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Sammy Wink
Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. This is our Friday news roundup. So we're going to look at some of the stories from the week and we've got lots on the agenda. Gerrymandering or claims of gerrymandering in the state of Texas has started a ruckus. We have a Illinois representative who is more proud of being Guatemalan than she is American. And then we'll take a look at Gaza. So so stay with us for those stories and we'll be right back. From these messages.
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Sammy Wink
Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen Show. For everybody who's new, Victor is the Martin and Neali Anders Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marcia Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College. You can find him at his website, victorhanson.com everything's there. His books are linked there, also his writings from other publications. And then he does special writing and a video for Ultra subscribers at the website. So please come join us for 650amonth or $65 a year. And we'd love to have everybody. So, Victor, the big controversy this week seems to be that in Texas in particular, the Democrats are claiming that the Republicans are trying to gerrymander the districts and so they've up and left the state entirely so they can prevent a quorum in their assembly to even have a vote on new districting that the Republicans want to do. And the Republicans have sent out arrest warrants and Trump has not ruled out, as he often says, bringing in the FBI. And so I was wondering your thoughts on this.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Yes. The first question is, is it legal or not? Yes, it is legal. They have the right to redistrict this year. Number two, is German confined to Texas. Are Republicans? No. All states do it. Number three, who's better at it, the Democrats or the Republicans? The Democrats are far better at it. If you take Illinois, where they fled to Trump got about 45% of the vote. I think they have three out of what, 2017 to three. So they're underrepresented by four times. If you look at Massachusetts, where Trump got 40% of the vote. You would think that they would have two or three. They have none here in California. Of the 53, I think we have 11 or 12. So we have about 20% of the House seats. Donald Trump got about 41%. So they're very good at it. So why are they angry and fleeing? They did this with Scott Walker, Remember about unionization? Making unionization dues not mandatory. They all fled out of state. They always do this like adolescents. What we're watching is an adolescent meltdown. And I shouldn't say adolescent. That's not fair at all. It's a terrible twos. Three children. And I remember once when I said to one of my children in the store, and everybody's gone through this. You're not going to get Pop Tarts. They were actually four or five. They laid on their back and kicked up in the air. I want my Pop Tarts. Well, that's what they are. I mean, there's Corey. I mean there's Cory Booker screaming and yelling like Spartacus again for no reason. There's Hikem Jeffries with his little club. Now they're hitting watermelons and smashing watermelons.
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Sammy Wink
There's Al Green too.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I'm taking down and I don't. I'm taking him down. Okay, okay. And then you got all this juvenile stuff. And what they're not doing. This is our contract for America. We want to do this on the border on transgender because they're not doing it, because nobody wants what they have. So they're just a one trick pony. Trump is Hitler. Hitler. Hitler. Tyranny. Can I say something, Democrats? Tyranny. You say this is tyranny. This is dictatorship. When you weaponize in one day, November 18, 2022, and you appoint a special counsel to go after Donald Trump for having 102 so called classified documents out of 13 or 14,000 in this home and you sic the FBI on him. And Jack Smith was appointed that day to investigate that. The same day Nathan Wade is charging the White House, what, $200 an hour to meet with the White House counsel? Can I ask you Democrats a question? I listened to Nathan Wade. He didn't come across as a legal eagle. So why would you get this guy from an obscure Fulton county investigation and bring him into the White House the same day you appoint Jack Smith the special prosecutor? Oh, I forgot. And why would the third ranking attorney general in Merrick Gardens doj, and that's a very important position. You get judicial appointments. When you get that, why would he come from Alvin Bragg, Manhattan suit into the doj and then he would leave again. Excuse me, why would he come from Letita James and go back to Alvin Bragg all on the same day? That is tyranny. That's tyranny. Getting the FBI to work with Facebook and Twitter to suppress news, that's tyranny. Trying to take a major candidate off the ballot, that is tyranny. I could go on and on with disinformation. So this is what the Democrats do. They bolt, they flee, they scream, they yell, they get on their back and kick up in the air. They do the smutty pot video, the smutty little videos. We had Jasmine Crockett saying Donald Trump is a piece of blank. Yeah, Jasmine, she always goes from the prep school spoil brat upper middle class childhood when she wants to act snobbish to when she wants to go full inner city. And she has that fake accent as if she doesn't care. And she's a wild woman. That is the face of the Democratic Party and the squad. That is who they are. And I'm not saying they're not going to win the House. They can, because all they're going to say is they're going to tell you that Donald Trump is Lucifer one day, Satan the next, the Devil the third, and that's what they're going to do. And we'll see if it works.
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Sammy Wink
Well, speaking of Democratic antics, we have a Illinois representative, Dalia Ramirez, who was down in Mexico City and she got up and said, she said it in Spanish and the translation was, it's hard to get this wrong. I'm proud to be a Guatemalan before I am an American. And I don't think that's a good thing to say if you're a representative in Congress. But what are your thoughts, Victoria?
