Victor Davis Hanson: The Hong Kong Blueprint Xi Wants to Force on Taiwan

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Age and location restrictions apply. Product availability varies by market. See fanduel.com for eligibility. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. many were Hamas fighters? How many were killed because Hamas deliberately put them in schools, mosques, and hospitals? Did any of them get to go down to the tunnels with the Hamas leadership and protect themselves? How many rockets did they send into Israel directly targeting civilians? Seven? Eight thousand? And more importantly, I don't remember on October 7th, do you remember any protest against Hamas on the West Bank? I remember hostages and corpses being brought back as trophies, and the Hamas killers had to protect the integrity of their corpses that they wanted to show, and they didn't want them torn limb from limb from the people. And when that bulldozer knocked down the so-called wall and thousands of people went in, I remember hundreds if not thousands of Gazans. Civilians who said, what do you mean? You mean there's free stuff? We can steal? We can kill? We can rape? And we can do it with impunity? Let's get going. So to turn all of that into, as the U.N. did, as this cause celeb is absolutely ridiculous. And then finally, they all voted the U.N. The Palestinian people go, and I asked the question, has Gaza ever had one election after Hamas, after the Bush? The Bush administration and the U.N. went in there and said, we're going to have an election. Hamas, the first thing they did is they threw all the Palestinian Authority activists off high rises and killed about 200 of them. And then they threatened everybody. And then they had an election, as Bernard Lewis, the great Islamic scholar at Princeton said, they had an election one time. One election, one time. And we're supposed to believe that these people are so good that they're so empathetic. It's absolutely absurd. And I, you know, I guess when I listened to all that at the U.N., I thought to myself, what would you, France, do? What would you do, Britain? What would you do, Germany? What would you do, China? What would you do, Africa? What would you do, Asia, if on October 7th, somebody had come in across your border and raped, mutilated, murdered, necrophila, every imaginable sin possible? What would you have done then? Would you have, for three weeks, tried to say, please bring our hostages back? They did, the Israelis. With three weeks, they said, please, we do not want to invade you. Turn over the people responsible. We're not going to use collective punishment. They did. Did they go to international bodies? Yes. And did it work? No. And then what would you have done? I know what the French did, because I know a lot about the Algerian War of 1956, 7, and 8. And I know what the British did, because I'm a student of British imperialism, which was benevolent compared to the alternative. I know what the Turks did, because Fresno is one of the great receptacles of Armenians who fled their genocide. For all these pompous people to start lecturing Israel, it's just disgusting. It sure is. And what did you think of, Netanyahu, who said he was coming to set straight lies perpetuated by Mondami? And he didn't get arrested either, by the way. He did go double down on that. I'd like to arrest him. Well, you have the Iranian delegation. This is the government of Iran, Mondami. These are the people who murdered 45,000 of their own people in the streets. And from what we hear, they are murdering 45,000 of their own people in the streets. And from what we hear, they are murdering thousands more when they find, if they're phoning or their computers have links with Western Europe or the West or the United States. Why don't you arrest them? Is it because they're fellow left-wing Muslims like you? And I'll be direct. And if you think that you don't want to arrest Islamic leaders, then why don't you arrest the Chinese? Try it. See what happens to you. And so it's really disgusting. And I will say to Mondami, before you arrest the leader of the Jewish state, just try one thing. Just try to get your crime rate in terms of hate crimes down to demographic, what you call parity quality. So why are Jews making up half the victims? Why are they making up half the victims? Why are they making up half the victims when they don't compose half the population by any means of greater New York? Just get it down. Go get your NYPD and go start investigating groups that have threatened them. Go arrest people that hit them with a knockout game. Protect their synagogues and schools. Just do that before you mouth off about your greater humanitarianism. Just quickly on Donald Trump's speech, I thought some of the more striking things that he said were, you know, the fact that he said, you know, things was he basically was showing we entered a new era. We're beyond the Cold War paradigm and we're into a whole new paradigm. And I think he's right about it, where our strategic interests are going to play out for us on the world stage. And then, yeah, I was wondering about, I thought that was a great speech. I'm really worried about the midterms, not because of the record, but because they're not getting the message out. And I know we're going to talk about the midterms, but it reminds me. So much of 1992, George Bush was, George H.W. Bush was running for re-election. The recession of the 98-91 recession kind of caused by a similar thing, the first Gulf War, where there was a disruption, the Kuwaiti oil fields were up in oil, everybody panicked, caused a recession. And three things happened. Three things happened. They're all instructive. They're all instructive for this year, for the midterms. Number one, the Democrats demagogued the economy. So Al Gore stormed the country and said, this is the worst recession since the Great Depression. James Carville, it's economy, stupid. Bill Clinton, I just want to say we're in depression level. And then you looked at the actual data. The economy in 1992 grew by 3.5%, not two quarters. The recession had been over. Over for a year and a half. Number two, the inflation, despite the oil spikes, was about 3.5. Unemployment was high by seven, but it was going down. And the stock market, the standard and poor, and the Dow Jones had gone up by 10% that year. So it was a recovering, the GDP in 92 was higher than it was under the first year of Clinton. But you know what? They didn't reply to it. They did not reply to it. You know, there was a couple of reasons why they didn't reply to it. Number one, the architect of the 88 victory, Lee Atwater, who was a crude guy, and he ran the Willie Horton ads. He ran the Boston Harbor ads. And the thing that sunk the caucus who left the Democratic convention nomination with 17 point lead over George H.W. Bush, Lee Atwater said, I'm going to take the buck off that guy. I'm going to take the buck off that guy. And he did. And they showed that tank ad with that bobblehead helmet. It was so sad. Dukakis was a fine person. I didn't like what he did, but he won ugly. In 1991, when he was getting ready for the 92, he got a brain tumor and he died at 40 years old. And you know what the Republican establishment was? We don't have that embarrassment