Trump's Tariff Victory Lap, Massive EU Trade Deal, and Insane Leftist Sydney Sweeney Backlash, with Victor Davis Hanson

27:1519 % view the Republican Party very favorably. And 54 % of voters see the GOP unfavorably. So they're not doing great either, but the Democrats are far, far worse. Nearly two-thirds of the country disapprove of that party. And so now, as a result, they're planning on holding town hall meetings across the country to make the case against Trump's agenda and his, quote, norm breaking governing style. Victor, that's the problem. See the norms. Well, you know, the Quinnipiac was a liberal poll. They came out and said only 16 percent have a positive view of Democratic, the Democratic Congress. And then the question is, why is that?

27:56They never say, why is that? And if you look at their signature issues, the border, defund the police, open borders, de facto amnesty, what we saw in Afghanistan, all of the economy, the 9 % hyperinflation. And then, of course, the DEI stuff gets people really angry. And then the trans stuff and biological men and women's sport. There's not one issue that they can say we're 55, 45 on. And then you say, well, maybe they've got a charismatic Obama that can persuade Americans to adopt things they otherwise are afraid of or don't like. There's none. All you have is hiking Jeffries with a baseball bat or Schumer screaming and yelling each week or those weird videos where they do kickboxing or they start swearing at people.

28:50It's just incoherent. Or Jasmine Crocker's weekly raging. there's there's nobody you mentioned ram emmanuel he is about the only person who may or may not run for president that seems to think you know what i went back and looked at the 92 and 96 1992 96 clinton uh platform which got clinton elected twice with the help of ross perot and that's what i want to go back to that's the only way they can save themselves and yet nobody's thinking like that. Maybe he is because he was part of the Clinton shift to the middle. But I don't think they can go to the middle because no one, I think their problem is they know they have to do that in the general election, but they know that anybody who said that would never be nominated.

29:37That's that's Rahm's biggest problem is getting past the primary with his own party. All right, let's stand Trump and his comments today. He made remarks on Vladimir Putin, who with whom he's, you know, had ongoing negotiations. And this past weekend, the news was Vladimir Putin sent 300 drones over Ukraine, causing even Poland to scramble jets to try to protect Ukraine. He's very unhappy with Vladimir Putin, with whom he's tried to negotiate since the beginning of his presidency back in January, second term. And today you could hear the same tone as he had in recent weeks about he seems to be coming to reality when it comes to who Putin is and how Putin, how dishonest he is in these negotiations.

30:22And I put that term negotiations in quotes because I think Trump is seeming to suggest now it's all been fake. Putin's not been there in good faith. And here's some of that from today. I'm not so interested in talking anymore. He's he talks. We have such nice conversations, such respectful and nice conversations. And then people die the following night in a with a missile going into a town and hitting, I mean, recently, I guess, the nursing home, but they hit other things. Whatever they hit, people die. So I don't know. We'll see what happens. By the way, for the watching audience, he's sitting there next to Keir Starmer, where they were there talking about the EU trade deal.

31:04So what do you make of it now, because Trump's in an interesting position in that he's realizing that Putin cannot be trusted, that Putin's not going to stop in Ukraine, absent something else. He's been threatening secondary sanctions, and meaning we're going to sanction countries that continue to do business with Russia and not just directly sanction Russia. He had originally said they have 50 days from July 12th to come to the table with something real and stop the bombing. And today he said, I'm shortening it to 10 to 12 days, which basically cuts the time in half that he had originally given them.

31:43But the reason I say he's in an interesting situation is, you know, the MAGA base does not want any escalation between us and Russia and their over Ukraine. But Trump's coming to this on his own, having tried with Putin and realizing this is not someone proceeding in good faith. So what do you make of it? I think you make a good point by that emphasis that had he had this attitude before he reached out to Putin, he would have had a lot more trouble with the MAGA base. But now he can say to them, I took a lot of flack trying to be fair to Putin. I bent over backwards. And we have no choice unless you want me to do something like Afghanistan and just give up on Ukraine.

32:27And you know it'll happen. It'll be a humiliation for our entire party if they overrun Kiev. And they can if we stop supporting. So he's gone more than halfway, and that's important for his base. I think the problem, what he didn't realize is that Putin understands that he already had the Crimea, he already had the Donbass, and de facto he knew that Ukraine was not going to be in NATO. And then he's now 50 or 60 miles in many places beyond the Donbass or Crimea, but he's lost a million dead, wounded, and missing. And he's got to tell the military and the apparate and the oligarchic class back there, I lost a million casualties, and it was worth it because, and they're going to say, because what, Vladimir?

33:14We already knew we had Crimea. We were never going to give it back. We were never going to give Donbass back. We knew they weren't going to get in it. What can you show us was worth a million casualties? And so he thinks he's got to keep going westward or he thinks he has to somehow terrorize Ukraine into submission or he thinks the United States is going to bail on Ukraine and that's not going to happen and I think that's so what's either going to happen is that somebody's going to force him to quit on the Russian side or he's going to see that he's getting very diminishing returns as the casualties mount.

33:51I don't think Russia ever imagined they would lose that many people and get so little in return from what they started with. So what's likely to happen now? Because Trump, you know, he crossed his MAGA base on Iran, and that worked out well. And he tried to cross the MAGA base on Epstein. That didn't work out very well. But this is a big issue. You know, J.D. Vance and many others within the MAGA more isolationist wing really, as one would think, will be very, very opposed, notwithstanding what they've seen happen here, to any escalation that might make us more at odds with Russia. But you can hear Trump getting there organically.

34:32I do not see them just rolling over. J.D. will, because he's a loyal vice president. But, you know, the Republican Party is kind of over the assistance to Ukraine. yeah i think he's just gonna have to say the only way we're gonna have peace is i have to have some leverage i have no leverage if we just pull out he will take ukraine and whether you like it or not you will be blamed for it and that will be the big campaign issue in 2028 who lost ukraine because it'll make the pullout from afghanistan look like nothing so we're going to continue our help you with ukraine we've closed our own border i've done all this but i don't have any choice i've got to get the tools to deal with Putin.

35:12And he will not deal unless he knows that he can't win. And so that's all he can do. And I think if you look at the polls, most of the people don't like when you phrase the question, are you going to increase aid? Are you going to get involved? They say no. But if you just keep the aid going and hope that he will finally see that he can't, you can't get much more vis-a-vis the cost, then I think that's the only thing that we can do. And there's dividends. The big thing is the secondary, we've never done that, really. That's devastating. That's almost like an act of war. So that means you tell India, for example, if you buy any more Russian oil, you're done with us.

