Charlie Kirk, RIP

Summary

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The Victor Davis Hanson Show

Episode: Charlie Kirk, RIP
Air Date: September 11, 2025
Hosts: Victor Davis Hanson & Jack Fowler

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Overview

This episode of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show" is a somber, in-depth reflection on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss the context and consequences of Kirk's death, political violence in America, the reaction to such events from the media and political establishments, and broader social and cultural issues related to crime, immigration, race, and the direction of Western democracies.
The show transitions through multiple topics but centers on the chilling effect of rising political violence and polarization.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Assassination of Charlie Kirk

[07:31–24:12]

• Personal Remembrance and Irreplaceability:

  • Victor shares a personal connection with Charlie Kirk, having appeared on his show recently and describes Kirk as "very misunderstood" and "kind."
  • Emphasizes Kirk’s unique skillset: young, charismatic, organizationally talented, media-savvy, and fearless in engaging youth and campuses on cultural issues.
  • Quote (Victor, 08:30): “He is irreplaceable... I can’t think of anybody who could do that, and that’s what’s really stunning.”

• Nature and Consequences of the Killing:

  • Framed as a potential political assassination, marking a disturbing turn in targeting American public intellectuals and journalists.
  • Raises concern about a new level of "assassination culture" in America, especially if the perpetrator is from the left—seen as an attempt to “thwart the dissemination of knowledge.”

• Media, Politics, and Culture of Violence:

  • Points to rhetoric and imagery from the political and media left (e.g., calls for violence, inflammatory language from figures like Chuck Schumer, Jasmine Crockett, Joy Reid) that lowers social inhibitions against political violence.
  • Quote (Victor, 12:42): “The left always says we’re more sophisticated, we’re more moral than you… so we’re going to use tough language… and you get all of this, and you get the impression that they are lowering the bar of what’s acceptable.”
  • Jack underscores Kirk’s own warnings (reads Kirk’s X post):
    • Quote (Kirk, read by Jack, 14:18): “Assassination culture is spreading on the left… The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy…”

• Trends and Societal Response:

  • Cites a spike in approval for political violence in polls, referencing attempts on Trump’s life and general demonization in media that may encourage unstable individuals.
  • Critiques the tendency to neutralize or excuse perpetrators as “mentally ill,” arguing the motive doesn’t matter to victims’ families.
  • Urges increased security for prominent conservatives, especially Trump.

• Kirk’s Legacy and the Loss to the Conservative Movement:

  • Stresses Kirk’s ability to connect across divides, promote nuclear family values, and embolden young conservatives.
  • Quote (Victor, 18:21): “He talked about things that most people don’t talk about… he was way ahead of his leftist counterparts.”

• Lament on Societal Callousness:

  • Disturbed by social apathy in the aftermath of brutal crimes, comparing reactions to violence in America to incidents abroad.

2. Crime, Race, and Urban Decline

[24:33–36:56]

• Recent Violent Crimes:

  • Discussion of recent murders involving black perpetrators and white victims (retired Auburn professor, Ukrainian woman on Charlotte light rail), media coverage, and systemic failures.
  • Critique of official responses prioritizing rhetoric about not “stereotyping” versus acknowledging systemic urban violence.

• Statistical Realities and Taboo Topics:

  • Victor highlights disproportionate rates of violent crime among young black men (“three percent of the population responsible for fifty percent of violent crime”), and obstacles to open discourse.
  • Argues that the refusal to acknowledge these patterns, for reasons of historical guilt or ideology, perpetuates dysfunction.

• The Media’s Role:

  • Points out selective reporting based on racial dynamics, juxtaposing reactions if racial roles were reversed.

• Root Causes Debate:

  • Argues that leftist social policies have undermined the black family and enabled cycles of crime.

• Roland Fryer’s Research:

  • References economist Roland Fryer's work showing no racial bias in police shootings when controlling for encounter rates.

3. US-China Relations, Technology Transfer, and Elite Hypocrisy

[36:56–43:38]

• Collaboration Between DoD and China:

  • Jack cites reports about US military research conducted with Chinese entities, giving adversaries potential access to sensitive information.

• Elite Complicity:

  • Criticizes figures like LeBron James for partnering with China, despite human rights abuses, in pursuit of wealth.
  • Quote (Victor, 39:14): “LeBron James was very active in take the knee and the BLM accusations… why wouldn’t he extend that same concern to over a million people not who were in slavery until 1865 but are in slavery now?”

• Hunter Biden and Corruption:

  • Outlines Hunter Biden's alleged protection of Chinese business partners and the lack of accountability.

4. Immigration, Populism, and Europe's Crisis

[43:38–52:35]

• Populist Uprisings in Europe:

  • Observes populist backlash in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands: “four horsemen of the Western apocalypse”—green energy, demographic decline, immigration disaster, and DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) policies.

• Fertility and Immigration:

  • Warns about demographic suicide through low birth rates and the challenges of integrating large numbers of migrants.
  • Quote (Victor, 43:38): “Any society in history that can’t reproduce itself gets elderly, ossified, shrinks, and is overrun by societies that do…”

• DEI Hypocrisy:

  • Critiques double standards in media and politics: white people formerly exempt, now "flipped that paradigm" with minority privilege claims.

5. Democrats and the Shift Toward Socialism

[55:33–61:37]

• Polls Show Democratic Preference for Socialism:

  • Gallup poll shows 66% of Democrats favor socialism, only 42% favor capitalism.

• Victor’s Theory:

  • Argues the left's destruction of functional capitalism (via overregulation, socialism-lite policies) creates lack of opportunity for young progressives, who then blame "capitalism" rather than left-wing policies for their grievances.
  • Quote (Victor, 56:32): “When the left is driving the capitalist car, they try to wreck it... so then young people come up...and they say: this isn't fair... and so they become socialists.”

• Elite Enrichment as Socialists:

  • Points out hypocrisy of wealthy left-wing politicians using socialism to demagogue, while accumulating private wealth (referencing Ilhan Omar, Elizabeth Warren).

6. New York’s Political Future – Should It “Crash and Burn”?

[61:37–69:54]

• Charlie Gasparino’s Column:

  • Jack introduces Gasparino's argument: let New York City elect a socialist mayor and collapse, then rebuild.
  • Victor, drawing on personal history and the example of 1970s New York, counters this approach would bring decades of suffering and warns against "accelerating decline" as a solution.

• Demographic and Political Change:

  • Notes permanent changes in California and New York due to out-migration, demographic shifts, and entrenched radical policies.

7. Transgender Issues, SSRI Usage, and Cult Dynamics

[69:56–76:44]

• Listener Letter:

  • Jack reads an email from a parent of a transgender child, expressing concern over medicalization (hormones, SSRIs) leading to drastic personality changes, unpredictable behavior, and a culture of excuse-making for violence.

• Victor’s Analysis:

  • Observes the left once distrusted pharmaceuticals and hormones; now, in the DEI era, risk and accountability are thrown out for certain causes (“exemption from accountability leads to more antisocial or criminal behavior”).

8. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Exemptions and Absurdities

[76:44–81:29]

• Hiring Practices:

  • Example from Minnesota: a Kenyan immigrant with a felony sexual assault conviction hired for state government work (due to DEI priorities).
  • Victor satirizes the hiring logic: “So you're not black, you're not a felon, and you're not an illegal alien... Why would we hire you?”

• DEI and Immigration in Academia:

  • Relates campus experience where illegal immigrant students received more benefits than out-of-state Americans—controversial, unsustainable, and resented, but defended by establishment figures.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Death of Charlie Kirk:
  “He is irreplaceable… it’s really stunning… when you look at people under the age of thirty-five on the conservative side who combined photogenic ability, to speak to people without notes, to do a podcast, to have the administrative skill… to help the conservatives… he’s irreplaceable.”
  — Victor [08:14]

• On Political Rhetoric and Violence:
  “If you really believe that Charlie Kirk is part of a Nazi movement… that all filters down and there’s people out there that interpret that as: well, we have a Hitler, we have a fascist, if I do something to him, what will be the reaction?”
  — Victor [13:13]

• From Charlie Kirk's Final Social Post:
  “Assassination culture is spreading on the left... fifty-five percent [of liberals] said it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Donald Trump... The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy... This is the natural outgrowth of left wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end…”
  — Charlie Kirk, as read by Jack [14:18]

• On Replacement of Cities and Societies:
  “Any society in history that can’t reproduce itself gets elderly, ossified, shrinks, and is overrun by societies that do reproduce themselves.”
  — Victor [43:38]

• On Socialism Among Democrats:
  “When the left is driving the capitalist car, they try to wreck it… so then young people... become socialists... but they're really angry at socialism, and nobody explains that to them.”
  — Victor [56:32]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [07:31] – Breaking news, Charlie Kirk assassination: initial reactions
• [08:14] – Kirk’s character, legacy, and impact
• [12:42] – The rhetoric of political violence and responsibility of public figures
• [14:18] – Reading Charlie Kirk’s social media post on “assassination culture”
• [18:21] – Kirk’s focus on family, fertility, and youth outreach
• [24:33] – Transition to broader crime and urban violence
• [35:34] – Roland Fryer’s research on police shootings
• [39:14] – US-China tech transfer, LeBron James’ China ties, Hunter Biden issues
• [43:38] – Populist backlash in Europe; green energy, immigration, fertility, DEI
• [55:33] – Democrats trending toward socialism
• [61:37] – Letting cities “hit bottom”—the case of New York
• [69:56] – Transgender issues, SSRIs, and cult dynamics
• [76:44] – Government hiring DEI absurdities
• [81:29] – Immigration policy hypocrisy in academia and reflections on 9/11

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Tone and Style

Victor Davis Hanson’s tone is urgent, deeply concerned, and at times mournful, especially reflecting on the loss of Charlie Kirk and the breakdown of civil discourse. Jack Fowler adopts a supportive, sometimes incredulous voice, pressing Victor on details and linking to contemporary news stories. Both are candid, sometimes sardonic, and unafraid to address taboo or controversial issues head-on. The conversation is dense with reference to history, political actors, and recent events.

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For Listeners New to the Show

This episode delivers a sobering look at the state of U.S. society through the lens of political violence, the erosion of norms, demographic and cultural crises, and challenges facing Western democracies. The assassination of Charlie Kirk is not only mourned, but analyzed as a symptom of deeper, systemic dysfunctions in culture, politics, and public rhetoric. Throughout, Victor and Jack challenge listeners to confront uncomfortable facts and demand accountability from both leaders and the broader public.

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Transcript

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[Victor Davis Hanson]

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[Jack]

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[Victor Davis Hanson]

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[Jack]

Hi this is a special segment of our show you know on the show that's out on thursday the eleventh we recorded it on tuesday the ninth and victor and i are talking right now in the evening in the east it's seven o six pm in connecticut on september tenth and we are speaking especially to victor tonight because of the assassination of charlie kirk so victor shocking news troubling news and would you give your initial thoughts of not only what happened we know what happened but the consequences of this maybe whatever your thoughts are victor please.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

I knew charlie pretty well i'd gone out and spoken with him and his group and the weird thing i had just been on his show about a few days ago and then after the show was over we had a nice talk i think he was very misunderstood he was a very kind person that reached out to people he never lost his temper remember he just did one with gavin newsom and he was trying to talk about issues that other conservatives were not talking about like marriage for young people fertility and then his vote his efforts to get out the vote and register vote it was a political assassination because when you think of people under the age of thirty five on the conservative side who combined photogenic ability to speak to people without notes to do a podcast to have the administrative skill you create from scratch a huge organization to be political savvy and to know which states to go in and how to approach the electorate to help the conservatives and you put all that together he is irreplaceable he really is i can't think of anybody who could do that and that's what's really stunning and the other thing very quickly is this is there's two or three things this was a political assassination but it was also a journalistic we don't really in this country do what they do in europe or maybe we've had salman rushdie a public intellectual we had some i think in twenty nineteen there was a news organization where a guy went after them but usually we don't see attacks on reporters or journalists or podcasters so this is new and this is if this person turns out to be on the left i have no idea then it's not just a political act but it's also trying to thwart the dissemination of knowledge the other thing very quickly we saw that with the two trump would be assassins that they were mentally ill and disturbed yes and we've seen that now with the creepy predator murder executioner of that beautiful girl we talked about from the ukraine and he was mentally ill but the reaction to it is always the reaction is like we saw from the mayor of charlotte let's not demonize the homeless let's not blame any let's not do this this guy was crazy that i don't really care anymore you know that i don't care it doesn't make any difference to charlie's family his daughters to grow up without a father it doesn't matter whether he was killed by somebody who was a hired political assassin or whether the person had mental problem it doesn't really matter when i walk on the street in san francisco and somebody is defecating and comes up and tries to push me i don't really care whether he's crazy or he's sane it's just a fact that that happens and to rainia the ukrainian girl who was murdered it doesn't really matter whether the guy thought he was talking his heads the way he did that he knew what he was doing and so i think everybody's tired of that the third thing is there's violence on both sides and i understand that the minnesota judge who was person who went after the activist in minnesota was probably i don't know what he was center right or something but when you look at the scalise assassinations and you look at the i think his name was brian thompson the united health executive you look at the two attempts on trump's life you get the and then you collate that in a wider atmosphere of just things like the new republic putting trump with the mustache or a poll taken after the second assassination attempt that says thirty percent of the democratic party thought they would have liked trump to be killed or you look at what comes on msnbc that matthew dowd who's really become a creepy guy basically going right in there and saying he deserved it and you look at hikem jeffries doing a video with a baseball bat or you look at house members kickboxing and punching or you look at the head of the dnc we're not going to bring pencils anymore.

