Hypocrisy and Wealth in Socialist Movements

People are flying in China in their third trimester having a baby and flying back with the baby so that that baby who might not know anything about the United States can fly over here. It was never the intent of the drafters of the fourteenth Amendment to give automatic birth citizenship. So then the question is why in a conservative court with a six to three majority, would you have two justices defect Hello and welcome. This is Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. This is our Friday edition where we look at all of the current news and we've got lots of things going on with Sotis cases. so we'll look at those first. then If I can say it, the crazy lefteft has all sorts of new communist ideas and sympathizers and candidates out there. So we're going to look at they are doing, how the Democratic Democrat Party is doing. You know, Victor, somebody wrote and corrected us on it's probably my fault. It's the Democrat party and not the Democratic partarty. So just for our audiences Yes Here's the issue The Democrats see the United States as a Athenian democracy, fifty one percent. Republicans see it as a Roman repepublic. I'm being simplple. public democracy So they use I Latin go out and pre suffixes to make an adjective out of a noun. aublic becomes Republican and a deemoc Democracy becomes what democratic. So what The right says These people don't believe in democracy. They're Democrats, but they're not democratic with a small D. because In English, we say talk about the United States or consensial government, we don't say Republican the all are We say democratic. There are democratic country We don't say they're a Republican country because that's too technical a term for public All that difference is it's more a representative government, a republic checks and balances rather than just a vote of the Assembly. So the Democrats then the right fields are not democratic peoples. So why would you call them democratic The right wants to do is to say we're going to use the adjective for republic. So we are repepublic cons but we're not going allow them the same usage. So they're going to be Democrats with a big D. so everybody knows who they are because they use the small D as the aditival form for both us and them and we're not like them. Technically, it's proper English usage to say Democratic party But so that's an ideological ion on the part political, but may be valid. All right. So stay with us and we'll be back after these messages for those news stories. Stay with us. For two hundred and fifty years, America has been a bastion of freedom As we look ahead to the next two hundred fifty, we're reminded that freedom is ours to defend. 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You can find him at his website, Victorhansen dot com and the name of the website is the Blade of Perseus. So please come join us there So Victor, let's start with the Sotis cases. The biggest one out there today is Trump versus Barbara and it is over birthright citizenship. and the court has ruled that birthright citizenship is okay. Can I, if you would give me a second, I know Well, we'll probably talk about The the Oh, sorry. that was on another case I was going to do. But your thoughts on this birth right citizens the minority of Thomas Alito Gorsciichin to a certain extent Kavanaugh he had a qualified dissent W it? They are originalist and they said, if you look at The fourourteenth Amendment came in the aftermath of the Civil War And the increasing the increasing pacification of Native American tribes. So what are we going to do with people traditionally not considered citizens of the United States. And so we said if you were a former slave and your parents were here than you were a citizen i. e or didn't just come in call on your own without being born here. And the same thing is true of Native Americans case sometimes later reinterpreted that as anybody born here be a citizen, but It emphasized the original wording of the amendment that says and not subject to the jurisdiction of another country But in fact, everybody knows that if you come in here and you're a foreign national Right? You are subject to the jurisdiction of another country I'm not. What do I mean by that? I mean, ifeic Mexico has a extradition or a hold on somebody and they come in here and they come and say to us, we're going to extradite him back to Mexico as a Mexican national, we say, okay Mexico says Victor is going to be ext ded, I'm not subject to their jurisdiction And so to simplify things Every single person knows three things about this Number one, It was never the intent Never the intent of the drafterters of the fourourteenth Amendment to give automatic birthrights citizenship Number two Everyone knows it is widely abused and it's not sustainable. People are flying in from China in their third trimester having a baby and flying back with the baby so that that baby who might not know English, anything about the United States at any time in his or her life, if things get bad, in China can fly over here or can come over here and sponsor their children Same is true south of the border So everybody knows it's an unsustainable crazy idea that has green lightighted a very pernicious habit Coming here and in your third and then Three, everybody knows. while there are a number of Nations that and techn technically allow it Usually they require both parents. We don't these citizens. I mean too be citizens or at least So if you come in the United States and you're born on this You know Most countries, I think the majority require either one parent or two to be a citizen And if you're born here Yeah, if I think if you're born in France, You can only be a French citizen if one of your parents is French required to, but It's not the norm. there's it's not that it doesn't exist anywhere else But it's not the norm person to be born here to foreign nationals born here in the United States or anywhere in any country. It's not the norm A lot of people say, well, a lot of Latin American countries are doing it, but yes, but it's still not the norm. So just to recap Everybody knows it was not the intent of the drafterters of the fourteenth Amendment to have this anchor baby maladay we have. Number two, we know it's not sustainable because we're handing out citizenship to people. We have no idea who they are. We don't they have no affinity with the United States. The parents don't. they can leave Number three, Most countries, not all, but most countries understand that and don't do it So then the question is why in a conservative court with a six to three majority would You have two justices Defect Barrett Amy Comey Barret and John Roberts That, I think is a political decision I think that They understand that this is right up with the Dobbs case, is one of the most controversial cases that would radically change things immediately. It would tell the dreamers, for example Not all of the twenty million, but it would say to some dreamers who are now in their thirties or forties came when you were two And so you're not a citizen, but you were born here and That's You're not a citizen. You think you're a citizen. you're not I shouldn't say dreamers. I should say a lot of immigrants right now as we're talking parents who are either illegal or legal aliens and they will be born immediately And now they're going to be told You're not a citizen you have no right to be here unless you apply for a green card or something I think the court like the In the case of abortion, they could outsource it to the states so they could get the heat off them. They can just say, you know what? We're not banning or we're not approving abortion. Were under our federal system, we're allowing regional control acc count with this. It's going to be a fundamental change. And we have fifty three million immigrants here and we have a million coming every year and it's the Democratic Party would go ballistic I'm just conjecturing. Im not I have no evidence, but I think that And their way of looking at saving the court's reputation, not allowing it to be biased perception wise They were going to rule in favor of the left on this issue. And they were going to rule in favor on the right of the trans issue and say that states, locales, regions, have organizations have a perfect