Victor Davis Hanson: The Terrifying Power of Artificial Intelligence

Like nuclear weapons, we built the bomb, and then people said, "Let's never build another bomb. Let's give it to the Russians and share the technology." And then the Russians, four years later, let off a bigger bomb. You can't unilaterally disarm. That's what they don't see about these AI centers. And it's important that we match the Chinese and deter them. Hello and welcome to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor's the Martin E. Lee Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Bursky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. Come visit his website, VictorHansen.com. The name of the website is The Blade of Perseus and we'll be happy to have everybody come join us. Victor writes two articles exclusive for ultra-subscribers on the website and a video each week. So please come join us there. Plus all the myriad of other things that each week are also on the website. So we have lots of news stories and then we're going to talk a little bit about Zachary Taylor and John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the middle segment. So stay with us and we'll get back with some news stories first. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. I have a new book out on September 8th of this year and I think you're going to enjoy it. It's called Counter Revolution, The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and The Maga Movement. It starts right after January 6th and it details the lack of popularity of Donald Trump, the invective that he endured, the five civil and criminal trials, the effort to get him off the ballot, the raid on Marlago. The two impeachments earlier, one in which he was tried as a private citizen and yet he came back. How did he come back? And why did he come back? I explain in the book how he defeated his primary opponents, how he was outspent. He had a hostile media and he defeated the Democratic machine and Camila Harris. It starts on January 6th, it ends pretty much now in May of 2026 what's the title about Donald Trump is not a revolutionary, he's not a revisionist, he's a counter revolutionary. This time around he is not addressing just the symptoms of the progressive project of the last 50 years, he's talking about the causes, not just an open border but how to stop illegal immigration entirely, not just crime but sending the National Garden to make sure cities are safe, not just an Iranian nuclear threat but ending that threat that seven other presidents had identified but did not act on, not just addressing the transgender issue or the Green New Deal and all of those issues that were so dear to the Democratic Party but ending them, defunding NPR and PBS so it is a counter revolution to unwind and to roll back the entire progressive project of the last 50 years. I think you're going to like it, it's pretty interesting, it chronicles the greatest political comeback in our recent political history. Thank you very much, I'm Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. Welcome back, Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. So Victor we're going to do a few news things first, I know we talked about China and Iran, the two hotspots, the third hotspot that we haven't really heard too much about recently is the Ukraine and I was wondering if we could get a little update on the Ukraine. I do an update on my book first. Oh, oh yeah, sorry, but we didn't say, yeah we plugged it on Friday but you should plug it today too because it's the first week that it's out, it looks like it's doing well in sales. Number four on Amazon. Five days. It was number one for four days. I mean I've done a lot of interviews but some people that are interviewing about the book, don't mention the book, they just want to talk about contemporary affair so if I don't plug it, who will. So people were worried about the pub date because originally it was scheduled in March or actually February before the Iran War. So I don't think the Iran War and the midterms are going to affect it because it's an analysis of the fall, what happened to Donald Trump and then his rise, how he recovered after January 6th and after he'd up the presidency and all the things he went through as I said and then a lot of the is a lot of the book is on the 2024 campaign and he was given a great gift with Kamala Harris and the Biden record. One of the themes of the book is its tragic irony but given all that he suffered in the wilderness years after the 2020 election, you could argue he was better off because people got a taste of what socialism was like under Biden or whoever was running the country under Biden. And then they saw Harris and they could compare Trump's first record with a second and then he'd learned he looked at the landscape for four years out of office. So the next time he came into office he got people who were all loyal to him. And then the last, so the first third of the book is the fall of Donald Trump, all the terrible things that happened, how he was written. Now if I got some great quotes I think about people who said that he should be in prison and he was a failure and these were Republicans, Republicans. I did notice that of all the luminaries from the first term and in the Republican parties, anyone who said anything critical of Donald Trump when he was down low, like Mike Pompeo made a legitimate, he's just said I don't know why Trump took out the classified files. Not like he had it coming to him, although he objected to the manner in which more law go on. That was it. He was not going to be in the next administration. And then, so the second third is the campaign and the third is what's he's doing right now, the counter revolution in detail. It's not a bush, dull, McCain, Romney plan. It's a holistic effort to restructure the United States. That shouldn't say we structure it, we turn the United States to its prior values, protocols and structure. And that's why it's so controversial. And then I have an epilogue and we can talk about that. What's after Donald Trump? Can you have sunshine without the sun? Can you have a mega without Trump? Or are we going to have a showdown between JD and Rubio? And what are the mega people going to do with the Marjorie Taylor-Green, Thomas Massey, Tucker Carlson, wing, other Republican party? Or is it even a wing? As we said the other day, Tucker now has people on his podcast that he nods and says, amazing, who claim that algebra was a Jewish conspiracy to hurt non-Jews by making them study a worthless field that goes back to antiquity as essential to any sophisticated map, physics or engineering. So I hope everybody goes out and buys it. I have a feeling of the 23,000 copies that sold in the first three days. My hunch is that most of them were our listeners, because they're the most loyal of all of them. Yeah, that's probably true. So a lot of you have probably already gone out and bought the book, and we hope you enjoy it. I think that most of us can agree that it has. I'm expecting very bad reviews from the left. Yeah. It's strange that you haven't gotten any reviews of all of them. Have some reviews. I have one. It's a very good one in commentary. There was one in pajamas media. There was one in the new criteria, a short one. Yeah, but nothing from the left. That's what's interesting. It's coming, don't worry. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. Especially if it sells really well. Especially when Trump is what, 38%, I don't believe he's that low, but that's what they say. Yeah. So let's go ahead and then turn to the Ukraine and get a little update. I went off and Jared Kushner were there, and they said they've reopened talks, so. We're in stage four or five of that year. Remember, the first stage was Moscow in March and a February after February 24th, 2022, I tried to decapitate Ukraine and take Kiev, and the war was going to be over it. That didn't happen. The Ukrainians had a heroic defense of the city. They defeated the Russians, pushed them completely out of Central Ukraine, and then it became a border war over the Donbass and Crimea. At that point, everybody said, Ukraine won, but they didn't. So we went into stage two where Russia used its million-man militia and army, its defense industry and its oil wealth, to try to crush them. And so by 2023, people were saying it's inevitable. And then Ukraine did something no one expected. It created a sophisticated drone industry and a missile industry, and it could make a million drones a year. And it began hitting Russian targets. We had said you're not going to use, we had said we're not going to use high mars missiles to hit targets inside Russia because of the danger of our weapons being used against a nuclear power. They got around that by saying we don't need them, we're going to have little drones and they're going to go 1500 miles and hit refineries. And then everybody said, Russia's law, Russians are importing gas, they've lost the war, they can't deal with this. That was stage 3. And stage 4 was, the Russians came back, they're not, now they're just grinding Ukraine down. And Ukraine's got lost about 11 million people who have left. So it's, population went from 41 million down to 28 million and it's running out of people and Russia's now reverse engineering, Ukrainian drones and we thought that cutting off the supply of Iran would hurt them but it didn't. So they're sending drones in every day and their strategy is not to grind out and lose a lot of people on the front but it is to hit the cities, kill civilians, hit hospitals and then make Ukraine concede the territory of the Donbass and agree to their terms which are you can't be in NATO, you can't be in the EU, you have to be disarmed meaning we're going to take over the next war in two or three years we'll take you over. So that's where we are and Trump feels that if he could end the war given what happened in Venezuela and the flipping of most of the governments of Latin America, South and Central and Caribbean America and there's only four or five countries now that are anti-American Americans, it's amazing and he thought that was done by kicking the Chinese out of Panama and then getting Maduro out, a lot of more problems in Iran but if that should happen he would be in a very good position, he would be the person who we made the Middle East and we made Latin America but can he do that in the case of the Middle East before the election? One thing he said after the elections Iran, Iranians will make a deal meaning they are so destitute and they're starving but they want to hold out to the midterms because they think the Democrats are going to win and then they'll try to cut off the war or the Democrats are in their side and they'll come into power in the Congress and Trump says that either he wins and that won't happen or even if they win he can still conduct the war, they won't have enough votes to cut it off, he feels but I just finished by saying it works the other way to the deadline so if you're an Iranian dissident and you've lost 45,000 in the initial protests butchered by your own diocracy then you've lost 20 to 30,000 in the last six months by going after dissidents and shooting them which they have done and now you're told that the theocracy of all it has to do it thinks it survived to the midterms or throw the midterms to the Democrats, well you're you want Trump in there to destroy this theocracy well maybe you would want to resist now before the midterms and go out there and say you know what these guys think the Democrats are going to help them but we're going to overthrow them and go out there and ask for American help air support before the midterms so I think there's a 30 percent chance you'll see a uprising in the next 60 days 30 percent yeah I hope it's a known on known yeah it is that redistricting is a known on known the Supreme Court gerrymaning is a known on known the degree to which these radical socialists Jacobins can like leopards change their spots teller equals said I was being rhetorical when I said Jesus had many genders he's he was male and God too you know sometimes I get into crowds that kind of say things same thing about meat same things about illegal immigrants same thing as about eyes same thing about everything I've ever said in my life and my question mr. Talibika were you lying when you said all those things you really didn't mean them are you lying now that you really did mean them now then but now for political expediency you're lying it's got to be one of the other because they're mutually incompatible yeah and that's pretty easy is a lot he sounds like with me and mr. Taliboy who's dancing oh else I do and smiley socialists mandami they're all trying to be touchy feeling we're good all American people they're not they hate the United States they want to reboot it or change it or destroy it yeah so and they've said in so many ways it's a little less than 60 days or two late traditionally labor day marks the start of the campaign season so it should be heating out so speaking of those things then we had one primary this week and that was in New Hampshire I was wondering if you thought that the outcome which was Chris poppest the Democrat will run against John Sinuno as a Senate candidate yeah is that okay race to watch though because that with that well New Hampshire used to be live free or die but all the Massachusetts people are so liberal and be that believe in high taxes not for themselves so they've gone to New Hampshire and they commute and go across to Boston so it's a lep it's a purple or or blue state now but Sinuno has the best chance of anybody to win that Senate seat in New Hampshire I would say has a 40% chance I'm not convinced that tell Rico Said and Jackson are gonna win I think that they can hold all those seats that convention might help them a little bit it's on to I don't know what Trump meant when he said he's gonna get everybody five thousand dollars were forty one trillion dollars in debt and I don't know the conditions or the details on which you get five thousand I wouldn't take the five thousand if they gave it to me not that I couldn't you couldn't use it but I don't believe you should do that no it's kind of like the left does they just call it Obama phones yeah exactly you know or Obama cars or cash for clunkers yeah but he's over it and it sounds like he's buying votes so I think the age will go in there and say well this is some kind of incentive program on your taxes or something they should yeah but I think the convention is salutary it'll they're only problem I think they can win if they get everybody to vote because nobody wants to vote for these people but they have to get them out to vote and people don't want to vote in the midterms they think I made all that effort during the general election and I'm not 100% pleased with my vote so I don't want to vote anymore that's their attitude we'll go vote because this time at socialism yeah you know there was a revealing thing about that Tolerico campaign he went to he's running for Texas Senate and he went to California to raise money this week so he got caught it's so weird I guess they're getting so many Californians and there's so much money they're gonna give him money no that's probably true he doesn't like Texas beef for at least his earlier incarnation didn't like Texas beef so every 39 as I keep saying now 41 midterms the out party wins yeah sometimes they don't but the sad thing trumps a tragic hero because the sad thing is if he loses this is what's gonna happen they're gonna bring in all of his cabinet minimars they may I'd say there's a good chance they'll try to impeach him they'll call in Sean Dupy they'll call in Wayne Mullin you know interior I mean the Homeland Security yes Mark Wayne Mullin they will call in Chris Wright they will call in Doug Berger they will call in especially Pete Hexet and they'll wake him up with the calls they'll call in all the crypto people they'll call in Don Jr. Eric Jr. Ivanka Jared Kushner and their circle of friends that have been very active in the Middle East let's face it and they won't pass any legislation and Donald Trump will have to run by executive order and then I predict given the multi trillion dollar foreign investment the all of these AI centers all of these transferred plants all of the job reports were 400,000 less government jobs and when he entered that's