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Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words
Victor Davis Hanson: The Sad, Conflicted State of Young American Men
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On today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler discuss the troubling state of young American males, and how the education system has stripped young men of the desire and ability to be responsible adults.
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This is Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Hello ladies. Hello gentlemen. We are recording on Sunday the 9th of November and this episode is up on Thursday the 13th. Victor is the wisdom man. He is the Martin and Neely Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is some. I don't know your title at the Daily Signal, but you've got some title. Senior correspondent, something like that. And this podcast, four episodes a week, is up on the Daily Signal. Victor does four videos a week. That's all cool and groovy. Victor's got a website, the Blade of Perseus. Its address is victorhansen.com. you should check it out regularly and subscribe. I'll tell you why you should subscribe. Later on today's episode we're going to be talking about. Great article. Ralph Reed, old friend, wrote for the Wall Street Journal on evangelicals and their support for Israel. We have a number of polls on violence, on young men, on college students and their Stands on socialism. We have an agenda for Mandami, the new mayor of York, Nancy Pelosi is not running for re election. She and her I, I think she's worth about 200 million after her 30, 40 years in Congress.
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I think you're being generous. I saw figures of a half a billion.
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Oh, is that okay? And a winery to boot. Okay.
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She started worth $2 million. She made it driving a tractor or doing Sheetrock. She and her husband on weekends.
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It's like a great side hustle.
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I think it was more like, hey, hubby, before you turn out the lights tonight, I've got this information that there's going to be this big merger coming and we don't know whether we're going to use the antitrust to stop it. But I've been talking to my leadership and we're not going to stop it. So I think the stock's going to go up by double. Any chance you want it on in your name or your corporation or your dummy corporation, buy some stock. That's how it goes.
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I think she was talking in her, her sleep.
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Victor. Yes. I'm not going to make unfounded allegations. Okay.
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And we may talk about this transsexual locker room madness out in California. And we'll get to all of this when we come back from these important messages.
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Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.
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Mr. Chief justice, may it please the court. This is Hans von Spakowski, host of the Case in Point podcast, which looks at the hottest cases affecting politics, culture and everyone's daily lives. But we talk about them without confusing legal jargon. And we have interesting guests like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. And we end with reviews of classic Hollywood movies relevant to the topic. Case in Point, the podcast available everywhere, you won't want to miss. We're back with Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor, I think we just have to quickly let people know since they came on the very last words, something you were saying, there are a couple of new, couple of new dogs on the the hands.
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Yeah, I, I, well, we have Gracie and she was dumped or. No, we got her at the pound and we got, well, he, she was dumped, but she went to the pound. Then we've got Spike, he was at the pound. And they dumped poor Lucky, who we have for 17 years, and they dumped Owen, whom someone else took from us. There is a recycled dog phenomenon out here in southwest Fresno county that if somebody dumps a dog in your yard and then you take it in and spend 3 to $400 with Distemper vaccinations, rabies. Put a collar on, get it spayed or neutered and then it prances around and somebody comes on your property, they will steal that dog. But then we'll recycle it with another dog. They dump. And so. And we had sport came from the. He died of old age. And then we had Spotty that was dumped and a person gave. But then we've had this other phenomenon. They dump dogs here. They drive by in our houses. It's an old two story Victorian. Not that it's a, you know, impressive, but they just think that person can take care of it and they dump it. And I told you, just two weeks ago, I caught a guy in the actual. He sent his two big German shepherds, he dumped him. They charged me. I was able to, you know, not have them. I yelled at him and then he took off and they turned around. They was really sad. They tried to follow him out. He wouldn't let him back in the car. I don't know what happened to them. And when I take a walk at night. Today was a pretty good day here in southwestern Fresno County. I took my two, my. I take a 1.4 mile fast forward four and a half mile walk in the, in the morning. I do it at night. And I saw we had a new dryer make its appearance on the old and artesian pond. I think it's a nice old Kenmore. Okay. That somebody dumped along with the 20 or five other things and junk. And I went through the orchard and there was a nice little towel with detritus and a packet of drugs, foil packet, I guess, and some used prophylactics. That was a nice thing to see in a beautiful orchard this morning. And then I came back and we took a break from our thing and there's, there's a bulldog, miniature bulldog. And there's another terrier out there. There's two that were dumped. That's an average day.
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Gosh.
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Glories of illegal immigration. Amen. Wow.
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Well, I'm, I'm, I'm going to send you a statue of St. Francis. I'll get it blessed also, but that because you do love God's creation. Speaking of loving God, Ralph Reed, who runs Faith and Freedom Coalition, old friend Ralph used to run the Christian Coalition. I'm, I have to believe you were on a few National Review.
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Yeah, I did. I met him on one. I talked to him.
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Yeah.
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He still looks very young.
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Oh, he does. He's, he's, he's ageless he wrote a an essay for the Wall Street Journal the other day in midst of all this uproar on the right. The woke right anti Semitic right. I hate by the way Victor, personally that someone could be considered on the right and have these qualities. I don't think they should be on our end of the spectrum. Anyway, here's what Ralph wrote. Evangelical support for Israel is about more than theology. And just quickly read here the beginning of it. Evangelicals view Israel through the prism of a celebrated tradition of Christians who opposed the Nazis and rescued Jews from Hitler's death camps. Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the SS before he could be freed by allied troops is lionized in American churches. And his letters from prison became standard reading in Bible studies. Corrie Ten Boom. I hope I said that right. Who survived the camps after her family hid Jews in her native Holland, became a featured speaker at Billy Graham's crusades with her best selling 1971 autobiography the Hiding Place made into a popular film that was a forerunner of today's faith based film industry. From 10 boom and other quote unquote righteous gentiles, evangelicals learned that being a good Christian meant defending Jews. And he still believes that is what it how evangelicals should should act. And Ralph is entering this debate because of the necessity of someone like Ralph entering this debate at this time. Your thoughts on this, Victor?
