Why Democrats Want to Take Down Elon Musk | Victor Davis Hanson

Elon Musk. His SpaceX rocket is the biggest, most powerful rocket that has ever been created. It dwarfs the Saturn rocket of NASA and you want to nationalize that and run it like the DMV or the post office. So you combine everything the left hates. Success, wealth, confidence, genius, and he's not an equality of results. He's a quality of opportunity guy. And they despise him, they envy us, they hate him. I'm very worried about him. I think he needs an army of security. He really does. Hello and welcome to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor is the Martin and nearly Anderson Senior Fellow and Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Basky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website. Victor Hansen.com and the name of that website is The Blade of Persia. So please come join us there. 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That's joinadf.com/hansen or text Hansen to 83848. Welcome back Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. So Victor we have the midterms coming up very soon and lots of lots of things going on. I was wondering before you tell us about the races you're going to be watching your thoughts on the L Syed that had that showed said that Israel was the cause of the high price of bananas and another. Oh eggs and bananas. And so obviously an anti-Semitic ad that was in support of L Syed and he's he's said he's not associated with it but he didn't say it was import taste at all. Yeah it was put on by a member of his family had endorsed it. So I I'm a little confused because the federal budget is about six trillion dollars and this ad wanted us to believe that the price of eggs in Michigan was high because we give three billion a year to Israel. We gave somewhere between 100 and 200 billion over the last four years to Ukraine. We left 50 billion dollars in weaponry in Afghanistan. So why would they pick the Jews as responsible for a 3.4 rate of inflation? And the answer is he's only confirming what we all thought that he's an anti-Semite. He always has been he always will be and that his campaign if successful will put him on the foreign relations committee and he'll do all he can to demonize the Jewish state. Any Jewish person that votes for him who identifies as a supporter of Judaism and Israel is going to have a suicidal impulse because this guy really hates Israel and he hates Jews. I hate to say it but he does. And as far as the midterms I said at least three or four times that we should all expect the following. Fantastic left-wing polls. Two weeks before the election, narrowing suddenly. The races and then some puff pieces about Democrats worried. What was my point? My point was that this election in all of its manifestations, Senate and House was always close. That's a tribute to the Trump administration because the last 126 years of midterm elections only three times has the end party gained seats. FDR Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. So if they get close and I mean either keep the house or lose the house by four seats and why they retain the Senate, that's an amazing achievement. So the left thought that they were worried. So they drummed up support with these phony polls. Just like Said was going to win his primary by 10 or Hong and Wisconsin by 20 and I'll have a parenthesis and stop here for a minute to look at Israel. I went back at those Israeli polls. They were all calling for the end of Netanyahu. He was a sure loser. In fact they were celebrating on election night. They flew in 50,000 people under Jewish law. Israel's law Jews all over the world if they want to vote in that election have to be there. And most of them were left wing and they flew them in. And still the opposition only got 47 seats and 48 seats so far. And Netanyahu is only three or four seats short. He may pick up a couple as tallies come in of winning an outright majority and keeping him in power. But he has so many more alternatives to form a ruling coalition than left does. That he will be the next prime minister for foreseeable future. So they did exactly what point is just look at that and see what the left does. Anywhere it is in an election. It always exaggerates momentum. It exaggerates the poll lead and it's intended for three reasons to get favorable media coverage to get out the vote so people want to be in a winning team and to get donors to think that if they give they're going to get something return with a democratic office holder. That's it. And then when they see that they have really overshot they narrow it. They narrow it. And so in 2024 Donald Trump was never behind. That poll PBS NPR that had him down four points was beyond them. That was crazy. The Iowa poll that had him down three when he won by 12 was crazy. But they served their purposes. They made the race closer than it would have otherwise been. And that's what we're watching. I don't know who's going to win. My historical side of my brain says he can't win because history is against it. My rational and emotional side of the brain says, wait a minute. Imperically you can prove as CNN Harry intended, intended, eaten that four points is the average exaggeration of polls the last four elections. So I would say there's a 50/50 chance they can keep the house and with 70/30 they can keep the Senate because you can't trust these polls. As far as that other I add, I was confused because a lot of the gatekeepers on the right, the National Review, Andy McCarthy, a good friend of mine, at one time Gerard Baker, Gerald Baker, who writes for the Washington New York Wall Street Journal and who's a very bright guy and I have a great deal of admiration for. They ignored that ad. They didn't talk about that ad. That was the most anti-Semitic ad I've ever seen. And it said, basically, as I said earlier, you have a woman and she says, I got to put the bananas back. I can't afford them because we're giving money to the Jewish Israel basic. That is sick. And yet they went after Talleriko and they went after the ad that Ross Swamy ran where he had a mother saying, my daughter's a liar. The backstory of that was she said she would grow up in a tent and was molested and all that and they had been fighting for years. So this woman, I think, was recruited to say that. Was it what I have done it? No. Was it the cheap shot that they claimed kind of sort of, but not as bad as these anti-Semitic ad, who condemned entire people, all the Jews in America, the whole state of Israel, as exercising nefarious back room, leverage over our government in a conspiratorial fashion that we otherwise had. We known the true nature of Israel and Jews. We would have never helped them, the only democratic nation in the Middle East that shares Western values. And then he also wrote that he was because of Paxton's problems. He would vote for Tallerico, both to send a message that Republicans shouldn't nominate people like Ramanoswamy and also Paxton. But not only did he ignore the ad in Michigan, but ignored what Tallerico, everything he said he's retracted, the six genders, the binary God, the vegetarian, the white virus, the white racial virus, the capitalism has to go stuff, the beef stuff, the oil fossil fuel stuff. He is the most inauthentic candidate I've ever seen. And he won't tell us anything about his – he says he has a girlfriend, we've never seen her. He says that he was gone for what, 12 days? All he has, he says he has the flu, but I've had the flu a lot. And I have checked in with my university where I worked on a daily basis and said I hope I can be there next week or three days. You just don't go blank. So he's never honest and yet people are so angry at Trump. And what we're seeing now is are