Hello, ladies. Hello, gentlemen. This is the Victor Davis Hanson show. I'm Jack Fowler, the host, the star in namesake. That's Victor Davis Hanson. He is the Martin and Eli Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the way in Amarsha Busky Distinguished Fellow in history.

In history at Hillsdale College, where he is right this very minute. He's made time is terribly busy schedule to share some wisdom on a number of important topics that we are going to be talking about today.

I think Victor, we should start off with some recent news. Maybe maybe the president's weird wandering off during a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House.

And then the White House staffs bizarre defense of Joe Biden's wandering off as if it was an act of medical mercy to the to the population. Victor, let's get those your thoughts on those that topic and we have about three other topics we're going to try and get to on today's episode and we'll do that right after these important messages.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson show. My friend, you know, a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House is a pretty rare thing in its way, a beautiful thing, especially when they recipient is there and many as many of them have been awarded posumously.

But it happened this week, a medal was was awarded Joe Biden whose wife Jill has COVID came without a mask, standing behind the aging Vietnam veteran putting on the medal.

Breathing applause happens and then he does his wander off and then the White House says well, he was doing it because he didn't want to possibly spread COVID to people.

This is the wander off is a sign of you can you can address that Victor and the BS explanation that followed is also something we'd like to hear your views on.

Well, we've talked about this, I think very early on in his presidency, you and I talked about and I suggested that the sonality, although it's confirms the idea that he's on fit for the presidency has a very bizarre unintended consequence.

I should say maybe intended consequence of shielding him from legitimate criticism of Joe Biden, the Joe Biden we've known the last 50 years, who is self-centered, corrupt,

egotistical, a plagiarist, a liar, and not a very nice person. And so then when he does these things, we say well, God, we've never seen a president just walk away like that from this distinguished group of patriot people who gave us so much, but a poor Joe, I mean, I had an uncle like that, I had a cousin like that, we have to, that's how he operates.

But he it's hard, maybe the listeners know we could rank these outrageous acts because this comes on the tail on the fumes of remember the people who were flown in the cascus and he looked at his watch Jack.

And then we had the earlier insolence when when he was addressing that the parents of the deceased in Afghanistan, he had to one up them in the empathy quota by mentioning, I should say, line about his son bow that he had died in Iraq.

So you add those three together and it kind of confirms a picture that this person is not fit to be president, but he's not, he's not a nice person and it's kind of a window in his soul, the senility in his case takes off the veneer of self protection or

this, you know, you're a stew, you know, how social governance of your behavior, you're aware of how you come off to people, he doesn't have any of that anymore.

And so what you're seeing is not so much senility, it's Joe Biden of the last 50 years in the raw, the way he was, the plagiarist, the liar, as I said, the cook, the racist, it's just him.

And there's nothing you can do about, you know, he's rated there's a pullout today, he's 39% and if he was a normal politician, there would be ways to creep up a little bit with it, you know, he tried to drain this, he did drain the strategic patrol and reserve before the midterms that helped him and then he, of course, forgave the student loans illegally.

But other than those illegal acts or these policy disastrous policy decisions, there's it's not going to change because he's not going to take Previgener or, you know, Adderall or something and suddenly become couples minteth, it's not going to happen.

Right. You saw the story, Victor, about Roger Severino from the Heritage Foundation, who came out and just the other day and said when he was an editor,

and one of the Harvard legal publications that Joe Biden then Senator Joe Biden, I think this was in 2000, had submitted an essay on something to do with the civil rights and the, I forget the women's, I forget exactly which law that it was that he was behind.

But while editing the article found just wholesale chunks of plagiarism stolen no quotes, the folks at the higher ups at the publication fixed it up.

No, you know, this is just old Joe, I guess, was the mindset they published it anyway, but this happened quite a while after he had been caught plagiarizing again and again.

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