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I mean if you're a Christian believer, the closest religion in the world is Judaism, the Torah, the Old Testament. It's, it's bound up in the Judeo Christian tradition. If you're interested in the birth of Western civilization, you can make the argument of the trifecta of Rome, Jerusalem and Athens as the pillars of our civilization and the founders of it. But more importantly this contemporary argument, Jack, that Israel is a bad deal and we give them two or three billion dollars and they get us. Iran had killed more Americans than any other group. I mean they probably killed 2,500Americans in Iraq by sending shape charges. They were behind the Hezbollah bombing of the Marine Barracks. 243 killed and our embassy was blown up. Hezbollah wasn't. We didn't ever do. All we did was take the uss, I guess it was New Jersey and bomb the Beka Valley. I mean shell the Beka Valley with 16 inch, you know, World War II magnificent guns. But we didn't do much to Hezbollah. So my point is that Israel took care of his Hezbollah. We didn't have to lift a finger. They wiped out half of the hierarchy. They got rid of our arch enemy Nasrallah, they were the ones that allowed us to go in and take out the nuclear facilities because there was no air defenses. In fact, we asked permission of the Israelis. They guided us into Iran airspace. And the same thing, Hamas people, I know we have all these crazy people have come here that are pro Hamas, but Hamas hates the United States and the Houthis hate the United. They attack us. We're doing nothing in the Red Sea. And so I don't get the idea that they're doing all these terrible things to us. They're doing a lot of good things. This is well beyond the dynamic creativity and economy and culture of Israel that enriches the world with scientific medical discovery. All. I don't see that in Saudi Arabia. I don't see that in Jordan. I don't see that in Egypt, even though they have so much more land and population. And so I don't see why this idea. And then they'll say, well, Victor, we're not denying that. What we're saying is that we give them an inordinate amount and we're too close to, you know, why do we have to do. Well, according to that logic, then why are we helping Turkey? Turkey is the only Islamic country in NATO. Turkey, illegally. If you're worried about the quote, unquote, occupation of Gaza, I can tell you that the occupation of northern Cyprus is a half century old. And they ethnically cleansed all the Greeks that had been there since antiquity from northern Cyprus. They still occupy it with a puppet government that. No. And Turkey is armed ally. We transfer. We have bases. We have nuclear weapons in Turkey. We give them, we were going to give them the whole F35 program until we found out they were selling or using or collaborating with the Russians on air defense, which. Which would have been fatal to the program. My point is that we give Turkey so much as a NATO member and, you know, in compared to Israel, I mean, we don't do it. We don't say anything about Turkey. We don't say anything. We don't say you have an illegal occupation. The Columbia kids out there, I haven't heard them say one thing about the dead Christians in Nigeria or the occupation of Nigeria or Azerbaijan. And the third little, I don't know what you'd call it, ethnic expulsion of 100,000 Armenians. So I don't get that inordinate. So that's what Ralph Reed was saying, that, yes, they have biblical commonalities and obvious sympathies with the Jewish people, ancient and modern, but he was also saying that Israel is a fountainhead of Western values. And then, you know, Tucker had a conversation that somebody sent me with Megan and he said that his criticism was that they believed in collective punishment by going into Gaza and that that is not a Western tradition. Collective punishment, excuse me. When Japan attacked us and we fought them and we lost over 200,000 A 200,000 soldiers in the Pacific and we couldn't do anything to Japan because it was too far distant. We created a Manhattan Project to build a B29 to bomb them from the Marianas. And they had dispersed their aircraft and munitions industries all through their municipal areas so they wouldn't be concentrated at the Mitsubishi or the Kawasaki plant. And so we flew over Japan and we dropped leaflets and we said, your leaders have made a terrible mistake and you're going to have to pay for it. So we suggest you leave your cities or you surrender because we are going to destroy your ability to make war. And behind that logic was they were killing about 20,000 people a day in Asia and China and the Pacific. And we didn't know how to stop it. So we bombed them. And yes, more civilians were killed in one day in March 11 than in any time in history. That was collective punishment. So was Hiroshima Nagas, they were military targets. But there was a lot of collateral damage that was computed into that decision. The same thing is true about World War II. The British bombed Hamburg and Dresden and that was collective punishment. And you go in to look at certain things that when you fight, when you fight house to house, it's very hard to tell who is a civilian and who is a soldier. When they. The only time Hamas wears a uniform is when they want to in peace, when they want to murder somebody or there's no opposition, or they want to get on TV and do their goose dipping Nazi shtick. But when they're fighting the idf, who is in uniform, they are in civilian clothes, deliberately with hostages, deliberately with human shields, deliberately under mosque, schools and hospitals. So it's not enough to say that we don't believe in collective punishment because we're Christian and Western. We have done it all through our history, all through our history. For evil or good, Sometimes for evil, but mostly because there was no other alternative if you were going to stop the killing. And so on October 7, the Israeli government said in the next three weeks, we want all 245 hostages back. You attacked us at time of peace. You murdered 1200 people. And we want the architects of that mass murder turn them all over to us, give all the hostages back or Else and they had plenty of time. And you know what they decided? They said we have 200,000 rockets in Iran, in Lebanon, with Hezbollah, with the Houthis, with Hamas. They're completely safe in that labyrinth. You don't have any idea Israelis, how deep it is. And we're going to plaster your cities. And we're not going to text anybody in Israel like you stupid people do. We're to going, not going to send a text to a high rise and say hey everybody, in five minutes we are going to blast this with guided missiles and drones and cruise missiles. So please civilian. No, no, we don't do that. But Israel does. It sends texts, it says we're going to take this whole building out because Hamas headquarters. So when people don't mention that, and that is under. That's not in dispute. When they don't mention, mention that. The question is why.
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I like that you mentioned and you've done before, the, the USS the New Jersey firing some shells as retribution.
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I think the Iowa was with it too. I don't know which one did. Maybe one the two Iowa class battleships that Reagan resurrected. 45,000ton monsters, right?
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But they really were not retribution. And the retribution came years later when the Israelis enacted long overdue justice on our part. And then you think, Victor, I st. My wife Sharon was talking about this the other day like you will not get away with it eventually. Just those pocket pager things that they did. I mean that's just.
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I think in Israeli I watched a video and he said it wasn't just they took out the Hezbollah hierarchy, but they identified them for the rest of their lives. So if you're in Lebanon and somebody comes in and says I know nothing about Hezbollah and they're missing two fingers or something, you know who they are. It was like stamping them. And so they didn't have a lot of choices. They're surrounded by 500 million people who want to destroy them. And they only have about 11 million people and they are western. And there is a difference between if you go as I have to, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, I can guarantee you there is a difference in those cultures and from the mundane about sewage and water and getting sick. And I've been sick, very sick with a ruptured appendix in one of those countries and, and freedom. And what you say I went all over Libya with a minder who watched everything I said and recorded it under Gaddafi. So that is very different than Israel. And just because Israel's not perfect doesn't make it not better than the alternative credit.