we quedessence of the never-Trumpers that were low because they didn't get their wish in '24, combined with the Tucker right, it's the new never-Trumpers. So you have Lisa Murkowski in Alaska who is endorsing the Democratic candidate for governor. And yet she's not bothered by this Peralta woman attacking her own Republican colleague, Dan Sullivan, in the most nefarious ways by recruiting, we know now, not from Victor, of course, but from the left-wing New York Times that has got a confidential source and text and emails that the Democratic Senate candidate and her staff were working with Democratic operatives to find somebody named Dan Sullivan who happened to maybe be a Republican or was willing to change his registration to Republican to put him on the ballot to confuse people in ranked voting. And so you think that Murkowski would have said, wait a minute, this is voter fraud. Instead she's endorsing the Democratic candidate for governor. But what I'm getting at is all of these Republican conservative writers, opinion writers, pundits, legal scholars, candidates that detest Trump and detest the MAGA movement, don't understand that that's OK to do that if you want. But you're putting your reputation on the line when you don't be absolutely empirical and look at both sides, you know what I'm saying. When I wrote the counterrevolution, I said that Trump could be crude. I said he should have never ever ridiculed Rob Reiner's death. I went on and on about that. But I also said that what he's done is he's done more good things on oil production, foreign policy, the border, immigrant than any Republican could have dreamed of. But when you only look at one side and you say that you're Republican and therefore you're brave and honest and a maverick by trashing your own president or your own party, but you won't look at what the Democrats are doing, then it's not, it's not credible. I just want to let the audience know that you were talking about a article in the Wall Street Journal by Gerard Baker. He's a very good writer. I keep saying I met him. I like him. I've been on his podcast. He's very astute. I just think he feels I think he's confessed it. He's said so that he has a almost pathological hatred of Donald Trump. And what he thinks Donald Trump is doing to the Wall Street Republican Party. Now that said, I will also say that if any disinterested reader reads the Wall Street Journal and reads the headlines from the news division and looks at the bylines of the writers who are writing these stories and then looks at the comments on the opinion. You cannot in all fairness say that the Wall Street Journal is a conservative journal anymore. Its news division come from Washington Post, New York Times, political Atlantic. They're all left wing. The headlines are always critical of Trump for the most part and the stories are slanted. The opinion writers are sinner right, not all of them, but sinner right. The editorial board may be sinner right. But it's it's kind of a Romney Bush McCain right. And I'll give you an example. So he's campaigning and all we hear is how terrible the tariffs are. And Trump says, if you are European concern and you bring in your company here and you create thousands of jobs, there are no tariffs. There's steep tariffs if you're in Europe and you want to import when there's not reciprocal tariffs. Okay, so I'm reading in the Wall Street Journal last two weeks how terrible the tariffs are. And then right in the middle of this, Audi announces 1.32 billion dollar investment in this huge new plant because of the what the guy says because of the tariffs. And that's being replicated all over. Now you can say it's inefficient. It's not fair to European workers. You can do whatever you want. But you can't say it's not helping American workers is what I'm saying. And I don't just mean American workers. I'm talking about the American workers and the rust belt, the losers of globalization. And you have to then tell us what the alternative. Is it really the free market bush attitude, laissez-faire that we all go and outsource and offshore and we take away millions of jobs in the heartland of the country and invest in China. The greatest mercantile cheater in history. And we put our plants in China or Vietnam or somewhere just to get cheap consumer goods back here. So what I'm getting at is the midterms are like a scab and the tensions are so high they peeled off and then they reveal for things the way they are. And what they are is there is no such thing anymore in America as disinterested media or a disinterested poll or a disinterested anything. Opinion writers column should be partisan that's their job you know what I mean they can be partisan their opinion. But not the solid news and not not the pollsters. And you think that they would be so discredited after 2016 when they were off in 2024 when they were off and the primaries in 2026. It's kind of like Lucy in the football we keep going and quoting the Harris Harvard poll the PBS in PR poll. And they have no reason to enjoy that reputation. So I don't know what's going on because I don't trust any of them. And I think it's going to be a very tight race I really do just like Israel was. 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of them are not stupid and they have even switched over their party allegiance that's a big thing to do somewhere around 300,000 Jews in Michigan they're not like a lot of numbers but if they go 70% and this election which we've seen in presidential elections is decided by 10 to 30 or 40,000 votes that can mean a big big difference the other thing is the fact that Barack Obama is coming in so late and the fact that El Said was going to a barber shop very condescending you know he's like well we've offended all the black people and Arab shopkeepers tormented this black woman that got a boycott of our black you know stop and goes and service stations so I better go back in there and pander to them and I'll what do how do you pander to black people as an Egyptian and I think you go to a barber shop and then you say a bunch of stuff you don't believe so there's been the animosity between those two communities and I can see both sides of the story black say that the rude they don't trust them they think they're going to commit crimes they are racist the Arab community would say they're they commit crimes at a higher proportion and if we didn't have businesses in their communities they wouldn't have businesses here so we're just doing we're fulfilling a civic need but the point is I don't know what to adjudicate that this that dispute he's going to lose votes in the black community and the Jewish community and he knows it the other thing I don't I want to say about him he's a especially unattractive candidate because he never lets anybody finish the sentence red book bear all red bearer was trying to say is you have denied and said it was Islamic Islamophobic to even suggest you had ties with the Muslim Brotherhood now 2012 you wrote a letter you signed it with others endorsing Mohammed Morsi in Egypt and call it who was a Muslim brother and calling on platforms that were endorsed by the Muslim Brotherhood you have members of your family including your mother who was in at least affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood you have members who given to your campaign in the Muslim Brotherhood now why do you seem to attract so many people from this terrorist organization who want you to win I finished that sentence he couldn't even finish it before just I mean you're not a job that blah blah blah blah blah blah blah he just that's how he does it then he uses this word conversation so you say to him you let's have a conversation about it or you can you explain why people in the