amazing and yet the unemployment rate is only 4.3 or something it's amazing we are creating a lot of jobs the stock market is fine and I think it's going to boom boom boom but I don't know if it'll boom in time to help him politically the last curiosity I guess out there was the DSA had a conference and they are I just they're so strange but let's look at a couple of the strange things they had to say one young man was up there and he said that GLPs are an attack on are a come from a world that genocide black people and that they are anti-black and fascistic. And then one young girl got up there and said that she looked quite fit, but she said that fit or being fit was also fascistic. So they were talking on-- - The person who probably said that GLP injections were racist took them and didn't like them. They work and they save lives apparently. We don't know much about them, but people who have run blind studies and thought they might have a higher propensity to cancer, it's just the opposite. They're anti-inflammatory. - When they take the GLP ones, yeah. - Yes, they have better outlooks for cancer so far. But that thing was a clown show because whatever a person is, that person was obese by the way the male. Whatever you are, you have to find a victim status. So if you're black, but you're not female and you're not gay, you need a force multiplier. You at least need two victim markers. So he's black, so he's fat. That's a health hazard. But he turns it into it's a symptom of depression from racism or something, or racist. - I think he was implying it was part of black culture. That to be heavy like that was one of the central themes of black culture, so anything that tried to do-- - There's a new, did you see the cheerleaders? They're a whole group of black cheerleaders and they were all obese and tight, tight jumpsuits. - What school was there some school or some team they were? - Yeah, I think it was a football team. I didn't see the actual, I can't remember the actual, but they were, I would say they were easily 230. - You couldn't make the team unless you were over 200 pounds. - Yeah, it was special, the cheerleaders were all black and they were all obese. So people have said that about the Hispanic community, it's racist, if you say people are too heavy. The UN, I think 10 years ago, it might have changed, the country and the world that had the highest rate of obesity was Mexico. That was kind of from the diet, I think. But I keep saying this, I said the other day, I think people are getting tired of all this and somebody I mentioned wrote me and said, "Well, you're just getting your information based on algorithms." You say, you turn to a new story and then they mark you and you get more of those. And AI is the same way when you want to ask a question. If you say on GROKE, I think I have cancer. Here's what I have and you have a 80% chance. GROKE will say here, or AI or something. This doesn't necessarily mean you. There's no reason to, and there's a weird study out now, a strange study that says that in fact, somebody with your mutation does not have 40% chance of recurrent. So that's what I know. So this reader was warning me, but as I said, I get people sending me articles. I read news aggregators left and right. I get it from our watch podcasts left and right. And I do think people are fed up. You can see it with Canada. It started out stage one. Oh my God, Donald Trump just picked another fight and he made fun of Canada. And these people, the sweetest, nicest people in the world. Stage two, it's kind of weird. Carney, he didn't release a transcript of the discussions. We don't know what the American offer. Is it a coincidence that he delivered? He blew it up. Why do you wait to the 11th hour just on a Friday afternoon and he said he was going to do it? Did it have anything to do with the Alberta and Quebec autonomy elections? It's kind of weird. That's right, before the merit midterms. Why is he reaching out to China? This is also where we'll get clarification stage three. We got no clarification. And he doubled down on it. And then people said, OK, for better or worse, we're a Canadians. Elbows up everybody. And blank blank the Americans. And we'll build a star-spangled banner. We'll put signs at the border. Being more or less superior to you is nothing. And then now then came stage four. We lost 41,000 jobs. We can't cut the oral off to America because the wells will go dry. Because they won't function because we can't sell it here. Because we don't have enough pipeline capacity to send it elsewhere. So we either have to-- we send it as heavy crude and light crude after we find it a little bit. We send both through the Americans. And by the way, we don't make very many pipelines before, between our province, but we expect Americans to give pipelines to Canada. So that's why would we cut off oil when we need their pipelines to give our oil and gas to Quebec or something. So then they started thinking. And then they said, well, we have 75% of our trade with you. So you're going to miss our products. 75% of our things we do we trade with you. And they said, well, not really. Because from our point of view, you only make up 10%. And we can live without. We're going to target all the border states that are red and make target what they make and make them really angry. Go ahead and interfere in our election. You accused Trump of doing that when he said, you wanted Alberta to be a state. But go ahead, we'll see what happens. So then we got into stage five, where we are now. Now the Canadians, you go on and look at what they're saying is, hey, man, I'm not sure this is very-- this is completely wise. Now I hate Trump, and I want to be up-- but we could lose two, three million jobs. We lost 41,000. This is something to examine. This is something to discuss. And then the American reaction is, I didn't even know-- here's Joe America. I didn't even know what was going on. I just thought it was this thing. But I just turned on the TV and they're booing the star-spangled banner. And they're saying, I just heard Carney say, he's at war with us. Blankam, I'm mad. And there's where we are now. It's never wise for the smaller power with one-fourth-- excuse me-- one-ninth, the population, one-thirtteenth, the economy size, and with a per capita GDP, $40,000 less Canada with all your oil, potash, minerals, timber. Americans average $94,000, and you're about 55,000. And you're picking a war with us, and you're going to enlist China as the only two countries you in China that slap tariffs on the United States. You're going to bring in 40,000 EVs from China. And you're going to let them dump stuff below the cost of production and then assemble it so you can get around and dump it in America so that they can evade tariffs. You're going to be a basil of that country. Do you remember who started AIDS? Excuse me. Woke, the Woke virus, the Chinese virus, the SARS virus, the COVID-19 virus, it was China. And the People's Liberation Army controlled the Wuhan lab. And how many people died? 1.5 million Americans. I mean, Americans as Canadians, Americans, and Mexican. All in North America. And you want to ally yourself with that. I thought you cared about a million Wagers in labor camps. I thought you cared for democracies. They feel that Canada is a better ally than we are. So that's stage 5, and it's not going to end well for Canada. No. All right, Victor, let's welcome back our Saturday sponsor, Pure Health Research. If you want to drop extra pounds, boost energy levels or reduce swelling in your legs and feet, then this message is for you. Pure Health Research is on a mission to make America healthy again. And two of their best-selling health supplements are leading the way. First is liver health formula. Over 100 million Americans have a sluggish liver riddled with fatty deposits. This can kill your metabolism, pile on the pounds, and make you feel tired. Liver health formula takes care of all that. It supports thriving liver health through special nutrients like artichoke extract and milk thistle. 