Patriotism and the Greatest Generation

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So Today, Victor, we're going to pick up a few topics we Ris in our last podcast U State Senator Weener from California now backing off his St for Israel bullied by his trans allies Um, the leading Democrat Senate candidate in Michigan that primaries in August is Abdul Al Sayed and he has Um The Washington B Beacons' reporting reporting on some of the craziness he's talked about Two major Supreme Court rulings have come out today on mail in ballots and on the president's ability to remove agency Heads and Victor, if we have time, I'd like to talk to you, getet your thoughts about water as a weapon Americans disdain for farmland being sold to foreign powers And we have a couple of stories about massive fraud. 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Daily Signal listeners qualify for an automatic fifty to seventy five percent tuition scholarship and can learn more at go dot pepperdine d. edu slash daily Sal It's go. pepperdine. edu slash daily signal. We are back with Victor Davis Hanson in his own Wds, Victor earlier today Monday On Morning Joe. Mika Brzinski says this to state Senator Scott Weiener what And what do you think is happening here with I mean in Gaza where a pro trans rally would never happen What's happening to the issues that liberals champions as it pertains to this sharpness now in terms of support for Israel? How do you explain it? and this howener who was we discussed in the last episode Uh, Almost almost physically assaulted by his trans allies at a rally in San Francisco. He says, Well, yes, I mean, I've been very I'm Jewish and Israel is home to half of all the Jews on the planet and it matters to Jews globally. And the Israeli government is an abomination. And I've been very clear, I believe that the Israeli government has committed genocide in Gaza and that I do not support US. funding for the Israeli military. I'm not going to support US. funding for the destruction of Palestinian communities. Yes, blah blah, blah Go ahead, Victor All he has to do, I mean, I get so tired of that. All I have to do is say this. October seventh three to five thousand Palestinians. Gazans at a time of peace Peace down the barrier came in U their knowledge that they had been treated very well, twenty thousand were guest workers in Israel. They knew where the Kabutsas were, they knew where the health centers were, they knew where the military was They use that knowledge And they came in And they butchered twelve hundred people. They didn't just butcher them. they tortured them They beheaded them They committed necrophilia on corpses. They rape mass rape people, they kill children, they put them in microwaves. They did every abominable medieval act you can imagine And then they went back But I should note that when it was Given the information was given to the people of Gaza, they tagged along. five or six hundred of them wanted to get in, loot, rape, kill they had particular little cards to help them, prompt cards, spread your legs in Hebrew And then they went back to their billion dollar labyrinth that they had exaropriated UN and American funds and built a million billion dollar complex With two hundred and what forty something hostages that they took with them. and of course they entered their complex through hospitals, mosques and schools so that they would not be hurt using human shields And then you say to the Israelis, they waited three weeks. actuallyually, they waited almost four weeks And they said, please give back the masterminds who organize this, the actual murders and the hostages. And they said no. So then I asked Mr. Scott Wener, Commander in chief, Scott Wiener. he's ahead of a country. Now what would you do? tell you what you can do I can tell you what we did. We were ready to invade Normandy and people said The Germans have French engineers on all of the trains The depots that we have to hit to stop the panzers being brought in on trains are all operated by French u, engineers mechanics u maintenance people and They have put Tigers and panthers and assemble them near school And Churchill said Keep it to ten thousand Town and killed in France Not just during D day, but for the whole course of the war, more people than the Nazis did And we did that because the Nazis deliberately used them as the Palestinians use their civilians as the Gazan people. And so what do you do? They always say genocide, genocide, but they never say what you're supposed to do. Surrender C to the UN Go to the International Commission on Human Rights International Criminal Court. I'm an Israeli and I complain. to I want to sue the people No You give them time to reconsider, they don't reconsider, then you go in and you try to toim many civilian casualties. you you're going when you know there's a bunch of rockets and there's a bunch of Hamas people and they're hiding in the basement, you text the entire building and say, get out and they do that. I don't think they do that to anybody Doid they say Do they text on october seventh and say, Hey, Kaboots, we used to work for you. If you didn't have anything to do with the IDF or you're just a civilian, get out Get out. They don't do things like that And so then it became fashionable. People don't even know what october seventh is. They just mouth this And then, you know, like, Most of the politicians in the Democratic partarty, they cave And what they don't understand is that that party is driven T factions One is the DEI faction And the other is the pro Islamic fashion And the DEI and what unites them is socialism They say they're first of all all socialist. The others are radical Islamicists and the others are radical DEI liberals and they're not compatible. Some of the most racist people that I've ever met in my life and the most sexist and the most anti homosexual are from the Muslim Arab world. That's the core constituency of DEI. So what they do is Here's the peace agreement they've done. They say, listen. Don't attack us. Everybody will attack the right. Trump, Trump, he's racist, he's sexist. He's transphobic. He's homophobic. We won't mention you guys in our own party that make Tump like an amateur in his hatred If he has any at all So that's what what they're doing. are They are a DEI Socialist Islamicist partarty and there's no room for anybody And the only good thing about it The logic is something like this, Jack. In twenty twenty four, Cammala Harris. ran for president And she was a socialist. She said that she wanted no borders They let in twelve million people, ten thousand a day. She had been forred deepf on the police She had said the riots, basically, the demonstrations won't stop. They're going to go on George Floyd Riots then she had said Jicy Smallllet was a modern lynching. And she was at the forefront. She had the most left wing voting record in the U S. Senate I think it was more extreme than Bernie Sanders. And what did she do in twenty twenty four She ran on. I'm for fracking now Oh, I didn't really mean it when I said no more deportations. I think we have to have deportations I'm for border security I thought it over. we should not defund the police. In other words, she went to the middle And she got close. She lost by a million and a half votes. Otherwise she would have lost by five million The Point is this If in twenty twenty four the Democrats ran with a socialist and felt the socialist was too far left, so they had to fake it into making her a old time Democrat. Well, why would they think a communist would have better luck as a moderate than a socialist in twenty twenty eight. And for that matter, look at twenty twenty They had a lot of socialists up there. They had Bernie Sanders, they had Elizabeth Warren, they had the Culian Castro, they had Butudajig. They were far left of the Democratic Party And what did they do They brought in all Joe Biden from scratch The workkingers man, the guy who said that he didn't want his kids living in a racial jungle. The guy who said that Barack Obama was the first clean, clean, articulent black person to run for president. Just horrible stuff, he said put you all in chains. all that stuff. So they nominated him for this explicit purpose that he would be a moderate veneer and hide their socialism. and he won He won And so they don't have any record of winning with socialism anywhere outside a purple state. We'll see in Texas Maybe we'll see in Michigan with those two Senate races but I doubt it. I'm not sure that either one of them is going to win But I know that you don't solve the problem of being too left by They're nominating a communist. in twenty twenty eight So Mandami is talking really big, big, big, big, big, big, big, you know, where this is the way with the future, but he can't point to any states or red states where it's taking hold and it won't take hold We saw a version of it. The tea party was very different It incorporated a lot of mainstream Republican it was angry about two things, spending too much money and Obamacare. and rhinos But never less in that foollowing primary They nominate a lot of poor candidates for Senate. They could have taken the Senate back But they they were tagged as too extreme They were not too extreme in terms of these people relative to right and left. These people are really out there and do they think that's going to help them I should ask Eugene Debs how he did in five elections Well, maybe they can ask, I don't know, they can ask George McGovern how he did We know talking about Michigan, the Michigan Senate candidate is Abdul Al Sayed and he's leading in current polling We'll see. Yeah he he is there's a webinar that's come out of him appearing alongside a murderer I'm reading Washington Free Beacon Pieacece now. and a registered sex offender in a webinar with a prison abolition group endorsed he endorsed any and all efforts to get people out of jails and prisons. and said locking up criminals was akin to robbing them. of their freedom and he Mondami said he's been a big success. Everybody's Everybody's got money will leave New York pretty soon But what and he said he took credit for the crime. He's only been in office what six months and not even that. and he's already bragging that the crime didn't go down for him. It went down because Trump deported four hundred thousand criminals nationwide and closed the borders and got tough on sentencing. And that was a great gift to New York that Trump gave to them By the way, on that front, two things, Victor I was at last week Friday, Saturday Faith and Freedom Coalition confonerence in Washington. A Ralph Reed's organization. and Tom Holman spoke and he came out on the stage and as soon as he came out, this guy is just a rock star I mean, everyone who appeared there was a Trump spoke tooube But at home and there's something truly authentic about him, but he was talking about these going after these They found one hundred forty seven thousand children now. to think that The United States of America under Biden would allow all these children here, many of them to become s of perverts is just it's a true national sin. and But Han' doing' just a tremendous work. It is. and that's an untold story. Nobody talks about it because left wing people have exemptions, they can do almost anything. It's not good for the Democratic Party to control all these institutions and excuse everything. because It just emboldomens them to be even more radical You know, I gave an interview Today to Voice of America And they were tal we were talking about the difference between immigrants today And in the past, people aside from the fact of illegality in many cases One of the things that's not being talked about, and I know I'll get criticized for this, but here it is If you look at the candidates Sal A, suba A Chabalet, I should say and AOC and Machida to leave and Mandami and to go on, but the king pins They're mostly first or second generation M F first or second generation immigrants, and they come from areas that to be candid and a little blunt or failed miserable places such as Ghana Yeah Caribbean or many Latin American countries or Mexico, and I could very much expand that list to almost fifty to sixty percent of them are. So they come to this country either with their parents or their parents came and they were born. And then they sense they put their feelers up, their little antennae and they learned very early on that if you trash this country the left will protect you and advance you and no matter how much money you have AOC's parents were pretty affluent. Elen Omar claimed she was worth thirty million. Mndami's a multla millionaire settler colonialists from Uganda. Um, When you look at all of them, they have nothing but for contempt This Sal Sabal, whatever name is Sabal. She saidays she wipes her hands on the American flag and all of this stuff then don't come. There's no reason you have to come. You came here because it was prosperous and safe And there was not inbred tribal racism as in all these countries Apparently the people came with Omar Ilon Ilon, Omar because They were on the side of the genocidal Said berry. They keep saying genocide, genocide. The only person that really is a genocidal maniac was Said Berry, the head of the Somalia government of which a lot of these immigrants' parents were part of, including Ilen Omar. Nobody ever says to her when she walks down the street Genocide, genocide, your dad has blood blood on his hands Oh no, he was only a colonel. He was a schoolteacher. He was an instructor No, no, no, you have the same latitude as when you call other people genocide genocidal. so It's something we don't talk about, but you know what it's done? It has soured so many people you talk to about legal immigration. That used to be our strength And we've had so many wonderful immigrants from Europe Australia Canada All over the world. Mexico And yet they came legally, they came in manageable numbers. they were diverse, they didn't come in big swarms And they didn't try to immediately say to the United States, You're wanting, you're this, you're bad. I want stuff from you. And then this big lie that immigrants commit are less likely to be on Federal or local assistance, that's been blown up and out of the air with billions of dollars of fraud, eighty percent more likely to be on assistance And so we've changed our attitude about immigrants, especially when you have sixteen percent of the population and fifty three million here. and they don't like they don't like the way the United States is It's like you say to I'm having a open house and somebody comes over to your house uninvited and He wasn't invited. just walks in your house and says All of the food is terrible This is an ugly house. You're a sexist. I hate this place. Oh, by the way, I'm gonna sit down at your table and I like that ribeye over there and then I would like that fine Chardonnay and what is for dessert And then when you eat and feast, you say, I got to get out of here someday, but I want, you know what? I think I'll just If you don't mind, I'll move into the back bedroom That's what the attitude is. And the host says can't believe this But how many hosts would put up with that Almost none And then when you factor in the Democratic Party is encouraging this because they have a bankrupt agenda that appeals to thirty or forty percent. So they're bringing in millions of constituents. and then the moment they do it, Anybody complain you're a racist You believe in the great replacement that No, you do You're the one that says demography is destiny and the new Democratic majority And believe me, if All these people coming in from Haiti were' right wing Cubans. Can you imagine right now after the Supreme Court said they could be deported? You'd have all these anti Iice protesters protesting to drive them out You really would. you're right on the legal immigration side because these stories that just seem to be too many and too hard to that they're very believable about the fraud, the international fraud, the rackets for getting green cards or the rackets with the H one B visas where people are claiming that they have college degrees when they don't The NGO I had hundreds of billions of NGO dollars abroad. So you just think this is all Aack it is I was just talking to, I won't mention any detail. He's a wonderful person. He was just reciting Not too long ago, he had a ruptured appendix. He went into the ER. He had health insurance. They said it wasn't acceptable health insurance. couldn't get a CT And the people everybody in there was getting CTs if they needed it and X rays with Medical cards except him paid five thousand dollars in cash to get a CT because they didn't take this particular brand of insurance I said to them I feel, I don't want to exaggerate, but I feel like on one of my podcasts, I mentioned that I go to a local food market and I see people with numerous EBT cards. and He basically said And of course you do And then he said, He knew of the place. I said, I counted five BMWs. And I was right behind a person that had four EBT cards and she climbed into a Tesla Y And those are I could not believe it. So what's going on And what's going on is If you come to this country and you sayay you're indigent, you're lavagage with housing, education, legal health and food subsidies thenen you can go work and you don't pay you insist on being paid in cash and then your children will get DEIA preferences to go to coll. And it's what I'm getting at. I'm not criticizing. I'm saying it's a very generous country California wanted to clean up the mess that it's in If you had Steve Hilton and Steve Hilton said, you know what? I'm afraid we have a multib billion dollar black market in California. And I think a lot of it is immigrants who are having canes, who are working off the books for cash, notot that they're exclusively sold, everybody seems to do it. And I'm going to clamp down on it. I'm going to go after people who deal in cat, you would get so much tax revenue It's really frustrating for For many, we were talking about this that you have to pay federal state, local Obamacare in California up to thirteen point three. So you get hundred dollars, but you only get fifty fifty seven dollars and then you pay somebody thirty dollars or forty dollars an hour and they really get sixty because you know, there's not getting taxes. And then you're the oppressor I don't know when you call it's just insidious And so the immigration thing is really hurting us in so many ways we don't discuss It's not only there's so much fraud that we're just now learning billions of dollars in California, billions. And we haven't gone after it because Democratic addministrations either are afraid it's embarrassing to them, so they cover it up or they have some twisted logic that these people are DEI people and therefore They've been oppressed and this is just a cry of the heart to get back whats they deserve by crimin and and talk about it, but it's kill killing the state And I just think people are tired. They just say, you know what Let's just have one hundred fifty thousand immigrants and let's make it very, very competitive And let's say you have to know English and we'll give you a test and see if you know anything about the Gettysburg address or something about And then we will let you in for a green card for two years to see if you don't commit a crime and you don't go on welfare That would be very easy and the Democratic Party would do this Yeah, the oath of citizenship or, I don't know if you have to take an oath of some sort when you get a green card. That's like a contract. It's not it's not your permanent status. I mean, if you take the oath and swear allegiance, etceta, and then as you talk you know AOC or these or whatever her name is up in Minnesota, trash the country. Well, you violated the contract. Get the hell out. Did you watch Mark Wayne Mullin's testimony? he basically said to these crazy deemocrats, What is it you don't understand about temporary residence for the Haitiian? Temporary, temporary, ten years Ten years They've been temporary and overextended their gracious stay and they haven't shown a lot of magnaminity. There ever had some person on the television. she said, We built this country. No, you didn't Well, this idea that I built this country, we built this country We did this. We helped build a railroad. that built the whole United States She has no idea. that's not true at all And A lot of people built the country and we never talk about the majority population who did most of the building and didn't oppress people, they did it themselves. but we always say this particular tribal group built the country No, no, we did. We built the country. We were exploited. No, we were No, no, you may have been exploited. You played a contributor in war, but you didn't build the country. you know, I so it's it's that's another thing we have to live with is every group says ourur people built the country. Jews. you can't say the Jews. they did nothing right. Jews Yeah cant Yeah. That's so funny these very, very liberal people. are very, very candid about why they hate the Jews And I don't know where that came from, but I mean historically you can see where it comes from. But at this time in this moment, I have a theory that it had a lot to do with immigration. I really do. I think when you had so many millions of people coming in And the Democratic Party welc him in. and then they turned out to be very, very illiberal and intolerant and tribal. and one of the things that they had been given as their mother's milk was anti Semitism especially in the Middle East, but also elsewhere then the Democratic Party said, Oh my gosh This new constituency is illiberal pro Islamicism. They hate Jews. Well, I guess we better do too because they're the future of the party I don't know when this video happened was recorded, but Neil Tyson and I don't remember his last name, you know, I think the voice of God is going to tell whisper my ear what it is, but He he was doing a breakdown of Nobel Prize winners in the hard sciences so chemistry medicine, physics, and they threw in even economics twentyw five percent of the winners of all have been Jews T million Jews on the planet And they won that many. How many hard science winners We're Muslim J two people. And you have to factor in the fact that Europe is not known for being a funny place for Jews So it wasn't as if people said, he's Jewish. I'd like to give him a little boost to with the Nobel Prize vote. No, it's just the opposite It's just the opposite So to Norway, if you want. And the only thing that's inexplicable and it is not inexplicable why so many Jews are left wing because I don't think In the fifth and sixth generation and many of them in the United States, they consider them self Jewish anymore. Scott Weiener, I don't think does Well, he said he did, but I don't think maybe he's an observant Jew. Maybe he he only likes Israel when there's a left wing government there. Yeah. Well, you I'm a Jew religiously, I'm a Jew culturally. they're two different two different things. You could be both, but some people. I want to bring up another thing or two related to this, but first to our viewers and our listeners. 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I think was yesterday' hot backack on Hamas, we were talking about before that in East Jerusalem, a tunnel was found. Guns, bombs, etcetera. I don't know if you saw that news, but U God knows how many of these things are still hanging around hanging around ready and waiting for further mayhem and madness. So I just wanted to make Note of that to are goodood listeners out there. Um Th also Also on the fraud front, Victor U HHS Secretary Kennedy and Dr. Oz, who spoke the other day at that conference, he was very entertaining, very good. They found a million people enrolled in Obamacare without social seecurity numbers on file. So there's a massive number fraud And then one last thing on fraud I forget where I saw this article. ICE has announced a jaw dropping fraud bust, saying ten thousand foreign students are involved in the federal government's They call it the optional practical training. There are empty buildings. where hundreds of students should be quote unquote working as part of their ability to be in America. This is run by foreign linked groups that send money out of the country. But what happens if you go to these buildings They're locked doors. There are hundreds of students sharing the same address. their employers share the same unleased addresses, There' phantom employees, et cetera. That's just a little thing. that's a blip. But how many of these blips are occurring on our tax dollars fictor. So anyay, I don't know. I know I think I repeated this story where we and my former incarnation as a professor in the California State system. we had a big exchange program because The institution I spoke at had a world renowned irrigation program People all over the Middle East came as, um foreign students and they were lanation. In other words, if one took your class, ten did They all sat in the same place And they kind of drove the professors crazy because many of them were accused of copying with each other. and they said, Well, what does it matter? We don't speak English that well. I was very nice to them. I tutored them. I got to know a couple of them. They were very, very wealthy. One guy had a red sports car and a beautiful girlfriend, American girlfriend. He was very happy here They were all going back then nine eleven happened And he wrote me this from the Middle East country in which he was in, which had I won't say how many hijackers had come from it, but a number had. And he said We are in the basement On day five after seeptember eleventh, we're afraid you're gonna nuke us I think Anne Colter had written something about with you know, Nuke something, I think in Jazz. She don't think she yeah turn it into a parking lot or something like that Yeah Yeah and con convert the survivors toestions. So anyway, yeah It was she was announ be Yeah. That was how you hired me as I remember that she left and then you had an opening and I that was my fortuitous? Yes, my first regular gig And then anyway, uh I wote back and said, I don't think you have to worry you could come out.'re not going to do that. And then there was no reply, but you remember withithin a couple of weeks that was september eleventh. I think sometime in early October we went into Afghanistan. Right. Once we were in there, he wrote back and said May the ashes of The World Trade Center, keepeep your heart warm, professor Oh my gosh. Yeah. So that that was kind of And I thought that what ratitude? I wrote back and I just wrote, what ingratitude Anyway, I I'm I have a radical. I used to make a big distinction between legal and illegal immigration because we have so many wonderful legal immigrants But and now I make a distinction between legal immant, all illegal immigrs should be stopped But legal immigrants who came, say, twenty years before I don't know, just to pick an arbitr. sayay at two thousand five And earlier, they're very different than the ones the last twenty years Or maybe we the host are different Well, we, I mean, our welfare programs are in such different And although I think it does, but depend on what your culture is. If you're ever Somali, you mentioned earlier If you're here for ten years, I think I saw a number like eighty eight percent of the Somalis in America are in as grandma used to call it, government relief But if you're from I don't know, New Zealand coming here, the numbers are not like that. If you're greatree And do people really Do they really check to see? I mean, the Supreme Court ruled on mail and ballots and said they can come after election day? I could not figure that out. Well, yeah, let's talk about that. G ahead. We won't Do Does anybody really try to find out who the ballots are mailed to, if they're citizens or not? They don't have to have any ID other than you can have any credit card without a picture on it to register you if you don't have a c a license or ID card You can be given an ID number and register and be given a ballot the same day. It seems to me that the Supreme Court since Constitution says They will um They will delegate individual decision making to the state. so that I think has been interpreted by the course hours in which you will vote, different poll closings, different types of conduct. but arereas of national concern, eighteen year your vote eighteen year old vote Women's suffrage, that they can step in and apply it nationwide under the Constitution So when they say about You can you can have a mail ballot counted after So will elect on or before election day? Yes It seems to me that you could just say very easily, if you wanted mail in ballots They have to be postmark are delivered U forty eight hours before election day because what we're doing is these ballots pour in And you can't the vote in California and then they they end up in the wrong hands. and everybody knows it. So why don't you just say If you're going to do a mail invalidot, plan ahead have an ID that you have to show someone to get a mail and ballot And then You have to be a little bit considerate of the rest of the electorate and make sure that it's in the hands of the registrar when ball the polls close And then they can be counted along with the other ballots. But I can't see why two conservative justices wouldn't see that I read an outline of their decision. I can understand that, you know, that There's extuous extraneous circumstances and all that, but they don't understand apparently that it really hurts the whole nation when you can't get Anytime you don't get a prompt reliable count Everybody suspects the process and it undermines your confidence. in the election. I was reallyally, you know, shocked when Bill Mare just interviewed JD Vans and he asked him about are you going to be an election denialist J And JD pointed out some problems with the twenty twenty election, precisely those that Molly Ball and that much infamous that very emphasis emphas in famous February infamous two thousand T one esssay in Time magazine where she bragged about a conspiracy, quote unquote and a cabal quote, unquote, how they chang the voting laws to have primarily primarily mail in ballots. So he had legitimate concerns, but what I wanted is ask Bill Mare, if I were JD, I would have said Well, did you speak up when Stacey Abrams toured the country and said she was a real governor of Georgia when she lost by fifty thousand votes I didn't hear anybody say that. I didn't and she could have said, well, What did you think when Hillary toured the country for two years, twenty seventeen eighteen and said, quote Donald Trump is not a legitimate president. Did you say anything, Bill Mare when Jimmy Carter said Donald Trump did not win the election legitimately O most of the Democratic partarty bought into this hoax of Russian collusion just for the purpose of saying he was not legitimately elected. So fact, part of the things we loved about America once upon a time, apple pie and all that. was was the election day, at least the sanctity of it in a sense. There was some like, this is great day. I'm going to do my duty today. Yeah. you saw all of your neighbors you go, I would go down with my parents the first time I I voted when I was eighteen came home from school for the day. I drove all the way down here and I went to the fire station. miles away and it was like a First of all, the first thing you had to do and this is California, remember everyone and I had to show my driver's license and then they had computer printout list of every single name And then they would cross it out and I could see William, Pauline Ns, Alfred Victor Hansen, and I was always proud beat my parents for the polls. But then sa you saw all the people the local farmers there It was a big firehouse There was no agitation, no campaign signs. and who was running it the most sober, judicious League of Women voters who were aolitical And they were instantly recognized as a sixty five year old librarian that you're seventy year old kindergarten teacher all sober stud citizens to oversee it and they would say things like There's no talking in the ballot person alone, don't bring anybody in there. And then once in a while one of these nice ladies would walk outside and don't discuss politics within thirty feet of the And that was an American it was like a holiday tradition It's a joke now. It's a complete joke Plus remember, you know, Jimmy Carter and others we were the nation that was going to adjudicate international elections. We were going to go to other countries and moralize that this was legitimate or this was not legitimate, which I think we could do at that time, But to think that we we are the one nation in the West that doesn't have photo ID I know. That was what was so brilliant about people in the Trump administration. You know, I read Mark Mooyer's book on the abuses of USAID and it's shocking to read But I confoness I feel guilty that when that came up last year about cutting back USAID. I thought it was really necessary, but I didn't see it as one of the crucial platforms. But now I do I can see what they were arguing. They were basically saying USAID goes into Latin America, South America, the Caribbean, Africa and sides with these destructive leftist groups and tries to imprint a left wing American cultural agenda and really interferes in the internal affairs of autonomous nations And that's why they were angry. They were angry, angry. and then they enlist local people who get lavish you know, salaries to work for USAD and then they come over here And that's all a left wing monopoly. paying for it, folks Hey, Victor, we're going to take a little And then you mentioned water before And I think I'd like to raise a water issue with you. You're an expert on it, and we'll do that when we come back from these important messages We must all hang together. or most assuredly we shall all hang separate They knew that this would be regarded by the King and Parliament. as an act of treason. So the people who signed that We're basically saying we're revoling against the most powerful country in the world The Declaration of Independence reminds Americans who they are Its words are ingrained in our memory Its virtues are etched into our character. Its principles are impressed upon our destiny Its signers carved out a new nation in the new world For two hundred and fifty years, The Declaration of Independence has inspired their descendants to defend their liberties Liberty doesn't want pass from one generation to the next through the bloodstream. It has to be fought for, defended, won with every generation. But there's nothing more important for which we would give our lives. But history has a way of making the unthinkable ineable But the Declaration of Iependence was never inevitable. The Declaration of Independence is the culmination of one of the greatest political traumas in history. As ideas clash, as armies gather, as the fate of a continent hung in the balance. The hopes of millions wanting independence rested with a small group of statesmen willing to risk everything they have their lives, their fortune, and their sacred honor. This is the story behind America's Declaration of Independence The story of how a Declaration became a nation Sacred honor presresented by the Daily Sal Premiering on YouTube, july second. twenty twenty six We are Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. We are recording on Monday, the twenty ninth of June and Episode will be up on Thursday, july second we're anticipating U here in the Northeast, hundred degrees and humid on those are early July days right around the Independence Day holiday I think that's probably a cool day for what you experience in the central Valley. but It makes us loveove our air conditioning and I'm not going to back into this issue, but I just I just love that Americans love air conditioning. and every year when it happens a thousand French people die. Well, there are many more friend this has come up by like why are you so adamant against Cooling. when so many people, I think Annually in Europe, about one hundred and twenty five to one hundred fifty thousand people die from the heat. versus dying from the cold, although it's from the cold, it takes so they spend so much money per person to heat. And of course, we talk about nausea, you're getting rid of the nuclear plants, you're getting rid of your access to natural gas, etcetera. But there's something to them religious about haaving air conditioning. I know ice cubes. It's performance art virtue signaling and they don't mention China or India or And they blame us. They blame they're dying because we have air conditioning and we heated the planet and only the virtuous are sacrificing on the altar of climate change for us You know, it's funny.' I used to have a wonderful partner, Alph Philillip, and the two of us for twenty years We conducted military history tours. started out on a whim. We had, I think thirty people. We ended up with like one hundred and eighty. going with one hundred another hundred on the and moment. Yeah. Yeah. And then I got ill in twenty twenty four, so I had to stop it. We went to the Nate, we'd always go, the point I'm making is who were the people who were going on the tours They were self employed, conservative for the most part. Every once in a while four or five left wing people would come and they didn't understand Right. There was no, I mean, and they would come up to me and say, my gosh They weren't the very, very wealthy, but they were the well off, but they were in small they weren't professors they were doctors Not very many lawyers, but accountants, business people, real estate really talented people and very well informed. So when we would go to these European, we took them to Strasbourg and the Parliament, we took them to the EU quarters in Brussels, but we also took them to the NATO hip It was very hard. So we were going we went in there and of course, They were surprised. We had one hundred and forty people there. And the guy gave thought He was an Englishman and he thought he was going to and there was a Dutch person too. And they were going to give us their standard boiler plate And they did. And first off, it was we want to remind everybody there's only been one country in history that dropped the atomic bomb So it's the United States at Hiroshima, and are you kidding?'s what they Yeah, they told us that. And then the other then another person said something to the effect that Oh I know you're in Russels and it's human today, but We don't really want to contribute to climate change and other people donon't do their fair share. They do this. And then the question and then it was over. Questions came and It was it was amazing and you know, People were really brilliant. so one person would say Were you aware that fifteen thousand people were dying in Asia by Japanese brutality, and the fire bombing from march eleventh had not stopped the ability to kill people. And the Japanese army was a killing machine. and Okinawa, we had lost twelve thousand dead and fifty thousand wounded And it was not declared secure on june twenty fifth And we were supposed to invade and they had seven thousand kamikazes ready for us. Are you aware of that? How many lives have saved, Chinese lives? And No I wasn't. And then he said, And then the next question And so you're telling me that you don't want to invest in your people or you have such a sluggish, inefficient economy. You can't even provide basic coolness and heat for your own people. That is completely yourour fault and you should be ashamed of yourself much less We have air conditioning because we take the hard work of market capitalism and create wealth. We don't suck it from other people. So this one on the poor guy He came up to me later And he said goodnight Could I talk to you in a corner, mister Hanson You said on the one hand These were the brightest most informed people I've ever met for American tourists. I can tell them anything and that's not good, but they don't question it. In fact, they try to ask questions that make their country look bad. Like I said, I can imagine they do They don't represent Middle America, most tourists. These people do And they are brilliant people. then And then he said, Will you be coming back next year? And I said, No, I think that they got a dose and they are they they kind of knew what it was going to be like and every year I don't play a trick on them, but I try to One year we had the leading Austrian When we went to Vienna, he was sort of like Mike Wallace, who investigated his journalism. And, you know, when you go to the EU are things and world're all this and And I always do it and He was totally freaked out because he was the expert on NATO. They were questioning NATO One person said Well, wasn't Lord Ismay, didn't he say that the idea of NATO was to keep Germany down, Russia out in America? And how is that working right now And don't you think that The only reason that Germany has not dominated is because France and Britain have nuclear weapons. Well, I wouldn't say that. That's a very cynical view It was really brilliant to see all these guys just on a passassionedly And that was one of the things, that was my point, that they had sacrificed themselves for global warming for us And therefore they were dying like droves and heat waves. and we weren't because we were selfishly turnurning on our air conditioning and heating up France Yeah, I have a feeling they think it's there's a Malthusian streak in them most so let's get get easy way to get rid of grandma this summer. that always happens that way. It is. they do. By the way, Vict, I'm spinging this on you. off all those you did so many of those tours. Was there something you would have wanted to have done? I know you're never going to do them again, given all the od you' done and travel. Was there something you wanted to have done but did not do Well, we have from the beginning, said we were talking about the Western tradition. So we took I think We went to Spain, France, Italy, Greece Israel Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic Um Gosh, I can't think Netherlands Belgium, I can't think of a major country we didn't go to And we had we had a really good I had guest lectures come Europeans always had I would hire two or three European selecture And it was fascinating because, you know, You go to Dresden, you talk about the bombing raid at Dresden, and then you get a discussion from, you know What was the effect of the P fifty one versus the P forty seven? You, that type of detail came out in every single talk And we have them every morning and then every Most evenings as well, two of them And I had some really good speakers that would come Tom Connor, a military history from Thisistorian from Hillsdale, myself, Bluce Thornton A David Price Jones came up I think on once or twice. The Germ German editor of Zeit Joseph Joff he came so he writes for a strategic usil. Yes, he does. And we had that that caliber of speaker and Al, I mean, Al was a genius. He took us everywhere and he would map up. he would go all the way over to Europe And then on a cell phone called me almost every day, said, okay I'm in Berlin and this is exactly four and a half hours for me to get to this particular place and he would time it And when we would go there, everything worked like clockwor Yeah Yeah. Maybe one time we had a problem because of the But it wasn't our fault. It was an Italian bus driver fell asleep and he didn't pick us up in time. And you what they did? He came in forty minutes late and we were late to the airport. without even asking, most of the people were in their fifties, sixties, seventies. We had to people in their nineties. They immediately opened both cargo doors ono the bus, you know? And they loaded the people loaded all their stuff within five minutes why this Italian driver was wouldn't lift a finger And well And then we got in and you know, it was it was It was a wonder Wonderful experience. if I ever get over this stuff, I might do it again. I'll see On behalf of my people, I apologize half of my people anyway. Victor, let me ask you about water since we brought it up. This is a California storians headline Napa Valley Vineyard ownwners fuming over law imposing steep fees for groundwater use. Now I know not too many people are going cry Napa Valley vineyard owners like Nancy Pelosi's husband, but here's the story California Napppa Valley is fermenting into a full blown revolt as furious mard owners warn a new fee could leave them paying tens of thousands of dollars a year, the latest financial punch threatening to crush the struggling wine industry. There's a new law that put in effect last summer. wineries will have to pay ninety nine dollars per acre on land. they rergate et cera, et cetera Itesn't sound a lot, but some of these the acreage is large. The industry is in trouble and it's they will go up They're angry that they know it's going to go up every year And there's their use of water as a weapon by. Yeah. and they want They want to meter your own So if you have a well and you're talking about a domestic pump, I think that was sixty seven dollars a month I don't think that's constitutional in the in the California Constitution, as I remember, it explicitly states that every property owner has mineral rights for all the liquids and solids that are valuable below his property whether that's gold or oil or anything. and that includes water So the idea that the state can come in and says you can't take water beneath your own property I think is unconstitutional. But it raises another problem with this lunatic state, and that is If you were going to look at the three industries that were iconic of California and that we're really drivers of robust economic growth Maybe not the biggest ones, but some of the biggest. So you have Silicon Valley with fourteen trillion dollars of market capitalization Then you have this multibillion dollar Napa valley Napa Sonoma area with all of this invested capital and You know, it's it is it's tourism. You go on one hundred one on a Sunday afternoon. if you're going out that way, it's bumper to bumper in the morning and bumper to bumper coming back. It's a huge tourist. And some of these wine tasting things They are fashioned after European ancient monasteries with the exception that They have space age restrooms, restaurants. I mean, they're beautiful And then you would say Hollywood And if you look at what democratic governments have done to all of these, Silicon Valley When you see people like Peter Till And the Google people leave and Mark Andreesen and what Ben Horwit said the other day about about it and going to Texas, going to Tennessee, going to Florida, Mark Zuckerberg I'm sorry. what did Andrewon say the other day? Well, he was talking about how Well, not just the other day, but continually just how Hostile The state is Silicon Valley. Yeah. And you get the and then always everybody's been talking about David Sachs, the millionaire tax And David Sachs had a really good presentation not too long ago The point is they are going after the people who We identify that drive Silicon Valley. And if they get their way, everybody said that you can't reproduce Silicon Valley anywhere else because it was a unique situation with the California laid back lifestyle. Stanford University on one horn of the one side of the Silicon Valley. you see Berkeley on the other And Bay Area liberal politiciian, that d and the old sense of you know, Pat Brown or Jerry Brown or something They are destroying Silicon Valley and they'll drive people out when they go after millionaires and billionaires and they' and they now don't like Silicon Valley, especially because of the AI issue. They if they want to destroy agriculture The problem the people in Napa, I know a lot of the wine growers, yes, they are wealthy, but not all of them are Hollywood producers W excellent No, Yeah. There's a lot. Yeahah, a lot of them are Erepreneurs, business people, a lot of them had nothing And they're not doing well right now because first of all There's a new health M awareness among young people, not people over forty, but the youth don't like to drink alcohol like they used to. They prefer vaping or marijuana. I don't know what it is, but they don't sit down and have wine anymore. And wine sales are down for that. They're down because of the tariffs and the anger at us and we're not in a we are have a lot of economic anxiety. So they weren't doing well anyway. and what they needed was less regulation for the state to come in and say now we're going to to assess you for the water that lies beneath your land. They have no idea how much it is. So they just give a flat rate. Somebody said, you're going to pay ninety eight dollars an acre. Well, one acre might have no water and the other might have a lot. They don't care. And then what they've done to Hollywood with U, the Union contracts per hour wage, the filth in Los Angeles, the hostility toward capitalism I think I think there's not more than thirty or forty percent of movies now are made in Hollywood. Yeah. TV shows, yeah, Yeah. And they're all being outsourced. And' they're destroying these three critical farming is very it's not good right now. Almond farming's not good right now. Nothing's good And the state has no concern over it whatsoever. And they have no concern about Naapa Valley. have no concern. I don't know why they don't welcome turnurned on Silicon Valley. You know, it used to be that was there their money. They talk about billionaires, billionaires, billionaires, but the billionaires they like are just people like George Sorls, but not the Silicon Valley billionaires that are actually working and creating things for everybody They don't like them anymore. I mean, I thought they'd say Mark Zuckerberg gave us four hundred seventeen million to Take over the work of the registrarars and key He swing states in twenty twenty, we owe him a debt of gratitude. They're They have nothing but contempt for the people used to give them Millions of dollars or or you know, politically we talked earlier about Weener, you know, he's one of the leading addvocates for the trans community and boy o boy, they turned on him Hey, Victor, one last quick take from you There was a pll. It' John McLaughin And as so love John the Polster by the way he's from the Bronx originally group around the corner from me. John they polled here's a question in order to stop the best American farmland soil from being bulldozed for foreign corporate profits and solar panels. So it's not just about foreign use. Do you approve or disapprove? of requiring the U. S. Department of Agriculture to protect farmland with local zoning to prohibit foreign owned solar companies from buying American farmland. and the approval was seventy six percent. That's you know I don't know that I'm surprised by that number, but I have a better solution for that It's just called reciprocity pass a law and say that any foreign entity that wants to buy X acres has to open up for American purchase the same amount of acreage. So if China wants to buy farmland near military bases, whatever the acreage they own, I think it's a quarter million acres. We get to have that much in China Everything across the board, sy syymmetry with tariffs oreign students. If China wants to have three hundred thousand foreign students or the Middle East wants one hundred fifty thousand, then we should They should at least give us the opportunity. Well, we'll take three hundred American students And you can buy farmland right next to Chinese Air Force base. And by the way, if you want to have a balloon go over your China, you can launch one. Just make it completely reciprocal And I think it would stop very, very quickly. But it's very sad, Jack too hear all these environmentalists about solar, solar, solar, solar When was the answer and we have the highest electricity rates. in the country and one quarter of all Southern California Edison and PG and E users don't pay their power bill Now maybe they hide under poverty but most of them can't afford it So they get exempt. So the rest of them, the price gets even higher. when they assess the k kilowattage even higher to make up for the twenty five percent is pain, not pain. then When you see that they don't have any mechanism to store solar and wind So we've had two Catastrophic fires at the Monerey Battery storage facility. Moss landing. It used to be a fantastically efficient coal and then it was oil and I think it's natural gas. They shut it down and made it a battery storage electrical plant. And it doesn't work. It's cost a fortune More importantly than that, If you go down, I go every week when I was well and I'm going to go back on Manning Avenue and it's just miles, miles, thousands of acres of solar panels. I'm talking it's just huge And that part of the valley along the coast range Um The west side of California that has imported water is Because of the elevation from the coast range down toward the middle of the state the more As you get toward the coast ranges and these slight elevations, it means the drainage is much better. It drains toward the flatter parts. But this place is right near very close to the coast range. So they're taking out thousands of acres of farmland And I guess the idea is, well, we we're going to we're going to violate this California water project contracts anyway and not give them any water. We're going to let it go out to the ocean for the deelta smell. They were doing that anyway So a lot of people sold out, but they don't even know how to store it. So they have a surplus of electricity during the day And then they have a dirt and what do they do? They buy it from Either Oregon, it's hydroelectric or more coal plants in Arizona, Utah. And here And we we used to be the trendetter with the nuclear power. We had Rancho Seiko and we had Uh, you know, we still have Diabolanon, but we only have one left. Newson was going to shut that down and then people shook him and said, if you shut that down, we're not going to have power. So It's really, I guess what you call it is desciivilization. when you take out power and you put an inefficient politically driven source there that you can't store and then we're importing u I think we have the fifth largest reserves of any of all the fifty states in natural gas and oil We were importing oil from Saudi Arabia And I can tell you that we can extract it a lot cleaner and more environmentally friendly than they can If you believe in planet Earth, And then we were reporting refined gas from the Caribbean. I think Japan, only they can meet our Very specific summer blends, veryery expensive to blend it And for marginal returns on the air quality. And of course, we just drove out to I think Phillips and Valero, we drove out two more refineries. so The only thing I don't understand about all this is everybody was upset when gas got to four dollars. I can guarantee you a year ago if you had said far before they Iraq war, Iran war. if you'd said to Californians, I am running for governor and I promise all of you, I will get gas down to four dollars a gallon. He would be elected because it was it was six. now we feel great. It's about five twenty. It's wonderful. Can't believe it. But we are accustomed to paying Five four, fifty to five dollars a gallon. The PS about the clean stuff, Victor, you know, you know For all those solar panels all the energy it took to them make them, import them. Then of course, they last maybe ten, twenty years and there's nothing you can do with them afterwards. Same thing with turbine blankes. What do you do? just Yeah Every time I go So there every time for energy. you Every time I go either through the Altamount Pass or Pacheo Pass I think it's a general rule that more turbines are out of commission than are turning.. And it's all politically and ideologically driven. and a lot of people made a lot of money off of it It didn't do the people any good and the The final know observation is that California professes to be very liberal. It has the highest poverty rate in the country and the greatest quality inequality rate here. We don't have a middle class anymore. We have a huge impoverished class fifty percent of whom Every birth fifty percent of all births are on Medical and forty percent of people are on. you know, subsidized welfare health carere. And it really impacts everything. So thank you, Gavin Thank you, Gavin. Gavin, Gavin. Now he's decided that he is a Quasi socialist He's kind of supporting kind of not, kind of supporting the billionaires tax but millionaires, but he wants it nationwide. so that California billionaires don't blame him and say, well, I just wanted it for everybody. All right, Victor, I'm gonna read two comments. We come to the end here almost. By the way, Jn,' this show iss out on July second and might recollection is this is the day the declaration was approved and John Adams wrote like this is the day we're going to celebrate from here on and turned out, of course to be july fourth because that was the day was U so happy S me qu centennial to folks. twow comments. One's from Marlene Mannion These are responding to things you had said in previous podcasts. Had a friend that had one child and was smart enough to go to Harvard when their son left to go to school. He was a very loving son, but when he came back He was the most radical and not an ounce of respect for his parents. To this day, he hasn't changed his view, which is so sad because his parents love him So much. Thanks for sharing that, Mallen, but I'm sure what that's a lot of people listening to the show know that intimately themselves or abutely their families And then the second and final comment here is from DK Mark seven one nine writes I believe upon graduating from high school, every American youth shouldould be required to serve at least one year in a branch of the military. Growing up in a military family instilled a deep appreciation for my country We were required to stand for the National Anthem and theaters on military bases. We ran to the flag poll every day for the raising of the flag, but most of all Living in less advanced countries like Turkey and the Philippines made us so proud of our country and the opportunities we have. Patriotism is a learned attitude. Amen, brother. I was reminded of that My father was what they called the Central fire control gun. First generation computer system on a B twenty nine putut somebody up in an exposed glass bubble and when peopleople radioed in or he had three hundred and sixty degree in a swivel chair. He could override all ten double fifty caliber for a second and point them all at one target And they took control you know, it was kind of controversial guys So I got a great shot Bill over here and Bill said, no he's going for the pilot. But I didn't think much of it. I didn't really talk about it, but He would visit people in his crew and a couple of them lived in California. I remember I as nine years old. And we went up to Mono Lake, a beautiful lake and one of the crew members had been on the plane. and My dad said, it's timee to go. He said, noobbody don't want to go. And he came over and grabbed me and said, Don't you talk to your father like that you know that on mission number twelve, mission number seventeen, mission number thirty eight, he was up in that bubble And he shot down two jakes that were going to blow us up. Then he turned around and he got another one And then he came around. And did you know he had chronic sinus infections? He had eardrum ures He didn't miss one mission. He never took sick leave He and the two pilots saved us And I said, I don't even I was only like eight years old. I said, yes, yes, yes, Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Please don't get angry at me. That was and that was that generation was id Did your dad ever say anything about twelve o'clock High the movie? Oh we watched all of those things. You'd always say let's go watch twelve o'clock High. let's go watch Um The warar lover. I don' think he liked that was Steve McQueen, I think All of those movies he liked a lot twelve o'clock high was a lot. He didn't too much He was severely I don't believe I don't he never used the word traumatic stress, but he had a very He was injured a lot. I don't and he got um He was in a I'll give you an example. He was in a local hospital and he was on Demeral for a very he fell off and broke his arm and they they took out his entire elbow joint and then fused it And he was in pain and He was half asleep. And this wonderful Japanese male nurse came in very rare then At the same time the gardener outside was spraying the windows with water. And it sounded like machine gun fire So all of a sudden he got up in the middle of his bed And he said, Cliff Cliff, I got him. I got him. I got him. got him he's a tony, Cliff. He's a tony. Hey, hey, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, give him give him, give get him give give him tony to him. he's got his got. he And then he said, there's the jap's coming right out and it was a Japanese nerse And then all my mom was just, o, I sorry, we're so sorry. But that happened a lot with him. He certain things, you know Yeah I think that' seen from the best years of our life. I think I told you he had this scrapbook of the you know squadron and we would sit there And he didn't like us to take it. We climb up in the, you know, like kind of like wall climbing and get these big scrap books and open them And then he We said, Ohh wow, there's Thumpper and had these beautiful. Well, where're stumpper boys out They got They got blown up over cobe then we said Whs Where's the damn Yankees? That one they had the, you know, they had a picture of the Yanke New York Yankees Yeah, and Where are they? Well, you know, their pilot, he didn't listen to directions sometimes and they didn't make it off Tinion and they just fell straight down and blew up And that was it was like And my mom would always say, Bill, that is enough Boys, they didn't all die. They didn't all die. What was the name of his plane Pretty pretty baby. had my mom was kind of kid had a girl one of the Wasn't Rita Hateworth, Maybe it was Betty Grable in kind of a swimming suit But most of them were, you know, Tokyo Express or things like that. and And they were very, very tough He had a plane next to him where the Gunner did not take out the fifty caliber magazines in the in the top blister gun And on Tinion it got up to one hundred and ten hundred and fifteen and they were all aluminum metal reflecting. and and the thing went off and just started rotating spontaneously started firing and he hit a Qanson hunt. I think it just killed somebody. killed a lot And he wouldn't talk about it except We said, well, I said, well, did they expel him? We were like ten. No boys. He was there three o'clock in the afternoon at four, we never saw him again So they sent you I don't know where you did you w anything, but These men all died for something and for They were Yeahah, we owe those people a lot and that's what It kind of drives me because I grew up in those stories and All the people he knew and my family members were killed and then they hear All of these people come over here and trash the United States and call it racist, sexist and horrible And I know people listening have all of these people. They heard these stories about Vietnam and Korea and And these people come to the country and they know nothing about it, they take no interest in it, but yet they enjoy the freedom and the security, the prosperity that was handed to them by these earlier generations And then they think that only one particular racial group or one particular oppressed group went through the depression. they have no idea what it was like The stories I heard about thirty people living in the house And then my grandfather getting a wheelbarrow and going to the train station to get sick people and get them near the train to the Mel T and then bring them out here And I think the record my mom said was forty five people were living in this house You know, and and they were all starving and they would all find well, Rese Davis has a farm and he's got fruit and dried fruit and they have a vegetable garden and they have cows. And they said, if we were coming, we could work there and we can get fed and get shelter And they stayed for four or five years This is civil society folks. So Yeah Vor we should we should honor that generate those generations instead of either forget about them or That is the thing that drives me how all of these people Trash the dead. And they make fun of them and they topple statues and they rename buildings. they say they weren't perfect, so they were no good. And then they don't produce anything themselves. They they can't do anything saying that these people have built our roads and our dams and engineered all these wonderful buildings and created all the universes They were all these privileged victimizing people, but yet they use everythingverything they gave them, but they don't show any gratitude for that inheritance. Well, he to them hates a virtue. But I don't hate. I love. I love you, Victor. I love. I love our listeners and viewers. I feel likes tremendous privilege to be here with you twice a week. and it's been a big privile. I don't want to say it's been a privilege of getting sick, but privilege because I was sick to read, I think I've got about nine hundred letters I read and they were so nice. And it's really helped me And I went to one of the doctors this week and he said You're not coughing. I said, No, I'm not coughing. He said, Well, we're not out of the woods yet, but that's a good sign. And I said, Well, I have all these people praying for me, so I think it helps It does I don't think I'm say I don think you I don't think he believe that, but it I believe it and that's what counts Amen, brother. Well, Victor, thanks for everything you've shared today, all the wisdom and your stories. And folks, thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. We'll be back soon with another episode of Victor Davis Hanson in his own words, God bless America. 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