From Courtroom Protests to Belfast Riots: VDH on Race Politics, Immigration, and California’s Mail-In Machine

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Victor is the Martin and Nellie Anderson senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website, victorhansen.com. The name of the website is the blade of Perseus. So please come join us there. We are getting a makeover and the company doing it, Dreamco Designs, it has said that they're going to roll it out on July 4th. So our new website will be coming out on July 4th. So Victor Carmelo Anthony, I think he rightly got a murder conviction. I personally don't think he got enough years, but he got 19 years for murdering Metcalf. Yeah, sorry, he got 35 years and we figure he'll serve 19 years out of that. There's that. And then also the protests on behalf of Anthony out there. And I want to read you something. There was an interesting article in Pajamas Media and he was talking about the black intellectuals that defended the verdict this time around different from when we saw the OJ trial. And he said he has one example of a lawyer, I mean he had many examples, but one lawyer said Sheldon Daniels wrote on his media, his social media he wrote, I practice law in Collin County, Texas. Carmelo Anthony will be convicted and sentenced to life in prison as he should be. He murdered that boy because he was raised to hate white people and to view himself as a victim in every situation. It's a cultural thing. And I thought that was an interesting quote from a black intellectual, but the whole article was about the damning of these black intellectuals that are in agreement with the verdict. Well, there was a very, I mean there was a protest, there was a very small contingent. Everybody, the subtext of this trial was that they had the confrontation and had young Metcalfe had a knife like a Swiss army knife and plunged it into Carmelo. Then you know what would have happened. There would have been a George Floyd-like incident even though Metcalfe was not an official. What I'm getting at is the protest was very small outside the courtroom. There was no rioting on the fact of the sentencing because he killed a white person in an America, whether you're on the subway and you're a Ukrainian refugee or you're a young kid that, I mean the facts of the case were so clear. Everybody knows that track meets and athletic events sometimes that people have tense, themed tense of their friends and he came deliberately over from the other side and tried to poach into that. And then he just stood there daring people to, and many people said leave and he wouldn't. So I think they turned to Metcalfe as being six feet tall. He was about the same height as Carmelo and he said get out and he shoved him. And then he stuck a knife in his heart. Had that Rolls-Vin reverse, the whole black community would be up in arms. They would say it was murder. But what I'm getting at is we're so over that now after the Michael Brown case where, remember hands up don't shoot, that was a complete lie. The Jesse Small case about Mago people, that was a complete lie. The Duke LaCrosse psychodrama, that was a complete lie. The Tawana Brawley, that was a complete lie. And then this is juxtaposed on what we're seeing at the same time with the antithesis to the George Floyd, as we talked about with Henry Nowak, a white guy walking, mining his own business when a quote unquote personal of color, in this case a Sikh immigrant, killed him, murdered him. And it was also a knife. And it was a ceremonial supposedly. And I don't know why he gets an exemption from a carrying a knife and a Scottish Highlander says, well, my ancestors had them in and they're killed. But again, it's the DEI thing. But people, and then we had the Belfast incident where a Sudanese immigrant who came maybe quasi legally, but was bragging that he was going to behead somebody on the streets of Belfast and he put his eye out. And so the point I'm making is people have had it now with all of this. And they just want to have people treated as people. And the whole critical legal theory industry is collapsed. Remember what critical legal theory was. It said that the laws are not based on morality or virtue or logic. They're just based on wealthy white people constructing a legal system that favors them. And as I said before, according to critical legal theory, you don't black people are prosecuted, but they're not really when they swarm a sneaker store because white wealthy people don't have sneaker, don't buy sneakers. So, and then critical legal theory that the whole system is built on racism and therefore the laws are malleable and fluid and you have to calculate our factor in the race of the victim and the victimizer. There were a lot of reports that on certain crimes black on white, which only are about seven or 8% of violent crime, it was 6-1 on I think on murder, but some of the crimes on assault are 100 to 1 depending on the locale. So everybody knows that and everybody knows you can't talk about it and everybody knows that black teenagers between the ages of 14, teenagers starting at 14, maybe up to 40 or vastly over representative in the demographic in violent crime and murder, everybody knows that and everybody knows that officials and entertainers will contextualize that and they won't talk about it. So here we have Cardi B who is now bleeding support because she spoke, well she's bleeding support because she did the mistake and she went into the political arena and she got a furious backlash and she said basically that Metcalfe deserved what he got and it was self-defense and then you had Jasmine Crockett who she's on bounds, she's lost her senate race, she has no political career lately, she was redistricted out of her congressional district, she wasn't going to run. She says basically that if she had been in his place, she would have stabbed him too and then she's talked about white people, white people, white people, white people, white people, white people. This is a upper middle class prep schooled prima d'honne who has never had anything but privilege and so what I'm getting at is the whole racial binary of people of color, victimized, non-people of color or white, doesn't work because it just ignores the actual circumstances of individual behavior but more importantly it has nothing to do with class and as you see as I've said again the Indian American community is the most affluent ethnic group, much more than white people and to have Mondami play victim and say he's going after white neighborhoods is ridiculous and people are sick of it and they're sick of it in Europe and so they're sick of the subway murder, they're sick of the Chicago's, let lying a person on fire, they feel and they're rightly to do that that they're targeted so when DeCardos Brown went into that subway there were five black people surrounding her, he didn't attack any of them, he didn't attack any of them, he picked out the Ukrainian blonde white girl Yerina, yes and he slit her throat and then it was reported you could hear it, I listened to the tape, he mentioned that he killed her, the bitch or whatever he said, excuse my language, white something and then there was this denial that he ever, but that was a racially motivated hate crime and what we saw in Britain was a racially motivated hate crime and Jesse Smallett was trying to create a hate crime against MAGA people and Michael Brown tried to kill