36:00You tell China, if you buy, Right. You know, it's against the law in the United States to have a second. When Cesar Chavez had a secondary boycott of California grapes, he boycotted Safeway just because they had grapes on the shelf, not that they were endorsing anything. And it was pretty traumatic and it didn't really work. It got him a lot of bad publicity, but that's the next step. And I don't know if Trump wants to take that because unlike all of the hysteria about a trade war, if you have a secondary boycott, that's a pretty radical step. And it's radical in the sense it would probably be much more effective than what we're doing now.

36:36But the cost in economic disruption and problems with people or allies and neutrals would increase as well. And he doesn't want to do anything that's going to mess with the U.S. economy at all. No, he does not want to do it. Because while he really is getting it fired back up again, you can see that. And it's thanks to a number of things, deregulation among them, but the tariffs, yes, that too. that the inflation that was inflicted on the American people by Joe Biden continues to loom large. Yes, it's down to two point nine percent, but they are still having a massive hangover from the Biden years.

37:10And you can see it. You know, the data guru over at CNN, he was out there last week. He was talking about how how much the Democrats hate their own party and how much America hates the Democrat Party. But then he followed up with a report on where independents are right now with Trump. And you'll watch this report. On the heels of this report, he pivots to explaining the thing they're really unhappy over is inflation, which even though it's down under Trump, they're still feeling it. So they blame the guy in charge. But here are the numbers with Trump and independence. And this is why secondary sanctions, in my view, he may not do not not with the big countries that we trade with, because he doesn't want to do anything that's going to hurt our economy in any way here at Watch.

37:56We are talking about independence, Mr. Berman. I will say this is the biggest warning sign, the biggest danger sign for President Trump in his second term so far. Why is that? Because it does not appear that there is a bottom to which Donald's support can't fall to. What are we talking about? Trump's not approval rating with independence. You know, there was all this hubbub about Gallup that came out this past week. You see back in January, it was minus two points. Now it's minus 35 points. But what's important here is Gallup is largely matching the average. Back in January in the average, Trump's net approval rating with independents was minus three.

38:30Look at where it's fallen to now, minus 29 points. That is a drop of over 25 points with the key part of the electorate. If you're not winning among independents, you're probably not winning overall. And when your net approval rating is minus 29 points, you are definitely not winning overall when you're that low with independents. It's just the size of the drop. I mean, it's staggering. It's huge. It is huge. He's taken a tumble there with independence. But again, the tail end of this goes into inflation, which seems to be what's upsetting them. It's very funny because if you look at the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, they warned us that terrorists would cause a trade war and it didn't happen.

39:12But at the same time, they were urging a secondary boycott of anybody who bought oil from Ukraine. That is a tax. That is going to be a trip. That would be 10 times worse than any tariff if we did that. It would be so disruptive because these are really big countries like China and India. And if you just simply cut off all aid with China or all, excuse me, all trade with China, all trade with India, it would be a disaster for the world economy. But it would really, that would spike inflation. But I don't understand why people who have argued, let's be moderate about tariffs, then suddenly go whole hog on something we've never even done before.

39:53We've had tariffs before, but we've never secondary boycotted huge countries like they're talking about. I think it's a bad thing. A lot of it, I think, of the independence. Donald Trump's trademark is he's decisive, he's transparent, and he doesn't give a blank what people think. And the Epstein thing hurt him. Everybody said it was going to hurt him with a base. It hurt him more, I think, with independence. Because they said, well, he's just another politician. They said one thing and then they did the other. and the best thing that he could do is just say, you know, we've had mixed, just say we've had mixed signals.

40:32It's, we're just, anything that comes across my desk that's about Epstein and is legal, I'm going to let it go. And you, the people have to use your own intelligence to sort out who was an innocent bystander, who was collateral versus who was culpable. And I trust your judgment and that's what I'm going to do. And because I think that's hurt him with a lot of people. Yeah. I was going to say, I don't know if you saw this over the weekend, but the Democrats attempted to take a shot at Trump on inflation over the weekend, and it was a disaster. They tweeted out this graph. And the graph read, Trump's America.

41:09U.S. grocery prices reached record highs, they say, in 2025. And yet they show in this graph, it goes from October of 2019, where it It was low, low, low, low, low, all the way to like October 21. Here's the here's the chart. And then it starts to spike under who was president again, October 2021, higher in 2022, higher in 2023, higher in October 2024, which is where the chart ends October 2024. I know. And they had to delete it. It was so wrong. It was weird. It was right. It just wasn't about 2025. Keep going. They released it for 24 hours. I think everybody looked at it. I know I did. And I thought, wow.

41:52And then you had, I remember Janet Yellen saying, it was like a Janet Yellen statement, that this is not going to cause any inflation at all when you were borrowing this up, what eventually been 7 trillion. And Larry Summers warned him about it. Remember that? He said, this is the biggest mistake you could do. We're going to get a hyper. He was actually very prescient on that. And I don't know why. The fact they did that either shows that nobody's in control of the DNC or they have no other argument to offer except dissimulation because anybody with a right, a teenager would not have done that.

42:27I know. Who doesn't actually look at the axes on the bar chart to see? Wait a minute. That one expires while we're literally at the time when Biden was about to lose. Well, Kamala Harris was about to lose as president. You know, one thing you mentioned, I wanted to I want to point out the Democrats and how unpopular they are back to that discussion. One of the things that Trump has done is to roll back some of these ridiculous green energy initiatives and just green energy, green energy pushes. My own personal problem is with the windmills that are going up and down our shorelines, absolutely ruining our shorelines.

43:03America has some of the most beautiful coastal lines in the world. These things have been getting put up with greater frequency. They're a complete eyesore. They kill sea life. They're killing off whales and dolphins, by the way. And they produce almost no energy and they're full of toxins. We're going to do a full report for you guys on this soon, but they're full of toxins. And thanks to Trump, it's been stopped. His he said no more approval. And we're pulling the approvals that the Biden administration was granting in rapid fire numbers, especially as his term expired. So yesterday, I'm down here at the Jersey Shore where they were about to get this scourge.

43:43They've already had some, but in even greater numbers, thanks to Joe Biden, who had greenlighted all of these windmill projects along the shore. And they were going to be building them close in, close into shore. So, I mean, all the beautiful coastline views for everybody. It's not like a rich person thing. It's like working class, middle class, upper class, whatever. You were all going to be staring at, instead of sunsets, windmills that don't do anything other than toxify your water and kill your sea life. Trump stopped it. So I'm driving my car down here the other day and I see a person, because they're very common down here, with a bumper sticker saying, stop the windmills.