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Victor Davis Hanson
I would be the 5 millionth person to say, if you don't like it, go home. But we know she won't go home. She came here the child of illegal aliens. I think she's married to an illegal alien. How can a member of Congress not get her husband legalized? I mean, it's not hard to do if you're a US Citizen. So it's just part of this same. It's reminiscent of Barack Obama. We're not an exceptional country, remember that. Or we're only exceptional the way Greece thinks it's exceptional and Britain thinks it's exceptional. Or the apology tour. We go to Turkey and then talk about Native American genocide or whatever he was talking about. It's the same thing of The LA protest where you spit or burn the flag of the country. Under no circumstances you leave and you waive the one you won't go back to. So it's always been that way with the left. They were internationalist humanists, so they feel their allegiance is to humanity. That's the good take on the bad take of it. They're just ingrates. And remember, she's a member of the squad. She said she was a member of the squad. We had Bowman, he got kicked out. Remember Bowman? He was the one that let off the fire alarm. And then he. He said a bunch of crazy things in addition. And then we had Cori Bush, she was a member of the squad. She got hired her boyfriend or husband or something to be her security. It was fraud. They kicked her out. She lost the election. And then we had Ilyan Omar, who said that she was surprised what a trashy country it was compared to Somalia and that she never saw dictatorship in Somalia as much as she did the oldest democracy in the world here in the United States. She's the one that had a map, I think, in her office with no Israel on it. And then we had AOC and all of her little psychodramas about eat the rich and trying to get her boyfriend into claiming sometimes he's her husband and some days he's not, depending on whether she gets a discount or expenditures paid for. So they're all con artists in a very pathetic, low grade way. And they all can't just say they like the United States, it's the best place in the world to be and they're happy they're here. And I once asked my Swedish grandfather why his father brought them all, why they came to United States. Because he was farming and it was very hot. He was like 105. And we. My father used to plant cotton when he first. When I was about 6. And he would make us go out and glean the cotton. Boy, that tears your hands up. They had a primitive cotton picker, two wheel thing and it didn't get everything. So we would go out with these big cloth sacks and pick cotton and they'd weigh it. And so my grandfather was out there helping us. He was, gosh, he must have been 65, 70 years old. So I said, why did, why did you come here? Isn't. Didn't. Isn't Sweden cold? Wouldn't it be nice? And he said, listen, Victor, we were farming. My dad was farming rocks. Rocks. And it was cold and you never could do anything but farm rocks. There was no way you could ever get a place like this yet. 45 acres. This is the best soil in the world. Anybody who doesn't understand that is crazy. This is a guy who was telling me this who was born. His mother was pregnant when they left Sweden. And he was born actually in Chicago on the way out to California. And he was drafted at 26 years old to go to Fort Lewis, Washington where he was a teamster. He raised in woke horses and they assigned him to train black teamsters. So he trained, but as he said, they knew how. They were great horsemen. And then they transferred him into a combat unit at the St. Mihiel and he got his esophagus and stomach eaten out with phosphine gas. And he was disabled forever after that. And he never complained a thing. All he did was praise the United States, although he had a prejudice. He liked Belgians, he didn't like French. That's all he said. He was in a hospital. He was in a Belgian hospital for one year. He didn't get back till 1920.
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Sammy Wink
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Victor Davis Hanson
No, he went to the draft. His father was Swedish. And the draft board said one of your boys is going to go right now. Which one is it going to be? He had four sons. The others were too young. They were in 15, 16. They were. They had a big difference in age. And he said, take the oldest one. And he went and he paid a terrible price. And he loved this country. I don't get this idea that we're letting in all of these immigrants, first and second generation, they come in from some of the worst places economically, socially in the world, Puerto Rico, from the family of AOC Rashid, Talib, Palestine. And then you have people like Ilhan Omar, Somalia. And then they come in here and then they get scholarships for college. They qualify for affirmative action dei. It's almost as if the moment you set foot in the United States and you're not a US citizen, and some of these were, some weren't, you all of a sudden are on the right side of the Marxist binary as an oppressed. So you come in from here, Micho Khan, you walk one foot in the United States and you say, well, back in Micho Khan, I was a victim of American racism, so I need to get free tuition in stay. Da da da da da da. And then you get all of that. And then what you start to do is attack the United States. That's what they do these, the squad people, the left does. And everybody just says it doesn't make any sense. I mean, Obama's father came from Kenya and he was an alcoholic. He got in a wreck. He hurt people. You know what I mean? An auto wreck and everything. And wasn't that a great thing that he came here and then he. He was subsidized basically by his wife or his wife's family helped him and he took off. He was a miserable person. He abandoned his own kid. And yet that was the identity that propelled his political career. The African, the name was no longer Barry Sotero. It was Barack Obama that he rebranded himself as his birth name, but he didn't use that when he was a preppy, but he did. So my point is that this society bends over backward for dei and yet it gives the wrong impression, that it's weak or it's guilty and that you can take advantage of it. So the better attitude would be, if you come over to the United States, we're going to treat you like a human being. We don't care what color you are, we don't care what gender, we don't care what your sexual orientation is. But we want to tell you something. Don't come over to this country with a bunch of baggage that you don't like us or you hate our system or you hate capitalism or it's unfair, just stay home. But if you do come here, we don't care if you're white, brown or black. And we're not going to treat you any worse or any better. And if you did that and you cut back on entitlements, then you would have a return to the prior immigration. That people came here because they wanted to be American and they praised the United States. And what I don't like about it is somebody like this representative from Guatemala or somebody like Omar, we have this idea that we say as soon as you come in and you're an immigrant, you're just like any. Yes, that's true. And that's what's great about America. You are treated exactly the same the moment you become a citizen than somebody who's been here five generations. But that doesn't mean you get psychologically to erase what everybody did for you to enjoy this. So what I would say to Ms. Guatemala is, do you know anything about, I don't know, Shiloh? Do you know anything, what Gettysburg was like? Do you have any idea what Belleau Wood was like? Do you know what Choi San was like? Do you know what the Battle of Bulge was like? Do you know what people went through on Okinawa? You know what it was like to be in a B17 flying over Europe when you're getting a 10% loss rate every single mission? You know what those people suffered in Vietnam? So you just come in here and you just erase all that and you say you'd rather be a Guatemalan. But these people all died to create this country that you apparently liked. You apparently liked it so much, they gave you all sorts of subsidized education and advantages. You ran as a DEI candidate, you're a congresswoman, and you can't just give the dead a little bit of. I really appreciate what people did. So this country welcomed me and I was able to be a congresswoman. And they can't do that because you know why? They're ingrates.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah.
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Victor Davis Hanson
And the left encourages that victimization.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, it does. And it also, in the left, also encourages general ignorance and appreciation for the moral code of people like Hamas. And that's our next story. So there was a really great article by a British author, Melanie Phillips. Yeah, she was trying to explain why the picture of. And I hope I get his name right. Ev Evar David, who looked like a skeleton, he's a prisoner of Hamas, came out and it didn't get Any press or any shock, everybody just didn't, it didn't get much attention. And at the same time, we have France, Britain, Canada saying they're going to recognize Palestine as a state, which means they're going to recognize Hamas, essentially, although they did not say exactly that, but that's your only choice there. And that there were fake pictures that were published by the New York Times, I believe, of a young child who had a disease. And so he did look very thin, he was a Gazan. But they used it to say, look, the Israelis are starving Gazans. And then there was a long controversy because the little boy that was also in the picture, if anybody used it entirely, which they didn't, they just focus, was very healthy. But this young kid that had a.