anymore. We can get back to Jerry Horton. We're going to lose nobly. And that's what we want to do. We do not want to win ugly. We play by the markers of Queensbury rules. And so they didn't have that guy. And then there was a third party, Ross Perot, that sucked off 19% of the vote. So Bill Clinton won by 43%. So what I'm getting at in this midterm, if you don't get the message out about the economy, and what is the message we're getting at in this midterm, is that we're going to lose nobly. for the people who needed it. And the economy is starting to boom. And then second, we had the highest per capita income. It went up over 2.6% so far this year. 87,500. It's the highest income in the world if you take away artificial incomes like the Swiss tax-free foreign investment or tax havens like Liechtenstein or the petro, you know, like Saudi or UAE. Just major industrial nations. It's not even close, 87,000. And we're not hearing that. And then The Atlantic Federal, the Atlanta Federal Reserve just issued its third quarter, and that would be for the, it would be July, August, September. September's not over. And guess what they said? We guessed on, based on the data that we have for 90% of the third quarter ending, we predict when it's ended, the economy, the GDP will have grown at an annual rate of 5.1. That is blistering. So, my point is, the economy is sound, and we have a little blimp, as George H.W. Bush in 92 did after the 91. War, because of the oil price. Same thing. Oil's up to about $4.50 a gallon. It was down to almost $3. But the, you'd think that would spike inflation, but the inflation rate is still about 3%. That's a little high, but you'd think it would go, that shows you that all those tax reductions, all those deregulation, the trillion dollars of foreign investment, the deportation of 500,000 criminals, you'd think that would spike inflation, but the inflation rate is still about 3%. That shows you that all those tax reductions, all those deregulation, the trillion dollars of foreign investment, the deportation of 500,000 criminals, that shows you that all those tax reductions, all those deregulation, the trillion dollars of foreign investment, the deportation of 500,000 criminals, and the vast reduction in the wealth, all of that is synchronistic. And what it shows you, even with high oil prices at $100 plus a barrel, the inflation rate didn't spike. And so when this war is over, and I think it's going to be over pretty soon because this regime is getting desperate, when it collapses or whatever negotiation follows, you're going to have a glut of oil on there, and it's going to take off. But they need to say that. And then the other thing about it very quickly is what happened in 92, and this is my example, and I'm doing this by memory, but what happened in 92 was George Bush had a fantastic foreign record. He came in in 89, and he oversaw the end of the Cold War because Reagan had broken the Soviet Union, but he didn't get credit for it. The Berlin Wall fell in 89 during Bush's first year. But he did navigate. There were calls for people to punish the Soviet Union or to put NATO right on the frontier. And he was very careful about that. He got criticized about that. But he navigated very well. And everybody said, if you remember the 91 Gulf War, they said, you cannot, Saddam Hussein has 3,000 tanks. He's taken Kuwait. It's gone. Just let it go. Bush himself wavered a little bit, you know. And remember, Margaret Thatcher said, don't go wobbly on me, George. But he came around. And that was a brilliant campaign. You have to give credit to Colin Powell and Dick Cheney and George H.W. Bush and Norman Schwarzkopf. Very few casualties. They did what they wanted. I had criticized them because they left him in power and we had to go back. But the point is he had a lot of foreign policy. He had a lot of foreign policy achievements like Trump does, flipping all of Latin America so there's only five communist countries left, reinstating the Monroe Doctrine, getting Greenland basically in a brilliant move so that Denmark can brag to everybody that it owns Greenland. And the Greenlanders are going to say, yes, we're sovereign and independent and we're Denmark. But we're also going to be infused with billions of dollars of U.S. bases and trade and everything. And the Russians and the Chinese are going to be out. And it's all done. And the same thing with NATO, you know, boosting NATO. So now it's now spending 2% and 3% GDP and it wouldn't do that before. And if he wins the Iran war, and I think he will, that whole Middle East will flip. But all of that's going to be disguised and covered and forgotten unless they say there is good economic. I know we have a problem with affordability, but it's temporary. But look at the poverty. Look at the income rate. Look at the stock market. Look at GDP. And they're not doing that. And if you don't do that and you get what I call midterm apostates, these are people in purple states that have to be reelected and they start dissing themselves. And to their credit, the Mike Rogers, Murkowski, Susan Collins, all those and most of the House people. And they call up the president, no doubt. And they say, look, Don, Mr. President, I'm going to trash you. I'm going to say the war's gone on too long. We've got to get out. I'm going to say everything I can to distance myself. And I'm going to get elected. And I'm going to vote for you 95% of the time. That's what they're saying. But we'll see. We'll see. So, Victor, let's welcome back for Friday one of our sponsors, one of our good sponsors. Our sponsors, or all of them are good, but My Patriot Supply has been with us for a long time. If you're serious about preparedness like we are, you're going to want to head over to preparewithvdh.com right now. 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So we'd like to thank MyPatriotSupply for their continued support of Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. So, Victor, I was just, as you were talking about getting the word out, I was noticing in the news the other day that the left is getting the lie out even more efficiently. And they are sending, they are paying these so-called influencers throughout the social media and TikTok and YouTube to, you know, lie about the economy. And you know the lie that is really effective and it's very simple. Prices haven't gone down. But prices never go down. They only can decrease the inflation rate. And there's just almost no way to. They went up 21% under Joe Biden. I know. And they averaged 5.1. It's his fault. I know. And Donald Trump's first year in office, they went down to 1.9 annually. And even with all this mess, we'll probably have under 3% for the year. And. But, again, it's messaging. Somebody has to, J.D. Vance or Rubio or Trump has to get out and say, listen, this guy raised your prices 21%. And he hit 9.1% in 2022 for much of the year. And this guy, Joe Biden, and these guys, the Democrats, didn't say a word. Janet Yellen, the head of the Treasury, said every single day that inflation was. And it would stop. It never did, really. And if you do food, insurance, car prices, housing, medical care, it went up 30% in the basket of what's important. We came in, and we will lower prices. But the idea that we can go back