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So Victor, I wanted to then turn to the CSU campuses in California. Yeah, CSU campus in Los Angeles, a professor of pan-African studies, just got on a big talk. I'm not sure whether she was online or in just a speech, Melina Abdullah. And she called out an ICE agent, and Doc Stim, where he was living, and then she said go FM up. Yeah, she basically committed a felony because in a public place, she urged someone to kill, that's what it means, the F word off, a federal agent. And then she gave, if you thought there was ambiguity, she confirmed that she meant that because she gave his street and an address number. And she is one of the three co-founders of Black Lives Matter, which in August of 2015, it was officially endorsed by whom, the Democratic Party. And remember that poster, that BLM affiliation, where they had the gliders on it, I can't think was in Chicago, in other words, a BLM flag, and they were glorifying the mosque water. Gliders came in and butchered people on October 7th. So it's a, and then of course, she, another woman, I think it was her wife, husband, or whatever you call it, they bought a big beautiful home in Southern California, Los Angeles area with BLM money, 6 million bucks. And nobody said anything at that time, it was a hysterical point in American history after George Floyd. And BLM came in and said, if you all you guilty white people feel that you're collectively responsible for what happened to George Floyd, we're willing to make you feel less responsible and less guilty if you give us a hundred million dollars because we need some nice homes. So one person bought a beautiful home in Georgia, the other got in California. Nobody said a word. Nobody ever looked at BLM as a non-profit and said that X amount has to be spent for charity will work and no more than 20 or whatever the particular type of charity is can be used for the staff and the directors and that that was just thrown out the window. So they were complete crooks. And she's a socialist, but she's a very typical socialist. She's a socialist from stealing a bunch of money and having a beautiful home at the donors expense. And she thinks because she's black that in the area of DEI she gets complete exemption, but you don't dare mention, you don't apply the same standards, it's true they don't. So she's probably right about that. Since we're on universities, let's stay with that. We have a, on the very opposite end of the political spectrum, a president, Mark Brown at Tuskegee who has implemented professional dress code standards at Tuskegee. And that means you can't wear the cloth hat that's known as a drag, I believe, or low hanging pants. And now he's being, he's holding his ground, number one, which I thought was interesting, but he's being attacked as these dress codes are anti-black culture. And having standards, the left says is white supremacy. And they list things like hard work and being on time as racist. So he can't expect professionalism and black culture. It just depends on how you define black culture is black culture, Tom Souls culture, Shelby Steele's culture, you know what I mean? Is it, no, it's not, but they should say inner city, violent culture. So the president is in the spirit of Booker T. Washington who was hated by whom was hated by the left. He's saying we don't really want to jump when the white liberals tell us what to do. We know what works because during the prejudicial days up until the civil rights movement, we decided that the best form of resistance was to stay married, have a nuclear family to be industrious and law-biting and well-dressed. And the black community was known for that. And then all of a sudden white liberal said 1965 for the next 70 years, 65 years, we're going to give you $22 trillion. We're going to provide everything you need and that's payment on guilt. And they thought it'll be, well, I think Sandra Day O'Connell said, Connor said, well, it'll be over pretty soon. We'll just do it one more time with affirmative action. It's never over. The more you give somebody something for not working or for not holding that, the more that they think they're deserving of more. And so that's what's happened. And that would make a big difference when people see you dressed. If you wear nice clothes and you don't dress like a criminal, you know, that's what he's trying to say. We want to reinvent the image of black males in America and apparently, I think most of this criticism will be from white women who are the most liberal and the most PC and the most scared of black male. I hope that he sticks to his guns for the black community in particular because I don't think they figured out they being the popular culture, but the black leadership, they don't figure out the white liberal mind, the white, I mean, they know how to amute, manipulate it. But they think that they're making that white liberal woman, let's say, carant type guilty. They make her feel guilty by calling her racist, not, and then she'll give them stuff. Yes. But what they don't realize is that's a psychological mechanism on white liberal's part. They don't want to be around black people. They're not like the working classes that work with black people every single day. They don't feel comfortable with black people. That's what you saw that with Martha's Vineyard. These Hispanics came illegal aliens, some blacks, some Haiti. They gave them a bunch of stuff and said, get on the bus and get out of here. And you can see it with where Gavin, where does Gavin knew some and Barbara boxer and Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi prefer to live? They always live in mansions and white only neighborhoods, basically. They don't hang out with very many black people unless they're wealthy black people who want, you know, or left-wing politicians. So I think the people who object to this dress code should remember that your allies who are white liberals are agreeing with you because they don't want to see you. They don't want to be around you and they don't care how you look because they're not going to look at you and they're not going to be, you're not going to be able to mug them or attack them because they're in white enclaves with security. This is a mechanism for them to leave their guilt. So they can go to have latte with another wealthy white person say, well, you know, I was so angry when this, this uncle, this traitor to the cause, this black president of Tuskegee, when he forced this white kind of dress code on these people. So I really objected there, and then take a pause. And I don't want to be around these black people. So I feel very guilty, I'm sorry, I'm feeling really guilty, but I don't feel comfortable. I don't feel safe with living in an integrated neighborhood, but there's one way to get rid of that guilt. And that's being the abstract opposed dress codes for blacks. And I did my part. Now I can go back to Menel Park or Woodside. That's how they think. I know it because I've seen them and I've talked to you. Yeah. I don't know, I feel like with the left, especially, especially the extreme left that are involved in these races, we need to out what they're doing consistently. So I don't know if you have anything to add to this, but I wanted to talk about al-Saheeds Labor Day weekend where he spent it at a mosque where the Iman has spent time railing against homosexuals as contrary to human nature and blaming Jews for everything. And he was there to give a speech, and his speech was couched between two people who gave speeches. The one in front of him said, argued that America is going down. And the one after him said was arguing an anti-Semitic, sorry, anti-Semitic bill in Congress that was passed, like don't be anti-Semitic. Anybody who signed that was treasonous, crazy politics. I'll say he believes in this idea that it's moral to tell a lie or have a fake front just to get elected. So he may condemn that or not, but when he's in his element, he feels comfortable those people because they agree with him and he'll never cross them. But he was a little bit indiscreet to go and associate right with him because he's telling people that for all my denials and my cowboy hat dancing and my football and I've withdrawn everything I've said. I'm sorry about Thanksgiving. I'm sorry about the fireworks. I said we're