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Yeah, well, in a second, talk a little more about the barbarity of its enemies. But first to folks who are listening and watching. Well, if you, if you do listen to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words, you care about where America's been, where we are now, and where we're headed. And that's exactly what Freedom Frequency is all about. It's a new online publication from the Hoover Institution, where Victor is a senior fellow, designed to cut through the noise of the bring clarity to the issues that shape our country's future. Each week, Freedom Frequency delivers serious, accessible analysis grounded in research and guided by the American values of liberty, democracy, free enterprise and the rule of law. You'll hear from some of Hoover's most respected thinkers. People like Condoleezza Rice, General James Mattis, General H.R. mcMaster, economist John Cochran, and of course, Victor Davis Hansen. Providing clear thinking and principled solutions for a complex world. As we approach the 250th anniversary of our nation, there's no better time to dig deeper into the ideas that built America and will determine its future. Subscribe now to Freedom Frequency. You can do that on substack and the website address is the freedom frequency.org go there to see sign up, join the conversation that's lighting the way forward. And we thank the good people from the Hoover Institution. Happy home to Victor Davis Hansen.
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I'm very lucky to be at Hoover. You know, I have an office in the tower and there's two other offices on that floor. The Russian historian Stephen Kotkin and the military historian, former National Security Advisor H.R. mcMaster. But my point is this. If I'm in my office and I'm writing or I'm thinking and somebody asks, I'm writing something about military history and I think, what is the 120 millimeter smoothbore cannon on Abrams? What? What was that? Oh, I'll just go outside my office. Hey, HR who was the hero of the greatest tank battle since World War. Since the, the Six Day War when he was a captain in an Abrams 120 millimeter smooth bore? Or then I'll be thinking, I'm writing this op ed and Stalin, and I'll have to go back. And then I walk over the other side of the office and say, hey, Stephen, what's. What was the effect of Stalin actually being in a seminar? He wrote a three, you know, the greatest book on Stalin, two volumes. He's working. So that's a very unique experience. I mean, you're Walking across the Hoover Plaza and you see Andrew Roberts. Yeah. And what was Churchill thinking about Gallipoli. And then, you know, I. I see. I saw not too long a on Hersi Ali and Neil Ferguson. So it's the same thing. There's. It's very exciting for me to leave this farm and then I love this rich experience here with a people I know here. But it's. It's good contrast to see. To talk to these people.
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Didn't one of the offices on your floor become an aviary for some hawk or something? Didn't they?
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That was. No, that was. I won't mention his name. He was a journalist. He was very left wing, actually. He wasn't a Hoover fell. He was a. He was. I think he was here for a while, but he left and I. It wasn't. I don't think he meant to, but I know he didn't mean to, but he had the. We're very high up, you know, 300ft. Yeah. So he left a crack and a. I think it was enterprising.
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It was.
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I think it was a great horned owl, but I don't know. It was either that or parent. But it went in there and. No. And because the office was vacant and closed, it just took over. And the problem was that if you look at the offices, they're historic. There's four offices and one of them is Herbert Hoover's. It was going to be the presidential library. And he got mad at Wallace Sterling or Hoover. He got mad at Stanford because he said they're too liberal. So he moved his presidential library to Iowa, but he kept his Department of Commerce desk and museum. So we have 1/4, and then the 1/4 is Professor Cotton, one is McMaster and one is mine, and there's one for two assistants. But my point is nobody had any reason to go in there for months. So when the door was finally open, Mr. Allett defecated and chewed and eaten on this historic, you know, Persian rug and mahogany and oak vignette. Beautiful office, these historic. It was very. It was interesting.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, let's. On. On more serious matters here, Victor, and we'll round off what were discussions on Israel. There's a headline from earlier this week. Freed Israeli Hostage Reveals sexual Torture in Gaza Captivity. So rom Braslovsky, who's 21, he was a security guard at the Nova Music Festival that was attacked on October 7. He was held in captivity for two years. He was in the final group released. And it says here in excerpts of an upcoming interview with Israelis Channel 13 news. Braslowski discloses that his captors from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad stripped him completely naked, bound him, deprived him of food, and repeatedly abused him with the explicit aim to humiliate. Quote, they stripped me of all my clothes, underwear, everything. They tied me up while I was completely naked. I was torn apart, dying with no food. It was sexual violence, and its main purpose was to humiliate me. The goal was to crush my way.
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That would be in violation, Jack. Of the Geneva Convention on prisoners. I can't believe Hamas, because I just heard a Moss spokesman say that. That it was a myth that there was rapes.
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Yeah.
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Well, so you're trying to tell me that. Remember Senwar, the person who was a Hamas head? Well, he was in an Israeli prison. I think I'm. Our readers who are like an instant fact check will remind me because I'm doing this extemporaneously, but I remember he had a brain tumor. Now, contrast that he was a prisoner in an Israeli jail, and I think he had convulsions or the symptom ontology of a brain tumor, and they took it out and saved his life. And of course, he repaid that magnanimity with planning a October 7th kill fest. But I'm trying to say that when we demonize Israel, I have a feeling that if I ask any of the Israeli haters, you have a choice. You can either be in the tunnels below Gaza or you can be in an Israeli jail. Which would you prefer? Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, Victor, I don't know that that description would upset many people. Over upset many, but fewer than we would expect.
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No, I think a lot of people that are demonstrating at Columbia would say, oh, that's great news. Yeah, he's a settler, colonialist.
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They had it coming to him. Well, here's a Politico poll. It's a broader poll about violence. Americans are bracing for more political violence to erupt, including assassination. So this says a majority of Americans, 55%, expect political violence to increase. That figure underscores just how much the spate of attacks, from assassination of Charlie Kirk to the attempt on Donald Trump, have rattled the nations. Perhaps most troubling, a significant minority of the population, 24%, believes that there are some instances where violence is justified. That's really. I think we've touched on that once before, Victor. But that a quarter of a quarter of Americans and a significant amount of those are from Americans under the age of 45, younger Americans see violence is acceptable is bad news for our republic.
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So, yeah, it is. Especially how they glorified Luigi Mangione, the assassin of the United Health Care Executive. They talk a great game, but I think a lot of that comes from this urban, metrosexual identity in the sense that they're not around people who hunt. They're not around people who do physical, dangerous jobs, who see people injured and maimed. They're not around a lot of soldiers. So they don't really. They romanticize at a distance, the violence. It's more antiseptic to them. Not that they're not capable of it, but I say that because every time I watch an ICE video or. Have you ever seen what happens when they actually go after somebody and who's been throwing fire, you know, firecrackers, lasering their eyes or something, they start screaming and whining. You know what I mean? You can't do this to me. There was a video just the other day. They had a. At. Is it the University of Toronto. They had a meeting where there were IDF soldiers that were there. Did you see that video? And all of these students identifying with Hamas and the radical Palestinian movement broke into it and tried to, as they usually do, disrupt it. But they have to have a really burly person who I think had been a security guard or in the idea, I don't know what. But he very politely said, you're in private property. You broke a window. Get out. And they didn't do it. And then he started. I'm not kidding you. Wasn't. He just picked them up and he threw them out the door like they were toothpicks. I mean, they were, like, lighter than air and they were shrieking. And you would thought that their head had been decayed. And he just. You. You're not. You're here illegally. Do not be here. Pew. You get out. Oh. And he just. It was like a bowling ball taking out pins. And they. So these are the people that romanticize violence until it happens to them. And then suddenly their Sermon on the Mount advocates.
