Victor Davis Hanson: Why Common Sense Is Branded Conservative & The Privileged Left

0:00Victor Davis Hansen, one of the smartest guys, you'll listen to all week. He's on. Also will do the news with Andrew as well. And so much more for showtime. Press nothing. They're free 24 seven. That is so a f**k. On Pluto TV stream now. Pay never. From Corolla one studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Corolla show. Adam's guest today, political commentator, historian and author Victor Davis Hansen. Plus the news with Andrew Thompson and now Adam Corolla. Victor Davis Hansen has joined me. He's a

1:06historian. He's an author. He's a clear thinker. He's kind of, I don't know, I would call him the white Thomas soul in a weird way, just a guy who makes sense all the time. You see him popping up on Fox all the time. I don't know, Victor, do you get invited to go to CNN or any other those types of outlets ever? Once in a while, but they haven't turned out well. So I think I usually say no. But you know how the New York people like the New York Times, they'll call conservatives and they'll want. They'll want you to object to something a conservative is done. And then they'll sensationalize it. So I don't talk to I don't talk to them or the Washington Post. CNN, I've gone on a couple of times and it's been an ambush. So yeah, yeah, I work, you know, it's interesting. I'm a fan of years. I really enjoy logic and practicality and common sense. And I was just thinking, you know, people

2:11like you and myself and others, we get sort of painted into this sort of conservative mouthpiece, you know, Trump talking points or something. But I've always just thought of myself as wildly pragmatic and, you know, reality on reality terms. I think of you that way. But also if you go back and you think about the stoicism and the stoics and the folks and the philosophers that came 2000 years ago, were they called something other than philosophers, were they associated with a party where they called, you know, far right? Well, they didn't like them. Yeah. Yeah. We they created that word, selfie stays. They were softest. So some of them were, you know, they weren't all softest. Protagoras was called a softest. And Gorgias was called a softest. But at the time, their supporters thought they were philosophers. Socrates was called a softest by his opponents. What is the definition of a softest? A softest is it comes from softest wise. It's kind of in you in Greek,

3:14you put ISTE as an is stick. So it's, it's, why is this stick? So he's a wise guy. He's, he thinks he's wise, but he's only clever with words or he, he feels that he can make an argument that can convince you then it must be true. Right. By the power of his vocabulary or syntax. So it's a pejorative term in English now. Right. So they did do a version of what we do. Yes. And absolutely. They did. And, and I guess because it's humans and it's human nature and it's human beings. And why wouldn't we just do what they did? And why wouldn't they? Why? You know, they'll do this 2000 years from now. I'm sure. But it can be a little frustrating, I think, at least it is for me sometimes when I'm like, I'm just a pragmatic guy. It is. I, I had lunch with Tom. So twice a month for 15 years. He's a little older now and can't do it. And when he would have a book out, I'd say, this is, he'd always send it to me and we'd

4:19meet for lunch. I discuss it. And he'd say, it's going to be, it's going to be attacked by all these people. And, and many of them weren't even political, you know what I mean? Some were, but most of them were just common sense economics, common sense decision making on government, common sense on things like altism, everything. He, what about everything? And he was very stoic about it and just said, he just accepted it. He got to the point where he said, I don't even get mad anymore. Just if I don't see their, their saying this about me that I'm an uncle Tom or I'm a black cell out was very good. I felt bad because I had been going through a lot of stuff. He had attacks, but not to the same degree. And he was, I, of all the people I met at the Hoover over the last 20 years, it's kind of ironic. He and Shelby still were probably the brightest. So you think the black community would, or the white community, political would appreciate that,

5:19but they hated them for that. And they made their life miserable. So yeah, I'm right. Well, there's nothing worse to them than a black, actually a black female who, you know, has a different message than they do. It angers them the most. And always funny to me that they don't even really count them as black anymore once they hook up, you know, or gay, you know, like, like, they'll go, look at, you know, the Trump administration and you go, well, what about this black guy, or that gay guy or that Asian guy? It's like, that doesn't count anymore. They're terms are, you can only be black or Hispanic or gay if you're a Democrat. And if you cease to be a Democrat, then you kind of cease to be black. You're not, yeah, you're not a thing. You're a cell out, or you're suffering from false consciousness. Right. But that was one thing Obama did. And I

6:20mentioned it in the book. He took affirmative action in that 12% 11% black and the historic tension with whites and, you know, slavery, Jim Crow and the efforts of the great society. And he thought, you know, that's too small of victim class. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to say that anybody who isn't white, regardless of money, regardless of history, regardless if they just set foot in the nation a day ago, they are a victim by their color. And all of a sudden, we had 30%. You could be an Indian from India and aristocrat. You can be an Argentina guy with red hair and blue eyes, but Trill is ours. I had all my neighbors were Punjabis and they were always complaining that they were dark and their kids couldn't get in under affirmative action. And they'd say to me, all these Pujami farmers would say, my, my, my kids on, I'm darker than Hispanics. I'm darker than Black and they get nothing. And I said, well, you're all very wealthy and they said,

7:21there's no matter. And now they're delighted. They said, oh, I'm diverse. I'm DEI. This is great. And I think that was a very subtle change he made. He just sort of redefined race as anybody who's not white is a victim and a press on that Marxist binary. And that was really the cause of a lot of our problems because when you look at the oppressed today, it's nothing to do with class. Mandami is very wealthy. He was from a settler colonial family in Uganda. Hassan Piker drives a $200,000 Porsche. Vokama now thinks he's a big socialist. He's worth, I guess his in laws are worth a quarter billion dollars. They're all there. I don't know if it's true, but I don't know. Omar said she was worth 30 million. So, but they're all victims by their just one common link that they're not white. And that's that was, I think we can attribute that to Obama. He was the one that started that. Well, he also perpetuated it for other reasons that don't really involve his actions. But I've always had this feeling. And

8:29Obama, it sort of saddens me that him, I shouldn't say Obama. I should say the Obamas. It saddens me that both of them sort of turned out the way they did because it would have been so nice if they went a different direction. I just think it could have helped so much instead. Oh, it would have. She if you had a concern, the first president of the United States had been black and conservative or centrist, it would have made a big difference. Yeah. And she turned out to be more of a race hustler than him. And probably I will say, look, I don't know what to say when I say, you know, she hates this country, but she doesn't speak glowingly of this country. I don't know if she hates this country, but she doesn't she's not complimentary. If this country was her spouse, you would assume she doesn't like her spouse. But I will make this point to you. And you can tell me what you think of it. We always said racism will be over when we elected black president.

9:34That was sort of the it was a conceit. It wasn't an actual yardstick to measure racism. It was just like the conceit will be when we get to the point where we're able to elect a black president, that will sort of be what we perceive as the end of racism in this country. And he used to be comedians used to joke about it a lot like in the 80s and the 90s and talking about having a black, you know, that that was the future. The utopian future was we've elected a black president thus racism is over. And we elected a black president to two terms. So that if we're making a movie about a country, that would be the end of the movie where racism was over cured whatever you want to call it. But because so many people are invested in racism, including the Obama's

10:34and everyone on the left, that was just their signal to double down. They realized that they had to overcompensate and undo this thing that declared racism over. And if you notice, that's when the hoaxes and the bending over backwards and finding systemic racism and finding basically, you know, systemic buy or like implicit bias and stuff. That's when they had all these new agitators. Right. Right. That's the beginning. You can just say racism in Sidious implicit. Well, they systemic. Well, that's sorry. That's when they had to start finding invisible racism. So you would say, name me a law that's racist. Name me give me a policy. Oh, no, no, no, that's not what it is. You have bias and you don't even know about it, which now can never be disproven because, you know, who who knows what invisibly lurks inside of a man's heart. But I