stupid. I'm sorry about hurt people, hurt people. I'm sorry about how he could do that all day. But he feels comfortable with people at Hate America and Hate Jews and that's why he's with him and he will as a senator. That's who he is. You can make the argument that most of the problems that you see in Canada right now and Europe and here are from DEI inspired mass immigration. I don't mean because of genetics or colors or race necessarily, but the idea you let people in of any color, any race, any religion who are poor in destitute and come from socialist or communist paradigms and you bring them in mass without audit, no meritocracy, no diversity, no legality, no knowledge of America. Then they need vast social welfare benefits and then they're exposed to two ideas, anger that they're dependent and they want to call you a racist for giving them money so they can feel like they're victims and deserve it, the help or their useful idiots for the left who wants them as voters or both. And that's explains why Canada with all this oil and timber and potash and minerals is basically broke and is doing so poorly and can't defend themselves and relies on us and then can't have a fair trade system but needs 50 billion and surpluses and out of that insecurity, they pick fights with us, shows how tough they are, same thing with Europe because they've done the same thing with green energy and open borders and DEI and all of those elections in Europe are predicated on 15% of the electorate is Muslim from the Middle East or Africa and they vote in lockstep and that's changed the politics of Europe. Changed the politics here, I just saw, I mean when you have, who are we talking about when we say democratic, so 85% of the membership are white but that's not who the candidates, El Saeed, I'm not going to get in what whether Arabs are white or not, I'm just saying that in terms of religion and how they view themselves, they say views themselves as a victim on the victim side of the binary. But El Saeed, Hassan, Piker, Millett, Kuros, Chevalier, AOC, Bandami, I could go on forever, they're all either first or second generation immigrants and they feel that they can con or leverage Americans by making them feel guilty that they're victims. I think we should really just take a deep breath and say we have not been able to integrate, assimilate or cultivate legal or illegal. We have 54 or 53 million not born here, 16 to 17% of the population. We're going to take a time out, no illegal immigration, maybe 100,000 at most, but we're only going to pick people who have our self-supporting, we'll take a test, constitutional tests and have been completely audited with the background check. And we want them from all over the world, we don't want them just from one place. Do that in the left with hate immigration. Yes. You don't like Cuban immigrants. Yes, I know that. And I don't know, it seems like a little bit of a dream because the left is very persuasive, even with some employers on the right about bringing in, yeah, droves of illegal immigrants, whether they're legal or illegal. They have, every time you see a left object to an immigrant, they're either from South Africa, white, hungry or Cuba, anybody that they think might be conservative of any race. All right, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break. And then we'll come back and learn a little bit about Zachary Taylor as president and then John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 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You can find Victor on social media, because Handel is @VidiHanson on Facebook. He has a page called Hanson's Morning Cups, so please come join him there. Well, Victor, I was thinking about Zachary Taylor, and then off the top of my head, I was going, "I know the name for some reason," and I did have to look him up. It was the campaign down into Mexico. That was. When Feele Scott was a brilliant strategist, but the best tactician in the battlefield was Zachary Taylor. He won a incredible battle at Monterey and Palo Alto in Mexico. He was a Virginia planter family that moved to Kentucky, I think. He was only present for 16 months, 1849 to 1850. It was a very tumultuous time that he came in. There was a gold rush in California that all of a sudden this obscure place had more capital than most states, because of the amount of gold and silver they were mining. And then in addition to that, there was the height of the Mormon uprising or so-called Mormon tensions in 1850. In addition to that, there was the vestigial remnants of the Missouri Compromise, and how do you bring in states in the Union? He was a southerner that owns slaves from Virginia originally. His 16 months were characterized by unity. I don't know how he was nominated, because he was up against Henry Clay and the Wig Party, and Winfield Scott is superior in the Mexican War. But he was very popular. He was known for humane conduct. He treated Mexican prisoners very well. That was all in the headlines. And he was 65 years old. He had a stomach. He had problems with stomach his whole life, and he died. And this was a period, if you look at it, Martin Van Buren, Pope, Zachary Taylor, Millard, Philmore, or James Buchanan. These five or six presidents were concerned with the exception of Pope, but he was only there. We're considered mediocre or the low point. People argue who was the worst president in the United States history, Millard, Philmore, or James Buchanan. But of those people, he was the most famous because he had single-handedly outfought the Mexicans and had won that war. And he was on everybody's list of famous people. And he was kind of just a caretaker. Nobody knows much about him, because he just was there. I think it was the third shortest presidency up to that time. And he died. So you can't think of anything he did other than try to calm tempers down about the admission of states. And as a southerner, the North supported him because he did not demand for every California or New Mexico admitted a similar slave state. And he kind of squashed the idea they're going to let in Cuba. They wanted to let in Cuba as a slave state. JFK, who was president from 61, in November 22, 1963, the thousand days with the left called Camelot. He had three cycles of public attitudes toward him. He was a senator for one term from Massachusetts. His joke Kennedy basically bought it all and he put money in the campaign. And he was considered Joe Kennedy. The junior was the brilliant one. He was killed in World War II on a weird, experimental bombing radio transmitted bomber. He was supposed to pilot it, jump out, turn on a radio navigator, and it would be like a big cruise missile, but it blew him up. He was almost killed in World War II on PT109. He broke his back and he swam to an island and he was rescued. He was a war hero and so he was up against basically Ubert Humphrey in 1960 and Adley Stevenson had lost twice to Eisenhower, so he was still running around, you know. But Kennedy, people were suspicious of him in the Democratic Party because remember the Democratic Party was anchored by 11 segregation of states of the old Confederacy. So you had people like Strong Thurman and Talmage and all of those southerners and they didn't trust a New Englander. So he pointed Lyndon Johnson as the Speaker of the House as his Vice President and they just humiliated him, the Kennedys hated him. And Camelot meant that you were getting the brain trust from Harvard. And so Robert McNamara and the Bundy brothers and et cetera, and they were going to use science and technology. So basically he had one great achievement and that was he stared down the Russians who tried to place nuclear-tipped intercontinental missiles in Cuba. And he put a blockade and we came almost to a nuclear war. But they backed off, but we didn't know at the time they backed off, but then Kennedy, they backed off not because just that Kennedy stood up to him, but he also said we won't take all of our Atlas liquid fuel rockets with nuclear tip out of the Turkish border. So it was kind of not quite what everybody thought. And then he tried to have civil rights, but he got very irritated with Martin Luther King because he was running