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Maybe I'm a hypocrite, but decrying violence here, but I have to say get a little thrill sometimes when you see other videos of, say, these. The punks that are trying to stop traffic on highways and guys get out of their car and just toss them aside or.
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I know. I think there's a whole ace of spade. You ever go to that? He's a very bright guy.
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Yeah.
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And he. He has. Every once in a while, he'll have video clips of retribution where they'll see, usually from Latin America or Asia, where somebody is trying to rape a. They had a grape. A girl or beat somebody up. And then the. I saw one the other day that somebody sent me and it was just. Maybe the viewers have seen it where this woman is driving. A guy comes up in a motorcycle and takes she. And grabs into her car and gets her purse and starting to pull it. Did you see that? And she lets it go.
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Yes.
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And then he take. And then she doesn't let it go. She throws it and like an idiot. I don't know if it's staged or not, but then he goes and retrieve it and then she grabs the keys and rolls up her window and then he comes to get his keys. So she rolls it down, he puts his hand in and she rolls it up and traps him and he's thrashing around. Then she gets out and calls the police. It seemed too perfect.
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Yeah.
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And maybe it was staged because I don't think anybody would be that stupid. But people want. That's the whole. That's the whole revenge scene. And the Iliad when Achilles gets out of his slumber. That's. Yeah, that's.
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You like to see karma on.
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You like to see karma. You like to see nemesis. You. You do. Yeah. Reckoning. I think people, when they see all these antifa people and they're all. During the height of the Antifa 2020, there was a famous clip where these guys with spaghetti arms and the little car and they're all dressed in black and they're going to go to this small, small suburb. You remember when they get around, they park and they start to get out and there's these big burly guys.
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Yes.
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And they start squealing and they get in. It's funny.
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See Hell's Angels come after them. Well, we'll get to. This isn't unserious. This is about more transsexual madness in America. So we're going to talk about this right now and then we'll take a break and we'll talk about some socialism issues in America. But I think many. Speaking of videos, I think you and many of our listeners and viewers have seen from earlier last week, week, this woman, a black woman at a gym, I think it was Gold's Gym in.
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California, maybe Los Angeles or San Diego or Los Angeles.
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She, you know, she's yelling, angry. There's a man in the effing locker room and she's somewhat explicit that he's, you know, got some dangling partis supplies there. And she was thrown out of the gym for that. And then of course the, the new York Post and others followed up. Well, who was this guy in the locker room? And here's a quick thing from this story. The transgender person caught up in a viral Los Angeles gym bathroom had been convicted of assaulting it says uses there. I hate that. His now ex wife. While living in Ohio as a man, before taking the victim's first name as his own, Alexis Black ran afoul of women at a gym in Beverly Hills, including singer song writer Tish Hyman, who accused him of exposing himself and harassing her in a locker room. Black, formerly known as Grant Freeman, pled guilty in 2022 to savagely beating his wife along Alexis Freeman causing a compound fractured jaw among other serious injuries. Victor, there is something really disturbing about these, these many of these transsexual guys who are.
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They don't have any, they don't have any definition. So you what is being a trans person? What is the definition of it? Is it somebody who was a trans on Monday and then Tuesday he adopts the his original biological sex? Is it somebody who takes hormones? If so, what level of testosterone now qualify you? Is it. Do you have to have the genitalia and the sexual organs of the new and have an actual surgery? Nobody says anything. So there's no rules. Then there's these contradictions. The left says, well these people, this is a right wing talking point. They're just going crazy. You know, if you look at they want it both ways. They think this is a rare, this is a recognized civil rights group that's here and not going away and then there. And then when you start talking about well there, there's a thousand medals in major sports over the last five or six years they've won that deprive women. And anyway, my point is that then they say oh, it's just a small number. They get so paranoid about just 0.001 of the pop. If that is true, then there's a solution, isn't there? You could say this if scientific studies shows that it's 1 out of 10,000 people who truly suffers from gender dysphoria. So in a town of 10,000 or whatever, we will have a public restroom for trans people according to their demographic purport. But they don't want that either. In fact they want to mainstream it as if the they go in and who knows what makes a person trans. So the woman is basically asking that she sees the naked man. She sees that he is naked and she for all practical purposes he looks like a male. And if anybody other male went in there they would probably arrest him for sexual perversion or something. Especially if there were younger girls. There may well have been younger girls in there. But we just throw out all of that for ideology. That's the danger of DEI and this comic us, our system, that ideology trumps all law and we don't have any. And I say that because at 1962, just to give an example, I was nine years old when my mom wanted to go to the Stanford alumni track meet, the Russian American track meet. They held it every year to get good relations. So we didn't nuke each other. And there were two women, remember the Press sisters? Tamara Press, I think it was, Irena Press. They were obviously males. I mean, they came out and we had these really lean but wary at the. Our javelin throwers, our ball and chain hammer throwers, our shot footers, and they were in the best shape and they would, you know, do pretty well. And then these monstrous people would come out and just devastate them. And then they'd say, well, they, they had, you know, curlers in their hair and stuff, stuff. And then that. So we demanded, I think, that they have to have a hormonal test, but then they were giving them hormones. So that was all sort of what people thought. And then that just went out. It became a civil rights issue. But they never told us what constitutes. And that's the problem, isn't it, with all of these in protected groups, you never really tell you what what is black or what is Asian or what is white or what is any, or what is Christian or what is Muslim, or they don't tell you because when you get into these identities, that's fine, you shouldn't have to do that. But if the government comes in and says, you click this or the media comes in, you click these boxes and therefore you get this or that, then you have to have rules, obviously, or everybody would want them. And so, you know, Tom Soul said once to me, I don't like to quote him without his permission, but he. He said, you know, you can always tell the status of a particular group when other people want to be in that particular group. And you can all. And that also shows you the ridiculousness of it, because people who want to be in that particular group will do things that the group can't enforce. So he said when he grew up, and earlier, from the stories of his grandparents, if, if you had 1 16th drop or you were so called white, so there were a lot of black Americans that had a lot of white legacy and they would always want to pass as whites. And that's, you know, there was a movie called Pinky. Remember that? It was Pinky.
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And then another with Lana Turner actually was just on last night. And I, I can't remember it. I'll find it. Go ahead.