11:36felt like Obama being elected is what made all the hustlers the Jesse Jackson's and the Al Sharpton's and CNN's and they all went into overdrive to bring back racism. They did. And again, one of the key things he did was though, we had always said that oppression against blacks could be measured in economic terms. They were statistically poor or black and then once they had an equal opportunity, you'll see and all that stuff, then they would achieve parity and they were getting close to parity. And same thing was to a women 57% of college students are women now. And black wealth is greater. If it for people who identify as black, their wealth is greater than any majority black nation in the in the world. And we have black billionaires, etc. But what they did, again, I think it's really important that Obama, Eric Holder, all Oprah, all these people saw that because of their

12:41wealth and their privilege, now we're in the second generation of it, the Obama kids and they were no longer, they could no longer be victims unless they they separated that. And they said, it does not matter how wealthy you are, how privileged you are is your skin color. And that's what Obama did. He said, your diversity, it's diversity. And it's not based on past oppression. So, Mandami can come over here and he's a victim. He's part of a minority group. And all Rokana's, as I said, he's a millionaire. Hassan, they're all kind of, you know, fakers and operators, but at least in the past, you could say there's a correlation between being non-white and not having as much. But when you look at ethnic majorities, who identify as ethnic majority, a minority, 17 of them are higher than whites, Arab Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans. And it was kind of funny when

13:44a Mandami said he wanted to go after a wider richer neighborhood. I thought, well, he's going to go after the Indian community because they're the richest neighborhood in the world, you know, in the United States. But so that was really important. And he pulled that off with no controversy. And now we have this, this 37 binary. And it warps everything that almost what D.I. did was it said, you get exemption. You get exemption, not just preference to get into college or promoted or retain. But when you do bad things, it's all contingent on your gender or your race. And we don't apply the full measure of the law to you. And that's undermined and merit talk, we see it undermined it. So we're in a tailspin. Then you get Donald Trump. What was weird about Donald Trump, he didn't care about this. I've seen only politician I've ever met that did not care. When he said that about Camilla Harris, he goes, they ask her about, are you, you're going into some black journalist and what do you think about the first? He said, I don't

14:46know what she is. If she wants to be black, she can be black. But I don't think, maybe she's Asian. I don't know. I don't care. And everybody went crazy about that. But he never, he never apologized. He never backtracked. And I think everybody, all the never Trumpers said he's going to lose the minority vote. Maybe he will in the midterms. But 56% of black males voted for him. I mean, Hispanic males in about 24% of black male, that was a record for male minorities. And I think it was the authenticity that they felt he didn't try to pander. He didn't try to change his accent. He wasn't Hillary. I'm so tired or Obama modulating the accent. Yes. Or Joe Biden put you all, I'm going to put you all in change. You got, you know, you for all that stuff back in change. That was new. I see a little improvement a little bit, not much. But I think it's mostly fatigue that people just say racist. Oh, yeah. That, you know, it just rolls

15:46off your back now. It doesn't mean much. Oh, I've said for 10 years, there's never been a better time to be an actual racist because you just get lumped in with Sean Hannity and Trump and Victor, David Hans, David Hanson and Adam Corollan and everyone else. Anyone's ever been on the Jesse Waters show or great, you'd be lumped in with great gut felon. You know, so you could hide and play in sight. Yeah, I think there's a bit of a saturation level. It is kind of insane that in 2026, they keep going back to the rate. They, they, what they do is they sort of, they do the racism thing for a while and then they stop and then they do some sort of homophobic thing for a while. And then that gets tiresome. And at some point, they might jump to something international. I ran or something like that. And then trans help them, you know, Adam, I didn't even know what trans was until, I mean, I, as a historian, I knew there were passages in ancient

16:52literature about transvestism and transsexualism where people thought they were, was very rare. And then I would, when that whole trans thing, I looked at some of the classical sexologists have a they had it all documented in the 50s, 40s that turn, it was about 001% of the population. Yes. And all of a sudden, they were 30% of undergraduates at Brown or somewhere saying they were considering transition. They made it into a new civil rights movement because they were, the other ones had been exhausted. And they invented it. Yeah. And I don't know what's next. They still will circle back to racism. They, they always find their way back to racism. It'll die down never more than five, six months, but it'll die down for a little bit. And then they'll come back and find it with these linchins. Yes. You think there's so much intersectionality. So when that gale king was talking about the juror and one of the white lady jurors and the

17:54clancy trials, he said, well, there's this holdout and holdout. And she said, well, who was he? And he said, well, he was a male. And her eyes got big. You know, we're sisters now. And these males are cheering the misfortunes of what they're, you know, and then all of a said, well, did you know anything about us? Well, yes, he was black. She just said, I've got to take a breath with that. I've got to stop because she, her mind was going women, black, solidarity, but black person opposed feminist women that I'm for, but the feminist women, I also don't like if they're white. So this black guy is a victim. And she couldn't figure it out. Her head was exploding. Yeah. About where her allegiance are in that hierarchy of victimhood. Yeah. It's very, I find it mostly pathetic when I hear this speech is like as a black woman growing up in America, I under like I find it very narcissistic, but also find it super

18:54narcissistic, but also kind of sad. And I'll tell you what I'm saying. It's like I'm Italian. But if I just dressed like a gondaleer and every time I said, you know, my great-grandfather, Giuseppe would tell me when he was, he was a gondaleer. He was an organ grinder. I should be like, give it a rest, Adam. Just get on with something else. Have a have a have a life. It's not all about being an nationality. And I know I taught for 20 years at Cal State, Fresno where most of my students were minority. I would see these guys that come in and they were obviously Hispanic, but they had a white father. Right. And their name was Jorge Smith or something. But they didn't everybody treated them as white because of the name. And then I knew other people who were one quarter or one eighth Mexican, but it was always on the male side. So they got that last name. And then all of a sudden in the 80s when I was started teaching there, if it was Joe Rameras and he

19:57was blonde hair and blue eyed because his great-grandfather was Rameras and the father and all of a sudden he started, literally in my class, he would put accent marks, then he was Jorge. And it was all, it was this search, it was a search for an edge, it was kind of a con. I need some edge. And this minority thing is going to. And it was really funny. It wasn't, at least I was teaching the Odyssey one year and I had a Hispanic Mexican American girl. Every time she opened her mouth, she said, as a Latina. Right. Right. I can't relate to this professor Hansen. As a Latina, this doesn't, I said, if you keep, please don't do that. This literature's universal appears to, it appeals to the human spirit. I don't think so. As a Latina. So I said, I'm going to identify every time. So she'd say, I'd say, Hortensia, would you please translate or can you give me tell me your views on this

21:02particular passage on the underworld scene? As a Latina, I said, well, as a white male, I can't relate to you. And I did that the whole class. Every time I said, and then she called the dean, who was, his name was Dean Costa, but he was from Spain. And he hated affirmative action. So he just said, what the blank are you doing, Victor? You know this, you're giving me a headache. This is a joke. We all know it's a joke. Why are you teasing these students? I have to do something to you. I tell you what, for the rest of the week, just stay on your farm and relax. Skip three classes. And I'll tell everybody I put you on hold. Right. Take a vacation. But it was all it's all cynical. And at Stanford, we have theme houses instead of racially segregated dorms. If we have racially segregated graduations, they're adjacent graduations adjacent. And everybody knows what it is. A white guy walks into the black dorm, then he's not going to be welcome. He's not right. And so they

22:04have euphemistic titles for things that are basically just segregation. Yeah. So that's what the left does. It basically, if you were to sum up the left, it's basically how to lie about what they're for or how to distort what they're really doing. It's a big, it's a line incorporated. The whole movement is well, I see it. So here's where I come at all this stuff. The human wiring is we're wired for a shortcut in a life hack. No matter what, we're just wired for it. I'm literally saying, you know, if the well is three miles that direction and someone goes, I got a shortcut to the well. It's only two miles. Then everyone goes, where's the shortcut? It's just how we're wired. And so everything you do in life is a sort of a hack. It's like, well, my son moved out and now