a white cop and charged him, he wasn't shot in the back, that was all a complete lie so when you add these lie, and George Floyd was not as the murals have shown, it's tragic he died but he was a career felon and he was passing counterfeit currency when he was arrested and he resisted arrest and he was on a banned substance and so when I'm getting at all of these constructs that the race industry uses, they've all blown up and nobody believes them anymore and then when you have these swarms when teenagers take over intersections or teenagers swarm malls or teenagers drive cars into jewelry stores or they go in and cram into an apple store, not all but inordinately a community of black young people who represent about five, four or five percent of the demographic is vastly overrepresented and people know that and you can see it when you read any major site whether it's liberal or conservative, even New York Post, Fox News website, even conservative ones, they don't, when they mention these things they're careful not to identify the perpetrator but a study has shown that six times more likely they will if it's a white perpetrator so the point is then you read the comments and those are clickbait comments and they are racist, they're saying like why did we ever bring these people all that because they're frustrated because people don't tell the truth, all they have to do, I wrote an article that I got really a lot of hate mail with years ago when there was a number of black intellectuals, remember they had this term the talk, the talk and we all have to give people the talk and the talk and it was based on the idea that black men make up an inordinate amount of those who were arrested so young boys who are going to be men and are out in the street but what the talk lacked was statistics, truth, data that the Washington Post even admitted that of the 11 million or so interactions between police unarmed people who were shot were not disproportionately black males, if you look at the incidents of coming in contact not just the general population and that was because of the inordinate demographic of black males committing a crime but if you use that so and I in response I said well I had a talk too and I said that when my father once took my mother to a judicial hearing she was a judge in Oakland he was surrounded by four black males in the parking lot in Oakland and they said and he was with my mother, he was a big guy but there were four of them and he had to give each one $20 to be let to let go and he said I went to the wrong when I went to Berkeley to help an age friend of my parents when I was in college we had a blue pickup on the farm pickup and we were moving things and in those days a Chevy pickup it was a 1962 they're very easy to hot water you can almost do it with a knife in there and all of a sudden we looked out and two black males took off the pickup and they just took off and we found it we call the police and they found an abandoned in Richmond and it had alcohol, drugs, con everything trash it was filthy it was full of trash and it had a bad oil leak that's why they abandoned I guess they were going so fast it blew a gasket but my point is said then my dad gave me that talk he said look I'm in a lifelong Democrat your mother's life done with civil rights we took you to hear Martin Luther oh blah blah blah blah blah blah I try to hire as many qualified black people as I can he was an administrator at that time and he had a sizable black he had a program for people on public assistance people in prison that came into the state center junior college vocational school at Iran okay and what did he say he said just when you're in college and you're going to go to a concert if you think you're going to go to Oakland be very careful if you're going to Richmond be very careful if you're going to all right at the time I was living in East Palo Alto which was the highest murder rate in the United States and I had just said that somebody put his arm through the roommate and my Jeff Sellers he put his he forced the door open and reached through when we had a chain lock so we hit it with a baseball bat the next day I walked two days later I walked into what they called Whiskey Gulch it was the first place that was allowed to sell alcohol it used to be banned two mile limit for Stanford I think two or three miles and I saw a guy with a cast and he an African American guy and he threw a six pack of beer at my head and glass and I ducked and exploded and I was living I was telling my dad that I said well I live in East Palo Alto and then three months later I had I was with my dad and parent and they had a lottery once and we were walking down the street and for a road bike kind of a cheap one and he got a lottery ticket and he won it so he gave me this road bike so I was riding it to school to Sanford Classics down University Avenue and a car pulled up with three black males and they tried to take the bike from me but I was sort of like I'd been a wrestler in high school but I was just clinched it so hard and they were like throwing me around but I would I did not want I didn't have a bike I'd lost that and then police came by and of course didn't arrest them and my third one fourth one was we were in a walk my wife was working at the Palo Alto psych ward and she her job was to escort people on day trips that had psychological problems but at that time it was mostly Vietnam Vietnam veterans and she saw one person walking down the street and he had a speech impediment he kind of tipped his head like that kind of like rain man you know kind of like this and he came up and started talking to her and two African American people got right next to him and started I was in a store I came back out and they were mimicking you know what I mean the this disabled person and that and so one of them pushed me and I was with another guy and we it wasn't good so what my point is that if they think the police and nor do they harass black males it might be because black males and nor do they are in contact with the police in arrest situations but that talk didn't include that but they also didn't say that if so-called white Americans try to avoid certain places like East Palo Alto or Oakland it's because of empirical data that they are targeted more and it's dangerous and that's the whole answer to the whole question it's not about race it's not about anything it's about data and you can talk about the Sikh community that we did with Henry Norwalk or you can talk about the Asian community the poor white community you can do anything but no community has that level of violence among young males it's just a fact and so the people who make the necessary adjustments are Hispanics other blacks I mean Jesse Jackson famously said when he was walking down the street and he heard footsteps behind him in Chicago he was relieved when he turned around and the person was not African-American he said that so it's and when you hear a Jasmine Crockett who is a spoiled upper middle class pre-mendon adiva to spout this utterly racist stuff about and all if I was under a 400 pound man I would do he wasn't 400 pound he wasn't even a man he was a teenager and I might you know have to do resort to that what is the point of that it draws in the whole question is when you listen to Hank Johnson or you listen to any of these people in the black caucus and then you and we have these Jerry Jerry mannedered racial districts