Um, but it does look like, um, things are looking up, I think it's fair to say, and that's not just a, not even a contentious take, I think now.

Well, I know what was a disaster was the 20-year misadventure in Afghanistan, so I'm not gonna just defend America.

And that was a bipartisan disaster.

The idea that you could take a traditionally Islamic, almost pre-modern society and turn it into a consensual society by flying the Pride flag on the embassy or George Floyd murals in downtown Kabul or gender studies pr- That was a imperialistic project that went awry.

And with that and Iraq, we spent $7 trillion in, in 20 years.

So I just try to, as a historian, I just try to calibrate it by misadventures.

So we have no ground troops in Iran.

Um, we're gonna have to take more asylum seekers on top of the ones that, you know, coming here illegally.

Though I have to note that Russia still controls 20% of what was formerly the Ukraine.

I've said this and I've been misinterpreted.

They had 41 million people.

They're down to about 28 million people.

Wounded, lost, but mostly people evacuated.

They went to other countries or to Europe, Western Europe.

So they didn't have the manpower.

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This socialist Islamicist group has a whole list of complaints about this country that we're supposed to listen to, and a whole list of complaints about the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, that we're supposed to listen to.

But many of these fiercest critics are dual citizens, and when they're in their other country, they say nothing about its sins, and there are, there are plenty, from settler colonialism to genocide to apartheid to war crimes.

But they do blast the d- democracies for those very sins.

We don't have to listen to this anymore.

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Um, was he right?

Well, in the Biden four years, the aggregate inflation had gone almost 21%, and it averaged 5.1% every year.

But if you were to look at staples, vehicles, fuel, insurance, housing, healthcare, had gone almost 30%.

So he was right about that.

His first year, he had about 2.6%, so he half, he halved the annual rate of inflation.

We'll see about this year.

About decline, uh, I don't think that, um...

Yeah

I mean, if it was another president, I don't know that we'd have the, "It's all, it's all lost."

I, I, I went through that in the counter-revolution.

I urge you all to read it because I documented every, every trope, every theme from the left.

Ultimately, the source was Trump, and it was to get Trump, get Trump.

I even think the AI thing.

All of a sudden, we have a September surprise that AI, some mid-level guy from Silicon Valley says, "The world's gonna be destroyed from AI." Bill Gates goes, "Well, I wouldn't quite say that.

Only a billion." And they're all from the left, and they want us to get terrified that Donald Trump's endorsement and advancement of AI, and by the way, nine out of the top...

She lost, right.

... is that we go against human nature, and it never works.

It never works, and it all, it's all contingent that the people who express that instinctual s- edge or advantage or self-interest, they have...

The full expression of it has to be the minority group of the society, because the society won't function if every single person does it all the time.

So when you say, like when I...

Before affirmative action, it was the old White boy net- if you wanted to get into Stanford or Harvard, you called your dad who called the dean.

And that worked if a lot of people didn't do that, or you at least were re- had pretty good s- grades.

But when everybody starts to do it, and, uh, and at Stanford the last four years...

Right

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And yet here we are four weeks before the midterms and we hear affordability, affordability, affordability from the Democrats.

And Trump did it, Trump did it, Trump did it.

It's time to spend the money in the Republican war chest, all of it, get the message out, get people to get out and vote and explain what happened under Biden and what the remedies are under Trump.

And they can still win the midterms if they do that.

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You think it's possible that we're on the edge of a boom and we don't even know it? And we're not in a recession or a downturn or the doom and gloom, as the left and the Democrats have told us and assured us four weeks before the midterm? I'm kind of worried about that because, as I mentioned earlier, that happened in 1992.

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When he said the latest, Carney said the latest about a veritable war, the American people's ears perked up.

And you can talk all you want in Canada about elbows out and how chauvinistic you are and how you're going to cut off the tar sands oil of the United States and all the terrible things you're going to do and you're going to get China on your side and they're not going to do it.

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I am going to mention Canada again.

I know we're getting tired of this subject because, after all, Canada is our closest ally, closest friend, the country that is most alike the United States, or so we've been told.

But Mark Carney is doing things that we have never seen or heard before in Canada.

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boards, L.A.,

San Francisco schools, people who are not citizens are voting in local elections.

And that sends a terrible message.

And then in addition to that, We said that the citizens, only citizens could go back and forth outside the country.

And we had 10,000 people under Biden coming in.

That was very important.

But he stopped everybody coming in from the United States.

You have to have people who are just as zealous

He confirmed in an interview this week that his government

governmentHad prepared for the possibility of the US launching an invasion of Canada amid ongoing trade tensions.

Quote, "I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk," Carney told The New York Times.

"That's just risk management.

That's not a bad case, but it would be irresponsible not to." I don't know, but do you hear cuckoo birds in the background? Yeah.