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Victor Davis Hanson
They had a picture of him digging.
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Sammy Wink
His own grave and the Israeli, that is a hostage that as well. Right. So she was trying to make sense of that. How can we have this horrible, thuggish, hating, murderous Hamas people and then have these people in the west, whole nations or at least national leadership supporting them? And she said, basically she concludes that the left is willing to overlook the Nazi like elements of Hamas because they consider it a matter of conscience somehow and that we have to, we're going to turn away from a traditional Western moral system or the left is to accept these people. And that was kind of her argument, that the acceptance of Hamas as somehow legitimate is an obfuscation or a turning away of the moral grounding that we have in the West.
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Victor Davis Hanson
There are two issues here. One is what I would call boutique and cheap caring. So affluent Westerners know that they can from a distance feel good about themselves, saying they were against genocide or Hamas because it's never going to come home to them. They think, you know what I mean, If Hamas was using suicide vest and blowing up their west upper west side block, they would have a different view. In fact, there's a story today, I think that Beacon Hill, where John Kerry lives and some of the Kennedy family lives, suddenly it's being overrun with drug users. And they are upset that they never, all of their morality is in the abstract and they never give, when they say genocide or this or that, they never give you the alternative agenda. Okay, let's not stop the agenda. So you tell us what you would do if you were Israel. Just tell us now, would you let Hamas come back? Who planned the October 7th massacres? If you wouldn't let them come back, how would you get rid of them? Do you really think if Hamas was not there, the Israelis would let People starve. They're trying to give as much food as they can. They know that anybody takes food from them will be hunted down and shot by Hamas. You know that 80% of some of these convoys are hijacked by Hamas from the un so they never give you a positive thing. And that's one thing. And then the second part is it's something that goes back to classical Greece and people noted it in Greek and Rome and it was what one of our guests had called oikophobia. Hating your own culture and the west because it is free and self critical, which is good because it has free market capitalism which produces goods and services. In surf it, you create a wealthy, self critical detached population. And part of that, and you can see it in Roman literature, you can see it in Greek. They start to attack their own culture and they focus on things and they feel good about it that they're separated from the masses. Horace has a good poem, hate the turba. And I keep myself away from it. But the point I'm making is in modern post Western, it brings you greater psychological comfort and more careerist advantages to say that you hate the Israelis than it does. What else is Israel supposed to do from these people who want to kill them? In other words, if you said to these critics, in 2005 there was a United nations sponsored election. Hamas won, they got their wish. There was regularly scheduled elections. The Palestinian Authority of people said they were going to challenge them. They threw them off rooftops, they killed about 200 of their politicians, they ethnically cleansed them from Gaza. Then the Israelis said, you know, it's not worth dealing with Hamas and we're going to get out. So all the settlements that were all over Gaza, Sharon took out. And then they said, well, what about the infrastructure? We have one of the most sophisticated greenhouse industries for winter vegetables shipped to Europe. And some American philanthropic Jewish Americans said, well, we'll give them the money. We'll give 50 million bucks and we'll buy these from you. Don't dismantle them. We'll buy them and we'll give them to the Gazans. And they did. And what happened? They destroyed them. They stripped them down in a week and they never held another election. Does anybody believe that if they had been holding elections, they were the recipients of billions of dollars. All Hamas had to do is said, no tunnels, no rockets. We're going to outdo the Jews. We're going to make this like the Emirates. We got a better coastline than they do. We've got just as many historical artifacts We've got our friendly Egypt and Jordan on one side. We're going to show them up. We're going to make this paradise. Would we be in this situation today?
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Sammy Wink
No, no. But they don't have a culture that encourages enterprise.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Well, I mean, the Arab world is very entrepreneur, entrepreneurial. Look at immigrants, look at Kuwait, look at Saudi Arabia, look at all these countries. They've used their oil to good advantage, but they can't stand to be next to the Israelis because the Israelis are so successful and so competent and they just want to say we want to destroy these people. And they have these adherents here. And boy, if Donald Trump does one thing, we have about a million foreign students of various categories. A million. And there's probably 300,000 from communist China and probably a couple hundred thousand from illiberal regimes in the Middle East. I don't know why we do this other than the universities charge them full freight. They charge them about 110% of tuition. So if Americans tuition is 60,000 a year at these tony places, 70,000, they probably get discounts with scholarships and loans down to 50, 40. Not if you're from a foreign student, you pay 110%. We should just, I don't understand why we give visas from illiberal countries. We should just say, you know what, Mohammad Atta was a foreign student. How did that work out? Germany, we don't want it. We don't want people to come from this to this country that hate us and are from illiberal regimes that hate us. So we're not going to issue a student visa from, from the west bank, from Gaza, from Iran, from China, from North Korea. All these countries just stay home. And if you come over here and you demonstrate, we don't want you here. I know it's free to demonstrate, but we just. You're on a student visa to study and we just. It's not a matter of the Bill of Rights, we just don't have to issue it. It's just like when you apply to college, you don't get in, is that you get a right to sue and say, it's not fair that I got in. And he is. No. So you just say to people who want to come here, we don't want you to come here. And they say, well, that's not fair. Well, it's no different than universities admissions. It's an honor to come to the United States. We would prefer you not come. If we did that, we would. Did we have all these protests 30 years ago on campus, like This. I was on campus. I don't remember them.
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Sammy Wink
Me neither.
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Victor Davis Hanson
It's another legacy of the left.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. And if I could just finish this with her conclusion about why people are accepting the gaslighting on the issue of what Hamas really is. She says the total repudiation of reason that's created this terrifying looking glass world has resulted from decades of. Of cultural attrition waged by elites determined to destroy Western identity and values. And so she goes even further than you've said that these elites want to destroy our identity and values.