[Jack]

You know what i mean chuck schumer.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

With the supreme court yep chuck schumer you gorsuch kavanaugh you sowed the wind you're going to reap the world you don't know what's going to hit so the left always says that we're more sophisticated we're more moral than you so we're going to use tough language get jasmine crockett in this utter utter vile racism about white people white people and then you see joy reid basically just horrific things she said on msnbc you see sonny huston on the view saying well it's uneducated white women that white white white white white white and you get all of this and you get the impression that they are lowering the bar of what's acceptable it's acceptable because if you really believe that charlie kirk is is part of a nazi movement or he's a white privilege white rage white supreme or donald trump is and you can you need to have videos about kickboxing him and punching him and hitting him with a bat it all filters down and there's people out there that interpret that as well we have a hitler we have a fascist if i do something to him what will be the reaction i bet that people will consider me a what a luigi mangione and have an opera about me and taylor lorenz is going to give a puff piece interview about how charismatic and rolling stone is going to put my picture on the and maybe i don't know photoshop it to make me look handsome like the sarnoff mask killer.

[Jack]

That'S where we are here's a charlie kirk x post recent victor that he wrote assassination culture is spreading on the left forty eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder elon musk fifty five percent said the same thing about donald trump california activists are naming ballot measures after luigi mangione the left is being whipped into a violent frenzy any setback whether losing an election or losing a court case justifies a maximally violent response this is the natural outgrowth of left wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end the cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb yeah.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

That has i've never seen a level of hatred and i'm not talking about you know hard politics lee atwater type of politics or james carville type politics i'm talking about something different when you tell people and you basically encourage them to use violence and we're going to take trump out and you you know you shake a cane at people on the floor of the house like al green or as i said about hikem jeffries you do a you know you show up with a baseball bat or spartacus saying that he would like to hit trump as he did once said that and then you have all this hitler hitler hitler all fascist he's a fascist kamala harris called him a fascist you have all of this stuff and the result of it is it does appeal to a certain person who wants to be renowned and feels that i don't know i'll go down in the annals of leftist history and i'll be a member of the leftist pantheon forever if i just do this and then if i do it i don't think this criminal justice this criminal justice system is going to do anything hinckley's out you know all the carlos brown got out he had fourteen felonies so there's a there's two things going on the would be assassin feels there's no consequences for their crime and two there's actually a cost of benefit analysis or rewards and punishment analysis they think they're going to be rewarded yeah and i will bet you and i haven't looked that if you go on social media or blue sky or whatever that thing there are people just celebrating right now they are yeah they are yeah i can imagine they are and when i saw matthew dowd said well you know charlie kirk was very polarized as soon as you go down that route and then he tried to say that it was one of his own supporters yeah maybe.

[Jack]

It was one of his supporters yeah.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

He should be socially ostracized i mean really that's a horrific thing to say but it's it's if i was donald trump and i pray for his safety i think they should triple down on his secret service because most people would think well this is so horrific we want we don't want to ever see this again but the left wing mind of certain people on the left is well if this guy did it then i can do better than that that's how it works we saw that with the second assassin he was encouraged by the near miss of the first assassin.

[Jack]

I just want you mentioned it earlier at the outset here the effectiveness of charlie and it's interesting the other night i was with my niece who's no conservative and she brought it up like this guy in his videos you know i don't agree with everything he says but the fact that he has these conversations it's really interesting like the fact that he engages in dialogue was a winning thing and i don't know if you remember a few few months ago the democrats were talking about how do we get how do we get our charlie kirk because he is so effective.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

He talks about things that most people don't talk about for example he says we have a crisis in this country that we're not having children we have a one point six i was talking to him about that just a few days ago and he says don't worry we're working we're trying to encourage that it's neat it's cool to have children to have a nuclear family and we said actually conservative men are ahead of women they are desperately looking for women that want to partner up and have a nuclear family and prosper in the style of their grandparents and that would bring a stabilizing return to the society at large so i don't hear people usually talking about demography and he talked about social cultural trends norms changes that he was way ahead of his leftist counterparts and the idea that he really changed the dynamic of young people on campus not being afraid to come out and say they're conservative or they're traditionalist or they want to get married or they want to have kids and that was just contrary to what they hear every day from fellow students and faculty it's not going to be replaced jack i don't think i was thinking of that as soon as i heard the news i said something happens to charlie kirk is there any person under the age of thirty five who has administrative skills to make a huge multi multi hundred million dollars up organization no is there anybody who can do that and in addition to a daily podcast no is there anybody who has enough energy to fly over all over the united states no is there anybody who's not worried about being injured or attacked or he's fearless no is there anyone he can speak you know ex temporary without notes like that no so he combined a lot and then the other secret to his success was he was not a product of the university he didn't go to college graduate so he had a natural affinity for working people and he was kind of had street smarts and it was a different approach and it appealed to a far greater percentage of young people than other people do.

[Jack]

Well he he reminds me of my old boss you know william f buckley junior and later in this episode victor i mentioned that i was going to be at the unveiling of bill's stamp a commemorative stamp and i was it was a wonderful event but i was talking to a few people there about charlie kirk and that this the engaging on campus and being open to a discussion and a debate fearless about it is something that bill buckley was and that's what created the conservative movement you know is this somebody who could who could not only proselytize but engage and be a happy warrior and he was.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Yeah happy and be funny i watched that gavin news some charlie kirk it was they were very amicable yeah and so i think that may be one of the reasons he was targeted i really do i just when this happens like this i just my blood boils when i have to then see all of this stuff a lot let's not judge people let's not demonize the person had a mental problem charlie was maybe he was too i get i just have no tolerance for that anymore yeah we shouldn't carlos brown as soon as the mayor started talking the governor started talking his mother said well why didn't they lock him up well good point you're the mother why didn't you grab him by the neck and call the police but it's always there's always some rationalization for evil and the worst thing about the thing i thought of that with charlie and i saw that horrific video when he was hit i'm never gonna watch it again yeah i didn't know it was gonna be like that same just it was horrible and it reminded me so much of the iranian iranian probably pronouncing that wrong but when she was her throat was thrashed she looked stunned and like she was wow what is now happening to me as i have these last few minutes on earth seconds and she just looked around and she just tried to look and then i saw the person next to her the black woman to her right and the guy behind her and they didn't care i just looked over oh wow she got her throat cut by that guy he just walked by with the blood dripping i'm going to get out of here i don't want to be here rather than my first impulse even because the shooter had left why didn't they just tear off a piece of their shirt and try to give a tourniquet or try to save her life but it was like she's just dead that's her problem it was the most callous heartless thing i've seen the whole thing was it was just i can't even watch i see that video pop up and i don't want to watch her being stabbed i don't want to not want to watch her in the last moments because it it makes you terribly sad but it gets you very very angry at this country this country has got some deep problems and these people who think that they can just constantly hitler hitler hitler racist racist racist fascist fascist fascist we're going to do this we're going to do this i don't think they understand that it has consequences that or maybe they do that they want people to come out of the woodwork and do these things but.

[Jack]

Victor thanks for taking the time here that we could get your immediate thoughts and now we're going to return to the program that we originally recorded on tuesday the ninth thank you everybody.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

For listening.

