Victor Davis Hanson: Blue States Are Gambling With Americans’ Lives

The idea of allowing someone here illegally who doesn't speak the language and did not pass an authentic test to be let loose on the public with a dangerous machine. Truck drivers are Sikh immigrants, but the Sikh community is a very law-biting, very successful community. They are the highest income ethnic group in the United States. I don't know why they would be protective of illegal Sikh, if that's who it is, and Punjabi drivers coming through Mexico, very dangerous, and when these states do this, they're basically telling their population, "We're taking a gamble with your lives because our virtue-singling sense of self-gilt is more important than your collective safety." Hello, ladies and hello, gentlemen, and welcome to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. I'm Jack Fowler, the host. You're here to listen to and get wisdom from the great Victor Davis Hansen, who is the Martin and Eli Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marcia Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College, and as you can see by its hat, he is a senior contributor to the daily signal, which is the happy home, not only of this podcast, but of Victor's other beloved show, Victor Davis Hansen, in a few words. Every episode of that is about eight, nine minutes, hundreds of thousands of people are watching that as well as they should. Victor's got a book coming out in a few weeks, The Counter-Revolution, The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump, and The Maga Movement, there you go, and that's September 8th, I believe, is the release date. Yes, it is. If you want to buy it, well, just go to Amazon, but go to Victor's website, the Blade of Perseus, the addresses VictorHansen.com, you'll find a link for that book, and many of the other books Victor's written, but you can pre-order it now, and it'll show up on September 8th. So I think I've got everything mentioned there, Victor, that I'm supposed to. We have topics we're going to get Victor's take on today. Oh, by the way, we're talking on Sunday, August 16th. And this particular episode will be up on Thursday, August 20th, and we have our schedules. And actually, next week, we're going to have a few vacation shows, Victor, it's taking vacation. Very nervous. Taking a six-day vacation, yes. But he's not going to leave our dear listeners and fans without him, so we're going to pre-record some shows, fewer questions and listener questions, et cetera. So, there'll be no VDH downtown. We're going to talk about a New York State rep who is in favor of shoplifting, Donald Trump saying the hormones straight, but might someday be US territory. We have a blue state lawsuit in favor of illegal alien truck drivers, a couple of very interesting and troubling high school related stories, and a new issue of strategic issue number 106, Victor, is the editor and overlord and master of that special online journal that is at the Hoover Institution's website. You should go there, strategic, and the actually, I believe, Victor, all the previous journals there are quite evergreen, so we'll talk about the new one. Okay, we'll start that when we come back from these important messages. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. I have a new book out on September 8th of this year, and I think you're going to enjoy it. It's called Counter-Revolution, The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump, and The Maga Movement. It starts right after January 6th, and it details the lack of popularity of Donald Trump, the invective that he endured the five civil and criminal trials, the effort to get him off the ballot, the raid on Marlago, the two impeachments earlier, one in which he was tried as a private citizen, and yet he came back. How did he come back? And why did he come back? I explained in the book how he defeated his primary opponents, how he was outspent. He had a hostile media, and he defeated the Democratic Machine and Camela Harris. It starts on January 6th, it ends pretty much now in May of 2026. What's the title about? Donald Trump is not a revolutionary, he's not a revisionist, he's a counter-revolutionary. This time around, he is not addressing just the symptoms of the progressive project of the last 50 years. He's talking about the causes, not just an open border, but how to stop illegal immigration entirely, not just crime, but sending the National Garden to make sure cities are safe. Not just an Iranian nuclear threat, but ending that threat that seven other presidents had identified, but did not act on. Not just addressing the transgender issue or the Green New Deal and all of those issues that are so dear to the Democratic Party, but ending them, defunding NPR and PBS. So it is a counter-revolution to unwind and to roll back the entire progressive project of the last 50 years. I think you're going to like it, it's pretty interesting, it chronicles the greatest political comeback in our recent political history. Thank you very much, I'm Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. We are back with Victor Davis Hansen in his own words, and I'm sorry to be so provincial, Victor, but I get the New York Post, and I know a lot of people read it throughout the country. Yes. I actually get it delivered every day, I love the Post. The California edition, Jack. Started up earlier this year, California Posts, terrific stuff, folks. The headline, Front Page Story, today, here's the first few paragraphs, headline, Socialist New York Lawmaker, Emily Gallagher, says, "Shotlifting it for biological need is okay." It's her steal of approval. A Brooklyn Socialist Lawmaker declared this week that "Shotlifters have a right to swipe items like soap and toothpaste from local stores without getting busted because of their "biological need" and "for the products." State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, sounds like a nice Irish girl, but nothing nice about her. Strongly suggested, "Shotlifting" should be legalized, while joined at a news conference outside Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday by other lefty pals and criminal justice advocates with court watch NYC. The group claimed it monitored 360 arrangements over four days and found more than half were for Mr. Meener and the feds. I'll just finish here. Most of what we saw were crimes of poverty. People who are stealing things like toothpaste, people who are stealing things like soap, and that means if you're stealing those things, you need them." It's like Gallagher, blah, blah, blah. Yes. That's why we have an auto zone store that was mobbed by about 50 teens and twice in one day because they needed a poultry cleaner, and they needed a heavy-duty battery, no doubt, and they needed almost anything you wanted. That logic could extend to anything. She doesn't understand the broken windows theory of law enforcement that if you allow a small infraction, it'll only lead to a larger one, but I think all the sensational theft that you see on YouTube, and TikTok, and X, and all of that, I doubt that the aim is flower and beans and toothbrushes. I'm sorry, but it seems to me jewelry and sneakers and Gucci's bags and stuff like that. She doesn't care about the owner of the property that has very small, what, two or three percent profit margins, and they lose inventory. Nor does she care about her fellow citizens that, "Gosh, when I go to a drugstore now in my small hometown, it looks like I'm going to a prison infomer, everything is locked up. Anything that is a item, I can't figure the