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Victor Davis Hanson
What made the west, whether you like it or not, was free market capitalism, constitutional government, independent judiciary, rationalism, the nuclear family, the Judeo Christian tradition. And they don't believe in any of that. So what they're basically saying is all those people did all this stuff and we're going to live off the fumes, but we're going to try to destroy their legacy. They never come up with. They never come up with an alternate. What Mondami says, where's he going to get the money? When he says he's going to do this and this and this and this and this, and where's the example that it worked? And yet they're going to vote for him? And you know, when he's a trash the United States every way he can. And he came over here from. What was so good about Uganda, if it was so good, why didn't he stay there? His family. And what happened when they got here is Indian immigrants from Uganda. His mother became a marquee filmmaker and his father became an endowed professor. And yet they can't say a positive thing about the United States, and yet they do want to stay here. That's what's so weird, that all these people fight deportation. You would think, from what they said when we saw all those Columbia Middle east students and some of them were going to be sent back, you think they say, thank you. I hated this place. I hate this culture. I get to get back to Gaza and Palestine where I'm really happy, but they don't.
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Sammy Wink
It's a very strange, confused world.
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Victor Davis Hanson
People are very tired of it. They're very scared, sick of it. They're sick of the whole ethnic chauvinism, racial chauvinism, sexual orientation chauvinism, gender chauvinism. Just tired of it.
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Sammy Wink
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Victor Davis Hanson
I guess we would say, well, we'll see. We have a midterm coming up, November of next year. You know, it's only less than 15 months away and traditionally I think there's been only four times since 1900 where the end party picked up seats. They only have seven or eight seat margin. And we'll see if all these stories are correct that people don't like the Democrats and they're going to do something historic and not lose the Republican seats. But there's two things that we don't know. There's two known unknowns. We don't know the effect every single day. Trump is Hitler. Trump is Hitler. Trump is Hitler. And that it's everywhere because they control their legacy media, the newspapers, not all the media anymore, but the corporate boardroom, K12, academia, professional sports, popular culture, foundations. And that's all you hear. And so that's one thing. And then the other, we don't know the effect of what they're saying on what I would call the independent voter doesn't have to be the white voter, but I mean the middle class voter when he hears Jasmine Crockett, that you all I'm tired of you all white people, white, white, white, white, white, that kind of stuff. And Donald Trump is a piece of sh blank and Cory Booker screaming at the top of his lungs, or Chuck Schumer crying, or Nancy Pelosi in one of her bizarre fits, or Elizabeth Warren shaking her finger like a school mom. You know you're going to go to detention.
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Sammy Wink
And Bernie Sanders does the same thing.
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Victor Davis Hanson
You know, the old commie Marxist or Tim Waltz dancing around as if he's on some kind of Adderall or something. We don't know of this clown show. And it seems to me that it's going to lose a lot of people. But at the same time, you turn on the media and you can turn on Fox News and see that there's a lot of illegal immigrants are killing innocent people through DUIs and violence. You turn on any of the others, nothing. You turn on Fox News and you'll see Cincinnati and you'll see stories about Washington D.C. where people are being beaten up on the street and racially charged. Not. You won't see any of that on the other channels or the newspapers. You'll see everything about genocide, genocide, genocide. But you won't see any of the things of Israel trying to feed people and the resistance they have from Hamas. So it's hard to know where we are as a country. All we know is one thing, that people are leaving the blue states, they are leaving Minnesota, they were leaving Oregon, they're leaving California and they're going to red state models. Low taxes, less government, cheaper standard of living, less regulations and more freedom and more prosperity. And it's very ironic because 75% of these red state destinations are from the so called backward old South. And what's happened in this country is the north became the south and the south became the North. The north was a liberal, didn't take into consideration race. It had good universities, it promoted family values. The south was kind of a no middle class. It was a plantation. It was obsessed with race. It was agrarian and economically it was behind. Now the north. Blue states are obsessed with race, obsessed with it. They don't have a middle class. It's very wealthy people in California, very poor. And the red states are free. Freedom, do your thing, family values, we don't care what color you are, what race. And it's completely flipped. And that's why you get one drop wool, for example, if you're 1 16th black or Hispanic in California, you can con your way into. It's almost like you need a genealogist to just get anywhere in our country. And it's very ironic and it's almost eerie how the blue states have picked up the old Confederate ethos. You know, sanctuary cities, federal nullification laws, nullifying federal law. Just like South Carolina. You know, the US government has no role here at Fort Sumter or Alabama in 1861. This armory, it's a federal army, belongs to us. You can't come into it. Or George Wallace in 1962, 1963, standing in federal guard has no rule here in Alabama. I can be segregated. That's what the sanctuary cities are. Get out of our city. We're going to let illegal immigrant criminals stay in our jail. You can't deport them.
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Sammy Wink
I think it's, that's why Trump's polls are always going up, even though the left thinks, oh, they finally got him, it's going to go down. But I think there's enough poll people that are seeing the border didn't need new legislation, as the left told us. And there's enough who read enough to know that Russia hoax is in fact a hoax.
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Victor Davis Hanson
He just has to get about 46 or 47 approval. Because if you look at the polls in the 2024 election, the NPR poll, the Marius poll, Harvard, they all had him down 3 to 4%, and he won by a point and a half. And there are polls, Rasmussen, Trafalgar, Insider Advantage, that have him pretty much even and one or two ahead sometimes. So as long as he's 46% in all these liberal polls, 45, he's really even. And then the ones that have him down 12, those are not. Those are just like the Iowa caucus, the Iowa poll, you know, where he was supposed to lose Iowa by three points and he won by 12. The Des Moines Register poll.
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Sammy Wink
I think in the first six months, Donald Trump has shown a lot of the lies of the left. Well, let's turn to the next thing. There was a beating of a young man who was trying to help a woman who was getting beat up by several young men. And he was, in fact, the guy that got the name Big Balls from the Doge group that is helping the government. And Donald Trump said he's going to think about, or he wouldn't rule out, that the federal government might have to take over D.C. because D.C. doesn't seem to be able to police itself after this incident.