44:17And then beneath that, she has a Harris-Waltz bumper sticker, Victor. I really wanted to yell at her. they've been stopped and you can thank president trump you know nothing yeah and i i feel the same way about these huge solar farms california newsom is trying to do what spain do get a moment where they can say that at 11 in the morning or two in the afternoon all the power consumed was from renewables solar wind so we when i drive the three hours over to work from my farm. You wouldn't believe these mega solar farms. They have some of the most fertile farmland in the world that was producing wheat and cotton and lettuce and tree fruit, and they've destroyed it all.

45:06And there's thousands of acres of these solar farms. I'm not just talking, you know, a quarter mile, just for miles in California along the west side of the valley. and it's taken out some really valuable farmland. It's ugly. And the weird thing about it is at nighttime or basically at dawn and dusk, we import enormous amounts of coal-driven electricity from places like Utah or Arizona. But just so we can say that we have wind and solar. And when you go by some of the passes in California, you look at these wind farms, Megan, at any given day that looks like about 20 % aren't even working and you think my gosh this thing doesn't even work the blade is missing or it's not moving what do they do with a blade what do they do with all that stuff it they were the ones that told us everything has to be recyclable and we have to hurt we have to protect bird migrations and they told us about farmland you can't diss this deeply because you might hurt the three spotted mouse or something and then you see that when it comes to wind and solar, all environmental regulations, all wildlife, because it's on the left, we just go plow ahead.

46:19Because who's going to deregulate us? Because, you know, it's sort of like the LGBT analysis. We can put, I should say the trans, we can put biological males into women's sports and forget about, you know, operating on children when they're really young, or the effects of all these drugs and surgeries on people or what it does to women who've tried so hard to get equity. And we're just going to throw it out the way because it's a left-wing issue. And therefore, there's no criticism at all. And that's what's so scary about the wind and solar. They don't apply their own standards to it. And it's not going to work.

46:56And 20 years from now, we're going to look back and say, oh my gosh, we've got a multi-billion dollar, multi-trillion dollar task of tearing up all these stupid things and restoring the landscape to its original condition. And what do we do? What do we do with the toxic windmill blades now? I don't know. I don't know. Of an airplane. One blade is the width of a commercial grade airplane full of toxins, which, I mean, that's just one blade on one windmill. Imagine how many we're going to have to take down. What do we do? Do we bury it? It's just a nightmare. needs to be stopped in its tracks. And thankfully it is happening.

47:34It is. That's one of the best issues he's bought. Because when Donald Trump talks about the damage to birds and wildlife, that sets the left go crazy that he's in the environment. Yeah, it is. It's exactly right. Because this is one of those things where this is an environmentalist problem. Not necessarily. Like the green energy folks don't really care about the environment. They're so obsessed with like the atmosphere and the ozone and all that. Um, they don't care how many birds get killed or whales get killed. They'll deny that it's even a problem. Remember Trump mentioned on Joe Rogan and they tried to fact check him and it was true.

48:07Michael Schellenberg did a whole documentary about this. Um, okay. I want to shift gears to something else in the news, which is very disturbing. Uh, there was a fight over the weekend in Cincinnati and I want to stay up front. We don't know how it got started. I have no idea. Obviously some charged comments of some sort were made. Here's all we know. There was a music festival happening in downtown. Police say it's not connected, but there were a lot of people on foot. We don't know what sparked the fight, but witnesses told the Fox local affiliate that one of the groups made racial comments and then the blows started.

48:42We don't know who made the racial comments, but I will submit for the record, irrespective of who made the racial comments, what happened next was completely out of hand. And oh, by the way, totally illegal to the point where now you have the vice president of the United States commenting on it, the head of the civil rights division at DOJ commenting on it. And it's getting a lot of attention because what you see in the video for the listening audience is a white man and a white woman getting a beating by a group of black people. And we don't know, again, largely black assailants, what got it started, but it's absolutely awful to watch.

49:23Here's some of the video as a man in a white t-shirt gets chased to the street shoved to the sidewalk by two others who punch him and kick him when he's down and eventually they run in they stomp on the man's head his torso and and more here it is

49:41oh yeah yeah sleep him yep

49:56This is men and women stomping on this man mercilessly.

50:06There's zero humanity there. I'm going to play the rest of the tape and talk about JD's comments in a minute, but initial thoughts on it, Victor? If you just change the roles and if that was a black elderly person or somebody over 50 and people were doing three things that you saw in that video, they were laughing about that person being clobbered. They were more than, I mean, it was outnumbered. They were hitting them. And the worst thing I thought about was women were going in there and stepping on people and kicking them in the head. And they hit a woman and knocked her out. And the other women, they came in.

50:40So it was a nightmare. And if the roles had been reversed, we would be talking in George Floyd terms or something like that. Yes, it would be a story on every newspaper in America. And today it isn't. Quick pause, back with VDH right after this. Stand by. A lot of people worry about the online platforms and which one to trust for your general online news source, right? They don't know. Most of them are left and you can't trust them. Some are right, but you don't want to be manipulated against righties who hate Trump, for example. And this is where ground news comes in. This is an important app you need to know about right now.

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53:22But then the whole mob gives him a just an absolute mob beatdown that is merciless, that is not self-defense under the law. All those people should be arrested. He could be arrested, too, for the initial physical touch of the which was an assault battery. But what happened afterward was so grossly disproportionate. It's become national news, at least to the point where we're commenting on it and the vice president's commenting on it, though. So you will not see an article on this, at least not as of today, in the Associated Press, PBS, New York Times, NPR, ABC, NBC, CNN, Washington Post or MSNBC.

53:59Notwithstanding the fact that then we see a white woman who seems to try to want to help this man. We don't know whether they were together. Try to approach the crowd to see if she can help him. And she gets the same or very similar treatment. At the end of this video, I'm just going to warn the audience. She looks deceased. She's not. Both of them are going to be OK. But here's here's the video.

54:26The white man's not standing. The crowd seems to have him. The white woman's in there. She gets attacked by a black woman. She gets punched in the face by a black man. She's now down on the ground, staring blankly at the sky.

54:44someone's trying to drag her

54:49so that's that's what happened with her uh uh two people at least a black woman and a black man beat her down and that's what led to the vice president jd vance weighing in when asked about this incident um while giving remarks earlier today here it is I don't know the full context. I don't know how the fight started. But the one part that I saw that was really gruesome is you had a grown man who sucker punched a middle-aged woman. And where I come from, at least, when you have a grown man who sucker punches a middle-aged woman, that person ought to go to jail for a very long time. And frankly, he's lucky there weren't some better people around because they would have handled it themselves.