I don't think he's serious because if he did believe that, it would be like you were in Britain in 1939 and you're Winston Churchill, and two of your children are living in Germany, and all of your finances are tied up in German bonds, and you warn the British they're gonna invade any day, and your kids still live there in Germany.

He has two children living in the United States.

Go ahead.

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And we're right at the point where if we continue this anaconda strangulation of this wicked regime without putting ground troops in, without upping the military tempo unless they retaliate, with the Strait of Hormuz opening up and oil prices now starting slowly to recede, this regime will crack.

And if it should crack, it will be the most calamitous, major, significant change in world political affairs since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Sometimes when you're in the middle of revolutionary times, it's sort of like being in the eye of the hurricane.

You can't really detect or fathom what's going on, even though the changes are tumultuous.

That's what's happening in the world today.

And I was wondering your thoughts.

Well, it's been so deeply entrenched for 20 years, 30 years.

Some people listening, those young people, let's say, that are 20, and they were born in 2006.

F-Before they were born, affirmative action and racial preferences had been there for 40 years.

They've been there for 60 now.

So it's an institution, and Donald Trump has only tried to dismantle it in a year and a half.

And what's happening is that the universities are nodding because they're afraid they're gonna get funds cut off, and then they bring in their administrators and say How do we avoid this? How do we get around this? How do we subvert this? Let's change it to not diversity, equity, inclusion, but, um, belonging, the office of belonging.

I know that James Buchanan is always the poor guy that gets kind of blamed for the Civil War and the on-- so that he didn't do anything about it because he was pro-slavery, so.

Uh, he really let, um, M- Mexico and Iran and Cuba sort of hear what needs to be done, and he did a little bragging about his Venezuela, but what are your thoughts?

Yeah, what happens in the UN, there's roughly 180 nations.

I think now the majority are not consensual or democratic or whatever term we use.

And they get there, and this is the first time in their lives that they're in a consensual, free, prosperous society, and it's in the capital of the world, New York.

So all these delegates come over here, and they get on the media, left-wing media, and for the first time they act like they're sober parliamentarians.

But when they go back to their hellholes, um, they don't get to vote, and they're part of corrupt governments like Iran and China and all the rest of them.

But then they virtue signal, and they virtue signal on two topics, Israel, which is about 40% of their resolutions of condemnation, little country of 11, almost 11 million people, and the United States.

I thought that was a great speech.

He cusses." Why is he there?

Yeah, I think one thing was...

There were two things.

One was the message, and one was the medium.

The medium was that people were tired of politicians that either tried to, um, erase their, their controversial statements or have it both ways or prevaricate- Whatever he said, even outrageous, I remember when he was running, if you remember, John McCain had said, "Trump brings all the crazies out." And somebody asked him about that, and he said, "I wish that we would honor people who, uh, fought and not got captured." It was a terrible thing to say, but everybody thought he would apologize for that, and he didn't.

He said, "He attacked me first.

I replied." And so whatever, however outrageous or crude that he might have sounded, he didn't go back in his, he didn't go back and cleanse his social media account.

Is that ridiculous?

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You get this anger, and the anger now is not just white versus non-white.

It's breaking out everywhere, and social media and the Internet is the fuel that accelerates this pathology.

The problem is that our government thinks the medicine for that disease of tribalism is worse than the disease itself.

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I think we should entitle our short video today, Tribalism Doesn't Work.

And what do I mean by that? The ancient prejudice that people would identify largely with people who resemble them, whether that's in terms of religion or gender or sexual orientation, or superficial appearance and that they would have cliques or cohorts or tribes does not work in a consensual society in which all groups vote for an elected government and when we see this in Rwanda or we saw it in Iraq or we see it in Lebanon or we see it in some places in large democracies like Indonesia or caste system in India or racial tensions in Brazil it does not work so what's going on right now well if you look at The nature of the United States right now, we are seeing one tribal group pitted against the other, and they're jockeying for political power.

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Victor, is this a, is this a great victory for Donald Trump? What's your take on this?

It is a great victory because all he said in the beginning is that China and Russia, given the Northwest Passage is starting to be navigated or will be, and when you look at the map and you look at missile trajectories, uh, strategic air flights, bombing, it's all, it's all connected.

I mean, you look at us and Russia and China in the Arctic, and they're very close to each other as opposed to lo- the lower latitudes.

But here's my query.

Let's say that Donald Trump, instead of saying, "We need this.

We're gonna take it if they don't sell it," da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

What if he just said, "Could I..." This is before Denmark decided to invest a billion dollars and put Greenland's coat of arms on its own coat of arms or, and say that this was outrageous and...

Yeah.

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Tucker says that I was glorifying, or I use the word that the use of these horrible weapons was glorious rather than necessary to save lives.

I challenge him to produce that quote.

And if he can't produce that quote, I suggest he apologize.