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Victor Davis Hanson
He was interviewed in a lot of those Doge meetings, and he was always very sincere, very. And what he was, he went to Washington to try to cut spending. He thought he was doing a patriotic thing. So Here you have this young kid. He's not very. He's not overly big. He's walking along and he sees a woman in a car attacked by a bunch of gang bangers. And the last thing anybody would do probably was go over there, they should, and try to save her. And one against, I don't know how many, three, four, five. He doesn't open their arm. They have knives, guns. He just plunges right in. And he distracts them enough that she's able to get away. And he's almost beaten to death. And this comes and no one really wants to talk about it, but Washington, D.C. is, you know, it's one of the highest crime rates in the country. And it's the black middle class that runs Washington, D.C. does not live in Washington. The black population has gone from about 75% down to 40%. So the surrounding upscale neighborhoods are upscale professional blacks who have good jobs in Washington, but they don't want to live there because they understand this pathology of crime. And the question is, it's an international city. It's the iconic city of America, and people are coming over here and it's not safe to walk. Just five years ago, when I would go to the Bradley Foundation, I walked from the Building Industries Convention hall back to the center of town. There's about a mile, mile and a half. You couldn't do that at night tonight. I did that at night twice. You couldn't do that at night now. So everything since 2020 and defund the police and the George Floyd post violence has gone downhill. Some places crime has started to stop. As you get more deportations and you get no more. Defund the police and you get rid of the Soros prosecutors, you start to see a decrease in crime. But not in Washington too much. And Donald Trump, it's a federal city. It's not necessarily. It has no state domain. So he has certain rights, not complete rights, but rights to adjudicate how it's run.
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Sammy Wink
Okay, Victor. So there was another very interesting article by Stanley Kurtz in the National Review online. And he was arguing or he was asking the question, is DEI dying? And he says, well, if we look at the issues, the border, crime, policing, abortion, school choice, the right, and conservativism is making huge inroads. Like there's lots of victory, he said, but the left still has control of education, the media, the foundations of government, although that's changing a lot. And so he said, well, you can't really say that there is a big win or. But there might be a conservative movement and maybe for the next 12 years, if Conservatives win the government for the next 12 years. But he said it was to going a little bit not so optimistic. He said in the yin and yang of politics they'll probably eventually swing back to the left. And I wanted to read the conclusion that he had here. He said the ability to envision a significantly more conservative future is important as well as novel. The left has lost its certainty about the future and this is by itself has had huge consequences for its ability to intimidate and silence others. Knowing that a more conservative future is perfectly possible is a victory for freedom that in the end may be the most important outcome of the conservative cultural comeback. And I was wondering your thoughts on.
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Victor Davis Hanson
The what he's saying is that if you have a Democratic administration, they're lawless. So even though the Supreme Court had ruled in 2023 that you could not use race based admissions, nobody followed it in the university, not until Donald Trump issued that executive order. It was illegal through the civil rights statutes. So what he's saying is if you have a Democratic administration, they won't enforce the law because they have a higher law, what they call morality and global cosmic morality. So they'll just defy court orders and say we have our own law. They always do that. But Di is dying, but not because necessarily Donald Trump is trying to kill has certain internal contradictions. We're a multiracial Society and we're 68 to 70% white, we're 10 to 12 to 13% black, we're about 10 to 12% Hispanic. And then we're probably 4 or 5% Asian. You in a multi racial and one quarter of most Latinos and Asians and whites marry outside their racial group. So when you say somebody is eligible for DEI consideration, what does that mean? You have two choices. You can say we're above all that we're not Nazis, we're not genealogists, we're not ethnically obsessed. So we don't check you and we don't we wouldn't lower ourselves to say it's 1/4 non white or 18 non white that allows you DEI consideration. But then you get if you don't do that and you don't go the full Confederacy, then you get mom dummy and you get Elizabeth Warren frauds. And there's thousands of them, Ward Churchill and I've seen them my whole career in academia. Somebody who was wider than I am telling me that church, she was the granddaughter of a Spanish Argentine Native American. So you can't tell anymore. And two, it doesn't work in a multiracial democracy when you have all these different factions and they are identifying primarily by race. Do you really think that there's a rainbow coalition? There's not. We saw what happened in Los Angeles at that horrific city council meeting about four years ago. When the city council members started, they got caught on a hot mic, those Hispanics, and they were saying the most racist things about black people and gay people. It was horrible. And as someone who lives in a primarily Hispanic city, I can tell you that I don't see a rainbow coalition. I don't. So each faction then will fight each other. And it's like, as I said earlier, nuclear proliferation. If you go down that chauvinistic route, if Jasmine Crockett keeps saying, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, or if Professor Kendi says you have to be a racist to stop racism, well, finally you're going to get people who say, okay, I'm a tribalist too. I'm going to have a European American affinity graduation, and I'm going to have a theme house at Stanford called the Euro House, just like these other group. And where will that end? And then the next thing is not just that you can't tell what a person is anymore, clearly. And you don't want to have a tribal fighting, but class doesn't matter anymore. It's hard. Affirmative action was based on the idea of historic oppression against blacks, Jim Crow, slavery, and that made them economically disadvantaged. But when you look at the groups in America, I think whites are number nine ethnic groups. All these different Asian American groups, and some Arab Americans, they have a higher income. So how can you give Mr. Mondame say that he's a minority when Indians from India are the wealthiest economic group in the United States? So you can be very dark from India, but you can be privileged. So that doesn't work anymore. I mean, you're going to give affirmative action to Michelle's daughters or to LeBron's kid or to Joy Reid's children. There's no connection necessarily anymore. There's more poor white people in actual numbers than anybody. So that is something that. So class is a new element that if you had it based on class, it might be more effective. But you're not going to do that with these tribalists. And so when you look at all these contradictions, and then finally there's a final one that's proportional representation, that was the keystone of dei. We're going to have a whole country where everything is going to be 67% white, 13% black. And if not, we're going to sue you. And they did. The Supreme Court, you know, kind of upheld that. So you know, faculty, take faculty. There's 75% of faculty members in the United States are white. They only make up about 67 to 70%. So they're over represented. And that means we've had DEI hires by race. However, 55% of all students are non white in all colleges, yet whites are 67 to 70%. So are you going to say, okay, you're going to hire non white people, so you get up. So whites only represent their percentage in the population. So you're going to get rid of 5% of all white faculty members to get it down. But now you're going to have to have affirmative action for white to get the 55% white. So up to 70. You want to do that? No.