right to say if you're not a biological female, you're not going to compete in female sports, and that was controversial The problem with all of this is That's not the purpose of the Supreme Court. to adjudicate what pololitically feasible or tolerable. Number one Number two. Keagan Tanji Brown and So do my ear. they don't defect. They're locked out. They would be dead in democratic circles. They wouldn't be able to go speak The left socialist Democratic daash socialist daash communists now They're intolerant They would not if so to my ear. or Kagan voted for this All they their're speaking invvitations would be withdrawn. They would be persona non grati And so they they stay that way. They're enforced by that The Democrats enforced cohesiveness and unanimity, we don't on the conservative side. So we get these constant defections, constant defections And we're always told that they're to save the court or the reputation of the Supreme Court or not to be partisan. But this is not a partisan issue. This is something that affects the wellbeing of the United States. then criticized Trump, I think Kavanaugh did, but others on the left and said that he had issued a exxecutive order stopping it which precipitated the lawsuit. And he can't do that. And they cited evidence where you have constitutional Eedicts in the Constitution or constitutional by way of an amendment cannot be overturned by a presidential order. They need an act of Congress or maybe even an act of amending bringing in another men, which is about impossible because you require three quarters of the state legislatures and I think it's two thirds of the Congress they're missing here, I think, is when they' they are saying You. If you want to change the law, you have to bring either an amendment or maybe an act of Congress. And the consonservatives are saying, we Want to change the wall Not at all. We want you to obey what is written in the law. The law says that if you were born in the United States and your subject subject to the jurisdiction of another country, you're not going to be a citizen And everybody knows that if you come across the southern border from Venezuela, And you're here And Mr. Chavez or Mr. Maduro, whoever the government is, says I want you extradited ' you're a citizen, that will be adjudicated. Nobody will doubt that. And so what I'm getting at is the conservatives were saying We don't need an amendment. We just need an act of Congress to enforce the law or something like that The other thing is very quickly, it wasn't too handled by conservatives. I think they should have said U We just want reciprocity. China allows somebody to be born in China be an automatic citizen of the People's Republic. Okay, mayaybe we'll extend the same what they're saying is we have been taken We're taking on tariffs, we're taking on Technological appropriation, we're takaking on all of these issues and we're taking on birthright citizenship So any country that does not allow birthright citizenship whose people come over here and take advantage of our allowance shouldn't do that. They did something like that. they broadcast that fact. I think they would have got a lot more support Yeah. But so you're saying to me that when a Chinese woman comes here, has her baby because she's in the third trimester and to a child, it's still subject to the Chinese government because it has two Chinese parents and so it is a Chinese national. Yeah. Therefore China considers that The law says that they're not ciz China does not take the citizenship away. None of these countries do. If we are saying, you come from Mexico, you come from China, you're born here parents that were Mexican citizens or Chinese citizens. Therefore you're an American, but you're not a citizen of China No, you're dual citizens And that's a problem with China because why are they doing it? They're doing it for two or three reasons. Some of them whatever they tell a government are deathly afraid that they will either be um sought out by the communist government, get on the wrong side of it and have to flee China and they want a place to flee to. And if they have a child here that's a citizen, they can anchor them as family members Some of them want to send them to school here And they think that there is now a million one point one million foreign students, and we're going to crack down on that. But their children be given the same opportunities as American citizens because they are. And then the third is to be quite frank, Um The Chinese government wants this to happen because they want people to be American citizens indoctrinated in China and at the whims of the Chinese Communist government sent back as adults with their loyalties to China I think Also If you want to get around it I think there may be legislation already introduced in Congress All you'd have to do is go back to the COVID precedents when we were very worried about people coming in in the third trimester So We could just say, we're not prejiced against anybody We don't want any woman family, any person coming in in the third trimester because we're going to have to pay for And We're not going to do that anymore. We're broke. We owe thirty one trillion do. So pregnant women are not going to be allowed to come that are foreign nationals are not going to be able to come to the United States until they can get a green card if they qualify but until after But L a suitable time before it and give them a visa a tourist visa so they can go back home And that would be just you could just sidestep the whole problem and you could do it legally and he could do that by executive order. He could just say we have a new travel. He'd travel he banned travel from Iran from Syria, Somalia, Sudan. All you have to say is from now on, if you want to come to the United States do not come in here if you're seven, eight, nine months pregnant becausecause you won't be allowed And maybe I don't know how they would prove it, but they could do it by side. They could just say, you seemed pregnant to me or you'll have to file a document. And if you lie on the federal document, you're going to be deported that would be enforcement and law. Yeah, that sure would. 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And so of course, the trans community is up in arms, but the state will decide. so I imagine California will decide on the side of AB Hernandez Yeah, I thought that Um I thought that they might make a sweeping judgment on that one Cls on I can see where they could argue that abortion historically, there was I'm talking as a parallel I can see where they relegated abortion to the states, but this is not It's not a matter of disagreement. It's just a biological fact Okay that are born biologically male No matter How many hormones or surgery, whatever they have, they still have a muscular skeleton system that's male and people born female who want to transition to male have a female And that is proven by what caused the lawsuit in the first place cross the lawsuit is men's bodies who then say that They suffer from gender dysphoria and they are now women win matches against biological and people who identify as women. They are women. Women who transition to males never win. They never win male competitions, maybe in chess or something that would be mental or cerebral but not physical And so that is prima facia evidence that There is a difference biologically from a woman and someone who was born a man who transitions to a woman And the entire purpose of this trans movement that has males to go into female sports is to give opportunistic people advantages over females and destroys the aspirations. They talk about the aspirations of trans people, but it destroys the aspirations of females. To take the left's argument, you would have to say Well, how about women who transition to males And then they can't win So maybe we should have affirmative action for trans males and give them I don't know, ten points or ten percent of a particular event to give them equity because they are males, but they can't win. So it's unfair to them. They just can't win So we have to give them a level playing field. plane and see how you get into a circular argument that's ridiculous And so basically when they went along to go along with that argument U and I understand the states are outsouring, but even to