Victor Davis Hanson: Why Canada's Prime Minister Is Courting Disaster

They're so arrogant, Carney is. That whole troll about the 51st state, there is zero support for making any of Canada a state in the United States. Why in the world would we want another Washington or Oregon or Massachusetts? Because that's what you would get in spades. Mark Carney that decided that they were going to gin up a nationalist wave and out of that this liberal extreme agenda was going to remain in power. The problem he doesn't understand is that he's going to do irreparable damage to Canada. It's very sad because we all like Canadians, but they are committing collective slow-motion suicide. Well, hello ladies and hello gentlemen. Welcome to Victor Davis Hanson. In his own words on the Daily Signal Network, I'm Jack Fowler. 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We're dealing with a nor'easter in New England, Victor, so if the power goes out, we'll have to. Do you have flooding near you? Well, I live near the Long Island Sound, so there are flood warnings and people that live near the, on the sound, at the sound, I assume there is, they are being flooded, but not by me. I'm, I'm up on higher ground. So, uh, what are we going to talk about today? Well, Victor, we have the Prime Minister of Canada saying how he's prepared for an invasion from the United States. I don't know what the hell this guy's going, what he's drinking. We have Stanford University caught in an AI advertising marketing effort where they replaced a Hispanic student with a black woman. A student. There's some polling that we need to get into. Uh, Chris, Nicholas Kristof, uh, the New York Times is doubling down on his claim that, uh, the Israelis allow dogs to rape Gaza prisoners, and there's plenty more. 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It's Victor Davis Hanson in a few words. Do check that out. So, Victor, let's start off with Prime Minister Mark Carney. He confirms — this is a New York Post article I'm looking at — he's prepared for a U.S. invasion. He confirmed in an interview this week that his government had prepared for the possibility of the U.S. launching an invasion of Canada amid ongoing trade tensions. Quote, "I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risks," Carney told The New York Times. "That's just risk management. That's not a bad case, but it would be irresponsible not to." I don't know, do you hear a cuckoo bird in the background? Yeah, I don't think he's serious, because if he did believe that, it would be like you were in Britain in 1939. Yeah, I don't think he's serious, because if he did believe that, it would be like you were in Britain in 1939 and you're Winston Churchill, and two of your children are living in Germany, and all of your finances are tied up in German bonds, and you warn the British they're going to invade any day, and your kids still live there in Germany. He has two children living in the United States. Ninety-one percent of his investments are in the United States. He's doing this because his record is miserable, but he still has 60 percent of the Canadian people behind him, and he has these two elections of autonomy, semi-autonomy in Alberta and Quebec, and they're not so much that they'll break away, but they could signal a lot of dissension and the unity of Canada. But he thinks that he's making this entire Canadian pivot on the basis of hating Donald Trump, and that's what has got him 60 percent approval rating, and he thinks he's going to get a Democrat. He may do it. I mean, if nothing else happens, 39 of the last 41 midterms in the modern era of last 80 years or so, they go to the out party. They party out. And he's going to be outside the White House. So he's playing the bets. The problem he doesn't understand is that he's going to do irreparable damage to Canada, and he's not going to suffer from it. He's a globalist. Before he was prime minister, as we said, he was a citizen of three different nations. When Canada becomes a third world economically, and it will if his vision is reified, he won't be there. He will go back to his Europe. Or he's a global citizen. He can go anywhere. He's just a member of the elite. So what is he basically saying? He's saying that 2 percent of Canadian trade is affected by these new tariffs that we imposed. Carney has a $400 billion trade with the United States, and he's jeopardizing that over 2 percent of it. He has a tariff. And in the process, he's doing two other things. He's risking this relationship by deliberately walking out of negotiations and then getting his ministers not to be transparent and tell us what happened and why he walked out, but to parrot the line. And they are, too, saying they had prepared for an invasion. And then he still sticks to the idea that the United States is trying to smother. He has to tax our pernicious companies 5 percent, digital media mostly. And that's not going to happen because we wouldn't let any country do that. And we don't do it to any other country. But the elephant in the room is that he's letting in 48,000 cheap EVs with only a 6 percent tariff. And he's going to destroy the Canadian economy. He's going to destroy the Canadian auto market, but he's also going to destroy its export to us because he's allowing cheap materials, plastics, but especially aluminum and steel, to come into China to reassemble, be reassembled as exports, appliances, but mostly vehicles, into the United States. And then as he's flailing, he goes and meets the Chinese ministers and basically says, We now have a new relationship with the greatest violator of trade in the history of the world, the cheater on patents, copyrights, dumping, currency manipulation, you name it, and runs up these awful huge asymmetries in trade. But I'm going to make a deal with him and I'm going to expand it to culture and military and visas. OK, what are you going to do? You're going to get how many Canadians? Want to go to Canada, visa free versus the million of them that are living in the United States right now who enjoy six months of visa free entry and exit? In other words, we have permanent residents in the United States. who are Canadian, who fly back for Christmas or Thanksgiving and renew their six-month free stay in the United States without any audit, and they're free to work, and that no other country can do that. So you're going to jeopardize that for new visa and trade relations with this communist government that is a direct descendant of the worst mass murderer in history, Mao Zedong. And then when people criticized him, given his EU roots, Jack, he says, I'm going to be an associate member of the EU. Okay, but why would they want you? Because they've all said they're going to meet the 2% and go up to 5%. You may or may not have made the 2% last year. It depends on whether you count pensions and non-military hardware and things like that as your 2% NATO contribution. But you're behind them. You're where Spain is militarily. California probably has better pilots and better – more jets in its California National Guard than Canada does, one state. If Canada was a state right now, its GDP would be below Mississippi. It would be 51%. Its per capita income is $30,000-plus less. And ours, its per family per capita income is even lower. But then he wants to become this associate member. And guess what about the EU? There's one thing they do not like. They do not like fossil fuels. And they especially don't like tar sand, fossil fuels. And they don't want