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There was a also book by black like me that a white guy changes himself to see what it's like by being a black. But anyway, the point is that they underst. That was a reflection de facto that whites had superior privileges, unfair privileges, and people would want to enjoy them. But if the opposite were to be true, as Tom once said, if you thought that blacks got special preferences in hiring or admission, then people would be trying to more often say they were black than white. And of course that happens now if you, you have people saying, like Elizabeth Warren or Ward Churchill, they're Native Americans. So there is no stigma. There is a stigma now being white at least if you're going to apply for special preferences in a way, and that's a good barometer, both of who gets the preference at any given time as the one that people are trying to pass as. And number two, the fact that they can or cannot shows you that the government doesn't really know what they're doing and how ridiculous it is to have preferences for anybody. Because the moment you have preferences, then you have to have a logical code. Getting back to negative preferences. If you're a anti Semitic monster in the Nazi world and you say that Jews are uber intervention and sub human and you're going to go after them and you're in Western Europe where you don't have orthodox Jewish people very often, like the east, then what do you do? Blue eyes? No. Jews have blue eyes. Blonde hair. No. They do too. One quarter. One eight. I don't know. Go see Herr Guring. He'll get you an exemption if he knows you. If your grandmother was Jewish. Oh, I have an idea. Jewish people are so different and so subhuman to us Aryan Germans that we'll make yellow stars because if we don't have yellow stars, we can't distinguish them from Aryan Germans. How ridiculous is that? And that's another example of how, how ridiculous the whole thing is. When any government, for evil or good or whatever misguided reasons, starts to give classifications of race, religion, gender, trans this, trans that, you have to, if you're going to really believe in it, you have to have rules. If you have to have rules, it's going to be ridiculous. And people are going to show you how ridiculous it is by going into a locker Room with male genitalia and have beating a woman when you were a man recently and claiming now that you're a woman who's been victimized by somebody who didn't want to watch testicles in front of her.
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There are some interesting words about all this. I just, I couldn't remember. I just googled now pretend Ian. So this is the fake Indians, like Folkahontas.
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And then you have.
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Yeah. And then you remember that black. The white woman who was Rachel.
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I remember her name. Rachel Dozel. Yeah. She was the head of the N double or the Black Lives Matter, I think. Yeah. And. Yeah, yeah. And there was Ward Churchill where they had the.
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He.
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I give him credit though, he went the whole way. He got the buckskins, the beads, you know, he called me once and he left along. He was going to debate me. Some guy put up some money and all I said was I wanted. If I was going to go to University of Colorado and debate him, I wanted the same compensation. The next thing I know, he left a 15 minute harangue on the. You know, those old.
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Yeah.
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Voice recorders.
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Yeah.
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That he was going to back out, but he didn't want, you know, it was just a joke. And he was, he was kind of deranged too. And we had that guy from. Indian guy who said he was black. Remember he shaved his head and he, he. I don't know. I had a student. I won't mention his name, but he, he just came to me one day and said, I grew up in Egypt and I'm not white. I'm not. I'm a little darker. And I'm going to say I'm African American now. What is wrong with that? And I said, nothing. You. Egypt is in Africa and now you're an American, but you won't get caught because they don't mean Egyptian or Coptic or anything like that.
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Yeah, well, these are people that need. Many of them need.
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Isn't it funny how the left kind of adopted all the racial categories? The right in Germany did. It's. They had to have all the.
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It is the Neo Confederacy, right?
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It is. One drop gets you in as a black or an Indian person. One drop. Where'd they get that? That was very funny as I said that. Halle Bear, is it? Halle Berry was in a custody suit. Yeah. With her husband, who was white. And she was white too. But she said she wanted custody of their child to grow up with her true identity as black, which she wouldn't get with her divorced husband.
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I think she's mixed race.
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Yes. So the point was after she married somebody who's white, she the child had either 1 8th or 1. So then she said to the judge, I believe in the one drop rule. Rule one drop and you're black. That was the reversal of the how it had been used for racist persons. But it was racist what she said. But it was an inverse racism. Well, it's why not just abolish the whole thing and treat people like Martin Luther King? You're incidental, not essential to who you are.
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Well, Victor, there's a lot of socialism around and we're going to get your views on the Democratic Socialist America's agenda for the new forthcoming mayor of New York City. And then there's a poll from the College Fix about views on socialism and capital capitalism on college campuses. And we'll get to that when we come back from these important messages. We are back with Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. Victor has website the blade of Perseus VictorHansen.com is the address. Twice a week Victor writes an exclusive piece for the Blade of Perseus. Once a week Victor does an exclusive video for the Blade of Perseus. You can read them, you can watch it. You should subscribe.650amonth or discounted for the full year $65. Plus there's a boatload of other links of articles Victor writes and his various appearances. So check it out at the blade of Perseus victorhansen.com Do subscribe. Speaking of appearances, by the way, Victor, you wanted to mention you are you do have an appearance coming up.
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Yes, on November 20th I do Megyn Kelly's podcast once a month and she asked me if I would join her on her tour. I guess it's kind of like spokes in a wheel. She leaves her studio in Connecticut or I guess or New York or somewhere. She doesn't just go out for months on end but she then she comes back. Well, she's going to be in Bakersfield, California on the 20th of November at 7pm and the information's on her website MeganKelley.com that's G Y N M E G Y N Kelly K L and then you can get tickets and I'm gonna have drive down there for the day. I think it starts at seven and I think we have a conversation. I don't know what it's going to be on. It could be on anything. But Bakersfields are. When I was a young kid, Fresno was the place to be in the Valley. It was much bigger in Bakersfield was Very much impoverished. It had been the center for the Oklahoma diaspora. Us and the Joes and, and everything. Isn't it Grapes of Wrath.
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It's big for music, isn't it Bakers?
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Yes, that's home of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard was there a lot. Oh, okay. I think there's a Buck Owens driveway and. But what happened the last 30 or 4, 30, 20 years it's reversed. Fresno has had a lot of problems with immigration, illegal immigration, crime, finance. But when the fracking revolution came, the naval reserve oil fields in Bakersfield were becoming exhausted. And they went in there and they fracked them. And it's now the largest source of oil in California. We have a lot of oil, we just are not allowed to touch it. But that area has lot of oil. They let, let them explore and the so called Crow Strange is not too far away. They'd find more. But so they have oil now. Again they were the center of almonds. They have a lot of almonds and almonds, you know, for when they were $4 plus a. A pound and these people with these new varieties were getting £3,000. So they were probably getting 12,000 gross. And they put, probably could do it for not three. They were making 8,9000 an acre. Those days are gone. That's below the cost of production now. But that helped. And then they became, you know, from downtown Bakersfield to downtown LA, it's about an hour and 20 minutes. It's. It's maybe a little long, about probably an hour and 20, 25 minutes if you're going pretty well and get the traffic right. So it became a bedroom community over the grapevine. And it also became a place where people on the coast who had grown up in the valley wanted to come home. They found that there's a whole new city to the east of Bakersfield. East Bakersfield, excuse me, West Bakersfield, not near the Sierra. Most of the towns where we are on the railroad or the 99 where water was the more affluence went to the east because of the Sierra and the scenic areas. But the west was more impoverished. But the opposite is true now In Bakersfield it reversed. So there's whole new communities of people coming back from the coast who grew up and can't afford it and they like. So you add all that together and it's GDP is about double. I don't mean in real terms, but it's GDP growth is about double. Fresno, it's getting a big city and it's very confident and booming and for California and it's conservative. It's more conservative than Fresno.