black community and Jewish community let's have a conversation about it you never answers a question either interrupts and said let's have a conversation he's kind of like a mandami they has that big smile and I'm just where a cowboy had I'm just an old good old boy and then he's a wolf and sheep's clothing he really is he's an unapologetic Islamist just like mandami do you think that Trump's barnstorming the country for these various elections is going to be effective and I'm just saying this my mind is wandering back to 2020 when at the end of his first term he was everywhere across the United States and yet he lost the election is it going to be is it going to be he lost the election let's be honest he lost the election that was the largest people the number of people who have ever voted usually the next election there's fewer I mean there's more each the population grows that's the one of the I think there's only two or three of them with that election had more people voting than the next election following it and we know why because in the key states traditionally 30% had had male in ballots under the guise of COVID and with Mark Zuckerberg and Mark Elias all these activists and money the DNC went in and sued the legislatures to change the voting laws they couldn't get it through legislation in many cases they couldn't get it through referendum but they sued and went to court and they cherry prick left wing judges and the result of that was no ID no identification same day registration as voting male in ballots ballot harvesting ballot curing in all these states and when you and the republicans thought hey this is crazy why would you tell your people not to show up on election day and and mail it in you yeah they didn't understand what was happening and so when you go from 30% male in ballot until 70% you have no way of adjudicating what's going on you had one other thing to the 2020 election they had a second debate Joe Biden called Donald Trump a liar when he said that Hunter lap the Hunter Biden laptop which was damning to the Biden family Mr. Big 10% pay I pay their you dad's utility all of that stuff the nudity the drugs the racism we don't like Asian that stuff everybody knew was authentic FBI had it for a year in fact two FBI agents are indicted right now are going to be indicted because they light under oath that they didn't have it they hadn't proved that it was hunters when they knew it was they were promulgating the opposite story so Biden right before the election in the last debate said he's a liar now we had a poll it was by conservative organization that said had he told the truth it would have made a difference and enough for people to have changed their vote or to vote it for Trump but my point is this that in 2024 he had these rallies they're not intended to win over Democrats and they're not intended to win over independence they're intended to get a huge crowd media coverage and Trump being Trump and then people who are for him the 30 to 40% of the mega people who have not turned out in the midterms for Trump the last two midterms right 2018 and what will be 2000 they're afraid what will be 2026 you're supposed to be sitting home and you say oh man Trump I don't like those tweets and I like what he's doing I'm just kind of tired I'll just sit home I hope he wins but I'm not gonna vote it's too much trouble then you turn my TV and wow look at that there's 30,000 people there they're happy they're screaming he can win I think although that's the that's the line of argument that's the thinking that's the philosophy behind these that's the reason for getting a second thing is there had been a mim or narrative or lie that Donald Trump didn't care about the midterms because he'd said things privately that was quoted well you know Obama lost 63 seats in the midterm second midterm he lost the Senate and what did he do he had no Senate and no House and he came in with both. And he said, I have a phone and I have a pen. And what did he do? He said, oh, we're going to go join the Paris. This is in his last two years, lame doc, that I'm going to executive order my whole domestic legislation. And then he said, how, what is very controversial? I know I'll recognize Cuba. And he did. And he said, I know what's controversial. I'm going to join the Paris phony climate accords and pledge us to a green deal. And he did. And then he said, I'm going to be famous for creating the the Iran Shia Crescent. And I'll join the Rand deal. And we'll get the rent. And he did all about without any Senate. There was no treaty. There was no 60 votes, two thirds or two thirds of the senators voting for that. And he was a lame doc who had lost the midterms. And the same thing with Bill Clinton. He came in with huge leads in the house and the Senate in 1993. He got wiped out in the house in 1994, 57 seats or something. And then he lost the Senate in '98. And then Republicans got it on their hind legs. And they impeached him. They impeached him when the economy was booming. And he was in his second year of a balanced budget. That was dumb. And you know what? He bombed Serbia for 77 days with no congressional authority. He did whatever he wanted. Obama, the Obama in his last two years had bombed seven nations, 26,000 bomb strikes. They did what they wanted. And they lost the Senate in the house. So my point is this that people had said to Donald, he had said that. He wasn't saying he enjoyed it. He wanted to follow that. But he said, well, you know, Clinton and Obama did it. So they think they're going to neuter me. I can do whatever I want in Iran because he did whatever he wanted in Serbia. And he kept bombing. He bombed Libya the last day. He was in office. He had 500 drone strikes about, I don't know, 150 were in this last two years. He killed about 80 civilians. Nobody said a word. So if I lose the midterms, it's not going to stop me. One, I, Oda. And by the way, usually what happens to a president, Bill Clinton got down to 40 percent. And what did he leave office? 60 percent approval. And Obama got down to 40 percent. And what did he leave office at? 59 percent approval. And you know why? Because the more you didn't see Bill Clinton, the more you liked it. And in 1998, he just let Al Gore and George W. Bush call each other names. And he set out and balanced the budget. And in 2018, somebody said to, I, to Barack, 2000, excuse me for 15 and 16. They said to Barack Obama, hey, boss, people like the idea and the abstract of you being the first black president and you being charismatic and casual. They like that. But in the concrete, the more they don't see you or hear you, the better they like you because you're obnoxious and you're basically a racialist. So here's what we're going to do. You're going to let Hillary and Trump get in the gutter and call each other names and you're going to go golf and smile. And that's what he did. And he left with 59 percent approval. And Trump knows that. Trump knows if he loses the house in the Senate. His legislation is dead. But, and he will be impeached. But he can executive order. They'll overturn it if they take the White House. Of course, he won't be as good as legislation. But he'll get stuff done. And foreign policy won't make any difference at all because they're not going to get 60 votes to cut off anything or a veto-proof Congress. It's not going to happen. So he, but the point I'm making is that everybody thought he didn't care because of what it just looked like. He does care. He really does care because he likes these people on his side. And he doesn't want to see his friends in the Senate in the house and their constituency lose power. So he's out there trying to drum up the mega base. That's it. Period. Whereas the left says, full stop. That