give any type of credence to that argument is fallacious. It's just surreal and We've had gender dysphoria. the historian Deodorus has a passage about it. It's in Vetronius is Satyricon poem by Cutullus, the Atis poem. Ands it's a well known Um I have to be very careful what I say. well known biological mental Maladay pathology that people very, very, very small percentage of the population has a U, brain that sees it as the opposite sex of what its body is And So So it's not new and it's always been dealt with I mean, we can be very compassionate and you can say to the trans community We have special Olympics for people who cannot compete in either of the two categories because of physical disabilities Why don't you have a trans Olympics? Why don't you have trans And they would tell you There's not enough of us. we wouldn't have enough people to compete? yes, And you tell us that certain times that twenty percent of a particular I don't know if it was Bown. It was one of the Ivy League Ceges said that twenty percent of the people thought they were going to transition. and you hear these these ridiculous numbers that teen to twenty five percent of people have suffer from possible gender dysphoria. And then when you say, wow, you know, there's three hundred forty million people here, so you're telling me that I don't know, seventy million people Wouldn't that be a big audience for a trans Olympics? but then they go back and say it's where's not enough of us So it's all part of the Democratic parties. They said we We got a lot of We We had the civic right. We stamped ourselves as civic. civil rights, even though they were the party that had Jim Crow and segregation They owned it, they said. We owned the feminist movement. We owned the gay Liberation movement. So we need the trans liberation because we need another movement Part of the reason they're champing it red deffined it as a human rights issue when People knew that people had gender dysphoria and they were not necessarily harassing them at all because there were civil rights protections that were so generic it included everybody. So people who had gender dysphoria were suing under civil rights legislation. they didn't want to be prejudiced And the supporters say this is defending Title Iine. But as you've said, it probably should have been sweeping federal statement rather than states' rights. ye. So let's turn to the Trump versus Rebecca slaughter case and she was a Federal Trade Commission commissioner, and he fired her. And so the whole case was over Trump's ability to fire people who have executive power or positions that affect the executive. Now the lower court said she didn't position was quasi judicial, quasi legislative, so they were trying to take it out of the executive branch. But the Supreme Court found that Trump had the right to fire people that could because he's the elected executive person and he has to be able to fulfill what the will of the people is. so he needs to have people who are working with. It's a funny argument. becausecause when Obama came in He just mass fired everybody in the DOJ In my little small capacity, I was on the American Battlefield Monuments Commission. It was an aolitical position. I was appointed by George W. Bush, I think in two thousand. Seven And for the last two years of his term And believe me, there were people from all walks of life Our duty, our portfolio, was to take care of half the people who died In the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War One, World War Io, Vietnam or Korea who chose to be bur notot so much in Vietnam. I should take that back in Korea, but in the sheer numbers in World War one and World War two made it difficult to ship everyone back. The families had a choice finally So we were in charge of all the grave sites and, you know in France and Belgium everyverywhere It was non political. So Barack Obama was elected in November of two thousand eight, and he decided as the new executive that he was going to fire every single person on that commission He didn't care that it sat idle for the next nine months and didn't do anything because he didn't appoint the people, because he was sifting through his donor class, see You know, a donor says, I gave you one hundred thousand dollars Brock and then call is say, hey, what does a hundred thousand dollars get you G me all the positions No I don't want that position. I want this. will give me another fifty thousand then. That's what they were doing. They all do that. Point is we were all fired and we had red passports So I had a tour coming in and I had to go hire a special Cer to get a new passport thirty six hours They just sent me a curt letter. You It didn't say than you for your service or anything. It said, You will surrender your passport. You are hereby U not on the commission. And I didn't say, Oh Mbama fired me. I thought, well he this right has a perfect right to do that And any member of the executive branch, if you're not covered by civil service. if you're appointee And believe me, I think if you would go back and look at the number of people that Obama fired or Biden fired that were conservatives, they would be the same number, if not greater than the ones Trump has fired, especially Trump's first term when he didn't do that. And the president needs to be able to do that. Let me read you part of Soota Mayor's dissent on this She says Congress may limit the causes for which the heads of commissions like the FTC can be removed by the president In holding otherwise, the court gives the president a power unknown even to the English crown against which the founders revolted elevating him above his once co equal branches by transforming a duty to take care of the laws be fith to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws. She doesn't believe that. Because the people, Justice Sotomarer elected a president. They didn't elect King George III King George III removed colonial officials that had been elected in regional councils or governors and things They didn't vote for George the third We voted for Donald Trump. So we had our Dmocratic say. And the reason that The majority ruled as it did because they understood that your party and people thought they were going to be insurrectous. Remember anonymous I work in homeomeland security and I'm a very powerful official and I'm undermining Trump. And I can guarantee you that there's a lot of us all through the federal bureaucracy that have been appointed and we are doing our best to undermine Donald Trump. That was in this first term So Pident has to have the ability carry out his agenda as it pertains to the executive branch Otherwise you're just going to have Ven men's everywhere. you know what I mean? He was on the National Security Council. Trump should have fired him the moment he came in And what happened? he didn't fire him. He classified ination classified phone call to mr. Caramella, who never heard the phone call And then he pleaded anominity anominity and said, I'm the whistleblower This is horrible. Trump It was all based on hearsay. He never heard the call. And he wasn't even allowed to even being cross examined Venman did that You're saying you can't fire him. He's on the National Security Council I think you can fire them, you can fire people anywhere that have been appointed If you can't fire you can't go in necessarily and fire a secretary or HR person and they're protected by civil service. If you don't have cause. Yeah, if they're making decisions that affect the execution of law, then he should be able to We know what's going on in both terms, people there's so many thousands of people. they get under the radar or they plead that they're nonpartisan. and then when a guy like Trump comes in, then They slowwalk things, they don't do things. they have internal resistance. And he has to have the ability to fire them Yeah, this getuts down to the old argument about whether the bureaucracy is a bunch of nonpartisan experts or whether they are partisan and not so expert. There's a great article just for the audience. But this is not even making an argument about the bureaucracy. This is making a bar an argument about government and an executive branch that has political appointees. and once they're saying She was not appointed by Trump. She was appointed, I think by Biden And once