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Sammy Wink
Sounds confusing.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Yes. And then you're saying, well, merit, merit is a construct. White people made these rules like the SAT that are designed to prejudice people who didn't have SatCamp. Okay, about 70% on average of the NBA and the NFL are black Africans. So 12 to 13% of the population gets to play or gets these positions. It's the most prestigious high paid jobs in the United States. Most glory, most publicity, millions of dollars of spin off side hustles on ads. And then you say, well, they're there because they're merocratic, they're better athletes. But you just said that merit was a construct. So if you don't get a good math score, you just throw out the merit and say it's racist. But if you can catch a pass better than somebody else, it's not. That's merit. And I agree that it is. But would the African American community want somebody to come in and say, well, we're going to apply the same standards that we do with university admissions or the post office to the NFL. And we think the marquee positions are center. So we're going to have a big white guy as center quarterback, we're going to have an Asian guy as quarterback. And running back will be two Hispanics on every team. So that we get it down to a diverse. So America, the NFL looks like America. And by the way, we can do this because your artificial brand called merit is a construct. You just created this to help African Americans dominate the whole field. But if you didn't have that quote, unquote, that's what they're saying. Nobody believe that. Nobody would want that. Would you want to Be an affirmative action quarterback. Say, no, you wouldn't. And so the point is, you can't apply this, and I mean charitable. Stanford let in, as I said before, 9% white males the last two or three years, until recently at Stanford. So that was repertory admission. So what I'm getting at, whether it's no consideration of class or intermarriage or it doesn't work when you go tribal or proportional representation is hypocritical. It doesn't work anymore and it's getting worse and people are sick of it, so they should just get rid of it and let people get out and mingle and do whatever they want to do.
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Sammy Wink
Did you see that New York Post front page that had the African American meets the Native American? When Elizabeth Warren and Mondawi met each other, they were making fun of that.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Didn't they say on the bottom, liars meet or something?
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, liars, yeah.
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Victor Davis Hanson
He tried to game it and say he was African American. She tried to game it. But the thing is, she was listed in the Harvard faculty book as the first Native American and she's never tried to withdraw that. All she said is she has high cheekbones. And when Donald Trump dared her to take. I never understood that some person supposedly so brilliant in Harvard Law School would take Donald Trump up on his troll. So she took the DNA test and then she got almost an infinitesimally small amount and then he just invented Pocahontas.
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Sammy Wink
I think what's more disturbing about them, on a serious note, is that they're trying to push a socialist narrative. Both of those, Mondami and Warren. And so I, I don't. Do you think that's gonna, that's not gonna work. The Democratic Party, Socialist Party, it's gonna.
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Victor Davis Hanson
They're like Soviets that had dacas on the Black Sea. You know what I mean? That nobody. I mean, Mondomi just had a, what, A lavish wedding in Uganda that was behind an estate with walls and all. It was multi. Thousand dollar socialists don't do that. Elizabeth Warren wrote a book about how to flip houses and make profit and then get out and flip another one. She did. And then she had a cookbook of Native American recipes that she stole from.
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Sammy Wink
The New York Times.
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Victor Davis Hanson
She stole. So she's a complete fraud. And she gets. She's a fraudster and she's always looking for fraud. Just look in the mirror, Elizabeth. Mondawmine is going to be elected by about 10% of the resident population of New York. So.
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Sammy Wink
So there you have that. Well, Victor, let's go ahead and take our last break and then come back and finish off the show. Stay with us. And we'll be right back. Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hanson Show. I think the second story this week that had the most news about it, it was at the very beginning of the week was the Bureau of Labor Statistics came out with only 73,000 jobs created last month, even when the economy was growing and the statistics on the GDP were a 3% growth rate. So everybody was confused by those disparate statistics. And apparently they had to re revised their low job count statistics. And Trump fired Erica MacIntarfer, who was the head of the bureau.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Everybody got angry. Wall Street Journal wrote an op ed. Donald Trump did not like the score, so he had to change the umpire. Yeah, maybe. But usually when they issue their statistics, they have Moderate changes like 100,000 June jobs will go down to 80 or up to 120. But they were doing tens of thousands of changes. And they say, well, not all the business report to us. No, you were just coming out with stuff. And then there were these changes that you decided 70% of the administrative state is left wing. So you would expect that. And it's everywhere. Do you remember when we had the vaccinations and Pfizer was told that they were going to make an announcement on October 30 that the Pfizer vaccination, which at that time we were told cured, protected. You remember, Fauci, if you get this new MRNA vaccination, you will neither be infectious nor will you be infected. And we expect a rollout in October. And then all of a sudden we found out, wait a minute, if we do that, Donald Trump is going to claim Operation Warp Speed is his own and he's going to get credit right before the 2000 and he might beat Biden. So we'll just say, oh, remember that? And they didn't. They delayed the announcement so that you couldn't hear until after the election. And then it was later told in a very page 20 of the new York Times that there were people that grumbled that they could have made the announcement as promised before the election. And what we saw with the FBI and the CIA and the Lois Lerner at the irs, and they don't like conservative people. They want people that want big government, more government employees. As a person who was a state employee for 21 years with a guaranteed paycheck and I guess 18 years of those were tenured. Once you're tenured and that's what those people basically are. And you Get a check, no matter what you do. Well, you know what you're going to get. I'll give you one quick example. For a brief period, the California Faculty association, that represents all of the 23 CSUs, the largest university in the world, it's got over 30,000 faculty members. They had a. They fought merit pay, and they said for three years you could have merit pay, and merit pay would be adjudicated on your teaching evaluations and your publications. So I had written a lot of books, and they gave me some merit pay. And then all of a sudden. And also your faculty behavior or comportment or. That was a third. Not comportment, but it was performances that meant you were on committees. You did this. So all of a sudden I would walk. I swear to the Almighty, within a week of that passing, I walked through my hallway and the next thing I knew, all the doors were open and they were there for their two to four o' clock office hours. And then I looked at their doors and all these things were pasted on it. A letter that somebody wrote, hey, Bill Smith, that's a good idea about a book. You might want to write. Paste it on there. And then there was all this grouching and people would come up to me. I remember that C SPAN was doing like an hour thing on me because I'd written about farming. And they just came down the hallway, you know, it was right during merit pay. And everybody got. They started looking at me, you know, C span. And then there was also a story in the New Yorker about this book I wrote, Feels about a Dream. And this guy comes across, didn't even ask me. My neighbor, a faculty member, he says, this C span, it's not allowed at Cal