logic out, too, but they must have it down to a tee that certain allergy drugs that have pseudo-F&F-rin or typical certain types of vitamins that are very high-end, they're locked up right next to ones that aren't, but they've really made it very difficult for the store and the consumer shoplifters have, because you have to get somebody to come and unlock, to get a razor, for example. You see the movies from people going to a general store in the wild, wild west, and they're asking the man, "Can I, like a can of beans, like three of this and the clerk gives you everything, you can go shop and pick things, maybe we're going to have to go back to that." That's the way it was when I went to Greece and lived there. You went into a store, and there was only one, it was called Mariana Nautos, there was There's only one supermarket, everything else you went in the store and you told the person what you were doing. you wanted behind the counter and he got them. - Yeah. - Well, this is the Democrat Party of America today, Emily Gallagher in New York. - How did that work out to you, San Francisco, legalizing shoplifting basically? And I don't know, it's again, it's a liberal, a liberal, probably middle class affluent person who feels good about herself that she thinks she's helping the poor or the non-white or whoever she condescendently identifies as her constituents and she doesn't care about the average citizen, the inconvenience and the problems that the store owner faces or the public faces, for her it's just, don't get in the way of my virtue signaling performance or feel good stuff, it's my, it's all about me, I'm a narcissist, you understand? I don't care about your other needs. Let me have my moment of self guilt. - Yeah, if she becomes the poster child for DSA, I think the DSA is in real trouble, we shouldn't be mean, but Gavin Newsom has done poorly for America and he's a good looking guy, right? But this woman is, she's tough to look at. She hasn't seen it. I haven't seen her, I dare you. Well anyway, Friction, let's move, let's move. Are you body-shaming someone? - I'm body-shaming someone, you know, this is of a type, I'm gonna have weirdo tattoos everywhere and everything's pierced and I, for all I know she is, I saw a black and white picture, but I don't know if she has her hair color too, but it's like, - I used to, when I went to UC Santa Cruz at 18, the first thing I remember was there was an anti-war protest and everybody walked down and I was curious so I tagged along at a safe distance and just watched them and I was really confused because I was told that these were the really good people and that these, and at that time Santa Cruz itself wasn't necessarily a left-wing nutty place 'cause the university had only been there four or five years, but they were kind of straight people, and they were all staring two at them and I kept the same, why do I feel more at home with the people watching it on the curb side? They were normally dressed, they were normally looking and the people that were walking had long hair, they had in bay, they had their shirts off, they, I mean, and they look, trust me, they look pretty normal compared to today. But why is it that the left gets these conglomerations of strange, you know, people that, and all of these protest? And then you, and then their message to you is, look at me, I'm smarter than you and trust your future to people like us. It's not gonna work. Yeah, it doesn't work. I mean, if you were a conservative guy in a bow tie and a blazer, you'd be mocked by the left, but I don't think you'd be worried about that guy, I don't know, watching your kid in an extroler for five minutes versus one of these nose-ringed, and how many nose rings can you have in America? I don't know, I'm kind of, it's kind of shocking. All right, Victor, Donald Trump says he will declare the state of Hormuz U.S. territory after we finished defeating Iran. So here's this, well, after we finished defeating Iran, which is being very bad, they defeated, pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz straight, a territory of the United States, Trump told the crowd in an event in Nassau County, New York, Trump did not elaborate on how such a declaration would work, but the remark marked his latest and most expansive assertion of U.S. control over the straight after declaring earlier this week that Washington now owns the waterway and suggesting the United States may keep it. Yeah, I think that's Donald Trump trolling the world because I don't think Americans want it, they want it open, but it's an internet, they want it to be an international waterway. And the larger question is, for purposes of the world economy, it's gonna be irrelevant in three or four years because of the 20 million barrels or whatever goes out every day. I think they already have eight have been subtracted. They either go out through the pipeline in the Gulf of Oman or the Saudi pipeline in the Red Sea, and both of those are gonna have double capacity within two years, the Turks, and the Syrians are talking about allowing a pipeline to go from the Saudi oil fields and out through Syria to a port on the Mediterranean. They're even talking about having a pipeline from the Saudi oil fields, Kuwaiti oil fields through Jordan and into Israel and out somewhere near Haifa. So if you get Red Sea, and it would be better because you would have a more diverse exporting variety. You would have, you know, European nations or importing nations that may be closer to the Red Sea or Mediterranean or Gulf of Oman, then going all the way into the state of our moves, but I don't think it's gonna be, I think they're going to be the lords of nothing, the Iranians. And I think they know that. It brings up a larger question though, Jack, about what Trump says and what he does. And people are always angry at his tweets and his six or seven iterations of where it wore, no, we're negotiating, no, we're gonna bomb, we're negotiating, I understand all that chaos. But you have to do two things, everybody. You have to say what was the world like before his first term in 2017 and then a second? And what is the world now? And is it better off for the United States or not? And to the degree that it is, did Trump have something to do with it? And if you do that systematically, when Joe Biden was president and Obama, we were told that of the 33 nations in South America, Central America and the Caribbean that we couldn't stop this communist wave. I think it was 2011 John Kerry said, "Hey, you know them, the, the Monroe doctrine is just gone. It's gone." It's a colonial relic. We're not gonna interfere, and what happened? Chavez in Venezuela and Castro and Cuba helped launch a communist revolution. And out of those 33 nations, about 25 were hostile. And now when you look at it, there are only really of those 33 nations for Cuba, Nicaragua, I think Paraguay and Brazil that are anti-American. All the rest are either pro-American or radically pro-American and conservative governments or they will be in January after they have elected them. And part of that, a great part of it is that we have a Monroe doctrine. And Donald Trump exposed the weakness of the left in Latin America and China and Russia in particular when he just said, you know, Hugo Chavez is not gonna be overthrowing governments. He's not gonna use the third largest oil reserves to subsidize China and Russia. It's sanctioned by the UN and sanctioned by us. And we're not gonna export drugs and terrorism all over North America. So we're had it and they got rid of Maduro. Now they have a caretaker