usually means when the left says, full stop, it's not full stop. In fact, since you said that, I have a Kara Swisher who has come out to state. And this is just a small bit of a bigger issue. But she says, Democrats will come after Elon after they take the house. And I was wondering because they say all sorts of things that they're going to do in terms of law fairs if they take the house. And I was wondering, what are we supposed to think about this? They're always, always threatening these democratic socialists, Islamists and American, and they are threatening all sorts of law fair against corporations, against youth, against, we've seen it all. When they say voter interference, as Adam Schiff just said, they mean that they're interfering with elections, like the Dan Sullivan-Caper. When they say law fair, law fair, law fair, they mean we went after Trump 91 times with phony indictments. You can go look at all those indictments of Trump and then ask yourself, did or did not James Comey leak classified information to the New York Times? He said he did, only he called it confidential. He recorded it on his own FBI tablet. Then he used the third party to hide his tracks. Did he or did he not under 245 occasions to the Health Oversight Committee say, I can't remember, I don't know, they're not even inditing him for that. And in the case, in the case of others, like Ilyan Omar, did she or did she not marry her brother? That's incest. It's against the law and it's immigration fraud. Yes, or no. Was she or was she not 18 when she claimed she was 17? Clear cut case. That's immigration fraud. Did her father or dear father not mislead immigration authorities to suggest that he was a refugee and what she called, quote unquote, educator? Or was he a fact that Colonel and the genocidal army of Syed Berry, his boss that killed over 200,000 people and had we known that would have never been led in the country? Those are facts. It's not law fair. You're just saying law fair was not pursuing those facts under Biden or Obama. So it's projection. Whenever they accuse some conservative, it's just because they do that and they know it so well. Yes, but they are steaming out the ears and screaming off their lips about these things in a way we don't see that among Republicans. They don't have any confidence. They look at the midterms and they say, let's go down the list. We like open borders. We like 10,000 people coming in illegally without an audit. We like pass amnesties. We like people stealing $950 and calling it not stealing at all. We like the transgendered and we agenda and we like males and female sports and we like trans shows and military bases. And we like DEI and set a meritocracy and we want to shut down fossil fuels, new fracking. I'm quoting Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. No, no more fracking, no custone pipeline. And then when they say to themselves, and nobody wants that, nobody wants what we have to sell because they're too stupid and they don't appreciate our genius and what we know is good for these idiots. That's how they look. So they say, what do we do? How do we save the idiots from themselves? They don't know the advantages of the Green New Deal, the Paris Climate Accord, an open border. All these beautiful fresh faces we're getting in and these great meritocratic future brain surgeons that are coming across the border, the 500,000 criminals and everything. So what do they do? Number one, they lie about what they are. So L. Syed has just got a cowboy hat and he's a good old boy who goes to Michigan football games, not this radical Islamist. Telleriko, he's got a cowboy hat too and he's driving his ram to a manufacturing plant, good old boy in Texas. He loves fracking. He loves, he's eating drippy, juicy meat. He is. He hates vegans now. And he thinks God, he doesn't say God anymore. He's like, God, I love God. He's not an iron burner. He's like, God, he's a male. That's what he is. This is so phony and anybody falls for that deserves it. And so they [BLANK_AUDIO] of deny who they are and when they have insurance. So then they think, "That's not enough." So let's rig the polls. Let's make it look like this, going to be a left-wing landside and build up momentum and get money and get media. And then right before the election we'll say we're reputations so we can do it next time by saying, "Very close." It was unexpectedly there was a surge of the red wave. The blue wave didn't happen because there was a sudden surge of enthusiasm, just like in Israel. And they do that and they do that. And then they say, "It's not fair. It was voter fraud. We've got a fraud deal on this put up in jail." So that's what they do. That's simple as that. They don't have an agenda that people want. Contrary to human nature, socialism, communism. It is. Well, they do have something people want. They want to give out all. They'd say they're going to give free health care. They're going to give free salaries. They're going to give free benefits. They're going to get. And that's a constituency they have. It's a constituency but it's not an ideological supporter. So if you get the biggest welfare queen in the world, and you take her here right now and I say to her, "You're not going to get any money next year, period." And you say, "Do you like the idea that a person who announces that they're poor and they're not really audited anymore by the government?" And they say their child is dyslexic when he's not. And all of this stuff, and they get $678,000 in government, large S. And somebody who's a middle-class person is paying almost half their salary. They'll say, "No, I don't support that." They'll say, "Yes, if it comes to me." But the point is that they know that's wrong, that's what Obama called them. I don't know, I just want to spread the wealth, to spread the wealth a little bit. At some point, I think everybody knows that you made enough money. You don't need any more money. You didn't build that. That guy started it all. All those things, I just said, are quoting him verbatim in a socialist agenda. He was a socialist, racialist, and his legacy is apparent in this democratic party. That's why he's out right now campaigning. It really is. They are. I didn't know which pundit was, but they were talking about taking over Elon's Starlink and that was. That was Robert. What was Limbaugh used to get on him? Robert Reich. He'd say with a German accent, Robert Reich was secretary of labor or commerce. I can't remember. I think labor. He was a socialist, and he's now an aging socialist. He came out and said he wants to confiscate Starlink and SpaceX. Robert, can I ask you a question? What was the status of our government run NASA? If it was so good, why were astronauts already to die in stranded in space until the person that you want to nationalize had a private rocket and a private company and he rescued them? Who put up more satellites by June, 2026 than all the satellites that had ever been launched in the world and the world forever? Who was it, A. NASA? B. George Soros or C. Elon Musk? More than all the satellites that have ever been launched. Ten times more this year than the next competitor. It dwarfs the Saturn rocket, it of NASA. It dwarfs the Russian rocket. It dwarfs the EU rocket. It dwarfs the Chinese rocket. And you want to nationalize that and run it like the DMV or the post office. Are you crazy? You know what Elon does? So he has Tesla. It's not the biggest selling car, but it's the largest market capitalization of any of the auto, 1.5 trillion dollars. For years we were told we got to break in. Once American motors dropped out, it tried to. You can't beat the century-old big three, Chrysler, GM Ford. This guy comes along. He not only breaks the monopoly of the top three, he