if you didn't Jerry manneder any district for any particular group just based on population and geography then you would probably have African-Americans like Tim Scott and a lot of them but the difference would be race would be an incidental to their political point of view they would be interested in water issues they would be interested in all these but not exclusively in the realm of race and then you would you would have the racial divisions they once you are elected by a majority black district then you are prone or in fact required to represent the chauvinist view of your constituents and that just leads to more and more extremism well Victor let's welcome back to our show our sponsor my patriot supply the bug out bag designed to for elite survivalist preparedness experts and field tested professionals is now available to the public that's right our friends at my patriot supply have just announced their fully stocked go bag with everything you need to escape a crisis and survive on your own including multiple 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is have you seen this it's called indigenous people and that's what British so-called whites say they are and they the native americans have coined the popular use of that but all you have to read is Caesar's Gaelic Wars and the first time that so-called Europeans or civilized Europeans come to the British Isles and they see people with red hair and white skin and they're shocked because they look so differently and those are indigenous people so when you have 15 16 percent or maybe the general population you're getting close and then you have cities with 30 40 percent from the Middle East for example or from the Caribbean then and they're violent in some cases they're targeting white people then you have this new word indigenous well we're indigenous we were the original inhabitants of this and it's a very funny thing because the left never thinks about that and the best the locus classicus was Mondami who's always lecturing about israel is in the wrong place that they're interlopers even though they have a tradition going back 35 to 4000 and his family and the indian community is a 19th century early 20th century exodus to go into an african country in the fashion that european colonials did and set up shops and businesses they did in south african they're very hardworking very capable and they control about 65 percent of the economic activity in Uganda and he grew up in privilege privilege and his parents were had means to be highly educated they came to the United States they tapped into the diversity whole thing and they're very successful but for him to talk about settlers and colonialists or the people talk about indigenous people doesn't mean anything anymore it's just a coded word for racism and he's a racist and so is cardi b and so are jasmine jasmine crocket and a lot of the members of the black caucus that are talking about it i mean they're racist they're talking about things that have nothing to do with actual details of the case two teenagers one teenager is not supposed to be in that place daring people to touch him or put will not leave when asked numerous times even black teenagers who were there said that he was the aggressor and then to resolve the dispute he pulls out a knife and plunges it into somebody's heart and then jasmine crocket gives a lecture and says it couldn't it was only this big it couldn't do anything it wasn't even a weapon how do you deal with a person when they have the autopsy they show that the that little weapon five or six inches went right through the rib cage into his heart and destroyed him in about a minute and a half and yet you know that that's like saying i was hit i was hit by a post in the vineyard guy had pulled up a post and he hit me i can't be uh he can't be prosecuted for murder because the post is a vineyard post it's it's i don't know how to say it it's just pathetic that some people make these arguments are so full of hatred yeah i think it is encouraging though that the article that i referred to in um pajama's media that was showing that all the black there are quite a few black intellectuals and just blacks that post on x that are coming out and say we agree this is a very different the left black those are mostly conservatives though i don't understand the whole fear because when you put blacks and you give them ensure a quality of opportunity then you get shelby steels and tom sol and very capable people there's no difference but when you fixate and you you just fixate like a talisman on blackness blackness blackness and you bring up things of 150 years ago and jim all that and then you lose all the whole point is to lose deterrence so that i can do anything and no one will dare say anything about it because they're scared of me calling a race even the word racist is so inflated the currency is worthless now it doesn't mean anything anymore to be called a racist it's it really doesn't it used to be and it's going to get worse it's going to get a lot worse because you talk to people and they are i don't mean just white people everybody is sick of it because the irony is the left opened the borders uh under john uh ted kennedy and 1965 and they basically destroyed the idea that europeans or anybody from the former british commonwealth could come to the united states and they got rid of the idea you wanted skilled upper class they wanted poor people from africa and asia and latin america okay mexico and once they did that they didn't quite realize that it was no longer a binary between white people and black people there were all these different ethnic and racial groups and so what's the point the point is once you start to be chauvinistic about your race then it's not white people that get upset about it or it's hispanics well how about us why and how about asian when you have all these multiple multiracial groups they brought in it it's kind of ironic because the left then tries to promote one particular race but every effort every effort of what they call intersectionality picking up from jesse jackson's rainbow coalition picking up from rock obama's diversity equity inclusion every effort that says asians hispanics indigenous blacks all are solid they all have any differences they have are minor compared to their hatred of white people it doesn't work it doesn't work i can tell you that as i grew up in a community uh that is now 90 percent uh mexican american or mexican national and i went to a school eric white school that was almost all mexican american and i can tell you that there were five or six black people in that school and we had a pretty tough principle from texas of all places and he made sure that no one uttered racial epithets against them but given the demography there was it was not the 10 or 12 farm kids that said anything it was the mexican american kids and mexican that were saying all sorts of words so i know them in spanish because i grew up with them but that's another thing that the the upper bicoastal white elite doesn't understand because he's not with the middle and lower classes he doesn't understand that they think that white they keep thinking that they can get through life apologizing for being white and then they will be accepted by all of these different pressure groups it's not going to happen but more importantly uh they're not the only perpetrators of racism is what i'm trying to get out well victor associated