government. Well, let's hope they have consensual elections. And then he said, we're sick of this parasite. Castro, we're not gonna invade, but we're gonna isolate it. And the rest, and there is a Monroe doctrine. And by the way, this Hutchinson or whatever this company is that has, it's basically a communist Chinese company that controls the exit and the entry. If you wanna keep doing that panel, while we're gonna renounce the treaty. And everybody looked at that and they said, well, the United States is back. It protects its friends and interests and it hurts its enemies. And I wanna join it. And that, so whatever he said about, it doesn't matter. If you look at Europe, when he came into office in 2017, six, can I repeat that? Six of the 32 nations were paying their 2%. George W. Bush said, these are free loaders. Rocco Vamo, who I was just a little bit more eloquent. They're freewriters, that's what they are. They're freewriters. Yes, they were and they weren't going to pay. And Donald Trump then went ballistic. And what did he say? He said, you guys are not protected, you're on arm, you're leeches. And if you keep it up, I'm not going to come to the rescue of anybody who didn't pay their 2%. And I might even not even do the article five. Or we might get out, we're sick of it. And you know that Nordstrom pipeline, all you're doing is subsidizing Russia with billions of dollars of natural, that's a mistake. Oh my gosh, he's a bull in a nuclear china shop. He's crazy, he's horrible. He's tweets. Yes. And now all 32 nations have met their 2% and all but Spain have promised to spend 5% and it was timely because Russia did invade and Europe is getting rearmed and supplying Ukraine. If you look at China, oh, Terra, China is on its back feet. It has lost its client in the Western hemisphere, Venezuela. It's lost Iran. A client can't get in or out with weapons and out with oil. And it's got terrible problems. The domestic economy is sluggish. They've got a real estate deflation crisis. They've got 1% fertility. They're importing 70% of their oil, 40% of their natural gas, 30% of their food. Their weapons were a joke. Their anti-ballistic weapons that were supposed to make Tehran invincible to American or Israeli missiles. They were shredded the first day. I don't need to talk about Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia. Russia's on the prowl. They're going, no, Donald Trump got out of the missile deal. He sanctioned the oligarchs. He sold offensive weapons to Ukraine. He crashed the price of oil in his first term by pumping, pumping, build, drill, baby, drill, etc., etc. And the result is Russia is a mess. As far as Ukraine, they've lost a million and half dead one didn't miss it. They're importing gasoline. Can you believe it? So they're not really a player. And then they said, well, Iran is a forever war. Thomas Asi. Oh, no, whatever you think about Iran, it was the bully of the Middle East at seven presidents promised that they would do something and they were all terrified. Everybody was. We could quit now and they have a half century, half trillion dollar lost investment and a nuclear defense industrial complex been ruined and wrecked. And they're not done yet. Anytime that we want to, we can inflict greater damage on what you claim. What Iran doesn't know is it's not costing us much right now. We're not called kinetically. But if they start to hit people, we will. And after the midterms, I fear for them because Donald Trump will win our lose. He won't care. And he will have a blank check and they can mouth out all they want, but they are hurting. They are now subject. Everybody should remember that. They're subject to the greatest military, economic and financial blockade, squeeze, embargo, debanking, freezing about that any country has experienced. They can't write a check on the international market. They can't bring in any commodity. They can't export oil. They're losing five hundred million dollars a day. They've got a rescue population that can't even buy apples. So forget all what Trump says are all rhetoric. But just look at region by region by region. If you look at the Middle East, never have it, has it been more pro-American, Israel is the strongest country in the Middle East, the only democracy. The Houthis were fear. We all fear the under Biden. Oh, the Houthis are controlling the Red Sea. Oh, you can't, Hezbollah are the stormtroopers of the Middle East. Oh, Hamas. They're all inert. The Houthis know if they hit anybody, they're going to lose more power plants, water plants, airports, ports. They've already lost their port facilities. The Israelis bombed them. Hezbollah has been defanged for the most part. I mean, they have they had to what 250,000 missiles at one point with the pagers and all of that and the end of Iranian subsidies and Hamas. I don't know what Hamas is. I guess they're lingering in those tunnels, but they're not the fearsome Hamas that butchered 1200 people. And so the world is very different as what I'm trying to say in the United States. A lot of it, if you look at key technologies and I went back and looked at this, I was reading everything during the early Biden years and even before during Clinton, it said that China was going to surpass this by 2030 in GDP. No, we're 31 trillion, they're 21 trillion and they have a 1.4 billion people. We only have 340. So look at the difference in population versus the 10 trillion more in gross national product. All of the sciences, as I said earlier, all of the sciences they said we were losing. Look at AI. I was looking at AI the other day, technologies, all the companies in the world, Jack and technology, robotics, AI, chips, whatever that have a value of 1 billion given the spurt over the last five years or six, seven, eight years under Trump and deregulation, tax incentive, foreign investment. We have 180, 300, excuse me, 830 companies with 5.8 trillion. China has a hundred and 30 companies, 300 companies with 1.4 trillion. We have four times the market capitalization that they do and we have about six times, four times the number, excuse me, two and a half times the number of companies that I won't even mention Europe. It's just, it's a tenth of our market capitalization. And when you look at space launches, did you know that Elon Musk last year launched 3,500 satellites and China launched about 3,300. He did 3,500. They did 30, excuse me, they did 330. He launched 3,500 satellites approximately, they did 350. He did about 10 times more launches than China itself. And when you look at the total launches worldwide, the United States accounts for about 85% of them. And when you look at space exploration, you look at robotics, you look at AI, you look at genetic engineering, all of this is changed radically. It really has. When you look at per capita income now, the United States was, we were told we were going to be overtaken by the EU or were way ahead. And so it's been, I know that he says crazy things about foreign policy, but maybe these crazy things are having effect. Maybe Mexico was thinking, free market, North American free trade. Yes, we're going to let, we're going to assemble Chinese products and get ran up a 200 billion dollar surplus with the United States. Ha, we have 50 consulates. So we're going to export our poor and then they're going to be ex-patriots and then the government's put them on welfare, then they're going to send back 65 billion dollars in poor and exchange. Remember El-Alvador, he said, it's a beautiful thing. We sent 40 million illegal aliens in the United States and we get reparations