anybody to import food to disrupt – it's an admirable system to preserve the family farm and traditional food. And they don't want anybody to import food to destroy the family farm and traditional food. And more importantly, it's not going to have anybody to defend it in North America. So we would imagine if he gets his dreams realized that the Chinese will try to do to Canada what they did to the Panama Canal. They will start buying up stuff, Chinese companies, airports, rail links, harbors. And at some point, the United States will say to him, you are a belligerent. You are inviting in our arch enemy right on our borders. The other scenario is that if he gets this green net zero dream realized and he's almost there and he antagonizes the United States as he is, the economy is going to go flat. Of all the major industrial nations, everyone, last year they had the lowest rate of economic growth. And per family median income, Canada did. So it is failing before our very eyes. And there is an influx of Canadians coming to the hate of the United States more and more and more. That's why Carney's own family is here. And the idea that he's going to rig up a war, but it does – it's crazy, but Jack, it does – why are we getting angry at Canada? With the elbows up? And why are they so insecure and boasting about what they're going to do to us and discussing their military? And I've been listening to some of these broadcasts. They're just insane. And I think it's because they are not – they are moving away from America economically, politically, socially. They have open borders. Forty-five percent of the Canadians were not born, as I said, in Canada or their parents weren't born in Canada. They've got over here. There are two or three million foreigners on visas. In addition, there assist – 5.1 percent of everybody who dies every year. So almost 17,000 to 18,000 people are assisted suicide. And when you start to read of some of the cases, they would be given treatment in the United States. And they are given treatment. There's a huge boom in coming across the border to find U.S. medical help. They would have been war crimes. And under the Nuremberg trials. And you know why they're doing it? Because they have all of these foreigners that come from third world states and they need shelter, education, food, health care, and they can't afford it with that morbid economy. So they try to find ways. And one of the ways, do we want to put somebody 85 that has lymphoma and we can treat it with very expensive chemo and immunotherapy and we can give the guy five months? Or can we just say, it's time for you to check out and we'll put some music on and maybe let you watch a nice thing like Soylent Green or something. And then we'll give you a nice send-off. And so that and their completely pacifist idea that somebody, somewhere, somehow, sometime is going to prevent the – The Chinese from stationing a company on both sides of the Northwest Passage or the Russian just saying, you think that you have any claims of the Arctic? Are you serious? Stop us. And when they look, you know, okay, America, what's our North American strategy for this inroads and the challenges to North American sovereignty and the Arctic and the North? What's the Alaskan, Canadian, American – what is the plan? There is no plan. You don't want to plan with us. You're a Euro person and you'll have a Euro economy and you'll have open borders and you'll have all their problems. So they're moving culturally so far away from us that I can see a point where it's going to be as foreign a country as Mexico is. And it reminds me, just to finish, J.R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings. Everybody knows it. But one of the themes of that book was Western decline. And he said it. He said that Gondor, the big – the watchtower on the east that was supposed to watch over Mordor and be a twin pillar of the defense of Middle Earth along with Rohan, which were kind of Scandinavian, but they're more like us. They're more crude, uncouth, but they're very good fighters and they always come to the aid of Gondor. But Gondor is in decline. And he – they – They asked Tolkien in an interview, who is it? He said it's basically Constantinople, a great civilization. And Canada was. They – I mean, gosh, they only had about 20 million people and they were one of our most successful allies in World War II. Patrolled the Atlantic, fought at D-Day, very good fighters. From the race to – from the Atlantic into Germany, they had about 20 divisions. Really good fighters. And that's over with. The Navy was the fifth largest in the world. That's over with. They're Gondor. Their – their fertility rate is about 1.25. They're shrinking. And these crazy globalists like Carney are importing millions of people in the centennial initiative. As I said, they want to get 100 million and they can only do that through immigrants. So they are extinguishing the indigenous people, their culture. Their economy, their traditions. And it's a fail – it's a failing society. It reminds me so much of 15th century Constantinople. Yeah. It's very – it's very sad because we all like Canadians. But they are committing collective slow-motion suicide. Intensely post-Christian nation too. Yes. There's the Protestant Catholic division there. But, you know, Quebec used to be the most Catholic place on the planet. The proportion of priests and nuns. Practicing Catholics. The population was very intense. And within a generation or two, that plus, you know, the rest of Canada, the Protestant Canada, is a land of non-believers. I was going to say, Victor, at the outset, the claim of preparing for war against the United States kind of reminded me of that old Peter Sellers movie, The Mouse That Roared. Yes. Which I haven't seen in a long time. But – Well, the idea was they would declare war, then lose, and then they get massive foreign aid. reconstruction. I don't think there's any. They're so arrogant, Carnia, that whole troll about the 51st state and we're going to make. There is zero, there may be on the left, but there is zero support for making any of Canada a state in the United States. Why in the world would we want another political Washington or Oregon or Massachusetts? You would get that entire socialist network and you'd get senators, representatives, local government. We wouldn't want that. We feel bad that they have it. And if you brought in only Alberta, it would probably collapse Canada because bringing in Alberta would reflect that we were basically cut off and we were not dealing with Canada anymore and they would lose their only source of energy and natural resources that are considerable. But I don't even think we want Alberta because I think, why do we want any of that? We just want to be friends with the Canadians and they have the best tariff policy of any nation in the world and they have the best visa situation of any in the world and they had a bunch of globalists in the cabinet and some of their heads and Mark Carney that decided that they were going to gin up a nationalist wave and out of that this liberal extreme agenda was going to remain in power after most people were sick of it from Trudeau's disastrous tenure. And now they have it and we can't help them because they're doing this to themselves. They fell for it. And could Donald Trump said, you know, we're going to we're going to Canada's our longtime ally. We're going to negotiate in good faith. Well, everybody did that. And it didn't really work. It didn't really work because once you start talking like a good mannered Canadian to a good mannered Canadian, they think, well, it's a good old United States. So we're not going to pay for our NATO contributions. We're the one laggard in the entire 32 nation alliance, along with our brethren in Spain. Why should we pay our fair share when we don't have it? And the good old United States defends us. And by the way, we got a lot of welfare costs. We have a different system than they do. We need a 50 we need a 50 billion dollar surplus. And that's what we're going to have forever. And we need special visa considerations so that our boy, if they if they continue this and the United States says, OK, we're done with you, I would imagine that about a million Canadians would leave. Well, maybe more. 