with that is the near beheading of a man by an illegal or he was legal but he was an immigrant um in northern ireland that has spawned riots and there was an excellent article in hot air by david strome and he brought out a few people that were saying this is going to lead to civil war one of which was elon musk but the other one and probably maybe a little more credible was a general in the or probably a retired general in the british army saying that these things are happening the noock case this new near beheading and it's going to live lead to civil war and it's not going to be a civil war like the united states had it's going to be a civil it's going to be protests out on the street the british people are going to get angry because the government has no answer to the illegal immigration the liberal the liberal party did the labor party did just what the democratic party did started with tony blair they opened up the borders because they wanted dependent constituencies on government programs from non-white areas and then they wanted to patronize them for votes and that's what they did what they didn't understand is when you create a dependency and you create you destroy deterrence you sent a message that you are now a select group that all you have to do is yell racism for more political reparations and concessions and then they never i don't think they understood that that would then escalate to hitting people attacking them and expecting not to be arrested because you were a victim and that the the reductio at absurdum that it got absurd when you get on the middle of the streets of belfast and you happen to be a black sudenese immigrant and you yell out that you're going to cut this man's head off and you brag about it as he was doing this and yelling you think you're going to get away with it and so that's that's what happened and tony blair started it and then even conservative people went along with it premiere they didn't stop it so then sternum gets all angry you know yeah he's condemning his anger what did he think was going to happen with this program and it's you know if if you just bring in millions of people from the most wretched places in the world as far as security and economic viability and many of the muslims an antithetical religion to christianity and you bring them in and you don't try to look at them as individuals but you identify them as collectives you're going to get chaos so victor what i wanted to do though is to look at the rest of the article with david strome and hot air because he does go on beyond just talking about how the riots were going to happen and it will be like a civil war to say that the the government is not answering the questions of having so many immigrants whether they're legal or ill illegal coming in and committing crimes and then the two-tier justice system where muslims are given lighter sentences for lack of another term than christian um britains are and so he says the government hasn't provided any sort of they're not what they're doing actually they have an answer they're suppressing anybody who notices these problems the whole immigrant race ethnic chauvinism is in a doom loop since 1970 we're getting close now to three generations of europeans and americans that did not grow up during institutionalized racism jim crow was over everything so there were the civil rights acts of 1964 and 65 and what followed was affirmative action what they did grow up with was affirmative action where if you were white and working class you lacked the connections of the elite bicoastal people who got their kids in places and hired and you were prejudicially discriminated against because you were white to accommodate minorities who were given special privileges either lower sat scores or grade point and admissions or hiring people fast tracking them for promotion and tenure or giving basically bulletproof deterrence from charges that they were incompetent because they were supposedly on the victimized side of the bomb okay so what you're seeing in ireland today are young people from 15 to 50 and they grew up as poor white working class and they were looked down on just as the deplorables and the irredeemables are here by the wealthy elite that had the education and globalized skills to make money in the new 21st century economy they were looked down upon and they were virtue signals so they said you people are racist and that exempts us from anybody calling us racist the same time they saw people coming into their country here and then europe and the uk that were very poor and they correctly formulated that the international left and the american left wanted to bring in people who fit the dei victimized category who were poor and would need massive massive subsidies to get parity and that would grow government increase taxes and create a loyal constituency so la under sam yordy an old conservative democrat basically was a 90 10 maybe 90 white 10 black and it was pretty conservative that's gone now it's gone most people have fled the place they've had probably two million illegal immigrants in la county it's run by dei and affirmative action and welfare and welfare fraud okay at the same time this was happening the idea i don't know if they thought it out but the left said we're going to shower you with free healthcare and free legal care and housing subsidies and educational subsidies and legal subsidies and this will be a bridge i think it was sandra day o'connell that said well affirmative action won't last much longer it's just a bridge and once we give you all these things for free and we give you special preferences then you will have an equality not of opportunity but it'll work out and what they didn't count on or they did count i don't know but human nature being what it is when you give somebody something and you provide a guaranteed lifestyle and you don't object when they call people racist white people racist and you say that you can't be racist yourself if you want to cut somebody's head off or you want to stab somebody with a ceremonial seek knife that's only symbolic it's not a weapon or as jasmine crocket said as i mentioned that it was only a little knife it's not a weapon that killed mr metcalf if you do that then you encourage laxity so it didn't work so all these programs all this free stuff all this guaranteed exemption from being responsible created a huge dependent class that was not competitive with certain types of immigrants asian immigrants immigrants from india and and so what happened is they created a self fulfilling prophecy we are not doing well as minorities because you're racist and they said we're not racist we give you privilege well it is racist because we don't have an equality of result and people would say well you have your overrepresented in the nba the nfl the post office why don't you use that over representation and transfer it to the tech center or something because that shows you the society is not prejudicial or we'd be back in the 1960 days of segregated basketball so it was all contrary to human nature and what would the violence we're seeing now is that the people of east palestine ohio or belfast are in the uh alternative for deusland in germany when you have white working class people who their whole life had been told they're racist and they have to give up privileges on the base of race to other people who came into their country late or they're doing well and they're