55:30But if they're not going to handle the cops in Cincinnati, the law enforcement, you've got to prosecute people. We have got to make great American cities safe again for families and children. If you want to take your wife or your children out for a meal, you shouldn't be worried about street violence. And the only way to destroy that street violence is to take the thugs who engage in that violence and throw their asses in prison. How about that, Victor? Strong remarks from the vice president. Well, I think he's correct. Again, it was the reaction of the crowd that a lot of people were cheering that on.

56:03a woman that didn't jumped in that had nothing to do with it thought they could get an opportunistic slug there was a guy who body slammed himself on somebody who was prone tried to injure him so i'm sure there was it was a he said he said about the original altercation but at that point people could have just backed off and let two people finish it off or try to come to an agreement But the crowd went in and it was the idea there was many against one, that they were bullying, that women were going and involving themselves and kicking. And to be frank, I mean, there's a racial component to it.

56:41But I think we got to get away from the I think the end of DEI will be very valuable to the country at large. I think there's a sense that with critical legal theory and critical racial theory, this idea that there are there are entire collective groups that have grievances against society. And therefore, we have separate expectations of them or accountability of them. And the same thing about the mass looting of stores that we kind of just condone. And, you know, when you read critical legal theory or critical racial theory, it goes like this. if I could condense it down, that the only reason that looting is against the law is because wealthy white males don't need to steal Snickers bars or loafers or sneakers.

57:29And therefore, they made rules against it so other people in real need could not do that. That's basically what it is. And so I think it's going to be the idea that you're not going to have what they call affinity graduations at colleges anymore that are racially segregated. No more theme houses, which were segregated dorms. And I think we're going to have to integrate and assimilate in a way that we used to do with a melting pot. But this idea that particular groups feel that they can say things about something. So when you have, I just give you one example. When Mamdami says that he's going to target wider neighborhoods and nobody, I mean, what does that mean?

58:10He's an Indian American and he's statistically from the most affluent ethnic group in the United States. And yet he says, and he also applied to be an African American applicant for college. But that's right. The whole thing is so distorted. And so race should be incidental, not essential to who we are. But once you say it's essential, and that we make this binary, that everybody who is white, and it really started with Barack Obama, when he changed affirmative action into diversity, equity inclusion because it basically said class doesn't matter anymore you can be wealthy you can be privileged you can be oprah it doesn't matter as long as you're not white and particularly not white male you're on the victim victimized oppressed side of the ledger and therefore you deserve repertory treatment or some consideration or situational ethics and all the other people don't and when you have the largest group of impoverished people not statistically but in numbers so-called white people and you realize the people in east palestine ohio have nothing in common with rachel maddow or any other person media talking or chuck schumer or any of these elites um then it's you know it's it's kind of strange as to say white white this white that or when we had lloyd austin and millie testifying about white privilege white rage white supremacy.

59:36They were going to investigate it. They released that a year and a half later. They found no systemic racism in ranks, but they did discourage people from enlisting in the military, and then they denied that they did it. So if people feel that they're just individuals, and whatever they do, they are responsible as an individual, I think we'll see less of this. And so they really need to just say, I'm a case-by-case student. Did you stomp somebody? This is the statute. This is what we're going to indict you are, and we don't care. And a lot of the damage was also done in 2020. For four months, we had rioting, looting,$2 billion in damage, 35 people killed, you know, 1 ,500 officers.

1:00:25Thousands of police officers injured. 1 ,500, yes. And then we had Kamala Harris said, this is going to go on. it should go on it's going to go on all of the and every we had tim waltz's wife saying she opened the window and could smell the the this burning thing the daughter was bragging that she was going to tip off about the national guard deployment it was just a his that set a stage that there were no consequences and uh you know the left is very strange when you went into the capital you could walk into the capital illegally but you could be completely peaceful you could spend two years in jail for that.

1:00:59So they can enforce - Not one of these people is going to jail for two years. Not one of these people. It'll be a miracle if they arrest all of them. No, and they have to. If they don't go to jail, then basically we're sending a message that the color of your skin or your claims to victimhood then exempt you from the type of behavior and the consequences of that behavior that's expected of every other American. And the weird thing about it is, especially if it emerges that that this man in any way uttered a racial slur, there is not evidence of that right now, to be clear. Nothing, nothing that is in reportable form.

1:01:37There's online speculation. But if it emerges, worst case scenario, trying to strong man the argument in the defense of this beating, you're you're really not going to see charges. You're going to see people equate, you know, a racial slur with physical violence and try to say some in some way this beatdown of this man alone was proportionate. And by the way, I guess would also potentially justify the beatdown of the woman who tried to save him. And it wasn't just those two. A third video has now emerged of a third man, third person who happens to be white. This guy's a man, a different one than in the first video, who also got the shit kicked out of him.

1:02:18For no apparent reason, maybe we'll find out there was a verbal slur or something else, but here's that video. Sleep him again. He falls hard to the ground. I got that tool. He's rolling. They're really enjoying his suffering. A woman kicks him while he's down. They're treating him like he's an animal. Worse.

1:02:50He has to use the car to get himself to his feet. He can barely move. By the way, the cops did release a statement via NBC's Cincinnati local. The conditions of these people are unknown. But the police president, the president of the police union, Ken Kober, says he believes they were taken to the hospital with, quote, pretty serious injuries for treatment and will be, quote, recovering from this for a while. Go ahead. yeah well he should be also telling us that they are uh close to arresting the people who did that and again uh a couple of things is if the democrats think that by ignoring this or the media thinks they they don't understand what they're doing they're just fueling this anger that people feel that the laws apply differently on the basis of your ideology your sexual orientation, your gender, your race, and it's not applied across the board equally.

1:03:44And it's very ironic because the civil rights movement started to make sure there was equity under the law and the abuses that people felt during the Jim Crow period were gone forever. And that's what Martin Luther King said, it's the content of your character, not the color of your skin. And now we've gone through DEI and all of these other set-aside programs, special treat. We've created an entire mentality among some people that they're not going to be subject to the same consequences that other people are because they feel they have legitimate grievances. The problem is when you demonize a group and we have white males and you say, you know, at Stanford University, we're only going to let in 9 % white males.