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And we thank the good people of Cove Pure for sponsoring Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. And I will drink to that. Refreshing. OK, Victor, let's talk about. Have you ever heard of Stanford University, Victor? I have some recollection of it. The controversy Stanford about using A.I. race swapping advertising. Here's the story. Stanford Residential and Dining Enterprises recently used A.I. to change the races of students it included in its advertisement. A.I. was also used to notably slim down and alter students faces on his journey to campus. Stanford student Billy Ramirez, 27, was sent an image he recalled a Stanford photographer taking. Upon closer examination, that he had been removed from the photo and replaced by an A.I. generated black woman, woman. The review told Ramirez that the review spoke to Ramirez, who stated, quote, I was driving to school from my hometown when my friend sent me the images comparing the banner to the original photos, and I was immediately baffled. At first, I found it hilarious that they had used A.I. to completely change our appearances, including my race and gender. But after looking at the comparison, I was also upset because I don't agree with Stanford making those choices about how we are represented, et cetera, et cetera. He goes on. It's a longer quote. But anyway, Victor, imagine if, well, I'm not going to, you continue imagining. I can tell you what it was. Some 51 years ago, I enrolled in Stanford as a graduate student in the PhD program. And I can tell you, in 1975, it was mostly white, 90%. There were just starting to be a lot of Chinese immigrants, but not very many. And I can tell you, but when I say mostly, I would say 10% of the student body was Hispanic or black. What would have happened if they were appealing to some reactionary, crazy people that were big donors, and they had a picture of the Stanford students, and they had two black people and eight white people? And then they decided, well, let's just get rid of those black people and turn them into white people. People would get very, very angry. And that's what they're doing. They are trying to create a racial hierarchy. And the racial hierarchy, they feel, is DEI. And by that, they mean we are so racially obsessed in every aspect of Stanford University, race comes first. And what do I mean by that? If you want to graduate, we're going to try to peg you. You go to the Chicano graduation, you go to the black, the Asian graduation, the gay, you go to one of those. Except, you know, you're not going to go to a European or white. That would be racist if you had a separate one. If you want to go to your dorm, we're going to call it a theme house, not a racially segregated, just like we're going to call a graduation adjacent graduation ceremonies. And if you're black, you'll go to a black dorm, Chicano, da, da, da. And what if you don't feel like you're a black person? You can go to a racially segregated safe space. At least you could, I suppose, until recently. And now we learn that even though they, I guess it wasn't enough, Jack, after George Floyd to let in 9% of the incoming class white males, that was about 190 people. Think about that. 190 out of about 2,000 entries were white males. And then you have you're right next to Silicon Valley with $14 trillion of market capitalization, where there's about 500 white males that are the children of the wealthiest, most powerful people in the world. And they all want to go to Stanford. And then you've got probably 500 administrators whose kids want to go to Stanford, another 500 faculty grandees that want their kids to go, and maybe 400 athletes. And you're going to pick, what you're basically saying is there's not going to be one working class white kid who lives in Podunk or Selma, California or Fresno who has a straight A average and a perfect SAT because we're not going to, we don't want that person. Just doesn't, we don't want him. We only want white people who can pay 10 million bucks or who are famous or can help our athletic program. And that's what, that's what's become. And then the weirdest thing about it, you cloak the whole thing." All of this pre-civilizational tribalism with diversity, equity, inclusion. We're caring people. We're inclusive people. We're so inclusive that if we see that we don't have the proper percentage, we're going to airbrush it away because that's what we do. We're Stanford, and we're nice people, and we're inclusive. And if we have a free speech area and we say, oh, you have to be gone out of 24 hours. And if you want to take over that free speech area and you want to camp for four months and every single day basically call for the extermination of Jews in Israel from the river to the sea, we're not going to judge you. That's part of the cultural richness of Stanford. And that's what's so scary about higher education today. It's really bankrupt morally. And I didn't think they would stoop to that, though. And this was not the school paper. This was the university that did this. It's interesting. It's Billy Ramirez. It's not Billy O'Reilly. I wonder what this also says about the perception of Hispanics. Well, they have a big problem with that because what most Hispanics. Hispanics on census, at least, don't identify as Hispanic. They identify as white. And I can tell you that, you know, we have a lot of indigenous people that are coming up to California from Mexico. But the prior cycles of immigration were largely from northern Mexico. And I can tell you the people I grew up with. If I looked at my senior picture of 240 people, there were probably. 30% white. And I said, that person is we're going to call that person Italian, that person Greek, that person dark haired. You wouldn't know the difference. So Billy Ramirez might be mistaken as an Italian kid because they didn't know his last name. It shows you what we're dealing with. We're talking about abject racism that we are so obsessed. We're afraid that Billy Ramirez didn't make it on this section. And not intersectionality pecking order. So we have to. The other thing they did. This is very strange because we were told the left and it is left has a. What's the word they use for overweight people? Obese obese obesity rights that it's a body shaming. Fact that you don't mean. Yes. Because I think fat shaming is now irresponsible term. And they didn't just. They didn't just. A. I. Out. Billy Ramirez and turn him into an African-American. They also took the two other politically correct people. I think one was an Asian. It's an Asian girl with a roundish face. Not. Yeah. Post. Three. She had a round. Yeah. But what was really sick about it was she wasn't that obese. She wasn't that. She was very attractive. Nice girl. And they made her thinner. And that plays into every one of the left's criticisms of the right. Oh, they're just interested. And they're this idea of, you know, teenage girls throwing up and being forced to be thin and they're nervous and all of this stuff is just pressures on this cheap, crass culture that has ideal weights. And then here Stanford University sees a girl who probably is maybe five pounds more than they recommended rate and they have to, I don't know, you have to transfer that weight. Transformer into somebody who's thin and fits their idea, not mine, not your, their idea of what beauty is. And so it's, it's pretty sickening. And I, we're going to talk about the National Book Award, the top 10 that Brett Stevens column. Yeah. 