Join Victor Hanson and cohost Sami Winc in the Friday news roundup: the incoherence of a never-Trumper, the pollsters on the impact of Kamala’s candidacy, Hunter’s foreign affairs revealed, a Kamala ad, and more this week on incidents purely Walz.
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Victor is on fire today!
Damn Victor. Just when I thought no one could crack me up or demonstrate a current understanding of the full view. Stu.
Another treasure description of the national scene.
Thank you.
VDH’s schedule and output is beyond my lilliputian comprehension.
Arrive at 2:00 am, head to the next venue, etc., etc.
VDH seems to have found a way to stuff a 36-hour day into a 24-hour day.
No wonder the struggle with long covid continues. A little rest and relaxation might be cool and allow the creaky bones some time to heal and rejuvenate. Not that anything is creaky about VDH’s work. It’s a national treasure 😉
The best thing to do is forward your advice to President Trump, you should work withhim Victor
I was thinking the same.
I was on the Chicago Fire Department when the George Floyd riots. On the peak day there were over 100 fires in one night. An Engine had to abandon its hose after being attacked. My brother was working that day and they got 7 fires that night. Which is unheard of. It was absolute anarchy and it was all defended, excused, and now memory holed. After 5 years on the department, I finally had enough this May and resigned. The city has been overrun with crime, homeless, drug addicts and illegals on every corner. I went back to the trades doing commercial hvac and plan to move out of the city soon. Governor’s like Walz and JB Pritzker and the Mayor’s of these big cities have abandoned any obligation to provide basic security measures and services. By the way, loved the interview you did with Mike Rowe! This is the only podcast that I never miss an episode. Keep up the great work!
The take down of Bill Crystal was masterful and fully warranted. He is only one in a cascade of former conservative intellectuals who put ego ahead of nation.
But while Dr. Hanson’s writings and podcast are highly valuable to those of us in his audience there are others who are valuable voices to those of us struggling in an era of public lies and distorted information.
I’ve found Col. Douglas MacGregor to be a challenging voice who also speaks truth to power. There are no critiques of him that are in the public arena of which I’m aware. Recently in an interview he has strongly critiqued the disastrous Afghan withdrawal and the numerous General officers who stood by, may have planned, it’s very clumsy execution. MacGregor would clearly like to clean house at the Pentagon. His most penetrating comment was that President Trump allowed this worthless body of officers to remain in power during his watch?
Donald Trump, for all the good he did, was easily led astray by those he trusted to advise him on the military and civilian administration. He was in the dark on cleaning out the government. There has been condemnation of your talented friend, General Macmaster.
Picking Trump over Harris-Walz is a no brainer. But would still like to hear Prof. Hanson expound on the views of Col. MacGregor.
It is not effective to utter generalities such as, “Walz betrayed his battalion.” How? What should be said, by a former Marine like Vance, is words to the effect, “The sergeant major is the senior enlisted advisor to the commanding officer and the unofficial, but very real, leader of the staff officers (E-6 and above). When Walz bailed on his battalion shortly prior to its deployment to a war zone, that meant that they needed to scramble to find a replacement. They had to go outside the battalion to find someone who didn’t “know” the battalion and its soldiers, and who WASN’T planning on shortly deploying to a war zone. Or they had to promote a battalion master sergeant who may or not have been ready or qualified to become a command sergeant major.