23:11we have an open room. Well, if you call that room your office, then you can write it off as a business expense. And everyone does it because why wouldn't you? And so when we start offering a lot of these things such as, you know, if you say your daughter's on the spectrum, you can get an extra $1400 a month from the government because your daughter's on the spectrum. And then you go, what is the spectrum? It's like it's murky. It's not really, it's hard to, it's kind of hard to define. It's like a service dog at the airport. What is it? What I just want to travel with my dog. Well, then we'll call it a service dog. And then you can travel with your everything we're wired for is sort of hacks in shortcuts. And it's not even a bad thing. It's just sort of how we're wired. So if you're going to offer things up such as you can get into this college with a lower GPA and a lower test score, a lower SAT, if we find out that you have some Hispanic blood or American Indian blood or African

24:17American, but if we can find that out, well, then everyone's going to do it if we offer it. If we offer it a huge scale, I think of as it's Stanford, how many students were saying that they had a disability so that they could get an extra day to take a test. It's a lot. Okay, is it their fault? And my answer is it's not their fault. It's what people do. It's human nature. And what the Democrats are asking is that we go against human nature. And it never works. It never works. And it's all contingent that the people who express that instinctual 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 of every single person does it all the time. So when you say like when I, before affirmative action, it was the old white boy neck. If you wanted to get in a Stanford or

25:20Harvard, you call your dad who called the dean. And that worked if a lot of people didn't do that. Are you at least were had pretty good grades. But when everybody starts to do it and it's Stanford the last four years, let's not only mention that because that's where I work and I know a little bit about it. Eight percent were white males. So no SAT and 30 to 40 percent were black, Hispanic, gay, etc. The result was that the faculty was very left wing. So they said would say to you, I have three choices. If I grade honestly and I had the same work requirement, I will come up statistically as giving lower grades to minorities. So I either have to give A's, 80 percent got A's. That's the average at Stanford Yale, 80 percent. Or I have to water it on the class. Or I got to have new medials. So we have remedial math. And so they all think that solves a problem. And then

26:23you talk to the Silicon Valley guys that are cut throat and they want to make money and they say, I don't want to hire these guys anymore. They go right to HR. They don't know anything. I'd rather hire a guy from Texas Tech or Georgia Tech, Texas A&M, different culture. They know stuff. They know how to code. They know how to speak English. They know how to write. And it destroyed, it's destroying that brand. And now there's of course, we have to bring back the SAT. We have to quietly let in a few more white males on a merit-credits basis. We've got to watch these remedial classes. We've got to go talk to Silicon Valley that we're still the same, it's like a cattle brand. Our cattle brand still means something if you have a Stanford BA, but it doesn't mean anything anymore because the employers who are tough people, you know, when you talk, you can't pull a guy like David Sachs or Mark Andrews and those guys, they know. They don't care. They just want somebody who's educated. And they've turned off on these schools. And I think that's when it stops,

27:29when you reach a peak period where the whole system is failing or you have too many air traffic controllers or we have too many 45,000 people who are given a license to drive with no physical exam, no couldn't read English. They're illegal. And now they're driving 80,000 pounds on our freeway. They're talking about silly trucks. Yes. And they're killing people and they're scaring people. And everybody's saying the highways don't work anymore. Then it starts to, and then the question is will it implode or will at the level 11th hour people say this is nuts. And I think that was kind of what the Trump first election and the second term was about that the first time we looked at the symptoms of the project progressive project. And it didn't, I mean, he did a lot of good things the first term, but he had, you know, Rex Tillers and John Bolton, Jim Matt as Stephen they weren't on the team. Right. And he didn't know much. And then the second time it was like,

28:33I'm going to get a hardcore magick, and I'm going to go out for the causes. The causes are the universities tax or endowment, root out anti-symmetism, cut their grants from 40% overhead to 15, media, defund PBS, depound, NPR, be free to sue these people. The border, not just build the wall, but deport people, no more refugee status once you're here, all about. So they're trying to at least this time address symptoms in a 360 degree. We're going after the culture, cop classical architecture is good. We're not going to tear down statues. If they're going to rename stuff, we're going to rename stuff, but in a very different way. And it's kind of a haphazard shotgun approach, but they're trying to undo 50 years. Yeah. And they're doing it very radically. And that's why he's so much more hated now because he's more effective.

29:34Yeah. I honestly as a native Californian, when I know you are, we grew up in very different environments in California, but it's still California. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. All I'm trying to do was undo what has been done in the last 40 or 50 years at this notion of like, I have an agenda. I don't even, you know, I would argue that Trump's agenda, it's just undoing a ton of policy. It's not even really an agenda. It's basically like saying, you know, if it's one thing to remodel a house and go, you know what, we're going to add a master bedroom on another 1,500 square feet. That's one thing. This is not that. This is your roof has a hole in it. There's termites all over the place. The plumbing is leaking. I just want to put the house back to how it was. I'm not even asking for a chandelier. I'm just saying,

30:38what a fix the house. Los Angeles is a decrepit house that is falling apart. And I'm just saying, I just want to get it back to how it looked when I was a kid and I grew up in this house. Yeah. And that's what I, they asked me for a title, the publisher, and I said, well, we had a revolution. And I just want to stop it. So they said, stop the revolution. I said, how about just the counter to the revolution, not counter remake? I don't want to be like Obama fundamentally transform the come. I just want to undo the things they did. Your metaphor of a house is really good because they destroyed the roof. They destroyed the foundation. They destroyed the wiring. They destroyed the plumbing. They destroyed everything. I think they have. And that requires a full, you have to get a committed bunch of zealots, counter revolutionaries. And they have to be committed. They can't be like the first term people. They've got to be expected to be hated. And they have to be 24, 7, 360. They have to look at the whole, the holistic society.

31:42And they have to have one simple, grand directive. And that is undo what these people did when they took control of the foundations of universities, K through 12, the corporate boardroom, entertainment, sport, just undo it. And try to do as fast as you can because you might not ever have a chance again. And that's what I, and what they reacted to, boy, when you look at two impeachments, trying them as a citizen, steel dossier, hunter laptop, fiasco, 20, but deep balloting them in 25 states, rating more logo, five criminal and civil suits, for only time in history that the secret service of shot at a potential assassin on four different occasions, a Trump assassin. Once it more logo, even though he wasn't there, they shot him. Once, you know, the golf course, once at the White House, correspondence, dinner, and once in Pennsylvania. And so, and that's, you know, he's trying to do all of that stuff and not those tweets

32:47and the crudity and the capital letters. It's just, it's just war with him. It's just frustration and anger at the entire what we've become. And it's also an empowering the people who didn't destroy that house. So he looked at this forgotten deplore, they had a special vocabulary, deplorables, irredeemables, clingers, Biden added to that and said, called him drags, garbage, chumps. And he tried to say, these are the people who get up every morning, kind of what Reagan's silent majority or Nixon's was. And they make all the other stuff possible. If you don't, if you go to work late or you, you're always out protesting or you're cheating on welfare or you, you can tolerate that because the other the majority is not doing that. And so they were struggling and they keep the country going. And all of a sudden Trump said, I'm going to empower these guys and reward these guys and not the guys that are tearing down the house. And that was, you know, I thought when he,

33:52when he started saying things he was going to do, I am, my success will be my revenge. I thought, oh my god, there's going to call him, you know, deportations, my gosh, can you imagine that what that's going to incur? And it did. I mean, it's, it's almost like a full scale Jacobin revolution, the reign of terror versus the reaction against it. So, you know, I always say with COVID, you can blame the Wuhan lab and you can blame Chinese government, you can blame CNN, you can blame Gavin Newsom or whoever progressive mayor has shutting down the city. But ultimately, it's not really doable without an army of people, you know, the people when, when Gavin Newsom shut the beaches, we all should have went to the beach that day instead. Nobody went to the beach, you know, we all listened. There was only, you know, he shut down outdoor dining in restaurants.