better off than so they're going to get angry they're not going to do anything about it but when you start going to the next level of cutting the throats of people on subways or letting people on fire as happened in chicago or faking things like jessie smallett and faking things like the lacrosse and faking things like to want to brawley and faking things like michael brown hands up don't shoot or trevon the little choir boy who's had a football uniform and just mining his own business before he pounded george zimmerin's head into the ground if you keep doing that and then in europe you don't just attack somebody but ceremonially you try to behead them or you stab a kid and then you lie and you've tricked the police into basically allowing him to die if you keep doing that this generation that grew up with special preferences for non-whites and didn't grow up in a racist society is going to get angry and that's what's happening and it's it's an anger that it's going to increase unless people say we did it it didn't work so we're going to go back to equal opportunity and we're going to prosecute people who use race to be prejudicial either way either way either to promote or detract and harm a race and we're going to we're a multiracial society and anybody who wants to talk about themselves in racially superior terms as a racist like jasmine crocket she's the poster girl for the whole problem a spoiled rotten wealthy upper middle class person who's been a beneficiary of her firm abaction her whole life and can adopt on spec a ghetto patois an inner city dialect to radiate false authenticity but basically is an insecure incompetent abject racist and then she spouts at congress about white men this and you over there you're white you're white white white white she's white on the brain which shows that it's you just have to be honest and if you're not honest it and it's not going to get better until people just take the whole racial spoil system and junk it so the next time somebody in san francisco says to a broke state 16 we want reparations you just say no it's not going to happen we're not going to give any race for anything in the distant past i'm sorry we tried it doesn't work you're going to get nothing we suggest you get vocational training or you you know you get private schools in the inner city and have uniforms and do what the asian people do or some white people do and and out compete the competition but we're not going to feel guilty any longer because when we do that it ends up in violence i think the turning point the turning point that was when we found out there were two turning points i think three turning points number one was a george floyd riots because the left legitimized that it was okay to burn and kill and steal you know two billion in damage 35 dead 1500 police officers 14 000 arrests all let go basically and that said if you want to riot for a just cause it's okay the second was they locked us down on coven they lectured us to death about mask and then and i think it was in minnesota 70 000 healthcare workers walked out violating the curfew violating the coven without mass screaming and yelling and every and what did the healthcare on the left say well this is an exception because we're protesting against the mental stress of black people so they can come out and then that just made them mockery everything you mean you told us you were going to arrest people that went out and skateboarded who walked on the beach and you've got 80 000 in a mass and that just made it and then that was and then the third thing was the latest revelations that the whole reason joe biden said he ran explicitly was charlottesville and now we know the southern poverty law center and morris dees was harassing women and he was and he the founder was utterly corrupt and now we have a new president he gets before congress he looks like an utter idiot he can't answer questions he's can't explain why he defrauded and misled all of the donors you mean a president of the southern poverty law center yes the president of the southern poverty law center now we learn that there's too many victims and there's not enough victimizers so they went out and hunted up white supremacists a weird little group of crazy people and started paying them fantastic amounts of money to help organize unite the right and even paid for their kooklocks clan uniforms and staged a big thing so they'd be violence and then they made i guess they raised eight seven eight hundred thousand dollars and that that was sort of the proverbial straw that broke the camels back those incidents and now people are so cynical but i tell you they're not just cynical and we've got to be very careful because the next time some young white girl gets on a subway and she looks at her phone and there's five african-americans around her and an african-american looks at her and then slits her throat and they all tiptoe over the corpse and don't offer any assistance and then we're told by the mayor that this is you know this is not a reflection of any racial problem at all and that he's not charged with a hate crime and then we're even told well she people have to be socially aware when they're on their phones she came in and she was just looking at her phone don't she know that in america if you look at your phone your fair game and you deserve to be have your throat cut and if you have more of those that this country is going to go like the UK so everybody has to just say you know what it didn't work racial shamanism it doesn't work just stop it we'll see what happened i doubt they're going to do it and i think you're going to have something like the UK the next time we have one of these incidents i think to add to that i just saw winston marshal he's a british commentator talking about what he often does which is that culture the people who have immigrated in here immigrated because this culture produced a created a beautiful place to live a great culture to live in and they need to be that needs to be grilled into them they i mean you can't come here for this all the benefits of the culture that created and then they hate that culture gratitude is the most important of all the virtues you can't have an illian omar come in from a war torn somalia where her father was a colonel in a genocidal regime and all of these people who were connected with that regime fled to minnesota and the northwest created separatist racialist enclaves orchestrated the biggest fraud in the history of minnesota and then at various times expressed anti-semitic hatred she said mocked 9 11 something happened on 9 11 and then called the country a trashy country and that the dictators and then not get angry about it the same thing with the resheda to leave and the same thing with a lot of these immigrants the same thing with these people coming illegally from mexico and burning the american flag and then waving the mexican flag and you're so incoherent you know what i mean i'm thinking what i went to the store not too long ago and here's a car drives in with all mexican flag stickers and all a little flag you know and i thought wow and then the people didn't speak english i thought well if i drove down to america uh mexico and i had a bunch of american flags and i went down to oaxaca or chiapas or and i just went to a supermarket speaking english and hey i would be dead and they don't they have to have some gratitude that they voted with their feet to reject