that she's appointed, so we're really going to believe that after Trump leaves office And he has saturated the executive branch with Trump appointments. And in this case it come up under the next president, let's say Camella Harris, that so to my ear would have been so principled and said Sorry, President Harris, you don't have the right to remove this right wing trade representative that Trump appointed Beause that's political. I doubt that she would have written I'm sorry, I'm just cynical. No, you're. honest. All right, Victor, let's take a break and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about the left, some crazy things going on. Stay with us and we'll be right back We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. But among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 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Some of your listeners and my listeners We're going to say Sammy, you call them communist That was that was what we did in the McCarthy period They're deemocratic socialists No, they actually are communists and it's not a slur them And what would be a communist? It would be someone who thinks he has the right to appropriate private property Did anybody do that? Mandami did. He said, I'm going to survey renters and see who their landlords are. And if I find that I don't like the quality of rooms that are being rented out by the landlord, we can take them and we can run them or weke can, this is what I like. give them to the people Of course, when people started to examine private ownership versus New York City's apartments, What did they find? The New York City in the good communist spirit apartments were much more run down than private people were What else do communists do they want to appropriate private enterprise. So they want to take doctors from their private practice and make them employees of the state under one payer system. They want to buy, I think they wanted to buy airlines. One of the candidates says she wanted to buy airlines. They want to buy utilities buy them and then incorporate. I should say buy that's a wrong word. They want to steal them. and nationalize them like they did in B How is that working out in Britain, by the way? with nationalized industries. How is the British healthcare system working in the Canadian healthcare system We hear they're so wonderful Canada has an It has a greater number of euthanasia cases than they do many major surgery cases So I They They're not embarrassed to be called communist. So you can call them communist. Be they're also than you They want a revolution of the United States. They want to overthrow and the gain and they use the word gain that means of production. I've heard that twice or three times from them Yes, I think Cheavalier was the one who talked about taking away the means of production. Cheavalier, if since we'll start with her, has also been the one thing that hasn't been talked about very much is she complained that Arab and black men were dating ote ugly colonizer women. I guess that's her way of saying white women. and she disapproved of such a thing. It was very racist. It was racist with all due respect, and I want to be very careful here because I don't believe in invective. For someone, I've never called anybody ugly in my entire life. Black Clee T it a lot. If somebody says that generically these white women are ugly There's a lot of things going on. Number one, she's jealous C she reference it in terms of, I think, Middle Eastern men and black men Think about that. It's kind of a racist idea. She's basically saying the ugly white women or the ones that are left over for people of color And she's objecting to that because that people like herself are available and being passed over. That's the subtext of it And that's an old trope in the minority community U I've known a lot of white women that have married or dated people of color and their biggest resistance and hostility comes from women of that The other thing is when anybody says she's uglier, everybody makes fun of Trump when he says The other day, he was at a rally and he said, we're going we're going to fast fast track weight reduction shots Rember that? Maybe you can get them cheap. And then he made a joke about I know a guy who's a fat slob. And then the left said, well, how about you? You weigh two hundred and fifty pounds, you know, you're overweight s debatable what he actually weighs So pointoint is Is she be Chevalleet is she beautiful I think so. I've seen her. I find her euphemistically plain So then she's the adjudicator of who's ugly and beautiful Look in the mirror And then the next thing about her was, isn't she the perennial graduate student seven years to get a degree in literature or something No. she's a sociologist Victory,. But I thought she had a minor in literature or something. perhaps. I'm not be onntowered, but if you get a PhD in classical languages, then you have to have The ability at least under the old system that I went through, you have to have the ability to write in Latin and Greek You have to have the ability to get a text, a classical text Eeschlsus Persians or Thucidity' history, they give it to you in your PhD exams, you haven't seen it. You have a finite time to translate it into English You have to pass a French test, you have to pass a German test. They suggest you be able to read Italian That's in addition to archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, et cetera. And then you have twelve seminars in classical languages topics such as what is, you know, the manuscript tradition of Eescosus supplis or the dating of each of the books of Thucydity's history They're very hard classes and then I finished all the coursework in two and a half years and finished all my thesis. I took a year to go to American school But I know a lot of people who did that The idea you do for seven and by the way, I had to teach for my support. I taught TA I had to teach whole classes myself at twenty one, twenty two. Stanford students and intensive Greek I just can't imagine this perennial graduate student who's been around these students, faculty, administrators and then pontificating about the world at large And she's You know, there's a whole bunch of them. You could read all of their names. One of them said that we more or less deserve nine and eleven. we could Kos, is that her name? Yeah, the Colorado delegation. She's from Colorado. That was what Bin Lauden said. Led at all these names Sureoss Oh Elen Omar. She's ALC Rashida toap Mandami Its ballet I could go on. Le talks about proportionality. These are disproportionately first or second. generation immigrants. And they come into this country from Uganda Somalia DN any Puerto Rico Ethiopia I don't see those as prosperous successful states. I see them as fail state ripe with violence Aarianism, civil war, mass poverty, socialism So they or their parents came over here And they almost exclusively settle in university towns Big cities, urban or bicoastal places or both They have no idea about the so the white people they see or elites in the universities or the corporations or the big cities. They don't see any of them. or on farms or rural America or suburbs And so they just generalizeed them all. We're going to go after whider neighborhoods. Remember that? he said They have no idea of The great majority of white people are middle class and lower middle class So They don't meet and they're not they're not chauvinistic about their race and they're not ashamed of it they associate elite, frustrated colloege educated whites who are very left wing, who tra and they are always saying, there was a woman in Minnesota, I have I'm so ashamed was running for office. I'm so ashamed of being white So they think that that applies to everybody doesn't. So they're urban people. They're obsessed with whiteness they are all anti Israel She used the attack on the Jewish protest about U The hostages She said basically that Jews had it coming because they support Israel And she didn't quite say it that way, but that's how it translated at the end You mean Melat Kuron? Yes, I think. She in fact was also fired from a job for being obsessive about hate for Israel. and she explain that degradation of life was due to capitalism in the United States. So it was it was those two things. So basically seic