State Fresno for you to be in a hallway filming Professor Hanson. You have to leave immediately. And I said, oh, poor baby, are you upset? I said, go there. So they said, we got to leave. I said, no, you don't. All you have to do is this. We're in merit pay now. And you go over and tell him that while you're interviewing me, you're also interested in English literature for an upcoming. And can you do an interview with him for five minutes? So they walk in and they said, would you like to do an interview? Well, yes, I would. So my point is, that's the mind of a state employee. And then all of a sudden, you know what they did? The union, they passed a law that said that whether you were in the union or not, you had to give money to it. Closed shop. So their budget rocketed from 15% of faculty to 100% paying dues. So they had all this money. They lobbied the legislature, the government. They got rid of merit pay, and guess what they did then? They passed the Adjustment act, the Faculty Compensation Adjustment. So if you had merit pay and you were getting like $5,000 more than anybody else in your pay bracket, you know, based on seniority, then you were kind of retarded for a while so people could catch up, and you were punished for publishing. And that was. And the nice thing about it was when they had 10% or 20 or 30%, I'm not sure what particular year that people voluntarily were in the union and gave them dues. They had no money. So they. You. They'd come up to your door and say, can you come to the Friday pizza party for the CF California faculties? And you'd go there, and they had root beer and pizza. We got an organized. We got to. Each one of you has to get three people. And then once they had automatic dues, no, no, no. They didn't want you going anywhere. They didn't want you showing up. They started passing rules that if there weren't this many Hispanics or blacks that were elected as officers of the union, they were going to appoint them. They hated members showing up because they didn't need you. They had your money. And so that's the mind of the state employee that Trump is dealing with. And I'm not making fun of many of you out there are state employees. My parents were state employees. My mother was a judge, and my father worked for community college district. I worked 21 years with the CSU system. Noble.
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Sammy Wink
There are important jobs that need to be done.
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Victor Davis Hanson
They're very important jobs. I'm just saying you have to fight the mentality that you can't be fired and you deserve a guaranteed salary and you're always demanding more. And you look at the guy at the 711 or the tire shop or the hamburger stand, and they have no guarantees. And so they have a different mindset is what I'm saying. I know I'm going to get a lot of letters from state employees.
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Sammy Wink
Well, Victor, you were talking earlier about culture wars and the left complaining about freedom of thought, speech, or at least they didn't allow for freedom. So, yeah, long way to say Howard Stern is retiring. And of course, the stories are all tinged with, well, it's because of Donald Trump and the lack of freedom of speech or something, but nobody cares. He doesn't have to. He doesn't have to retire. Get out there and do your YouTube.
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Victor Davis Hanson
We know why he's retiring. He's retiring the way that Stephen Colbert is retiring. Because Howard Stern for 30 years made a father fortune by doing two or three things. He hated all politicians and he was center left, but he didn't really come across as left wing. He attacked everybody and he was completely filthy mouthed. And he had people on his show that pulled down their pants and he looked at their phalluses and measured. He did all sorts of horrific things. And he was a shock jock. And he would call his people, would call up people and remember how they bait them and say, hey, by the way, did you know that your car has a flat tire? And the guy would go, ha, ha, ha. Stuff like that. And that's how he built that huge audience. And then he got divorced and he married. Can I say the word? Hot. Hot kind of model who was left wing. And then he got this huge contract. I don't know what it was, 20 million a year or something. And he settled in during COVID He didn't go out anywhere. He was terrified of getting infected. Maybe he was smart, someone who's got long Covid twice, Covid itself, four times. But my point is he just turned into a hate Trump. And then very staid, predictable, left wing. Joy Reid, right. In other words, he had a loyal base, but it wasn't worth what he was getting in the marketplace. And they were losing money on him. So they, when his contract came up, they were, were going to give him substantially less money. And he didn't need it anymore because he'd made all of this on his prior reputation. And so it was like Colbert, you know, $20 million a year, but you're losing 40 and we give you a budget of 100. And so all these people, again, they should remember what Michael Jordan said. Michael Jordan, why don't you come out on the left where you belong? Because Republicans buy sneakers too. So, you know, we're conservative on this podcast, but we don't. We talk about issues where we criticize everybody. You know what I mean? And I do. And you don't insult people who disagree with you. We don't use foul language or yell and scream. So you, and you want to bring in things that all people can appreciate, but you, I mean, we have a definite point of view, but Howard Stern's point of view was that Donald Trump was Satan incarnate and he was horrible. And the people he said that, he said that literally. He said, I don't hate Donald Trump, I just hate the People who voted for him and he was a pal of Donald Trump millennia. And Donald Trump used to go on his show and talk about their sex life.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, seriously, I didn't hear that part of it, but I'm willing to learn.
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Victor Davis Hanson
They say look it up, but the.
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Sammy Wink
Whole obfuscating the real reasons for things I think is just becoming increasingly clear. Last thing this week apparently, and this I got from powerlineblog.com so great place to go for information. People that were banking at JP Morgan and Bank of America are coming out and saying that they were his business associates. Donald Trump's business associates were being threatened if they would do business with Donald Trump. And their words were the sources. Words were they put the fear of God in you if you tried to do business with, with Donald Trump.
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Victor Davis Hanson
They did a secondary boycott. They took away, they debanked Malenia and Barron Trump. They couldn't get, he couldn't get his money out, his son. And so I don't see why they can't be sued. If you can deny a person a bank account because of their race or sexual orientation and you can't do that if they qualify according to your own standards, how can you do it for political reasons? They should all be sued for that. And why does the left do that? Because it sends a message. If you are a high profile person and if you want to be anti left, we have insidious ways of getting you. And speaking as someone who this house that I'm speaking at was swatted a few months ago and speaking as someone who, I don't know if I've said that before, who went into the bank and found the entire bank account completely and another account gone like zero, somebody went in and hacked and stole everything out of it. I think that was political. And if someone who gets emails that are pretty threatening sometimes that's what the left does. And they've got to stop it. And one of the ways you can stop it is they have to be culpable when they start to do that. And that's so weird because they're supposed to be big civil rights people that don't judge people on their views. That's what we were told during the McCarthy period. You know, I can remember my father telling me when he was an administrator at JC Farm, he was an administrator and he said, you know, when I came here after World War II, they tried to make you have an oath. Sign it, sign an oath. I have never done this. And that's exactly what DEI was. Before you could get hired, you had to sign a DEI affidavit at many universities saying that you were a pure blooded supporter of DEI or you wouldn't get hired. A lot of people didn't get hired when they refused or didn't fill out the oath form in the same way they expected.