from them. And then the cartels said, this is great. We kill 70,000 Americans a year for the Chinese who give us the fentanyl and we're on touchable. And now all of a sudden the border is completely closed, completely closed. And we are pushing back on the Chinese unfintanyl. And we've told the Mexican government that we're now taxing, we're going to start, we started with 1% of the 65, but when we're going to go up and let's say stop it. And it's just same thing with Canada. Carnival, we're looking to China now. We can't deal with the erratic loudmouth. Okay, you did. And what did you find out dealing with a $1.4 billion person dictatorship? Now all of a sudden is, let's work on this $50 billion surplus we had. We're going to patrol the border and we're going to meet our 2%, we'll aim for the 5%, let's get some joint operations to make sure this north-west passage remains in Canadian and western hands. And maybe we can work out a deal with a pipeline and get some of our tar sands oil to you. It's all changed. So maybe it'd call it chaos theory of foreign policy, but maybe I get really tired of these sober and judicious exo-bomber people. And they gave us the, as you pointed out, the pull out from Afghanistan. They gave us two invasions of Ukraine. They gave us the October 7th massacres by distance and ourself, our ally Israel. They cut the budget. They gave us 50,000 shortfall of soldiers. They didn't invest in defense weaponry, South America and Central America were going calmated to their delight, I guess. And that's all stopped. And I can't figure out everybody says, "Yes, Victor, I give credit to Donald Trump. The world is better off." But he did a reputable damage. Don't you understand that? By the way, his speech, his conduct, his discourse, it permanently alienated some of our closest allies who were shocked at his behavior. Was that really worth it? Yes, it was worth it to make them ready and prepared for Ukraine and Russia. Because this Obama, I mean, bragg Obama, and I just think, you know, that I've told you to make the 2%. So of course, you're going to do it because you love with bragg Obama. No, they weren't. And Trump goes in there and says, well, I just think if you're not going to pay, we're not coming to your aid if you get invaded. And we may not, we may quit. Oh my God, they might quit. But you supply 70% of the overhead and the logistics and the backup and the, and we, we bite your ankles. That's what we are. We're ankle-biders. We're wheat philosophers. You're our Roman legions. You can't do that to us. You can't make us arm. We got to tell you what to do. It was, so he's really changed things and he doesn't get credit for it because of his methodology. Victor as VDA grads go. That was one of the, that was one of the best ones. That was terrific. Did you see? Remember that scene in our favorite Western chain? Where they're at that dance thing. And Shane is going to confront. He's the only guy that can handle Jack Palliance in the cattle barons and free up the sod busters. And so he, somebody says, well, there was a guy, who was a guy that killed him? Well, there's this guy. He said, does he work too gun? Yes, he. And then Shane goes, I, that's Jack Wilson. I'm afraid. And he says something to that effect. And he says, how do you know Shane? How do you, I don't like gunplates. Remember that guy that says that? And basically the point is, okay, you don't want Shane on your side in his gun. You don't want to stoop down to that level. You don't like his discourse or whatever you think. And you'd like to be picked off one by one by the cattle baron. And that's sort of what Trump is. He's kind of like that Western gunslinger. We are talking on Sunday and yesterday Saturday. The other example, cinematic example of this is, is the searchers, which was on yesterday. And I think I've watched it 50 times now. That scene where I like to see where he brings in Natalie Wood. He drops her off. They all celebrate and completely ignore him. Right. Yeah. And then he, and then he, and then he won't even say thanks. And then you see him walk out that famous scene that everybody's copied where it's dark in the, in the how cabin. He walks out that door and he has that John Wayne walk. And it's kind of like, well, I'm walking into nowhere. You know, I'm an old guy by myself. I have no family. Nobody care. And I'm the one that solved the whole problem. Yeah. And I've just been five years doing it. Yes. And you all said you didn't like my methods. You said I had a dubious past. I might have been a Quantrell raider or something like that. And, and that award bond was a better guy. And, and that's the, that's the message. Yeah. Well, Victor, we have to read, well, we want to read an ad. So we're going to take a breath there because I know you need one. 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Victor, wow, these some of these blue state attorney generals are just crazy. A truth threat to our country. Here's the headline, 21 states and DC suit Trump administration to protect illegal alien drivers from the feds. This is from Red State. So 21 states DC are effectively telling the Trump administration that they are more concerned about protecting the identities of illegal aliens than keeping American drivers safe on the roads. That's the conclusion one can draw from stunning new lawsuits filed to keep the Department of Transportation from obtaining the identities of illegal aliens who have obtained commercial driver's licenses to lawsuits filed on Thursday. That's a week ago from the day this particular episode is airing. Two lawsuits filed challenge the federal demands for commercial drivers license information system CDLIS records containing driver names, date of birth license numbers and social security numbers, etc. Victor, that's my state of Connecticut, your state of California and 19 others are just cool and dandy with these lunatics on the road. Yeah, well, I mean, I'm not a good person to talk to because we just drove back on Friday, the 200 miles from Stanford to Selma and I can tell you that it is very, very scary to see the professionalism of the truck driver decline is such a degree because I mean when that truck truck is in the right part of it as the infrastructure of California under Newsom is so ossified he didn't do anything to improve it. It's it's third world-like but when you see that truck driver go on the left lane he doesn't look at his rear of your mirror to see who's behind him. His theory is I've got 20 tons and nobody's going to mess around with me and they just pull out and then they get on the left lane and they decide how many trucks they want to pass at 65 or 70 forget the 55 mile limit no one falls out anymore and just keep going down the left lane until traffic, you know, that wants to go 80 I guess but are you see now what they're doing Jack is that and maybe some of our listeners in California have noticed they have screens and they pull down on the side you know so you can't look in at all if you're in a pickup or an elevated SUV you can't see who the driver is so you have no idea on August 8th we were driving back from northern California and we excuse me from the Sierra and we were cruising along making perfect time and we were only four miles from home and we passed the last exit before our exit so we couldn't get off and the entire 99 three lanes was just stopped for two hours on August 8th and that and we came in about 1130 it had been stopped since 830 it was backed up five or six miles it stayed stopped till 10 at night 10 at night and apparently a truck driver with