34:55I remember. And one restaurant was family owned and I went to high school with the owners. And they've owned it for 50 years and they're called tinhorn flats. And they said to the city of Burbank, enough's enough. You don't have any evidence. They, they moved all their stuff from indoors to outdoors. And now we're shutting down outdoors. And they said, we're staying open. And we were defying you. And I said that night to my son, we're going down to tinhorn flats to have a hamburger for dinner. And we went down there just as a show of solidarity. And, but it was only one restaurant that did it in the Burbank area that I was aware of. And, you know, a week later had an iron gate around it. And it's been out of business family run restaurant for over 50 years, been out of business for now five years. So, now if all the restaurants had defied this non-scientific order, then tinhorn flats wouldn't have gotten iron gate around it because they wouldn't have been

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39:10But we didn't know that. And he was saying if you get these magic vaccinations, you will not be infectious and you will not be infected. I can guarantee you that. And then it was, well, if you do this, it will help you. Just like you said, the mask. Masked don't work. One mask will work. Two masks will work. It's better. Get two masks. And that kept changing. And then, you know, Biden kicked out the Pentagon Lloyd Austin, 8500 career soldiers because they didn't get vaccinated. When 10,000 people were coming in the day across the southern border and they didn't even want it. They would no more say, do you have a vaccination? Because we've just kicked out 8500 soldiers. But it was a tyrannical, my iconic point was they had a guy and you knew him. And he's a colleague of mine, Scott Atlas. Yeah. And he said, if you, he said about three things right away when

40:11Trump hired him at the 11th hour, he said, people under 18 are not going to get severely ill unless they have a medical condition. If you really want to try the mRNA vaccinations, I would recommend you do it for elderly people. But there's no scientific evidence that younger people need it and most adults can get through it. And any damage that the virus will do will not be as much as the economic chaos and depriving two years of education for more nation's youth. And more importantly, he said, if you put people cooped up in an apartment or a house with no social contact, you're going to see an epidemic of alcohol, spousal, drug abuse. And I think that whole George Floyd was connected. You know, everybody was cooped up and they went nuts for four months. And you know what they did? The next thing I knew, if you walked with Scott across the Stanford campus, people walked the

41:13other way. The faculty censored him. They tried to fire him. And Trump let him go, basically, because Fauci and Berks and all this people. That was the hierarchy in NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Fectious Diseases. And everybody thought, I'm just a Yahoo, I don't want to get any more boost at Stanford if you were not going to be able to work there. You couldn't even go to your office unless you got the two vaccinations. And if you didn't get the booster, you were in trouble. I never got the booster. And I remember taking my phone and putting it literally in foil when I walked on campus because they had a tracing of your ping. And they would, yes, they could send you an email and all around the campuses, there were little kiosk. You were not supposed to be here. You have 24 hours to take this test and they handed them, they were just free. And then you dropped it in any time you walked on campus. Everybody was terrified. Well, of the government, I guess. You know, you see, you're answering a lot about COVID.

42:20But the question is, for me, was more, I knew all this was going on. Why were there so many useful idiots? Why were there so many willing participants? And, you know, you can extrapolate that to all the ice stuff and sort of everything else. Where are all these people coming from? I sniffed this thing out early. And I was not, I realized mask were useless. I went to tinhorn flats because I knew it posed no danger to me in my 14 year old healthy son. It's not like I was going to turn my son into a martyr. I knew this was all nonsense. And, and I kept looking around and yelling at everybody, wake up. Like, don't you know what's going on? That's the part that worries me about. Yeah, well, it is, it is because it had elements of one day, there's a legitimate

43:21complaint about Harvey Weinstein. And the next a year later, every single male you know in a prohibition of success starts saying to you, you know, 11 years ago, I was at a party. And I kissed that girl. And we were both drunk. Do you think she's going to meet to me? It was like, it was like an epidemic of madness until it crested. George Floyd was madness. All of a sudden, the University of Chicago said, we are not taking any white candidates for the English PhD. You have to be black. It's going to be all black English studies. It was just insane. At Hoover, we were supposedly a conservative institution. Suddenly, it was staff who have been forgotten about their oppression. So the black person, the all the black people, and many of them were upper, upper middle class. And we all had to go on Zoom and listen to these stories. I'm with you. I've been one

44:23of you. I've worked you. You don't know how I've suffered silently from all of the looks I get. And it was all these, and it was just constant. And then all of a sudden, that fad vanished. And that's what happens. It's, it's, I think it's characteristic of democracies. There's a great passage in the historian, Herod, as he says, the Ionians wanted the Greeks to help them. They're on the coast of Turkey. And they were being revolting against the Persian Empire. So they go to the Spartans where oligarchs. And they think this is going to be easy. I only have to, you know, about a thousand of these Spartans. And they make the argument in the Spartans, say, how far away are you? 300 miles. And you, you have to go take our ships to get over there. And this, your enemies are hundreds of them. Now we're not going to do anything. So then they think, well, we'll go, that was, you know, that was expected. They're all like, we'll go over to the Athenians. So they get in the

45:23the Ecclesia where there's thousands of them. And they make these things. We're Ionians like you are, we're a democracy. We're fighting the bad guys. Can you just drop everything and join this war? And they all say, yes. And Herodotus says, so it is with crowds that it's much easier to convince 30,000 people who are in, basically, the Greek word is into mindset or hysteria than it is a few sober and judicious people. And I think that's one of the dangers we have to watch in our popular culture. Not so much the legal, you know, Congress or White House or Supreme Court, but the popular culture. Yes. It's very dangerous. And it likes victims and it heats up and it gets hysterical. But there's not a lot of self reflection in it. No. And I want to tell everyone, you guys got duped by COVID for five years. You were lied to, you became useful

46:29idiots and you were duped. You got duped by Hunter Biden's laptop. You got duped by Russian collusion. There's so many stories, big and small, jussie small, that whatever it is, ducal across, ducal across all of it. Do you ever stop and reflect and say, man, my banning average is not so good. Maybe I shouldn't rush to the next thing. Okay. The next thing is AI is going to get us all killed by, you know, 2030. And you guys are all rushing to get on board that train as well. Is there a point where you hesitate and question yourself based on past performance? I hope so. After George Floyd, they said that cops were murdering black men in the street and then poor role in fire, the Harvard, a con black Harvard economist said actually the Washington Post was right. There was only 11 black men killed who were on armed last year and there were more white

47:33men that were killed on armed, even though there are majority of the population, but black men came into contact with police more than white men did. And he, his next thing he knew Claudine Gay at Harvard had him isolated and he was persona non grata and they tried to ruin his career for five years. Just for saying the truth. So that's I think the fear that makes all these mass mob movements dangerous. Now it's anti-Semitism. I didn't, I always thought, well, it's so weird to read about what was happening in Germany in the 30s. I can't believe anybody'd actually do that. All of a sudden your neighbors turning you in, your cardiologist that saved your life twice is all of a sudden enemy of the people. And then all of a sudden all these people you knew even on the conservative side were saying these crazy things, you know, that made no sense. You know that Charlie Kirk was killed by the Mossad or there's a bunch of Jews that are in this little room doing this and all the Jews

48:41drove everybody, all the Christians out of Bethlehem when it's impossible and then all of a sudden I had written a big book on World War II. I turned on the TV and there's this Darryl Cooper and he's said to be the premier historian of World War II and he's never written a book and he says that Churchill's the terrorist and the whole war was cooked up and our real friends with the Nazis basically. Right. And where did all that come from? I don't understand that. Maybe it was anger at Israel. I don't know, but all of a sudden I saw the other day that 55% of all hate crime victims in New York are Jews now. Yeah. And we're talking about Islamophobia all the time. Yes. I mean I don't study like you. I just have sort of instincts and I kind of interestingly enough I don't come upon my ideas from reading other people's ideas or even reading historical texts