[Jack]

We'Re back with the victor davis hansen show victor by the way i'm just so aren't i pretty you know don't i for those who are who are watching and there's a good reason i have to have a prop today is the day this is the william f buckley junior stamp those who are watching on youtube and rumble that has been issued on tuesday september ninth a commemorative stamp from the united states post office there's a ceremony in new york being put on by the buckley institute which great program that's run out of yale and i'll be i will be attending here's my my boss and dear friend and it's good that this has finally happened so all that said victor let's let's get your take continuing take on the crazy brutality and murder of i get the know they're white women getting murdered by crazy ass black guys with with records julie schn i don't know if i'm pronouncing her name right was a retired auburn professor who was taking her dog out for a walk was murdered the other day yesterday i believe or over the weekend there is ongoing controversy about the ukrainian woman who was murdered in the charlotte light rail system and others victoria your take on all this well it was very.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

It was pre civilizational i mean the professor at auburn she was out just taking a walk and this career criminal young african american man killed her and then he just left her body in a dog park where dogs you know defecate and then he stole her truck and we had the situation we've talked about on the charlotte light rail there wasn't even admission required no admission anybody could get on by the honor system what does that mean that's just an invitation for homeless people to get on and then we have as we talk about the mayor immediately her first reaction was to demonize anybody who might glean from the video which she didn't want released the police did it despite her not because of her and the first thing her first reactions were i don't want anybody stereotyping homeless people or using this for i guess racial purposes and then she called it as you said a tragedy when it was really an act of deliberate evil then the governor the democratic governor who was very vocal on as we remember on george floyd he joined the conundrum he didn't say a word for a few days and then he was shamed into deploying it and then we had the magistrate judge i don't understand north carolina's law i don't know if you even need to have a legal degree to be a magistrate judge but she was the one that gave him an alternate sentence for the latest of his fourteen felonies i guess and there was some suggestions i don't know if they're proven that she may have had an interest in the alternate sentencing center where some of the criminals before her were directed it's just a total systems breakdown and then we had brian selter on cnn and his first reaction was that the maga mob was using this for racial purposes so i would ask cnn and remember cnn you are notorious because during the michael brown shooting all of your anchor women got up and walked out chanting hands up don't shoot even though we know that the witness who alleged that that michael brown said that and was shot in the back was lying and by the way incidentally last week i think he was killed that witness who promulgated the hands up don't shoot false narrative was killed in an urban gang shooting or something of that sort and so then we're told that by brian selter that the right is using this to instill racial passions all i would say is this to him and to cnn and to all the just suggests the following that a young beautiful black girl got on a light rail and there was a scruffy looking white guy behind her who eyed her and then she was looking at her phone she had just come here from a foreign country minding her own business and he deliberately then jumped up and executed her with a knife and that was juxtaposed to a story where there was a very talented african american retired professor walking and a white person jumped out of the bushes or wherever he was hiding killed her and stole her truck and this is juxtaposed on inordinate crime by so called white people you see say in los angeles a group of white thugs who drive a car through a jewelry store assault an octogenarian asian man and then wipe out his whole collective livelihood of jewelry and if that had happened and remember that should statistically happen more because young white men white men white so called people make about thirty three to sixty three excuse me sixty five to seventy percent depending how you define it so white men perhaps are thirty five and white men who commit crimes are probably fifteen to forty so you're talking about seventeen or eighteen percent of the population in the case of black men which make up about six percent of the population and those from fifteen to forty that make up about three percent you have three percent that is committing about fifty two to fifty five percent depending on the year of violent crime including violent assault armed robbery and murder murder especially so i think the whole country would be furious and we would be hearing from al sharpton and all of these people would come out of the woodwork and joy reed would be doing it and said this we're in an epidemic of hateful crimes so we can't do that because we're told that forever forever the mid nineteen th century i mean the civil war and jim crow in the south and institutionalized racism sixty years ago in the north that forbids any discussion of inordinate black crime or we say correctly that most victims of black crime are blacks and we only notice when whites which are about nine or ten eight to ten percent of the actual crimes that black males commit are against whites that's okay then don't worry you don't worry unless they're white no donald trump wants to go into washington and to chicago i'm not sure that's wise but he wants to go in there because of the inordinate slaughter of black men who are being killed in these gang wars so i don't think it's going to change until people honestly talk about the problem and then when people say something that's racist they're called out i'm not going to mention the book's title nor i'm going to mention the author but i'm in the process of reviewing an academic book and it's by a left wing person of color and it's got one hundred and forty eight pages jack and over two hundred and fifty times the author mentions whiteness or blackness always whiteness in negative context and always blackness in a positive think of the fixation the obsessive compulsive desire just to fixate on race on a book on the ancient world it's everywhere is what i'm trying if that happens in my small field it's everywhere and it's not going to change until people speak out and say we have a problem and you can argue as we've said on this show so many times about the root causes or the immediate causes but you have to talk about it and black men in the inner city not older black men not black women but young black men probably from fifteen the statistics suggest forty when the crime rate tapers off forty five are committing an inordinate amount of crime about a three percent demographic is responsible for fifty percent of violent crime in america and if you could deal with that problem then you would basically have your safe cities and how do you deal with that problem you talk about it you let the left make their argument for more great society we spent twenty trillion dollars and government has basically taken over the black family by providing enough state local and federal support where the bread earner is not considered necessary there's high rates of illegitimacy and single parent households that are inordinate to the demographic that's a national epidemic that affects every race but in the case of the african american community it's more epidemic you can talk about all those things but you got to talk about it because what's happening is nobody talks about it and then it happens again and again and again and the left just keeps saying pounce you're pouncing and yet we know what the left does they use their own the elite left uses their own resources their zip codes their money their private security patrols and they're not the victims it's always some poor woman who's a retired professor walking her dog or it's some impoverished ukrainian immigrant or it's some poor kid that's seventeen who's a football player in a stadium in texas and he gets in a fight and the next thing he's got a knife in his heart it's very easy it's a class thing and so it's not going to change.

[Jack]

It'S an intolerable subject remember roland fryer at harvard does a study does it again does it twice to make sure the information is all accurate because he knows that the firestorm at all will create because the facts are not what the elite want and they canned them not over it but yes so well.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

I mean he was on and he couldn't be hired outside of he had tenure but a lot of people were interested in hiring him because he was a brilliant young economist he is and african american and he's pointed out that most of the statistical analyses were wrong because when you look at black male suspects who were shot in the process of apprehension and who are unarmed versus white male suspects there are more numerically there are more blacks but that does not mean it's a abnormal occurrence statistically because he had to factor in the number of police encounters and i think it was eleven million and if you look at the number of blacks who come in contact with police and who were shot while unarmed as suspects versus whites who were shot as unarmed suspects given their statistical propensity to encounter with police then there was no statistical difference in fact i think he came to the suggestion that whites who encounter policemen are more likely to be shot statistically as unarmed suspects than than our blacks given their propensity far greater demographically to be encountering the police yeah it's not.