two big trailer tankers with a total of 8,000 gallons of gas was just driving along fast saw a small box truck parked in the right lane where it had broken down and he he either tried he either was changing lanes back into the right no one the initial reports was he was changing lanes and not attentive but he hit it it was clear off the side of the road and his truck exploded he wasn't hurt and we had this toxic black plume plume or plume either one you can all over Selma and that traffic it cost people 12 15 hours of the main lateral north to south in the center of the state and to this day they won't tell you who the driver was it's just complete news blackout they won't tell you who was culpable news blackout California has sent down a pair Apparently, an order that if there is a truck driver and the news people have not got to the scene and interviewed him, we are not going to release the information. At least we're not going to release it in a prompt manner, even though it's a public highway and even though the employees are public. Because I think it could be, I'm not suggesting it was someone who was not authorized to drive or got one of these pseudo licenses, but it's very dangerous and when these states do this, they're basically telling their population, we're taking a gamble with your lives because we're going to play the odds because our virtue signaling sense of self guilt is more important in your collective safety. So we don't want to know that we force poor little illegal aliens who are driving without properly qualifying on a driver's test. We don't want to impair their future or their careers, but we're willing to risk your safety. That's what it is. Simple as that. Nearly half the states in America are essentially pro-criminal, yes, and we're willing to take some collateral damage because we'll get more media play that we're morally superior to everybody than we will be culpable for the lives that these drivers have and we'll take in the future. And it is scary when you get on an interstate in California or an interest state and you know that 60 years ago they promised there would be three lanes in each direction and they're still two and you see a truck on the left and the right and that truck doesn't feel like it's doing anything wrong. And they're just plowing down at 65 to 75 miles an hour and you see all these drivers trying to cut in front of you to get around this obstacle. And then you look at how they drive and when they have two trailers, the other one looks like the tail of a fish. It just goes back, it wiggles or a dog wiggling and at that speed, they don't have any idea about speed, calisthen, physics, they don't have that 10 years of driving 20 tons. They don't know the history of driving, they don't know the protocols, they don't know the language. And so, you know, they do crazy things like flip you turns or miss and exit and then back up on the shoulders to see if they can still get out after they passed it. And they don't signal when they switch lanes or they stay in the left lane as if they own it. Or I've seen now three lanes on the 99 where there are all three lanes for five or six miles and it's and I go to rest stops and when they come in, there are all different nationalities and they don't speak English, they speak native languages. I've seen, I've at least seen, they've speaking an Indian dialect, Punjabi dialect, Chinese, Spanish, you name it, but they don't, you know, they don't, when I was driving down to the sea a few weeks ago, there was some billboards, more than one that were trucker related, I'm pretty sure Sikh, the language was, so the amount of these drivers just in California alone, it's got to be massive. I don't understand that because the allegedly 30 to 40% of the truck drivers are Sikh immigrants, but the Sikh community is a very law-biting, very successful community. It has, as I said, within the case of Mondami, if you look at all of faith and ethnicities of India, the censors says India and America, they are the highest income ethnic group in the United States. So they're very affluent, they're highly educated, I don't know why they would be protective of illegal Sikh, if that's who it is, and Punjabi drivers coming through Mexico to get across the border illegally, or overstaying Avisa, who don't speak English yet, and then put people at risk because they were able to finesse a driver's test given the California wave the requirements for illegal aliens apparently. And then they would not, they wouldn't join, you know, I mean, I only say that because they signed a petition, do you remember that? The Sikh of Canada, the United States, suggesting that what I'm saying right now was somehow culturally or racially insensitive, but it isn't because they're endangered too on the roads. And so it's not, it's not aimed at any one group, it's aimed at the idea of allowing someone here illegally who doesn't speak the language and did not pass a authentic test to be let loose on the public with a dangerous machine that can kill people and does kill people. Or if they don't kill people, they can destroy commerce and trade for hours if not days. And no one is talking about that. And I hope, I don't know, I have so many good Sikh friends, I hope within the Sikh community that their ethnic gatherings, people are talking and saying we should self-police this before we get it. Yeah. Well, Victor, I'm looking at my watch and it's time to let our viewers and listeners know about something. We tend to forget that civilizations are remembered less by their politics than by what they made, the tools, the objects, the things built well enough to outlast the people who built them. For most of the last century, America made things. 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And it's kind of like Peter Monsor's essay about robotics and armor in the battlefield. And even though they wrote completely independent, we assign topics generally, but they choose how to emphasize the topic. The topic was, what is the effect of artificial intelligence, robotic drones on the nature of war? And their independent conclusions, I think are quite correct. It's basically saying human nature determines the laws of war, and it's on changing. It's the water of war, and the delivery system, the pump, can accelerate or decelerate the amount of output. And so don't think that just because drones have appeared and they seem unstoppable that they changed war, whether that's seed drones, they just require a counter-response. And there are a counter-response. So if you have a carrier, and you've got $14 billion and 5,000 people invested upon it, and some little tiny $5,000 drone with a 50-pound warhead can fly into a vent and destroy their nuclear reactor and blow up the carrier, that doesn't mean that carriers are. are over with. That means that that requires a response. But the purpose that you have a carrier to put men at sea in a long-term capacity, thousands of men that can operate missiles and aircraft and go anywhere they want with a nuclear reactor with unlimited fuel supplies is it transcends time in space. So all you what they're getting at is you can fill that entire carrier with anti-drone weaponry, drones, missiles, whatever because the concept we main sound. And the same thing on tanks are not necessarily obsolete because a cheap drone with little threads can sneak up underneath it and then blow itself up in the vulnerable point. You can have a tank with sophisticated jamming, sophisticated radars, sophisticated new types of armor. They have cages around them. And so they're