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C (8:10)

He didn't do what he did when he was in office and said that the danger of global warming would mean that our shorelines would be inundated soon. And then he bought his cliffside Martha Vineyard seaside home and his directly beach home in Hawaii. So I guess he was saying, well here's how climate change works everybody. The climate is sensitive and it can tell. Now he's channeling Reverend Wright who told us that the Israelis were making special weapons to hunt out Arabs, that they had a guidance system. Remember that? Well, Obama's expanding on that. I think he thought climate change will go after white people. But if you're half black and your name is Obama, you can buy a place at Martha's Vineyard or on the beach at Hawaii, and the climate will make a special exemption and the shore will not inundate like I otherwise said it would. So when he says old men, he's creating, probably, and I'm not trying to be bombastic, but realistic, the ugliest and most expensive presidential library in history. He destroyed a whole historic park in Chicago and made this ugly monolith. And it's going to have his name on it. Obama. And Obama, I think, is 60 or 61. So maybe Obama 65. 65. Okay, so he's a 65 old man that wants his name on a building. How's that? And the other thing is, when Hillary says white men, old white men, I mean, and then we had recently, Jasmine Crockett says two Caucasians. We only had two Caucasians that voted against the resolution commemorating Charlie Kirk's life. And she can't finish a sentence without white. We have Joy Reid, Don Leno. What I'm getting at is that we're getting to a saturation point with the word white, because there's a contradiction from the left and the DEI left. On the one hand, they're bragging that 30% of the population is non white. They talk about that all the time. And in California, I hear all the time that Hispanics are a minority majority, that 47% of the population. I don't know how they get to that number, because the third generation Hispanics that I know don't really identify as Hispanics or they're intermarried. But nevertheless, they say that. And white males then in California are about 20% of the population. So why would you keep obsessing? White, white, white, white, white, white. And if we do live in a multiracial society, if Hillary Clinton said she's tired of a white male group, what if you said I was tired of a black male group between the ages of 19 and 39 who commit 51% of all violent crime? And I just said that all the time. People would say, well, Victor, why are you so obsessed with that particular group? I said, it's just statistics. But she doesn't even have statistics. And I could say, and I've said this on this program, every time I see a very, very affluent woman, very well dressed, at a bicoastal airport, and she comes to argue with me out of the blue when I'm minding my own business, I Call her a stereotypical Karen and Kilreath hits that. So would you want me to talk about them all the time? White, white, white, white women over 65? No, nobody does. But they think there's an exemption on white men or white people in general that you can use language you would use for no other people. And I'm telling you that I mentioned this before. If you look at the admissions policy at Stanford University, until recently when they reinstated the sat, I guess they were confident about it because they actually published the fact that, that about 21% of the students were so called white and 9% were so called white male. If you were a national university like they are, Then that's about 35% of the population white male. But you were by, you were by design ensuring that you deliberately excluded 75% of that demographic on racial grounds and gender ground. And they wanted to broadcast that. So I think everybody should just not self identify. In fact, I would go farther. If all of us are listening and you see somebody that self identifies, just say, I'm done. I'm done. So if you're in a meeting and someone says, I'm a wise Latina, I'm serious, just don't participate. Or as a white man, no, you're done. You don't want to hear it as a proud black woman, which I think we hear from Jasmine, just say, I'm done. Tune out. Because they're tribalist. And if everybody does that, we know where the trajectory goes. We go. The road to perdition is going to be what Hobbes called bellum omnium contra omnes, a war of everybody against everybody. We don't want that. So let's not identify anymore and let's not do it hypocritically like Barack Obama, who has his name on a big ugly monolith and he is becoming an old man.

B (14:04)

Yeah, I think he got there already. He may be able to get the 10% discount. Dairy Queen every Monday. Once you hit 65 spectrum, a little more on Hillary. The headline with her was Hillary Clinton Slams Christian White Men. She was on Morning Joe. And here's how it happened. Clinton began by telling hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, you know, I love my country and I love it, you know, warts and all. And I'm proud of the fact that we have always been a work in progress. You know, we haven't gotten to the more perfect union. She continued, adding that freedom of speech and the ability to protest is what, quote, makes us so special as a country. And the Idea that you could turn back the clock and try to recreate a world that never was dominated by, you know, let's say it, white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology. It's just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for. And we were on the path toward that. I mean, imperfectly. Lots of bumps along the way. What were we on the path towards? Hillary. And this is two weeks after, you know, Charlie Kirk is assassinated. And supposedly she's on there to help know, temper down the rhetoric. And meanwhile she's like, let's get, let's go after these.