[Jack]

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[Victor Davis Hanson]

What i did the other day jack i looked at three weapons system china has a new tank brand new tank it's considered very good and then i looked at their new stealth bomber comparable and then i looked at their new aircraft carrier aircraft carriers a little different but these three weapon systems then i juxtaposed on my computer rb two bomber that was active against the iranian nuclear program and then i looked at our abrams tank and european tanks and then i looked at aircraft carriers and you know what any fool without any expertise could look at the chinese new emerging weapons systems and see they're entirely derivative from western models without a doubt their stealth bomber looks almost identical to ours which begs the question where are they getting this expertise and why is trump thinking of letting six hundred thousand chinese students in here and lebron james he's finishing a publicity tour and he wrote an op ed in a chinese newspaper praising his new outreach the deal that he is the recipient of is supposedly worth one billion dollars i only say that because lebron james was very active in take the knee and the blm accusations that multimillion dollar professional basketball players were the modern equivalent of slaves and the owners were exploiting them this is one of the richest athletes in the history of athletics but why would he do that when there's one million uyghurs in forced labor camps and he is empowering the very government that is really to be honest is practicing a form of modern slavery and he had been very vocal about that the legacy of slavery and jim crow demanded repertory actions in america blm well then why wouldn't he extend that same concern to over a million people not who were in slavery until eighteen sixty five but are in slavery now is it just because the multi billionaire needs another billion dollars it's just shocking and when you look at the ability and then we mentioned the other day that hunter biden apparently was tipping off a member of the chinese corporate culture who was connected to the communist party mister ho and he had hired as a private investigator an ex secret service agent who had access apparently to classified information from the doj or from somebody who knew whether there was an impending indictment so that hunter could tip off his patron and hunter the client was receiving one million dollars from mister ho mister ho said i need to come to the united states i'm not sure i will be arrested can you find out whether there's an impending plan to arrest me hunter did that he's been pardoned for all crimes known and unknown so at least up until the exit of joe biden i don't know to what degree if they bring him into congress and they ask him about these things and he lies under oath i don't think he's pardoned for any which i think they should do to see if he's still susceptible.

[Jack]

To perjury exposure well victor let's stay abroad before we go to the break with a little item i don't think it's all that little of course i drop my papers here but conor mcgregor which i think most people know and they've heard the name he's a a fighter a boxer he's irish very proud irish and i think like a lot of irishmen now he's fed up with what is happening to their country his country i hope enough people are getting fed up people in britain getting fed up with with their daughters being you know permissible to rape their daughters scotland the same anyway macgregor wants to run for president of ireland i have a feeling if that happens we've seen donald trump get elected president of the united states why couldn't conor mcgregor disruptor i mean the country needs a disruptor and he may be the person you know.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

These people in socialist eu countries that are the reigning hierarchy germany has kind of outlawed any association with this populist alternative for deutschland and the french government just fell macron's prime minister he's president but his prime minister was voted out because he gave a herb stein if it can't go on it will stop anything that can't go on won't go on the deficit i think they're up to six percent of annual deficit of gdp and they have no prime minister now and any prime minister that suggests you've got to cut the social welfare net and you've got to address the millions of illegal aliens from the middle east who have taken advantage of it is toxic but the point is the government fell and there is a sizable opposition neil farage polls higher than either party right now in some polls and you're seeing the same thing in all over eastern europe you've already got a conservative government in italy you've got one in the netherlands more or less and you can see what the contours are it's the four horsemen of the western apocalypse that's what it is that's what's happening in europe that's what's happening here the first horseman is whether you like it or not the green mania the green new deal mania we're going to stop fracking we're going to stop stop horizontal drilling we're going to subsidize inefficient solar and wind we're going to outlaw this this it's spiked electricity prices four times what it is in the united states in germany it's basically made germany a shell of itself it's made england a shell of itself the birthplace of the industrial revolution it's made california a shell of itself one quarter of all californians do not pay their pen pge bill they don't do it that's unsustainable that's because we have shut down nuclear plants we're importing coal and oil driven electricity from other states and countries fuel from the middle east but we won't produce it here and the result is that gas is dollar six a gallon when i filled up last week and you can't afford your pg and e bill and their incentives for solar panels on your house have essentially ended and now you have a mini industry of putting panels on homes in california not to generate electricity to get credit from pg and e which you don't get very much at all but to generate your own electricity and into batteries in your garage so that you can during the day maybe break even and then use your electric stored batteries as your own private source during the evening so my point is we've ruined these economies and that's fueling anger in europe and then second we've talked about this the fertility rate in europe is one point four actually it's one point three seven and in united states it's one point six something so we adopted a aoc lifestyle that said the nuclear family is toxic we don't want to reproduce kids are a drag professional women can only find true happiness and character development professional development by being single and pursuing their careers religion is toxic and we're going to go down to one point four and then the gods of copy book pages to quote kipling answer back are you insane any society in history that can't reproduce itself gets elderly ossified shrinks and is overrun by societies that do reproduce themselves so that's the second thing we're dying we're deliberately committing demographic suicide the third is i guess you would call it the immigration disaster and that is that these societies in the utopian elite and all of the european societies and here at home most prominently during the obama and biden said that they felt good to let in the under i don't know what you would call it the underserved the oppressed from third world countries to come into these affluent societies really the subtext is we want a demographic to use and to manipulate because of our own greater infertility in other words we in the blue states in the united states have about a one point four four fertility rate and blue states are almost up to two and nobody wants our agenda so we're going to bring in a lot of very poor people and then give them generous welfare benefits and have a captive clientele for generations but the problem is that the gods of copybook headings to quote kipling say if you bring in people and they're not diverse and they're in huge numbers and they come illegally and they come from societies are antithetical to yours and you the host do not acculturate assimilate or integrate them then they're going to create hostile communities because they will come in more impoverished they will look at greater affluence and the left will supply them an exegesis that you're oppressed and they will be self described victim victimized and so what do you see in europe you see millions of middle east muslims who have no intention of integrating who have no intention of entering the workforce who i don't know what would be the word and you're starting to see that we just saw that speech by rashida tlaib where she damned her own country as racist colonialist horrible there were people in the audience that were speaking about the preference of the terrorist hamas to their own country we had representative i think ramirez go down to mexico and in spanish said that she felt closer to guatemala than as a us representative to her adopted country america we had ilyan omar talk about the dirt and trash in the united states and the dictatorship here was less than what she had fled from and we have the same problem and the fourth of course the fourth horseman is dei and just human nature being what it is anytime you tell a particular demographic for whatever reason if you're in the old south i don't know eighteen eighty to nineteen forty or fifty and you tell the white population you are superior and if you injure a black man we're not going to report on it and we're going to have inordinate treatment and if a black person injures a white person we're going to report it and sensational then that gives an exemption to the white upper class and they will take advantage of it but we've now flipped that paradigm with dei so if you're an indian truck driver and you can't speak english or read it and you should have never been given a license because you're here illegally and you kill three people by a stupid stunt on a freeway and you sit there look at your camera and stone silence without a care about the people who are dying at the rear of your truck you're not going to report it or you're going to get three million people sign a petition that this is unfair that he should be held to account and then you're going to see somebody like brian stelter say you know the right is using this or joe biden when one of his ultra maga speeches say the greatest danger to all of us are white supremacists there was no statistical evidence for that or lloyd austin and mark milley say they're going to root out white supremacists white privilege white rage in the ranks of the pentagon and they found out there was no organized white cabal as they had publicly alleged so when you do all that you empower one group and you say whatever you do it's going to be exempt and we did it before with white people and in the south and also in places in enclaves in the north and it wasn't good for the nation and now we're using the same confederate media that's a good term for the modern media it is confederate it searches throughout every news story every day and if there's a black white story and they feel that blacks might be hurt by the reporting honestly of what happened they will censor it just like they did in the south about white people but if a black person is considered a victim of white then it will be sensationalized in george floyd style yeah or you know trayvon martin style with the necessary adjustments of doctoring the nine eleven tape creating a new term for hispanic called white hispanic and airbrushing the mug shots so he doesn't look so injured yeah in the case of george zimmerman.