talking about a constant fluidity of defense versus offense like this. And you don't want to go at any one particular point in that spectrum and say, "Ah, it's changed in nature of war." And if somebody's going to say, "Well, Victor, atomic weapons did change." And yes, maybe. But who knows? Maybe there's going to be a technology that will neutralize fission in an airplane with a bomb and blow the bomb up in the sky. Or maybe there are going to be, I shouldn't say, there are going to be. There are now laser satellites and laser platforms. Israelis had them. And so that you can blow up any bomb missile, even hypersonic from outer space. And you'll eliminate that threat for a while. So that's what the essays are about. I think they're really well written. And the people who wrote them are very accomplished scholars. All of all three of them. So just for our listeners and viewers, strategic could come out. It could come out every three weeks. It comes out every six weeks. It comes out when it comes out. But you should. Yeah, we're trying three to six weeks, but we're trying to get back to every four weeks if we can. All right. Well, Victor, we have some high school stories disturbing to get your take on. And we'll do that when we come back from these important messages. Every state is home to significant historic sites that tell the American story, but not every site is telling that story honestly and fairly. That's why the Heritage Foundation created the Heritage Guide to Historic Sites. 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So let me raise one local story and then we'll get into a New York related story. If I can only get my pages right here. Yeah. So here's a head. I think where I pulled this off of it might have been the daily mail about about Palo Alto high school students encouraged to wear his jobs giving Kuran's during class to a mosque. So parents of Bay Area high school student students taken on a field trip to a mosque are suing over the visit alleging students were encouraged to wear his jobs and giving Kuran's a group representing two Jewish parents of Palo Alto high school, which I assume is very good. It's a public high school. It's right near Al Camino and it's highly on basis of test scores comparable to prep school. Yeah. So the three three former Jewish students, a Hindu parent is so a so a so Austrian parent of suing the school over claims that children were exposed. The idea that Islam was aligned with social justice, work parents, well, et cetera, et cetera. So anyway, are you surprised that this particular high school would be engaged in this kind of I was a little because it's a public school. And the left always lectures us on this separation of church and state. I think there's a line that was crossed. There's nothing wrong with having field trips if you have your studying religion. Let's say that you say we want all of our students to know something about the history of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Zorasterism, you name it. Okay. Hinduism. And we're fortunate in a multiracial multi religious nation to have places of worship of all three. So what we're going to do is have a field trip where you get to see a Buddhist temple and have somebody explain that. Then we're going to have a trip to a Christian church and a mosque, et cetera. But that seems like they crossed the line. And they said, we're going in the case of Islam. It's kind of the fad now. And maybe we can get brownie points by showing everybody we're not Islamic phobia. We're going to have the students hijab. And we're going to put on rituals from that particular religion in a way that goes beyond just observance. And maybe I haven't got the whole background because they haven't released it. Maybe they have not had equitable trips. But I can tell you that if they went to a synagogue and they all put a yarmic on the Islamic parents would have a fit. Oh my gosh. They would go crazy. They would go crazy. So it's asymmetrical. And it's it's virtue signaling. And they don't understand that parents parents are like the proverbial honey badger. They're very fear. They're very nice, but you start to tamper with their children for experimental purposes and threaten their way of thinking or you want to and they will be fierce and provoked. And there's no reason to do that. And so they're they're going to react. They're there. They send their children in your custody as a school person speaking as a professor and a public institution. And your job is to accommodate that student in helping them learn and be broadly educated. You can express political views if it's relevant to a particular point in history or literature. That's fine. But if you start to coerce or try to propagandize or recruit or or be less than equal about the material you've got problems with the person who's paying the tab. You really do. I know can immediately sense this is really about the teacher or the or the administrators trying to do something that makes them feel better about themselves. Yeah. Rather than really trying to expose the students to something educational or intelligent. And I think you know that wonderful book that Roger Kimbell is the editor of encounter books, The Golden Thread that Alan Guelzo and I have a hair here's one of it. It's this is a big. Yes. Beautiful Hankins. Well, it is caused. It's a beautiful. I was one of the outside referees on the ancient to medieval section written by Harvard professor Hankins. It was wonderfully written, factually sound, fair in its conclusions and descriptions, and quite the contrary of most of the textbooks that are written by left-wing people. Okay. It's beautifully produced. My gosh, you're never going to see a book. You should all buy the golden thread if you can afford it. It's very expensive. But the point I'm making is that recently the Pentagon decided that it has such that one of the volumes, the first volume that's out and they're going to consider it's twin land of hope for domestic. I mean, US history and everybody should know these are efforts to try not to have a Howard Zinn ideologically perverted history that denigrates your very civilization and history and values. Just tell the story as it is. Well, the Pentagon is going to use it for all military families in their schools on bases. That could be 70 or 80,000 copies. It's terrific. Worldwide. And that set the left on fire. So a Yale professor has now all these professors, but a particular a Yale person who is supposedly a historical sociologist. Whatever that is, I have no idea. But he has said that it's a, it's a proper, it's a Christian propagandist. And it suggests that Christianity is superior to other religions. And it's inseparable from Western culture. I mean, what does he think when he walks through Europe prior to 2010, how many churches does he see versus mosque or Buddhist temples? A hundred to one, unless he's in Eastern Europe, was conquered by the Ottomans, the Balkans. So my point is that what else would they talk about that the West is basically Rome and Athens, Jerusalem? That's the tradition, the cultural, it's the Hellenic legacy, the Roman Empire and the Catholic church or the Christian church in those days. And the Judeo tradition of the Old Testament that's pretty much the catalyst for Western civs. So you have to discuss them in a disproportionate manner, unless you're going to try to be political yourself and propagandistically try to insert some an idea that the Ottomans were not a threat to Western civilization and everybody loved them. And they brought, they brought certain wonderful