Plane Crash, Executive Orders, and Kash
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In this episode, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc discuss Trump's early presidency, executive orders, the D.C. plane-helicopter collision, DEI policies, meritocracy, immigration challenges, the fentanyl crisis, Kash Patel's confirmation hearing, and the left's response to political apostates.
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Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen show victors the Martin and Nile Anderson senior fellow
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well Victor there was a terrible crash yesterday by the with between a helicopter a military helicopter
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and a civilian airplane and I was wondering since that's the most current news your your thoughts
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on that I know we don't know everything about it yet but that's only been 24 hours but in all of these
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situations there's fundamental causation and proximate causation or you can say culpability.
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So you start with the fundamental culpability in one of the most busiest
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aerocorders in the United States with some of the most important people in the government that's
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essential to the operation of the government. It doesn't seem logical that you would have a
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retraining a Black Hawk mission at night anywhere near that corridor so I know the the military will
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say well we have to have these very realistic training sessions but there's places you can you can
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fly all over the ocean and rough weather but you do not take that training mandate and put it next
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to a civilian corridor so there was a operational lapse there at the highest levels whoever ordered
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that training mission with people who were either training or retraining to get anywhere near
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that corridor is culpable I think and that's going to be found out. Now as far as the actual
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immediate culpability Donald Trump gave it press conference today Pete Hexeth who was the
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defense secretary spoke and so did Sean Duffy who oversees he's the news transportation secretary who
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oversees the nationals transportation safety board and the FAA so the point is this they all said
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mention DEI in passing now that would have been all right if they're referring to Trump's 2000 and
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they did Trump's case in 2017 he came in and said that 3000 aircraft controllers had been denied
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an opportunity because of DEI sexual orientation gender race and they were completely eliminated
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this was at a time that increased after the George Floyd death so that you had united just to
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take one example united airlines was saying 50% of their pilots will not be merit-crouting now they
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don't like the word merit-cratic but anytime you put commasor like restrictions on a search
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and you tell people coming out of the military let's say you've got a guy who flew C-17s
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in the military and then he had an air traffic controller post in Kabul and then he's now 35 and
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he applies the FAA well you that's the kind of person you want but if you say you're not going
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to even look at him and they did that so Trump revisited that issue but he did it in the context it was
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very risky because if it turns out that this is not a DEI issue then he looks like he's demagoguing it
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maybe and he will incur the charges of racism however Trump's not stupid so he has had 24 hours to
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look at the examination and he's had people in transportation in the Pentagon say he's obviously
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said I want to know who the hires were at the air traffic control level I won't at the pilot level
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at the military level and he must have some indication to make such a bold statement and we'll find
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out so we don't want to prejudge it the other thing is when I said ultimate culpability versus
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proximate when you had one plane that was redirected to go pass the airport and make a hook and
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come back and then you look at the itinerary of the black hog and it was supposed to make a pair
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hook and it theoretically would have been parallel hooks but instead it went it crossed it never made
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that right turn it went right into the plane so they were either the if you were den vision whose
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fall it was it doesn't seem like it's the pilots fall he was on course it's either the black hog
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helicopter did not receive the communication that said watch out for this you know make sure you're
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out there or he saw another plane and he mistook that plane for the the one that crashed or he I
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don't know what it was he was not trained but there's culpability there and there might have been
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culpability with the air traffic we don't know and he but they were too close even if he did everything
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right they were still shouldn't have been that close and speaking of someone I've mentioned it as
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you know on these podcasts that I had a really and I had a lot of pilots write me well that's no big deal
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but these goal rounds when you're going down and you actually one case we touched and we took off
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again it went around and then at LAX they've had baggage carriers almost hit a plane and they've had
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planes go off the tarmac I think in Texas so we've had a lot of these near misses and usually people say
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we've got too many planes in a crowded airspace and we don't have enough qualified air traffic
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controllers and we'll see if this substance the other thing is I was embedded twice in Iraq on the
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on the first was very brief three or four days in 2006 during the surge and that constituted
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being in a black Hawk both in daytime and at night and in the second time I think I took one trip at night
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in it and they are very powerful fast-moving jet engine propelled and there's not a lot of reaction time
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I can remember the talking to one of the pilots and he said we've got to be very careful
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because the Iraqis were putting cell phone towers up without lights on and not telling anybody
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as they were starting to rebuild the country and he said that they'd almost hit a couple of them
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but he he was telling me you have almost no reaction and my farm is right in the pathway
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of Lamor-Negal air station on the way to Fresno air terminal so almost every day or night
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when I'm outside I see these black hawks usually in pairs they're going back and forth and it's
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amazing how fast they go and low they go but usually as I think that elevation of 400 feet
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was a little we'll find out but that seems irregular near an airport you think a black Hawk
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would be closer like 150 feet closer to the ground but when you're getting more into that layered
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airspace so that and Trump was saying they were in the same elevation he was right about all of these
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things that there's you it's not going to happen again it's human air but we'll see he must have
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evidence so I don't think he would have brought up the DEI then Elon Musk tweeted something
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where he reversed the letters and said instead of Dei Dei that it was caused by that and that's not
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necessary I mean all that means is that there were criteria other than strict merit and that usually
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means proportional representation so under Dei lawyers or particular pressure groups look at a
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particular organization and they say this is the demographics of the United States this is how