does it with an electric vehicle and he has 1.4 trillion dollars of market capitalization and that's the beginning. And then he says, NASA is losing us a space race. The Chinese or even the Russians are beating us. I'm going to create a space company and I'm going to use reusable rockets and I'm going to change the cost to launch a satellite from about 10 million to about 150 or 200,000 by putting up whole ton of them up at once. And then I'm going to save even more money by grabbing the rocket as it falls back and recycling it and using it again. And that is worth about 40 or 50 billion dollars. And then he said, that's not enough. This Twitter, everybody uses Twitter half a, half a billion people and it's all left-wing and it's censorship and nobody can say anything and they get an interfere with election. I'm going to buy it for 40 billion dollars and I'm going to make it a wide open free arena. You can say whatever you want. 600, 600 million users, X. And then he's not done. And then he says, there's no way and then I'm going to put brain chips in people's brains and maybe for the first time people who are paralyzed and blind can see and walk. That's happening. Then he says, kind of bored. What if I made a gigantic bore machine that could bore very quickly and dispose of the dirt, everything at once? And he's creating a whole underground, labyrinth in Las Vegas. And I think Nashville's next. So my point is he's got six of these companies and they say he just, each day goes to one. And he says, tell me what the problem is. And all these brilliant engineers say, we can't do this. And he helps solve the problem. So what I'm getting at is he is the Wright brothers, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison combined. But he's also a William Newtson, Henry Kaiser and Henry Ford entrepreneur combined. And he is the greatest entrepreneur, discover mechanical computer genius we've ever seen. And we'll never see anybody like him again. And he created about five sins. That's why they hated him. Did you know that before I went back and looked? I'm glad you brought this up because I'm writing an article about it. Before 2022, they loved him. They loved him in 2022. After he saw Biden's border, he said, I'm not going to vote for Democrats anymore. And all of a sudden people would you see my mental park in Palo Alto and their Tesla first came out, they would drive it like this. Hey, everybody, hi, I'm green. Hey, Tesla, you see it? I'm green. And I go to Stanford or somebody would come up to me, Hey, Victor, I got a Tesla. Yes, I did. They were very expensive. They were the thing. And now I just talked to one of my close friends. I really like him. He said, are you going to get another Tesla? No, my wife won't let me buy one. And he's a great guy. Believe me, I really admire him. So what I'm getting at is now they hate him. So there were 90 attacks on Tesla dealerships and carlots. And I think there were 60 Tesla drivers. We know or run off the road and attacked. So they hate his guts now because and he flipped. And then in 2024, you could argue that two people won Donald Trump that election, Charlie Kirk for getting the young people out in the swing states. And Elon Musk for scientifically just the way Peter Till had done it in 2016, targeting the swing states. And he won every one of them. And a lot of that was due to Elon Musk. So that was a reason to hate him. The other reason is he has no filters whatsoever. He says whatever he pleases, he puts, he puts photographs or videos of France burning. He said, we better be careful. This is your future. And they go live it. So you combine everything. The left hates success, wealth, confidence, genius. He's not an equality of results. And they despise him, they're envious, they hate him. He really does. - I'm sure he has. - And they loved him as long as he gave money. And the same thing is true. See when he did that, people forget another very important thing about our culture. He said to Silicon Valley, "I'm leaving." And you guys used to hate Peter Till and people like him. They were mavericks, but they were right. These people want to take over your company. They want to tax your, not your property alone, not your income alone. They want to tax your net worth, even though you'll haven't, you have unrealized stock assets. They want to nationalize your company. They want to tell you who's a winner and loser. And people didn't believe him. And then he persuaded people in suddenly in 2024, Ben Horowitz and Mark and Grieson, these big entrepreneurs and they flipped. You had Mark Zuckerberg saying that was righteous about Trump. I mean, how courageous after he said fight fight. And then you had Jeff Bezos who said, "I think Trump's right about deregulation." And then you had Mark Zuckerberg also saying, "I think I'm a leap California." So that's why they hate him. They said, "We love billionaires." As long as they're Tom Steyer and Sam Bigman-Free, the convict and George Sorrows, but now we don't have them all. They all are apostates so we hate them. At least most of them. That's why they hate you, Lon. - Yeah. All right, Victor, we have a sponsor for this Friday. If you want to drop extra pounds, boost energy levels, or reduce swelling in your legs and feet, this message is for you. Peer 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 fat-deep deposits. 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So Victor, yes, so the left few mean about things. I just, I find that they're for, I don't see the Republicans doing that. I mean, the Republicans can be upset about, you know, something that the Democrats have won or the fact that they do have a constituency of people who just want handouts. And they have a youth constituency too. And then you'll see them. They're kind of ironic on their on podcasts or on interviews. But the left, you often see these people that it's just flames coming out of their ear. They're spewing invective and personality disorder. I think it might be the right person that you're talking about. He's thinking about this. I got to write that report at work tomorrow. How can I get a promotion? Well, how's my company doing? I got to go kick coach Little League. Got to make sure we get the best Little League team there are. My first cousin called, he's coming to town. He's flat broke. I want to help him out. My church needs new pews. I've got to raise money for it. I got to go to Lions, Elks and Rotary Club this week. So it's his community, his family, his church. He doesn't have time for all that, his job. But if you're just sitting there in your basement, or you're part of the 38% or not working, or you're on the dole, then you think politics non-stop. Yeah. It's obsessive-compulsive. Yeah. They're like soar on's eye. It never, it never closes. Yeah. Or you're like ill on Omar or Talibe or. You mentioned her the other day. I saw her with an interview with Hassan Piker. Yes. It was really, you remember that picture? I know our readers are going to immediately go, "Yes, I do, Victor." It was the Biden's went to go see the Carter's and the Carter's had shrunk into little hobbits. You remember that? Was that a Photoshop to make Biden look bigger? But it was a distance perspective and they were about four feet tall. Yeah. Well, it came to mind when Hassan Piker, who's big, he was sitting on a couch. And usually, Illian Omar is standing upright and snarly. She was like this. Are you trying to suggest they really are taking her down? I don't know. She seemed traumatized. He said, "How are you?" "Okay. Hold up. I can beat the racist, don't worry." But she was, she looked like she was broken. And the only thing I could think of is she's to fire. But she knows she's guilty. She knows what she did and there's no