their prior culture but they don't and they don't because they think they're going to be rewarded and they're right that they're going to be rewarded by hating the country which gets back to an existential question who did all this and the answer is the universities did they brainwashed everybody it was a bunch of very very wealthy privileged white elites that were in la la land in these tenured little on play beautiful little places like stanford and berkeley grassy tree shady nice little places little bubble all these kids listening on every word like you're a preacher or a sermonizer and you can't be fired and you work nine months a year and you write some stupid little article that nobody reads and you get called a scholar and they brainwashed three successive generations and they poisoned racial relations in this country yeah they sure have well victor let's take a break and then come back and talk a little bit about california stay with us we'll be right back if you enjoy victor davis hanson you might enjoy the daily signals flagship show the tony kennett cast the same common sense perspectives you love weekdays at seven p.m eastern and unlike some of the other evening shows we work up until show time to bring you the latest breaking news analysis and good old american star cast tom tillis um i'm pretty sure might have been useful at one time as a doorstop find the tony kennett cast on youtube x radio tv or wherever you get your podcasts welcome back this is victor davis hanson in his own words you can find victor on social media on x his hashtag or his hashtag his um uh what do you call that his uh hashtag no link monocle i don't know is um vd hanson um is vd hanson his handle thank you his handle is vd hanson and on facebook you can find him at um hanson's morning cup so so victor california polls or the california election results have come in and i was wondering your thoughts especially in la because there's been lots of news this week and discussion about two things dirty vote voter rolls and then the new york post had an article on how uh nithya raman um was part and parcel to funding a social services by six hundred thousand dollars and then they went out and paid or got homeless people and anybody else they could to register at that address so lots of and so how my so my question is this how many social services do you think have done that and how how what is the impact of the number of votes they can bring in in that fashion um given that nithya raman won by 30 000 votes over pratt well with 65 percent of the vote she was third she was seven points behind she even gave a tearful teary eyed i lost it's so bad she thought she but the point was she didn't when all of these mail and ballots came in and and they went out and they harvested votes and they went to homeless people and under the rules they said you don't need an address you just get the lowest corner here's five bucks four dollars some people said four dollars and we will register you oh you don't have an id you don't have a driver's license that's okay uh we'll give you an id number well now you have an id number now you're registered well turn in your registration now we're going to give you a provisionary ballot oh you can't read or write or you're too zoomed out make a happy face your mark and i'll be the witness and here you can't read them here's who you vote for and give me the here's the registration and here's the ballot and i'm going to take it in and they did that all over los angeles to young people minorities and homeless people and they all came in such a degree i don't even think she won her own district's vote it was all over the city in specially designated areas that they had contacts as social workers social work centers and so everybody said on the left well your conspiracies you think that uh show us the fraud donald trump walked out of an interview because they said show us the fraud they don't understand what the fraud was the fraud was the legal system that was legalized fraud it was created to create fraud but it was technically legal so in california you don't need a license to register to vote if you're an illegal alien you can get a license but you wouldn't even need a license you can have a credit card without without your picture on it you can have anything and if you don't have anything you can be given an id number that's the first thing you can register and vote on the same day and you won't have to show any picture id either to register or to vote you don't even have to read english you don't have to be able to write you can make a mark you can have somebody witness a thousand times the same person every single person who is registered gets a ballot they don't care if you're dead they don't watch it carefully they don't care if you moved they don't care if the names have been changed and you have two ballots i'm here i mentioned that before i have children that lived here they went to college they married and for years i got mail-in ballots mail-in ballots maybe it was william hanson maybe he registered under bill maybe he registered on a billy and i took the ballots and threw it in all i would have had to do was make a happy face and have my friend witness it and mail it in and it would have and that happened and then they said illegal aliens don't vote and then the question was well why not if you go to the disability and they do if you go to unemployment they do if you go to medicare office they do if you go to legal services they do if you go to school they do you're given a registration and you can register without a driver's license but if you want to be correct and get a driver's license you go into dmv and say i want a driver's license and you don't have to be a u.s citizen and so then once that happens you get all these people that vote and then you have people in these vote collection centers and you don't just turn them in you get the troves and then you postmark them and they can come in for the next seven days as long as they're postmarked on by election day and then you see if you need them or not believe me if she had been way ahead she wouldn't have done that they wouldn't have mattered they wouldn't have done that they knew that she was third they had polls and then so that's vote harvesting then if you go in and they say well you the person didn't sign their name it doesn't match the registration well they say well if it's 40 percent so victor davis handset i write victor it's 40 percent that counts but if it doesn't count you put it in the seven day vote curing pile and then you call the candidate and say we've got all these votes that came in do you want to cure this ballot they open the thing up and they say you know so the candidates then go to extraordinary measures to find the people whether it's and then they bring them in and they re re-sign their name and that's why the ballots takes so long because they don't come in for seven days and they and then when you have all this fraud guess what the rejection rate was in 2024 of all the ballots that were cast in california 0.09 percent point not even 1 percent were thrown out just a fraction of a percent in other words they have all these people and they didn't do anything they didn't say well this person's not registered this person's registered on this name but we have three night ballots with this this witness didn't spell a name there's none of that they just went and did it and that was designed to do what that was designed to get a super majority in the house the assembly in the state senate in california check to get 15 years of straight democratic governors check to get a whole generation of liberal judges appointed by jerry brown in gabin eussam check to get the congressional district not 40 percent the delegations of the 52 to get it down to seven 13 percent of the state's congress people are republican and the state votes about 38 percent 40 percent republican statewide and so it worked and then finally why did it work what happened to the pete wilson group what happened to no nation the middle class 300 to 500 000 a year said you know what this is crazy we pay the highest taxes and we're down like 45th and test scores we pay the highest gas taxes and we're rated 49th and roads high speed rail is rusting palisades burns down it's not rebuilt we passed a water bond they took the money and blew up four dams they didn't build one dam we did a gerrymandering anti gerrymandering bill and we had five democrats five republicans four and guess what the the activists the lawsuits the racialists they all went in and they warped the spirit and they and they did that and so people said i've had it and they're leaving the conservative voter and then we imported about 10 million people over 30 years it said i don't i love this country but you know if i say i hate the country and it's racist it's horrible the more stuff i get and the more unpatronized and the more i can't be a racist so they created that dependent and i saw that when i taught as a professor and i saw students that came in and they they were basically you know i i think i've told that story twice to this crowd as a latina i don't have to listen to the iliad it doesn't it's not relevant to me okay i said as a white person your argument's not relative to me and then i got not she didn't get chastised i did so the point i'm making is and then finally the coup de grace was we had 14 trillion dollars in silicon valley and that took the political nexus from the la conservative places once conservative to the bay area and we got barba boxer diane feinstein nancy polosi gavin nuesome jerry brown camara hellas willy brown that's what we got and they ran the state into the ground with the money and backing of this new juggernaut world juggernaut and the whole by coastal elite where they upper upper asian and white professional classes that said i'm so wealthy now i want to create heaven on earth i want to get rid of fossil fuels i want diversity i want to defund the police i want to do all this stuff and i live in bruntwood and i live in carmel and i live in monocito and i'm safe i'm safe from the the disasters i'm creating for the hoy polo like yeah so victor let's go ahead and take a break and then we'll come back for our final segment hey i'm bradley deflin and just like you i'm a huge fan of victor davis hanson whether it's his long form podcast victor davis hanson in his own words or his short form content for the daily signal victor davis hanson in a few words i always leave an episode learning something new i think they forgot the 1982 falcons war and in the age of clickbait and rage bait that's a really good feeling right the media thank you you can leave now and if you agree you might like my show the daily signals long form interview podcast called the signal sit down every week we take you behind the scenes of the biggest battles in washington dc as they happen with some of the biggest names in politics we explore big ideas and we analyze the policy making process from an unabashedly and unapologetically conservative perspective and that's important now more than ever especially with the trump administration back in office because in 2024 you sent washington a message it couldn't ignore it's your government and together we're taking it back so check us out on youtube spotify apple podcast wherever you enjoy victor davis hanson we're there too and drop me a follow on x at bradley devlin to stay updated with what's happening on the signal sit down welcome back so victor let's go ahead and turn to a grand platner since we're on election stuff and all the skeletons falling out this week grand platner has received or is has become the democratic candidate for senate to face off with um the main one that woman that doesn't always vote on trump's line susan collins and he's still got skeletons falling out of his closet everywhere but my thing with him is is that he has this amazing propensity to lie and i don't see why anybody would believe anything he says even though he gets up and says oh i have so much contrition i'm i'm gonna change and be better every day so i was wondering your thoughts three elements about him that make him dangerous one is he wore a nazi emblem he lied about it and he bragged about the totem call it's not just a skull and crossbook bones it's a easily identified element and he did it to shock people and then he has a history of going on podcasts and interviews with anti-semites and he bragged to his girlfriends about it he said he said that he didn't rough up people he twisted the armor on one woman he locked another in a room he put her hands behind nobody does that unless they're demented and then in addition to that he got married and they went on this predator type uh snapchat type social media platform and then sexed it with people he hasn't been honest about that and then so that's one thing he's a creepy person a degenerate he really is second he's part of this phenomenon where the left is so elitist and they thought that they were going to create this we are the white brilliant people with all the money and we're going to let in all these people from different countries and we're going to pander to the minorities and we can win and that's not victor saying that that's books with the title new democratic majority and the new demography and demograph demography is destiny they bragged about it and they lost the white working class and the white vote is going 55 percent so they can't win without it that's why they lose on this last election and that's why they lose the swing states so they came up with this idea well we don't we hate the the east palatine that's why we call them deplorables and garbage and clingers but we got to fake it so they did the old joe biden from scranton and it worked as a waxen effigy and then they got talerweko they evangelical christian from texas he was a joke and now they've got grand platner who talks about unfairness his mother it has a upscale boutique restaurant and his father is a wealthy lawyer investor developers and so then he said well i i got my v a house and i'm on you know traumatic stress syndrome of course he changes that story he gets i guess almost 5000 a month but he now he says it's his shoulders and his knees because if you say you're suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome and you're middley on balance and you can't be a u.s senator so now he says that the injury are really physical knees but his brain is okay and then we find out that he's a main oisterman and nobody really says they're an oisterman in main i haven't heard that word in california when there's a lot of oysters so basically he went out to a little island and put about 5000 bucks and given money to him and uh got a little boat and some rigging and and his daddy's friend let him use the island and he just took the oysters to one person his mom's restaurant and that gave him an occupation and then he said he grew up as a you know he he went to hodskis one of the and he got kicked out one of the most person so he was an elite he was an elite and that was a lie and then the third thing is the democrats don't care they've already thrown out me too once terror reed came in and had legitimate charges against joe biden they kind of revived it with trump and stormy daniels and eging but it was dead because all of these left-wing people and epsi and everybody was doing it and then they thought you know what we got to protect these people once they started to go out after al frank and you know and liberal icons kevin spacey and you could tell it was going to die out they thought harvey weinstein would be the receptacle of all their hatred but there was way beyond him on the left so the point i'm making they don't care about his record they don't they they'll just say trump is worse so the third thing about him is he is a boutique communist so when he gets up on stage he has no platform he doesn't say i want a a new power plant in main i think we should look at hydrogen power atomic power nuclear power i think that we need to bring in more industry or i think we need to develop the roads or i think we need to cut taxes and regulations or at he doesn't say any of that he just gives the same speech and it's kind of like we cycled obama the wealthy elite have all the money and you can't it's not affordable and and and and yeah and he's talking about his parents yeah and he's talking in front of these working class and he says you're paying so much out of your check that it can't make ends meet with your check but don't these main working class realize that the government is taking it and that the government taking it forward they're taking a democratic governments are spending on everything unuseful and they're taking they're spending on entitlements illegal immigration is a half a trillion dollars it has been and he won't speak about that so i think that he and teller rico like the squad and all of these people the governor of virginia of government new jersey the mayor of portland or seattle i mean they're all fake and they do well in either local um environments general elections that are tied down to left-wing constituencies but they don't do well when the constituency is the american people so i would imagine that susan collins will beat him and i will say one final thing the let don't ever ever believe the left when they say well i would like a principal republican the old john mccain i'm thinking no no no no no when jerry ford was a principal republican he was about as moderate as you get you call him football head and he stumbled he was demented and then when you got reagan he was hitler then when you got george hw bush reagan was a grand old guy with no power and george hw bush was poppy bush and a coward and a whiny and then when you got the sun you said he was a nazi and would why couldn't w be like his dad it was bipartisan and then when you got trump oh wow george w wasn't that bad he's a good guy that's what they always do and the point i'm making is susan collins is not an ideologue she's not really a conservative she's just a moderate republican and she's got a lot of seniority and she gets she gets more things back to main than main contributes in taxes and they're willing to throw all that away for him he'll be a pariah in the senate he won't have any power and he'll be obnoxious and he'll be on tv every night for sport and entertainment should remember in 2008 we were told um why couldn't we get principal republicans george w bush so they who did the republicans run they ran the most principled republican the one that all the left love uh and that was john mccain he was moderate he was for abortion he hated he would turn out to be trump's biggest enemy uh later on and he gave the vote that ensured obama care after saying he would never vote for it he ran on i'm gonna ball for senate but in 2008 he ran for president and i thought you know this is gonna be very interesting for obama because he said there's no blue state then the little red states and he was running really against george w bush and texas conservatism and then he found out he wanted to be president as a senator he was crashing the right he got what he wanted he said oh they're joe Lieberman and john mccain the type of democrat republican you know all that stuff so what did they do in that campaign john mccain said do not use the word obama i will not be at a rally when you say barack who's saying obama you got angry and next thing we knew john mccain has 11 houses and he doesn't know where he is remember that john mccain has an affair with a new york times that at the new yorker staffer staffer john mccain is dying of cancer and he won't tell us all that stuff so don't ever believe that they they like moderate republicans no so victor we are on a hard break and i just want to let the audience know that uh steve hilton um was advanced to the final ballot in california so he will have a chance even if spencer pratt was not for the not under this voting system you think he'll still be you know yeah well how about sara is one of the weakest candidates he's an total incompetent it was homeland security people when they lost track of 800 000 children i mean 80 000 children maybe it was eight i don't know it was a huge amount and he made excuse after excuse he was a disaster as a congressman from the la area he's just bad news but he will win because of this voting when this vote comes out the s i s e i u california teachers association all the health care uh unions they will get everybody enlisted they will canvas every single uh ethnic district racial district homeless they will register people that day they will get ballots they will fill them out that will harvest them and it will be very hard to beat them yes i know but he's on the final ballot that's all i wanted to um say so he did make it to the final ballot and then i want to encourage everybody to go look at pictures if you can't actually go to it of the reflecting pool in front of the lincoln memorial that was funny that they hated that and it's beautiful it looks beautiful yeah they have have you seen the juxtaposed pictures of what it looked like or mossy it all the cement was cracked there was moss in it was algae it was trash and now it's immaculate and scrub and it actually reflects things and they hate it they think it's horrible but donald trump did it yeah he did a great thing so we love it and i would like to thank victor and our audience for choosing to join us we will by the way audience be talking about on the saturday episode um iran and mondami's outreach office and mikey sharyl who has been um stirring up hostilities against the president's sees of joe biden and john adams we're working backwards that's right we are joe biden john adams um did did but wait a second i thought you were going to talk about washington did or i did i talked about didn't i talk about washington donald trump or did i not i think you just did trump and you are going to do washington yeah i think what i'm gonna do is shorter ones but on both ends at once okay good that's what i thought i'll do five minutes on washington and five minutes in joe biden okay we're working to the middle we'll end up somewhere around garfield or somewhere yeah okay all 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