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And it will be adorned by Victor on.
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What's the date again?
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The 20th.
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The 20th at 7 o'. Clock.
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All right.
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And the venue and the details are in MeganKelly.com I think you have to have tickets. Yeah, I'm not, I mean I'm not. Don't say charging anybody. So I'm not trying to make money. I'm doing it because I like Megan Kelly and I love Bakersfield. I like the people, the San Joaquin Valley.
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Maybe get a kissing booth out front. Victor.
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Well, I just say that because a couple people wrote me and said they had to buy a ticket and are you. How much are. And I said I'm not, I'm not doing it for any money.
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Yeah, I love you, Victor.
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All right.
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Just like the cruises. Okay, I won't. All right, college. We have three, three socialism related topics. First is a poll College Fix is reporting on. Here, let me just read this. College students are becoming far more optimistic about socialism, even preferring it to capitalism, according to a newly released poll from Axios and the Generation Lab. The poll was conducted during the the last week of October. The Results found that 67% of students surveyed held a positive or neutral opinion of the word socialism, compared with only 40% of respondents holding the same opinion regarding capitalism. Negative views of capitalism outweigh negative views of socialism by an even greater difference, 53% to 23%. Wow, Victor. There's a lot of re. Education that needs to happen.
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Yeah.
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Needs to change.
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These are boutique socialists that, that always want to follow capitalism. But there's certain rules of socialism. I mean communists, they don't like to be called communist. But every communist country I know, Soviet Union, the Soviet Socialist Republic, North Korean Socialist Republic, remember the East Germany, the German democratic, German socialist. So they always use social. Communist countries always use socialists because it's a nice euphemism. We know what socialists do. They all, they always run as a nice smiley Mandami. And then when they get in a Maduro or Chavez or Cospro brothers, they show their true colors and we know that, that they always. It's always an elite. It's a Soviet elite that has a DACA on the Black Sea and you know, are billionaires. It's the Castro brothers who are worth over a billion dollars. It's Maduro who's a billionaire with his drug sale. They, they live in and they're people they buy off. And look at Mondami, he's a socialist, but his mother is a multimillionaire his father is an endowed professor. He wants equity. But he deliberately, as an affluent person got a what subsidized apartment for I don't know what it was. 20, was it? Yeah, yeah, it was half the price. If he really was a socialist, he would say, you know, I've got enough money, I'll pay market so somebody else more needy than myself could have it. He wouldn't fly on private jets. He wouldn't charge drinks at his reception when he 1.
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Oh, he did, yeah, yeah. $13.
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$13 for a bud Light. And then he started the day after he was elected, he switched and said, I need money now, no longer. And then he gave that. It wasn't an ecumenical talk, was it victory? It was more or less. We're going to screw the people who vote voted against us. And I said earlier, there are always when a socialist government takes place, there's the Menshevic mentality where the aristocracy or the want to deal with him. And I understand that that's civic interest to help New York. But you capitalists that are very wealthy, he's going to go after you and when you come over to him and say, I will help you. Here's this. I will give this much to your campaign. He'll take it, but he's not going to he that socialist alligator will eat you last, but he will eat, eat you no matter what you say. And that's going to happen in New York. He's going to the problem. The, the thing about socialism, it always, the solution is always the problem. So if you take public transportation, it's broke in New York because half the people jump the turnstiles on the subway or they just say to the bus driver, blank you, I'm not paying. And now you're going to make it free. So whatever little revenue you had is not going to be there. And half the people were riding free anyway. And the same thing with rent control. You're going to go after the wealthy people. And the reason that you don't, you need rent control. And the need all of this is because you went after the developers, you zoned them to death, you tax them to death. You did not want them to be prosperous. And you all you had to do was say, if you build a thousand units of this type, we will give you a fast track zoning and we'll help you do it and you can make a nice tidy profit and help people get affordable. They didn't do that. So they're giving you a socialist cure for a socialist problem that the Social. The problem in New York is not capitalism. The socialist created created it. And the same thing in California. Yeah, socialism.
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Well, here's. You should, you should catch the demands that Mandami's backers are making.
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I saw them for the Middle East. The best Divest the best.
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Yeah, this is from the Democrat Socialists of America, their Big Apple chapter. And here's their bullet points. Divest city pensions from Israeli bonds. Ban Israeli products from the city run group grocery stores that Mandami wants to open. Investigate real estate agents hosting illegal sales of stolen lands in the West Bank. Stripping tax exempt nonprofit status from entities that raise funds for the IDF and the New York Police Department's training with Israeli occupation forces. Arrest Netanyahu when, if and when he comes to New York and dismantle an a New York City Israeli Economic Council formed by outgoing Mayor Adams. I wonder if they have a problem with Jews at the Democrat Socialists of America.
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The difference is if somebody is anti Semitic on the right, people get upset about it and they try to argue with them and they try to persuade them or they try to criticize them. Are they, they get irate on the left. It's. Well, that's just something, isn't it? They don't touch it because look at Mr. What was in Plant something. Plant. The main candidate.
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Oh yeah, the guy with the tattoo.
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Yeah, he has a Nazi tattoo. And that's not disqualifying at all. Even though it's the totenkoff from the 3rd SS Panzer Division who had a history of butchering Jews. So they don't really, it doesn't bother them to say it won't hurt Mandami that he's going after Jews. That's who he is. That's who Linda Saussure said she was going to hold his feet to the flyer if he does. And that is the problem, isn't it Linda? Isn't it? Mondami? The reason that you pay too much for rent and too much for food is because you have one IDF trainer come over and he's teaching the police how to deal with violent crowds in a non violent way. And that means you don't have enough housing. What does that tell you about this guy? He's going to drop that Mr. Smiley act really quick. He's going to look at the budget and he's going to say, you know, I got my hands tied. I can't fulfill a lot, almost all my promises because of state statues. I don't have control, but I'm going to do stuff you won't Believe he's not a buffoon like Bill de Blasio, just kind of a clown. He is a hardcore communist socialist, and he's going to do a lot of damage until people wake up.
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But he should be embraced. So the former president Barack Obama said Democrats should welcome socialists as part of the party's broader coalition.
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His dad was a social socialist. Bill Ayers was a communist socialist. Everybody he knew was a socialist. Yeah. What's his name? Marshall. The guy that tutored him in Hawaii.
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Yeah. Well, he says there should be no litmus tests and certainly there aren't. You just mentioned the guy up in Maine.
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Oh, there is a litmus test on the left. If Mondami can say that he is a communist. I love Soviet. Nothing will happen to him. Montame said that we've got to be very careful about Jews. Nothing will happen to him. Mondami says, I kind of like Fetterman. I think we need more brotherhood. And he's dead if he says that. And. Or if he says, you know what, to make New York work, I'm going to have to work with Trump and I'm going to try to meet him halfway. He's dead. And that's the new left. There is no problem on the left. It's. If you say something moderate or conservative or you want to work with somebody and you're not at war with them, that's the only thing that can get you. J. Jones said he wanted his opponent, the opponent who was the speaker of the Virginia legislature. He wanted him bullet. He wanted a bullet to kill him. And then they said, you don't really mean that. And he said, yes, I do. I'd like to see his kids dead and the. And dead in the hands of his wife. That will not disqualify again. If he had tweeted, you know, I think I've been thinking about it. For me, for all of us in Virginia, we live next to Washington. We're going to have to find a way to work with Trump for the next. He would. He would have lost that election. But they expose that.
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Yeah, John Federman's become a right winger in these. In the shifting dynamics here. So. Hey, Victor, we're going to take a little bit break and come back with a final topic, and that's about the mental health of young men. And we will do that right after these final important messages. We are back with Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. We are recording on Sunday, November 9th, and this episode will be up on Thursday, November 13th, two weeks out from the great Day of Thanksgiving. So Victor on this past wouldn't be the from when we're recording so probably be 10 days from when we are recording. Prior there was a day before election day just put it like that. There was some a conference on young American men that the Lafayette company put on in D.C. and my dear friend Ellen Carmichael's person who put it on and it was very worthwhile undertaking. What's going on with young men in America was the was the focus. So anyway, there was a poll done and I just think there's some interesting findings in these polls of young American men. Few bullet points. On mental health, 57% of the respondents said their mental health is just fair, poor, very poor. On friendships, 48% of Gen Z males have two or fewer friends. 11% have no friends at all. 36 of young men, 36% say they're less socially engaged compared to prior to the to Covid. And 41% say their mental health has worsened because of COVID Just three more things. 40% of young men say they do not have a male mentor under guidance. 17% of respondents don't look to anyone in their life for guidance about how to be a man in society. So they figure things out on their own. And finally on affiliation. 35% of males age 16 to 28 are not affiliated with any organized group, religious congregation, intramural sports team, online community, political volunteer association or educational association. That's a lot of loneliness and dysfunction out there.
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But yeah, in the old days they would have been in the Elks Club, the Lions Club, the Rotary Clubs, the Knights of Columbus, the Masonic Lodge, the downtown club, the bowling league. Now they're playing video games in their, you know, bedroom or garage or something. So that part of it's technological that you can connect with the world in a solitary fashion. And the more you do that, the fewer skills you have socially. So these young men are doing video games in their own domiciles and then they feel they're awkward because they haven't been out and met and greeted people. That's one thing. The second thing that's going on is, let's face it, From K through 12, they're told by the education establishment in the form of teachers that are mostly female, that they suffer from inordinate masculinity, toxic masculinity. Their sports are too rough, they should feminize. And the whole idea of being a male and being responsible is not inculcated. We have a high for 45% divorce rate. So in many cases they either don't have a father or they have a stepfather or a boyfriend of their mother. That's very problematic. When they get to college, they're told that they are prone to be Harvey Weinstein's and they're going to get two separate messages. They're going to see young women who in today's fashion card the age of the Kardashians, are going to have short skirts, very provocatively dressed and they're told they're going to have. But that's going to be that they're going to have a Victorian code imprinted on that. So when they go out for a date, they're in the age, post 60s age where premarital intercourse and sexual congress is very common, very fine. But they're going to have a twist to it, unlike the 60s, that if that matchup or that agreement does not. I'm not saying there's not forcible asymmetry. There are. But if for any grounds whatsoever, the female partner objects post facto, if the male objects, you know, says, I had sexual congress with this woman and I feel like she came on to me and I was drunk. And that's. Nobody believes that. Partly for good reasons, biology and all that. But the point I'm making there is no due process if somebody accuses you of something if you're a male and then, you know, in graduate school if you go on about 55% of the degrees in the humanities, art history, English are from females. And superimposed on that is affirmative action. So the male, especially the white male, goes to college if he gets in. And I say where I work, Stanford University, white males consist of about 34 to 36% of the population. But they took 9% who identified as white male Stanford the last four years. So when they go to that school, they're going to be in a distinct minority, but they're going to be told, told that they are racist, homophobic, sexist predators even though they're underrepresented. They're going to be told white males take over the world. White, white, white, white. I just reviewed a book by this Danielle Padilla and that's the word whiteness I think was on 75 pages, always in a negative context. And then on top of that, now I think I'm none. Reason number eight, we have the whole sexual revolution of the feminist movement in the 60s that said women define their own sexuality on their own terms and they can be as boorish and permissive as or predatory as men. And that, that's the definition of a proud, self assured Woman. So what that means is the old idea that the male had certain responsibilities imposed on him by society and his family. To be a gentleman, to open the door for a woman, to pay for the dinner and on the first, second or third date, kiss her on the cheek or something, respect her privacy and her. And make sure that she was treated with respect and dignity. That's out. If a male does that, he's a square or. And then you have the same. Then you have the reaction toward women who say, well, he didn't pay for it or he's tight or because you broke the rules long ago and he's just now taking advantage of it. So if you're a male in the old days, if you're in your basement playing video games and you're 29, a woman will say, well, get it together, bro. I mean, it's time for you to move out of mom's house and Dad's and I want, want you to get a job. I don't care, two jobs. I want you to tell me when you're going to buy a house and then maybe we'll see if we're going to date and have sexual relations. Not now. The male says, well, you know, there's nothing I have to do to date. I don't even have to take her out to a movie. We just meet, we hook up that night. Maybe it's all easy. And nobody puts any demands on me to be a responsible date or father or partner or husband. So you add all that and I said, I don't want to be too specific, but I think I have one, two, three, four, six nephews. Yeah, in the late 30s and 40s of them, one is married, one owns a house. And that is a problem because they can't. They all. Oh, I put what they. They all owe student loans, they are all working. But our society makes it very difficult. I've given the pathologies on the problems with young males, but there's also the society at large is very. When I wrote the Dying Citizen, if you look at the ages when people get married, when they have their first child and when they buy their first home, it's advanced by about four years. It's got 23 to 27, 27 to 33, 33 to 40. So we have this prolonged adolescence and that's economic. The best thing that Trump could do is really get the interest rates down for mortgage back down to a mortgage of 4 or 5% and have a nationwide tax incentive program for, for people to build homes and then to Socially, culturally, inculcate anew. It's wonderful to get married in your early 20s. It's wonderful to have children, family. And we're going to really honor men who marry, buy homes and are good providers. And that would be, that would help. And then video games are not really the way to spend your 20 and 30s. I can honestly say I've never played a video game, so I shouldn't talk about something I don't know. Never once in my entire life.