way out. And if that's true, and I think it is, that she lied about her age on a fetal affidavit. And she lied about marrying her brother, which is against the law and immigration. And she lied, her and her father did, to get them all over here. That he was a genocidal, kernel butcher for, could be at least for Syed Berry. Then it's an open and shut case. And if it's an open and shut case and she committed fraud, then she'll be deported. But if she's deported, she's going to go to Somalia land. Excuse me, Somalia. And it's a wide open failed state. And there, it's on the border of revolutionary breakaway Somalia land of whom 200,000 people were butchered by the government that her family worked for. And she's a high profile person. So getting back into that place, there's going to be thousands of people who were detested her. So I'm not even sure it's wise to put her back there. You know what I mean? I think she'll probably be one of the most hated people in that whole area. Unless her crony family tribal networks that ripped off Minnesota will protect her in an enclave. Maybe there's a special little, I don't know, 100 acres for former deported billionaire Somalis that ripped off the federal government and says, rip off neighborhood with a gated community. Yeah. But other than that, I can see why she's shrunken. I think she'll end up going to a state that gives her asylum somewhere in Europe, no doubt. Maybe her husband, the Somalia. She doesn't look too happy. No, he doesn't, that's for sure. All right, Victor, so let's turn to the 60 minutes once again, has been caught cutting out parts of an interview. And this time it was on illegal immigration. And the interview was the head of the Department of Homeland Security, James Percival. And they cut out parts. They wanted it to make it look like they were persecuting poor guy from Mali who was going to be sent back. Yeah, I saw that. And he had a criminal record, of course. But he made claims that he had converted to Christianity and Mali was like 98% Muslim or something to that effect. And then when that didn't work, he said that he was gay, even though he had a wife and two kids, and that they didn't accept gay people very readily in Mali. It's a-- It's just-- I can't explain it. It's like the left is trying to be so clever, but they always just expose themselves. It's weird. You think if it's 60 minutes and you're these marquee reporters and your purpose is to get a deported person of color on camera to show how cool he was treated by the ice monsters and their demonic boss, Donald Trump, who is a xenophobe and a racist and a nativist, all you would do is check his background. But they didn't. The other thing is, now that the Ellison's own CBS, and now that Barry Weiss is running it, you can see what their strategy is. These people are all ossified. They're all 70s, because they're all egomaniacs. They never stepped down when their 5th Dan rather was still out there when he was in his 80s. Lesley's stall is 84. Anderson Cooper's what, 60 something. So whether than fire them and get everybody angry. They're just going to let them die on the vine and get new people to come in and they won't be the same people So I think they realize that I'm We're aging and we're on the way out. So we're gonna be as partisan and bias as we can you think that Barry wise Let that or didn't know what they were doing when they cut the parts out to I think they told her She tells people that our producers at CBS have autonomy and then they use that against her and say Ah, we have autonomy will show her We'll get away with another left wing lie and then she gets angry and then Ellison gets angry. Yeah at some point They'll all have a tougher moment. I would just want to do one more thing in the in the cut that they cut out They wanted to say that only 14% of detainees by ice are actually violent criminals And they cut out that Percival said that that's because they've reclassified things out of violent criminal acts like the trafficking of children and heroin and so the other thing is No corporation is biased entirely On ideological grounds without a financial backstop So when the Wall Street Journal prints left-wing stories They are saying in a back room The Murdoch The liberal elements of the Murdoch family Have obviously picked their people here and there's some hold out Columnus they're really good conservative, but the news division as I've said is left-wing Some of the columnist are left-wing the headlines are left-wing the comments are all almost 70% left-wing And they have made a decision that whatever mega people they will lose They will gain and and take away from political Atlantic, but especially the Washington Post and the New York Times That's behind it. So there must be an audience here and same thing. I'm getting out of CBS. They must think They have lost all the conservative all the independent all the apolitical people they're gone That well I haven't watched that in 20 years. I used to watch it every every Sunday night when I was growing up We would say We want to watch the smothers brothers comedy our mom. No, I want to watch 60 minutes. No, come on We love the smothers brothers. No, no, no, and then it was Rod Serling something night something we wanted to see No, no, no, I think even bananza at one time was at the same time so Now it has a very smaller audience, but it's a left-wing audience So the nobody's objecting except people haven't seen it and hear about it so Barry Weiss apparently knows that she's gonna let these people age out gracefully and they'll keep somewhat of an audience and then she'll try to rebuild it as centrist Well, good luck to her. I'm not sure about that Many Americans gonna have a big wake up. 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We're nation of emigrants The immigration crisis watch now on the Heritage Foundations YouTube channel, but okay, so let's move on to Governor Newsom who's recent Weird thing that he had to say was that the future is Socialists and he made that that statement of the Democratic Party and he said it'll be a better version than the Democratic Socialists of America Or it will be a better version of the Democratic Socialists of America. So Newsom's throwing it all in with the Democratic Socialists of America He says they have the energy and the desire and demand for bold change Not incremental change and it's very much going to be dominant in the future and mainstream Democratic Party. There's that's word for word. I must confess. I can see why he said it and I can see also why he's a hypocrite He said it because he's a socialist Has he ever made a dime other than his state salary for 35 years on his own? He has plump jacket. Do they ever make that much money and if they do did he make it? No his He just bought a nine million dollar home Nine million can you imagine what the property taxes and insurance are per year? I can guarantee you they're more than his salary His wife's family is very wealthy Gordon Getty made him so he believes that if you have wealthy people like his in-laws And you have a heir to the Getty oil fund That they have a perfect right to have that money and you don't tax them into oblivion But you take money from them because they need to share it with you So he goes to Gordon Getty and he says Gordon my family and your family have been a lot I need money to start pump Jack. I need all this and I will give you political favors because I'm going to be a Supervisor I'm going to be a mayor lieutenant governor and governor and he said okay Then he goes to his wife and says can you get your old man? I want to my nine million dollar home. That's socialism on the other hand it's hypocrisy because If he had his way, there would be no father-in-law. There would