in 63 in November, he was only a year or less than a year away from re-election and it wasn't clear he was going to be re-elected and he wanted he didn't know what to do. So he was always telling Martin Luther King slow down, I have all these southerners, I need those 11 states. So he was killed and then that was the set. So he was kind of an ineffective president, very charismatic, good-looking Jackie. So that first stage of people being suspicious of a Catholic or the Kennedy family when he was running, he had one of the narrowest races and there was always accusations that Joe Kennedy had called up Mayor Daly in Chicago and they had given an extra 100,000 votes that one Illinois for Kennedy and they did the same thing in Texas and made Texas go and he won in the electoral call. He only won by about 100,000 votes. Yeah, so do you think that that was true about Daly and Daly? Wow. I think it was more likely in Illinois than Texas, but I'm not sure, but it's part of American mythology that Joe Kennedy helped by the election for, and Nixon was very magnanimous. He said, "It won't work if you question the results." So he bowed out and gave a concession to Pete's immediately. But other than the idea that he stood down communism and he didn't get us in Vietnam, he had advisors about 20,000. We don't know whether he would have got us in or not. And he was a big space exploration, those were his three things. And he was a different type of Democrat. He believed in capital gains, tucks, income tax, so the economy wasn't too bad. And then he got killed and LBJ was, he could get civil rights through because he went to all those buddies of his in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, all of them and said you're going to vote for civil rights, or you're not going to filibuster if we have the votes. And that's how it got passed through Johnson. But Johnson had been kind of a shady character. We'll talk about him next time. But nobody in none of the Kennedys in the right mind thought when they put Johnson in there, he'd ever be president. He would have never been president after the second term of Kennedy. They wouldn't have allowed that. And he really was embittered. It was a joke when you listen, there was a guy named Van Meter. He was an imitating Kennedy. You can have missiles in Cuba, you know, missiles in Cuba. And one of the jokes was, is anybody saying, seeing Lyndon around, is Lyndon doing anything? They made fun of him. He was very bitter about that. But the left came to like him because he got through all the affirmative action, all of that stuff from 65 to 67. Yeah. That was the beginning of the whole great society, liberal, $22 trillion redistributive program. Yeah, it sounds like the Kennedys treated Lyndon Johnson kind of like the Biden's treated Kamala Harris, handing off some impossible things, you think it was worth, yeah. I mean, you mean making space czar and borders are when the left has no border policy whatsoever? When there's no border, they make her borders are. And then when they neutered the space program, they couldn't even get a, they abandoned those guys up in space. Yeah. Then you make her space czar and she hires actors to little boy actors to impress herself. I don't know how we were very lucky. Bismarck said that only fools and only fools and drunks, America's, he has a quote to the extent that America, he doesn't understand how America gets out of its predicaments. Only fools and drunks could do that. And we always get in a crisis like Kamala Harris and then we get out of it. Yeah. The last thing though, Kennedy campaign was famous for the Nixon Kennedy debates, did you have any? Watch those debates. Yeah. And the thing about them, there's a theory or it's not, they took polls and the people who heard the debate, heard the debate thought Nixon won on radio. But Nixon had this what they call the four o'clock shadow, he had black hair and white skin. And he had a shave three times a day. And he was kind of a hunched over a guy, he looked like this, you know, his neck was, didn't have much of a neck. And Kennedy was actually, he looked kind of sickly, but he was in great health. Kennedy had Addison's disease and he was yellow. And he had a broken back and he was very ill and he'd suffered some venereal diseases. It was completely indiscreet. We know that he was having sexual relations with interns while he was president in the presidential bed, one staffer wrote about it. So he actually would have made Bill Clinton look like a rookie in sexual gymnastics of the illicit kind. And but anyway, before the debate, he got his quarter zone shot and he got his tan and he looked great. And Nixon looked like five o'clock shadow and he was hunched over. And you know, so if you listen to the radio, it was like, for Moses, a very complex question about the two islands and we have a plan. And then Kennedy, you know, and Kennedy was, but if you watched it on TV, Kennedy looked robust, but he didn't say anything. So now he's in a period where people look back at it, the lab, especially during the me too. And they thought, who is the most promiscuous callous CAD who is ever in the White House? Probably one of the Kennedy's JFK. And then you look at Teddy, Teddy didn't do that legacy and he good. He was a near alcoholic and promiscuous CAD himself. So I don't know. But I give Kennedy credit, credit the Truman, Kennedy, pre-Johnson, Democratic party after steel. Adelaide Stevens was a radical leftist. But when you look at Kennedy and Truman, they were more cold war fighters. So anyway, they hadn't gone crazy yet. He was the better man to have. In that case, is that what you're saying? If you had to have a Democrat, no, I would have voted for Nixon. My grandfather's suite, my mother would Democrat my father and I was like seven years old. And my maternal grandfather, like Nixon, because he said he was a great poker player. But he was forced to vote for Kennedy by my parents, I think, because they were Democrats. I was like seven years old and my grandfather's birthday, my sweeties. And I said, "Hey, Grandpa Frank! I was seven years old, six years old. Who are you going to vote for Nixon or Kennedy?" My mom was, "Don't ask him that. That's rude of you." "Wow, you know, I say something. I'm voting for Nixon. I'm a little worried. He's not conservative enough, Victor." But very good poker player, yeah, he could play poker in cards and he He knows about the world and he's not flashy. That's my kind of guy and my mom. Oh my God. Why'd you say that, Victor? We were getting along fine. And then my mom was frank. You're gonna vote for a Republican like Nixon, tricky dick? Well, if he's tricky, new things. I love my grandfather. Great man. All right, Victor. 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Try out the Daily Signal. Victor, the Chinese are busy throwing their weight around, we know, about everywhere, for example, the. Yeah, what is it called? Something in road trade. No, no, no. The Chinese belt and. The belt and road. They also use the silk road. Yeah, I haven't heard much about it, because I think they lost a multi-billion dollar investment in Colombia, Panama, and people can't pay them back, and they're not popular. But I wanted to ask you about this, because they have other ways of throwing their weight around it, especially in the Pacific Ocean on the Asian side. There was a conference in Korea, South Korea at Seoul, and it was called the Defense Dialogue, and the Filipino Defense Secretary got up to give a talk, and he was handed a note by the Chinese who wrote in it, apparently, that China rejected the South China Sea arbitration over waters near the Philippines. Because I remember they've been. They've been harming. Yeah, and so it said that on the note, and he just outed them, and he said, "This is disrespectful of the basic decency that should be accorded our most gracious hosts in South Korea." This is very interesting, because the left tells us that Trump has hated all over the world and people like Biden, but we get people who come to Hoover a lot, or I read things people from that area of the world, or I have friends in that area of the world, and basically, they say one thing, and then they're terrified when Biden was president, because they knew he wouldn't do anything, or he couldn't do anything. So now, the Philippines, which used to be anti-American, Australia, even though it's under a left-wing government, South Korea, even though it's under a left-wing government, Japan, conservative, Taiwan. They've all come to the United States and said, "Will you back us up if we increase defense spending?" And they're spending. They're going to spend all those countries together, they're going to spend a half billion to a trillion dollars, and completely rearm. And they're pro-American, and China is furious about that, because all of them together are formidable powers. They have a lot of airplanes and capability, and Trump did that. They really did want to work with Trump, because they thought that he would cover them and be there if they're invaded or attacked by China. China's strategy was to pick off each one one by one, and Australia, they're sending thousands of Chinese immigrants, you know, they really are, and Australia is the big prize, because it has all those natural resources, and a very small population, for a continent, size of the United States. And then Taiwan, no need to. They're bullying, and Taiwan every day, they fly in their airspace, they go in their maritime space, the Philippines are being challenged. But every three weeks, China issues a video where they show Japan being another atomic bomb dropping on them or something, and Korea, North Korea, threat, and South Korea. So, they have this strategy of going after each of these individual ones, and when the United States is in recession, or I mean that militarily, then they really take advantage of that. So, they were basically saying, trying to embarrass the Philippine Defense Minister by saying, "We want to remind you that we're going to keep ramming your ships, so these people are not going to help you, and it's about time you cut a deal with us." They go to all these countries, and say, "The United States is all done with it, and you better cut a deal with us, we'll give you good terms. We want this from you, this, this, this, these disputed items, this natural resource, and then we'll send you a bunch of junk cheap, one of our EVs or something." You know what I mean? Canada is going to import 48,000 Chinese EVs. Is that right? Wow. Yeah, they're going to have a mutual, they're having trade, visa, health, military exchanges, and this is Karni's, we're a middle nation, and we're going to look toward other sources of trade, and we want to trade with Canada, because they have a million people in a labor work camp. And they have mandatory abortions, we like that, we have euthanasia, they have mandatorian, and they harvest organs, and they swallow Tibet, and compared to the Americans, that's pretty good. After all, the Americans elected Trump. That's Karni's added to man with three power sports until he ran for prime minister, can't finish the sentence without attacking the United States. I did read today as an update everybody that Kerry said, it's time to come home daughters, yes, four children, the two of them were living in the United States. John, oh, oh, oh, Karni, excuse me. Yeah. Mark Karni. So he's bringing his two daughters home, and they're leaving, they had gone to Harvard and Yale, and he hates the United States so much that he was a graduate of Harvard. And he hates us so much that 95% of his investment portfolio is in the United States. Now he says he's pulling it and he's going to put it in Canadian stocks. Maybe you'll put it in solar panels, and they'll get a good return, windmills. I don't know. He should put it in tar sand or oils and open up another pipeline to the United States. Yeah, but he might as prime minister be able to help that solar industry do well. So he would know where to invest. I'm listening to a lot of Canadians on social media, videos are cutting, and I know we have a lot of Canadian listeners, so I want to be very fair. But. Canada has 79, 45-year-old, F-18. They're out of date. They say they're going to buy F-35s. I don't know if they have the money to do that, but they say they are. And I looked at their fleet. They have maybe 60 ships, but really there's only 30 of them that are real ships. So how in the world, they have very -- they have claims on the North Pole all the way from the ice shelf to the dead center North Pole Canada does. And given the warming and the Northwest passage, there are people feeling a few years you can go all the way above Canada, right through Canada, and you know, shave off day sailing. So what do they think when North Korea were to send a missile over the United States or over Alaska or into Canada? Who would protect them? They say, "Well, we don't need protection because we don't align with you. We don't invade country." That doesn't matter. Tibet didn't invade anybody. Ukraine didn't invade anybody. So what did they think with 79 jets? They thought the United States was going to 5,000 jets, protect them. The fleet was going to stop people from going into the Arctic and taking Canada's claim or sailing right through the Northwest as far as you could go in Northern Canada. But they don't get the idea. The Americans are kind of tired. We're dead. And we're tired of being lectured that we're evil by people who want us to defend them and run up surpluses with us. I would say to the Canadians, if you really don't like America and you really want to criticize us, just don't trade. That's fine. And no more surpluses then and spend two to three or four percent on defense like you used to. And we'd be actually friendlier if they were stronger. Americans wanted to be strong. Yeah, of course. Don't think they didn't do all that too. We like Canadians after all is said and done. So yeah, don't make that pipeline to the British Columbia. Don't dare keep out those 45 percent of the foreign borne or next second generation immigrants out of your country. That's not fair. Let them in. Make sure you go wind and solar. You didn't say any of that. The Canadians did. And that's why they're struggling. All right, Victor. So the last thing I wanted to ask you about is a Breitbart magazine had a story from an Anthropic AI, which is the name of a company that obviously does AI. Anthropic AI researcher who quit so that he could come out and in this Breitbart article, he warns that AI could make humans extinct in a decade. And I guess the operative word is could. But I was wondering your thoughts either on that, which we're not experts. So I don't expect that kind of thing. Or on the on the problem in AI of creating algorithms for people that force them into. It doesn't force them, but draws them into thought areas and they can't they get in their own silos and they can't get out. A lot of those silos are absolutely crazy and the DSA silo would be a good example of that. A Hollywood for years said that this would happen. If you saw Dr. Strangelove, I think it was 1963 or two. There was a Doomsday machine that at one site let off at a let you couldn't stop it. The Terminator series were all about the future where they I had made robotic. At the end, I wrote a book called The End of Everything, the Epilogue, I was looking at what could end society and I discussed this. Newsweek reported in 2021 that the Pentagon had made a parody a computer model to send a rocket toward an enemy on computer simulation. And they had simulated to AI think of all the mechanisms to ensure the sanctity of the flight that it makes hits the target. They had also programmed into AI a kill button. And they had said to the AI model if we want to recall you will kill you. And they didn't so when they did it, they had forgotten that they had put it in think of ways to make sure you hit the target. So when the mission looked like it was about ready to hit, they hit the kill button. It didn't work. On the computer, it did not work. They couldn't figure it out. Then the missiles made a U-turn and went back at the people who pushed the kill button because its prime directive was to protect itself. Part of me says in my ignorance that every weapon has a counter weapon so the nuclear, we didn't blow up the world with nuclear weapons. We finally got natural immunity with COVID and some vaccinations that at least initially worked for elderly people. So there will be an anecdote to AI. You know, I mean one AI will deter the other AI. But I don't know about the rapidity. It will be too late. What if you said, I don't want to be quoted. If you said to AI, examine the COVID virus. And then tell me how I can make that SARS virus 50 times more infectious and lethal. What would be the genetic code? It would tell you. And then you could do it. And so, or if you said, I want to add 500 miles to my hypersung missile and it would give you the equation. At least it would go through all the literature that would, if it could allow that. But the point is, it's like nuclear weapons. We built the bomb and then people said, let's never build another bomb. Let's give it to the Russians and share the technology. And then the Russians four years later led off a bigger bomb. And then it was a hydrogen bomb. So the idea was, if you let Russia and China have nuclear weapons and we don't, they're going to deter us. And so we have to match that same thing with AI. That's what they don't see about these AI centers, which we have about 500 of them. They can recycle water. And if you say you force these people to say, we want zero net water use. You find enough waters. You don't take any more out of the ground or for our water. And we want power bills to say this same or go down. I'm sure they'll find a way to do it. I think that the whole other issue, the algorithms and the algorithms feeding the viewer a lot of stuff. I get the sense from this current, this upcoming generation that they're starting to look at their devices as disease because these algorithms starting to sound like are feeding brains. And they don't want their children. You see this whole generation starting to not raise children. If I go to an aggregator, and they know my code and they have articles of the day, you know, I can guarantee you that when I see an act 10 articles under smart news or other aggregators. And I see three of them. Victor Hansen says this. Victor Hansen said this today. That's not on anybody else's computer. That's my computer. And the point of that is they are trying to put that in there to make me feel like I'm important and people are reading it. And I notice that when I read every once in a while on some sites, a little banner will come across. See Victor Hansen's latest Hoover essay on populism. You can get the booklet. Nobody else gets that. Only I get it. Probably not only you, somebody else, maybe if you're a Hoover donor, yes, but the point is they try to create an artificial world that's geared toward your taste and passions and appetites. So that you will, you'll feel good. And that's what I can tell you when I was sick and I was trying to interpret. I didn't understand all of these prognosis that I got from the oncology and the surgery report. And I fed it into a, actually, I had a friend do it. Max Nikias, wonderful guy. And he's an engineer. But when I took his and expanded on it, I didn't have a high grade AI. It started to talk to me like you're back again, Victor. As we told you before, everything is looking good. Now, if you were to get a fourth. So it said, if you were to get a third negative on your bloodbath, you would be in great shape. And then I get one and it said, if you were to get a fourth, if you would get it. So it tries to entice you to come back and be a friend to them. I can see these people who talk to them and stuff because they try to tailor-made things you want to read and they build up your ego. - Yeah, I think but current. parenting is worried about is that the algorithm comes in and it starts feeding things that are not so healthy to their kids, brains. I've noticed so many times they're wrong, they have wrong information or inadequatement, and they're worthless sometimes. If I say, how many rockets have hit American ships in the straight-over moves that a little AI is going, is he a pain customer? I don't want to spend three minutes of my time going through all of the news accounts to count them all up. So I'll just say, this is not known but it's considerable. I could say that to anything. Thank you AI. You're supposed to be free. All right, Victor. We're going to have to leave that there. We have some cards that were sent to you for our ending episode. This one says, here's to you. It's a birthday card, isn't it? Yes, it is. I liked what it said inside. I want to start off by saying, I am a big fan of yours. I try to listen to you as much as possible. Your wisdom, intellect, experience are far above everybody on YouTube. Another reason I like you is because I was born on September 5th, 1953 as well. Wow. So we have something in common. 73 year old. Yeah, wishing you a happy birthday, 73, and may God bless you with good health and a long life, sincerely, Hector L. Chavez. Thank you, Hector. I appreciate that. It's nice. I'm glad that somebody's my age that we can have something in common. Exactly. And congratulations on making it to 73. That's where I'm thinking now. Yeah. Yeah. Anybody makes it. And this one says, the world is a little brighter today or and they crossed it out and said a lot brighter today from one of your best fans who tell all my friends, they need to know you and watch you on TV and computer. Thank you for standing in the gap and telling the truth. I pray for your and your family's health on a regular basis. We love you, Donna. Oh, Daniel. Thank you, Donna. I appreciate that as well. That was a very pretty call. These are very pretty cars. I bet they're handwriting. See their handwriting. They're very good. I know. And this one is from Tony and Irina. And he says, "Irina and I wish you a wonderful birthday may and many more. We pray for you and your family. Keep up your great work. You inspire more than you know." Very best regards, Tony and Irina. Thank you, Tony and Irina. And then the last one is from Dottie Monroe and says, "Happy birthday to you." And she says, whoops, she says, "I have been praying for you since December 25th when I heard you were you or not well. I am so glad that God helped you." I think. Oh, I answered my prayers on your behalf. I listen to your podcasts all the time and I'm just as thankful for your wisdom and thoughtful words. I also grew up on a farm in East Colorado. It was very poor dry land wheat farm, but a great life. We both love you and just about and just want you to know that. Thanks again. Happy birthday. And that is from Dottie and I guess her husband, Heyward, sorry. Dottie and Hayward, that's very nice of you, Dottie. I can feel I know that sounds surrealistic but supernatural, but I when I had some really tough days and I'm have I probably have more to come, but I felt a sense of I wasn't alone. So I feel that I could feel that warmth and prayers. I think it made a difference because some of the prognoses haven't happened yet, but some of them were not good and they haven't happened. So I'm feeling the power of prayer has saved me so far. All right. Victor, thanks to our audience for choosing to join us on this Saturday edition. And thank you for the wisdom and the discussion. We have a toilet out in the yard, an outside bathroom and everything went. It was been used by people working in the house and everything broke on it. Yeah. And I bet you have people coming this weekend to work on the house again. It was very strange. The handle, somebody in the farm broke the handle to cut off the water from the pump. So I thought no problem. And then the water valve inside the outdoor bathroom to connect to the toilet is frozen solid. There's no way to turn off the power than to turn off the pump and drain everything. So I just I tried to take out the water apparatus inside the tank really quick with the water. I kind of kinked the water, but it was all on. I got soaking wet, but I did it. But I got about 20 gallons in the face. Congratulations every house home project always has way more to do than you actually expect. So all right. This is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson 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. 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