and take that whole 21% that has been baked into the economy is not going to happen. So what we're going to do is we are going to. We're going to increase your income higher than the rate of inflation. And that's why you are making, on an average, 87.500, 87,500. They need to get that out. And that was something. That's a hard message. And as far as the young people, I try to spend. I've been doing it the last six weeks. I try to spend 20 minutes or 30 minutes in the morning, and I just go through all of them, TikTok, YouTube. And I didn't know much about it. But I'm starting to learn. I'm starting to learn a lot and X. And just see what the memes are and what the topics are. And you're right. There's all these young people now that are going on there under 30, and they're going, affordability. Yeah. I can't get my car. I can't get a car. Have you seen my insurance rate? And these are people who yell river to the sea and have no idea what the river to the sea is. So it's just a script that they've been sent by the DNC. And they go on. And again. And they get money and they don't tell you this message has been been paid by the DNC. And I'm a 27 year old complete idiot. And I'm reading these things and I have no idea. idea what GDP or inflation rate mean any more than I did the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. But I'm going to say this because I get paid. That's what's happening. And again, you don't blame the enemy or the opponent or your rival. I don't want to use the enemy. They're not the enemy, but your rivals for being effective, even if they're unethical. You try to combat that. Doesn't mean you hire people to do what they do, but you expose them for what they're doing. But they really need, I know they have, everybody's getting, we're down, we only have October. We're at the end of September. We only have five weeks. Everybody's getting panicky. But there is a huge Elon Musk war chest and there is a huge Donald Trump war chest. And they are larger even than the, Democratic PAC money. On individual Senate races and many House races, the Democrats are out raising the Republican. But if you use that PAC money, the Republicans will have an edge. And they need to do it because early voting has started, mail-in voting and early voting. So they need to get out the message that it's a very simple choice. It's a choice between civilization and people who hate the United States. And just quote them, just get a melange and have millet curos. We need reparations right now. I don't, Hassan Piker, I think we deserve it. I hate this country. You know, he said that. And then El-Said, all of these crazy things he said. He didn't like football talks. He didn't like places in Michigan, dah, dah, dah, dah. And then just do the Democratic Party in general, AOC, Bernie Sanders. And just inundate. And then have at the end of all about each message, have a simple message. We have the highest income we've ever had. We had the lowest poverty rate we've ever had. Our gross domestic product is growing. We're going to solve the oil price. And when that is solved very shortly, the economy is going to, it's booming now and it's going to boom like never before. And just say that. And if they don't do that, they're going to lose, if they lose the house as everybody, I was at Hoover for my first full day where I work at the Hoover Institution yesterday. And I talked to a lot of our fellow scholars and I would say that of all five of them I talked to at length, they said this, well, Victor, congratulations on your book, but you know, they're going to lose the midterms and they're going to lose the Senate. I said, I don't think they're going to lose the Senate. I still think they have a 50 50 chance with the midterm, but there's pessimism and pessimism breeds low turnout. So the whole question is if all you out there have not voted, you've got to vote. You've got, and you've got to get everybody you know to vote because this is not, everybody said it's the most important election in my lifetime. Most of them aren't, but when you have a radical socialist element that is going to gain power, they're going to do the United States what? They did to LA. You go down to LA today and I get asked to go. I don't even want to go near LA because every time I've gone down there the last five years, if you get in the, in the commuter lane, it is a joke. It is a lawless society. You'll see one person driving in the, in the commuter lane, then another, then another. And if you go in downtown LA, about the fourth person will run the stop sign. If you walk down LA, it's like San Francisco used to be before. They've destroyed that whole urban renaissance. There's boarded up. It's like Santa Monica. And it's just, and then the go by the Palisades. It looks like Dresden still. And it's just, they've taken one of the great vibrant cities of the world and they have destroyed it. And that's what socialists do. And Karen Bass is a social. She went to Cuba when she was young. Numerous time. She was a communist and she's being challenged as an old fuddy-duddy conservative by this nutty communist. And so it's, you don't want the United States. Yeah. We'll see if LA. I think a good campaign spot would be don't let them do to the United States what they did to Los Angeles and Chicago. Yeah. I, I think that they should get out there. You know, maybe one of your local politicians, his campaign, it's something unusual. I haven't seen David Valadeo. Normally a politician comes out and does this ad where they want to kind of show the log cabin, wonderful person. He, he has an ad where it's all just his enemy. And he says, this guy does this, this guy does this. And I approved this ad, David Valadeo. And I was, you know, getting say far, far left. Uh, I think he's a JC professor and he, he's in a tough ride. He is a Portuguese immigrant dairy farmer who was fluent in Spanish and worked his whole life side by side, Mexican American people. So he has, he has a good campaign where he has Mexican American people saying, I don't like the trans thing. I don't like the drugs coming in. I don't like the, all of that. That's good. But he, he was the only surviving, I think he's still of the 10 house members that voted to convict Donald Trump, which was, I think a big mistake because it was a trumped up thing. He survived and he has, I don't know the new district, they keep redistricting and it gets worse and worse for him, but it was 13 or 14% Democrat edge. I think it's up to 20 or 25. I'll have to look at that. So he, he can only win by appealing to Democrats and independents. There's not enough Republicans there and he's doing a pretty good job. Yeah. I think he had got a good chance to win. Yeah. And I think that's a good example of what needs to be done. I mean, they got to show what the rivals are really, what the rivals really mean in the long run. I believe the Texans, whether they're minority, white, black, whatever, are going to vote for somebody if they run commercials and just quote him in his own words. What's your favorite drag dance? Oh, I know. I got the name right there. Oh, Jesus is. Non-binary. Oh, there's seven or eight sexes. Oh, I don't eat meat. I wouldn't eat meat. I'm a vegetarian. You said all of that in Texas. We have to go to a radical green wind solar economy in Texas. If they vote for that, they're basically saying Texas as we know it is dead and now we want to commit economic, social, cultural suicide. Yeah. And hopefully Paxton is running equally effective ads as I think David Valadao is. But let's welcome back a. A sponsor, VAR Watches. We tend to forget that civilizations are remembered less by their politics than by what they made. The tools, the objects, the things built well enough to outlast the people who built them. For most of the last century, America made things. Then, like much of the old productive economy, watchmaking packed up and moved overseas. Today's sponsor is trying to bring a piece of it back. VAR, that's V-A-E-R, is a Los Angeles watch company whose goal is pretty straightforward. Bring back American watchmaking. 