49:42or anything. I just sort of sit with things and eventually it starts to come in and my I've always felt this way about the Jews. Anybody who is flourishing or doing well in this country has a target on their back. I mean you just you just do. And the Jews are not a sent, I mean they're white adjacent or something but they're not Nigerian and they're not from you know Ecuador. So and they're successful and they are and not only are they successful they're the only successful country in this horrible astray filled with terrorists and poverty and famine and everything like that. So you know it's one thing to be in a group of many successful people but when you're kind of the lone star success in a group of failures then that envy really kicks in

50:48and you now it's a micro and a macro thing. I mean we all know we've all been around the people where the guy's real successful and he drives a nice car and he comes and as soon as he leaves the party everyone's like I think he's such hot stuff because just because he made a little money and then we start making excuse you know that was his dad's company he didn't even start that you know we start to downgrade his success sometimes we'll just go you know his marriage is miserable all the money in the world's not going to buy a happiness in a marriage he's miserable you know so we're wired for that we're wired for that and we used to keep it in check and we did Americans were known the they always said when a Brit sees a roles he wants to kick it and when an American sees a catalog he wants to know how to buy one like it right we had a good envy it was in relation and they had a bad envy of it's kind of like the kool-ox they see a kool-ox who's successful they burn his barn down but in America it used to be yes you were you wanted

51:53to Oakville saw that when he came to America in 1832 and he wrote to him he said these people have a chance to make it because they're all entrepreneurial small farmers and they're self-sufficient and they're proud however he says and this is getting to your point about human nature human nature being what it is and what we see with the peasant class in Europe most people naturally would all whether be equal and poor then all better off but some among them really better off right now that's destructive idea of envy and that that's tied in I think that's tied in as you point out with the anti-symmetism and with the DI too with all about yes and I think that's the thing about DI though what's so that shields you from and if you're Barack Obama and you have Martha's Vineyard estate and you have your Chicago digs and you have your calorama mansion and you have your Hollywood

52:55front but your half black even though you went to prep school and you're well off you're still protected from that he's not considered you know he flies in every once in a while and gives a pep talk to black men that they're they're making a mistake by not campaigning for Kamala Harris or something but he gets away with it because he can still say he's a victim yeah and that's that's what DI did and I don't know if that the Trump counter revolution will undo that or not but that's a I guess Trump's and I don't think he's ever said this but I sense maybe you do that he's he doesn't really talk in the abstract about anything but especially DI in the abstract all the way we're kind of talking about both the abstract and concrete but he does he he does despise it and he ridicules it all the time that he can get away with it and he's constantly called racist and then you know I was watching I had never watched the view in my life

53:56and I watched it the other day they can't finish the sentence without talking about race and Trump yes and and then I looked at them they're all multi-millionaires they're all multi-millionaires and they're all victims and he they despise him because he to him it's just a joke he does he's not even aware of what he's he's just a complete joke and I think that's well he's that's that's that's salutary he's really doing a public service he he is a cartoon character to them and I mean it literally he is and and they don't know they don't have nuance and so us we can take people we disagree with you know you go Anderson Cooper or something I disagree with Anderson Cooper let's say or anyone on the left I go but you know I'm sure he'd make a fine neighbor if he was

54:56across from you in the department building I'm sure he'd be nice probably make you a cocktail and I'm sure he's great with his nieces in his nephews or something I don't turn him into a caricature or a cartoon I just go I disagree with what this person has to say but I'm sure he's a good father or what have you okay or he wants what's best for his community these guys and that this is why they can call everyone racist and xenophobic and and and and they can say homophobic you know because when they talk about him they say things like what's Donald Trump what he wants people to suffer he wants something to suffer because he doesn't feel good unless someone's under his boot okay because that's the only time he feels like a big man like you were talking about a cartoon at that point and if you call Victor Davis Hanson or Adam Corolla a racist or misogynist or

55:58homophobic you're just look you're creating a cartoon version of of people that have a diversity in thought and background and training and skill and things like that and you're reducing them to like a one-dimensional cartoon and that's what they do with everyone it's it's it's wildly convenient for them because if you had to start thinking of that cartoon villain as a human with a family with goals who had struggles who may have worked hard then you could never say any of these things about them well I do think the vocabulary though the erosion is accelerating so it took a long time for racism to mean racist to mean very little if anything but now when you if somebody I've heard the other day transform nobody that's a joke and people say he's a transform or he's a homophobic or he's a chauvinist they don't even he say chauvin or sexist I don't think sexists

57:00even exist anymore people with women the majority and in the workplace in many places and in universities I can't think of a university doesn't have a woman president yes and the faculty so I think it's one good thing is that somebody is making that a joke and I think I don't know it's the internet mob on the conservative side or it's just individual people in general that are not really counted or silent majority but it does seem that the popular culture says I don't care if you call me right yeah you used to be the same thing as a sexual deviant if somebody called you a racist you you you have to mock mockery is all all you really have with these people it's the only thing that sort of works if you must mock you can't apologize and try to explain all they do is encroach more you take two steps back they take three steps forward the old playbook of offer up an apology and see if you can keep your job that that's a bygone era the only thing you can do is mock

58:04is mock them back that that's that's all we have I have a something that you wrote that I think you and I think alike think alike and many on many subjects and there's something you wrote that I'd like to read back to you that I it's something I've been really ruminating on and thinking about a lot lately then it'll sound familiar because they're your own words I think a good description of 2026 culturally economically socially and politically is that we're in a modern medieval world one part of our society is advancing at lightning speed into the future and progressing but the other part is regressing and regressing in a phenomenal pace back to what I would call medieval period America has never been richer more technologically advanced or more capable of

59:05solving basic problems yet its cities are increasingly plagued by crime disease homelessness public disorder and members of its progressive class continue to excuse blatant killers argues victor davis Hanson on today's edition of victor davis Hanson in a few words yes I've been saying we are thinking about colonizing Mars and there's simultaneously human trafficking in the bubonic plague is coming back via rats in downtown LA so don't you don't you think ours is I think our elite thinks it's easier to colonize Mars than to clean up the homeless in a way yes I agree if you start that you're you're up against 50 years of social science, quackery, psychology, pseudo medical experts races all of that whole progressive project starts to

1:00:08close in on you and so maybe it's an escape that a lot of our elite you know I was reading the other day that in terms of AI digital media software bioengineering genetic engineering satellite launches and space launches rockets with a space that of the 10 top companies globally in each of those areas although with different calibration sometimes downloads or sometimes market capels eight to nine out of I looked at every one of them eight or nine of them are American wow and we're not even talking about and that wasn't true 20 years ago and then I looked at the GDP 31 trillion and we have one quarter the population of China that only has 21 and I thought does that mean that one American produces 30 percent more goods in four Chinese or the EU I went

1:01:11back and looked at 2001 at all so the EU will take us will overtake us by 2020 they have a bigger population they have more talent they have a better education system that was in the New York times and now here we are a quarter more than a quarter century after the millennium they have 450 million people we have 340 and we have 10 trillion more GDP and they don't rank in one of those categories the only other person the country is China and they have one or two so whatever we're doing the elite are racing ahead and maybe the upper professional classes and I think that I almost have a crazy theory that they're not they're not going to use their talents to address these other issues of there's typhus in L.A. there's rat disease and burply you don't dare go into downtown Fresno after dark they don't want to they just can't deal with that and

1:02:15there these other outlets are all rewarding financially psychologically culturally and they're really helping us there if we didn't have those people I don't know what we would do because they create a normal amounts of wealth that can be distributed unfortunately but it's it's pulling apart when I walk certain places in Fresno or I out here in the rural area where I think a quarter mile from where I'm living after the Biden open borders we had M13 and my brother called me and he said gang members yes and he said hey by the way I'm in a crossfire then our tenials are on one side you know that old farmhouse well they took it over and the other farmhouse and the other side of me so stay inside because they're shooting and I'm in the crossfire and when I walk at night on our farm which we've been in our family 150 years it was so beautiful I look at all of the