1:04:29And they've done that for three consecutive years until recently, then what you're doing is you're just creating the sense that you're not letting them in because they did something wrong. Or you need to have a separate graduation for this group, this group, but we're not going to have a separate graduation for somebody who would absurdly claim, I'm a European American, we need separate. And because it's not reciprocal, and because we're no longer a 90-10 binary, we're a truly multiracial society, it's not working the number of victim victims who have claims against the victimizers are so great and the victimizers suppose that are too small for the amount of victims because when you look at all the people who qualify there's not enough she's taking her kid around for college tours you know it's like getting to be that time of year for rising seniors and she said she's lost track of the number of land acknowledgments that they have been forced to do.

1:05:29Sometimes multiple land acknowledgments on one college tour. It's not enough to do like one when you kick it off, but like you got to do it at the arts and sciences hall. Then you got to do it at the bio hall. You got to do it over at the PE facilities. It's ridiculous. I do want to say they've reported that they've identified, they've identified, this is per Fox News, at least four suspects. They're still trying to identify at least eight more. Again, they describe the injuries of the two people in particular as serious. I don't know about the third man. And then you get this. This is the thing that you're trying to say.

1:06:09It would be one thing. I mean, if this were a group of white people who kick the shit out of three black people the way we just saw. Every newspaper in the country, every cable network would be showing the video and would be talking about white supremacy. But because the races are reversed, no one is even touching it. Now, if it comes out that someone uttered a racial slur, mark my words, then they will. Then CNN will get interested because they get to say the evil white man uttered the N word or whatever. Again, I'm making this up. There's no evidence of that right now. And now that'll be a story that they're interested in also because then they can just say they covered it.

1:06:49Right. But it's only going to be permissible to cover once they can blame effectively the white people who were the victims here. And instead, what you have is all the media ignoring it. And here is a thought from the Cincinnati vice mayor. Her name is last name is Kearney. She's a Democrat who she she reacted to the incident as describing it with. It was one incident of adults fighting. Adults fighting is what you get, Victor, when it's white people who get a group beat down by black Americans. Yeah, I don't think they understand how that comes across to people, not conservative, liberal, just anybody.

1:07:32When you do that, the other problem is we have two generations now that grew up in the last 60 years under civil rights legislation, which was needed, affirmative action, which was questionable, but was institutionalized under DI. So if you're a young 18-year-old white male and you're applying to a university and you didn't understand why you were not going to get in no matter what your SAT, because you were guilty of something, but they never they never grew up on the what on the old system so they so that it's very hard to to make that argument well yes but your father or your grandfather in the south or did this or there was a housing uh just uh and you're going to pay for it and that doesn't work it not you at some point you just have to say we're going to treat people as individuals and there the problem why we don't is there are so many people invested.

1:08:26I can tell you, I've been in the university for over 50 years, and the number of people that I've watched careers predicated on their race or their gender or their sexual orientation and how they use that, it's just an enormous amount of special interest. And that's one of the reasons that the university, that's one of the subtexts about the Donald Trump reform of the university, why they hate him so much, because that's the sacred cow. They violated the civil rights statutes openly and flagrantly. They violated the 2023 Supreme Court, and they thought that they were more moral and they were smarter than everybody, and they had a right to do that with their theme houses, graduations, safe spaces, race-based admissions, et cetera, et cetera.

1:09:12And when they got called on it, they were just outraged. That's right. But they don't understand public opinion. It's not white-black either. it's just there's i live in a 95 hispanic community and i can tell you that most people are sick of it uh they just don't want to talk about racial preferences and you know at the same time we were talking about by the way i hear from our black viewers on this show all the time they're sick of this bullshit too it's they are they are who are pushing this on us you saw that at the almost the same time there was a white male that went into walmart and start stabbing people and a black Marine, among other people, was one of the people who stopped and pulled out a gun.

1:09:55So people want to get to the point where we're just race neutral. We don't want to get obsession. And the problem is there are so many in the media and academia and politics invested on that. It's going to be hard, but it won't stop until people say, you know what, I'm going to judge people by the content of our character, and you can say anything you want about me. You can call me a racist. It has no effect at all. And it's not going to stop until the media is is the same in reporting on these incidents like they 100 percent. Again, if the races were reversed, they'd be all over this and they'd be mentioning the race of the participants.

1:10:34But now you get now you get, you know, for example, the vice mayor adults fighting this. Nothing. No mention of the race. You think that same mayor wouldn't be mentioning a group of whites? engagement of a black man. If that had been what happened, obviously that's not true. By the way, I just want to point this out. There is a new sheriff in town, Harmeet Dillon, who runs the civil rights division under Trump of the DOJ said as follows. Our federal hate crimes laws apply to all Americans. We will monitor closely how local authorities handle this attack. Nobody in our great nation should be the victim of such a crime and where race is a motivation.

1:11:13Federal law may apply. Go ahead, Victor. Yeah, I think that's important. And we saw it with Trayvon Martin, where the media had to Photoshop the picture of him to show that George Zimmerman was not injured, or we came up with a weird word. The New York Times invented the word white Hispanic, because they were afraid that, you know, that he was trying to say, he was half Latin American, but they got so angry about that. And they said, well, look at him, he's white. Therefore, we can call him white Hispanic. And because they did not want him to have any claims of victimhood, they only wanted Trayvon Martin.

1:11:45They didn't want it between a Hispanic and black. They wanted it white on black. And so what they do is try to emphasize and create and churn all of this racial tension. And the only thing I can say is that people are, it won't also stop until people just tune them out and do not listen to them. And that's already happening with a lot of the legacy media. and this is this is remember this is i'm thinking of sage steel now uh former espn sports commentator and now independent and amazing and she she got in trouble with espn because she made a comment about barack obama she also had questions about the vaccine but she made a comment about barack obama who said like he identified it as black and like sage he's actually a mixed race he has a white mother and a black father and that's exactly what sage has and she was making her own honest reaction to that, which is like, okay, if that's how you identify, but to me it feels wrong.

1:12:39And it kind of feels like I'm disrespecting my mom and that part of me and my mom's influence over me. She wasn't really down with that way of him identifying. Well, that wasn't okay with ESPN. That was obvious given the blowback she got. And you and I both know if she came out and was like, right on, if you're black at all, you've got one black parent, you're black. And that's what he should be saying and screw the people who go with mixed race, because that's just you trying to hedge and telegraph. You've got white, too. You know, ESPN, they would have loved that. She would have gotten a promotion for that.

1:13:16But you can't you can't say anything that is in any way critical of of a minority racial group, especially blacks in America. That was what Barack Obama learned very quickly when he ran for office. Remember that in his memoir, he said he just sort of only, when he went to a campus, he only, he wanted to only hang out with black people. He didn't, he had to break up with his white girlfriend. And then he really threw his own grandmother who had actually scrimped and saved to put him in prep school when he said she was a typical white person who was unduly afraid of black males approaching her. So he, he, he didn't want to be known as a multiracial or non-racial person.