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We thank the good people from PragerU for sponsoring Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. Victor, let's keep on the theme of colleges and race. And this is Cambridge. They've abandoned their full investigation into the hiring of late professor Jason Arday. So let me just read this little section here quickly. The University of Cambridge is abandoned. Plans to fully investigate its hiring of Jason Arday. Scaling back an inquiry into the late professor's appointment amid questions about his academic record and personal history, according to the New York Times. Instead, the university will focus the first part of its review on whether Cambridge provided sufficient support to Arday as he faced accusations that he plagiarized portions of his doctoral thesis and embellished elements of his personal story. A second review will broaden. The university's hiring and academic misconduct policies. But Arday himself will not be its focus. Yes. Everybody, that has to be translated like this. We feel so guilty about being white that we want diversity to have more dons. But we can't find African-American dons. In sufficient numbers to make us feel less guilty. So when we find one and we give the message out, no, there's going to be, you know, people are going to get their hair must. There's going to be a few people who say, well, they're so desperate to focus on race rather than qualifications. I'm going to apply. And due to their desires, I will say that I can run like no other person in the world. I will say I will tell them. I will tell myself that are demonstrably biologically untrue about my feats and my scholarship. And you know what? I will be doing them a favor because I will create a mythological Vita and it will be so impressive that they will not only hire me, but they will do almost everything to showcase me worldwide. And that's what happened. And then when people said the emperor has no clothes, I mean, you keep thinking he has glory. He has robes on, but he's buck naked. There's nothing there. The guy is a complete fraud. He lied about almost every element of his biological situation. He's not. I mean, he's not Superman. He's not robotic. And he can't run a marathon with a bad leg and you can't do any of this stuff. And you can't. His scholarship is basically lifted from people. And that's what was told. And they said, yes, but that doesn't solve our problem. We still feel guilty and we still feel we want tokens and they have to be nonwhite. So what we'll do is after he imploded and tragically killed himself and they'd never say if they were honest, they would say in our desire for a particular type of racial profile, we are culpable because we lack, we reduce standards. And invited people who fit that profile and put themselves into situations they had not earned. And then we created internal pressures for people to accept a lie. And finally, the lie overwhelmed them that everybody couldn't go along with the lie as we did. And some people expose the lie and trapped. He tragically killed himself. And now they're saying, but we're not going to talk about how we did all this. We're going to talk about how you did. It you, you people, you had that gumption to expose those lies. If you had a lied like we did, he'd still be alive, but you couldn't do that. Oh, you have to follow the truth, truth, integrity, all these fossilized old Western ideas, not us. We are postmodern. We accepted the lie. We don't call it lie. We call it intersectionality and you couldn't play along and you have blood on your hands. And we're going to do an investigation and prove that. And that's what this, that's what really going on. Yeah. Well, Victor, we're going to, you mentioned, uh, the, uh, the Brett Stevens column about the National Book Awards. We have some Nick Kristof of the New York Times just doubling down on a crazy accusation. 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We are a nation of immigrants. We're a nation of immigrants. The Immigration Crisis. Watch now on the Heritage Foundation's YouTube channel. We are back with Victor Davis Hanson. And in his own words, I'd just like to inform you and I'd like to inform folks that this coming week, so we're recording again on the 26th of September. This episode is up on the 29th, Thursday the 29th. But if you happen to be in or near Washington, D.C., our friends at the Victims of Communism Museum are having a film festival there from October 1st to the 4th. And that's the Victims Museum. The chairman of the board is Elizabeth Spalding. I think you may know. Elizabeth Victor. She's the wife of Matt. Yeah, Matt Spalding's wife and the daughter of Lee Edwards, the great, the founder of the museum. So, folks, check that out. Go to the Victims of Communism website. You can find that out. Matt Spalding's a very, he has a new book out. It was very good. And he grew up in Corcoran, California, which is about 30 miles from where I'm speaking on my farm. Yeah. Matt was very kind when we did some of the Victor recovery episodes. And Matt did one on his book on the Declaration of Independence. And he's just, he's a super guy. And Elizabeth's a great soul also. So, Victor, let's get Nick Kristof, I hate to say, out of the way. I mean, this is just. I never seen a thing like that, Jack. Yeah. Well, here's the headline. It's just he's doubling down on his claim that Israelis train dogs to rape Palestinians. Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. Well. His wife, I think, is the head of the Board of Governors, or at least on the Board of Governors of Harvard. And they pay these people to come before Harvard and be interviewed a fantastic amount of money. I think, you know, Ta-Nehisi Coates got $30,000 to do it. So, the whole thing was, there was the aura of a conflict of interest because how could you go through sort of a disinterested interview when the people inviting you are audited, or really, in theory, employed by your own wife as representatives of the Harvard Corporation. But he went on there, and I've never seen a thing like it because I thought when somebody sent me these links, I had about five people, that he's a New York Times occasional columnist. I thought he would be well-dressed, smooth. You know? And I thought, well, he's a New York Times occasional columnist. Yeah, he's a New York Times occasional columnist. I just want to add one thing to the Kristoff stuff. Which is just so heinous a charge that just seeps into the culture or the back story for a lot of the ideologues. And I saw this video yesterday of William Shawn, the actor from My Dinner with Andre and The Princess Bride. And he was raised, he was