1:03:16the hedges my grandfather it was kind of like the shire or hills with vineyards and and now I see the pond and it's polluted and almost every night I see someone dumping rewet garbage or wreck car or fornicating injecting something and it's it's just a total escape from LA escape from New York experience and all the so-called white people have left I went to high school where they just vanished yes well and it's it's it's it's it's illegal immigration mostly but there was no effort to integrate or assimilate or cultivate the people who came yes and it's just wild west it reminds me grandfather told me when he was a young boy in the house that he would see people shoot each other over water and he'd say now boys good thing about your life you're never going to see that again but can you imagine that old mr. Johnson got to the ditch and somebody lifted the valve and took

1:04:19it and he he filled that man with buckshot and then they they took him and they tried him and they hung him in Fresno and you'll never see that again I'm thinking I actually the ghost in my grandfather I talked I said grandpa I see that all the time things like that it's a regression yeah it's so here's what it is you know when you're talking about these people that are having astounding success with their abilities why would they ever want to get involved with something like the social problems we're having it's basically like saying who wants to be a cop in Minneapolis who wants to sign up to you you'd have to be a fool right you'd have to be fool because you're going to be pilloried you're going to be attacked you're not going to be supported by the governor of the mayor and you just would go I'm not going to do that and none of these guys would walk away from all of the spoils of their success to throw their hat in the ring to work on the

1:05:23homeless problem in Los Angeles only to be pilloried by the Los Angeles Times in the San and attacked by every progressive and they're enjoying themselves and now they're going to be attacked by everyone on CNN so yeah that's exact you remember when Mark Zuckerberg said he felt bad that our edge of inner city edge so he gave a hundred million dollars of the Boston school district right and it just evaporated and then I remember after George Floyd Jeff Bezos said I feel I'm going to have the Bezos award a hundred million dollars to I someone that's really a and he gave it all to ban Jones right a hundred million bucks and then that was the end of the Bezos award right so okay so there's nothing in it for the people that could solve the problem and the people who can't solve the problem are the people who are in charge and we're not going to solve the problem so you got to catch 22 my last question for you is I've been saying for years now and you were underscoring this with the white friends you grew up with who are now of all fled

1:06:29when Dr. Drew says where are we heading as a nation I said a safe space is in octagons and what I mean is is the safe spaces will be the blue states where everything is free and there's needle exchanges and there's drugs in vending machines and the octagons are going to be the free states where people can own guns and aren't taxed heavily regulated and they can drive internal combustion trucks and so on and so forth and it's going to start attracting all those people as it already is all the people fleeing from California going to Texas and at some point California and these blue states and certainly the blue cities are just going to collapse under their own weight these other cities will flourish and they're going to have to go to the cities that are flourishing and say you got to help us because we cannot I hope that I hope that will be the answer but anytime you have an ideological difference forced multiplied by geography it doesn't quite work peacefully so

1:07:36yeah in the civil war they you know slavery became very quickly a geographical issue so the fewer in the 11 Confederate states you had a different culture it was just a two and and it was that way kind of in the and the post civil war south and that was the tension and it doesn't work well so I see I agree with you because we're getting four or five million people fleeing blue states it's a failure cal I have no hope for California I really don't but I don't think it's I think it could be really violent because the people on the left are when they see that they don't have the money and Trump says things like you're violating federal law with sanctuary cities you're a new Confederate nullificationist so I'm not going to give you money and or I I think I basically said I'm going to go down to the red states and start deporting people I'm not going

1:08:39to waste my time anymore in Chicago and Minneapolis or at least I won't be on the radar there in other words if you let those places stew in their juice they're going to implode and they're either going to want to go to the red states or they're going to want the federal government or they're going to get angry and as we see with the ice demonstrators and so it's going to be very hard to if you're a conservative living those blue states oh really is oh I agreed because they're going to go out go after you and anyway well thank you for having me Adam and my kids grew up on your show with Dr. Drew oh thank you there were teenagers yeah the counts let me give you a plug the counter revolution the fall and rise of Donald Trump and the mega movement out now it's it's so interesting that you had lunch twice a month with Thomas Sol and it I was literally just in the bathroom and it popped into my head I just went Victor Davis Hanson's the

1:09:44white Thomas Sol and I never knew you knew him or came across him or any of that so we had Christmas dinner every for every every year for I think 12 years together wow wow'd like to be a yeah he's a great man he's a really very good guy never unwavering in his views and oblivious to criticism of unjust criticism yeah well you know listen I'd rather be correct than a door yes tell your kids I said hi I will and we'll take a break we'll be back with the news right after this simply safe well for most of us home security was never really about the house it's about the people inside it a break in leaves a mark even if nothing is ever taken because it marks the moment home stops feeling safe I have people I love more than anything that's in that house and there's nothing I wouldn't do to keep them safe and that's why I use simply safe it stops

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1:14:04block she's running the block she runs the yard oh yeah yeah she's a master and commander of cell block see I think her name is Cammy she winner I don't know she went off to good college somewhere than their sus yeah yeah speaking of winners hmm get some news stories here for you involving some winners David Ellison hmm just push the deal through or at least push the lawsuit out of the way to push the deal through he is eyeing your best friend Elon Musk for the a paramount equity investment to basically because when they when they buy Warner Brothers they're gonna buy all of Warner Brothers debt so I need to show up their finances so now you have everybody CNN's worried about losing their job and now they're worried about basically having Elon Musk on the call sheet ahead of them you know Elon Musk is I made this metaphor before but he's a veterinarian and all

1:15:05you fucking idiots at CNN or a dog and just go to him and let him fix you I know you're scratching and pulling and you think he's gonna hurt you and you think he's a mean man he's putting drops in your eyes it's for the good you want Elon he'll fucking save your company and save your job you fucking idiots I have no idea I know you hate Elon because he likes Trump but if you have a ailing company go ahead and let Elon fix it for it's the thing though he doesn't necessarily like he's gotten into spats with him recently or like a year ago like he's not like that account any of that the you I know in in Elon and Trump you you have to actively be part of the resistance otherwise you're part of the problem and that's just the way they that's the way they work but I don't know do we need CNN I know it sounds easy for me to say but they're mostly full of shit so then and they do news so do we need a totally inaccurate news entity that's what I say like

1:16:10I they're they're batting averages really bad when you look at the last 10 years it's bad because they're partisan and they get sucked in so you know they're you know they they're the first to do all the fucking uh you know the border guys are mounted on horses or beating Haitians or whipping them shades of uh the south and Jim Crow and everything else and they're just fucking wrong about everything well we watched that Biden clip a few days ago where they cut back to these news anchors and they just like literally just facts like darts like no bullshit no floral arrangements around it just he did not finish in the top half of his class that was a lie that's how news used to be done yes yes they don't do that at CNN so I don't know do we need them running interference for Kamala Harris if she runs next year or or two years like I I don't know I don't know that we need them I mean it's easy you go well what do we need Fox for well here's the thing Fox does

1:17:14commentary you know like I mean I'll kind of hear Ben Shapiro say it sometimes he'll go daily wire does commentary but we tell you who we are and that's that's where we live politically and and then we're consistent that way but that's that's who we are what Fox leads with like this is just now Fox I mean Sean Hannity would say I do commentary I don't do news I do I make commentary on this stuff but I'm not reporting the news it gets a little blurry but you know that's kind of how Jesse Waters is yeah great gut fell well they're they're lying up does sort of commentary they do have some news that just goes this is the news but it's mostly the people you know from Fox are commentators and CNN passes itself off as news except for they're doing commentary I know I think you have an interesting vantage point as someone who texts with both Chris