be no Gordon Getty He wouldn't have anybody he could welch off of The thing that Amazes me about him is he is so shameless that He puts Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his new podcast. He's Drifting to the center and Then he finds out he puts his finger in the air and he says that's unpeaker El Sayyid Mondami better switch get rid of that now I'm a socialist and he's been given one great gift in the world He is probably the worst governor in the history of California no doubt about it But he's got Kamala Harris every time she speaks she goes on that stage and she says Everybody in the United States is waiting to see if I'm going to say something like I'm interested in becoming Or I'm interested in coconut trees or I'm interested in What can be could be it should be and I'm blah blah and then she goes out and says it and then when she realized she says to you look at her Eyes they spend like a cartoon character and she's thinking oh my god. I'm doing it again. I can't help it What is the escape route? It's Did you fall out of a cook in the tree and that's what she does and you feel and she you can see it's alcohol Induced she really does she looks like she's intoxicated. So my point is that that's who he's running against and she was When she kept she's like Obama the more you don't see her and the more you don't hear her you think She's half black She covers both bases She is at home with a white community, but she goes and says you all and changes her accent with the black community She's half Indian to what she's half East Indian. Yeah, she's had that's another plus and she's young looking and she Stensively could be charismatic like Obama But there's no there there like Obama. There's no there there Do you see him the other day on the stump when he started? He always does that he starts waving his arms He took his coat off and he's in his shorts. Lee and he starts just Go everywhere go everywhere. It's like a you go to the cheesecake factory and it's grifter, you know, he just starts screaming and he just doesn't make it and he's 10 times more depth than she is so that makes Newsom look good and who else is there? There's the old Kami. He's 86 years old Bernie and there's Pocahontas who's I don't know what she is. She's not gonna make it and then there's Pete sanctimonious but a jig There's Spartacus who's a joke and then there's Josh Shapiro and they will House on Pikers that they'll never be a Jew nominating the Democrat. He's right They're all anti-Semitic. They're not gonna let him run And so there's Newsom and he looks and he's gonna be just like the 2024 News He has destroyed the state of California. He really has When I drive But it's just construction and on a look at the construction workers and the people planning the construction projects, a two year old could do better. And then when I, you know, the state will contact you and say, you owe $500 and then you call them up on the state franchise and then while you're thinking, I know I paid that, then they'll send you a check for $500 and then they'll say, you owe me another 500. They're just incompetence and when you look at the 13.3 tax rate and you look at the 18,000 truck drivers who can't read English with 80,000 pounds on the roads swiveling like a snake. It's just a dystopian state and he did that. Nobody is more responsible. He had 30 plus years in government, Bay Area government. And how can you run on that record? I'm going to do the United States what I did for California. I can wreck this country just as much as I wreck California. I think he thinks he has, if he says this, the future is socialist and he thinks that I've got enough of a constituency that wants to get payments out from the state. And enough of a young constituency that has no idea what they mean when they say socialist he has a point, there's a lot of Silicon Valley people who, when they get a billion dollars, they think I am immune from socialism unless they confiscate my money, which they probably will try to do like Robert Reich said, but there's still left wing. And there's a lot of anti-Semites out there who are left wing and there's a lot of D.I. people and he thinks he's got a constituency. But I don't think any of these people in the tech thing are going to trust him. He says he's a socialist and no independent country. I haven't met, I can say this, I have never met in the last 10 years and I've had buffers, insulation and stock, because when I remodel, restored this old house, I had electricians, I had welders, I had sanitary sewage, beachline people, I had roofers, I had insulation installers, I had painters, I had cemental layers, I can, and I talk to all of them, I can honestly 110% say that not one of them liked Gavin Newsom. And I would say in 75% of the cases they brought out California, not me. So anybody who works as an entrepreneur middle class hates him for what he did to the state. And so I'm back to my original topic here and I was wondering what races are you then going to be looking at this Tuesday when the elections take place? Well, there's two that I'm looking at. One is LCE versus microaggers for the Senate Bill in Michigan and then Jackson versus Collins and Maine. If Susan Collins wins and microaggers wins, or if they're almost deadlocked, the Republicans are going to have minimal losses, they probably will lose one or two Senate seats and they'll probably lose 10 House seats maybe at most, but they might, they're going to do okay. Then I'm going to look at this Dozele versus Kotech in Oregon governor race in a blue state again. These are blue or purple states I'm talking about. And Michelle Tafoya versus I always said she's more Native American than Elizabeth Warren was. She looks suspiciously Irish. Well, she could be 0.02 percent on like 0.01 percent, but today's poll, this is what I'm talking about the polls, a week ago, the story was that Tafoya in three polls was within two points. Now another poll says she's got panic says she's 14 down. Think of that. She didn't lose 11 points, but if Michelle Tafoya were to beat Flanagan and Kotech is a governor and incumbent governor loses, then the Republicans are going to hold on the House and it's because that tells me the mood of the country has been undetected completely by the poll. And I don't know about telarico, I have these disturbing conversations with people who write me emails and I've met Texans who are not voting for Paxton, but I don't know if that I don't know the mindset of the Hispanic voter that everybody says is going to turn on Trump because they got new somebody got deported when they voted for Trump to deport people. But are they really going to vote for somebody who says God is non-binary and men should compete in women's sports and you shouldn't eat meat and you shouldn't oil. It's become very evident that the people being deported are serious criminals of the worst time. Many of them are. That's why the crime rate. There's only one reason the crime rate is lowest in 90 years. That you deported 250,000 criminals and if you deport all 500 of them, it'll be zero almost. Is there anything to pay attention to in Florida or is that just Angie Nixon's a joke? She's not going to win. Yeah. Bywin Donaldson, I think it's going to win. Donaldson. I don't think that's a swing state anymore. Yeah. No. There's some races in Ohio and Kansas and South Carolina, Lindsey Graham sister, stuff like that that are close but they're always saying they're going to what the left loves to do. It's kind of like what's the matter with Kansas type thinking that they understand the working man. It's like, it works like this. Joe leftist gets his BA from Williams and he's an intern for Elizabeth Warren and then he gets his masters in public policy from