Jewish, or Jewish roots anyway. I'm not saying he was a practicing Jew. But he gave the most despicable, you know, Jews are worse. Israel is worse than Nazi Germany. And comparatively. Now, he had no evidence to back that up. But these are flippant things that are just now part of the mantra of. I can't believe, you know what it is, is people are so historically ignorant. I heard somebody refuting the charge of genocide on the. Part of the Israelis by making the argument. Well, they had to reply, yes, and they had to retaliate. And they had fewer civilian to military casualties than we did. And he said something to the effect, well, after Pearl Harbor, we killed millions of Japanese. Hello. First of all, we didn't kill millions. The total losses to all causes in Japan were about two and a half million. Civilians and soldiers, and they were inflicted by Pacific Islanders, Americans, Australians, British, Indians, and a host of allies, including the Chinese. But think of that. We were at war. They started it. They were killing not just 24 people at Pearl Harbor. They killed about 200,000 Americans and about the same number of our allies and of all the major belligerents in World War II. In terms of how many people were killed versus how many they killed. They were the greatest killing machine of the war. They killed probably about 18 million people, maybe 20 or more. And they lost about 40% of what the Germans did. So the ignorance is just everywhere. And when you hear this genocide, genocide, genocide, genocide, genocide, and you think. Well, the people that are saying this don't know anything. What do you mean? 21 days after this horrific slaughter. And now you're starting to see pictures emerge. Did you see the pictures of the two little Jewish kids, the Israelis? And they murdered their father. And they're running around. One has been blinded, begging to be saved. And this creepy Hamas killer is drinking Coke out of the refrigerator after he's killed their father and older brother. I mean. We don't even hear about that. But they didn't do anything for 21 days. And it wasn't just a few thousand soldiers. There were civilians that reveled in it. And it was the most anti-civilizational. I can't even say the word medieval. It's an insult to the medieval. Killing, raping, mutilation, dismemberment. Any unimaginable atrocity they committed. And then Israel said. Give us these people who did it. And bring back those hostages or we're going to do something. Try it. 21 days they had a chance. And then when they did it, they had a billion dollar labyrinth of 450 miles. And I thought. Well, they'll be like the British during the blitz. They'll put their entire 2 million person population down in the tunnels. No. They only wanted the civilians for one purpose. To be in a mosque. A school. A mosque, a school, or a hospital where there were entry and exits. So when the Israelis had to stop Hamas from burrowing down. And they hit those three sources of entries and exits. They would kill civilians. Or they would use civilians around rocket sites. Anywhere the Israelis would have to retaliate. They wanted their civilians to be killed. And more importantly, you don't have to be. You don't have to have an 8th grade education. To ask yourself. Why would the Israelis. Try to avoid hitting Hamas civilians. And why would they try to text. Apartment buildings to get out. And why after the interludes would they bring food. And why did they provide electricity and fuel and water during peacetime. When there was not one Jew inside Gaza for 20 years. And the Gazans had all the right to elect their government. And be free. And they did it one time. And then Hamas abolished elections. So you have a murderous dictatorship. By any definition. That the Israelis were trying to destroy. Before they did it again. And that dictatorship was using its civilians. To protect the killers. And exposing their civilians. And they were trying to destroy them. And the Israelis were more worried about killing the civilians in Gaza. Than the Gazan Hamas's. I should rephrase that. The Gazans felt that every civilian that was killed. Led to their propaganda campaign. And if you don't believe it. They sent on a rocket from a hospital. That misfired and killed a lot of civilians. And then blamed it on the Israelis. And they thought that was a propaganda coup. And so. And then every gullible Westerner. Except for the Israelis. Accepted their inflated figures. They made no distinction between Hamas fighters. And civilians. They made no distinction about all of the Israeli efforts. Not to hit civilians. They made no mention that. A lot of military analysts said. In terms of urban warfare. The number of civilians killed. Per soldiers killed. The Israelis had a lower ratio. Than even the major powers. Whether it's France during the Algerian wars. Or us in Fallujah. You name it. I'm not even going to mention. The Russians in Chechnya. And I'm not going to mention. What Assad did at Hama. But. It's just disgusting for these people. And the only answer is. They hate Jews. They hate Jews so much. And when you look at these younger people. They have no idea. What's going on. They don't know where the Jordan River is. They don't know where Israel came from. They don't know. What Hebrew. They don't know anything. Other than. It's cool. To say you hate Israel. And it's part of DEI. And you can get some victim. Fides or cred. If you trash Jews and Israelis. That's what it is. You mentioned the tunnels Victor. Which we've talked about many times in the past. But every time you say that. Or it comes up. I just think. These things were paid for by us. Paid for by the international. Forty billion. In this community. Who didn't know about. Just the colossal amount of concrete being used. And spent. And where that was all going. How about the European. How about the Italian and German and British. Exports of machinery to Gaza. That were needed. They had sophisticated tunnel boring machines. And then how about the 40 billion. Over its 20 year lifetime. That came from quote the international community. And the UN. And they knew what they were doing. And then think of this. 2006. Every Israeli leaves. They say it's we don't want any part of this. But we'll still give you electricity. And we'll give you water etc. As much as we can do it. But it's yours now. And you've got this beautiful waterfront. And the international community likes you better than it does us. And they're going to pour billions. And just hire a couple of people from the UAE. Especially Dubai. And have them come over. Plan your. Utopian city. Make it an international free trade zone. And get a higher per capita income than even we do. Due to tourism and da da da da da. And they could do it. But they couldn't do that could they. Because they were right next to a bunch of Jews. And they wanted to kill them. And they wanted to kill their children. They wanted to mutilate them. And nobody can see that simple moral difference. And so they. And then you know they. They take the. Only democracy in the Middle East. And they say it's not democratic. Because the people in Gaza couldn't vote. Well they could vote for their own people. But they chose either not to vote. Or the people they voted in one time. Forbid them for vote. But they had the chance. Just like there is a Palestinian authority. They vote for that. But it's not really a free election. They're told who to vote for. So you look at Israel. And it's the most raucous. Open. Transparent. Wild