[Jack]

Well that was terrific i think this is why people listen to the victor davis hansen show and we're going to be back bringing up some new topics including democrats detesting capitalism and should new york city become carthage or detroit and we'll do that when we come back from these important messages.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

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[Jack]

We are back with the victor davis hansen show so victor had a birthday the other day i'm not going to talk about years or anything.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Like that yeah there you go plus.

[Jack]

Twelve i just want you to know that close to a thousand people on the victor davis hansen fan club on facebook wished you well that day i really appreciate that thank you yeah i.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Spent my day my birthday in the.

[Jack]

Er yeah so no no candles to blow out that day so let's talk.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

About.

[Jack]

Yeah that's poll so here's a here's a headline democrats warm to socialism as republicans stand with capitalism rank and file democrats are lurching further left and warming to socialism while increasingly dismissing capitalism as pejorative ethos to be avoided a poll released tuesday details the revelation comes after committed socialist zoran mandami claimed the democrat pride primary in the race of new york city mayor we're going to talk about that in a minute according to the gallup poll only forty two percent of democrats view capitalism favorably while sixty six percent have a positive view of socialism there's much more to this story victor i'm wondering your take on are democrats are they economists who don't like who like socialism for economic reasons or is socialism the stand in for hating america well both but i have.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

A conspiracy theory about all this i think that democrats in government in the media in foundations in universities who are highly influential hate capitalism and if you look at the last fifty years there's been as many democratic presidents and congresses as republicans and so they're primary mission is to socialize medicine and make it inefficient and i can testify the last two weeks it's inefficient and to zone and regulate the ability to buy a house it makes it almost impossible to do it in a state like new york or massachusetts but especially california i talked to a builder not long ago and he says he has to film every house he builds it's very expensive because he's afraid that something will go wrong and then he will be accused of shorting the blueprint and then he can show that he didn't because there's a whole team of regulators and lawyers ready to sue developers and in addition to that we saw what biden did with immigration so what i'm getting at is when the left is driving the capitalist car they try to wreck it and over regulate it and institutionalize it and absorb it and then the result in these blue states that are not working like california massachusetts minnesota michigan is you can't buy a house they're crime ridden you can't really afford gas or power all over regulated wind and solar da da da da no pipelines in new york new york's got a lot of natural gas leave it alone so then young people come up and they see this baby boomer karen generation that came up under different auspices and they have their four hundred one ks and their pensions and their retirements and they say well that guy's got a nice brownstone up ninety fourth street wow that person's got a home in the hamptons i don't have anything but i have a williams degree i graduated from swarthmore and i'm a vogue assistant editor and this isn't fair and i work in a financial firm as a talent scout and i make one hundred thousand dollars a year and i can't even afford and so they become socialists and they say this isn't fair this isn't fair it's not because they don't like capitalism it's because they want what they think they should get and that's understandable but they're really angry at socialism and nobody explains that to them they're angry that socialism has destroyed capitalism in california and all the major blue straits and made housing and essentials of life unaffordable so then a bernie sanders elizabeth warren or mondame tim waltz demagogue comes in and said the capitalists did it no you did it you did it and so the public really doesn't even know it but false consciousness maybe if i could use marxist terms they don't know it but they're really railing about the constraints on the private sector to serve the public but they see it the other way they say these insects and capitalists are preying on us and that's what we've got there's a big class thing among the left because the architects of the new green deal at the highest levels and dei are very wealthy people and they want to make heaven on earth and they do not care about the effects on their own people their own leftist comrades and they say you can't get what i have because you don't have socialism it's like they went up to the attic they closed the attic door they kicked away the ladder and said you can't get in because you don't have socialism even though we're up here because of capitalism which we destroyed and we didn't want you to come in here because it's too crowded.

[Jack]

Did you see the story about the wealth of oh my gosh what's her name in illinois the one that married.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Her brother the congresswoman ilhan omar oh.

[Jack]

Yeah that she's supposedly worth now over.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Thirty million dollars he was kind of a shady character he couldn't even pay his bills he was being sued and he had some interesting in a winery and all of a sudden he marries her and the money investment flows in there and the subtext of it was anybody who's in that district in minnesota who wants something done is going to invest lavishly in her husband's winery this from the socialist who hates the united states supposedly yeah i saw it and it's like elizabeth warren i did read her book by the way on how to flip a house and make a quick profit that was before she became the first native american law professor that.

[Jack]

Harvard bragged about yeah now she's trying to flip a nation before we get on to the next topic victor which is related i do want to recommend our listeners and viewers check out your website the blade of perseus the address is victor hanson you can subscribe it's six hundred and fifty a month but over the course of a year you can take out an annual subscription sixty five dollars it's discounted why would you do that because twice a week victor writes a piece that's exclusive to the blade of perseus you can't see it anywhere else and once a week he does a video exclusive for blade of perseus you'll find links to many things of victor's other appearances his his weekly essay for american greatness weekly syndicated column archives of these podcasts links to his books so you'll want to go tons of free stuff but if you're really into victor's writing do subscribe the blade of perseus victorhansen dot com victor one of my favorite writers great guy fan of the show even charlie gasparino the business writer for the new york post he had a column the other day take the nuclear option let mandami win the new york mayoral race so new york city can start over from scratch and here's how it begins as alarm bells ring over new york city's mayoral race an odd sentiment is starting to gain traction across the business community just give up just sit tight and let the ill equipped maoist zoran mandami win in november let him unleash his creepy dogmatic socialist policies on the masses to teach them valuable lessons both economic and cultural about wokeness and progressivism and more broadly its stranglehold on the democratic party let the city sink into the abyss let madame's policies force out business and prod more upper and middle class residents to flee let the city declare bankruptcy which will happen if madame gets his ways we can then start from scratch i'm not of the we can start from scratch school victor but it may be inevitable whether you're for it or against it any thoughts on this yes.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