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About a month ago, I talked about the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I made the argument why the United States did that, used those devastating weapons.

Not that I was happy about it, of course, but we all were commemorating the date.

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The polls are, we really don't know the effect of these polls, the reliability of them.

We don't know exactly who's going to get how much money and from where.

We really don't know how well the Republicans are going to be able to expose the socialist background of their opponents.

But the big known unknowns, again, What's going to happen in Iran in the next five weeks? Is the regime going to get stronger? Is it going to close the strait? Will gas stabilize or go down? Will the Iranian regime fall? Nobody really knows.

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We're about five weeks from the midterms and maybe we should have another update.

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The funniest story, and I'll end with this, I was a, a professor in two thousand and two.

John Raisin was a wonderful guy, called me up and said, "We'd like you to come to the Hoover Institution." So I went up there, and one of the assistant directors, who was actually from Ohio State, he tells me about the Hoover, and he has no idea that I was a graduate student at Stanford for four years.

He has no idea that my mother got a BA and a JD at Stanford in nineteen, uh, forty-four.

She was one of the first women in the law school.

She had no idea that my aunt, my cousins, um, all went to Stanford and didn't really make a big thing about it.

So he says, "You know, you're in the big leagues now, Victor." I had, I, I had written fifteen books.

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I said, number one, the left-wing criticism that we only did it to

tofrightened the Russians is demonstrably false, and it didn't frighten the Russians because they were already working on the bomb and, and had numerous espionage agents in New Mexico in the Manhattan Project besides the Rosenbergs well before them.

And they, they would indeed detonate a bomb almost four years to the day of Hiroshima, just four, four years and two or three what, in, uh, August of 1949.

Second, I said, nor did we just drop it to say we have to justify the two to three billion dollar expense of the Manhattan.

That was the most expensive project along with the B-29 project.

We did not do that.

It might have been a collateral, uh, advantage, but we did not do that to scare the Russians, as I said.

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We're about 40 days, close to 40 days out of the midterm and all of a sudden there's been a melodramatic announcement that artificial intelligence could destroy the human race.

I think everybody's always accepted that remote possibility and it's been very popular in popular cultures such as the Terminator series.

But why did all of a sudden we hear about it now? We're about 40 days, close to 40 days out of the midterm and all of a sudden there's been a melodramatic announcement that artificial intelligence could destroy the human race.

I think everybody's always accepted that remote possibility and it's been very popular in popular cultures such as the Terminator series.

But why did all of a sudden we hear about it now? And the answer is Jason Coxon, a minor figure that had worked in major AI companies, suddenly quit.

And he announced that even the CEOs of those companies were worried that they were creating things that they couldn't control and that artificial intelligence could.

five months of looting, arson, destruction.

Let's start with that.

Yeah, well, I mean, after January 6th, the early polls, and the left really glorified in them, showed Ron DeSantis, who'd had a great governorship and had been widely reelected, very popular, was ahead by 25 points.

And Trump's popularity was down to 30 to 34 among Republicans.

Mitch McConnell said it couldn't happen to a nicer SOB, meaning Trump was finished.

Hmm.

And he couldn't write a check, Larry.

Despite the denials of the banking industry, he was debanked, even his daughter.

I thought maybe you'd give us a minute on that.

Let's start with that.

Yeah, well, I mean, after January 6th, the.

Early polls, when the left really glorified in them, showed Ron DeSantis, who'd had a great governorship and had been widely reelected, very popular, was ahead by 25 points.

And Trump's popularity was down to 30 to 34 among Republicans.

Mitch McConnell said it couldn't happen to a nicer SOB, meaning Trump was finished.

And he couldn't write a check, Larry.

They'd be Despite the denials of the banking industry, he was debanked, even his daughter, I mean, his son and daughter and wife.

Now, no, go ahead, please.

Let's start with that.

Yeah, well, I mean, after January 6th, the early polls, then the left really glorified in them, showed Ron DeSantis, who'd had a great governorship and had been widely reelected, very popular, was ahead by 25 points.

And Trump's popularity was down to 30 to 34 among Republicans.

Mitch McConnell said it couldn't happen to a nicer SOB, meaning Trump was finished.

Hmm.

And he couldn't write a check, Larry.

Despite the denials of the banking industry, he was debanked, even his daughter.

I thought maybe you'd give us a minute on that.

Yeah, well,

I mean, after January six, the early polls, they, then the left really glorified in them.

So Ron's Rhonda Santas, who'd had a great governorship and had been widely reelected, right? What very popular was ahead by 25 points.

And Trump's popularity was down to 30 to 34 among Republicans.

Mitch McConnell said it couldn't happen to a nicer SOB meaning Trump was finished.

Hmm.

And he couldn't write a check there.

I thought maybe you'd give us a minute on that.