democracy in the world. With fragmented parties. Debates. You name it. Court entered. It's a consensual society. And action. And these people who are on the left. Who always claim they hate fascism. Are on the side of fascists. Well Victor. Let's close out. Maybe if we have a little extra. We'll talk about Kamala Harris. But let's talk about this aforementioned. Brett Stevens. New York Times. A column. Where he's taking on the National Book Awards. And the two things here. One is that. People who actually get the awards of the last decade, you're not going to find – you'll find a rare white guy in the bunch, but it's all a very DEI institution. You won't find Victor Davis Hanson on the best nonfiction books, but they put out – I'm going to just read a couple of these. Every year, they put out 10 books that make the quote-unquote long list, and here are a few of them. The first – I'll read four. One's called Seasons of Fury, Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America. This is by Rosina Ali. Then there's a book by Colin Asher, The Midnight Special, The Secret Prison History of American Music. Then by Zayed Ayers-Doran. Sounds like a page-turner. Yeah. Dangerous, dirty, violent, and young, a fugitive family in the revolutionary underground. I'll just read one. One more. Huna, A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming by Abdel Raham El-Ghendi. Where can I get that? There's a book about spawning fish. I don't know. But this is the cream of the crop, and one of the – we'll get the eventual honoree. But the book industry is so ideological, Victor, as you know. Yeah. You are. I mean, this is a long way from F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe. John Dos Passos. John Dos Passos. Even James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. Ralph Ellison. This is pathetic. You know, it's funny about all these books. I had a phone call today, but it was somebody who said, are you Victor Hansen? I didn't know what to say. I usually don't answer the phone if I don't know who it is. But he played a tape he had made, and he had a falsetto voice. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. How do you like Trump now, you idiot? You should have named your book Counter-Revolution, the Fall and Rise and Fall and Fall of Donald Trump. I thought that was kind of funny because fall – I thought about maybe the fall and rise and fall. Then I could have said the fall. Fall and rise and fall and rise. Or I could have said fall and rise, three dots, expectation. But he's like, ha, ha, ha. He had this really wicked witch of the East voice. You know what I mean? But he actually put a tape on. He wouldn't even say to himself. And I hung up before I could savor the whole thing. But it was so weird. And I guess he was trying to say Donald Trump is not popular now, so nobody will buy your book. So the book is not about don't Trump at any given moment. It's about how he came back. And if you hate his guts, you might want to be interested why he came back and how he did it. Right. You know, I was on another thing just to finish, Jack. And it was our friend David DeRosa. I just did an interview with him that we both admire. Double D, love him. He's the publisher of Real Clear Politics. He is. And he was talking about – Presidential historians. I'm not a presidential historian. You know, I've written one – this is the second book on Trump. But I've written 24 other books. And that has nothing to do with presidents. But – Like Michael Beschloss. Yes, that came up. And I thought – and as he was talking about it, he was talking about it. But I was thinking – I finally commented. The three best-known presidential historians – I'm not saying the three best, but the three best-known – are all on the left. They're Michael Beschloss and – stop, take a deep breath. He's now noted after the Mar-a-Lago raid of saying that this was going to be like a Nuremberg trial. And they were going to find these archives kind of like after World War II. And they were going to try Trump as a traitor. That's what he said. He also said, as I remember, in 2022, if Joe Biden loses the election – He didn't say – He didn't say we're going to be dominated by the right or it's going to be a – I don't mind that. Who does? But he said they're going to go after us and our children and kill them. And then we come to John Meacham. He is famous for being a speechwriter-historian. But he was writing or helping to write or craft Joe Biden's speeches while he went on MS. Now, then MSNBC and told us how – How dynamic. And I think he even had a hand in the Phantom of the Opera speech that Biden gave. Remember the red stuff? It's kind of like I would say, President Trump, you need – I'm a historian. You need help with your next inaugural? I can help you write it. Just send me a – He'd say, yes, Victor. Why don't you do it? Okay. I sent him a draft. And then I thought, maybe I can go on Fox and comment and then I'll call him up. Can I comment on the inaugural? That was one of the greatest addresses. He hit all – He hit all the buttons. I don't know how he did it, but that was one of the best crafted speeches. And then I would say to my friends, hey, everybody, leak it out that I wrote that. Because I would be so narcissistic that I wouldn't even understand that leaking out my role in writing the speech was a condemnation of just how corrupt I was. And then he was let go by, I think, Vanderbilt University. And then we come to the piece. C'est des recents Doris Kearns Goodman. Yeah, plagiarist. Yes. And she – remember that? Team of rivals. And then we found out that she was plagiarizing. And they always say this when they – even – or Stephen Ambrose. I – well, I had footnotes. And I don't know. You know, these are research age. They do the footnotes. I don't know. You know. So, first of all, you should do your own footnotes. And second, any mistake that's under your name is under your name. You can say what you want. But if you plagiarize, you are a plagiarizer. And you are an intellectual thief. And what's – she's back on national public radio and PBS. Didn't harm her. People don't reflect to her. She's revered. She took a hiccup for about a day. And then she's right back. So, I think it's John Meacham. So, on the left, there's – There's – a presidential historian is not very – what's the word? Not a moral intellectual. Not an ethical intellectual. But it's part of the DEI. It's not on race, but it's on ideology. If you have the right ideology, you get a pass. And the most sinister thing about the books we've been discussing and all of these people is why DEI is an existential threat. I think it's – I think it's as great a threat as AI in some ways because it tells 30% of the population, we don't – we're not interested in you as individuals. Not at all. All we're interested in you is either your superficial appearance, your religion, your gender, or whom you prefer to have sexual congress with. And if you make an arbitrary – if you belong to an arbitrary victimized or oppressed group, there's all sorts of spoils. And we don't really care to audit you. They just found another – I think her name was a Gan, G-A-N-N, a Jewish Manhattanite, or she was somewhere in the greater New York area that said she was a Palestinian oppressed woman that may have been black. And she's been the biggest anti-Semite and screaming at all these – she's kind of like Rachel Dozel or Ward Churchill. But we're going to make all of this category – And if you belong to this