things like the Derbysham or the Haram or You name it. The rights of succession. Yes. But the American book, the American history book here, Hand of Hope is by Bill McClay, who is the Victor Davis Hanson professor at Hillsdale, and you know, I know Bill's a friend, Bill's a fan of the show. He is one of the sweetest, nicest, smartest, very good historian, very, and it's very, that's another book that's really well written, well written. And they really made an effort to be disinterested. They tend to be traditionalist, fine, but they don't. It's not a propaganda exercise like Howard Zinn's People History, which is just everything in it as it involves the United States and its values and history is negative. Right. Yeah, we hate this place. So let's, let's sort of cap the show with another, it's a troubling story. Now, there are several high schools in New York City that require passing a test to get into Bronx High School of Sciences. One of them, that's where the famous maim and dummy went, but another is Stuyvesant High School. It's very competitive. And the incoming class this year, there are 534 Asian students, 133 white students, 21 Hispanic, and only three black students, how the entire population. So Heather McDonald, who's been on this show, you had her on as a special guest once and Heather is fearless and she's a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and writes boldly about America's race issues. Here's what she said on her ex-count. Why were only three black blacks accepted this year to New York City's competitive Stuyvesant High School? Because that is the number of blacks who passed the admissions test, a detail not even alluded to until the fifth paragraph of the New York Times story on this alleged scandal. Why did only three blacks out of 777 admitties pass the admission test? Because on average, black's academic skills are so low. Nationally, the percentage of black 12th graders with advanced math skills is essentially zero on a national sample. Why continue to point out this doleful reality, which most well-meaning Americans would rather ignore? I feel even a little uncomfortable reading this victim, but because, unless we understand that the low representation of blacks is merit, merit, credit institutions, whether stiving at Stuyvesant High School or NASA is due to the academic skills gap and not to systemic racism, we will continue to sabotage civilizational progress. Tough stuff by Heather, but these numbers are shocking. Notice that so-called white people make up, I don't know the percentage in New York, but nationwide, 67 to 70% of the population and there's 140 white students. It's under 33. I don't know what that is, 30%. I don't see a lot of white people say, "Well, we're underrepresented nationally." So the point is, if you feel you're underrepresented, then why not have an interior dialogue and saying, "We are not as competitive," because culturally, we're doing something wrong if that's one of our goals. If you don't care, then it doesn't matter. But I know that when I have said I don't want any racial preferences or culturally weighted determinants that impair a merit-cratic selection for admissions, I've had people say, "Oh, you would like the University of California Berkeley to be 50% Asian." Yeah, I don't want that, I don't care. I don't care if it's 100% Asian. I want that the people there are the top students and they have earned it. I understand that you can be smart and not always express that intelligence on an SAT test or a GPA, but I also understand if you look at the GPA and if you look at the SAT, and if you do look at other criteria under not community service or any of that stuff that's padded, you know, that, "Oh, I went to Baja, California and created a solar farm for an indigenous village." I'm just talking about maybe you're a rare chess player or that there are elements that can express themselves and can be documented and calibrated. So my point is, if that allows under that system that's racially, ethnically blind, if it turns out that they're all Asians, I think, well, that means I have a higher chance when I'm operated on, when a radiologist reads my MRI that the person's qualified, that's all. And if people who are Swedish Americans don't want to do well and they want to farm or they want to concentrate in some other aspect of their lives, more power to them, but I'm not going to endanger the competitiveness of the United States by social engineering and discounting merit-cratic criteria. And that's how it works. And what we should be talking about is, what is wrong? Why don't we have more Tom Souls and Condi Rises and Shelby Steele? Yeah, why don't we have more? And why do we, and the answer is, I think they come from intact, Tom didn't soul, but Shelby did, and I know Condi, the Undelucer Rice did, and Kikai Ron Skinner did. So why can't that model of a nuclear family be replicated and emphasized? Why can't we create an ethos among black men to stay married, at least in proportionality to Latino or other groups, or white men? I'm not saying that they don't leave their families. White can't, we have a two-parent household in the same numbers in the black community as other community. Why don't we go into the inner school and say, basketball is fine, and the amount of time and effort and self-discipline to be a great basketball player is considerable, but we also want to apply that effort to mathematics or analytics or languages. So we want to be preeminent in those areas as well. And no one is making that argument, because it's much easier to say racist, racist, racist. And what you end up when you do that is you end up with Jason R. Days. Right. And that's what happens. And then what happens when you do that, then you create a stereotype that if you're a black person in a university, you didn't earn your bill because of DEI. And that is counterproductive to self-esteem, of sense of accomplishment. And it's a pernicious stereotype, but you're going to perpetuate that when you want something that hasn't been earned according to the existing criteria. But instead of that, they always want to change the criteria, change the rules, and then we'll be equitable. But why not use the rules as they are since they've made the United States preeminent? We have the most supposedly top-notch universities in the world. Why do you want to change that? And so I think that's the question. And what we should be doing is having, and I'm prejudiced about this because I'm a classist, we should have Latin Academy. in every inner city and uniforms and then we should have a St. Paul's or a Groton or a Chote in every single inner city and the black community can say our 10-year project is to have 10 to 15% of the top SAT national merit scores 4.3 grade averages advanced placement be represented by African American and they can do it they can do it well they do do it in row the great charter reform I mean he has several schools in the Bronx that are everybody knows they can do it because they yeah you're they do it all the time and the places where they're allowed to do it right but that that makes some hard choices you'd have to go to the teachers union and say right gone gone gone gone gone you're not a competitive teacher the destruction of the black the nuclear black family lay it into the the teachers union is is a death wish for I think yeah it is it's human nature if somebody tells you no matter what you do you're going to succeed because we're going to change your rules to facilitate you you're human nature being what is you're not going to spend the same