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He went to Gracie Mansion to meet with Mondami, and I was wondering, that seems strange to me, but what did you think that was all about? Well, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I think it was a polite reminder that for all of his rhetoric, the federal government can do to New York what Mondami can't do to the federal government. So, he's basically smiling, but I think when in there, he said, I wouldn't want to do the following. So, here's the limitations that you should think about. Of course, the fact that Donald Trump was building high-rises in New York when Mondami wasn't born, and when he things when Mondami was a citizen of Uganda, which, by the way, he still is. He's a dual citizen. He's a citizen of Uganda, as are his parents, dual citizens. He's a settler colonialist, to use his own vocabulary. So all of his little promises that he's going to do, free bus rides and all of these stores that are going to open up, if private enterprise, even when it's shackled by the police, can still exist with all that theft, what are you going to do when there's no police to check the police? In other words, when he makes these socialist stores, what is he going to do? He's on record that there's no rules, basically. So anybody gets to go in there and buy, he's going to use this massive subsidy of millions of dollars to buy all the food and then sell it for below the cost he paid and then say that you're getting cheap food because I'm taxing multimillionaires to subsidize it. And what's going to stop some guy with a shopping cart just to go in there and load up who was making $150,000 a year? Nothing. They had that little skit where somebody said a bar quote and they looked at, here she is. You know, he turned around and she just. not me you know he did he they asked him questions and he just turned to his market guru and she didn't want to talk about it because they have to do what he did with the snow diggers you have to say can you show three forms of id before we pay you to to shovel snow so id everybody wants to know why government is so bad besides that there's no accountability there's no efficiency the biggest thing has always been they don't follow the rules that they inflict on other people because there's no one to enforce it upon them so you've seen this situation where you walk down the street in a major city and there's a company and it's got signs everywhere and there's guy walking with holding yield or slow and they do all this protocol because they'll get sued or they'll get fined and then you see a government caltrans or somebody and you drive by it and you can almost run them over there's they're walking around and they're all sitting around it's that depression area ad that everybody got mad at roosevelt i think it was a national recovery act where they had all these guys with shovels laying down and then the guy goes it's it's time to take a break so that's there's no account that's going to happen the soviet union they just dumped nuclear waste everywhere and they said we're the government who's going to who's going to complain same thing about mondami he has a lot more health violations and city-owned subsidized housing than the private sector yeah who's going to you know there's no there's no there's a government but there's no ultra government above it yeah and since nobody has any incentive to work it's just going to become a run down run down run down there's no firing you can't fire people and it's it's it's sort of like as i said before in this all these westerns when the tragic hero rides in they're in paralysis they can't do anything against the the banditos or the uh cattle barons you know what i mean because we can't do that we can't put on six guns and and stop protect ourselves that wouldn't be that we've been we can't do that we don't we don't know in the magnificence we don't know how to fight so let's hire these awful horrible people to do it for us and then when they start to get you know be successful kick them out and say i'm ashamed that we ever asked you to come in yeah that's trump's paradox yeah did you see that you know what i think social media has done a really good job on are things like like that all the frauds coming out but also did you see i i feel like they they're giving up those ai um ceos are kind of giving up on their story that it's going to tear it because social media tore that narrative apart that oh there's going to be this big disaster that was all cooked up by that young techie who was taking his cue from the democrats and they said we need an october surprise to shake everything up uh let's get a psychodrama and as i said on the earlier thing they do it all the time nuclear winter reagan's gonna blow us up and we and carl sagan would you please storm the country and make a million bucks yes then al gore in 92 al gore global warming doesn't work because it's been really cold well then how about climate change so it's cold or hot calm or hurricanes it doesn't matter rain or drought it's climate change and he wrote that earth and the balance and he used that all during the 92 campaign and 93 and then the re-election and so we've we've all lived through the population bomb we're all going to die because there's too many people that made paul eric the stanford professor a multi-millionaire we all lived through carl sagan's nuclear winter we all lived with al gore's population bomb in fact we all lived with covid's going to kill everybody unless we shut down the economy economy and all the schools the fauci thing then we found out fauci was probably one of the craftsmen or a subsidizer of the wuhan lab where it came from and me too me too was every single man somewhere in his past had raped somebody and he but we're going to find out and then all of a sudden they said we destroy our icon bill clinton if we go back through all of his liaisons and then al joe biden he's got six or seven years of experience in the military and he's got six or seven years of experience in the military and he's got six or seven years of experience in the military and women coming out of the shadows and then tara reid said she was sexually that's the end event me too no more yeah the democrats usually get bitten by their own lie and hysteria and they sure do well i know that you said a little bit about the greenland security deal but i just want to bring to the fore i don't know if you have more to say what the united