anti the core of the democratic Socialist communist movement And younger people, there's not many Bernie Sanders Right Younger people Come over here to this country from failed states their antenna up sense that if they trust the United States, and they get And they're in left wing enclave cities. then they will get rewards. And they do. Ilian Omar, they all get scholarships to go to college. They get educated. They are saturated with anti Americanism And they meet white people who are anti American and ashamed of being white that they can guilt trip all the time. completely out of touch with a what 're they're consumers too producing. They're not around producers. They sit in these cities like most people and they think Oh where's my water Where's my food Where's my lumber? They don't produce it I got gas. They have no idea of the thousands and hundreds of thousands of nameless people that every day get up at four in the morning Ore they try to pump oil out of the ground or they deliver it? Are there in those log jams getting into New York or L.A to bring urban people their stuff? They have no idea where their garbage and their sewage goes There's a whole array of people who produce things That's not these people They don't represent them, they don't know them, they don't care about them. They're consumers And their're urban consumers. or what Jefferson said he feared for the country when it was Everybody was piled up in the city. without autonomous people in the countryside They're not even suburban. There's another trait of these. And I have to be very careful because I have a lot of friends that are single and have never had children And as one person said to me, than God, I didn't have children because there would be two of me Point is that's a choice, that's okay. but Dmography is demography is demography. country doesn't have two point zero children per You know person, you're going to shrink. and if you shrink, you're going to be aging and shrinking like China And we're down to one point seven. But when you look at all of these people, they're either single or they have no children or both. And we're not talking about a suburban famil is what I'm saying, which is about half the sixty percent of the country So they don't have an experience with that They'round And then the other thing is they're hypocritical. So many of them U or affluent orr they want to be affluent. They hate capitalism, but Graham Platinner says he hates capitalism. basically But he's an oysterman But then you examine, well, where's your oyster factory Well, it's your dad's friend gave it to you, your dad will Where's your house Oh, your dad put the down payment, two hundred thousand, huh And where's your salary? Oh, the government is paying you for being stressed I thought that was kind of a con. How can you be a U. S. Senator when you're stressed But then when I started reading all the things he said about mastur excuse me masturbating in a porter potty or putting a third panzer Isis and Groupen tattoo on his chest. he is disturb You mean post traumatic stress Yes. He is disturbed pointint is that Then he has his little five oysters a day and what does he do with them He sells them to his dad's restaurant or his mom's restaurant And where' is Mandami? He's the one person he talks about as I said, settler colon colonialist. setettler colonialists. You're settler colonialist. Jews or settler colonialist Two things You are a colonialist and a setter. Your family came into indigenous Uganda and make up about sixty thousand people of that multim million person country, one percent And you saw his wedding digs when he went back to be married with the Indian community there, they control sixty percent of the GDP. Think of it. He lectures everybody about inequality, Mandami. and he drives out Ken Griff And then he comes from a family that is a settler colonial family that came into Africa and under Marxist terminology, not mine, Marxist exploited the indigenous people and ended up with sixty percent of their wealth He did And then if you wanted to be even more cruel to this group of communist socialists. Millions of Americans that live here where there was no indigenous population places in Utah where there was there were places in the Central Valley there weren't You could argue that there is an indigenous populations And it's the people who came and centuries ago here And all the so who is the asurping settler colonial, this Mandami is Ien Omar, you come over to a country that's completely antithetical to your own and you start to settle it And then as colonialists do, you form an ethnic enclave and you don't want to intermarry, and she did, finally in her third quote marriage You form this enclave and it doesn't want to acculturate, integrate, or intermix. And so it's a colonial settlement. And then we're supposed to feel that we're as shhamed that we're settler colonies from these people And then when they get a chance, there was a picture today of Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Gribt in front of the Private jet, didid you see it They're always railing about climate change and the wealthy And then you read that this sigm Sigman from Neepe Sigman from Shanghai, an American who made a fortune went to Communist China, where he lives Then you think of George Sorrelles who broke the Bank of England and was driven out of France with a civil civil conviction And then you read about Reed Hoffman, billionaire that funded the E Jinge Carl case who is all over the intimate letters of Jeffrey Epstein And these are billionaires And that's who's funding a lot of this stuff And we're supposed to feel bad that billionaires are conservative and they're awful, but they don't believe billionaires are awful. They believe some billionaires are awful good billionaires and those who are fund socialists and communist projects. That's Tom Styer, who's another billionaire they love So don't ever, anybody listening don't ever think these people really hate wealthy people. They only hate wealthy people who see through them The naive wealthy people are the people who think they're going to take over and they want a special concession from them they love And they they have three enemies Enemy number one is the old guard They hate Schumer, they hate Jeffrees, they hate Pelosi, they hate the Clintons because they lost power. They look and say, we don't have the Supreme Court. We don't have the House. We don't have the Senate. We don't have the White House. It's your fault And number two They hate the United States They really do. they don't joy read all those people. We're not going to participate U Sunny host and bllack people are not going to participate in july fourth U all it is a sixteen, nineteen White people are crazy, terrible Western civilization is toxic Clit historical. slav, slavery, slavery, they had no idea that ten times the number of African slaves were sent to Latin America i. e. from Chile all the way up to the Caribbean. Why? Ten times more than to the American South becausecause they died ten times more quickly because they were even worse treated Nobody in South America. Yes. Nobody ever says to a Brazilian, I haven't heard any of these people say You guys should be ashamed of yourself. You had slaves. They never say anything about the eleven or twelve. now I think I've read fifteen million slaves that went to the Arab world And we're not and' there as slaves until recently They never say anything about the Thousands of black tribal leaders who when they won a tribal war enslaved their They' enemies and sold them it's all simplistic and it's all predicated on We're going to guilt trip you and say your country's no good. and then you're going to be so hurt You're going to give us all these entitlements and concessions. You wouldn't dare do this. You wouldn't rule against the trance. You wouldn't rule against birthright. You wouldn't and they intimidate people There's no power there. You can just laugh and say I don't care what you say Yeah You don't like it, leave. You know, if you don't you don't like it, don't come over here. but this is a Private property, free market capitalist, consensual constitutional republic. It always was, it always will be It has a self correcting mechanism called amendments and legislation and court decisions. And when we have