1:18:17Cuomo and Sean Hannity and you can kind of as someone who has been in contact with both of those people you can kind of say they're kind of the same thing just they're the same guy the same guy just different ends of the sphere yes most people who have this sort of relationship are very much alike but they don't they don't know it there's a lot of Jimmy Kimmel and Donald Trump have a lot of similar qualities yeah too their number one qualities they both have time to invest in stuff they shouldn't be investing in personally for you good and bad but they got time Jimmy carves out time for everything then Donald Trump reads your Washington Post article I guess it was the week after the war and Iran started yes yeah that's what those guys you but there's also reason why they're successful yeah they have time they seem to find time for everything all right what do you got in the news we also have you know another one of your best friends Gavin Newsom you know you talk about

1:19:22your house in North Hollywood and how it went up for sale for and then it was bought and demolished Gavin Newsom's childhood home has been put on the market guess what is listed at I had some recollection of the story from several months ago for like I don't know I the recollection I had was like 2.5 but maybe it's like two seven somewhere around between two five and three for Gavin's well that's what I remembered I maybe it's a separate home I remember seeing an article about his home selling this all anyway you tell me this is his childhood home it's now listed at 4.5 million dollars what is this story I'm thinking of then Dawson where he showed his house it looked like this one uh well it doesn't mean they're gonna get it but it is kind of nuts that was I think that's his mansion the mansion that he's just leaving no mansion he's leaving a seven five yeah and then this is the house where he grew up where he had to eat cheese and

1:20:28he's a girl parts gravel tree he tells black guy he sits with black guys and tells him he likes tells him he likes mac and cheese so they like him so because that's how black people work you got to tell them stuff that they eat that you eat too you're the man we're all the same we're just a tossing you like fish tacos right bro yeah bro I got some in my backpack bro sweet you liked me more now yeah yeah that's how white guys that's how I do it with Dawson what do you like Andrew well I don't know but I like a hoagie I definitely have hot sauce in my you got hot sauce in your bag you're from Philadelphia like a Philly cheese steak Philly cheese steak I got one of those in my backpack bro oh man you liked me more you were basically the same guy right holy shit shit man I was poor black people that's right I grew up eating mac and cheese oh yeah and my mama used to whip me whoa man she went me when she wasn't hanging hanging out with the getty family she would whip me yeah man and we weren't eating mac and cheese and my dad wasn't lead counsel for

1:21:30getty oil in between those things we were to eat that's how you get yourself a twitch a switch or switch yeah yeah and then my mom would beat me while my dad was hanging out with Gordon getty yeah so there we go everybody yeah that's his life that's I got tough man growing up with a stutter and dyslexic you know can't read nothing and yeah tough life he just addressed I guess we have that we have that clip of him addressing the UN I think you like that tweet did did you see that yeah I just do because everything is fear I don't know he's he's so scared but he's got to protect us from it's also weird thing where he's going to protect Californians from Trump although we'd like Trump to come and help us rebuild California but here's I don't even know why he's speaking for him that you ended they need to hear fucking Gavin News and says I don't know

1:22:31right here it is we're not falling prey to the cynicism the anxiety that I think all of us feel picking up the paper watching TV listening to the punetry thank you for being the antidote to that cynicism the other positive I was you UN is a corrupt organization it's never fucking done shit for anybody ever there's just one big money laundering corrupt they they're totally unnecessary we don't fucking need them they'd never done anything and they're full of shit and no I don't know this thing about we're all sitting around feeling anxiety incinusism this is the way talks now by the way everything's about feeling anxiety that's what he's about man he's about stamping out injustices getting out there you and his big fat corrupt organization who does nothing and we shouldn't be in them all right keep going with Gavin sorry sending to the punetry thank you for being the antidote to that cynicism fear and anxiety I was here three years ago it felt very different in the United States yeah cuz we're the dead guys president you heard that

1:23:31speech from my president yesterday but called for genocide a 93 million people what they did the normal about that the normal about this what what speech I thought it was 89 million but he said he called for the genocide and 93 million people who has 93 million people what is he talking about though I don't know what he called for it do you guys know about he's talking about Iran I guess I guess how do we get going on these genocides though we're we're gonna have a genocide in Palestine we're gonna have one in Iran when once it's start you know what I mean like where's the genocide party is there gonna be a viewing party where's all the genocide yeah all right must be Iran yeah that's what he called for the genocide once I'm all done all right good folk over there in Iran too let's hear what else yes I'm proud to represent yes the fourth large economy in the world is I brought it up there you go populations combined I'm proud to represent a state that was the

1:24:32founding state San Francisco of the United Nations in 1945 I'm also proud to represent a state it's 27% foreign born where we practice pluralism don't tolerate our diversity we celebrate our diversity that's what it's allowed us to become the four large the country in the world all right listen Los Angeles to become Tijuana you fucking retard so I don't I don't know why we have to celebrate our diversity all diversity is the cause that's the reason that's the reason why we're the fourth largest economy in the world it's the it's the it's the I know it doesn't make us stronger and it doesn't help in any way now if if the folks who come here assimilate then it does help this isn't like the main room in the UN though this is like the outside stage he's playing the annex he's got this isn't like it's not medicine square garden that's the if you go in the ice house they got that little room it's the bellroom you go the ice house they got that little room on the left when he come up the driveway man the 45 cedar so I don't think they even take this guy seriously they're not he's not playing the real

1:25:33he's workshop in it yeah yeah I gotta run my hour and then it's gonna get up on his feet and then he's going to the main room with the shitty tile oh man the shitty jade tile yeah I'm gonna work the room with this weird fucking lady statue yeah let's hear if he has anything more to say us to become the fourth largest economy in the world but we also have this to share we're also the most untrumped state in the United States of America good that's important that's important because there's probably nothing more important on this topic that you'll hear today and the imperative of ending Trump's presidency as we know it I just you're in pause I just sit around to go Jesus Christ could I live in a state where the governor wasn't going to battle with the president over everything all the time when the fuck does this guy actually govern California I don't like I don't know how does he fucking he doesn't do it he's never he's never fucking here

1:26:34I he doesn't he all he talks about his feelings and fighting Trump I have no if he brought up traffic one time I would have a fucking heart attack if him or nithaeram and their care and bass is like you know what there's too much goddamn traffic in this fucking town the states got too much traffic got a fucking thing this out we're gonna work this out I'm working like if they were brought up one thing you cared about I'd fucking have a heart attack the weirdest thing is we're gonna miss this guy we have a year to go that's true yeah we get some of those street tackles tackles with being some guy got a fucking smart and final Jesus Christ all right um oh this is interesting this kind of this is like one of your jokes uh so barbie Mattel just they just put out their first ever Hanukkah barbie yeah and uh they got into some trouble um shouldn't don't it does anyone ever learn their lesson ever like I you just can't say anything

1:27:39or do you do it man what are you doing what are you doing nobody in the Mattel boardroom's like what are you doing man working on Hanukkah barbie we're gonna do Hanukkah barbie anyway people are upset with the uh sizes for nose they're upset yeah because they think it's a you know well what they gave her they gave her manure sweater and she's got a shnauz on her yeah she's got she has a like a larger protruding nose larger larger than because here's the thing they put out two other Christmas barbies at the same time they put out a white barbie and a black barbie girl and then they put out Hanukkah barbie and they're like wait Hanukkah barbies nose is way bigger than these other ladies with with the fuck so they're they're pissed off well don't we have to sort of represent accurately features of folk like if you're gonna do black barbie's friends she's got to be black right like people have different features can they not be represented