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Sammy Wink
I guess I'm just a little surprised that businesses, and especially businesses like banks, I mean, business is business. You shouldn't be, you know, bringing your politics in. Well, we're going to threaten you if not to do business with you. If you're going to do business with Donald Trump.
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Victor Davis Hanson
It's called a secondary boycott. It's supposed to be illegal.
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Sammy Wink
It's absolutely crazy. Well, anyways, that's the news. We'd like to thank everybody that comes to our podcast and listens we this today. I'm looking at YouTube and Victor and Jack's recent Tuesday podcast for comments and here are a few comments from our listeners. This guy, this man, I'm assuming it's a man, maybe it's a woman. Siege upon 5894. He gives a quote from your guys's podcast. Quote. When Americans sneezes, the world catches a quote. End quote. Catches a cold. Sorry. End quote. Never was a truer thing said. While America has recovered with a gusto, we in the UK and most of the Western world are currently on life support. Your words of wisdom, Mr. VDH, while not a panacea to the ills of the west, are an inspiration. The medicine that I take daily. Thank you sir. You are the medicine he takes daily. That's from the uk.
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Victor Davis Hanson
You have to do four things. Close your border. Close your border. No more illegal immigration. No more people from an anti west Middle east coming in illegally. 2. Use your natural gas, nuclear power, clean coal. Don't go with the solar, wind, evil and subsidize expensive energy. Doesn't work. Open up your society so you allow free speech and people to disagree with each other on social media. Just let it go. And then four start to trim away and deregulate the socialist state. Let the talented people among you be rewarded and honored for what they bring to your society. Make it the country of Elon Musk, Peter Till and people like that, even Mark Zuckerberg. Bang them all in. Let them do what they have to do to help the country.
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Sammy Wink
Since you brought up Elon Musk, I was driving to work today and I was driving. I have a Tesla by the way, my Tesla and then two other Teslas came up beside me on the freeway. I was thinking, wow, this is cool. These Tesla cars are just going to be like the Model T. And I.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Was thinking, I don't think that boycott is going to work because the Tesla is a better product than the alternative.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, but get this. And then I pulled off to. And there was at the gas station that I, when I got off the freeway, a Tesla truck, Pepsi truck. He was at the. He was unloading at the Quick Stop.
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Victor Davis Hanson
One of those monster trucks.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, it was a gigantic Mack truck, but it was Tesla. Yes, it was really cool. All right, so this one's from a Tadderson or at Aderson 6992 Victor, if you happen to see this, the pinkish book near your right ear looks to be one of the volumes of Churchill's accounts of World War II. Such an interesting reading directly from the brain and war room of one of the greatest Brits to have walked among us. Glad to see you happy, sir.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I am a big supporter of Winston Churchill. And when the historian who attacked him as a terrorist on Tucker Carlson, I wrote immediately for. I think it was substack. In my own column. I wrote at least 3 or 4,000 words in defense of Churchill. It's not hard to defend Churchill in World War II. He saved the Western world from September 1, 1939, to basically December 7, 1941, maybe June 22, 1941, when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. But he was all alone. He was First Lord of the Admiralty and then he was made prime minister on May 10 of 1940. But in those years, there was not very many people who thought they could stand up to Italy and Japan in Germany he did. He was a beautiful. Nobody's ever been able to write English. No political leader has ever been able to speak or write English the way he did.
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Sammy Wink
And didn't he have a whiskey in the morning at noon or something?
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Victor Davis Hanson
He wasn't an alcoholic.
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Sammy Wink
He wasn't afraid of alcohol, though.
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Victor Davis Hanson
He wasn't an alcoholic. He was able to drink amounts that would sicken other people. But I don't think he was a. He didn't get to the point. He had a buzz, but I don't think he got to the point where he was incapacitated by it. One of the secrets to his success is he got ill a lot. He had pneumonia and he flew into North Africa with like 102 temperature, and they gave him experimental penicillin. And he was in the United States and he had a heart attack. But he kept. I mean, he got. Almost died in an auto accident. So he was always being shot at or sick or hit or wounded or you know what I mean. I don't mean wounded in the sense of an accident. And he had enormous constitution powers of recovery.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah, he's amazing.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Very little sleep.
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Sammy Wink
Well, Victor, we're at the end. I have to mention though that on all those kinds of comments because you and Jack talked about Canada, there were a lot of comments from Canadians who agreed with you that there's a problem with the government. Basically.
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Victor Davis Hanson
I like Canadians. I always have. I always like Canadians. I just think that Mr. Trudeau did a lot of things that hurt Canada. One of the best, the best prime minister I think any English speaking country with a parliamentary system system had as Stephen Harper for 10 years he was prime minister, he tried his best. I mean he tried to meet the 2%. He wasn't able to get the Canadian Parliament to go along with him. But it was a very well run country then and hopefully he'll get back. I hope he would run again. But what's his name with the apple? That was one of the tragedies. Just to finish today that when Donald Trump, if he was going to go after Canada for the not paying the 2% and the 63 billion in trade surpluses and less than muscular enforcement of our northern border, he could have waited till after the election because he got that criticism, created a chauvinism on Canada. Whatever Trump is for, we're against and they were against the Conservative. Although Trump may have like wanted Carney, I don't know why Trump gets along with left wing politicians like Sturmer and Carney.
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Sammy Wink
He surely does. So he's not an ideological person. No, no, not at all. Well, thank you Victor for all your wisdom today and thanks to our audience for joining us.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Thank you everybody for watching and listening.
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Sammy Wink
Yeah. This is the Victor Davis Hansen show and I'm Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hansen and we're signing off.