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Oh, Victor, let's, I know I miss Donkey Kong sometime. Yeah.
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I don't even know the names of them. So I, I reason, I confess that because I don't want to talk about. I think they're probably fascinating. I've seen them on the Internet and stuff. But it's something wrong, you know, with somebody 36 years old playing paintball with his buddies or, or. Yeah, yeah. Just I don't know what I, I.
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I, I think it's gonna also, Victor, societal responsibilities take a generation or two generations to bleed out the what colleges have done.
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So that's a lot of it. There's no reason in the way world that 50% of young people need to be in college, except if it was A affordable and B educated you and gave you a general education of the world around you, your history, your culture, ethos, art, music. It doesn't, it doesn't, it just gives you propaganda for the most part. Unless you're pure science. And then you're going to pay all this money over the rate of inflation each year, the tax tuition rises, you're going to be broke and then you're going to get embittered because your psychology or sociology degree from, I don't know, you see, Irvine, that you pin 150,000 in the hole for, you're going to go out and be in an apartment and some guy, the, the drain's going to get stopped up and a plumber's going to come in and the guy is 23 and you're 29 and he doesn't know any money and he's making 50 bucks an hour. Right. And you think, well, I've been reading the Mondami interviews with his, his voters. That's what they say in New York. Right?
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Right.
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They've been replaced by AI or they couldn't get a job because of AI or they have too much student debt. And then the people they call to fix things make more money than they do and it's not fair and they're frustrated, so they vote. It's kind of like Samson they want to put pulled the house down on everybody but not for good reasons for bad. And he's going to help him do it. He's a nihilist.
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Yeah well gosh, gosh I'm afraid I.
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I just have a feeling that that guy's attitude is you know what this is the biggest most impressive city in the world. It's the financial capital of the world. It thinks it's so great. I'm going to come in here and just lay it low. I'm going to just earthquake the whole place. Bring it down. I'm bringing it down for all of its sins of being too many Jews and too pro Israel and too much too many billionaires and it it's got a rendevous with Mr.
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Mom Dani well the the electorate gets the person they've elected so yeah well Victor that such an uplifting note. I want to read two two comments and say one thing from two comments from YouTube from our obviously our viewers every episode Victor has some pushing a thousand comments so we try to go through them. Chris Russell HY6BU writes I love waking up to the infinite wisdom and humorous insight of Victor and Sammy VDH has a way of putting all the crazy stuff currently happening in this world into proper perspective. Thank you. And then another comment from John Clark546 and you were you were talking about Michelle Obama with with the great Sammy Wink. He writes Michelle Obama has been such a disappointment appointment I really bought the happy first lady supportive wife loves America doesn't take herself too seriously push ups with Ellen. Wow she has she was just hating resenting it all capital all wow.
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Today or yesterday again.
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Oh yeah she's yeah she didn't have a grace period or something.
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Yeah but even today there's a new one that she's every time she opens her oh I know what it was that she and Barack considered the White House the people's house and they did not destroy the east wing and build this garage and they kept they were custodians because they were very modest in their taste and they were respectful. I'm thinking you dug up a lot of the landscaping for your Michelle Valley victory garden and he went out in the tennis courts and transformed them into a basketball court and you had a nice press remodeled press room that was on top of it had been changed earlier on top of a swimming pool which is itself on top of a garden so it's always in change but.
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Cheap But Victor these people who make who have the presidential library is one of the ugliest buildings in history.
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I don't even think it's a building. It looks like. You know what it looks like. Have you seen these things? I saw. Somebody sent this to me. The flak towers that guarded Berlin in 1944. 45. They look exactly. They're phallic and they're monolithic, solid concrete with little slits for windows. Then they had these big, you know, 88 millimeter, 155 millimeter dug into them. Destroyed. Shoot, that's what this thing looks like. It's like a fortress. It looks like a monolith out of something. Yeah, we're gonna see the space A Space Odyssey. That monolith at the end. And then they've destroyed this beautiful park. Yeah. And then it's. It's got. It's already weathering and cracking. And then they've got. They don't have enough money to. They've gone through like 700 million bucks. Who would ever give money to them that.
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B
When it's finished, do you think the Eye of Saon will. Will appear above it?
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Yeah, somebody asked me that in the letter. Do you think that this is the Orthnac of the Dark Lord? Or is it the Black Tower of Sauron? Or is it Isengard of Sauron? I thought, well, it looks more like Sauron. Well, the Orthnac. Excuse me, the Orthmac.
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You've been terrific. I just want to put in a plug for what I do at the center for Civil Society. I write Civil Thoughts. It comes out every Friday. It's a newsletter email, and you can get it by signing up@civil thoughts.com and when you do get it, you will find 14 recommended readings of really interesting articles I've come across the previous week. It's totally free. Totally, totally free. And we're not sharing your names in any which way, so please do check that out and sign up again. Victor's website, the Blade of Perseus @vd Hansen on Twitter, go to the Daily Signal on YouTube and subscribe. And you'll get all the four video, four podcasts a week and Victor's four video.
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Yes. And I hope I'll see some of you in Bakersfield. And if you go to the Plate of Perseus, I have some new. I have the Angry Reader about Professor Pennington, I think.
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B
Oh, Catholic University.
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Yes. He said fifth rate author, third rate scholar, so I didn't really want to comment. So I just put his education books, everything, what he said, next to mine, and you can decide whether they're accurate or not.
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B
That's such a sixth rate debate tactic.
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Victor yeah, data and evidence.
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B
You've been terrific. Thanks so much. Thanks folks for watching and listening. We'll be back soon with another episode of Victor Davis Hansen in His Own Words. Bye bye.
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Thank you everybody for watching and listening. Thank you for tuning in to the Daily Signal. Please like share and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website@victorhansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.