1:28:47like you know Jewish folk generally have a bigger shnauz than the Anglo folk but maybe this barbie but the Jews have enough money and no enough plastic surgeons that they can get their nose fixed that should have been the deluxe barbie package that you get this one first shnauz what's what's a year job truck he's part of the tribe rhino plastic barbie yeah yeah yeah because Jewish girls they're educated their dads are doctors and they know the business so they could definitely they have an inside line to a plastic surgeon to get the rhino plastic so that's interesting it's just not fair man it just seems like a nice girl we don't need to get upset over this that looks like that I had a dated a Jewish girl in high school she was one of my favorite girlfriends and that's a great that's a nice looking girl right there I agree yeah I agree too yeah I think

1:29:48it's weird that we're more upset about this than the macklemore outfit from two weeks ago oh right that's an older picture but yes when he went with chew face that that that was pretty weird that was old-timey hit Larry and propaganda chew face he had on that's not modern day barbie chew face you know macklemore that was straight up from the ghettos in Poland yes yes that's from a leaflet in Hamburg yes 1939 yes that's what that was from yes so we should be more upset over that other than barbie but look here's the thing now converse came out with an ad a couple days back a few days back and they said it was racist a clanhood I don't know it was a Korean chick wearing a skirt I didn't even know what it was I look by the way if I have to look at something five times and I can't figure out why it's racist it may not be racist you know what I mean it's sort of like

1:30:52if you tell someone a joke and you repeat you have to keep repeating the punchline because I don't know what you're talking about maybe it's not a funny joke is what I'm saying I don't know what the KKK controversy was with this it was a chucko don't like tweets it was a like tweet from I think he two days ago it so the point is this I don't know what it was it was a commercial with a Korean girl wearing converse high tops and a white skirt they cropped it and essentially what it is is the a light is illuminating a star like the converse all stars so you can see the star at the bottom right yeah yeah we had the picture check to go back to that so it's the top point of the star that they that somebody just you know she'll go back to that wait just showed but um so their ideal this is the converse all star this is the star oh and part of the star illuminated up her white dress yeah and it looks like a clan hood because that's like that's like a magic eye

1:31:57book from like the 90s where you have to squint to see it like that's that doesn't count that what is this well here's my question and this is a big problem we're having in society retards do you think converse set about to make a clan ask KKK add do you think that's what converse did to know what I mean like they go well but this looks like do you think that's what they said about to do and if the answer is no well then shut the fuck up and this is how you know that racism is not really a problem here in the United States because every time they still have to manufacture it yes it was the same as that target Halloween outfit that was a few weeks back we're like this is racist because it's a black kid and an orange Halloween outfit like sorry now but and also let's not forget who owns converse Nike nice figure out yeah I'm pretty sure Nike's not racist what what kind of shoe did dr. J wear 50 years ago converse Converse is the same with magic Johnson it's just yeah

1:33:02as the goofy one so the real problem is converse then immediately apologizes and then when you apologize there is some guilt involved I I saw this coming a million years ago like I remember I got an argument with my mom over something I don't know what it was but my mom because she was progressive she was like just apologize just apologize and I was like no she's like why can't you apologize I go if I apologize then it suggests that I did this thing on purpose that offended you that I didn't do so my apologizing then makes it into this thing comes to fruition and like it succeeds I mean it's like someone's it's like like you are interpreting this thing the wrong way just apologize when converse apologizes the answer should

1:34:02be hey nut jobs I don't know what you're talking about yeah I we worked on this campaign with two gay guys in a Korean guy worked on this campaign there's no clansmen involved there it doesn't but who boss and maybe you should move on to some real problems hey black community 30% of your kids are raised without a dad go go go work on that go work on that go work on gun violence in the inner city go work on whatever the test scores and Baltimore you finding a clan hood and a converse commercial that's a waste of your time so by the way sorry not sorry we didn't do anything you can't fucking land your back and look at clouds and they get angry when they form a news or clansmen or burning cross you guys are nuts you're obsessed with this now fucking go pound sand go find it somewhere else go go to where it actually is not us we're target we're trying to

1:35:03sell Halloween costumes we're converse we're trying to sell town issues and by the way we wanted a blonde haired white chick with big tits for this thing and we fucking put a skinny Korean chick in there just to shut you assholes up but you're gonna find race everywhere all the time anyway they always apologize to these people and when they apologize to the people it makes it real it's it's kind of a I told you guys the long long tail of Tom Cruise and his people coming at us and accusing us of planting a story about Tom Cruise and the great Mike August said we'll just call him and tell him we'll get it taken down and for the same reason I said stop don't do it don't do it because they think we plan if you call them and go we'll get it taken down it means we're guilty okay see what I'm saying yeah when you apologize you know what you know what every word and by the way target cave they always do this they always do a prepared statement like sorry we'll do better

1:36:05fuck off that's or wellian bullshit we'll do better the answer should be I don't know what you're talking about go find racism where it exists because it's not here and that would slow the roll and that would shut them down and stop them from shaking you down too everybody just apologizes and also they go we'll do better we'll do better sounds like you did it on purpose or or or we'll do better sounds like they had a point it sounds like the people who complain where is where is the response from converse and where's the response from target when you read those two responses you realize what we're doing wrong do not fucking apologize and don't take it down you know what these people need they need like reality they need shut up this isn't a thing like basically we're going into a you're going to when you go into your kids room and and they're nine and they go I think the boogie man's under the bed you don't go oh my god oh my god oh

1:37:11shit oh my god you come sleep with us you go there's no boogie man shut up go to bed yeah you freak them out when you verify that's a good that's a good end zone message there's no boogie man shut up and go to bed shut up go to bed all right and sorry Chuck has a while while he's looking for okay do we have it while he's looking for that we can move on to our next story hold on I have targets official response okay um let's see if we can get it in black and white figure that out as it for you okay go ahead as a company we know we got this wrong and we are deeply sorry okay you didn't get it wrong you know deeply sorry you're trying to sell a costume an orange okay already you're sounding racist here you're you're selling a Halloween costume and you put a black kid in the costume because you're progressive but okay the costume is offensive and should never have been part of our assortment it is no longer available for sale we know this is especially

1:38:15hurtful for our black guests right okay sorry you're treating black people like infant retarded infants here team members and partners team members and partner black gas black guests team members and partners yeah removing the costume is an important first step first step and the company is looking closely and how this happened and what needs to change to ensure that this won't happen again would you please stop validating insane black people you're hurting their culture you're hurting these people you're hurting them what they need is reality which is you guys got problems but it ain't fucking targets outfits and it ain't converse you got real problems now go fucking find them and focus on that this is gonna cure the problem in the black community converse let's hear what converse has say and also you're giving them more momentum and you're breaking them out the real answer is I don't know what you're talking about this is nuts

1:39:19no one hears racist get the fuck on with your life converse said we're sorry we understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong they got it wrong they put a Korean chick in a fucking poodle skirt they took a picture we removed it from our channels and are working to remove it everywhere it appeared this should not have happened and we will do better it is a Korean chick who looks like she's 15 in a white skirt holding converse with a light and one of the spikes of the stars was illuminated on her skirt now I'm sorry black community if you see that there that's on you that has nothing to do with converse and what they were doing now all you're gonna get is more of this shit because these fucking pussy cowards cave to the black community and by the way black community if you're listening understand converse doesn't think

1:40:25that got anything wrong target doesn't think that got anything wrong all they want to do is shut you the fuck up they don't lose sleep over it they don't have meetings or like a wow I'm really internally torn over this dilemma about the damage we've done they don't think two things all they want you to do is go away and shut the fuck up and then when to get on with their lives they don't think they did anything they know they didn't do anything they're basically treating you like a zoo keeper would treat its animals like that's your fault you shouldn't put the tigers in with the ostriches that was our fault it's embarrassing you should me whoever leveled this should be embarrassed and they should not speak for you and none of these entities care one shit they have zero feelings of remorse about this because they did nothing wrong they just think you're dumb and they want to get the fuck on with their lives so sleep well at night and whoever is in charge of leveling these accusations go into the black community and find real problems please it'll

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