a problem, we fix it. It's just mind boggling. So they do hate the United States And they hate the Dmocratic old guard And they hate the West. And I hate to say it, but They hate white people. They really do because I'm just quoting them. They can't finish a sentence without white, white, white white, white, white It's whether it's AOC or Talib O Ien Omar or you name it You know, Bernie Sanders even. After saying all of that, you would wonder why anybody would support these people. And I've been since I've been reading about it, that The argument that they have that I think appeals to a constituency is that capitalism is not working for the middle classes and that somehow people today have way, you, their lives are not are worse off than they should be. And I think that that's the only thing I can come up you know why becausecause we don't have capital take California twenty one percent of the population. is under the poverty line three hundred to five hundred thousand a year are leaving Why? Because you can't build houses. Why? Because you have a socialistic regulatory state I know a lot of developers they have to film buildilling their home becausecause they'll be sued by some organization can't build you go out to a high speed rail and it says we hire trans, homeless people. preferences. It's such a highly regulated socialist. We have the highest redistribution point three percent tax rate. And then you say, well, people And you hit at sixty thousand, I think you hit eleven or ten percent. So we have the biggest black market in the world here, you know what I mean And they've destroyed the free market When you have a quarter of the people can't pay their power bills, maybe you need six or seven electric companies. and when You drive out We find re and say, well, we're going to run them ourselves. Maybe it doesn't work So we don't have a free market capitalistic system. We're socialistic and we have a more anti progressive Well, put it this way, we are more progressive if that's the term they use than Europe is as far as income tax at a higher rate in California And I think we're getting to the same in the United States in general They have a, you know, a sales tax Yeah, I think that that case needs to be made, especially to the young generation who's coming up and they can't afford a house or they can't do this and that. Those socialists are turning that into a, if only you could have the socialists into That was always the big debate at think tanks at Hoover. We always under John Raysason Oh There was a big There was a big argument. The donor class would say, get the message out the message out about capitalism and the scholars would say, I'm working on a very important paper that'll take me five years And they say, noobbody's going to read it. I don't want to pay for that And then they say, well, we're not just organs of a donor cloud. So that and I think now in the last two or three years The message is it doesn't do any good to do esotic research got to get the message out because Free market capitalism, consensual It's all endangered And so I think now from what I can tell at Hoover, we're really trying to get out the message And it's a complete, I think it's very successful The young generation is I think what we need to do the Republicans things very quickly They think they're taking over everything. And they basically go to a guy like Schumer Yeah Oh. cott Weener at the local California state level and they say you have three choices You either become a socialist communist. or you get out. primary year Okay. O they say retire right now. You don't have no choice. Get out or they'll say Join the socialists and maybe we won't primary or they say join us And most of them have this typical democratic talking point Bigent, big, tent, big, tent. So every morning, almost like the Polit Bureau, they get a little memo MS does CNN Caucus, DNC and it says this today, everybody on the media say big t bigig tent, big tent, big tent. So all these frighten democratic functionaries Well, we have a big tent. We have a big tent. and then they say to Republicans Well, you got to get rid of that guy. He's a crazy Nazi. And then you No, you have a Nazi He's actually put his Nazi trademark on his own chest We have a big tent. So That's it. That's the one thing. And then the other thing is they haven't won over outside the regional elections. They win blue state mayor mayayorial races. So you've got that crazy woman that said bye bye in Seattle, Katie, Wilsoners, whatever name was And then you have the Portland. you have the crazy mayor and mayor Fry who's always And then we had the Summer of loveove, mayayor of was up Portland So my point is Once in a while they get a governor who flips. Spanberger, I think she's almost a socialist now, but But more anybody who says I'm a Democratic socialist of America candidate, and here's my and gets into what we talked about and airs it It's this going to be a city it's going to be Raman and the LA City cououncil or crazy Karen Bass. Are they going to be look at Javio Javier Bisera is running for governor He's a hard leftist, but he is not running as a hard leftist and Camella Harris did not run as a hard leftist. she said, I'm for fracie now. I've changed I'm not for deportations. I've changed. I'm for the wall. I've changed. I have changed on defund the police These people don't. They're a lot more honest. They say I'm a hardcore stalinist and I'm going to stay that way. And I hate the United States. I hate West civilization. I hate white people. I hate Jews, I hate Israel And you can filter that out from everything I say, Okaykay, what have they done? They have three big Senate races that they have got socialists got Graham Plotner and Maine Elaiid in Michigan. And James Talerico And the moment people started fixating on what they have said, take Texas first Oh, he said, I hate Christians Remember that And then he said the flag is kind of like ross flag for Americans like the cross. It doesn't it's been warped or manipulated And he's got this whole body of invective. He makes Bado look sober and judicious. And now everybody said, that if you didn't nominate Cornan the cintrus you were going to lose Hxton is a had. He's in the latest polls. He's ahead. Yeah, the latest polls have Talar Rico dropped by eight points. And he'll drop more if the Texas Republicans just they don't have to do they don't have to be mean. They just said, here is the person who wants to be senator. blah blah, blah, blah, blah in his own just run those every day And then I ever seen Talor Rico in his cowboy hat and truck boots It's like remember the same thing. It's like Botha jag with his work vest, puff vest and his little caterpillar hat. They were just dying to get Somebody who looks like he's from the white working class and the white working class sees through these people because the white working class is ten times smarter than these people thenen you have Graham Platner, and everybody said, He's ten points ahead of Susan Coolin, she saids, well, he was in theory, but the more they got out, the more he doesn't like women He masters excuse me, he masters self abuses and port of poties He u He says he has never been violent, but he twists the arms of women and locks them in rooms He wears masset tattoos He goes on anti Jewish. He's a bad guy. So what happens? He is now behind She caught up to him. And the thing is the last two races that she's won She was behind in the poes all the way to election day So thing about Susan Coin is she sits there And she's right down the middle of She's an old fashioned Bob Mitchell, he was the kind of guy like Republican or John McCain Republican and all the right hater and the left hater because their main left wing And they say she's getting old. and she's like your school teacher or librarian Let's consider this very well. I have some opinions and let's not be rash. and she wins And she is on eighty percent of the time she's a solid Republican vote. in Maine. And so the Republicans finally got smart and said, Thunder. And I think the Jewish community says funder. And she has outraised Glam Platner. I think he's raised four hundred fifty thousand. She's raised over four million ten times. He's never going to. catch up He's never going to catch up because the Democrats look at him and say, Man, this