category, we're not going to care about how much money you have, how much privilege you have. You can be the millionaire Ro Khanna. You can be Hassan Piker with your $200,000 Porsche. You can be Obama with your four mansions. You can – it doesn't matter. You can be Kamala Harris and live in Brentwood, one of the wealthiest areas in the world. But you are a victim forever. And once you're a victim forever, you – it's like going to a nice insurance agency and say, I'd like to take out an indemnity policy that if anything happens, I'm insured. But you don't have to pay a premium. You just get it. And that means if you're Sonny Hostin on The View and you say things that are racist or completely crazy, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It means – and ideologically, as we see with these presidential historians, they have insurance policies. As well. It's not as good a brand. It's not the Aetna or Farmers or you name it of the DEI business. It's more of an off-brand insurance for ideology – left-wing ideology. But for the rest, if you're – police pull you over, you can sass the police person. If you go in to a restaurant and you say, I don't like the food, I don't have to pay for it. If you're in Chicago and you shoot somebody, there's very little chance that you're going to be treated like a lot of people would be treated. If you say that there's an epidemic of hanging and women are being hanged by whites and that proves to be absolutely a lie, then every single case of these three or four hangings, there was a person of color usually known to the victim that did it. There's no need for apologies. There's no need for apologies with Covington kids, Duke LaCrosse, Al Sharpton, Tawana Brawley, Juicy Smollett, Ferguson's hands up, don't shoot, to Ron Martin, the poor little guy that just happened to look in an apartment or something when George Zimmerman killed him. Or if you're one of the 51, however many signers of the intelligence. That's an ideological, that's an ideological, what happened to John Brennan and James Clapper and Leon, did anybody say to Leon Panetta? They did. Mr. Panetta, do you realize that you just ruined your reputation because you signed a document in which you alleged that this computer, which you knew was in the FBI's possession and given the rumor mill in Washington, which they had held for a year and knew it was authenticated, lied with that little word, information rather than disinformation. This was an information project from the Russians. You knew that was untrue and you knew the purpose of your letter was to arm Joe Biden with that untruth. So in the last debate on the eve of a critical election, he could lie to the American people with authenticity of 51 people like yourself that would back up that lie to alter an election. You did that. And he did. And they asked him about that. He said, it should have ruined all of their reputation. It didn't. Just like it should have ruined Al Sharpton should be persona non grata forever. And all the people like Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris had said that Jussie Smalls was a modern lynching, should have been discredited. And it never happens. And that's why it's so popular. And it gives you preference in hiring. It's not just you get preference in hiring or admissions, you get a life. Insurance policy or a mistake insurance policy that if you if you err, then you can allege that you were a victim of racism or sexism or homophobia or transphobia and their net effect on a country that's supposedly consensual, democratic republic. And it's meritocratic. That's what I want to and transparent is it won't work. It will not work. If you ask yourself, why is India? A mess. Why is most of Asia a mess? Why is most of Africa a mess? Why is most of Latin America a mess? It's completely because it's not meritocratic. There's either Rachel cast or there's tribal considerations or there's I'm going to hire my first cousin, not meritocratic. And there's no accountability. And that's what we're that will happen to the United States. It's already happening. And you can see it. With the Palisades fire, our mayor was in Africa junketing and she ran on DEI. The vice mayor who had run to the, I guess, the city council on DEI, he was in jail. He was under house arrest for phoning in a bomb threat. The head of water and power who had no experience with that high power $700,000 job had come from PG&E with a dismal record. She was a DEI person. The fire chief was a DEI person out of sexual orientation and there were what, I don't know, a hundred, 200 hydrants that weren't working. And the whole point was that you could make a decision about whether to clean the hillsides or whether to get the hydrants active or whether to get the reservoir fixed and filled or whether to have the mayor and the vice mayor patrolling the area during the windy period of the late fall and early winter. And under a normal political system, you did do that or you would be fired if something went wrong. But under DEI, why would you do that? Because if things went wrong, you just say, you're a racist, you're a sexist, you're a transphobe, you're a homophobe, and you're free from any culpability. And people think, well, that's an overstatement. It's not quite like that. It is that way, especially in academia. And the proof of the pudding is, say, what, Jason Arday? That is so egregious and juicy smollet. You couldn't even, these people were so eager to tell a lie on basis of DEI when he threw bleach with a actual temperature of 40, but with a windchill factor of minus 60 and bleached freezes at about four degrees centigrade for minus four, four degrees, it didn't freeze. Should have given him a bump on the head as opposed to. Yes. Anyway, it's DEI, it's the one, it is an existential danger to this country that we're going to start to judge. And a lot of people say, well, what happened to the post? The post-war South, the post-war South, why didn't it recover? Well, it suffered enormous human and physical damage, yes, but part of the problem was it reverted to a tribalist system after Reconstruction. I don't not credit, what I mean by that is that they had a two-tier apartheid-like system and people either ostracized it or boycotted it or said that it won't be effective. Because if you were white in the South and you committed a murder, and especially an interracial murder, there was very little chance you were going to be held accountable from basically 1880 to about 1965. If you were black and you were accused of something, you would be held guilty. And it's so weird that the people who helped at least the original liberal movement that helped reform the South is now emulating the South. One-sixteenth drop, sanctuary nullification, Confederate-type cities, you name it, and racial obsessions. Anyway, Jack, it's very dangerous, DEI. I just want to mention three historians, Victor, who are our friends and we love them. Amity Shlaes, who's a historian of Coolidge, the great George Nash, the most lovable man. Yes, he won a wonderful award. Herbert Hoover. Yeah. And then the host of one of Victor's previous podcasts, Troy Seneck, who wrote. Glover Cleveland. Yeah. Troy's just a wonderful dude. I love him. And all of those, they're not laudatory in the sense of hedging bets or manipulating evidence. They tend to be positive appraisals, but they have a lot of criticism, as they should, of people. I was asked on one podcast, would you criticize anything in the book? There were things I was critical