type of effort if somebody comes in and tells you every night you're going to have hoggendoss ice cream and no matter what happens to your body shape you're not we're going to make sure that you're not going to have high cholesterol or you're not going to have to you know be made fun of but we're going to say that you know Wayne 270 and 55 is really aesthetically ideal then you're gonna eat you're gonna eat ice cream because there's no consequences because human nature being what it is it's I don't know neopolitan ice cream every night sounds better than I don't know sauerkraut and string beans so if you take that away from human nature if you have no consequences to behavior and say that you're always going to be and we know that it's called deterrence if we say there's no no consequences to shop lifting you're going to get shoplifting if there's no consequences to put couples you over and you don't go down the window and there's no consequences then you're not going to go down the window and if there's no if you think that you're always going to get 250 SAT points added on to your score or somebody's going to be called a racist then you're not going to try to get a higher SAT score and who did this it wasn't blacks it did this it was white liberals and they do it look what they University of Michigan right the freshman class just now all pass fail it's not so imagine if you're a student there yeah I really don't have to read these yeah that's a very good point Jack because the problem with DEI it doesn't end when you hire a DEI higher and DEI higher doesn't mean that necessarily erase it's somebody who was not hired on merit-cratic values and standards that you apply to other people they were special they had special exemption but when you do that that is not the end that is the beginning of the dilemma because then you have to kick in an entire institution to justify that you let someone in that according to your standards cannot do the work because you set up the standards that you violated that's what's the irony so then you have to say if I hear the word I'm going to make a word called microaggressions so if you say something that I feel might be a microaggression or if I'm going to have all one race in one part of the firehouse dorm I'm going to call it a theme house not a segregated house you're going to keep doing that and doing that and doing that and pass that problem along and create more and more cynicism and dissension and hostility and animosity and then ultimately you're going to turn out a graduate or a product that people are going to say it doesn't fit what they expect whether it's an air traffic controller or it's you know a product that you buy and we're going to lose competitiveness and the opposition doesn't do that the Chinese are pretty tough customers and so we're in a globalized challenging place and well Victor we have to come to the conclusion because it's Sunday afternoon I have to get off to mass today I have to be holy and have to pray that about reparation of the considering fun of that that that New York State Assembly woman I've got to be very careful I don't tell my uncle just I'm considering spraying roundup today for the first time in my recovery I don't do that just we know we should spray around just like some spring string beans and sauerkraut let's spread that or I didn't know where you came up with that but all right a couple of comments Victor a couple of comments Lynn Crawford 2108 writes on YouTube Victor I love listening to you every time you're on and I especially enjoy your animating people makes me laugh and we all need laughter these days you are great and one other comment from James Burlow who writes my sister is in love with Victor of my three sisters I didn't imagine she would be the one preoccupied with politics and the welfare of our nations we all had to leave Boston public schools in the fourth and fifth grade because it was too dangerous being white so like so many poor people we grew up only knowing and concerned with Boston and Metro Boston as far as politics go that was the limit of the world ignorant of the founding fathers the history and greatness of the country like my sister I never miss an opportunity to listen to Victor in a way if his world was limited to Boston politics I was always Billy Bulger and always kind of exciting was the Irish community always larger than the Italian community in Boston oh yeah yeah and the Boston the South Irish they they they ran the show until about probably 20 years ago I'm trying to remember that movie was it called the city where they all dressed up with mask and they were robbing banks and what's his name oh that's some oh my gosh the actor well that was it yeah the Thomas Crown affair no no no no there was a bank rob the town the town I hear the great voice of Sammy saying that and somebody was the who's the the actor the star was you know what's his name you know yeah I know yeah no but I remember that evil Irish actor postal wait a little post post post post a wait you remember him he was in the usual suspect and he's the he's the evil guy in a flower shop that is running all of him he's and it's all about the Boston Irish mafia well that was Whitey Bulger he ran the show there for a while winning lottery tickets and murdering 17 people okay Billy his brother who was the senator president of the the Senate was a subscriber to national review and actually a kind of a friend I love Billy but he was he was a social conservative but he was a complicated man anyway I want to thank yeah I want to thank the people who sounds like the new translation of Emily Wilson of Odysseus you know he's a complicated problem at so spoke Odysseus the complicated pragmatic hero or something like that but Billy was complicate so he was you remember John silver Billy was trying to get John to be the president of what is each oh no actually he was the president of Boston you but he was he was trying to get him to become senator what he ran the governor governor yeah yeah yeah and then and then Billy had his fifth amendment problems related to his the whereabouts of his infamous brother Whitey Victor I want to thank the people who subscribe to civil thoughts they go if you are now a subscriber go to civil thoughts comm sign up every Friday you'll get my free weekly email newsletter 14 recommended readings I know you're gonna like it not charging it's that's why it's called free a victor's website again is the blade of purchase victor Hanson comm 650 a month or discounted to $65 a year and that way you get to read the exclusive articles and exclusive videos a victor does for his site and of course you'll find links to his book and oh this book the the counter evolution and all the victor's books if you're on a Facebook vdh's morning cup and then check out the good people at the victor Davis Hanson fan club and if you're on X his victor's handle is at VD Hanson okay thank you thank you thank you I have a final thought we don't use that nickname anymore Jack Whitey which one I like Whitey Ford the picture or Whitey Boy was out because there a hair was not blonde but almost white I think that's the typical reason for whitey but also a whitey you'd call him sandy or dusty but is whitey now like a taboo word you don't want to be called whitey Hanson I don't know anyone I knew a few guys in college named whitey I still - Oh, they still use it? - Well, they're 65 years old. - Oh, I don't think younger people wouldn't want to be called whitey, right? - Yeah, probably not, probably not. 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