion. There's all these letters. And what he's saying is these were the variables that we have to plug in and see what happens. And those are unknown, but it allows you to get a system in which you can put non quantities in for the letter. And then Tucker's listening. And then the guy says, and I guess it was just part of the, the effort to fool the goi slaves. So then you think, oh wow, we're back to Tucker. Excuse me, who are the goi? The goi is a word that is used historically by the Jewish community to denote people who are not Jewish. A lot of countries, Japan has a term for non-Jah. Any culture that is uniform, religious or ethnic, when I grew up, I dated a very beautiful woman. I thought she was in high school, but I was not Armenian. So I was known as the Odaar. They had for anybody could be any, they were Odaars and the same. Yes, but the guy used goi out of the Jewish tradition rather than something out of the Japanese tradition or the Armenian tradition. So basically, he was saying that the Jews foisted algebra to hurt us, because it's worthless. And it was a Jewish thing. And then when you look at the, I mean, algebra, come on. If you look at algebra is an Arabic translation. And it draws on Arab mathematics of the 10th, 12th centuries, it goes back before that to Persian mathematics. And India contributed the idea of, you know, I think zero and Arabs did it too. And it's in, I can tell you, if you read Euclid or classical mathematics, they have letters in there. So it is a multicultural phenomenon in every major culture, either independently or cross-fertilization-wise. They knew that you could to build a sophisticated pyramid instead of a pottery kiln, you need variables to try out different formulas. And Tucker was just smiling. Wow, he said the word about Jews. That's what I was waiting for, that it was a Jewish conspiracy. And I don't know what's happened to him, but I was giving, I had an interview with Miranda Devine, whom I admire a great deal. We were talking about this. Why would people like Marjorie Tater Green or Thomas Massey or Tucker who were so complimentary of Trump, and they were at Mar-Lago all the time? And they were on Air Force One and they campaigned with them. And I suggested that that sense of intimacy, as I've said before, they felt that they were more important or essential to, nobody's essential to Trump. Nobody is. Nobody's essential to anyone. So they were calling them, Trump said, "Ah, she calls me up four or five times a day." And Tucker said, "Well, I campaigned with them." So what? So you got the treat to write on Air Force One. And you got to go to Mar-Lago and you probably stayed in the Lincoln bedroom. And you thought you could get on the phone and say, "Hey, it's a dumb idea to Iran." And then you'd go have coffee with your buddies and say, "I am not going to go to Iran." I told them, "It's a dumb idea." It doesn't work that way. And then they got disappointed. He didn't listen to me. Didn't he know that the Jews, this is Marjorie Tater Green, that Epstein was a Jew, and he's all these sex stuff that the Jews were doing in the Mossad. This is what they said. And he just said, "What are the blank you talking about? Just hang up. I don't want to talk to you." And then they go, "I hate him." And that's what they did. I really do believe that because on all of the issues that we heard from all of them for years, close the border, tough police, reduced crime, built up the military. The only two things I can think that they had legitimate, they thought they disagreed with using force around, but there were no ground troops. And it's not going to be a forever endless war. It's going to be six or seven months that's over with. So I don't know what the beef was other than their eagles were bruised. All right, Victor. We're coming to a hard break, so I want to turn to the comments at the end of our show. The first one, I'll read the nice one first, and then the second, challenging one second. John Moore says, "I didn't realize you were sick. I'm very, very happy. You kicked deaths." A. S. S. Sorry for the language. No one ever kicked Jeff. He's always on our shoulder. I just threw him off or get off my shoulder. You, sir, you have the greatest look of what's going on, and greatest look at what's going on in our great country. I'm just a former disabled eat cop listening to you is so very easy. Thank you, sir. I appreciate the inch out of you. I'll quote Donald Trump when he was dressed up at McDonald's and a couple said they were indietimate. We're just normal people. We're nobody. He said, "You're somebody. If you're a disabled cop, if we didn't have cops, we wouldn't have a civilization, so you're somebody." And then David Hutton, he's a Canadian, and he had something to say about your Canada views. I have been watching Victor talk about issues relating to Canada and would like to contact him about some erroneous information. He has discussed on some of the YouTube videos. He said allegedly erroneous. Okay. Victor has discussed, quote, "heavy sulfurous Canadian oil being shipped to the USA." Tarzan starts that way, but it is refined into Bitumen on site in northern Alberta. The sulfur is then removed and the end product is piped as light's really yeah go ahead. Brilliantly a