NYU or something. Then he goes into politics and he wears a t-shirt and jeans and he goes to Fernbars in Washington and he thinks he knows the middle class. He's always acting like he's the middle working class. Then he always writes stuff about the secret story of the middle class that they're all really going to go back and vote for Tim Walts because he's a hunter and he pumps his own gas and it changes his own oil and then you see Tim Walts is like this elite buffoon. They don't know anything about the middle class and they keep saying that there's this big middle class revolt against, you know, I know a lot of farmers. Are they happy about Californians eight bucks for diesel? No. Are they angry at Trump? Yes. Are they going to vote against Republicans? No. No. No. I saw something on Kansas and they were talking to a farmer in Kansas and he said, I know all the farmers. I know we're all voting Trump. So. And we have a, I'm in a district right now, this is plus 13 Democrat. It's been red. It's been Gavin Newsom and the redrawing the lines. And we have Villagas, he is a kind of a upscale, Hispanic. He was on a school board. I don't know what he does for a living. I don't know what he does, but he's got some government job and he's running a really nasty campaign. And then you have David, you know, David, David Valadeo, David Valadeo whom I know personally I like and he's, and he's the incumbent. He lost once and got back his seat and he's dealing with suspicious voting laws and he's dealing with ballot harvesting and he's dealing with ballot curing and he's going to be probably outspent because they've targeted him the DNC and if he's close and can hold on to that seat then there is no blue wave, there is not as this is a tell tale district here because it's got a huge minority voting block. All right, Victor, we are at the end. We have some more. So come join us on the Saturday show. We're going to be talking elections in Israel and Brazil. So please join us for further topics. But at the end of the show, we'd like to read some comments. So I have one from Mike Fauss, Dr. Hansen, I just viewed the Pierce Morgan episode featured featuring you and Richard Wolf. I've admired both of you for a long time. I would describe myself as a. My roots are in the labor union wing of the Democratic Party, but I have done my best to give an honest listen to conservative commentators. I was appalled by Professor Wolf's conduct. His interruptions and disrespect were unacceptable. You are a great man. Thank you for your effort. Yeah, that was a weird one where he went on a long, socialist, Swedella, Dost Kapital, and I kept thinking, "This guy really is a communist, isn't he?" And then I started to be moderate, and he said, "You have your head of Trump's blank." I thought he was so vulgar, and I said to Pierce Morgan, "Are you going to let him do this?" And he interrupted me. I couldn't even finish a sentence, and he just was all at home, and he had no argument. And then he didn't give any data, and he was an economist. So I said, "We have the lowest poverty rate we've ever had, and we have the highest family income we've ever had." And the Atlanta Fed will reserve things we may grow at 5%, Phil Delphier, maybe three. Oh, you just made up that data. That's not right. I said, "Well, would you look it up after your line?" And Pierce, that's why I'm not going to go on that show anymore. I've done that now with a Chinese communist. I didn't know what was going to be on. I didn't know I was going to debate a socialist communist. I didn't know I was going to basically debate an American Islamist teaching in an Arab country trying to tell me it's more liberal and open-minded than Israel. So it's just they get people doops like me to go on and be polite and try to follow the rules of politeness. And then they get these firebrands, a scream and yell, and call you names. And then Pierce looks who's seen who is winning the argument. And he kind of jumps on the other side to pump him up a little bit. So in all these cases, he was more or less on the other side. So why do that when the producer asks you again and again to come on, they don't tell you what you're going to be doing. And they're ambushing you every time. So I'm done with it. No loss. I'm sure he's glad to get me off. I'm sure he's not. But this is from YouTube viewers. And this one says this is from there's a Krogan six, I think. I hope I got that right. And best voice out there. No one can hold a candle to be VDH and William F point five to five says Victor your observations are not noteworthy yet scary. And Hunter of the truth for nine eight six, I personally would much rather have a data center as a neighbor than most Democrats. It's a good line. I remember that one. Yeah, data center. I don't know. All they have to do with data centers and say, well, we'll have no right. There won't be any raise and utility rates. And we won't take any more water than any other square footage. And they'd be fine. Yeah. But we'll see. Dan Wesson 2485 says, wow, powerful stuff right here. An entire book could be published on his statements in this segment. And probably should. So thank you, Dan. I know what's I must say I got three letters. And they were on pronunciation. Once had you say you were confusing succession with succession, like the successionist in a civil war with people who succeed. But for me to do that. And I'm not playing the victim. I have to kind of take both of my lips above my teeth and say sick because I can't feel anything the size of my thumb in the middle of both lips. When I start to talk, they start to hit my teeth. And that's because I had it. They were completely severed. And when I woke up after that concussion that traumatic bike accident where I went over the hand up the front tire collapsed. There was a carbon bike and it broke without warning. And I went over and hit my face splattered, got a concussion knocked out my four lower teeth. These are all implants. And what saved my life was that my nose and lips absorbed the hit. So I broke my nose. I had to get a science operation to now. And my lips were completely severed. So I had four lips, two on each side and two on the other side. And you could have put your finger in the between them. And when they sold them up, they was in the emergency room. The doctor was talking on the phone to her mother why she was sowing it up on speaker. And I had to go to Europe. I had 150 people that had signed up. And I had borrowed the money with my fellow partner. So if I did not go. So I never went back and had a restitch or anything. By the time I got back, they were closed. But I can't feel anything. So it's very, I have a list now. And it's very hard for me to hug or my lips or do anything and and pronounce things. And so I appreciate the advice. I just wish I could take your advice. I had three. One person said, "Persher lips when you say are." Another person says, "You're not, you're not." Remember we had the latisha, latita, latisha, Jane. I get all these things about pronunciation. But I keep writing, but I'm telling you I'm doing my best. It's not going to work completely. Because I have a terrible ability. I mean, I have lost some ability to form words. Yes, because you don't have the proper nerve connection. Well, it's even worse than that. It tingles. It tingles. I don't know how it's blended. It just starts tingling all over my lip. Yeah. Well, Victor, we are at the end of the hour and hour and almost a half. So thanks to the audience for joining us on Friday. Come join us on Saturday as well. And thank you, Victor, for your wisdom. Thank you for listening and watching everybody. 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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