1:13:57He really wanted to emphasize only half of his own ancestry. And it was very sad because when you actually looked at his grandmother and all of that, she was the one person in his life who made sure that he had access to a competitive education. And she worked herself way up in a bank through hard work, and yet you never got any appreciation of that. And to be called a typical white person was pretty bad. and the irony is we're back to the 116th rule of the old antebellum south where if you had just one touch of black uh ancestry then you were considered black and therefore you were discriminated and treated terribly now it's just the opposite and that that you know i've all i've asked a lot of university affirmative action officers so this bird you're letting in on the race so tell me how you do it they won't tell you and i said well you're using the one con one 16th confederate idea oh that's sick of it why would you mention i said well then tell me the criteria that you're using because everything has to have criteria and they do have ratios like that they really do that allow someone to claim that they're of a minority and you can see where it all leads it leads to a continual elizabeth warren abuse of the system phony credentials phony uh personas, and it's got to stop.

1:15:18People just have to say, I don't really care. I've never had one of those full DNA profiles. I'm going to do it because I, too, have high cheekbones, just like my mama and my papa. And it's very possible I've got some Native American in me. And I also would like a landed acknowledgement when I walk into any college camp. I want it under my feet, wherever I stand. I insist on having it. Because like Elizabeth Warren, I just have this feeling based on my high cheekbones that I am. So I'm going to start checking the box or maybe I'll have my kids check the box. That'll really make people happy. I do want to spend a minute on that Walmart hero because one of the things I always pray for is that my children will be strong and will also help and protect those who aren't.

1:16:00It's like one of the main things you hope for your children, right? That they'll develop their own strength. And I mean, emotional, not just physical, but like emotional and mental strength, but that they'll also use those gifts to help people who aren't as fortunate in that lane. And this guy in the Walmart in Michigan did it. To me, he's another Daniel Penny. But, you know, he he's not getting the Daniel Penny treatment, given the circumstances, which I understand he's universally, as far as I know, being hailed as hero. So it's Traverse City, Michigan. According to the sheriff's office, the attacker entered a store in the mall around 5 p.m.

1:16:36wielding a knife, ultimately injuring 11, six critically, five seriously. The attacker's a 42-year-old local homeless man. Enter Derek Perry, not to be confused with Daniel Penny. The names are kind of similar. This is Derek Perry. He ran toward the suspect while others fled. Here's Derek on the screen for the listening audience. He does happen to be a black man. He ran toward the suspect while everyone else fled. I'd be fleeing too. I'd be terrified. He ran toward him. He's a Marine veteran. There you go. And in the video you're going to see here, he shouts at the attacker while brandishing a small handgun.

1:17:17Perry had a small handgun. Here he is. Watch this.

1:17:32Throw it away. Hey, he hasn't dropped it. Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. Put it down. Okay, I'm going to stone you. Lay down. Lay down. Put it down. That's our hero, Derek Perry, yelling at him to drop the knife, to lay down, taking command of the situation. His own daughter wrote on Facebook, heroism. His heroism is a proud daughter moment for her. his daughter-in-law added that this veteran is a true hero. Those stories are amazing. And this is, look, you need these heroes. This is why we don't prosecute the Daniel Pennys, why we shouldn't, right? You need, in particular, American men who know what they're doing.

1:18:21Daniel Penny, too, was an armed forces veteran to stand up when they see someone in trouble and to do the thing that 99 % of the rest of us are too scared to do. Yeah, absolutely. And once he did that, other people came to his aid because they wanted to participate in something noble. And I think that's going to, I think that it's an indication when you see that, that people, and that's unfortunate, have lost confidence in the ability of law enforcement, and it's not law enforcement, It's at the prosecutorial level. They've lost confidence in the deterrent factor of the law. They feel that the law does not deter criminals anymore or that people, because of their step, maybe if a person's homeless, he thinks that we're so concerned about the homeless, he can go in and do something like that without consequences.

1:19:16But I can tell you, earlier generations would say certain things that people do they would have never done before because they were terrified of the consequences from law enforcement. Or, you know, I can remember in high school, I don't know, 45 years ago that no one, if you shoplifted, that was a stain. They printed your name in the paper, your age, your parents' address in a small town. And you were looking at six to eight weeks in a juvenile hall for a candy bar. And everybody said, you know, if you were with somebody and you saw him pick up a candy bar, you'd say, you put that down. I don't want anything.

1:19:56I don't want to be near you. They were so terrified of the consequences. And I wish I could say we all private guilt was really a good deterrent. We all feel bad about things. But that earlier society was based on a shame culture. You didn't do things because you didn't want to shame your family, your community, your friends. And we've completely got away from that. We don't print the names of people that are charged, and we think that's civilized and enlightened, but it's really led to a loss of confidence and deterrence in the law in general. There is still some public shaming via the internet, which in some cases works and makes sense.

1:20:38It happened this weekend in a glorious fashion when a member of a Florida County school board. She was the chairman, is the chairman woman of the Alachua County Public Schools Board. Her name is Sarah Rockwell, had some thoughts on the death of Hulk Hogan. And the thoughts were expressed as follows. Oh, did Hulk die? I didn't even know. Good. one less MAGA in the world. This woman is the chairperson of the school board, which it's Florida. And I guarantee you, there's going to be a hefty amount of MAGA loving Republicans in her school district who send their children underneath this woman to work for her teachers in the school board.

1:21:29And this, she felt totally comfortable writing that she was celebrating the relatively early 71 year old death of Hulk Hogan because she wanted one less MAGA in the world. Victor, she was publicly shamed. She then had to apologize. Oh, she's she made a cruel and flippant comment. She tried to diminish it by saying it was from my personal Facebook account. And she deeply regrets it now. But there are others down there, including a GOP state committee woman who is saying she should resign. There's no way that the parents in this school district are going to be able to trust this woman to oversee a curriculum that includes Republican families or their children.

1:22:16What are your thoughts? Well, I'm kind of a cynic, but I don't think she's sincere because had people either not said anything about that comment posting or they praised her, she'd be perfectly happy today. Reminds me of the people in general, but also the minor Democratic official after the flooding in Texas, where she basically said these people had it coming to them because they were of a particular race, or they were exclusionary, or some people posted, well, you didn't believe in climate change, therefore this flooding of the river is what you deserve. And all these people then get contrite, and they say, I didn't mean this, and they do that, but they only do that because the internet is unforgiving, And it is.