percentage of the oil. So Canada came around and they said to themselves this stuff is so thick we can't even pump it. So we're going to get an artificial fossil oil and we're going to we find we find and use synthetic oils and make it flow and we'll do it in Canada and after we we find some of it and mix it in it's no longer tar sands and we can sell it like like crude and we will put it in one pipeline and then they decided let me figure out all of the expenses of that versus just getting a little bit of fluid to make the tar sands go in thick sulfurous fashion all the way to these American refineries that are experts at cracking it and breaking it down in India and the Midwest and they did oh you know what it's cheaper to send it heavy and have the Americans refine it into sweet light crude then it is for us to prep it so we've already built the facilities and we will do both that's what so I'm not erroneous. No check it out there's a lot of bituminous oil that is not touched by the Canadians and they send it to the United States because the United States has the refineries that can break it down and into gasoline cheaper than you can prep it because you've tried it and we have now a dual use we have stuff that comes from you that has been broken down and it's normal light crude and we have the thick stuff from you that we break down and I'm not sure about what the percentages are but I have a feeling that the thick stuff is still the majority of it and I think they're trying to build a pipeline or they have they want to take the stuff that they they're talking about the stuff that they have prepped to make it into a light crude and got the tar and the sulfur is still there but the tar sands and the thick elements to it and then pipe it off to the west coast to ship it to either California or Japan or so but he should ask himself one last thing he should ask himself there are pipelines between provinces but not very many of them and if you're going to go to war with the United States and that's the term that your prime minister said not me he said we're at war a veritable war and battle then you better make sure that your provinces are all on one page and they're all again. Karni thought they were or he tried to gin it up that nationalism by the common enemy the orange band but if you rely on the United States to ship your oil over here and either us to bypass Canada's provincial borders and then send it up to our Ontario or send it up to Quebec or or use our oil and dump it at Portland Maine so it can be shipped by sea into Ontario or Montreal whatever method don't depend on us to do it and then say we're going to cut off the oil to you so you're going to miss four million barrels because we're going to say go ahead we'll pump an extra four million barrels and we'll buy it from our friends in the golf or somebody but you're not going to get any oil to Quebec or Ontario your capital and the reason you're not is not because of Donald Trump it's because of your policies that stop pipelines that interconnected your provinces that would give you flexibility and power in such negotiation again we get back to the point if you're going to go to war with the United States economically then you better be in a pre-conceived position where you're a free market economy you have in a unified population you don't have a socialist economy and your provinces have networks of pipelines communication and you have a lot of foreign investment but you don't you're at your weakest point in 50 years and you choose this moment this moment when you have existential immigration assimilation acculturation problems energy problems health care problems economic problems your 1.1 per capita GDP or the lowest in last year of all the industrialized and you at this point in your life want to turn in your whole policy over to somebody had three passports and 95% of his investments in the United States with two of his kids there and his house there and you're gonna he's he's going to lead you a war against us and then you're going to get into it and start booing us at games and putting stupid signs and elbows out no why do you do this we're not for it yes we just want to say you're our friends you spend two three percent on defense will work together will patrol the northwest passage will give you a discount on planes will protect the Arctic together there won't be any missiles to get into North America and you won't have a surplus and we won't have a surplus it'll be pretty much even Stephen how is that yeah thank you Canada yeah it's all we're asking for thank you Canada thanks to our audience please join us on Saturday we have a lot more news to go through and the presidents JFK and you can and we'll be discussed thanks everybody for watching thank you Victor thank you for watching and listening and buying books I really appreciate that I think our podcast listeners put it to number one on Amazon and then today it's two yeah this is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson and we're signing off thank you very much thank you for tuning in to the daily signal please like share and subscribe to be notified for more content like this you can also check out my own website at victorhanson.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition