Swalwell Drops Out, Dem Machine Discipline, Iran Strikes & Justice System Breakdown | Victor Davis Hanson

Eric Swalwell, the Democrat congressman, gubernatorial candidate in California, Fang Fang Man is now dropping out of that race. Whether a Democratic politician actually abused sexual harass, sexually assaulted someone, is not of importance to the Democratic hierarchy. What's important is the status of that person's political viability. If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn't have Swalwell on any committee. You're going to tell me there's 200 other Democrats that couldn't fill that slot, but they kept them on it. The only way that they even knew it came forward is when they put the nominate to the Intel committee. And then the FBI came and told the leadership then, he's got a problem. Everybody knew in 2020 that Tara Reid, when she came forward, she had a much more detailed account of the sexual encounter with Joe Biden than what's her name that sued Donald Trump, you know, the crazy woman. E. Jean Carroll. Yeah, E. Jean Carroll. I think most people think of rape as a violent assault. It is not a sexual assault. I think most people think of rape as being sexy. Let's take a short break. Think of the fantasies. But with Tara Reid, she told her mom, and her mom called in to Larry King and said, my daughter's been harassed sexually at the time. And she told people, and yet she was written off by the Democratic machine. She was treated like Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, the same old stuff. I would take the Scalia approach. That would be a hand gesture. Yeah, it just, it highlighted to me how suicidal and stupid the Spanish, even Maloney in Italy, the French, they always cook up these utopian little gestures that they're gonna go save somebody. Some of it's good. And they always bring us in. We're gonna go into chat and make sure that there's no Islamic influence in our former call. Okay, fine. Oh, but by the way, we need you to refuel our jets. We need you to get logistics. We need, okay, okay, they always do this. 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College website, blade of Percy is VictorHansen.com. Check it out, subscribe. Victor, lots, lots, lots to talk about as ever. And Eric Swalwell, the Democrat Congressman, gubernatorial candidate in California, Fang Fang Man is now dropping out of that race. And there's lots of angles on that to get your take on. We have some horrific judicial decisions in New York and in Indiana, Byron Gnome, Kristi Gnome's husband, I don't even know what you wanna say, crazy, perverse, et cetera, but I think there are other implications for that other than gawking at. Kyle, you need Suetonius' live of the 12 Caesars to chronicle all the personal lives of our people. Yeah, well, how'd the FBI not see that? Wanna get your take on these things and more, Victor? We'll do all that when we come back from these important messages. Since the founding of America 250 years ago, many things have changed, but some things never do. The commitment of husband and wife, the importance of passing along our values to our children, the faithfulness of God. Some wonder how we can ensure America will continue to thrive. As long as we keep first things first, we've only just begun, America the beautiful. We're back with Victor Davis Hansen in his own words on the Daily Signal Network. So Victor, when the day started, I had the story was gonna be to ask you to talk about Eric Swalwell's response to these allegations. And the headline was, he slams sexual misconduct, rape allegations against him as he apologizes to his wife in a new video. But things move quickly. And as of right now when we're talking, and it's 2.30 in the East here on Saturday, he has dropped out of the race. And he was heavily pressured by Nancy Pelosi and others. He said he didn't do anything, but all of a sudden he's dropping out. Victor, what's your take on all this? There's a lot of takes on it. Reminds me of, well, whether a democratic politician actually abuse sexual harass, sexually assaulted someone, is not of importance to the democratic hierarchy. What's important is the status of that person's political viability. So they were calling on Donald Trump to drop out numerous times because of the stormy Daniels fiasco and excess Hollywood. But everybody knew in 2020 that Tara Reid, when she came forward, she had a much, and I'll give you, she had a much more detailed account of the sexual encounter with Joe Biden than what's her name that sued Donald Trump, the crazy woman. E. Jean Carroll. Yeah, E. Jean Carroll. Couldn't remember the dress she wore. Couldn't remember the year she wore. She said the Bermondoff department store dressing room was this plot of a TV show, almost exactly what she didn't come forward for 20 years. It was, we don't know what happened, but it was so nebulous. But with Tara Reid, she told her mom, and her mom called in to Larry King and said, my daughter's been harassed sexually at the time. And she told people, and yet she was written off by the democratic machine. She was treated like Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, the same old stuff. Why? Well, Joe Biden was the last great hope in 2020. They'd have a bunch of lunatics otherwise with, you know, Spartacus or Bernie or Elizabeth Warren or Buttigieg. So it wasn't important. The same thing now, they're looking at Steve Hilton and the sheriff, Bianco, and then Kathleen Porter and Swalwell. And the two democrats are both pulling behind the two republicans. So in their way of thinking, the democrats are gonna split the vote, and it's highly likely that the two republicans would be the only two in the November election. So they had to stop that. They knew about these things for years. You can't hide that. They knew about Fang Fang. He had a reputation around Washington of having sexual relations with his interns, some of them 21, 22, and they knew about it. They just thought that he was a valuable person. If they think it's bad enough that he shouldn't hold an office, then obviously he shouldn't hold an office that he should not hold an office in the future. Then it's bad enough he shouldn't hold an office in the present. So what they're saying is, well, he sexually assaulted a woman and we, as Senator Hirono, people must, women must be believed. Remember that? Believe. Yeah, they have to believe them. So if you believe that these are accurate enough or detailed enough that he should not be governor of California, why should he be a representative from California and less that he is now a less important office? But the point I'm making is they would not dare take him out of the Congress, a la George Santos, right? Exactly. Because they think they're gonna get really close in the midterms and take the house. Every seat counts. But it's to their advantage to do it in California to whittle it down to one democratic candidate. This buffoonish Porter woman. And she is a buffoon. She yells and screams and use four letter words and she's got a terrible temper tantrum. But if you get one of them out, then maybe they can get all of the Democrats that have this huge party registration lead and do it. So that now he's expendable. When you look at the actual, I think he's a creep and I've said that before that he was with Fang Fan, he was an idiot and he was vain and narcissistic and stupid. And he was. Now he treated his wife and three kids. You know, he had these non-disclosure, don't you can't disclose anything that goes on while you're work forming. And then I guess he took that as a blank check to make advances. But what was difficult about these things, I think some of them were pretty explicit and he's culpable. But the others, five years ago, one woman had filed a complaint and then five years later, she sees him at a convention or something. And then why would you have a drink with that ogre that had sexually assaulted you? And then, you know, then he asked her or forced her, asked her to perform a sex act in a car and she said she did it. And the implication is if she didn't do it, she'd be fired, that's an actionable offense. And then the left that wanted to destroy Pete Hexeth, it was pretty clear that the woman that he had sexual relations with went into the hotel room with him. And in that sordid testimonies, I don't think anybody thought he raped her. They thought he might have been on mean or callous or something. But in these cases, it's pretty clear that, in the two incidents that went into the San Francisco Chronicle, the woman is incapacitated and then ends up in a hotel room with vague memories that he's on top of her if I could excuse my graphic description and then gets medically checked and learns that she is a victim of rape. And so my questions I leave us with is, is she going to be prosecuted or is it going to be the statute of limitations? I know what the California legislature should do, Jack. In the case of Donald Trump, when Eugene Carroll came forward, they had a bill of attainer in the New York legislature and said that anybody who was charged this year, anybody who charges this year that she was sexually assaulted will waive the statute of limitations for one year. It was just for her. And they had done that with Trump's tax returns as well. They said the New York legislature for one year can turn over your tax records to a house committee that was going after Trump. So I suggest the California follow its blue state sister and say anybody this year who makes a sexual allegation can have the statute of limitations waived if they do it within a year. And then she can come forward and said, five or six years ago I was sexually assaulted. And see, and then charge him with rape. And we'll see if he said she said what happens. It's very ironic that the internet is now replete with story and those clips of Eric Swalwell demonizing, castigating, smearing, slandering, Brett Kavanaugh that there was no evidence he ever did that. So, you know, karma is the way of the world, nemesis, what comes around goes around. But he's a, I would like to say that he's a sinister character and all the damage he did during Russian collusion, laptop dissent, but he's a buffoon. He's a silly, he's a nincompoop. And the democratic, I don't know, when you say the democratic party, we're basically talking about 20 or 30 back room people. These are the people who anointed Kamala. These are the people who removed Biden. These are the people who they call up. It's Pelosi, it's Schumer, but it's also Barack Obama and his cadre. And then some of the big, the really big, big, big Silicon donors, the Soros outfit and people like that, they contact. A lot of ex former Twitter commentaries is along the lines of what you just said, Victor, about the, what I'm looking at from pro trading, writes how ruthlessly effective the Democrat machine is. Swalwell's asked to drop out. He first, he refuses, I'm now quoting, party operatives tap into their pool of white liberal feminists. And just like that, he was not one, not two, but four sexual assault accusations. Of course, none of these victims can remember the details like Blasey Ford. Within an hour, the victim is being interviewed on CNN. The email goes out almost immediately. The teachers unions condemning him, Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries and every other Democrat on Twitter is calling to drop out of the race. You know, Victor, they play to win, they play mean. Yeah, I mean, if he was a Democratic candidate for governor and right now the polls showed him 55%, Porter 10% and Hilton 20%, there's no way in the world they would take him out of that race. They would say, this is very important. We need a sober and judicious investigation and they would drop it. Just like they did with Biden. Yeah, by the way, with Biden, I probably need to hit my head to jostle my memory, but what in his mind was the quid pro quo for dropping out? I mean, did he, did he think it? You mean the second time when, after the debate? Yeah, after the debate, did he, I wonder if you don't drop out, you're not gonna get big donations to your library or what was it that? I think it was, they were going to, yeah, I mean, it was sort of like Bernie. All of a sudden, Bernie ended up with what, three homes? Yeah. Yeah. And his wife allegedly who was chancellor of that little college bankrupted. Right. And then she ended up with some half million dollars of severance pay, why everybody else got stiffed. Nice work if you should get it. This was a socialism in action, but, well, I don't know, he got something, I think he probably got something that he was going to be exempt from investigation. Yeah. Because the whole family was crooked. Well, we're talking about not being potty math, so we're gonna talk about some potty math people here. Victor, this is Donald Trump. Well, they had some podcasters of infamous being potty math. So here's a headline, Trump goes off on nut jobs. Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Candaceau, and Alex Jones over Iran war criticism. I think this is from the New York Post. President Trump lashed out at four right wing critics of the Iran war. This was Thursday, two days ago, from when we were talking, describing them as nut jobs, losers who will say anything for attention. I know where Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Candaceau, Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the number one state sponsor terror, to have a nuclear weapon, because they have one thing in common, low IQs. This is he's writing this on Truth Social. They're stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it too. The president, rage. Look at the past, look at the record, they don't have what it takes, and they never did. Mother, my mia, what the- I don't know about Alex, I don't know Alex Jones, I've only met Candace Owen once, but I've been on Tucker show quite a lot, and I've been on Megan show quite a lot. They're not low IQ people. But what I don't understand about them is this. And I like them both personally. I don't know what precipitated this. I see Tucker had a little earlier turnabout, because in the bombing last summer, he said it was gonna cause World War III, but we learned afterwards that he's been calling Trump various times, he was back on good terms. So when this other strike hit, they got very, very angry, and Megan gave a long excursus that she was sick. She had a expletive, I watched that clip, it was F this and SH this. But she was very angry at Trump's existential threat to civilization, but I think, because they're intelligent people, I think, and Tucker said it was what, satanic or something on Easter to do that. No one of their caliber would believe that Trump was going to wipe out the entire civilization of Iran. And we know that is true, because he said help was on the way to the Iranian people. And as I said with Sammy, if you go back all of our wars, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I, the Serbian misadventure, the Libyan fiasco, we hit dual use targets. We took out civilianships, port facilities in Libya. We bombed the grid into zero blackouts in Belgrade. One in our people know electricity. We destroyed every bridge on the Danube. First Gulf War, Saddam didn't have any infrastructure. TV, radio, power, fuel, you name it, we wiped it out. So, Trump never has done that. He's taken out one bridge. And the reason he hasn't done that, last time he went, he bombed for 24 hours, is he thinks he wants a dividend of this campaign to end and be a revolt of the people. He said that. So when he said their civilization is going to end, it was a sloppy use of nouns. What he meant was this radical Shia Islamic regime, culture, civilization is gonna be ended. The civilization that has been imposed on the Persian people, that's what he meant. He should have said that. But what he does shows you what he means. Megan and Tucker would have had a good case if this prior four weeks, he had been hitting power plants. He'd been hitting schools. He'd been hitting water plants. He'd been hitting solar, all of that. And then he said, I'm gonna just take it out. But he hadn't. He didn't want to because he's on the side of the Iranian people, 93 million people that he feels are enslaved by this corrupt, theocratic interloping civilization that was a hiatus and interruption in Persian history. Okay, so I don't understand that. So that means to me that they were angry about the MAGA, but Trump never said he wasn't going to use force. The first, I was on Megan's show shortly after the summer bombing and she thought that was great. And she was correct. It was to nullify at that point what we thought were all of its nuclear potential. And then when you look at what he's done, Soleimani, Baghdadi, bombed ISIS, took out Wagner Group, got rid of Maduro, bombed last summer and bombed, they all have one thing in common. This is longer. And what's the thing in common? Except for Maduro, there's no boots on the ground. There's no door-to-door fighting in Fallujah on the enemy's terms. There's no Haman province going into villages and never know who's gonna shoot you, friend or foe, or green on green or whatever we wanna call it, soldiers on the Afghan army shooting us. There's none of that. It's an air campaign. And yes, it is now getting close to 40 days, if not beyond. But that's not a war. That's not 20 years in Afghanistan. That's not eight in Iraq. That's not even 72 days in Serbia. It's about what the First Gulf War, I think, was 42. So they know it's not a forever or endless war. It's a Jacksonian preemptive deterrent act so that these nuclear, they don't have nuclear-tipped missiles pointed at the West. And as we said before, they're not sending billions of dollars to these Ringelfire or Arab terrorist proxies, Hezbollah, Houthis and Hamas. And they're not killing Americans as they've done for 47 years. And they're not trying to assassinate presidents and secretary of states. So it was long overdue, but what I'm getting at is finally is they know that. So then my next question to them is, what's the alternative? Now we're having midterms and we're gonna have a pro... So you're not going to vote for this man because he used force in a way that contradicts, in your belief, the forever, bans on forever wars. So you are going to turn over by your absence or your lack of advocacy, you're going to see the Democrats win to punish Trump, to punish Magda. So all the things that you fought for, Tucker, Maggan, Alex Jones, I guess, even Candace, close border, we've deported over a half million people in just a year and a half and another million and a half have self-deported. Crime is at an all-time low. He's rebuilding the military. We're the greatest producer of gas and oil in history. He's the first president that's brave enough to take on DEI and he's doing a great job. He's the first person to take on the insanity in higher education. So what I'm getting at is he's done 85% of what they want. That's Maggan's agenda, that's Tucker's agenda, that's Candace's agenda. But on this one topic, it's so egregious, apparently it not only nullifies all of that other, but from what I understand, they're gone now, they're off, they're done. And what's gonna happen is you're going to get a Camilla type of candidate or her. And the alternative is DEI in your face, revenge DEI, revenge open borders, revenge illegal immigration, revenge DEI in the military, revenge an Afghan skadaddle, two theater wars, da-da-da-da-da-da. I don't get it. Yeah, Victor, also, Donald Trump's been a public figure for about 50 years and probably for 47 of him, he's been attacking Iran. And two of those, Maggan and Tucker, I think both were on campaign platforms with him in 2024. I mean, Donald Trump has spoken relentlessly about it. 1980, he said he would bomb Iran. So I'm like it or not, he's been particularly consistent about this and stressed this and that this should come as a surprise to anyone. And plus that they have nuclear capability to kill millions of us. So that's what they were searching for. I don't get it. Also this new right and left that the war is lost, the war's not lost. Never in the history of modern warfare or ancient warfare, maybe ancient, has one army lost tragically 13 people and destroyed, basically destroyed the Navy. We know they destroyed the air force. They have shoulder fired rockets, but they destroy the air defenses. They've taken out the top echelon of the Islamic Republican Guard Corps, of the theocracy, of the army, a lot of scientists. They've destroyed their nuclear facilities, the assembly ability to make ballistic missiles. There's some drones and missiles and caches all over the country, maybe a third. But other than that, it's gonna take Iran years to, it's probably worth a half a trillion dollars of infrastructure and weapons that they've siphoned off from their own people. And it's gone. So this isn't the end. As soon as we stop whatever we're gonna do, the people are gonna be there and they're gonna say, I can't afford gas. And we were the second largest oil reserves in the region. I can't afford gas. I can't afford food. And you're now going to what? Restore Hezbollah, Houthis and Hamas with our money, there are a bunch of Arabs. They're not even Persian. And then you're gonna rebuild all this stuff. The world's laughing at you. And I think they're gonna say, we put up with you because you were scary and everybody was afraid of Iran. But now you're impotent and you've been incompetent and you're humiliated. You made this country a laughing stock. And I think they're gonna have a lot of internal rest as soon as we get out of there. People are gonna say, I'm not gonna let these stupid theocrats arm us to the teeth and give our money away to a bunch of terrorists across the gulf. I just don't think they're gonna do it. Well, Victor, I'm gonna take a little sip of water here because I need to read an ad for Coke Pure. So, good listeners and viewers. Utah and Florida have passed bills to ban fluoride in their water supply. Why are these states suddenly doing a massive U-turn on fluoride when they've been adding it to our water for the last 80 years? Well, RFK Junior has been warning us about fluoride for a while and government now admits to the fact that fluoride is linked to lower IQ. In a study done by JAMA Pediatrics, one of the top medical journals in the world, scientists found that fluoride levels over two milligrams per liter of water cost more than a two point drop in children's IQ scores. You heard me talk about Coke Pure before. It's a water filtration system that sits on your countertop. 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So that was one thing. The other story that was top of the Daily Mail, just to see what we're getting on here is that, it seems like Russia and Ukraine are wanting to discuss an end to the war. The story said that last month, 8,000 Russian soldiers were killed by Ukraine drones. And who knows how many were mains, and although I have a feeling it's they're pretty totally lethal when they get you. So that's kind of dramatic that that might be coming to a close. We've heard those kind of stories before, but seems that exhaustion in both countries. Anything you want to add to that? I think Putin is evil, but he's canning. And I think he thinks, things haven't been going very well for us. We've lost probably a million and a half dead for nothing. We've got another 2 million invalid. We're running out of manpower. We have about a 50% GDP war economy. We have a nice little oil spike, but it's not gonna last. And we lost any influence we had along with the Chinese and Venezuela. Now we have lost Syria, the Assad. We have no footprint at all in the Middle East. So it's changing before our eyes. The Gulf Sheikdoms are now pro-U.S. and de facto in league with Israel. Iran, our client, is completely devastated, it's cratered. So maybe it's time for us, and then now these NATO, because of Trump's harangium, they're re-arming. So it might be smarter to cut a deal and then tell everybody in Moscow that I advanced the borders of Russia 50 miles. I don't know what the, whatever the de facto demilitarized zone will be. It won't be very much, but it was worth it. That's what he'll say. And then he'll reach out to the United States and he'll say, you're right. Trump's gotta be very careful because he'll say, NATO is treacherous, they did this to you. We should have a detente or something. But I think he's afraid that this war is re-arming NATO and re-arming, when he sees that we're spending a trillion and a half dollars next year, theoretically. And he's, he watched the US military in action. So funny that left and many people on the right say it's gone south, it's a failure. And all our enemies think it's a, it's a smashing success. And you think Taiwan, when they look at all these drones and all these capabilities, they think, we're gonna go 110 miles right through the South China Sea. And what would happen, Beijing? It's gonna be mined in two minutes, the moment you set out by airplanes. And then there's gonna be, you know, 300,000 drones launched from carriers on the other side of Taiwan and from Taiwan and missiles. And you're gonna go 110 miles. It's not the English Channel, you're not Napoleon, couldn't do that. Hitler couldn't do that. It's gonna be very, Conrad Black and I used to talk about that on a show, scholars and saints. I think he was right, I was a little bit more pessimistic, but I think he was right, he said it would be very hard for them to get across. And that was before this display of military mastery on the part of the United States. So, I love Conrad, he's such a, what a beautiful writer. He could, in one paragraph, he could talk about the French Revolution and Charles de Gaulle. He's a master of what we call in classics, the Asia Attic style. Attic is the Hemingway style. Blunt, terse, Thucydidean, but the Isoquitian style is elaborate, long clauses, long sentences, multi-syllabic words, but he's a beautiful writer and he's mastered that style. Yeah, plus I like him, he's an interesting conrad. He's a very pro, he's very pro-Canadian, but he knows what's wrong with Canada and he's very worried about it. And he knows the answer to Canada as it become more like America rather than Europe. Well, Victor, we've got some disturbing things to talk about and that's Byron Gnome and we also have some horrific judicial decisions we'll get to those when we come back from these important messages. 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And again, Victor's website, TheBladeOperseus, VictorHansen.com, it's $6.50 a month to subscribe and you do that because you read Victor's twice a week, exclusive articles, he writes only for TheBladeOperseus, plus he does an exclusive video. There's tons of other free stuff there. But, and if you want to take the whole year, it's discounted to $65. So Victor, I gotta ask you a question, Jack. Yes, sir. And I want you to ask, somebody asked me this on an email. So 1982, as we've talked about, Margaret Thatcher says these corrupt dictators in Argentina took the Falklands. We're gonna have an armada go out there. And then she calls Reagan up. Al Haig says, don't get involved. We wanna, you know, we wanna cement our Western Hemisphere. We have a Spanish speaking minority that won't like this. But nevertheless, she gives us a checklist. I need Tomahawk, a Hellfire, Tomahawk, whatever missiles. I need two millions gallons of gas. I need photo macons, satellite reconnaissance. I need to know where every submarine is. I need your submarines in the water to help coordinate intelligence. And I need complete restocks. And I need at least a Marine carrier in reserve if we lose this, cause we won't have any air power. And Reagan says, take whatever you want. Okay, fast forward. In England now, it's against the law to wave the St. George flag, right? Yeah, it's insane. You can wave the Palestinian flag, that's fine. Yes, you can. And they're arresting people left and right. The prime minister has some shady past that prevents him from going after these groomer, rapist Pakistanis. He defended them. And they're going after Elon Musk. And the prime minister has said to us, I know you didn't want us to participate. And I know you claim that these Iranians will have nuclear tip missiles that can hit London. But it's not our war. And you're not gonna land at Diego Garcia, by the way. You just tell your pilots they're not gonna do it. Okay. And then we have Argentina that is a democratic country. It's much more liberal politically, Milia's than Sturmer, I think. He's got a much, the economy's booming. And he's much more pro-American. Right. So if, and he's already said he's not gonna do it, thank God, Millie. But if the Argentinians went back, A, how would they be treated by the Falkland people? I know that they have their own government kind of. It's a colony, but they're influenced by Britain. Would they prefer Argentina, Millie, free market, freedom, pro-American, or would they prefer the old alliance, but it's not the old alliance between US and Britain? It's a really interesting question. And what would be our attitude with Donald Trump say, this isn't our war. Yeah. This is not our war. I would take the Scalia approach. That would be a hand gesture. It would be a pop-up. Yeah. It just, it highlighted to me how suicidal and stupid the Spanish, even Malone and Italy, the French, because they always cook up these utopian little gestures that they're gonna go save somebody. Some of it's good. But going to Libya, we bombed, I don't know, we bombed the power grid and Belgrade, and they always bring us in. We're gonna go into Chad and make sure that there's no Islamic influence on our former, okay, fine. Oh, but by the way, we need you to refuel our jets. We need you to get logistics. We need, okay, okay. We're gonna go get the Falk. They always do this. It's not that, you know, we're using them. We've been their department of defense for 60 years. And so when they, it wasn't that we asked them to do anything overt, it was just saying, you know, don't tell anybody, we're gonna fly over France. Or Maloney, don't tell anybody. We're just gonna, nobody's gonna know we landed and it'll help our pilots. It'll help you because you're even closer to these madmen. And basically they were saying to us, well, we cut a deal, you know, with Iran. We use the straight, they don't bother us because we don't condemn them. We don't make fun of them. And they let us do what we want. So I just think NATO is, it's gonna always be there, I guess, but it's not going to, I don't think any president given public opinion is going to want to partner with Britain, France, Italy, any of these countries and any coalition of the willing. Maybe if Putin goes into Europe and they call us and it's the last hope, yes. But I think we're gonna pick and choose. We'll look at Finland, yeah, maybe, maybe Sweden, maybe Poland, maybe Czechs. But these guys, that was the stupidest thing they ever did. It cost them nothing. All they were doing is appealing to their domestic Trump deranged audiences. And they got in their soapbox and they made fun of us. And then they said, well, we didn't even let them use our airspace. And the Spanish social, he's nuts. Because there's gonna come a time when, I mean, he's welcoming in 500,000 people from North Africa right across the eight mile. So I don't know, I just think, Victor, the mystic chords of memory are perverse. You think of different ways in life, like college. Oh, remember when Holy Cross won the NIT in 1952 in New South, there's these thoughts that, you know, what was still is, and with England, we see all these old war movies, right, in which we serve and others. And we still think there are these powerful, and they were powerful, but they don't exist anymore. That's just beautiful. Yeah, I mentioned that paradox, it's in Plutarch. And somebody in Powerline mentioned it. But it's well known, it's called Theseus' Ship, the ancient ship that went to kill the monitor and bring back that Phaedra. And the point is, Athens in the historical period went to delos with it every year as a commemoration, but each plank was rotted. So Plutarch mentions the fact, every single rivet, wooden peg, every single plank, every single piece of rope is not the original ship. So is it the ship of Theseus? Because it just because it copies the form. And I think that's the point we're at. It looks like Britain, it still speaks English, the monuments are still there, but there's a whole different cast of parts, you know what I mean, that are there. And the British, so is it Britain? And you're right, it changes all the time. That's that stupid joke about, this is George Washington's, the ax that he cut down the cherry tree. Oh, we replaced the handle, and then furiously we replaced the blade. Well, anyway, Richard, different kind of, I'll consider that a perversion, a country that's perverted itself. And it's terrible. England, Ireland too, what the suicide of the West is taking place boldly there. But this has to, you know, I mentioned the last time we spoke, Christy Nome, and I said Bimbo, by the way, I wanna correct myself. I was talking about the Bimbo vacation that was about her husband, Byron Nome. It was not a slur on Christy Nome, but let's talk about Byron Nome, because this news keeps coming out. And it's salacious, and I'll read some salacious stuff, but it's more troubling about national security. So this is yesterday in the Daily Mail, where he is talking to this woman, this Bimbo vacation porn thing that he's into. Where she says to Byron Nome, I think you'd make a great woman. And he says, I would have to agree with you, hair removal, huge fake blank, blank heiny, implants, hormones, he replied proudly adding prediction that they will meet up in 2026. And other conversations Nome revealed he wanted to be Sotomayor, so that's the name of the woman. Trans Bimbo Slut, who goes by the name Crystal, et cetera, et cetera. He talked about wanna have sex change operation. This all started in 2016. And how a man with this kind of activity, how he could be the, well, how she could have been selected and gotten through a process to be the head of Homeland Security having this time bomb within her family. That's the thing, I mean, I should pray for the family, but I'm really troubled by this. I think what happened, I don't know who was the actual director, was Cash Patel already confirmed when she was confirmed? I don't think he was, I think she was confirmed before. So it was in a transitional period between Christopher Wray and Cash. And so we don't know, what I'm saying is the faceless bureaucracy of the FBI, but I think what happens with these bureaucracies, they say, well, she was elected governor. So the people knew every single thing that would have the campaign, the Apple research, everything would have resurfaced. And you see with Swalwell, that's not true. And then she was in the house of representatives. So we're just gonna do it punkery because she's been out there in the public arena for so long and everything's come out. And obviously it hadn't. I don't quite know, I was confused by it. I didn't know whether he was, in classical terms, transvestism, is the word vestus in Latin means clothes. And it means you enjoy wearing women's clothes, but your sexual orientation, believe it or not, remains heterosexual. Transsexualism or transgenderism is means that you not only wanna dress in the manner of the opposite sex, but you want to become the opposite sex. And I don't know where he fits on that spectrum because at some point, didn't he say that he wanted to date one of the women or he wanted to have some relations with them? It was kind of salacious with, as a man to a woman, I think. And then there were other things that he wanted, he was interested them, not as a man having relations with them, but as a woman having, becoming a woman with them as women. Yeah. There's also, do you remember the Canadian teacher who made those huge fake breasts and they couldn't fire him? Yes. And he wore those. The webtold used to make fun of him every night. And he was a shop teacher, I think, or something. Yeah. There should be a word for that. Of course, the word in Greek is megas big. The word for breast is tithos. That's where we get the slang T-I-T. And then mania means obsession or fixation. So, megatitho, magatithoimania would be what it is, a fetish that makes you insane about large breasts. It's so bizarre. And then the date you mentioned is very important, 2016, because people were saying that she just leaked this to look, the first cycle of the stories came out that he was just kind of prurient and he was just kind of weird, but he was... Weird, yeah. Yeah, he was a man that was randy and he wanted to look at women, right? Their breasts and talk to them. And then she floated this to hide her adultery. But the subsequent stories make him way off the spectrum and might suggest that to keep the family together and their grandparents and all that, she didn't want to messy divorce as a public figure, as a governor, right? You don't... Yeah. I mean, if you're in the Dakotas and you're riding a horse with chaps on, right in front of Mount Rushmore, you don't say, I'm gonna tell you everybody, I gotta make my husband's wearing fake breast and he's online with his Barbie and he wants to become a woman. You don't do that. He's riding side saddle behind me. You just don't do that. You can't do that and survive politically. So maybe she thought, she just told him, get a fake name and tone it down and you live your life and I'll live mine. Yeah. Well, can I... I want to... I didn't tell you I wanted to raise this, but for whatever reason, it reminded me that you saw that Canadian talking about odd things in life, this new acronym for the whole panoply of... So now it's a new one. It used to be LGBT. Now it's MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, and she said it without memorizing it. And now the new thing it stands for, missing and murdered indigenous women, girls and two spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual, plus, plus. Victor. Honey, there's too many victims and there's not enough victimizers. I'm sorry. The old white guys are getting sick and old and dying off. Yeah. There was a... Cruz Vanoso, I think his name was, he was a very prominent judge in California and he got very radical. I think they recalled him from the Supreme Court. He or one, somebody associated him said, why don't they all, the old guys just go off and die and we're gonna inherit the state. That was when the Hispanic population was about 20, not 45%. But my point is that this gets very tiring because we're in this affluent society and these people are all affluent. Some of the wealthiest people in California are in the tribes that run the casinos. And we have, look at the BLM, architects, those three women, what they absconded with. And if you look at who's coming out of the shadows that ran this $250 billion fraud in California or in the 9 billion won in Minnesota, most of them, not all, but most of the people arrested so far, many of them are DEI. So what I'm getting at is, and when Mondami says he's gonna go after white neighborhoods and Indian Americans, that is American immigrant families from India are statistically the highest income group in the United States. And that's him. His parents are really wealthy, the Ugandan Indian. So my point is that it's so tiring now that very well off people try to create these facades that they're victims. And this is the ultimate expression of it, all these letters to include every type of imagine offense or slight. And then you think, well, who did these to you? Who did this to you? And have you done things to people? It's sort of like Jasmine Crockett screaming about all the horrible white things. And then somebody would just say, well, what's the black crime rate in rare cases of interracial crime? It's six to one black on white, not white on black. Who's one of the most overrepresented groups and hate crimes? Who is the most overrepresented as victims? That's Jews. And yet we keep saying Islamophobia, Islamophobia, Islamophobia. I guess what I'm saying is there's this whole structure, this facade, this veneer that we're all supposed to take seriously. And it's completely rotten. And then there's the reality behind it that everybody lives every day. That's very dangerous for society because that institutionalizes sarcasm. Sinicism. Sinicism, right. It's sort of like when you pick up the New York Post, which is a good newspaper, but all newspapers do it. And I was just reading the other day about in the local paper, a young man went, ran a stop sign, killed a woman, killed the, but they never told us who he was for days. And then when you read the comments, they're completely cynical. Right. And they list them. So shouldn't they be cynical? Right. But here's what's strange. They'll say, well, the perpetrator wasn't listed. So we know he's not a white guy. He's either black or Hispanic. And then they go off and go off into racial territories. But why does the newspaper print all the comments? And you know why they do it. They're saying people want to know this, they're fed up. So we can't identify the perpetrator because it's against the rules that we follow of DEI. We don't want to add to his victimhood, even though he's a victimizer. But we're going to print all these outreach comments and let people vent. So they'll buy our newspaper or go to our site. Exactly. Yeah. No need for the word allegedly. Here are the comments. Yes. We're going to whip up so much anger by our PC censorship that it's going to be good, good for business. And that's what they do. They try to deliberately get people angry. Well, there are two stories we're going to get to, Victor, that are going to make people angry, I think. But first, self-government requires clear thinking that leads to better decision-making. If you know how to make a sound argument, you will be able to think, speak, and write more persuasively and effectively and roll in Hillsdale College's new free online course, Classical Logic and Rhetoric, to develop the skills to become a better citizen. And it's a brand new online course where a Hillsdale College professor will teach you the tools to make sound argument. You'll learn how to refine your skills of thought and speech, how to make valid arguments through reasoning, and how to speak more persuasively using rhetoric. This Hillsdale College online course is completely free, and it's easy to access. 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There's a Friendly's Ice Cream restaurant chain that the man who founded it, then built, with the fortune he had, he built a replica of Monticello to live in, and it's in northern Connecticut right on the border with Massachusetts, and he died, and he left it to Hillsdale, and Hillsdale has turned this into the Blake Center for religious freedom. That's not the full title, but they host, every other week or so, they bring in a Hillsdale professor, and he talks to the assembled, usually 100 to 150 people. So I was there last night with Dan Mahoney, our good friend, and the great speaker that Hillsdale brought in was Bill McClay, who is the Victor Davis Hansen professor. Bill's a big fan of you, of course, and he's a big fan. He's terrific. He's just one of the great happy warriors of... It scares me that this chair is named after him, because I feel that I'm walking on glass. I can't get any... I thought, I'll run a stop sign or something, and then Bill McClay will say, sorry, Victor, we got it. I'm no longer the Victor. So you... Well, he's the author of lots of books from folks, The Land of Hope, which is one of the great works. It's a great text. It's really a great book. Yeah, and I want to encourage people, especially those who are in the Northeast, to check it out, check out the Blake Center at Hillsdale. There's not that many things, Victor, that conservatives in this part of the country can go to, and it's a relatively small region. So last night, people from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Chris, Massachusetts, even some people from New York were there. So Blake Center at Hillsdale. So they have... They have... You know him very well, too. I've known him for 20 years. He's probably, for that college's size, the best development officer in the United States, John Cervini. I have never seen a more tireless, hardworking guy than he is. I think they have a billion dollars in the bank, so... Yes, and then... I've never seen a college president like Larry Arn. I mean, I was at Hillsdale before he got there. And the framework was there, but it was bleeding put it that way. There was scandal, there was... The infrastructure needed... It wasn't going to draw the type of people it's drawn. As faculty is excellent, the students are... They're Ivy League caliber, if not better. I can guarantee you, when they graduate, they're better educated than Harvard, Stanford, or Yale students. That's what it's all about. Absolutely better. They're much better educated. So it's a remarkable phenomenon in Hillsdale. It really is. And it just reminds you that you have to have good people. You can do anything if you have good people. If it's meritocratic and Hillsdale gets really good people. You've just been saying it's more than just a college. Yes, you can go there as a student. But here are the courses. We just read the... No, it's a way of life. ...advertisement courses. It has a K through 12 program that it's created for charter and private schooling. I've got a world-class... It's probably the best gun range in the United States. It's beautiful. I've never seen anything like it. And it started with a donation, and then the college just kept investing in it. It's quite remarkable. I hope I can get well enough to go back for my annual billet. But we'll see. Send a private plane, folks. So let's get back to... The pomologist said I was kind of out of breath when I saw him. He said, you know, going in a plane is the same as 8,000 feet elevation. I didn't know that. But we'll see. I'm going to try it in the CROs pretty soon. Well, back to insanity, a little related to what we were talking about before. And this is what makes people cynical, Victor. So two stories. One is in Indiana. You would think Indiana red states. There's nothing crazy can happen there. Headline, transgender baby killer released into Indiana community 30 years before the end of his 55-year sentence. And if you'll bear with me a second, folks, a trans-identified male convicted of the grisly murder of an infant has been released on parole a full 30 years early. Jonathan Richardson, who now uses the name Autumn Cordillione, was convicted in 2002. He'd murdered his 11-year-old step-step doughty at a 55-year sentence. He was quietly released in late December 2025. Without an official statement from the Department of Corrections, it's unclear why Richardson's, why he was released. However, the decision has been linked to an injunction granted in state court that requires the Department of Corrections to provide Richardson with taxpayer-funded cosmetic surgeries. Releasing Richardson early may have been the Department of Corrections strategy to avoid paying for the court-ordered cosmetic enhancements. And last thing here in 2023, the ACLU of Indiana filed a legal complaint on behalf of Richardson claiming that the Department of Corrections was subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment by denying him various plastic surgeries he demanded. A baby killer is out because he's not getting sex-changed surgeries in prison. Two obvious comments. People don't understand why DEI is so pernicious when we've had all these historical examples. The caste system in India, the commissar system in the Soviet, any time you give exemption to someone on their sexual orientation or their race, and you arbitrarily label them collectively, not individually, collectively, that you're a victim and you get exemptions. And then you have the human nature being what it is. It's out of control. Look at DeCarlos Brown. I mean, I hope he'll face state charges, but Aranya, he slid her throat, bled her bleed to death, and now a judge decides that he's not mentally capable of standing trial. And sure as the sun rises, he will be out. Somebody, there'll be a, you know, there'll be a parole board and said, oh, he's suffered enough. He's came from a broken home. He's a victim of this, ism, and that ology. And it's the judiciary. I knew a lot of growing up. I knew a lot of judges, because my mom was a superior court and appellate court judge in California. They would come and visit. And I tell you, whether they were Democrat or Republican, they were not like these judges. They were not. They were tough judges. They were fair. They were honest. The, you know, Sam Peckinpaw's brother, Denver Peckinpaw was a superior court judge. He came down here once because he liked my mom, and he had a 38 in his belt under his robes. And, you know, he, but they were all great judges. They would never have done these things. This is the result of the law schools, this critical legal theory, critical race theory, that the victim doesn't matter, and the victimizer is a greater victim, because of what society did to him or her. And as long as that, it just gets back to this idea that higher education, I speak that of somebody, as I said, I've been in higher education for, I don't know, almost 55 years. But it has become something that it should never have become. It's teaching people a lot of evil things in the schools of education, the schools of law, and it's really taking a toll on the country's morality. It's just, these people are, the professorate are crazy. They're dangerous. These judges, some of them are truly dangerous, Victor. I tell you a story about one of them here. They're gonna get a lot of people killed. Yeah, so this is bad news, I think, for New York City. And I don't think people might not like New York, and I said prerogative, but it's not in the country's interest in New York to go the way of Detroit. It wasn't in the country's interest for Detroit to go the way of Detroit. So here's the story of a New York City, it's called the Cooler Cop, Eric Durand. And he's just been sentenced to prison. What happened? Couple of years ago, there's a drug bust going on. The guy in a scooter tries to get away. It was a sting operation. He was driving towards people in a scooter. This cop had a cooler, and he threw it at him to stop him. Knocked him off the scooter. The guy fell, hit his head, and he died. He was charged by the Bronx DA's office with manslaughter, and he chose a judge trial as opposed to a jury trial, because who the hell wants a jury trial in the Bronx if you're a cop? I must say now, who wants a judge trial if you're a cop? Yeah, I would have taken the jury trial. So the judge convicted him of manslaughter, and then he sentenced him the other day to three to nine years in prison. The same judge, and his name is Justice Guy Mitchell. In 2018, I'm reading this now from the New York Post. He served up what amounted to just nine months in prison for a 19-year-old, Brian Bradley Gonzalez, who murdered a homeless guy, beat a homeless guy to death. So this judge gives this guy essentially a brief stay, but to the cop, sent him to Rikers Island instead. I can't see you being a cop in New York anymore. Like, I'm getting out of here. What the hell's gonna, I'm gonna blink in the wrong direction. Where would you go though? Where would you go? You'd be a cop in Minneapolis? Oh, you'd be an ex-cop and come to a town like Milford, Connecticut or something. You'd be a cop in San Francisco, be a cop in LA. Karen Bass is waging war on the LAPD. Well, there are a lot of small towns, so it's police, but the lockdowns then I think. We had an officer killed right here in Selma, two miles from my house. Police, Guy's wife was pregnant, a gang banger, M13, shot him and killed him. And it was horrific. And so, I don't know, where do you go? It's everywhere. Yeah. It filters down, I did, I know, it sounds like a truism. I did have consequences. So if you day after day, spout all of these strange theories to students and the students come home and they, you know, da da da da da da da da. I interviewed for this show, Jack Alain Kulati. She's running as an independent for governor. She was in real reality TV and she's done everything. She's been farming and very smart, very attractive, very industrious. She's got a lot of good ideas, but we were talking about just these issues about crime and punishment and the elite and nobody pays a price for anything. And if you look at our cities, the two of them, San Francisco has hope because they have Mayor Lurie now who was, you know, he's organizing the Silicon Valley. I don't know if there's any billionaires left, they've left, but maybe a few of them and trying to help San Francisco, but LA is just out of control. It really is. Did you see the, they've lost 50,000 people last year? Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. It's the second largest city of Mexican nationals in the world, only after Mexico City. Pretty sure about that. It used to be. And so it's, it's ungovernable. And it's gonna, you know, if we don't have a national, if we don't close the borders and have legal only immigration and make it meritocratic instead of taking a million people, take a hundred thousand and then have a national civic education program where every student to get federal money, the school districts must have a civic and not to be warped by DEI civics. I'm talking about, do you know the Declaration of Independence? Do you know what the Bill of Rights is? Do you know what the Constitution is? How does the Senate work? How does the House work? Do you know anything about the history of America at war? Da, da, da, da. We're not gonna make it. You have to have some unifying principle that embodies Americanism. It's not this, you know, I'm gonna be in my little enclave and I'm gonna be in the part of the Somali community. I'm gonna be part of the Hispanic community. I'm gonna be part of this community. That's a pre-civilizational idea. That was, you should read the first page of Thucities. It says, before the city state, basically, before the city state, people were nomadic and tribal. And then of course, so long tried to break up the tribes and make them all Athenians first and their tribes second. And that's what's held the caste system, held India back and the tribal system held the Arab world back. Yeah, well, it's a nice... And here we're replicating that. It's the enemy of meritocracy. It is, we were the most meritocratic country in the world and we're not now. Well, Victor, we're about at the end here and I just have some lots and lots of people leaving comments on various platforms. First, for back on yesterday at Hillsdale, I want to say Meredith Petersen's and her husband. I wish them well. They love you. Lots of people there. How is Victor? Tell me how is Victor doing? I pray for Victor all the time. Thank you. I think it's helped. I really do. Yeah, endless love. Here's a couple. I have a bunch of quick comments off of YouTube from Catherine Johnson, 4416. I'm from the Dominican Republic. I love VDH. My favorite political commentator, please keep going. You are of great value for my generation, millennials. Then there's Seth Rutledge, 839. Crazy to think that without Victor, we would have no sane voice doing daily news. Victor, please mentor the next generation. Then it's an unpaid position, Victor. Elizabeth Curran's 6247. I love these podcasts. I'm so happy that Victor is back. No one else provides his sane assessment of what is going on in the world. She Bear, 8286. Good morning from Northern Nevada. Wish I could sleep, but we'll settle for watching VDH. So I could sleep too. Yeah. And finally, Wendy Colart writes, VDH is the only person on the internet that calms me down. So Victor, you are... But I don't have an MPR voice. Jack, we're here at the end of the program. I want to end with some jazz. I'm not that way. You need spaghetti arms too. Anyway, you have been terrific. And I'll remind folks again, Victor's website, thebladeofpersiaisvictorhanson.com. Go there, do subscribe. For me, Jack Fowler, civil thoughts are right there every week. Every Friday it comes out via email. Go to the center for civil... Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. You can also order Counter Revolution now, the fall and rise of Donald Trump. I almost, Victor, if I had had the chance, I was thinking of it 10 minutes ago to go on Amazon and see what its rating is. A ranking is already... I haven't looked. Yeah, well, I'm sure... I'm sure there's lots of months to say. Do they have rankings as early? Yeah, yeah. Oh, sure. I mean, if 10,000 people pre-ordered the book, it would be number one, you know, even though it's not out yet. Well, I would just encourage folks to go to civilthoughts.com. Go there, sign up for the newsletter. I write, you're gonna like it. 14, 15 recommended readings come out every week. Victor, thanks for all the wisdom you shared. You've been terrific. You look great. And I hope you keep getting a little better every day, my friend. And we'll be back soon with another episode of Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Thanks and bye-bye. Thank you for watching and listening, everyone. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at VictorHansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition. 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