1:23:02If you want to go and wait in those waters, there is a deterrent factor there. People will reply, sometimes not fairly, but there will be a reply and you have to be very careful what you say. And I think I agree with you. I don't see how a person that would, that was one of her, you know, it takes some thought to type something out. It's not like you're just screaming out at the moment. And if she did take that effort, how could you ever trust her to be fair in a position? It's amazing, though. To blame it in particular, one less MAGA in the world. That's what she wants, less MAGA in the world.

1:23:40And if they have to die prematurely, so be it. I'm sorry she cannot stay. It is over between you and the board, Sarah. I predict she will be gone because there's just no way in good conscience they can keep this woman on this board with any Republicans in that school district whatsoever. She wasn't the only one to celebrate Hulk's death. This woman, Yvette Dentromault, I don't speak French, obviously, but she tweeted out that she was dancing on his grave after he died. She said, I won't be the first or last to say, fuck that guy. Dance on any grave you want, but this one's mine. She later deleted it, but she has since tweeted, I also took great pleasure reading the obituaries of Henry Kissinger and Rush Limbaugh, and I won't apologize for those either.

1:24:32This is what some people are reduced to. And the thing that she was so upset with about on Hulk Hogan was the fact that he sued Gawker successfully after they published him having sex with a woman and successfully sued Gawker to say that's an invasion of privacy. And he won on$115 million in compensatory, 25 in punitive million, and 31 million was the settlement. Then Gawker filed for bankruptcy. But of all things to get upset about, the man's privacy was obviously deeply violated. He sued and Peter Thiel was behind it and he successfully shuttered Gawker. But this is the modern left, Victor. I mean, There have been people who have died on the left who I honestly can't stand and of course wouldn't miss, you know, never in a million years would I actually tweet out such a terrible sentiment because no matter who they are, they have loved ones.

1:25:25And in the case of a public figure, they have fans. And just out of respect for humanity, you just don't celebrate when someone dies like this. It's just there's the level of cruelty and soullessness that is like somehow non-human. Yeah, I think it's really elemental with the left because they start with the idea that they're for the many and not for the few. They just they postulate that. And therefore, they're smarter and they have greater morality because they're for equity and equality and fairness. It doesn't matter whether they are or not or whether they're hypocrites themselves, the way they conduct their own lives.

1:26:05But once you state that you are morally superior and you're intellectually superior, then almost any means necessary or justified to get to that noble end. So they excuse what they say or how they act because they think they're morally superior. I mean, I was thinking the other day when I saw Schumar, I thought, wow, did he ever pay a price for going to the Supreme Court doors when it was in session in front of a very angry pro-abortion mob and say, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, you sowed the wind. You're going to reap the whirlwind. You don't know what's going to hit you. And then, you know, a few months later, we have people show up at the justice's house.

1:26:48We had a potential assassin. There was never really any outcry. uh mary there was never any doj investigation of that but the the pretense of all of that was that abortion is such a noble issue that i can say or do anything i want as a public official but if anybody had done the opposite from the right and gone in and said kagan so to my ear you're not you don't there would be there would have been outrage and it's it's just a double standard and it's kind cosmic. And that's why I think there was a recent poll that the Ivy League now only has about 20 % of people have high regard for higher education.

1:27:30And I think people, when they're introduced to that idea, it's very smug, it's off-putting, it's sanctimonious, self-righteous. And that's part of the problem with the left and the Democratic Party now. They come across as sanctimonious, self-righteous skulls and hypocritical, and people just don't want to hear it anymore. Well, by the way, that woman I just told you about, Yvette, she was an adjunct professor of chemistry at Emanuel College. I don't know what she's doing currently, but the other reason she sort of made a name for herself was she's a Vani Hari, who's been on this show. Vani calls herself the food babe.

1:28:08She's got great products. She's been like at the apex of the push to get artificial food dyes out of our food, which has been working. RFKJ is doing it so much so that the New York Times' The Daily Podcast this morning was devoted to it. And of course, typical to what we've been discussing on The New York Times, their bent was, well, in 2015, they tried taking some of the artificial food dyes out of some of the products and the American people didn't like them. They didn't think that they were colorful enough. It's not a win. There's no moment to celebrate the fact that we're literally putting petroleum in our children's food, okay?

1:28:44It's unambiguously a win and a watershed moment for RFKJ to have done this. Vani Hari's behind it as well, but that's Yvette's other claim to fame. She decided that Vani Hari is, quote, full of shit and took a shot at her. So this is the same person who now thinks it's wonderful that Hulk Hogan died and really shows a soulless reaction to the death of someone who is very important and inspirational to millions of Americans. Standby. We're going to talk to Victor next, believe it or not, about Sidney Sweeney and Jay Leno. That's straight ahead. It wasn't supposed to get this bad. You know, remember the time when you actually were on top of your bills?

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1:33:20So the left continues to cry into their soup about the cancellation of Stephen Colbert. We know all that. They continue to suggest that this is some sort of a free speech violation. This is the government making the left bow down to it because he didn't like Colbert. I really genuinely don't understand the theory. I really don't. I mean, if he wanted to get rid of late night hosts who hate him, why didn't he make them fire Kimmel at ABC when he settled that defamation suit he successfully brought against them for George Stephanopoulos' repeated comments on him allegedly being found liable for rape?

1:33:55Like if you if you have some legal leverage over somebody and you really want what you want, why wouldn't you have gotten rid of Kimmel, who's just as hateful as Colbert? Why why wouldn't he be over at CBS insisting that Gayle King go if he just wanted to get rid of people who hate him or Scott Pelley, who's the main brand on 60 Minutes or Margaret Brennan or Norah O'Donnell? Well, clearly Trump is fine having antagonists all over the major media brands, including CBS. So I don't I don't get that this is all Trump's fault. It's Stephen Colbert's fault. He had no ratings. He had 200 staffers. They paid they earned 100 million dollars, but only netted 40.

1:34:38His show was so bloated and expensive. So they were sorry, they netted 60. So they were losing 40 million dollars a year on that show, which had 200 staffers. Again, the Kelly file, any given time between nine and 12 staffers and made$100 million a year. That's how you keep your job in television. The way he did it is how you lose it. It's very simple math. Try to keep up, folks at home. Jay Leno was asked to weigh in, who did this same job that all these others are doing not too long ago. I was on with Jay Leno when I was a newly mother to my third child. So it was 2013. It was December of 2013.

1:35:18I remember that because it was Christmas when I went on the show just around and I had to bring my baby with me because he was a newborn. Anyway, that's not that long ago, 2013. He understood what the rules were back then and he weighed in on the Colbert situation. Here it is. Funny is funny. People, you know, it's funny when someone who is not, when you make fun of their side and they laugh at it, you know, I just find getting out. I don't think anybody wants to hear a lecture. Why shoot for just half an audience all the time? You know, why not try to get the whole, I mean, I like to bring people into the big picture.

1:35:55I don't understand why you would alienate one particular group, you know, or just don't do it at all. I'm not saying you have to throw your support or whatever, but just do what's funny. Just speaking there to the head of the Ronald Reagan Foundation, just do what's funny and don't alienate half your audience victor sounds so simple doesn't it yeah i remember when uh people got on michael jordan and they said why aren't you more political why don't you reflect it was during the obama era and he said because republicans about half my audience are republicans or my consumers that buy my shoes why would i want to offend them you know when tuck when tucker was let go by fox unlike colbert he was a big money maker and he had a big audience and i don't remember that was during the biden administration i don't remember anybody getting all angry and saying oh it was pressure after january 6 or he he said something about ukraine and you people it's your fault that you put pressure on uh the murdoch family to get rid of tucker they just said you know what we were angry at the murdoch family and fox yes we weren't mad at the government we weren't organizing protests in the streets i thought you know Everybody just thought, wow, this is a money-making show.

1:37:15He's a very skilled host. And why would they get rid of him? But nobody said it was, oh, the Biden administration was responsible. The left did it. I never thought that the left did it. I thought it was just some decision that the corporate management, I think Tucker basically said the same thing. He didn't really contest it. He just said, you know what? I work for them. They have the right to do whatever they want. They're the corporate people. if they want to do that and pay the rest of my salary, that's fine. And it was kind of a traumatic thing to happen, given he was at the pinnacle of his career.

1:37:49But I don't think anybody, same thing when others at Fox had left. I don't think anybody said this administration did this to them. And it's very adolescent that Colbert thinks that he has a right to make$20 million a year and lose the network$40 million as if they're his parents, and he's a teenager, and he demands that they give him this and this and that. And now he's going on there and trying to deliberately offend his paymaster so that they, I guess, that they terminate him earlier than their year window so he can be a tragic hero or something. But it's really adolescent. He's like a teenager.

1:38:26He really is a little kid that's throwing a fit. They really should let him go because here's the problem. First of all, it is universally understood that when you fire somebody, they should be brought out the door that day. You don't keep around people who you have fired. They're just, you know, not generally happy campers, and it's not a good office environment, and it's not really a smart move as an employer. So they're keeping him around for the next nine months as a fired employee, and every night he's going out there and railing on them. And really the CBS brass now looks completely weak and feckless and like they have no balls because they're just allowing themselves to be beaten up and insulted and called names every night while they platform this guy.

1:39:14It's ridiculous. And truly, I don't think this can go on much longer. If this is the only shtick Colbert's got left in the bag, it will be cut short. Yeah. Or it'll either be cut short or people are good. It's kind of like network when Peter Finch just kept doing everything. It was a big hit. That's an old movie. A lot of people don't remember it, but he finally got boring. And I think maybe they'll think, who wants to turn into Colbert every single night and hear how poorly he was treated and how awful his corporate? But in the process, he's going to drive down what's left of their ratings. But maybe they'll think, well, just going to let this guy, we'll give him a noose and about three weeks, people will be sick of him for whining so much.

1:39:57Right now, his ratings have spiked because there's so much buzz around the fact that he's been fired and he's going after them every night. So the drama is still high. By the way, Gutfeld is still crushing him. It's amazing. Over on the channel, you have to pay to get. You have to pay. Fox News is not on everybody's cable. CBS is free, no matter where you plug your TV on, even if you have the rabbit ears and he's still outpacing him. So it's an amazing thing. All right. I got to end with this. Sydney Sweeney, who is an actress. She's the toast of the town. She's a sort of modern day sex symbol.

1:40:32She's being called a white supremacist by people who don't like her latest ad, which is for American Eagle. And she's advertising jeans. And yet the lunatics on the left think she's advertising white supremacy. Here is one of the new ads in the new ad campaign. Saw 20. You see what I did there, right? Jeans are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue. Sidney Sweeney has her jeans. Okay. This is obviously a reference to her body and not to her skin color. But the lunatic left is going to do what the lunatic left is going to do.

1:41:21Victor, your thoughts? Yeah, there's an often quoted, a very famous quote, as you know, from Berea. He was the head of the Soviet secret police at the end of the war and did the Cold War. And he always said, I have the crime. you just bring me the criminal and uh so what do you or excuse me i have the criminal in mind you just we'll just think up a crime so they have this idea that there's racism everywhere and we're just looking for a person that we can plug into the pre-existing crime whether they did anything or not and that's what they're doing they i think there's a lot of people on the left they just have this idea that we have to prove systemic racism and unfairness or we're out of a job that we just need somebody.

1:42:04Who is it? And they scan every day's news. Let's plug him or her into that and then we'll have the criminal. So, you know. But here's what they say. They're upset because it's about who gets to be the face of America's best genes. G-E-N-E-S. You see, they think it's no accident that they've chosen a white, thin woman. because you're, I guess, not allowed to celebrate those things in any way, shape, or form. But they're completely ignoring the reference to, again, her body, which is the thing she's famous for. It's just absurd, Victor. I don't understand that because after George Floyd, it's pretty common knowledge there was a lot of surveys done.

1:42:54And roughly African-American people were appearing in about 50 % of commercials, even though they were 12 % of the demographics. So there was the idea that we're bending over backwards as a commercial society or advertisers were to over represent black people and minority people in general in the aftermath of George Floyd. But once you start doing that, I think then the demands become insatiable. It's like if you did this, then we're going to have to do this. Now we have censorship power over anything you do that we consider is not deferential enough to us, whoever it is. but it's not going to work.

1:43:33Aesthetics are universal, Megan. People are inbred in their brains, imprinted what is beautiful and what is not. Whether we like it or not, thin women are very attractive. And unfortunately, less so. Oh, and by the way, there's nothing wrong with being white. It's fine. She can be white too. Absolutely. Now we're going to see an ad with the black woman and the reference to jeans too, and that won't satisfy them. By the way, the campaign, these jeans sales are going to develop, to help victims of domestic violence. That still didn't quiet the critics. Victor, great to see you. Thanks for being here.

1:44:07We're back tomorrow with Mike Solana and more. Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.

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