C (15:18)

Do you remember when she ran against Barack Obama and she was losing finally. So she played the race card. So she was Annie Oakley Hillary that said that she was going to go to white working class bars and have boilermakers and bowl. And then they asked her about Obama's religion and she said, well, he says he's not a Muslim. Remember that? He says he's not a Muslim, so don't give us a lecture, Hillary. And then you cackled about the. That really hurt you. In 2016. Remember, she was cackling when she was reciting that she had defended this rapist of a young girl when she was a lawyer.

B (16:01)

So I just wish there was a shelf life on these former politicians, although they never considered themselves former. Remember the guy Miller, who was Barry Goldwater's running mate?

C (16:11)

Yeah.

B (16:12)

And then he did the ad. He did the ad about American Express card waiting way back. But once upon a time, it seemed like they did their duty and then they went off into the wilderness.

C (16:21)

No, she doesn't, because she never had any skills to make. She wasn't a great lawyer, she wasn't an engaging person. She was a grifter. She grifted off. She stayed with that philandering, misogynistic husband of hers who you know, the only reason, the only idea that I guess she stayed is because public sentiment thought that she was so off putting that they sympathized with him and then contextualize his adultery and worse because he was charged with sexual assault by.

B (16:57)

Yeah, I better put some ice on that.

C (16:59)

Yeah, so, so was Joe Biden at least alleged by one of his staffers. But my point is that she never really started a business. She never was known as a marquee lawyer. She was the husband of Bill Clinton and then thought she was Eleanor Roosevelt, but she lacked Eleanor Roosevelt's talent. And then she was gifted the Senate seat in New York, basically. And then she ran for President twice. She humiliated herself in 2008 and she lost when she had all the money and all the media and everything in 2016, she's never gotten over that. And she won't go away. And so I don't know, I just think that we're reaching. We're a multiracial society. And if you still speak in tribal terms, we're getting to the point where it's not going to be sustainable. It's not. And everybody's got to back off. But what's happening is when we have more. If you look at the per capita income of blacks or any group, it's amazing progress. It really is. And if you talk about so called white people and you look at per capita income, there are about 8 or 9 on some and 10 or 12 on others. And it's Arab Americans, it's people from India, number one, it's Chinese Americans, they're ahead of white people. How can that be possible in a white dominated, racist society? And that's what the biggest indicator of equality is, economic viability. And so all of. And then when you look at certain other, if you look at PhDs that are granted in the humanities, they're about 60% women. If you look at the enrollments of elite colleges, they're about 54, 55% female. Now if you look at, I don't know, you look at not just professional sports, but the post office, nobody really cares that African Americans are overrepresented. So it only applies to so called white people when we say you're overrepresented or you're toxic or you did something. And then the final thing is it's a logical inconvenience, inconsistency. When you have this country that the left damns and condemns as the product of white people whose toxic legacy still is the normative protocol. And then you have all these people from India and Africa and south of the border. Look at Ilya Omar. She can say when she got here she was surprised how trashy it was. She can say that she thinks that the dictator Trump is worse than the dictators in Somalia. You can have, you know, Jasmine Crockett talk about white people as satanic, all of that. You can have aoc, but they never say, well, why? In some cases, Jasmine Crockett never says, well, how did I grow up in a society that was so self correcting that my parents were wealthy upper middle class people and I went to a $35,000 a year prep school. And Somalia, she came from Somalia and she's A congresswoman. And now she's worth $20 million. Ilion Omar I think 30. Yeah. So somebody created the system. And the somebody who created the system didn't say this is a white European state. The word white and European is not in the constitution. In fact the declaration says all men are created equal. There's not a racial, there's a word about slaves, but it's only because they wanted to stop the south from enslaving people and then using slaves for population, for Congress seats. We're not going to let these people vote, but we're going to count for demography. That's the only mention. So the natural expression of the founders vision was a society of anybody who wanted to be free, who was human. And so people came here and they didn't go to Mexico to the same degree. They didn't go to the Congo, they didn't go to the Soviet Union or Russia, they didn't go to China. They came here. And they came here because these so called white men created a society that could become multiracial, multicultural, but was imprinted with a western civilization, European tradition, Judeo Christian tradition that gave people freedom, economic prosperity, personal security. And that's why they came and that's why it became what it is. And they know it. We know it because Ilhan Omar doesn't say this was a horrible place of white men. So I'm leaving. No, she says it's a horrible place of white men and therefore that really works well on these guilty people because I guilt them all the time and play victim. But what happens when people say, as Roberto Duran said at that famous no mask, you're not going to victimize me. I'm not your victimizer, I'm not your oppressor. Get a life. Doesn't mean anything. Racist, racist, racist. Goes in one ear, then through my empty head out the other. And it makes there's no impression. I'm sorry that you're hurt, but it doesn't mean just because you say I'm a racist or a homophobic doesn't mean it is. Calm down. Problems in your mind, not mine. And that's if everybody listening will just adopt that attitude.