But it's much easier to break things and to fix them so when he says you got to hit rock bottom and you have to accelerate that i don't think he realizes how long it's going to take one of the dumbest things i ever did i just turned eighteen i was a freshman at uc santa cruz and i wanted to major in classics i never had any latin greek a lot of people had had it in prep school so this professor said there's an intensive yale program for graduate students who are taking an extra language in greek or latin he said i don't know if you could compete with these twenty seven or eight year old but why don't you go to yale i'd never been out of california so i had worked that previous summer i had about a thousand dollars i bought a ticket i i never knew anybody i just arrived in new haven there was a wonderful man named john madden who was the teacher and i wrote him a nice note and he said you can stay with my wife and i so i stayed three days then they opened the dorms next ten weeks i spent literally twenty hours a day studying and going to class to keep up with phds and near eastern stuff you know what i mean i did not know what the nominative case was i had no idea what an accusative was and here i was with graduate students but my point is that i did get very ill too with my immune anyway i went into the train from new haven i walked all over the worst parts of new haven i didn't know anything about it and then i took one weekend i said i can't take this anymore i'm going to take a train to times square nineteen seventy one i have never seen anything like nineteen seventy one there was trash all over the street people came up and grabbed you it was a nightmare and then i walked unfortunately somebody said you can go up to the upper west side so i walked all the way up there and i ended up in harlem but in central park it was the scariest and it started to get dark so then i kind of jogged back to grand central station i went back to new haven but that was seventy one what year do you think rudy giuliani was able to tour around as a new yorker at that time yeah the nineties nineties so.

[Jack]

It was twenty years late eighties yeah yeah yeah but and then it took time to turn it around on top.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Of it so those that was the time we were getting the charles bronson death wish and escape from new york falling down so when he says that he should know that he's talking about twenty years it's going to take if mondami completes the destruction of new york.

[Jack]

City i just have to add victor though because california is experiencing the same thing now people who leave at the time people there were still neighborhoods who were there of people who were had to be in new york city who fought back and of course lots of people got out of dodge but who's going to be left to fight back the same thing california the middle class is leaving who's going to be left.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

To care enough fight all these places that were when i grew up in california anything south of fresno was rock hard conservative that's i mean once in a while los angeles elected a right wing democrat like sam yordy but that's the la area gave us reagan it gave us george dukmajian as governor it gave us pete wilson even gave us arnold schwarzenegger that's all over with now it's all bay area tech money but even where i am we always elected conservative republican congressmen assemblyman and it just doesn't exist and the reason it doesn't exist is they imported a whole group demographic mostly originally illegal and then about ten to fifteen million people fled california in the last thirty years and so it's never going to be a purple state in my lifetime if ever and so yeah and the same thing is happening in new york so i don't i'm not too optimistic that that that recipe works for anybody that you just let it go you have to fight with the tools you have now there was a poll that said if eric adams got out and mister silva got out it would be forty eight forty four it would be a very close race and i think if that could happen as much as i despise what andrew cuomo did during COVID he would be better than the alternative and by the way did you see as a former queen's resident that there was an elderly couple that was burned in their home murdered just recently and they're looking for a suspect that fits the demographic i talked about yeah and it's it's so that's going to become more and more common in new york and i i hate to see i don't know i just think that you got to.

[Jack]

Fight fight fight yeah you do but you know people had to back to giuliani i mean people had to live in new york even the finance industry journalism even fashion there was some the bandwidth hadn't been invented yet and bandwidth.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

He barely won didn't he his first race he just actually lost his he.

[Jack]

Lost his his first race to david dinkins dinkins yeah and then he won twice and then the farmer bloomberg yeah.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Just drop a seat in it doesn't take any talent you just drop it in and bang it sprouts he he.

[Jack]

Ran he won three elections so new york had twenty years of relative sanity but yeah i agree with you victor picking up the pieces i love charlie charlie's the other you know he's reflecting what the business community no i understand.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

What he's saying yeah so hey we're.

[Jack]

Going to come back from this break and talk about a we've read a read from a parent before who's got a transgender kid and it's an interesting take on things as we know two or three weeks ago maniac shot up and murdered catholic school children in minnesota so we're going to talk about that and maybe if we have time possibly something about denmark banning the burqa but we'll see anyway we'll be do that when we come back from these final messages we are back with the victor davis hanson show so victor a few months ago a dad of a transgender kid wrote us and he wrote again about what it's like to be the parent of a transgender kid and he did that in the in the light of the of the minnesota shooting so if you don't mind it's going to take a minute or two but it's it's i think it's rather important he says hello jack if i can add some perspective regarding the trans shooting the typical pharmaceutical progression for a trans person is cross sex hormone native hormone suppression and then mood stabilizers aka ssri's i think the real culprit is the ssri's and most physicians aren't quite sure why or how they work only that they seem to affect the patient however the physician monitoring the patient often switches the patient to a different ssri if the patient claims the existing one is not working due to hipaa laws the dose and the type of ssri is never disclosed to outsiders i firmly believe trans people fall into a trap and once there are medicated to the gills and to the point that the person becomes nearly unrecognizable in the case of my own child he once called to berate me about my concerns for his well being the person i was talking to was obviously him but it was as if i was talking to a complete stranger his intonation cadence and tone was like nothing i'd ever heard come out of him it was disturbing frightening and ultimately heartbreaking i firmly believe the combination of cross sex hormones and ssri's lead to unpredictable behavior if measured against pre drug behavior and unfortunately the trans community which is a classic cult promotes violence and is fiercely anti catholic it's almost over here the general public is extremely misinformed about the confluence of social media the psychiatric community and the trans cult all of these pieces plug in plug out plug back in at various intervals and the ssi variants are highly addictive and amplify both the social media influences and occult influence victor i just want to add that this great dad was not writing as an excuse for the shooter in minnesota but more an indictment of pump them up with drugs community and also as he says at the end this the cult this is a cult anyway victor i thought if we.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Had this conversation let's just pick an arbitrary year two thousand eight not very long ago and we were talking to people of the left democratic legislators media people academics and you said what do you think about selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors you know prozac etcetera elavil all that we got to be very careful with those especially with young people i don't like the idea of giving powerful drugs big pharma is making a killing off that and we've got to find natural ways of letting people adjust without going into misunderstood brain chemistry and altering it in ways we have no idea of the ultimate effect and then if you had said what do you believe about testosterone injection got to be very careful that creates violence and that's roid rage we all know what it's done to people in the weightlifting industry athletes it damages heart valves it's a very dangerous it can change the muscular muscular skeletal appearance what do you think about estrogen well we know that there are some studies that it can enhance breast cancer and post menopause these are all very dangerous and then all of a sudden this cause celeb came and said no anybody who says that they're a bigot we're just going to throw out all of that medical knowledge and research and our past advocacy against powerful drugs that have been used too indiscriminately and frequently and so that's the problem i was talking about with the fourth horsemen of the apocalypse once you have a dei regimen and you say you're going to take particular groups and label them oppressed or victimized and then they're going to be exempt from accountability then they're going to react to that exemption it's like hunter biden in the individual case if you tell hunter biden that no one's going to arrest him for lying about a gun or throwing it in a dumpster or leaving your crack pipe in a rented car or taking pictures of yourself naked using drugs with prostitutes or shaking down foreign governments all over the world to enrich your family if you tell him all that and not paying your taxes then he's going to do more of it he's going to do more of it and because he knows he's exempt and when i say dei diversity equity inclusion i'm not just saying that's the only exemption very wealthy privileged people like the bidens had a veritable dei exemption you can't touch us you can't question us joe biden you can't question me and you know that's why he did one thing he he did not use that auto pin he knew that the people were doing it with the auto pin for his benefit they were swarming the system to clog up as many pardons as they could so his individual pardons they could just say well it wasn't the biden family he just pardoned anybody might have been a little overdid it might have messed up some people's hair but you know but he signed those personally and he did it because he knew what they had done and he knew that they got away with it because of their political privilege and their money and their contacts and all of that but whenever you do that in a society then you're going to get more of it more and more and more it's not good for human nature to tell somebody that whatever you do we're going to find an excuse to exempt you from consequences or rationalize your antisocial or criminal behavior.