states achieved in this security deal uh they're going to have two more bases i believe they have one in greenland to protect obviously against china or russia disrupting things and then um the united states also has veto power over chinese and russian investments yeah what it means is the main thing about the deal is the whatever is the fate of greenland vis-a-vis denmark and they were trying to protect themselves from two scenarios in other words if there is a hard left anti-american which they have been in the past and they've been in the past and they've been in the past and they say that's that's we're not going to do that and they revoke it try to kick them out because they have a treaty that says that it's immaterial what subsequent governments say or if the greenlanders too say we want to be independent now and say we don't want to be part of denmark they still can't violate it says it's in perpetuity and why was this done the way it was done because diego garcia in the indian ocean is the most important place in the world in that area and not in the world in the indian for the united states it's where we put our long-range bombers and stuff and the british had given us a 99 year lease because they wanted their interest in the area protected as well as and then they come along with sturmur and he gave it back he gave it to us at churgos or chargo he gave it to them and they didn't know anything about it they were just the closest person and now we have our 99 year lease from them and we have no idea what they're going to do they've been they're pro-chinese and they're going to try to kick us out and the british did that to us so they they said we're not going to do that and if you look everybody should take a deep breath and look what's happened to china in the last two years they have no client like russia in syria they have no client really in iran anymore they can't get to it and they won't be able to get to it they lost their panama canal chokehold they lost their little puppet in venezuela they're going to lose cuba very quickly they have a 1.0 fertility rate as i keep saying all the main companies software digital media space launches satellite launches um bioengineering of the top 10 corporations in the world nine are american the chinese are failing in every category they're desperate to send thousands more students over here so that two or three percent can send back technology we had one at the hoover institution that's made headlines that we had a visiting scholar a research fellow and he supposedly was running a deal to help veterans and also to get citizenship for people who were here legally with visas and now we find out he was working with a communist china chinese communist party and trying to get chinese people over here who shouldn't be here and so China is severely I think that's why Trump gave him a red carpet that's exactly what he says in his art of the deal book yeah the more personally starts losing the more you praise them and don't make fun of them because the more he will lose yeah well let's pick up on that subject of China here in the US after these messages many Americans gonna have a big wake-up call we have never seen net migration as high as it has been in the last few years this year there have been more people coming to the UK in small boats than ever before you did an extreme thing to the country Britain is facing a migrant crime epidemic we don't actually know where they're coming from who they are how old they are why would you let in millions of people who are unvetted if not to change the country from within there is no other word for it demographic replacement England's a blueprint for America it's coming yeah it's just a blueprint thousands of daily migrant crossings a political earthquake threatens to reshape America we are showing there is a new path for politics in our country not all cultures are the same you cannot ban Sharia America is a nation of it we are a nation of immigrants we're a nation of immigrants the immigration crisis watch now on the Heritage Foundation's YouTube channel this is Victor Davis Hanson in his own words you can find Victor on social media his ex account is at VD Hanson and on Facebook at Hanson's morning cup so please join him there if those are your news outlets so speaking of China she is here and I was wondering if you had any thoughts after he had purged his military leadership of two of the central commanders I think that you Jia Zhang and Jinli Liu two generals were expelled that was kind of interesting the two together arriving here and then I don't know I have inside information but since he's purged his leadership for supposed corruption and corruption in China means that some toady spy insider has gone to Chi and said this general is talking about it's time to reform or he doesn't like you or he thinks you're corrupt so that's what they say and then they say that this guy is corrupt so he's got a he's kind of dismantled a lot of his top command and control so you think that he wouldn't do that on the eve of taking Taiwan but there's a couple of things that are going on number one he looks at the Russian war and the Iran war and he's he's got a lot of he surmises from it that a country that has a lot of drones and rockets can stall like the Ukrainians are doing not necessarily win and the Iranians have put up a you know they they have put up a pretty good defense with all this so he's thinking if Taiwan has a million drones and missiles how could we ever go across 90 miles of ocean without being blasted out of the water and the United States had two or three carriers or two or three drone ships with two or three hundred thousand drones it would be impossible you see what I mean so now I think he is coming over to Trump and saying if you don't sell them weapons if you don't um interfere if you look at the present government of Taiwan and the majority of past governments that are left-wing they voted for them and they're pro us not you do you really want to have American boys and girls going over there and dying for this country that would like to be like Hong Kong so we have a we have a model called Hong Kong where we control it but we allow people to make money and keep their fortunes if they don't criticize us that's his he's not going to say that but that's the message he's trying to give Trump but what we're willing to do is not storm and kill a bunch of people and take it we just want to slowly strangle it and uh smother it and turn it into Hong Kong that's our new strategy but didn't they absorb Hong Kong as well eventually like it sounds like the road to Hong Kong is no different than they are they strangled it that's what I mean yeah exactly but they say that the economy is still booming in Hong Kong yeah that's because they they let it have a little bit more capitalism than normal but all any there's only a couple of people spoke out Jimmy Lee was lie was one of them and that's it you can't say a word yeah there's another family that has a pastor who China G has arrested that's trying to get him out and that's so sad he basically called in all the oligarchs in Hong Kong yeah and he sat him down and he said who wants to make a lot of money and who wants to go to jail and all of you who worship me and never say a