of Donald Trump. One of the things that got me mad, and I added that, I don't think it was a. I don't know how to say it, but you do have certain civilizational. You don't mock the dead or even the people that hated you. But when he basically. I don't know if he said that Rob Reiner, he was happy. He didn't care whether he died or not. And the guy had been viciously murdered by his own son. And so it would have been better just to say, well, he didn't like me. I understand that. But we all have sympathy for his fate or something. So things like that, you have to criticize because it violates the norms of acceptable. And I think Trump knew that. And frankly, if you look at these things politically, it's. It's got to be harmful because there are people who are holding their nose and voting for you and just don't really want to. And things like that push them back over. So what you have to make the argument in this midterm, which I think is going to be really existential. I use that word too much today. But if these socialists, Islamists take power, much less the Senate, but even the House, we're going to see some things that are really crazy. These are angry, bitter, furious people who don't. We saw what they did with lawfare, but that's going to be nothing. That's a stepping stone to what they're going to do when they take power. And the next issue, the next podcast, I want to talk about the economy because the economy is really good. If you look at poverty rates and family medium income and employment, new job creation, Wall Street, foreign investment. But they have not explained. that Joe Biden had 21% increase in terms of vehicles, insurance, housing, food, and health care. It went up 30%. And everybody thought that by moving a wand or something, you could have a deflation without a recession and get rid of that whole 30 point. And what instead they should be saying is he averaged 5.1 inflation every year. And our first year we had 2.6. We cut the yearly inflation by half. This year, even with the spike in oil prices because of the war, we're going to get it about 3%, 2% lower again than him. And wages our first year, and we hope the next this year went higher, rose higher than the rate of inflation. But they don't say that. I don't know. No. And I- And I just saw a poll of young men, and we could talk about that on the next episode. But the two top issues are inflation and the cost of housing. And it's associated with Trump. It's not the Biden inflation that we're still suffering from. I don't understand it. When we had the highest gas prices, they were up to 450 average. And we had 9.1% per time in 2022 inflation. And we had two wars break out. I mean, everybody says, oh, Iran. But why did we get in this situation? We got in this situation because basically, A, Joe Biden said, my reaction to the Russians will depend on some major or minor. And I've already put a hold on offensive weapons to Ukraine. And by the way, I've told Putin to cut it out. If he's going to wage cyber attacks, don't hit nonprofits. And he's going to cut it out. And he felt he was weak. And he invaded. In the case, same thing. We tried to distance ourselves from Israel. And we made little noises, as we always do from the left, about the Middle East. And Hamas thought, you know what? If we're going to invade, now's the time. The guy is decrepit. And the people around him are from the Obama era. And they like us. They favor us. And they won't do anything. And that's why they invaded. And all of that, I don't hear any of that from the Republicans. They should talk about what they're doing with the data that I just mentioned. They should say, this is what we're going to do. And if you look at history, Eisenhower had a recession, I think, in 57 and 58, partly because of the Suez crisis. And people were afraid oil wouldn't get out of that area. And we had a recession in 1991 because of the first Gulf War. And in any case, well, it's troubling times. But Victor, we're almost out of gas here. Yeah, we're out of time. But I'll just read a couple of comments that folks put up on YouTube. And thank you for those of you who take the time to leave comments, even the ones disparaging the hosts. Amy Liu, 8532, writes, VDH, you are a precious human being. And you finished your book. And I couldn't put it down, recalling all the things that you said. And I think that's a great thing. And I think that's all the awful things Trump went through and never backed down or gave up. It's a beautiful story of redemption. Then Mrs. Mendeville wrote, great book, enjoyed thoroughly. God bless you. So glad I found this channel. And finally, Jesse Diamond, 5579, I first became acquainted with VDH during COVID when my husband and I finally had the time to take Hillsdale online courses. Now I don't miss a single episode of his podcast. I've nearly finished The Counterrevolution. I look forward to his wisdom and analysis as a 34-year-old trying to weather this crazy time in history. I'm so thankful for your calm, clear navigation. I'm so thankful you are still here and praying for your continued recovery. And I want to add one thing, Victor. I was at my company where I work, Amphil. We had an all-staff retreat, and any number of my colleagues were how much they love you and love the podcast. Well, thank you. That's very nice. I'm very happy I'm here, too. Yes, well, ditto. So one of my colleagues, Steve Bird, said, she's the hugest fan, Leslie Sargent, said, Jack, she wrote you, and you didn't write her back. And I looked up, and maybe I didn't. So I want to apologize to Leslie, but I want to mention that you are a great fan of this, Victor. You know, I always did. And then after I fell ill, I had over a thousand letters. And at my office, I'm getting about 20 a day, and I'm getting about eight or nine a day here at home. So I don't have the ability. I do try to have an assistant. I read them and try to have him, you know, write out an envelope, and I can write a little short piece, but I'm so far behind. I feel bad about it, though. Never mind, what do you get, 800 emails a day? Oh, I probably get personal emails. I get 800, but some of them are because I belong to different things. I would say to the website and to me, probably 150, 200 every day. And most of them are, you can't drop everything. They're requests for things. Can you write me a letter? Can you read my book? Can you speak to me? Can you speak to my mother? Can you just go over the coast and meet us for dinner? That kind of, very nice things, but if I were to do that, I wouldn't be able, I wouldn't have one second to do what we're doing now. Yeah, three more days in a week you'd need. Well, Victor, I want to, one last thing. If people go to St. Croix Review, C-R-O-I-X, St. Croix Review, it's a lovely little quarterly journal, dot org, and you can, I'm going to speak at their annual dinner. We're on October 8th in Stillwater, Minnesota. So if you're in the neighborhood there, go there, maybe show up. I'm going to talk about Bill Buckley's legacy. So there's that. And thanks for those who go to civilthoughts.com and sign up for Civil Thoughts, a free weekly email newsletter I do for the Center for Civil Society. It comes out every Friday, 14 recommended readings. Victor, you have been terrific. Thanks folks for watching. Thanks for listening. We will be back soon with Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. Bye-bye. Thank you everybody for listening and watching. 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.