[Jack]

Well victor i have one last item by the way on the on the auto pen dan mccarthy who's the editor of modern age has a great piece out on it's in new york post a great column on that i recommend people check that out not going to talk about burkas here's the i'm going to talk about tim walsh and i think it sort of hooks into a little bit what you're just talking about privilege and exemption ice arrests kenyan sex offender who had a cushy job at tim walsh's minnesota government a kenyan national with a sex offense on his record was arrested by ice his name is wilson tindall of plymouth minnesota he was nabbed by ice according to a monday report a decade ago tindall pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman after breaking into her twin cities home he spent eighteen months in ice custody at the time but a judge ruled that he should not be deported after his release he was employed by two different minnesota state agencies.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

So is he the top civil servant in minnesota not is this character in this yeah in this particular agency i think he was okay he.

[Jack]

Might have been put so i guess.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

If you if you were up for.

[Jack]

Even if he was a janitor he shouldn't have been there but if you.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Were up for that job and they were interviewing against this person they would say to you well you're up against a very very competitive candidate can you we'd like to know if you have similar advantages now first of all have you ever committed a felony and been in jail no i haven't well that's too bad that's a mark are you an illegal alien no i'm not i'm legal i was born oh well you're not an illegal alien and you're not a felon are you i don't know the race of this person was he black i think he was he was.

[Jack]

From kenya so but you could be.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

White from kenya yes i think he was black so then he would say are you black no so you're not black you're not a felon and you're not an illegal alien why would we hire you that's really the logic if you think about it right so you hire a felon that's here illegally from kenya and you have all these qualified people that must have applied for that job but they were shunned because they didn't have the three requisites that the state of tim waltz requires right i guess how else can you explain it at some point didn't somebody say he's a foreign national and he shouldn't be eligible for diversity equity and inclusion because he's not a us citizen and he's a former felon convicted felon i guess they knew that but they thought those were advantages diverse they're diverse i suppose i don't know how many where i work we don't hire felons we don't hire people who are here illegally well.

[Jack]

And also in the hiring of foreign nationals i think the criteria must be there must be state by state differences but why why why should we not hire an american over you so a special case has to be made and it can be made in certain cases.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

But that gets to this weird i mentioned it before we have this very strange tick in america that if you set foot in the united states with no knowledge of our customs traditions lifestyles but if you set foot in the united states and you are non white you are eligible under dei auspices for preferential treatment or exemptions on the basis that you've suffered historic prejudice even though you've never have and so that came when i was a professor at california state university well before trump has readdressed this issue which is i think it's a federal law but it was ignored by a lot of states that you cannot give in state tuition discounts for illegal aliens who are residing in your state illegally while you are charging them one third of the cost of a college education than you are charging us citizens just a few miles across your state border and i saw it all the time i could not believe it i'd get all these students they come up to me and they'd say you know it's eight hundred bucks for tuition for the year but i got to pay two thousand four hundred i can't afford it and you got all these students that tell me that they're here illegally and they're only paying eight hundred and i mentioned it in mexifornia i got really blasted by it i'm trying to remember the famous conservative got really angry he reviewed that book you know the broken windows guy the co author.

[Jack]

Not charles murray or james q wilson.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Yes james q wilson he wrote a devastating review of mexifornia and commentary and he said i was parochial i was a restrictionist and illegal immigration was basically really good he was a libertarian and i saw him i felt bad because i saw him later and he had lymphoma and i walked up to him and he turned away i said you know i'm not mad that you did that i don't think you're right but i don't hold a grudge and then he was very friendly and then i saw him once at pepperdine when i was a visitor years ago and he was very friendly to me but that just shows you that when i wrote that book in two thousand two and three it was gosh people got angry about that because i said that this is not sustainable illegal immigration by the.

[Jack]

Way speaking of pepperdine pepperdine has a nice little peace garden what's a garden and it's named for tom burnett who was a graduate there and tom was one of the handful of guys on flight ninety three who fought back and i guess saved saved something i think that plane was supposed to be destined for the united states capitol so a true american hero and today is the is nine eleven and we should remember.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Tom it was it was it's a wonderful i think it's the school of public policy it's up on the hill i go there when i have visited there i always go out there and i think james james the late james wilburn the founder of the school of public policy wonderful person was partly involved or major major he was a major involvement and then of course our friend the wonderful successive dean pete peterson has really kept it up and really empowered the school as well it's another institution like hillsdale that people who are listening should support the school of public policy at pepperdine it's an island atoll in a sea of madness in los angeles.

[Jack]

Pete peterson is a member of the board of the center for civilization society what is center for civil society publishes civil thoughts which i write every week comes out every friday it's fourteen recommended readings lots of people get it they all love it i don't get any bellyaching about it it's totally free how do you get it go to civil thoughts dot com sign up just give your email address it'll come and we're not selling your name i know you're going to like it so please and thanks for for those who do subscribe and who enjoy it again victor's website the blade of perseus victorhansen dot com if you're on x victor's handle is d hansen i mentioned already the victor davis hansen fan club on facebook and then there's victor's own page there vdh's morning cup check that out follow it one comment here from face a a youtube comment from tim chapman five thousand five hundred and sixty seven who writes we here in australia are suffering social disintegration and economic decline under the islamo marxist federal government but we do not have a trump or farage figure to counter it as to bdh's reminder that hard marxists are only interested in gaining and holding power the motive for organizing uncontrolled high immigration is to acquire new left leaning voters dependent on government largesse tim we feel your pain thanks for you for sending in your comments we try to read them all there are many and many most of them are very very kind few aren't but that's.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Like i really appreciate i have a lot i had a lot of on my birthday letters from my house that came here and i appreciate everything and emails i just i can't respond to everyone i got about three or four hundred emails that i haven't opened and maybe as many letters and stuff at work and home but i really appreciate.

[Jack]

It i do well thanks victor for all the wisdom you shared thanks folks for listening and for watching we'll be back soon with another episode of the victor davis hansen show and god bless.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

America thank you everybody for listening and viewing doing and god bless our wonderful country.

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