word about the Communist Party are going to make a lot of money for us and you and anybody who criticizes will sit in jail and rot take your pick and only two of them I think said I'd rather rot than work with you yeah that is so sad well Victor let's try to take a sharp turn into uh the midterms and I think the most noticeable thing in the presses this week was that there's a lot of people who are turning away not a lot there are politicians who are turning against Trump but I think it's the Iran war I I noticed and I I don't think Laura Ingram was turning against Trump but there was a subtle thing in her interview with James Carville where she said I agree that the Iran war was a mistake I think she'd suggested she always thought that and I think it's that Iran war that is turning these politicians and if if you have any thoughts on the midterms along with that that would be great well there were people who told Trump after the midterms are over you have two years and two months to deal with Iran right and his answer was we have new intelligence that they have ballistic missiles that can hit every city in Europe and more importantly that they're right on the verge now and they will in the next six months announce that they have a bomb and if they announce they have a bomb we know what it follows after what the crazy talk where they have a defense minister a general and he says something like well we're going to nuke Israel or if the French do this we're going to nuke Paris and then we deny that and we just send that out there to disrupt them and make them worry and Trump says I'm not going to put up with that so he did something that his advisors told him not to do that is going in the midterm you can argue that after 38 days of absolute damage to them had we had we inflicted the type of blockade embargo freezing assets canceling overseas properties and bank accounts of the elite and then instituting secondary boycotts anybody who trades with them anybody that sends them money anybody buys her or any we're not they're going to be sanctioned they would be if we had done that instead of around September 1st had we done that let's say May 1st you know we went in there in February 28th so after 30 days of and we I think we stopped bombing around the 8th of April so give it a time if we had done that I think they would have been the oil would have recovered and they would have been much weakened they wouldn't have been able to do what they're doing so you can criticize tactical decisions that were made but I I think um and you I don't think he could wait that's why he went and I think we're not getting any news because they keep saying there's no reporters there's none there's no Western reporters there's no embedded Americans there's no ground troops there's only surveillance and yesterday they said some of the boss of the head of the one of the luminaries of the uh Revolutionary Islamic Revolutionary Guard was killed and there was open gun fights and you see pictures now coming out of dissidents so something's going on and around but we don't know what it's just like the CIA everybody faulted and they woke up one day and the Berlin Wall fell and they had no intelligence that that was going to happen but they didn't have enough people on the ground they just they were relying on satellites so they had no idea that that level of dysfunction in East Germany had reached a crescendo and we don't know either and so anything could happen and what's happened is that many people in the media and many as I said swing State Purple State people up for election and that's not just Congress and um it's not just senators and representatives. It's local and state. It's governors. It's state lieutenant governors. They think because Trump is pulling 39% that they want to distance himself. They don't think that he's not going to recover. They all know that he's indestructible and he always bounces back. But they think in the short term, they're going to run as independent people. I don't think that's a good strategy. Laura brought on Carville to make the case that I think what she was trying to do was to show that even the Democrats hate the socialist and use Carville as a means of discrediting the socialist. But when he got on there, he lied and said, we have nothing to do with the socialist. Who's Hassan Parker? We don't even know who Hassan Parker is. Well, yeah, you do know who he is. He sits down with Mondami. He campaigns with Al-Said. He's been at every major left-wing district, congressional district. He's one of your favorite podcasters of left-wing Democrats and Saeed and et cetera, et cetera. But if you're talking about Tucker is for Al-Said, and I think Megyn Kelly will probably sit out the election. I don't know if she would vote for Republican candidates. She's expressed, I was on her show. She expressed a lot of criticism of the Iran war. I think she would admit that she'd be proud of it. And she's admitted criticism of Trump inflation as a result of the Iran war. So that's the two issues, the Iran war and inflation that have driven him down from, I looked the other day, he was January, February, good economic news. He was up to 48, 49% and some of that real clear. Politics. And then this, if the war had been over or if the war is over next week, he will be really popular and the price of oil will crash. Will it crash before the midterm? No. But if it was going radically down and you saw a million people in the street of Iran, yeah, that would be a big difference. I have a bad habit when I. Oh, go ahead. I supported the removal of Saddam Hussein. Didn't really support all the stuff we were doing, spending all that money to. I went over to Iraq twice and on the way over, I was talking to a Bechtel executive and he said to me something that really struck me. He said, we are building an electrical relay station in Baghdad that is so much more sophisticated than the ones in San Francisco. And I said, why are we doing, he said, well, I said, why don't we build the new one in San Francisco and take the old parts and put it in Baghdad? And he said, because you might as well do it new, but he was very against it. And he said, this is driving me crazy that we're spending a trillion dollars for infrastructure for these people who hate us. So that nobody thought that was going to end that way. And it did. And so, but I still think that Donald Trump is going to be the one who's going to be the one Donald Trump made the right decision. I feel that we could have been much tougher earlier and got it over with. My idea was to go in there at 38 days when he stopped, to go to 50 days and start taking out dual-use targets, bridges, everything, and then do the sanctions that Scott Besant has done, and then open, forcibly open the Strait and leave a carrier group to keep it open. And then every time they hit one of our allies, if you're in the region, just tit for tat, but get out of there and make sure the oil was moving. But that's just a judgment call. I mean, I think these sanctions are going to strangle them. I really do. Yeah. And I think that the Democratic candidates are going to be seen for who they are, which brings me to El-Said. This week, it comes out that he sided with the Muslim Brotherhood on a press crackdown in Egypt in 