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many Latinos how many Asians how many blacks how many whites 52% women 2% gaze I want that exactly
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to fit now there is exceptions if the DEI advocates see that they're overrepresented such as the post
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office where African Americans are about 20% higher than their demographic they don't say anything
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then it becomes repertoire they say well this is overrepresented but there has been so much systematic
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discrimination before it's time to get even that's that that's the operating principle and that's
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one of the reasons Dei is so unpopular and Trump has a lot of I guess you would call it covert or
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stealthy support among liberal liberal white males who would never be caught dead saying they agreed
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with don't Trump but in their own lives in government academia they've been passed over
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and they feel that they came from a generation post civil rights and that they grew up not knowing
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anything about Jim Crow say if they were born in 1960 now their careers are over at 65 and they
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came of age during the Lyndon Johnson executive orders about affirmative action so the only thing
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they've known and I fit that category the only thing I've known is affirmative action when I came
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of age in admissions to UC Santa Cruz and I can remember that it was believe it or not it was one
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of the hardest universities to get into when it was first open it was really glitzy and hippie and
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it was hard to get into the Stanford and my point I'm making is that I won't mention names but I
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had a 3.95 and pretty good SAT scores and there were two students at my high school that had very poor
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grades and test scores and when I got I was on the waiting list and I waited all summer long I was
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admitted two days before school started and both of those students I they were at UC Santa Cruz
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so I thought to myself well what was the point of studying every night and they was a deep both
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where I guess you'd call them in modern parlance di and then when I got to Stanford University the
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first year of the chairman called us all in and he said I want you to sign this you're not going to
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get a job and we said well we're going to be here four years you said you're not going to get a job
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here at Stanford and everyone we're going to hire only women and minorities and you white males
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there were three of it you're not going to get a job but we do not want to be sued wow so that's
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all I've known my entire life everywhere and the lot for people who say well it's just a much
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of angry old white people it's a generation that did not practice racism and a generation that came
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of age in the civil rights movement and if you look at where the infancy should have been
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it should have been at the kindergarten so we have African-Americans with just
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they're in schools they're completely inadequate and their test scores and math are not improving so
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if we had taken that same amount of money instead of rewarding elites economically speaking and
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tried to address fundamentals at the very early age we wouldn't have needed this and then of course
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the other thing is a lot of African-Americans that I know secretly not maybe some of not so secretly
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want it to end because if you look at people I'm not associating these people because I haven't
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talked to them but as I said earlier if you look at it where I work and you came from Mars and you
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listen to one of our new fellows say an economics versus Tom Sol or somebody in political science or
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literature and then you listen to Shelby Steele or when you talk about statecraft and one of our
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experts so supposedly these are all white males and then you listen to Condoleezza Rice or then you
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listen to Kyron Skinner on diplomacy well those for African-Americans I named were superior in every
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category on talent merit but there would be a stranger that came in said well they were beneficial
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maybe they were at some point but the point I'm making is once you get rid of DEI and you go to a
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merit they will everybody will acknowledge that they were superior to the competition and that's
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why they were hired in Excel yeah they would have excelled anyway yeah I mean Tom Sol is brilliant
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and Shelby's brilliant and etc etc so it'll be good I think because everybody will not say well
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that was a DEI hire it'll just be over with and I don't think that though there is systemic racism
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that will deny African-Americans and a quality of opportunity rather than a result yeah well Victor
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have a military movie since we are on the military and boys at a great movie the new heart-pounding
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military thriller valiant one has everything you need in a movie with tensions high between North
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and South Korea a US military helicopter crashes deep in North Korean territory with the
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Bolton leader dead and no rescue coming young sergeant Edward Brockman must find a way to get the
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survivors back to safety he must rise to the challenge to lead his team on a daring escape through
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treacherous and hostile territory with enemy soldiers hot in pursuit only courage can bring them home
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valiant one has all the grit and explosive action you'd expect along with the story of survival
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and bravery under fire they keep you on the edge of your seat all you need is the popcorn don't miss
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the new the new action thriller from ryer cliff entertainment and monarch media valiant one featuring
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chase stokes and Lana condor only in theaters january 31st so great movie getting back to the old
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john knows maybe we're gonna we're having military movies maybe westerns again yes no more no offense
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Sammy but no more urban cycle dramas about dying women and confessing to each other who was
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me to them or like the holiday having relationships and bad relationships and I think American people
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don't want to hear about a melodrama about a relationship anymore they don't want to know about
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angst about sexual ambiguity i'm not that the i'm not making fun of these issues are real but they
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just don't they've heard so many of them yes and they don't want to see another title where it's
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sort of white fragility white men can't jump white silliness and they have that now as a title
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well i guess on your action movies are a little bit bigger because i think america started the same old
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car chains put chains that put into every single action movie and they go on for like 15 minutes
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who wants that right well that was started with steve Mcqueen with bullet in saran's let's go
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and guide before you make fun of it i urge you to go watch that again that is one of the most amazing
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car chases i've ever seen aren't if you don't believe that look at the james bond 2000 maybe with
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16 or 17 specter movie and look at that car chase with daniel cragg where he drives this sports car
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up and down to spanish every it's it's amazing so some of them daniel cragg however wasn't doing it
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while steve Mcqueen probably was uh well you're both good actors yeah all right victor let's turn to
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donald trump's second week in office and got lots of executive orders he's put through he's obviously
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executing and his nominations or his secretaries are obviously executing the immigration
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executive orders we've got christie nome out there on on uh rates yeah and but then the so i
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any commentary on the immigration executive orders and what they're doing would be fine but there's
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a second one he tried to put a freeze on federal loans and grants and he had to resent that freeze
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and i but i want to know there is um what did he achieve by throwing this out out there that he
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was going to stop these fit or put a freeze on those loans for a second and is it proof that dc
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is going to get in the way of uh there's millions of students that have been admitted and they have
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to have their student federally guaranteed loans or they they've been accepted and when he said
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that they won't be able to go to college so people i think it was sort of like the old
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you know an old british man of war who sends a cannonball across the bow of a friendship
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just to warn them that they have the ability to sink them so he does this student this student uh
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loan executive order and then it stops and we'll say well we'll think about it but it tells everybody
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this the days that you're going to go to a bank and then get a loan and the taxpayers are going to
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to honor it and take away moral hazard and 25% of you are not going to pay interest on it
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is over and the universities who keep issuing these arranging these student loans
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especially the ones that have multi-billion dollar endowments that are tax-free and they will not
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use those endowments as security for those loans they want us the taxpayer and then when you add
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into the equation that half the 18 year old 26 year old cohort is working and then they're going to be
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stuck on their taxes to pay for this 1.7 trillion dollar loan so he knows it has to happen
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it's kind of like tiktok he knows that you can't have the Chinese running tiktok because of their
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surveillance and data code everything but he knows that that's the most popular venue for these new
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voters who voted for him and so what he do he said we're going to and then we'll just wait a minute
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so he's trying to acculturate people to these radical changes and um I don't know he's got he the one
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of the reasons he won the election were young people and that was a combination of having these
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disparate Tulsi Gabbert Joe Rogan these weird podcasters even RFK and so he has IOUs
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and I think the Republicans in the Senate when they look at RFK they said you know
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I disagree with them and duh duh duh duh duh but you got to honor your commitments because when he
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said Bobby's on my side everybody just about had a heart attack during the campaign and he did he
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wasn't uh Bobby didn't go around saying vote for Trump ha ha he was sincere and he took a big hit
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I mean Carolyn Kennedy came out I was I thought that was one of the most atrocious things I've ever seen
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she was the late JFK's and I grew up with little pictures of Carolyn you know she was a little younger
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than I was a year or two or something and she was always calling on her the president's desk with
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John John who tragically died but for her to make a video and say that he has he likes predator birds
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because he himself is a predator and then not to produce data I was just thinking you know all
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of us when we get into the public eye what would your family say I know that if I was there I have
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people in my family that are not particularly fond of me but I would hate I don't think they would
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do that I mean it was it was I think is I asked myself well Caroline if he hadn't said he was for
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Trump would you do this did you do it in the past I don't think she did and I know that we're all
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worried about the measles vaccination and I am my mother uh in 1950 had a child before it was
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born and she had German measles and they didn't know how to stop measles I had the measles too we
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call them German measles then there was to differentiate something called three-day measles but you know
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I don't think we use ethnic terms anymore to blame the Germans but we all had them and then my
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mother had a daughter Georgian Hanson and she had a heart valve problem and she was born blind and
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she only she died after a little after a year so when I grew up it was you've got to get a measles
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when that came out but the actual number of people who die of measles is a bone and correct me from
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wrong listeners I know there's talk is about 500 a year prior to that and so what what damage
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he's done if he has done damage by discouraging vaccinations and I'll put a footnote there and say
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he has told people get the measles vaccine and whooping call obesity kills a hundred times more
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people and diabetes do so his main emphasis at HHS will be diabetes and food and blood sugar
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and not vaccination I think he's told just keep away from that because the real if you really
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want to save people's lives RFK go where the morbidity is and it's with obesity and diabetes
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and cardiac problem and and you know obesity and food are also carcinogens that they they help
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cause cancer yeah and I think um RFK is going down the right road on the healthiness issues
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he always has those videos where he takes his shirt off and he's my age and blah blah and he does push
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ups too and they were showing that the other day Carolyn said that all he can't be trusted around
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women I guess she's really blasted him and I thought I thought to myself given that his advocacy for
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health he is far more qualified to be HHS at least he's interested in those issues than you were
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you never struck me as an authority on Australia and I don't think given the cynicism of all appointments
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in both parties do it for major ambassadorships you're talking anywhere from three to 20 million
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dollars depending on where the ambassador ship I don't think she gave that kind of money I don't
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think she has all her husband's very wealthy but I think the Kennedy fortune has been dispersed
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too many errors so my point is she got that position on her name as a democratic icon so for her to
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say that he is on qualified I would say it back to her will can you tell me the distance from
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Perth to Melbourne can you give me any appraisal of the Australian defense forces what kind of planes
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they fly fly can you tell me their positions on New Guinea and can you tell me what their status
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right now is with China no she can't so she she shouldn't talk no a victor let's go ahead and take
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a break and come back and talk a little bit more about immigration if you have any reflections on
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Donald Trump's first two weeks stay with this and we'll be right back
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welcome back to the victor Davis Hanson show you can find victor at his ex account
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if you are a social media person well victor um so lots go you know lots of people being arrested
00:28:36
taken back and we have Colombia and Mexico who tried to resist the repatriation so I was wondering
00:28:43
you know it's Colombian president folded like a 10 he's crazy by the way so you know you would have
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a whiskey with Trump but he had indingestion and Trump was a white slave or but Trump just he handled
00:28:54
that very well when they were everybody remember the context they weren't not just saying go to the
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United States they were opening their mental hospitals in jails and they thought that was cute
00:29:05
because they thought Biden was you know Biden and he wouldn't do anything so Trump sent them back
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and they blocked the flight so Trump said 25% and then he said oh yeah sure and he you know
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he got this little braga dachio and machismo and then Trump just quietly said oh by the way it goes
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up to 50% at the end of the week and then everybody said they need Colombian coffee and then people
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said no they don't they have coffee from Brazil they have coffee they have it up from all over the
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world and then wasn't that AOC she was no offense AOC but I don't know how you ever graduated from
00:29:42
college no offense but and then he said he started in on and Trump just one thing that Colombians
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want to do is come the United States and that's the most you talk to foreign diplomats that's their
00:29:54
and I don't know why but that's their dream to get billeted away from where they're would you
00:30:01
like to live in Columbia or would you like to be treated like royalty in Washington so he put a
00:30:06
hold on 1500 people from the elite of Columbia and the government that they can't come here
00:30:15
and you know it's sad because you know you're talking about a great power and a minor power
00:30:23
and so their attitude is well we're going to do that back to you but I think Trump's attitude is
00:30:28
okay oh poor pobre pobacito we don't get to go to Columbia that's his attitude the same thing happened
00:30:36
with Mexico under Biden remember Obedor he said it's a beautiful thing we have 40 million that came
00:30:46
in illegally to the United States beautiful and then I'd say I urge all my ex-patriots who become
00:30:52
citizens to vote Republican and then when Biden went down there he had to help Biden oh let me
00:30:57
hope you you cannot do the stairs and then he said something about they were almost the same age
00:31:02
so they had a field day they would just wave the caravan ha ha ha we're replaying them the
00:31:09
Mexican war and we're rebuilding the lost nation of Otslan all the all this stuff came out of
00:31:14
Mexico so then we get a flight and they say no you can't send them back and then the cartel shot
00:31:22
an American citizen in the leg and there was another shooting where they shot it on a US soil
00:31:27
so Trump just called her up and the point is what is Mexico's levers over us versus what are
00:31:38
levers over Mexico everybody has to understand it's an asymmetrical remember everybody when Ross
00:31:45
Perot might be some of you were too young but when he was running for president 92
00:31:51
and 96 Bill Clinton was talking about the North American free trade associate NAFTA where there'd
00:31:57
be no terrorist and Ross Perot well he does he does that there's no I just don't want him to do that
00:32:02
because if he does I'll tell you what's going to happen in two seconds you're going to hear a big
00:32:07
second sound big second sound that second sound is going to be American you're gonna miss the way
00:32:13
and everybody laughed out him and you know what when the when the treaty was enacted
00:32:19
immediately Mexico got a two billion dollar surplus you know what it is now 168 billion
00:32:29
so when we put a tariff on a Chinese product they send the raw product to Mexico whether it's car
00:32:36
parts truck parts computers and they assemble it in Mexico and then they send it here tax-free
00:32:42
and they do that to their advantage of 167 so miss shine bomb you can talk all you want about refusing
00:32:49
this and that and Yankees and imperialist but what Trump will do I'm warning you he will put a
00:32:57
tariff on you and he will take that 167 68 billion dollar surplus and he will get it back down to zero
00:33:05
and that will almost destroy your economy or I shouldn't say or I should say in addition to
00:33:12
you get 63 billion dollars in remittances and those remittances are largely from the data we have
00:33:21
Mexican nationals who are living in the United States and are who are dependent on the
00:33:27
largest of the American taxpayer they get health subsidies food stamp what we used to call food
00:33:35
stamp ebt transfer electric banking transfer cards educate everything and that frees them up
00:33:45
to send an average of three or four hundred a month and that's where you get the 63 billion he
00:33:51
all he has to do is say you know what I don't care who you are you can be an American citizen you
00:33:56
can be a Mexican national but if you send money from the United States electronically or any means
00:34:02
that we know well we're going to slap a 20% tax that would be $12 billion he could do the same thing
00:34:08
for central America and Latin America and South America another $12 billion that's $25 billion
00:34:13
he can do that very easily then he can also say to miss shine bomb on average the last decade 75
00:34:22
thousand Americans have died of fentanyl and mr. obidore was incorrect when he said well it's
00:34:28
your fall you have the demand partly but fentanyl is so lethal they lace it with elicit other elicit
00:34:37
drugs or they lace it with prescription drugs like valium for example or methamphetamines you know
00:34:44
adorog drugs so that they trick the person into taking it and it gives him a high but you know
00:34:50
they're not pharmaceuticals they don't want to kill their addiction clients but they do to the
00:34:56
tune of 75 thousand a year over 10 years that's 750 thousand so what is mexico an enemy a friend
00:35:06
a frenemy neutral all of them if you say well how many people died in world war one 117 thousand how
00:35:14
many Americans died in world war two somewhere between 150 maybe and for excuse me 450 470 how many
00:35:22
died in the korean war 36 to 38 thousand how many died in Vietnam 56 to 57 how many died in all the
00:35:29
other wars that we fought probably 10 thousand it's less than 750 mexican cartels have killed more
00:35:36
Americans than all of the wars that we fought in the 20th century and the 21st century and so we
00:35:43
have a lot of anger at mexico so the cartels should be very careful and when you add the cartel
00:35:50
income some people suggest it's 20 billion and the 63 billion and the 150 67 billion you're getting up to
00:35:59
way over 200 billion dollars that are Americans are sending to mexico and yet they repay they repay
00:36:07
that magnum entity not with gratitude but anger and so they keep sending people here then they
00:36:13
they are too like Colombian men's way like emptying their jails the people have problems criminals
00:36:19
they can't stop the cartels so drawn trump is saying i don't want 75 thousand people to be killed
00:36:26
i do not want two to three to four million people coming here without a background or a health audit
00:36:32
i don't want that anymore and you won't listen to me and now you're insulting me by turning back
00:36:38
flights you keep it up and we're going to put a tax like you won't believe on remittances and we're
00:36:44
going to put tariffs to stop that trade imbalance and we're going to close this border tight and i
00:36:50
think they're stupid to test them i really do because i think you'll do it yeah i think so just like
00:36:56
reagan and i know i was 1981 i can remember talking to people and that reagan they kept saying
00:37:06
all the air traffic controllers are going to shut down the whole that they're in this patco member
00:37:12
patco it was the union and everybody said he wouldn't dare do that and he said well and then one day
00:37:19
he did it and he fired them all and they said oh everything and he took you know he got a hardcore
00:37:25
group of military air traffic control and they survived and they had this guy i forgot his name
00:37:30
with a beard he'd go on tv and say this is gonna they'll cave and they dash reagan and he acted
00:37:37
just like he did with the hostages when he was campaign in nineteen uh what are you going to do
00:37:41
mr reagan about the the hostages and there there will be no hostages in trance and then they'd say
00:37:47
what are you going to do why did you do this he said well we had a law that you can't strike if
00:37:52
you're a federal employee and they they they they violated it so i had no choice i didn't want
00:37:57
to do it but they're gone they're dead they're gone and then all of a sudden there was rumors that
00:38:04
garbage off and all these people said oh my god this guy's crazy we've never seen american president
00:38:11
and so i wouldn't trust him i've i were these people i would i mean i don't mean that in the bad
00:38:17
sense i think trump is absolutely serious and we could go onto a peripheral topic if you want
00:38:24
to introduce it i hadn't discussed it and that is an executive order to deport people who lose
00:38:31
who have violated the conditions of their student visa with an added qualifier that he put on his
00:38:36
executive order anti-semitic activity and pro-homosexual activity well let's do that vector bit first i'm going to
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you like to say i feel like Odysseus that survived the sirens the clip so seriously the lystrogonians
00:40:03
today because i left at five a.m. from powell out this morning my regular weekly drive so i go down
00:40:09
one oh one at five twenty and the trucks are in the middle lane and i get behind a truck of the
00:40:17
three lanes and this is one of the rare areas on one oh one that'll quickly go to two lanes because
00:40:24
it's an ossified and they were going 74 miles an hour i just park i got in the wagon train follow
00:40:30
the truck for yes 74 miles an hour in the middle lane so then i went to gillroy and i went through an
00:40:37
alternate route as i usually do that's parallel to one fifty two it has not changed by the way one
00:40:43
fifty two between particular pass and gillroy so it is ossified calcified static it's the same thing
00:40:52
i used to drive when i was 18 years old 45 years ago when the population was less than 20 million
00:40:59
so it was a caravan of people from holester from lost bannels and there it was packed
00:41:05
and the lights come right out you but there it was just two lanes and there was a break in the
00:41:11
traffic because of these slow trucks and the whole thing is double line and it's very dangerous
00:41:18
there's no corridor anybody can just and that happens all the time so i go around a quarter and a
00:41:22
guy is passing and he almost killed me and i went off the side of the road luckily there was a place
00:41:29
to go off so Odysseus thing i survived the cyclops i got back on my little raft and i started to go
00:41:38
down i five i got to piceko pass i made it over and then i hit from the west side town of san waqin
00:41:52
all the way to carothers which is about 50 miles i hit zero visibility fog and what did i find
00:42:00
that i had to cross three major highways one a diagonal there no stop and it was like you had to roll
00:42:07
down the window and then just go for it because you couldn't see anything but here's my point
00:42:12
i passed three cars coming at me in the opposite lane and two ahead of me with no lights no lights
00:42:24
so i was thinking about all of this and my Odysseus to get home today safely and i said
00:42:34
Gavin Newsom is spending 25 million to sue Donald Trump he gave 500 million for illegal alien health
00:42:42
care he can do anything but build the roads so why isn't one oh one three lanes a whole weight why
00:42:48
isn't 152 four lanes why and then you have 27% of the drivers on the roads that's or not born in the
00:43:01
united states so these people that i walked i saw next to them were i would not identify their
00:43:08
country of origin but they were immigrants because they were going very slow all of a sudden they
00:43:13
peered out but no lights on so i thought to myself why doesn't he have a martial plan if we're going
00:43:20
to have 27% immigrants why don't we inculcate them why don't we have things in the school this is how
00:43:25
you write a check that make sure if you're selling things on a corner you fill out sales tax you pay
00:43:30
income tax if you're going to you always have your lights on when you drive because they're going to
00:43:35
kill somebody and so it was very scary to see these cars come three three lot white lines was all
00:43:41
you could see and then all of a sudden the car comes at you and it's gray you can't even see it as
00:43:47
it go until you look at the window right next to you and then you're going ahead and you're going
00:43:52
30 miles an hour and then all of a sudden you get in there in the fog bank and you pull up and a
00:43:58
person's going 10 miles an hour freaked out with no head no rear headlights no red lights and that
00:44:04
that's what California is it's a complete disaster so when he gets his slick hair and he does that
00:44:11
little head fake when he goes back and forth and you say and don't Trump is right about that you
00:44:17
know you you you want to say to them you blew up dams four of them you didn't build three dams
00:44:22
that would have given us six million acre feet you're not filling the aqueduct I went by San Luis
00:44:27
Reservoir when he's lied and said to Trump it's full all the reservoir no it's not full it's less than
00:44:33
70% full it looked to me like it was 60% full and then you see that the the freeways are in horrible
00:44:41
condition you get on one-on-one to the get off to the go exit it's like going through bumper cars
00:44:46
it's just the road is so torn up and then you have you're we are a state of immigrants but we don't
00:44:53
tell immigrants what is the protocol because that would be intrusive or unfair why don't we say we
00:45:01
you're here we want you here but we have these protocols the state we have one of the largest
00:45:07
black market economies of any and of all the states it's the biggest it's demonstrably true so why don't
00:45:14
we say we're short revenue we're running 70 so everybody who has a corner stand or a candidate you've
00:45:21
got to pay sales tax charge sales tax and you've got to pay income tax no cash we have a huge cash
00:45:28
account and if you're driving a car we've got to inculcate in your schools certain protocols that when
00:45:34
you come to a four-way stop the person on the right has the right away you just don't take your
00:45:40
hand and wave around like oh I'm picking you or me I happens every time I go to it hey I'll just
00:45:45
pick you no no no no no I'm to your right I have the right away or you're to my right you go but they
00:45:51
always wave you these drivers do and so you know and then we have about 50% of the accidents in LA
00:46:00
county and freshmen where the person leaves the scene of the accident so we have an enormous
00:46:06
existential challenges in California and what does he do he demagogues about oh the reservoirs are full
00:46:16
oh I had nothing to do with DI down in Los Angeles oh it's a local issue he is one of the most
00:46:23
inept governors I've ever seen how do you take a 13.3 income tax rate and run up a $77 billion
00:46:35
deficit when your sales tax depending on the county is probably the fifth or sixth highest
00:46:42
your gas tax is the highest in the continental United States how do you do that I don't understand
00:46:49
you want an answer to that I mean they're completely inept and as you said they don't have
00:46:54
clear programs for the future for highways for water and then the cities and municipalities
00:47:02
don't have clear programs to keep trash off of the street and maintain good sewage and that's the problem
00:47:09
I think when he was talking to Donald Trump what he was really saying to Donald Trump when Donald
00:47:13
Trump came to LA and he met him at the airport I looked at his attitude I mean he had just said
00:47:19
that he was that the legislature called a special session not to address Los Angeles but to
00:47:27
galonize a rejection of Donald Trump but he didn't want that he wanted the federal money for LA
00:47:33
but he wanted to a trash Trump so what he was really saying to Trump if you listen to him was the
00:47:39
subtext Donald I am a child of privilege I was groomed and mentored by the Getty oil fortune family
00:47:50
my father was an appellate court judge my mother knew who he was and I have always lived in the Bay
00:47:56
area and you don't understand Donald that this is a medieval society thanks to me and Jerry Brown
00:48:03
we drove all the middle class out with the high gas high electricity terrible infrastructure terrible
00:48:10
they left so we have a huge group of poor people who are dependent on lavish entitlements 30 to 40
00:48:18
percent of the state budget goes to MediCal half of all bursts in California or MediCal burst okay
00:48:25
and then I have an insurance policy and that's called $9 trillion of market capitalization in Silicon
00:48:32
Valley so as long as I have all those Silicon Valley people funding me and as long as I lavish
00:48:38
all these entitlements I don't care if we have dams I do not care about infrastructure I do not care
00:48:45
that our schools are 45th in the nation and Tesco I do not care that some of the truckers magazines
00:48:50
rate us 99 excuse me the 99 the worst highway in the United States are the most dangerous because
00:48:57
I have an automatic constituency that I lavish money to and entitlements and then I get all my
00:49:04
campaign finance by the richest people on the planet and that's who I am and so I can demagogue
00:49:12
all day long and I can lie to the people and I can say the reservoirs are full or just a local
00:49:17
issue the hydrant and he's he's gotten away with it as mayor as lieutenant governor and as governor
00:49:23
so for an as city councilman he's there about 30 years he's done this and he's destroyed the state
00:49:29
but there's no accountability and he knows it oh Victor let's go ahead and take a break and I know
00:49:36
you said you had a digression that you were gonna go into and maybe it was just part of our agenda
00:49:42
today but we have left talking about cash Patel's confirmation and then the left's antics this week
00:49:51
welcome back to the victor Davis Hanson show um so victor it lots that went on with
00:50:04
confirmations this week but I think cash Patel is probably one of the more interesting ones and
00:50:09
I was wondering you thought yeah in this Odyssey uh before I got home in ithika I got way laid
00:50:17
with all these things that happened today so I'm still a little freaked out but one of the benefits
00:50:21
was I added an hour to my trip so that gave me time to listen to the cash Patel nomination hearings
00:50:28
and it was they kept of course it was all January 6th January 6th January 6th it wasn't
00:50:37
you expose Adam Schiff as a complete pathological liar and your memo the new Nes memo that you
00:50:43
helped graph just demolish the minority uh report from Adam Schiff it was the the main thing is they
00:50:52
wanted to drive a wedge between him and Trump Donald Trump pardoned this despicable person and he
00:50:57
went out and tried to shoot or he came out of his car armed and he was shot and killed so they kept
00:51:03
hammering on that do you support this or you support that he just kept saying I do not support any
00:51:08
pardon for people who have shot uh law enforcement shot at them or use violence and then he said
00:51:16
and I especially don't support Joe Biden's pardon Leonard Petriere or Peltier or Peltier who killed
00:51:24
executed two FBI agents and and Durban says well that was a long time ago and he's 80 so I thought
00:51:34
well he pardoned a person who killed the two FBI agents they have family he executed them and you're
00:51:42
saying that he's suffered enough because he's 80 years old and how do you know he's not going to do
00:51:49
something I mean 80-year-old people are capable I'm 71 and I'm still hailed and Donald Trump is 78
00:51:56
and is that saying are you gonna say that well I don't blame Donald Trump because he's 78 years old
00:52:03
no we don't do that so the whole thing was like that and it was he was very good the funny thing about
00:52:10
all these nominees that some of the rhinos in the party deprecated Pete Hexeth Pam Bondi
00:52:19
Cash Patel man when they go before those people Sean Duffy they have all of the answers they're
00:52:30
really impressive people they have and they go head to head and they it's kind of they have a wink
00:52:36
and a nod and it's kind of I think they're logic I'm not I'm just suggesting this I don't have any
00:52:42
confirmation but they're attitude they're they're going very confident so their attitude is basically
00:52:47
I have 53 Senator votes and you have none to stop me you can't stop me now you think you're going
00:52:53
to get Murkowski and Collins and maybe Mitch I can still get confirmed so I'm not gonna kiss up to
00:53:00
you in any way possible in fact the only thing I worry about is not getting 50 senators and the only
00:53:06
way I would not get 50 senators is to sell out Donald Trump and I'm not gonna do that I'm not stupid
00:53:13
and I don't want to anyway and that gives him a lot of confidence and then you get these people
00:53:17
frustrated like Elizabeth Warren she's come off as completely unhinged and then they don't
00:53:25
understand the media the left they're polling right now 37% and I guess it was the latest Emerson
00:53:32
poll 37% said they approve of the Democratic Party do they understand how they drive that down
00:53:39
when somebody like Elizabeth Warren just cuts off RFK won't let him answer a question screams
00:53:45
in yells and says and then it was can you promise that you won't because he has all these law for
00:53:53
that your law former legalist won't sue the farmers who come to us and then you look and then
00:53:58
within a nanosecond the right wing blogosphere has all the recipients of pharmaceutical money
00:54:04
and the highest is Bernie Sanders and then her and so you have all these hypocrites that are defending
00:54:10
big pharma against RFK and that doesn't work it doesn't they they don't understand that just
00:54:17
because the network just because ABC anchor is bias or David Neur or any of these people or you've
00:54:23
got Joe and Scarborough it it doesn't matter anymore they can get the right can get the message out
00:54:30
part of that studio Elon Musk when he opened it up but they were just an app and then you mentioned
00:54:38
Schumer and Schumer so funny so all those governors I think there were six of them and they've called
00:54:46
him can I just insert that interview he had was bizarre he's weird yes he said everybody I think
00:54:54
Sam is referring to now everybody get this a poll just came out that the democratic party has
00:55:02
the lowest ranking in a generation 37 it's usually 50 50 37% and in response he says people are
00:55:11
aroused I've never seen so many people aroused and you know we were really aroused and you know we're
00:55:18
gout but we're also aroused so then immediately I was thinking I remember he said for elections he
00:55:28
said erections so I wonder if anybody's making that so I I was watching last night and I was by
00:55:35
myself in my apartment and I got online with them within a nanosecond all over the internet is
00:55:41
erections erections erections aroused aroused and then it word his fury came as I think governor
00:55:49
the governor of Illinois and the governor of Kansas she's a democrat they called him up and they
00:55:58
said you're not fighting these nominations enough and I instead of just saying are you insane we're
00:56:05
looking like idiots we lose our temper and we lose every one of them and so he was trying to
00:56:14
he's completely bewildered he's a deer in the headlights he's legacy is going to go down
00:56:20
on one thing he got out in front of the supreme court in 2020 I think it was March I'm doing
00:56:29
this by memory and he got in front of a mob of angry abortion protesters pro abortion and he said
00:56:37
gorse each cabanol you sow the wind you're going to reap the whirlwind and then quote you don't know
00:56:46
what's going to hit you that was a direct threat within months people were swarming their homes
00:56:52
that's a felony to try to influence a supreme court justice by intimidating that as home they went
00:56:58
to the homes of clearance tomas gorse each but especially cabanol no one spoke out in their front
00:57:04
he Joe Biden like that then they the democrats leaked that
00:57:08
roe versus Wade before the midterms and he that was it all of that was a green light from Chuck
00:57:15
Schumer if anybody had done that if they had gone out in front of Elena Cate Cagan's home or
00:57:21
Contanzie Brown and tried to swarm it and then had an assassin show up who wanted to kill a supreme
00:57:28
court but called his sister I think and she talked him out of it and they would have attributed that
00:57:34
to any u.s senator who had advocated debt violence you can't have the senate minority leader at the
00:57:40
time advocate violence by threatening the security of supreme court justices while they're in session
00:57:47
behind those doors he was right at the doors when he says you don't know what's going to hit you
00:57:53
and you're going to reap the whirlwind well that that's interpreted by certain people as a green light
00:58:00
he is he's when I was younger he was a house member and I think I remember when I was in my 20s
00:58:07
watching and I think he was a representative from New York on the on the Watergate committee or he
00:58:12
was he seemed semi normal but he has completely lost his mind as all the democrats are because they
00:58:20
cannot believe you know nobody they need an intervention that's what they always say maybe they can
00:58:27
get bandy Lee that psychiatrist from Yale remember her she went to and testify that Donald Trump was
00:58:33
crazy and needed straight jacket and then Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein tried to trap and they were
00:58:41
discussing putting a wire well bandy I think they dismissed you from Yale for unprofessional conduct
00:58:47
because the the American psychiatric association does not let you tell it tell the diagnosed people
00:58:54
without any exam and declare them crazy especially public figures they did it they call it the gold
00:59:00
water rule they said very gold water was crazy I like very gold water but they all said he was
00:59:08
crazy and then they said we can't do this any longer so anyway she was out of a job she was a
00:59:13
heartthrob of the left maybe bandy can come back bandy come back and examine not just a meridus
00:59:22
president Joe Biden which you didn't seem to bother you at all but examine Chuck Schumer and tell
00:59:28
me that he's sane and then go and talk to Elizabeth Warren and then if you're on your way out the
00:59:34
Capitol pay a visit to AOC you're bringing me to a article that I read this week by I like Byron
00:59:42
York he does I'm always like Byron York is the ultimate professional I met him a few times he was
00:59:48
a colleague of mine at National Review he's always sober and judicious I don't mean that sarcastically
00:59:53
I mean that sincerely he's very ever if ever wrong he's very careful about what he says he's
01:00:00
got enormous credibility and he was writing for the Jewish world report I'm rolled review and he
01:00:08
in his article he's analyzing the left and he puts it most succinctly here he goes the the
01:00:14
left must moderate its instinct to fight every single thing president trump does and I don't think
01:00:22
they can do it I didn't get the idea in his article that he thought so either but they're losing
01:00:28
everyone they start with his premise it's very sexist so they see Pam Bondy who's 59 or 60 and she
01:00:38
looks like she's 40 she does she's very attractive woman she's very smart and they see and they're
01:00:44
sexist they are sexist and they think well she's just a blonde bimbo and so we're just going to tear
01:00:50
her apart and they she tears him apart and then they see pit pit hexia this guy is weird he's got the
01:00:57
Jerusalem cross you know and he's been married three times and we're just going to slice him up because
01:01:03
where I'm Senator Sanders and I'm Senator Schumer I'm Senator Warren I'm Senator Sheldon
01:01:08
Lighthouse and then he just destroys him and then they bring an RFK and they're even making fun
01:01:14
of his voice now online and so they think he Bobby's great and he just destroyed them and now I
01:01:22
was watching today Cash Patel he's from an immigrant family he's kind of weird they we've
01:01:28
monitored him before Epi went after him and we'll just destroy him because he didn't go to Harvard
01:01:34
or yeah and he just he was like carving a Christmas turkey I've met him before he's really sharp
01:01:42
very cash is very smart he's on a parade and I can tell you exactly from months we haven't
01:01:51
discussed this personally but from what he said and and venues that you he's going to do exactly
01:01:56
what you think he's going to do he's going to go into the Epi and he's going to go down to the first
01:02:01
second third tier and he's going to find people who were appalled by Robert Mueller but especially
01:02:07
James Comey Andrew McCabe Christopher Ray Peter Strock Lisa Page all those people that ran the
01:02:15
eighth floor I think they call it the the Hoover Building he's going to get them all together and
01:02:19
said you were the ostracized weren't you and they'll say yes we retreated terribly and he says who
01:02:25
else was and get them all around I want experts who want to go back to old-fashioned investigation
01:02:32
counter-terrorism national security and he's got they don't understand that everybody they don't
01:02:40
understand why nobody's listening to them they don't understand they keep saying it's Trump or
01:02:45
it's cat no it's your message just get a poll and go look at the polls just go anyone get your bias
01:02:53
polls bordered you want it open or close everybody post how many sexes are two you know what I mean
01:02:59
that's what the American people want and I know if you you can warp it a little bit by changing the
01:03:04
question but was Kabul and Afghanistan no we don't like that American people we don't like the
01:03:10
sorrows DAs we don't like the new green deal we want fracking that it's all there for you
01:03:17
you need Bill Clinton but not the the the shell of Bill Clinton today who's you know he's been
01:03:23
grifting for so many years and Epstein's playing but he's but I'm talking about him in his prime
01:03:28
as I say it everybody go back and look at the 96 democratic convention it could have been written
01:03:36
by Ronald Reagan and he just took Dick Morris and he just whether you like it cynicism or not he
01:03:41
just said what is the poll on immigration what is the poll on law enforcement what is the poll on
01:03:48
crime what and he just went right down to what the people wanted and he got reelected and they had
01:03:56
eight years of governance and he never won 51% of the vote because of Rossboro I don't know if
01:04:01
that was a reason but Republicans how could you every time George HW Bush or Bob Dole in those debates
01:04:10
tried to debate him right it was well I just kind of I can't agree with you I think that everybody should
01:04:17
be have school uniform now we need a hundred thousand police officers we need to be oil efficient
01:04:24
we need to use our resources and then they would go about the boy yeah well I'm for legal
01:04:30
immigration but I'm not for illegal immigration I want to protect our union workers that's what he
01:04:34
did he just he just ran circles around them and then it was like okay been there done that now it's
01:04:40
Hillary's turn to root ruin the party and so she got her mom everybody said with bill you get two
01:04:47
you get bill but even the smarter no you get the more obnoxious less smart less capable partner and
01:04:54
then that's what she did and then you had Hillary as an Obama none of them had Bill Clinton's
01:05:00
cynicism and you know well let's face it was savvy he was pretty savvy he was good looking he was
01:05:09
young he had he had enormous appetites in the wrong place but he was slick and he balanced a budget
01:05:18
I'll never forget that for three years we had a surplus that was a lot of newton reaches doing newt
01:05:24
gets a lot of credit for that but he did a lot of good things and then he at the end of his second
01:05:33
term he got left and then it led to Hillary running percent and then Obama she ran against Obama
01:05:40
2008 and the whole party went hard left although for her credit when she ran against
01:05:47
Barack Obama I shouldn't say for her credit she started bowling and then she started putting
01:05:56
whiskey in her beer remember and had boiler makers and then they asked her
01:06:00
well you know as Barack Obama made a slip and he said he was remember he's slipped and said
01:06:06
and my Muslim faith you think he's a Muslim uh wow he says he's not she played the Islam card she was
01:06:15
really dirty too so but Bill Clinton they're never gonna go back to that if they did they'd probably
01:06:23
they'd be very hard to beat and he didn't have he didn't have he started to but he didn't have he
01:06:30
had Hollywood money but there wasn't that huge if you look at the George H. W. Bush campaign
01:06:36
chest it was about the same that big disparity between democratic mega box didn't really start to
01:06:43
the millennium so he that was pretty amazing for him to run in a three person race two times and
01:06:52
get elected what was because of Dick Morris and that message yeah well if I could take us back to
01:06:58
confirmation shifts for one second because it hasn't happened yet but I was wondering it seems
01:07:03
like the left is worse against um one time leftists like rfk and Tulsi Gabbard and I was wondering if
01:07:11
you had any of those are apostates yeah the apostates are the worst things in their defense
01:07:16
who is the most despised uh person on the left right now Liz Cheney
01:07:27
I guess she's on the left right here Adam Kisenter and maybe Bill Crystal and why is that because
01:07:34
there are apostates see the problem with apostates and I don't think Tulsi Gabbard or rfk we're
01:07:40
always eccentric they weren't party people but in the case of somebody like Liz Cheney when you
01:07:46
you run and you are successful and you raise money on this conservative agenda and then with a
01:07:52
matter of weeks you flip and you don't just say I'm still a very hardcore conservative but Donald
01:07:59
Trump I can't vote for him but I'm for the message because he did a lot and you don't do that but you
01:08:04
start embracing these other messages and you campaign for Kamala Harris then everybody says well
01:08:11
what an idiot I was I believe you and same thing with Bill Crystal I remember I will much
01:08:17
checks to you now I feel stupid because you were never sincere so they an apostate and the
01:08:22
question is are they apostates or not I said yes in a way but they were always quirky there were more
01:08:32
I don't know what you'd call them but they were quirky they were kind of civil libertarians Tulsi
01:08:39
the other thing is as I said before I've met Tulsi Gabbard I've been on the same venue with her I
01:08:45
spent a whole day with her and she's a very genuine sincere person she's kind of an earth mother
01:08:52
you know what I mean she's very empathetic to people I just watched her for four hours
01:08:59
sign books with me and people would come up and they would want to tell stories and she was that's
01:09:04
so fast and she meant it and she would turn to me later and say that woman had a great story and
01:09:09
then it got late late in the evening and it was going on and on and she looked at me and she said
01:09:14
this is what we signed up for we you're we're both we're going to give them their money's worth she
01:09:18
was an ultimate professional I really got and I only say that everybody because I have been doing this
01:09:25
and I think my first public lecture was a graduate student when I was 23 so I've been doing this
01:09:31
for 48 years and I have met most of the people in the conservative side and I can tell you
01:09:38
that there is a lot of people who say I don't have time to sign that book what are you doing I'm
01:09:44
at the airport don't bug me or no I don't I don't I don't have time and or you'll be with him
01:09:52
in a book signing and they'll say I'm getting out of here I'm not going to do this and so she was
01:09:58
different all like that there's a few people that are different but she's very empathetic I don't
01:10:03
never met RFK but just the amount of vitriol and effort you know when they got done with him he was
01:10:11
the bear story and he had to I felt bad he had to get in front of all the leaks so he had to go
01:10:16
mountain confess to the dead bear story and then his second wife committed suicide and then they
01:10:23
brought that up everything and he was always and then the 16 the texting and all that they said he
01:10:30
was committing adultery when he don't think he ever touched the woman you know what I mean so
01:10:36
it was yeah I don't know I really liked his campaign partner that went around for vice president
01:10:43
or his third party I forgot her name she was a Silicon Valley she was very wealthy she said wasn't
01:10:49
she a Filipino or Asian I think she's Asian yeah but she's very smart and she's very wealthy
01:10:55
very successful and she said something that I really admired her for when she said I think yesterday
01:11:01
I'm speaking on Thursday she said I want to warn all you people that are going after Bobby
01:11:06
if you're going to go after him and do it in a dirty fashion I will spend every ounce of my energy
01:11:12
and money to go after you and primary you and and donate so don't do it not that that will have a
01:11:19
deterrent effect because you know Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are just creatures of
01:11:27
big pharma and left wing money they have all they need but I thought that was really loyal
01:11:32
upper to say that to loyalty everybody makes fun of trumps loyalty but loyalty is a very rare virtue
01:11:39
very rare virtue yeah and he has a whole lineup of people that are being confirmed that are both
01:11:46
loyal and authentic and I think that that provides a huge contrast with every time they do a press
01:11:52
conference they praise them I'm just thinking what is everybody said what is the difference
01:11:57
now between 2017 and I went back last night when I was watching the coverage of the crash and I went
01:12:05
back and looked at all the stories about don't they confer they opposed almost to all of his people
01:12:10
but almost half the people he appointed were not mega people and within about a month or two they
01:12:17
were leaking they were leaking all the time Rex Tillerson was leaking all the time all of them
01:12:23
of those non mega appointments and they remembered anonymous that little I think was his name
01:12:28
Chad something I don't know he was in the homeland security and he was leaking and he
01:12:33
wrote an op-ed and said we're going to stop trump every avenue and it was just out of hand he had
01:12:38
nobody that was supporting him and he had a guy's like a venment you know and he wasn't he just
01:12:47
listened to a call it was a normal call and he calls the you know he calls ceremonial of the whistle
01:12:53
blower and they cook up the whole thing without him shift it was just it was just one thing after another
01:12:58
and so then he's in the wilderness years for four years and he says you know if I'm ever going to come
01:13:04
back it's loyalty you've got to get people good people they have to be good and they have to be
01:13:09
loyal and they have to be in the same page and they all are now so they're forced multipliers
01:13:13
so they get in a cabinet meeting and there's nobody who's going so I'm not going to do that or you
01:13:18
can't do that it's so whole it and that's going to be the difference yeah sure is the unity of it
01:13:24
all so Victor one last thing and this is a little bit lighter even though she tried to make it heavy
01:13:31
there's an influencer Selena Gomez that either of us knows she's not influencing us what is an
01:13:37
influencer but she let it all pour out as far as her tears and hysteria that they're starting to
01:13:48
take all of the rapist and robbers and thieves and she was mad because she's also mad because
01:13:56
so you so ice has evidence that there's a rapist or a murderer in the aurora hotel right
01:14:03
or apartment they go in there and they got it they don't know who's who right whom and so they're
01:14:07
all there and then they start asking for their status their ID and then they find out somebody
01:14:13
is also illegal but there's not an arrest warrant so in her view and the left they kept asking
01:14:19
Donald Trump that at the at the press conference and Homan Tom Homan so in the left wing mind it's not
01:14:28
a crime to barge through that the country break immigration law break it again and reside here
01:14:33
and break it a third time probably with fake ID so they their idea is well if you go in and there's
01:14:40
20 people in a room and 15 of them are rapist or murders and you're trying to find out and you find
01:14:45
three they're here illegally and have broken the law and they haven't they broken their summons
01:14:49
and so you're deport them well that's wrong no it's not it's wrong if the if the ice officer says
01:14:55
I'm going to waive immigration law for you and and let make you exempt and pardon you but not
01:15:01
other people that was one thing and then the other thing she said my people this I have crying for
01:15:09
my people it's not your people your people are Americans do you understand that you're an American
01:15:15
citizen I don't I wasn't Florence once right and I think I said this didn't I was there's a
01:15:25
table and there was an African American guy and he was sitting there and there was a Swedish couple
01:15:33
at this long table and they I don't speak Swedish but I grew up hearing it so I can recognize it
01:15:40
and they were blonde blue eyed Swedish couple and they were talking to the waiter Italian it was
01:15:48
during I had just been operated on so I know they date from rupture to pendix in Libya so it's
01:15:54
2007 I was in Florence Florence yes and so they were the the the guy who was at the table was an African
01:16:05
American and he had a uniform on US uniform and they were making fun of him and they were speaking
01:16:11
English the Italian saying oh well yeah so I got up over there and I walked over there I never
01:16:16
done that before I sense and I said before you make fun of my fellow American you should ask what
01:16:26
you did in World War II my Swedish friends and I would say that Italian as I remember you were a
01:16:32
Mussolini person and this man over here to the extent he could contribute his probably family
01:16:38
as military and I have more in common a lot more with him as a fellow American then I do with you
01:16:45
even though I'm Swedish I said that to the Swedish people and they said help us are help us are
01:16:51
you come over to our table and I said well I just wasn't I've been listening to the crap you're saying
01:16:56
for the last 30 minutes and I couldn't muffle my ears enough and for you to sit here and make fun of
01:17:03
a US soldier when you were neutral and sent iron ore over Hitler and you said that you'd wave
01:17:09
the transportation charge because you loved Hitler so much and you Italians were Mussolini
01:17:14
when it east Somalia and you butcher I was going nuts but the point is if you're an American your
01:17:23
allegiance is not is with Americans no matter what they look like no matter it's not my people my
01:17:30
people so when she said my people all she does is confirm a stereotype that she's a tribalist and
01:17:38
she shouldn't do that and so I think even Dr. Phil made fun of her but here's the last thing
01:17:44
and I'll shut up I said earlier there's been 750,000 people killed by fentanyl if you look at the
01:17:53
average and for the last 10 years did she cry about those people why wasn't she crying about those
01:17:59
people who did that a lot of it the did that came from Mexico and a lot of it were cartel people
01:18:05
so why didn't she say I I don't like this but my my my people my fellow Americans were dying and
01:18:14
droves from an open border but she doesn't care well think of all the sex trafficking that came across
01:18:20
300,000 children missing children women that's just she doesn't care about that and the good thing about
01:18:27
the right now is what I like and I didn't see that when I was younger they have the youth now
01:18:34
and the young people are really energetic and if you think about this way if you're a young person
01:18:40
going through high school and you're going to college and you start taking those DI courses are
01:18:46
you major in the college and they don't even have that major green studies or ethnics you're not going
01:18:52
to learn anything but if you're conservative you're not going to do that and if you're conservative in
01:18:57
college they're going to press you all the time in class they're going to pick on you they're going
01:19:01
to do everything and that all that does is make you stronger and so all of these young I've met so
01:19:08
many of these people who are conservative young people they're so bright and they're galvanized and
01:19:13
they're so much better prepared than they're leftist counterparts so when she does that then
01:19:17
they comment and they simply destroy her and she I think she would through that that video
01:19:23
because it was so I'll just say one last thing because I mentioned uh
01:19:30
Miss Levit is she our press secretary she's if I thought I wanted to be very careful
01:19:38
if I thought I was a Hollywood person I want to get go to central casting to find a press secretary
01:19:45
that would make the left's head explode I would say hmm I want to get a woman who's really really bright
01:19:54
and has a photographic memory and is beautiful and is not cynical but very sincere
01:20:02
and looks like she came off of Kansas farm and loves don't bump in the wagon is ultimately loyal
01:20:10
and that's who she is and she is making their heads explode they wasn't didn't they get really angry on
01:20:16
the view oh my gosh the view uh what's her name a Griffith is I don't know at least see a what's her name
01:20:23
oh I don't know that you just know Sonny Hauston oh yeah Sonny Hauston and
01:20:27
uh whoopie Goldberg got man said she's there because of our sacrifice now you didn't sacrifice
01:20:33
anything you've been a multi multi-millionaire since you were 30 whoopie and Sonny Hauston or I
01:20:39
don't want to get into personal invective but your husband now is a multi-millionaire and he's
01:20:44
under criminal indictment so don't give anybody lectures about you pave the way for Miss Levit
01:20:52
people who paved the way did it in the 1950s I can say that I can my mother graduated from Stanford
01:20:58
Law School in 1946 near the top of her class and she got one offers a legal secretary and she came
01:21:04
home to Salma in a local attorney letter at work part-time why she raised she had four killed
01:21:10
children one died but those women suffered not whoopie Goldberg and then the second thing is
01:21:18
they said that she's a beneficiary of D.I. she's a 10 a 10 I thought oh so now we get down to it
01:21:26
you've got your claws and your Burmese cat not snarle and you're angry at her because she's
01:21:32
beautiful and you call her a 10 as if she's a bimbo that sounds like a sexist that you can't be
01:21:38
beautiful and brilliant at the same time and she almost I don't think she meant to well she did
01:21:44
I guess she was talking about Corinne Jean-Pierre who had the binders you know and Corinne was pop
01:21:50
copying Kayleigh but she relied on them a lot more and Kayleigh did Kayleigh was a good press secretary
01:21:58
but so funny they ask her are you going to be bringing binders my binders are in my head in my brain
01:22:04
and she doesn't so she's been very good and they hate her and she's only 27 I'm thinking when I
01:22:12
was 27 I had already failed I had got a PhD at 25 and then I couldn't get a job and I was farming and I
01:22:21
was losing money so I was on a massive Ferguson to 65 hour after hour of thinking how did you
01:22:29
manage this you've got two kids 20s and you're making $6,500 a year and you had a PhD in classical
01:22:39
languages well how did you screw up so much and then I look at her at 27 and I couldn't do that what
01:22:47
she does you know what I mean going from all these hostile people to hate your guts and then try to
01:22:54
and then to not get I mean they're all trying to do one thing they're they hate her and they're
01:23:00
trying to oppose her but they want one thing the one thing they want to do that's what the left
01:23:05
does they want her to agree with them in criticism of Donald Trump that's what they did with RFK
01:23:13
that's what they did with cash today when I was listening to him would you just I know you
01:23:20
you you you you support law enforcement cash you must be shocked about the pardon and he explained
01:23:28
it is does that mean you're criticizing Donald Trump's pardon he said no well why wouldn't it mean
01:23:33
you're criticizing Donald Trump that's what they want and they're trying to do that to her and she's not
01:23:38
she's a big fish that doesn't take the bait and their bottom feeders too well we're at the end of
01:23:46
our show Victor and thank you very much I'm kind of hyper today because I of my trip I just got home
01:23:51
after four hour drive yeah well it's been a wonderful show today and so we'd like to thank our
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Thank you, Dr Hanson. I enjoy your shows and look forward to them. Pretty much agree in principle with everything you say, have to work to keep from... plagiarizing and copying are too strong; let's say "covering" you, in musician's terms. My running commentary keeps me involved, hope it's ok. Thank you again, sir. KBV
Your Ulysses is brilliant, Skelator (beg your pardon). Enjoyed it. Does it occur that Newscum & Co managed to STEAL much of that CA deficit; Schumer, Pelosi, Browne, Doug & Kamala, need I continue? All are wealthy beyond belief, mostly in middle-class (or supposed to be) occupations, and they certainly have access. If Doug Emhoff is a financial genius, I'm Elvis 2.0. Nice try, no cigar. Any thoughts on this? As always, great show. Thank you. KBV
Dr Hanson, in this world, what is wrong with predators? Aren't all successful people at least a little predatory at heart? I'm a 1955 Boomer from South Dakota; seems everything was either a predator or supper, one way or another. Love your Skelator ref; I used to joke I was He-Guy, had Battle Dog and War Cat, cause I was skin & bones and had an old sword. Sorry, Langella was uglier, lol. And I'm no Prince Adam. Could you conjugate "sup", as in super, supper, and supplicant some time? You'd know.
Good morning, Dr Hanson. Isn't the altitude, airspeed, location, and vector of the Blackhawk not-quite-training protocol? I watched it almost live on Newsmax, both aspects; knew there were no survivors immediately. Kind of close to the White House, Capital, SCOTUS; I believe the Trump's were in the residence. Not sure if Congress was still there, but that Blackhawk slammed into that jet head-on, full speed no swerve or correction, and the guy in the tower knew they were colliding. Hmmm...? KBV