B (23:04)

Absolutely.

C (23:06)

I guarantee you it'll disappear. Say what you want and you can see what happened to Don Lamont. He went from talking about white people, white people, white people. As a signature CNS host walking along the streets of New York with a microphone.

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C (26:06)

Well, I mean the Republican Party that I grew up watching was, I guess you would call it an Episcopalian. I'm not trying to get into but Episcopalian, Congregationalist, you know what I mean, Anglican. It was sort of a social cultural phenomenon where people may or may not have gone to church, but they were identified with a particular religious persuasion. But the whole point was to downplay it and to play up the secular aspect and then to count on the evangelicals or the more orthodox worshipers to resonate on the social issues because they wouldn't want to go with the left. And now I think she's correct about that, that people that run the party are going to be much more explicit and candid and proud of their religious fealty and belief. There are studies that are not religiously orientated that when people believe in a transcendent God in the Judeo Christian sense. But I'm not even trying to eliminate other. Any religion that there is a greater adherence to lawfulness family. Not that you don't have exceptions. And that's what I guess we use the word for the founders called deist, that they believed in a God and that meant, well, how could they have been, you know, how could Jefferson have done this or Washington this or Hamilton done this when they. They were supposed Christians? Well, they were Christians, but they had this idea of deism as well. And what deism said was religious observance and a belief in a higher being is essential to a constitutional system where your lights are not just created by yourself, but they're imprinted on your brain when you're born and you have an innate sense of good and that came from God. And the world that we live is not the end of things. So we're not going to be rapacious and slaves to our sexual or material appetites. But there's going to be something else. And that something else will depend on how your soul operated with a body on it, the temptation. And you all have an equal shot depending on your wealth. It doesn't matter, doesn't depend on your race into a transcendental afterlife depending how you were as a human with this burden of this body. The Greeks had a something Neoplatonism that was the foundation of the Catholic orthodoxy. Later it took a lot from Platonism and the idea was always in that famous metaphor. I think it's in the Phaedo when Socrates is challenged whether he can prove that people have souls. He says a lyre, that's kind of like a violin or a harp. He says that's the body and the song is the soul. So he says if you don't have a lyre, the song doesn't exist. Or does the song always there? But it has to have a manifestation for people who are trapped by manifestations. So just because you don't see the soul doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We all know. We all know the Star Spangled Banner, but if we're no voice and there's no instrument, it doesn't exist. No, it still exists, but it comes to life when we can reify it with a body is what he's saying. And that kind of is that was the beginning of a lot of Augustine and later thought in the Church. Yeah.

B (30:07)

Well, Victor, we're going to get your take on some immigration related issues. Birthright the arrest of a school superintendent and Secretary of Transportation Duffy taking some action on truck drivers, which we've talked about before. But it's not an unimportant issue and we'll get to all that when we come back from these important messages.

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C (35:24)

I don't know if we have either. But he's right about the 14th amendment. It was a later judicial system. It was designed to give freed slaves the right to vote. And one of the ways they did it, and they said they were born on American soil. But it also has a qualifier and not subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign nation. So the idea was that American slaves who are now freedmen had always been American and so they would be given citizenship. But people who came in as foreign citizens from different countries, therefore we're still obligated, let's say, for military. So if you come in from Mexico and you're pregnant and you have a child, are all of you subject to Mexican tax laws, Mexican, say, conscription laws? Mexican or not, you can be subject to the laws of your country. And if you are, then you're not subject to. That's the argument the administration's using. They will probably bring in the fact that if you look at Europe, which is supposed to be more enlightened and left wing than we are, that almost no countries allow the right of the use solus, I guess it's called in Latin, the right of the earth, so to speak. In other words, just your physical proximity when you're born. You have to have, I think in almost all the EU countries, both parents being a citizen of that particular country, some eu, I think it's one parent, but. So that's the question. And that means that people from Asia and Mexico or south who fly in pregnant. And that happens. I think I told you a story that about 15 years ago, late at night, a woman knocked on the door here at my rural house and she had a piece of paper and she was obviously pregnant, I mean really pregnant, and no one spoke English. And the person there were two people, her mother and her husband, her boyfriend. They gave me a name of a doctor, but it was weird. I knew the doctor really well and she was at the Selma hospital. And I asked them and they said yes, yes, they were from Micho Khan and they had the name of the doctor. And so they came all the way up here, they drove all the way up here in her last week of pregnancy, because this particular doctor, whom I knew was really good and somebody in their family had been, you know, given a free delivery by her. Safe, wonderful. And they wanted that delivery. So I told them how to get to the Selma Hospital, etc. And later I asked that person, and I don't know if we were talking about the same person, said, yeah, somebody came in pregnant from Mexico just a few hours earlier and had a baby here. And I said, charge him anything. No. And that citizen, that baby would be a U.S. citizen. And that's what the. And that's. The left doesn't like the conservative word anchor baby. But the idea would be that US citizen then can anchor the two parents who were not US citizens to be fast tracked as US citizens because of the Ted Kennedy family preference law, I think 1965 or something. So there you have it. And if you research that law, it was pretty much by the Kennedy Klan, as exemplified by Ted. I think Philip Hart was one of the others. They felt that immigration had been too Eurocentric. We had the Hungarian refugees, etc. All of these people were coming in from Europe and they were not open to the enticements of the Democratic Party and they thought that poor people would be. That's something that is in the record. And so that was the idea. And that's what, as I said, this British laborite just recently when he was asked why they let in millions of people, he said the Labour Party felt that under Tony Blair it was a way to bring in constituents. And it was, yeah, it'll be ironic if the constituents turn conservative, which Donald Trump seems to be making enormous inroads in. Yeah.

B (40:07)

Well, here's an illegal immigrant story. ICE arrest superintendent who was allegedly in US Illegally for years. This is off of Fox News. Reactions poured in on social media following the ICE arrest of Des Moines Public schools superintendent this week. Ian Roberts was arrested by ice, which says he is in the country illegally from Guyana. Guyana was not legally permitted to work in the United States and had a final order of removal, removal from a judge last May. Incredible is a quote, an illegal alien with a deportation order managed to become the superintendent of schools for Des Moines, earning more than $300,000 a year. Attorney Laura Powell posted on X. By the way, I read somewhere else that the chairman of the board of education in Des Moines was the former chief of staff to, I'm pretty sure Michelle Obama. Just a little side note, hey, he doesn't belong here and I think he had a deportation.

C (41:08)

He came here illegally and he also had a weapons charge in his past. And then if that were true, you could adjudicate whether that was true or not. When what happened? When he was informed he jumped in the car and proved that he was an illegal alien, A, by fleeing and B, that he had A deportation exposure by fleeing and hiding and C, that he was familiar with guns because the superintendent had a loaded gun in his possession and D, he understood that therefore he would be a folk hero by the left and join the pantheon of Luigi Mangione, Bobrego Garcia and the rest of these people. Mohammed Khalil, they're all heroes to the left. He is already a hero. There were people protesting to bring him back. I guess the answer was, well, we in Kansas, Kansas City, wasn't it Des Moines, Des Moines Yeah, I guess the attitude is, well, we in Des Moines are just, gosh, there's no people with EDDs in education. Education, schools just, they just don't turn out enough EDTs. And we've got to find somebody. Well, we have an illegal alien and he's got a weapon charge and he's from Guana and he's a non white male. It's diverse. This is the guy we need because there's nobody else. So I think there was also, maybe I read the wrong stories. There were complaints against him that he had promoted people on their race or gender over others. But I don't know if that's in all of the media accounts.

B (42:58)

Maybe Senator Chris Van Hollen from Maryland can go go visit him back in Guyana.

C (43:05)

So I hope so because he is more deserving of a senatorial visit than Obrego Garcia. He didn't try to traffic people. He wasn't an M13. I don't think he's hit as well. You just had, you know, things happen, you wear, you superintendent. It's kind of edgy job. So you got to have a loaded gun and you know, you got to have a car ready to take off. Extremists, you know, have to know the countryside to know where to jump out of the car and hide in the woods. No big deal.

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C (47:01)

We had one of these fatal trucking accidents from somebody who was a foreign national driving in the San Joaquin Valley two weeks ago. A girl was permanently severely damaged, hurt from it, and the truck driver was at fault. I mentioned earlier and I think it was December, I drove down the 99 on the way to Pepperdine and it was zero visibility and a trucker came by me. I was in the right lane, he should not have been in the left lane. I was going 25 miles an hour. It was no longer. You could not see more than two white lines. And he went by me at 50 or 60 miles an hour. And then I heard a huge crash where he jackknife and almost killed everybody. I Don't know if anybody were killed. I pulled off the right and then just heard car after car crash. I didn't see any because it was just zero visibility. But it's just something we don't talk about. We don't talk about it. And I've talked to people of the Indian community whom I really admire. I think the Sikh religious temple for the state, for a large sect of that particular religion is two miles from my house. I probably have 20 or 30 people who are Sikhs. I have my neighbors. It's a very impressive culture. It really puts a great deal of emphasis on education, professionalism. I think the number of Sikh doctors or, you know, specialist cardiologists, it's been a very positive experience for the United States. But when you have a number of people, I think there's 40% of the drivers, semis are from California. And the reputation of that particular group is so high that they're not ascertaining everyone's citizen status. And there are people who are allowing some people that are immigrants from India without legality to get licenses. And the people haven't mastered English. Then that's not characteristic of the Sikh community. And that's what the state had been doing. And we saw that in Florida. And you can see it on the road. When you see drivers that are not acquainted with the road. I mean, it's, it's. I think I take the 99, the 101, the 152, the 280 to get to work all in a row. And I can tell you in some of those places, it's like road Warrior. I can't, you know, you cannot go faster than some of the truck drivers with 20 tons of stuff on it. It's crazy. When somebody mentioned that. Did you see that? The tweet that came out of Newsom's office? You know, he's got these tweet tweeters that use capital letters and potty words and they're trying to emulate Trump. And they said something like a fourth or third rate reality. They were attacking Sean Duffy for this and said, you know, they have this great. I would give you a word of advice, Governor Newsom. Donald Trump can do that because he originated the capital letters, the exclamation and the, you know, tweet. And that stands juxtaposed to his record of success in the United States. It also means there's a large number of his supporters who vote for him despite, not because of his tweets. In other words, they look at his stellar record. What he does with the Iranian nuclear. And so that bothers them, but it doesn't bother them enough to vote against him because he has such a stellar record. In your case, you have no stellar record. There's no compensating record. So when you try to emulate Donald Trump and you attack people personally or you use pejorative words or even dirty words, and you tweet all of this out, there's no compensation, because with you, your record is horrific. On taxes, on. On homeless, on illegal immigration, on the budget, on energy, on house affording, on fire protection. It's horrible. So all we see is something that becomes your signature, and then it takes on extraordinary importance because it's a force multiplier of your failure. So I would ask the governor, just don't do that, because it just reminds you how bad it is. People can joke about Donald Trump's because they see all of this success that's associated with the economy, the border, foreign policy, but with you, it's embarrassing. And he does it himself. You have people or professionals that do this, apparently, and you're emulating somebody. It's not original. You're just trying to. I don't know, it's like a kid, you know? And so they've been tweeting about this. They're bragging on that. They claim they have a better traffic. Nothing in California is honest, believe me. Nothing. No record keeper. Wasn't too long ago that the head of the DMV just kind of said, you know, I kind of want to admit it out the election. I kind of sort of made a mistake, and I sent out a kind of sort 100 DMV election ballot kind of to 100,000 people who weren't citizens. That's kind of what it is.

B (53:10)

Well, Victor, you've talked before, last episode, about the many ways the left has helped just made our lives more difficult. You just talked before. Just medicine, health care, cost taxes, schooling, education's horrific, but this, too, and we'll end with the trucking. It's just, hey, millions of Americans are on the road every day. We know things are different now than they had been. And I was in Utah. Not Utah. Where was I? Wyoming. Last week, I saw four major truck accidents. And that's just not a lot of traffic in Wyoming. I went from Denver up to Lander and horrific truck accidents. And something's up. Something.

C (53:51)

No, it is. I. I traditionally drive down an avenue called Manning avenue for about 70 miles, and then I get on I5 for about 60 miles, and then I get on 152 for about 30 miles, 40 miles and I get on 101 for about 40 miles. Then I get on 280 for about 10 miles. So I get a good cross section. And I tell you that I have driven since 2002 and I would say that I drove at least 30 or 40 times a year. So I have probably, you know, I would say that I've done this over, over a thousand times easy, maybe 2000 because I was also a visiting professor and I, I have never seen anything like it. Almost every single trip there is a slowdown because a truck is involved in an accident. So when I say that it's going to take me for 188 miles, three hours and a half given traffic, I just count on five hours because I'm going to be stuck somewhere. And this person, and they're usually very predictable. You see that a truck rear ended somebody, probably texting or he pulled out without looking and it's on the left side of the road. But I guarantee you that I have to go over tomorrow and I will find I will be delayed by a truck accident. And it doesn't help that California is one of the worst states as far as its infrastructure. So there are areas on the 99 where there's only two lanes in each direction. There's area the entire I5 that I grow go on has not changed since my, when I was 18 years old and I drove it to go to UC Santa Cruz. It's still only four lanes, two in each direction. And the same is true of large portions of 101. And when you have drivers that are reckless and you put them on those conditions, their attitude is, well, there's only two lanes. I know I'm not supposed to be in the left lane, but that's when there's three lanes. But they'll let me pass in the middle lane. But there's no middle lane. And so I'm just going to take the left lane and left lane and go with it. And you're not going to be able to get in and I'm just going to be passing. Yeah, I'll go back on the right once in a while when I see nobody in my way. But pretty much I'm going to be going in and and out, in and out and going about 70, 75 miles an hour in the left lane and get out of my way. Because if you don't get out of my way and you're going 70 in the left lane, I'm going to come up right behind you and you don't dare put on your brakes because you're going to hit me. That's their attitude. It really is. Or you drive by and you think, this guy is absolutely crazy. He went around that turn and his trailer was like a horse's tail. And it was two feet into my lane and I had nowhere to go because there was a wall on my left side. And then you look at him and there's a little holder like this and he's looking at his right cell phone. Yeah. So the trucking industry is a very different industry that used to. It's. The trucks have never been bigger. They've never been bigger and they never have been more powerful.

B (57:25)

I bring this up knowing my dear departed father in law is an independent trucker and he's probably on your side on all this. And Victor, you could be someday you'll be able to take the train where.

C (57:37)

You want to go. The California high speed rail is, I don't know, 20 billion, not one foot of track after 12 to 13 years. And it has a pantheon now of famous Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, the hall of fame. And the hall of fame is the Tehachapi solar project that cost 2 billion. We were told, hey, you guys, these people in California are so smart. They've got this idea, you get high polished mirrors and you put them around and then they have some super laser reflection and they all go to the same place. It heats a cone of water in a column and makes steam. Now, not going to say we're not going to muss up your hair a little bit with a golden eagle or a bald eagle stupid enough to fly in and get zapped like a fly and a fly killer. But that happens. Two billion gone. And then there was the Barack Obama, Joe Biden. This is Solyndra and we are making a Silicon Valley, state of the art solar panel factory right in the heart of. We're going to loan it several million dollar $100 million from people that kind of sort of maybe have a connection to the administration and that is completely zilch. And then we had the Moss Landing sophisticated. Don't associate Moss Landing with those old oil, coal, fire or natural gas smokestacks of your youth that produced all that cheap electricity. No, no, no. It is a sophisticated battery system. So all of our solar plants, when they produce, I don't know, 110% of your energy that's going to send it to Moss Landing. We're going to huge batteries and you're going to get all this cheap electricity at night. Meanwhile, we've had two, two major fires there that have burned the place. I think it's a billion dollar damage and not mention the toxic fumes. But one thing about environmentalists that I've always been amused by, when they make an environmental project and it zaps stuff that are felonious for everybody else. So their new solar ray program kills golden eagles or perigen falcons, or they blow up four dams on the Klamath and the resulting mudslide kills all these deer and everything. It's okay. It's like the Soviet Union, you know, we're for the people. So we're going to put all our used plutonium in your backyard.

B (60:16)

Yeah, if they find you with the bald eagle feather, you're going to jail. But they can kill bald eagles, by the way.

C (60:22)

I wasn't just making that up. I have two in laws, wonderful people from Estonia. And there was a family of three young women who came in the 60s with their parents. One of them married a member of my family. Both of them died of leukemia. And they grew up next to in Estonia, a Soviet nuclear waste dump where the Soviets just came in, didn't want to put it in Russia, dumped it in Estonia, and they got leukemia in their 40s and 50s. But the point was, the Soviet Union was for the people. It was the working man. So there was no. Once you say that you're for the people, then there's no audit. So if you say, well, I'm from the people, I'm green, I'm not an oil baron, I'm not kind of Texas oil man with a draw that's trying to get wealthy. I'm trying to help people. Therefore, you know, as I help people, I got to kill a bald eagle or have a mudslide that suffocates a lot of deer or something like that. So that's the dangers of the environmental movement as I see it. There's no audit on it because they're morally supr. And then it's like dei, once you say that you're doing this because you're mortally superior, there should be no audit. So Di, you can be blatantly racist and judge people by the color of their skin, or if you're a radical Solyndra person, you can have, you know, you can do what you want. There's no audit.

B (61:48)

Well, Victor, as we know, the old phrase, you got to break some eggs to make an omelet. So they're great omelet shots. Hey, we're going to take a little break here and get your take on Cal Prop. 50. And if we have a little more time about medical school, I don't know if we'll get to that. But we will get to Victor's continued wisdom after this final, important break. Do you ever just want to turn off the news and ignore politics? That's understandable. It's overwhelming. But here's the thing. We're citizens of a republic. The decisions made by our government affect our everyday lives. In order to be a good citizen, you have to read and understand the United States Constitution. And that's why I'm so excited that Hillsdale College is offering a brand new free online course called the Federalist. This course explains how the United States Constitution established a government strong enough to secure the rights of of citizens and safe enough to wield that power. And today it's our responsibility to pay attention, to be vigilant, they may say, in order to preserve and protect Republican self government. Hillsdale's online course, The Federalist includes 10 lectures each about 30 minutes long. You can take the course at your own pace. There's no cost to sign up. I'm like many a college alumnus who's benefited from the Federalist Group course. It's filled those big gaps with exceptional and unbiased analysis that was all too often missing from our higher education experience. Go right now to Hillsdale Edu VDH to enroll. There's no cost and it's easy to get started. That's Hillsdale Edu VDH to enroll for free Hillsdale Edu VDH as the weather.

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B (65:24)

We are back with the Victor Davis Hansen show recording on Sunday, September 28th. This episode is up on Thursday, October 2nd. If you have a few minutes, go to civilthoughts.com and sign up for the free weekly email newsletter I write for the center for Civil Society. It's called Civil Thoughts and it comes out every Friday and it has 14 recommended readings. People love it. You will love it. It's free and we don't sell your name. Civil thoughts.com Go there. Sign up. By the way, if you also will check out the center for Civil Society website. Center for civilsociety.org and we have a big important America 250 conference. Isn't America the semi sesquicennials worth celebrating? We're having a conference in Philadelphia on November 5th and 6th. Check it out. If you're in the area, please attend centerforcivilsociety.org Victor yeah, let's talk about Cal Proposition 2. So this is this vote that's going to be on the ballot already about I think 40 million plus dollars have been spent on advertising for it. On the pro side, the lead funders of the California Teachers Union. And this is to undo allegedly temporarily for four year cycle the redistricting laws. So this has changed California's constitution to allow the Democrat super majority legislature to do away with the redistricting council or board and allow them to rejigger districts. And maybe they'll, maybe you'll have two or three Republican congressmen come out of California at that rate. But your thoughts on what's happening here?

C (67:10)

Well, first of all, any ballot measure that says it's temporary is always put up by the left and it's never temporary. We've learned that with Jerry Brown and they, they jacked up the income, the personal income tax of 13.3. It was never temporary. It just kept going. So we should remember that gas they're never temporary. They say that. Number two, remember this is in reaction to Texas that's trying to coordinate the Texas vote with the popular vote in Texas with a number of 750,000 person congressional districts. I think they're going to be a little overrepresented, but it takes place in a general atmosphere when you look at the 435 congressional districts and you look at the vote within those congressional districts on the national level and then you see how their redistrict, I shouldn't say within those districts within that state, with all these congressional districts that are gerrymandered, pretty much the left has done such that they get 20 more congressionally blue seats than would be justified by either the vote in their state or the national vote. So here in California, Donald Trump got about 40, 41%, 39 to 41% of the vote. And of the 53 congressional seats, I think it represents about 17% of Republicans. I don't know if we have 11 or nine of the 53. But Gavin Newsom is saying, yes, we've out district them before and yes, we've got at least 20 congressional seats nationwide that we never, that don't represent, represent the actual breakdown of the American people. But Texas is doing it a little bit more. They want some extra percentage points for the next election. So we, being the biggest state, are going to ensure that instead of 17% of our seats gerrymandered for Republicans, we're going to get down to about 4 or 5% or maybe, I don't know, 8% and that will help us win the midterms. And then the people say, well, Gavin, it was you on the left who said that you needed a nonpartisan commission because in the years in which eight Ronald Reagan, eight George Duke Mason, eight Pete Wilson were up to 24 and we had a little hiatus with Jerry Brown won, but then we had aid of Arnold Schwarzenegger and he said being Arnold Schwarzenegger, that 32 years of Republicanism and only 8 of Jerry Brown wasn't fair. So we redistrict each 10 years in a way that favored Republicans even though they did not have majorities in the House or Senate. And therefore we're going to make a nonpartisan. Anytime you have deal with the left and you say you're going to have a nonpartisan commission, basically the right wing guys go, well, I got to do, I got to go play golf, I got to go to church, I got to go do my business, my son's, I can't miss his baseball. And they take it pretty live and let live. But the left goes, my God, I just read that and I got to get another Persona. And they stock it and they did. So it's already left wing, but it has the pretense of being non partisan and he wants to destroy that pretense and pick up five or Six seats by redrawing the map like really weird jigsaw puzzles. And then getting. This is the delight they love. And then getting notorious people they don't like Republican Congress person, people of the 11 or nine. I think it's 11. Maybe it's nine now. And have them run against each other. So they're both in the new district and one gets humiliated and they fight with each other and in the process they hurt each other. So you say Bob Jones is a Republican in Orange county and down here in Inland Empire there's Bill Smith. And we're going to make them all together. And it looks thing. It's going to look like an inverted spaghetti noodle. And Bob Jones is going to destroy Jim. Mr. Smith. And he'll be out. He won't even be able. They'll have a primary or something. And then the guy that wins will be so discredited that he might lose even that red district or he will be injured politically. So that's what they want to do. And they'll probably. I don't know, I guess the teachers union is for it. They seem to run everything in California. And the government unions, they'll probably win. I think it's. The polls show that it's slightly ahead and then there'll be a lot more money against it than there usually is, but we'll see. The same electorate voted to keep Prep 209 to bar racial preferences. And the same electorate voted to overturn the $950 free looting bill, which I don't think that Gavin Newsom has really enforced. So you never know about California. But the main thing to keep in mind is 300,000 people of the upper middle class are leaving every year, California. And. And it's getting to the point after 10 or 15 years, it's so noticeable. And so like as I say, when I get in, sometimes when I drive to town, which is no longer three miles away or two and a half, it's almost a mile at that. I just drive around houses in the country. I take the long way home. I said, that guy, where he. Oh, he's in. He's in Utah. That guy. Where did he go? Oh, he went to Wyoming. That guy's in Idaho, isn't he? No, he's in New Mexico or not New Mexico, Texas or Florida. Texas, Florida, Tennessee, they all have left. And so that's the state that he's inherited. That's the state that gives you Gavin Newsom and super majorities in the Democratic Party.

B (74:01)

Well, Victor, we'll hold off on medical school stories for the next time. But I want to encourage our listeners and viewers and we have so many and so many new ones to follow you in various places Again on your website, the blade of Perseus victorhansen.com if people are on X, you're there frequently. Dhanson, that's your handle. If you're on Facebook, Victor has VDH's Morning Cup. You should follow that. And there is is a friendly, not official but friendly Victor Davis Hansen fan club group on Facebook. So do check that out now we try to read. I do. I know the great Sammy Wink goes through them also. Comments Comments some some of the YouTube podcasts this have over a thousand comments so it's kind of hard to read them all. But here are some comments I just want to pick up too from Person of Color I was in the Marines from 2015 to 2019. So during the during the Trump administration, the amount of corporate level officers, major and above I heard slander the president while in uniform was insane. They did it openly with zero fear of any reprimand. Ridiculous. Thank you person of Color. He was commenting on something he had said on a previous podcast. And here's one last one. It's from Clan N4X. I lead historical tours on the East Coast. Every time I've taken groups of Americans into the United nations building for their guided tour, the UN Guides make a special effort to denigrate the USA in their commentary. We try to avoid going there on tours unless the tourists really insist on going there. It doesn't surprise me that Trump was mistreated. The UN should be tipped into the East River.

C (75:55)

Yeah, we have a. I'll just answer that. We have a little update. We thought we had a trifecta UN Attack on Trump, mysterious coincidences. But actually it's a. I guess we could call it a pentifecta of five things. So number one, as soon as he set foot with Malenia on the escalator, it just cut out. And then it mysteriously started working after he was off it. And it had been mentioned the week before in the London Times that that would be a cute thing to do, but it was an accident, they said. And then number two, when he went up to the teleprompter, it cut out. And of course I guess all the other teleprompters went went fine. And then number three, according to Katie Pavelich Malenia Trump herself, when Trump started speaking, the sound was turned off. But we were left with a trifecta. Now we've got two New developments that midway through his speech, the English was what turned into Portuguese. I have a lot of Portuguese friends. If Devin Nunes is listening. Devin, I'm not making fun of Portuguese. It's a beautiful language. Donald Trump does not speak speak Portuguese. And the number of people who can translate from Portuguese into Swahili or into Chinese versus English into Swahili is not very many.

B (77:22)

Right.

C (77:23)

So they. That was number four. And then we have the aide to Robert Kennedy from HHS who was walking and confronted by, I guess I could say a Karen like character, screamed and yelled free Palestine, shone some kind of light device at her. She tried to walk quickly away from her and ducked into a bathroom. And then this person followed with impunity and assaulted her. So those were five things at the U.N. trump mentioned three of them, but there were two more incidents. Add them all up. I wouldn't give them one penny. Not one penny. Not one penny.

B (78:01)

You know what didn't come up was with the UN and all the Hamas stuff was how the UN with the relief agency was so involved in.

C (78:13)

Yeah, they participated in October 7th. In some cases, they had Al Jazeera. So I have nothing against the idea they said that the UN in 45, 46 was going to be different than the League of Nations. We know why the League of Nations didn't work. And League of Nations, as you actually looked at its votes, it was a moral institution compared to the U.N. trust me, the U.N. was worse than the League of Nations. Get that out of your head. That the League of Nations was improved on by the UN it got worse. So I wish the UN Would go the way that League of Nations, but that's not fair to the League of Nations.

B (78:54)

That sounds like a great column idea for you, Victor.

C (78:58)

I think I will.

B (79:00)

Well, you've been terrific. You're always terrific. Thanks for all the wisdom you shared. Folks who are viewing, thanks for that. There's so many new ones. Thanks for listening. Also on whatever platform you're on, we'll be back soon with another episode of the Victor Davis Hansen Show. Bye bye.

C (79:15)

Thank you, everybody.