was a mistake. And El Said, he was way ahead They're going to have a primary in Michigan. Everybody said he's the only one that can beat. U, Mike Rogers is the only one that can do it What they meant by that is one point ahead in a pole. Once they get LIE and they put all those quotes of what he said, And they fund Mike Rogers and he says playlay that hot mic. We got to be very careful about The supreme leader. Don't rejoice in killing him in Iran my constituents are going to take that badly And what does that mean? My constituents are on the Iranian side of the equation I don't think any of them are going to win a statewide race. And I think in twenty twenty eight, I hope they run somebody is a deemocratic socialist for president and he will do a Barry Goldwater, whom I thought was a decent wonderful person, but his views had no chance of winning. and he had the second largest popular vote landslide and they ran McGovern in ' seventy two, the Democrats did I think that was the largest popular vote landslide of the modern era or maybe FDR and thirty two, but Time. You go way beyond the middle, you don't do well in national elections. These people are crazy and the Republicans, they have a lot of money. I don't know why they're not making the case now Yes. Well, we'll see in the midterms We need the guy that made theM commercial. remember that for Trump? Tump is for you They are for they then. They need to bring that guy or woman out and say, here's ten million bucks. We want to have commercials quoting all these crazy communists, what they said and just say, would you like to vote for that that that out nationwide You're right, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then we'll come back and talk a little bit about the NB WNBA. stay with us and we'll be right back Welcome back. This is Victor Davis Hanson in his own words. And just to finish off our former conversation, I do hope that these candidates lose by a lot though. I'm going to be curious if they just lose by a little.' it's Yes, I hope. So I know that you and Jack talked about Caitlyn Clark being hit smashed, I guess by that other player unnecessarily and that she was her name Alsia F Alicia Thomas. Yes. and she was fined given a small fine in one day thousand bucks Yes. And there was all sorts of outrage. And then the commissioner, though gave in to Alicia Thomas because she started saying, Well, you're a racist for penalizing me, but I was wondering your o, and your thoughts on Sophie who went viral with her pointing at the other player Well They still don't get it whether you whatever your views are on the W NBA O person has revived it. It was a money losing proposition for the owners. Nobody watched it I think more people watched females swimming or female tennis visa v the male counterparts than they did basketball And it's hard because it's one of the three major sports. I don't think a lot of people would watch women's softball or women's baseball or women's football. Maybe women's socer is different Although Meghganan Rapppentau did her best to destroy that image to half of America She got apparently on social media. there were people I remember Caitlin Coolin is from Iowa and she plays for Indiana. That's a white place. So Obviously when she was portrayed as sticking her trying to hurt her. people that that objected to that. I'm sure there was a few fanatics that said racial things. And so then the the get me, let me get this straight The leeague reacts to that and they start lecturing That's intoler. But the commissioner doesn't say what prompted that was there has been a systematic attack on her and by mostly black players. And they have been overt and talking about her race and to a lesser extent her heterosexuality and the fact that she gets too much attention when she actually doesn't get the awards she deserves and she doesn't get the advertising time This commissioner looks at the He looks at the majority of the players are black. I think it's sixty five percent And the referees and coaches, I think, are predominantly black, but not exclusively so And she says to herself, is any good gutless, spineless administrator If I say a, where does the reaction come from If I say B, it's antithesis, where does it come from So if I say we have to be Calm down And there has been a systemic pattern of attacking Caitlin And we're going to stop it What does she get? She gets Nothing but abuse from the minority community Right? And all these players will get angry if she says I'm not going to mention. she says to herself. I'm not to mention Caitlyn. I'm not going to mention one girl played and almost knat her in the head, the other girl. put her fist or hurt her on her neck They all kind of lingered too long so she couldn't even get up. It was like a piece of meat on the floor kind of a felony assault in the real world if it wasn't on the court I'm not going to mention any of that No, no, no, I'm going to say that the people who perpetrated that have been the victims of racism That's a win win in her world of professional sports Th then she knows that the sports writers, the New York Times columnists that kind of blasted Caitlin All of them will be on her side. So she does the gutless thing. In the short term, it's successful in the long term people are saying I'm getting sick of this. They're arere they going to turn it off? or they're going to say to when you need to quit You're only twenty three or twenty four. Maybe she's twenty five. I can't She's been there three years. so she's probably close to twenty five. You need to go to Europe and treat you better than that. you'll make as much money come back in five years and retire, but these people are going to hurt you. They're going to disable you And this commissioner is not going to do a thing about it And they're all going to hide on the fact that they're scared of being called racist and they're going to unleash this fury against you. orr they're going to say as the New York column to say, Cuffing up Go girl. You got to be tough You got to be tough. So they see this kind of lanky white girl who can shoot from anywhere on the court And the larger muscular black girls are much lookooks like they're stronger And they're going to try to intimidate her so that she's thinking about it all the time purpose in the league is that every time Caitlyin gets on the court She's thinking Someone's going to shield me, somebody's going to been to me you can see it and I think it was Elisa Thom, one of the perpetrators, she was making fun of her the way she showed pain, you know what I mean? Like a panamine They're going to keep going because there's no downside They can afford a thousand dollars And that resonates with the audience apparently, that they went out to hurt her And Sophie Cunningham became an international star with that point, the way she did it. herer facial expressions, the position of her head, the way she pointed down It's everywhere now. Everybody's emulating it. Yeah. and the girl that she was pointing at couldn't handle it and just kept yelling like throwing a timper tantrum. You would think somebody refereefess point me. No, I'm not. just pointing. hadn't said a word. She didn't say a word It was a shame point Yeah. Anyway, you would think a profession could handle that. I had a wonderful principple four, fifth, six on the west side of my community. s tough campus for T ten, eleven year old twweler fights all the time And he would you know, like a step ladder At lunch, she would get like three runs on a low step lighter. And he would survey the playground. He had this whistle And he would preem. So if he saw two people squaring off, he'd go like that You, you, you Get over here, you and this is a frightening story, but And he would point at us And then he would take you to his office was it had an outside door, but we had a breezeew And hanging up in the window was a paddle But it was like a huge, it was like a tennis racket Only it was wood And everybody's had to sign their name that got paddled three times And so it say you. You want to start a fight, start a fight with me, blow a whistle. Then we'd all go boy and he would grab him and take him over. And then he had a big window in his office. The boy had to put his hands on the desk. He didn't disrobe him, of course. had aace So it didn't hurt that