2012. Of course, he was a big Mohammed Morsi fan. Yes. And he is getting money for his campaign from Hamas-linked donors. So his siding with Islamists who would easily have a Holocaust if they could, and everybody knows it. But besides that, I just wonder what you think about Kamala Harris coming out to campaign with them. That was the funniest thing I've seen in the campaign. No one wants her. Everybody in the Democratic Party who's in a congressional seat does not want to get near her because when she talks for more than 30 seconds, her vocabulary, after it exhausts her 500-word vocabulary, it starts to go wash, rinse, spin, wash, rinse, spin. It just goes in a circle. And then she goes in that cackle. And then you look at her eyes, and they look like those spinning little hypnotic devices. And you can make an argument, she looks intoxicated. Yeah, whether she is or not, she looks it. It doesn't matter. She's one of the few politicians that even if she doesn't have a drink, she looks drunk and acts drunk. So nobody wanted her in there. And they're trying to find a way. She's polling right now ahead of the other candidates, but no donor will give her any money given the fiasco of 2024. So what I'm getting at is any candidate that would invite her in in a close race must be looking at internal polls, not the crooked Gallup and all of those, you know, Emerson, all those polls. They're all left-wing. But I'm talking about their internal polls where they don't lie because it doesn't serve any purpose. You don't pay people to lie to you and make bad choices. You pay an internal pollster to tell you the truth. So he's looking at his internal polls, and he's thinking, where am I losing this race? And they're saying, you're not getting what Democrats usually get from the African-American vote. And there is a huge Detroit, Lansing, you name it, Flint. And the reason you're not is there's been a series of high-profile incidents where Muslim market owners, stop-and-go people, gas stations have insulted, fought with, had altercations with the Black community. And the Black community sees them as interlopers into their community. And they will either sit out this, or they will, you know, we'll get on that ballot, and they won't fill it out for you. They'll vote for the other, or they'll vote for Mike Rogers. So what do you do if you're Saeed? You think, well, it's any Black candidate. Is any Black leader going to come in here and vote for me? And the answer is no, because they would lose their Black fides, their authenticity. So then he thinks, is there any national Black leader who could convince, is it Cory Booker or Spartacus? Could he come in there? You know, he was a grown-up, upper-middle-class, a child of two executives, who's crazy anyway. Could he come in there and get the Black vote to simmer down and make peace with their Arab rivals? No. So there's only her. So the fact that he's that desperate to bring her in when he knows that she turns off people shows you that he's not doing well. And when you add in the primary poll that showed him, 10 points ahead, and he only won by a point and a half, something is going on there. And I don't think she'll go to any other race. And the next thing to watch is, let's see if Jackson or Tallarico invite her in. And there's not a lot of Black vote in Maine, but if Flanagan asked her to go in Minnesota or in Tallarico in Texas, then they're in trouble. Big time. And they're going to make it worse by having her there, but they have no choice. No. All right, Victor, so we're at the— It'd be better asking Jasmine Crockett to come in, because she would scream and yell about white people, and that might galvanize people, I suppose. Yeah. We're at the end of the show, and I just have a couple of comments. The first one was on the—supporting the killers in court. And we'll probably talk a little bit about this on the Saturday edition. But William Guignam said on that subject, the radical feminists on the left in the U.S. have run out of issues to war against. So this time, they have actually pitted themselves against universal laws that ensure the continuity of existence. He means that it's not good to kill universal law, as we know it. And they are giddy in thinking they are close to overturning an eternal principle in the rhythm of the universe. I like that. Well, he's absolutely right, because there's two or three things the socialist Democrats have done in 2026. They've shown their true colors. They made this killer, Lindsay Clancy, their poster woman for new age feminism. And they're now making the argument that postpartum blues are an unrecognized epidemic. And then they want to publicize. But they don't understand the effect of it. They're telling men. All of us have postpartum depression. And some of us have it so bad, we'll kill your kids. And if they kill your kids, there's not going to be any penalties. So what they're thinking about, hmm, I'm depressed. I'd like to strangle my three children. But Lindsay Clancy doesn't have, I mean, she threw herself off a balcony and got paralyzed. But if you don't do that, the government's not going to do it. They're going to acquit you. You just go into insane asylum for a year or two. And so that's what, it's a death cult. And then when you see the Massachusetts law that says basically you can abort any child at any time. So a child that you carry and it's completely cognizant for the last four months of its gestation, it's been able, should it have to be outside the womb, it could have lived under the hospital care. And now a fully formed baby looks outside, fights its way through the birth canal, and you kill it. Not that that's going to be the norm, but that can happen. And that's murder. And they cheered when the Minnesota governor signed that into legislation. Wasn't it the Massachusetts governor? Or Massachusetts, I mean, excuse me, Massachusetts. So they cheered. And when you add that to that. The Lindsay Clancy thing. And then you see all of these women, mostly white, going out there and assaulting Mexican-American ICE agents and ICE enforcement. And think of the logic they have. We let in 12 million people across our border. They spread everywhere. 500,000 of them are criminals. Just deporting 300,000 has a. Strong correlation that we have the lowest crime rate in the last 70 years. However, it's very hard to find the others because we white liberal women in our big cities are championing sanctuary jurisdictions where you can't deport them. But these fascist Nazi Mexican-American agents who are tasked to go round them up, not at the border, but all over the United States to find them, they are fascist. And we're going to throw feces at them. We're going to spit in their face. We're going to call them names. That's a death call. Because they're killing people. Yeah. A lot of illegal aliens. And we have a second. We have another truck driver wreck in California, but we don't have time to get into that. Yeah. Maybe we'll talk on Saturday about that. This is from Down Under. Alistair McLaughlin. And he says, Victor, greetings from Australia. It is so wonderful seeing you put on. Some weight and having a healthy glow on your face. You may be interested to learn that Australia has just announced that it will follow Canada in pursuing, quote, affiliated membership, unquote, of the EU. Good luck with that. We are governed by politicians far worse than Carney. Every significant decision taken by our labor, our labor party moves our once great, vibrant country. We're going to step closer to the abyss. I thoroughly enjoy listening to you. Your insights and reflections upon the issues of the day are wonderful. That is the brilliant left wing open door. So Australia has let in millions of people, mostly from Asia, who are left wing as Canada. As I keep saying, the subtext of the whole Canadian conundrum is that Canada has among the most. Rich natural resources and natural wealth in the world, but it can't a socialist government won't utilize its timber, precious metals and oil to the full extent and coordinate the provinces to use that national wealth. And now it has to and it won't because 45 percent of the country either was not born in Canada or the children that were not born in Canada and they're all left wing. And more importantly, their fertility rate is one point to five. So it is they're going to have more and more non native Canadians in that country and it's changing them. And that's why it has gone so far left. But think finally, again, everybody of the logic. Here you have the United States that I just said has the highest per capita income in the world. It has defied all odds made. That the millennium that China within twenty five years would catch the United States and we instead have outpaced it so that there are one point four billion person nation creates ten trillion dollars less than our three hundred and fifty million nation and the EU with its four hundred and fifty million people creates ten trillion dollars less of GDP. And you want to ally yourself. Australia does and Canada with a continent with a one point three fertility rate and has sworn off fossil fuels and has the highest energy cost in the world and has a sluggish economy and has in Sweden a 30 percent foreign born, but elsewhere, 16 to 18 percent. And it's on. In the verge of boiling over in a political revolution because the right is getting stronger and stronger, common sense right and the left is getting more desperate and using unconstitutional means to suppress elections and you want to and it's completely disarmed. It's starting to arm a little bit and you want to ally yourself because you don't like Trump and all you're going to do because what happens in these popular movements when they're demagogued by leaders in Australia and Canada. Who are natural friends and allies they think that they're just going to attack Trump but it doesn't work that way then it becomes anti-American Americans don't know I mean they love Austin I think of all the polls the people poll they like Australians the best the idea at least of Australians when I went to Australia they were the nicest people in the most American people I met but that was 20 years ago so my point is inevitably to get whip up public opinion. To go through with your new alliances go soft on China ally with Europe distance yourself from the United States ultimately that filters down to the American people and they have no idea the American character the American characters kind of like well I don't know Australia they're Aussies are great people Canadians yeah they're good people but that's about it and if they hear that they're booing us and they're booing us. And they don't like us and elbows up their ideas blank them and the same thing with Australia and they'll say things that you know well didn't we save you in World War Two we had you are going to be were being bombed by the Japanese and we sent I think General MacArthur went there and we we shortened our we shorted our own forces in Pearl Harbor and Wake Island other words to give you supplies. And that's how we're going to think and we have been strong allies and now you don't want to be our ally anymore and see how you're going to what are you going to do in five years when China starts. And that's how we're going to think and we have been strong allies and now you don't want to be our ally anymore and see how you're going to be our ally anymore and see how you're going to be our ally anymore and see how you're going to be our ally anymore and see how you're going to be our ally anymore and see how you're going to be our ally anymore. out. And the United States Americans are going to go, okay, let's just arm ourselves to the teeth more and let's build more nukes and more, you know, missile defense and a bigger Pentagon budget. And nobody's going to blank with us. And that's our attitude. And they're stupid to do that, that left-wing government. But that's not most Australians, I think. I think they'll get tired of it, I hope. The Canadians, I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure because they've been waging an anti-American, the government is, very intense anti-American campaign. And they don't know what they're doing because there's a million Canadians and they get no visa, visa-free six months, do whatever you want in the United States. No other country gets it. Lowest tariffs of any other country. 75% of, we buy 75% of their stuff. And. We have a great mutually beneficial deal with their heavy sulfurs, tar oil, and we, we can refine it and nobody else really can. And that there are other provinces don't want to have pipelines to have that stuff going into their provinces. It's a great situation and they're going to destroy it. And they're, they're already destroying. Cause I've, I was, you know, this was the first time I went, I went to dinner with two different Hoover fellows. I talked, I went to the meeting. I was at the, I was on the Stanford campus two days. First time since I was operated. And when you talk to all these people, they talk about, oh, foreign affairs. I must've had 10 people talk about Canada. They were all negative. Yeah. They'd say, what the blank are they doing? Blank them. I'm sick of them. Dah, dah, dah, not Trump. They're not big Trump supporters, but they don't understand what they're doing in Canada and they don't understand what they're doing in Australia. Yeah. And there's a strong anti-Semitic tinge to it, uh, that we're the only place besides Israel where Jews used to be saved, but there's still a lot of us in America who think that the anti-Semites will be defeated. And I would say, by the way, everybody is, it's incumbent upon everybody in their own personal life and not to make a big thing of it, but to. Make sure that you speak out when people express hostility or act in an anti-Semitic way, because it's an age old purge. I mean, uh, age old pestilence. Prejudice. And when it starts to roll and grow and spread, it's much harder to stop. And we have people who are intent on this new socialist Islamic party. That is. That is one of the keystones of hating Jews. Yeah. Victor, we are on a hard break, so we've got to go. Thanks to our audience for joining us. And thanks to you for all the wisdom. And we'll see everybody on the Saturday edition, um, tomorrow. Thank everybody for listening and watching. This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis-Hansen, and we're signing off. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content. Like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.