much. Wan. When Wow And then he would smile and he'd shake hands with me. He said, sign here and he had to sign his name. And then he hung the paddle in the window. Was your name on this paddle? No. No, I was a nurse. I was always trying to rationalize. One time I saw Mr. Kegel was his name. I litally liked him. He came up to me and he said, Somebody said that you U had some words with one of our teachers. There was a We had a Hispanic teacher and we had a really wonderful guy named Dice German name He was one of my best friends. He was tragically killed, Donald Dce. And this teacher tried to intimidate him all the time and call him Diaz Donald He said Mrter Diaz, get over here and he said, My name is Dice No it's D is. and so And I said, whyy did't you just let it alone Did't you get the message? I said that as an eleven year old to Mr. Fobela. I liked him too told Mr. Kagel l goes, you like consulting my faculty? I said, No, you want to rendezvous with the paddle? Do you know what I meanant? I said, Yeahah, I know the word rendezvous. He said, you do So you want to rendezvous with Mr. Patdle? And I said, no And he said, you say one more word to my faculty members like that and your name's going to be on that towel Well, Victor, I have a comment on the situation for Caitlin Clark in the WNBA and I'm sorry, I didn't get the name of the person who wrote this, but it was and on yours and Jack's podcast and it says, I remember the days in the NBA when Jerry West and Gaail Goodrich and then pistol Pete entered the basketball key Yeah. They were all given shoves, chops and body bangs in an effort to hurt them. They were outside shooters and they came into the key. Rriters called it a lesson to small guards to stay out of the key where the big men are. When the officials cracked down on that style of play and the league started fining players, the league saw much less sports violence on the basketball cour They could stop it tomorrow. Yeah stop itmorrow. They should have taken Alicia Thomas U They should have called a Fgment foul for the first hit And then when she stayed on top of her and took her ne fist and drove it into her neck She should have been suspended for half the season If not the whole year And her whole team should have been sightited and they should have forfeited the game Otherwise you're it's going it's going to continue because now they're going to bait both Sophie Cunningham and Caitlyn Clark. Yeah. All right. and actually I do have the name on that. That was Steve Lucas S one H from The way you were The way you wear your hat seventeen fifty one, he says and he's again, this is Jack ands your podcast. The point is to turn on immigration the point is to turn us into a Sharia Muslim country, one baby at a time, wayay to go, Sotis, sorry, it's the Scotis birthright Thanks for destroying America one baby at a time. and that was from the way you wear your hat seventeen fifty one And then from this is on your website, Gary R. Rottenberg, mister Hansen, your phrase Monastery of the Mind describes my journey through the ruins of America's institutions perfectly. You have listed virtually everything I've done and learned to live without. I regard the news quotes as I would the product of Gebel's propaganda machine or the pololi Bureau's pronouncements in Pravda I simply cannot tolerate the sound of the announcers' voices, much less the political drivel of their phony news. I have often wondered how many people have retreated into the monastery of the Mind over the last several years, the pace of which went into overdrive with the election of Donald Trump. Yeah, I I use that term, kind of invented it Because It was kind of a self condemnation. I felt bad about myself because I woke up one morning and said, when's the last time you went to a movie theater or watch a A late Hollywood production recent on, you know, on your computer or on TV streaming. I haven't Tell me right now, what are the ten movies that Hollywood is out right now? I wouldn't know I used to know all of them. I was watch the I haven't watched the Academy Awards, the Grammys, the Tonys The MAs, I don't even know what they are anymore I have no desire. I haven't watched The White House correspondence dinner. I just checked out U I I haven't watched a network CBS ABC NBC Network newewscast in twenty years. I haven't listened to NPR in twenty years. I haven't. Once in a while I'll watch PBS like they had a good show on Cal Monte Cristo I thought was pretty well done And I don't, I'm Remember the Stanford? I mean, I'm a senior fellow tenured at Hoogber, remember this Stanford faculty community. I don't know more than five faculty members at Stanford. I don't want to know anymore And I'm kind of worried about that. And I live out here in the middle of nowhere, you know Southwest Fresno County, but I go now for medical treatment Probably twice a month And I see Atherton, Minow Park, Los Altos, Pau Alto, all these Hillsborough, these beautiful places where these eleven hundred square foot homes two million dollars, but And I have an apartment on the Stanford campus. It's very beautiful. But I have no desire to be there. And it just because At some point, you get it to an age that just saturates you whole left wing project, progressive project, and you don't want to hear I could go walk in my neighborhood and take down all the you This family this family doesn't tolerate racism after George Florich and point the ones that have the Ukraine now, that Ukraine flag and that's out. And now they have a trans something. I mean, it's just boilerplate. again and again and again. you pick up It's just You don't even want to talk anymore. So I think what's happening is a lot of people are self segregating on the conservative side. they don't trust the public schools, they're have a little Hillsdale Academy hat on which I think Larry Aarn and his daughter who 've done an enormously wonderful job expanding the academies. It's a wonderful project Places like that people You can go to college, you can go to high school, you can be charter school, you can be self taught, you can homeschool Public schools are a failure for the most part. And you look at all these institutions that used to Chererries I don't If you told me who the mayor of my town is, I don't know You told me who's on the city cououncil, I have no idea If you when I used to go into that town, it was what Moses Finley, the Great Classicist called a face to face society. Usually ten thousand people, if you live there, you get to know the face of every single person When I would go there As Lisent as thirty years ago, I couldn't go in that town without seeing ten people I knew I go in there now I don't know one soul And it's kind of like I live in like a fortified villa, like North Africa around four hundred like Augustine and H h Bigius, you know what I mean? And the vandals are outside, the gates And so Victor, this is very upsetting, but it does lead me to Saturday, fourourth of July. We have a show that we're going to do and we're going to look at the Republic then and the Republic now and do I'm confident that we're going to make it. Yeah. It's not that. I just think that Oh The left controls all the institutions and you can't argue with them And you have to resist it. I'm not saying to be passive, but When you get to a certain age, you just want to be free of it And I still vote religiously. I try to comment on politics, but If I had not gotten ill, I think I had been considering moving. I hate to admit that because I think if you move, you give up on California, you let them have it. So I was fighting So I'm going to stay here mostly because I'm seventy two and I've got a health problem. to get resolved But I'd like to be a pioneer again in some ways All right, so our Saturday show, we will be looking into the Republic as it was and or when they started it and as it is now. and we'll make some evaluation about that. So please join us on the fourth of July and thank you, Victor for everything today. Thank everybody for listening and watching. Yeah, thanks to our audience. and this is Sammy Wink and Victor Davis Hanson, and we're signing in all Thank you for tuning in to the Daily signignal Please like, share and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansen d. com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition