Left’s Legacy to Law: Leaking, Breaching, Freaking

Fellow Americans, a shocking revelation from the Department of Government Efficiency demands

your attention. Doge investigators have already uncovered an astounding $115 billion in government fraud, with analysts suggesting hundreds of billions more will soon be exposed.
This goes far beyond simple waste or mismanagement. We're witnessing the unraveling of systematic corruption that appears to have artificially inflated our economy for years.
Reports indicate the previous administration channeled approximately $1.5 trillion through non-governmental organizations, creating a facade of economic stability that was built on quicksand. Now, as this house of cards begins to collapse, financial experts are warning of an imminent short but deep recession that could devastate unprepared investors.
Consider the sobering question, what will happen to your retirement savings when this fraudulent economic structure finally crumbles throughout civilization, across empires and economic systems. Physical gold has consistently preserved wealth when currencies and paper investments failed.
Shouldn't a portion of your retirement be held in an asset with a 5,000-year track record, one that can't be manufactured by government decree or manipulated through accounting fraud? American Alternative Assets is offering a complimentary wealth protection guide explaining how to shield your financial future from the coming downturn. You'll discover why current conditions may present the optimal moment to secure your wealth through precious metals.
Don't delay until the fraud economy completely unravels. Call 833-2-USA-GOLD or visit VictorLovesGold.com now to request your free wealth protection guide.

That's 833-287-2465 or VictorLovesGold.com.

Safeguard your wealth, protect your future while there's still time. Well, hello, ladies and hello, gentlemen.
Welcome to the Victor Davis Hanson Show. I'm Jack Fowler, the man lucky enough to be the host, but you're not here to listen to me.
You're here to listen to the namesake. Victor Davis Hanson, who is the Martin and Ely Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.
He has a website, The Blade of Perseus. The web address is victorhanson.com.
I'll tell you later on why you should check it out. And I know, Victor, for a lot of people, this is, Jack, we've heard this a million times, but guess what? There are so many new listeners and followers of this podcast.
It's kind of remarkable. So we must service all people, especially our new found friends.
So thanks for joining us. We are recording on Sunday, March 30th.
This particular episode will be up on Tuesday, April 1st. And as ever, there's just so darn much to talk about.
Jack, I should interrupt and say never underestimate the power of a face that can alternate between Skeletor and Freddy Krueger. The face that will turn a thousand chips.
The face that launched a thousand Freddy Krueger. Well, you're a pretty man, Victor, I think.
So, gosh, I wanted to make some cursing joke because you have a column about the vulgarity of Democrats. Maybe we'll get into that in the next show.

But today you have more that you'd like to speak about on the how did Goldberg get on this signal intelligence call.

We have Judge Boesberg, who seems like a lot of these judges have daughters that are very involved in left-wing politics, and this federal judge does. Judge Michonne, for sure.
Right, right. All of them.
Yeah. They either have daughters, or they gave to Democratic candidates, or they ham it up, like Ingeron or Kaplan, you name it, Yeah.
They either have daughters or they gave to Democratic candidates or they ham it up like Ingeron or Kaplan, you name it, Jack Smith. Yeah.
I'll tell a story about Judge Jim Buckley maybe if we have a little time. We have issues with California water, Western ranchers getting tormented by the federal government, declassifying the crossfire hurricane documents, so much more.
And Victor, we will get to all of this and your thoughts on all of these things when we return from these important messages. We'll be back to our show in just a moment, but first an important message for anyone concerned about their financial future.
Have you seen the headlines? The Department of Government Efficiency has uncovered a staggering $115 billion in government fraud with investigators suggesting this is just the tip of the iceberg. Financial analysts are now confirming what many suspected.
The previous administration's economic success was largely artificial, propped up by funneling trillions through NGOs and creating an economic mirage. As this corruption is exposed, experts predict we're heading toward a short but deep recession when this false economic support evaporates.
What does this mean for your retirement savings? Throughout our history, when governments manipulate economies and currencies collapse, physical gold has been mankind's most reliable store of value. Shouldn't you consider protecting part of your retirement with an asset that governments can't create with keystrokes or devalue through corruption? American Alternative Assets is offering a free wealth protection guide to help safeguard your financial future from the coming economic correction.
Call 8332-USA-GOLD or visit victorlovesgold.com today for your free guide and learn why now may be the perfect time to add precious metals to your portfolio. That's 833-287-2465 or victorlovesgold.com.
Protect what you've earned before the fraud economy collapses completely. We'll be back to our show in just a moment, but first an important message for anyone concerned about their financial future.
Have you seen the headlines? The Department of Government Efficiency has uncovered a staggering $115 billion in government fraud with investigators suggesting this is just the tip of the iceberg. Financial analysts are now confirming what many suspected.
The previous administration's economic success

was largely artificial, propped up by funneling trillions through NGOs and creating an economic

mirage. As this corruption is exposed, experts predict we're heading toward a short but deep

recession when this false economic support evaporates. What does this mean for your retirement

savings? Throughout our history, when governments manipulate economies and currencies collapse, physical gold has been mankind's most reliable store of value. Shouldn't you consider protecting part of your retirement with an asset that governments can't create, with keystrokes, or devalue through corruption, American Alternative Assets is offering a free

wealth protection guide to help safeguard your financial future from the coming economic

correction. Call 8332-USA-GOLD or visit victorlovesgold.com today for your free guide

and learn why now may be the perfect time to add precious metals to your portfolio. That's 833-287-2465 or VictorLovesGold.com.
Protect what you've earned before the fraud economy collapses completely. We are back with the Victor Davis Hanson show.
So, Victor, I know you, by the way, you are now daily on The Daily Signal. You do a video about six, seven minutes.
I want to encourage our viewers, listeners to check that out. There's probably roughly four to five, some of the videos you have over a million people checking them out.
But you did talk at some length in one of them on Signal, Walsh, Goldberg, the Atlantic editor getting on there. And you have some other thoughts that you'd like to share.
Please have it. Well, the poster Mark Penn made sort of a snarky but quite accurate remark.
He said, if you think, and I had written an X earlier, that why was it him and not some of the other 345 million Americans? And Mark Penn said that, you know, it was no accident. And so, as we said earlier, it either had to be Waltz or his assistant, is it Alexander Wong or something like that? I forgot his name, Andrew Wong.
They knew him and maybe they forgot or Waltz was not telling the truth I think he's an honest person but then you're down to two other alternatives either they were handed pre pre-programmed phone signal devices some indication that people said they were and somebody inserted in Alexander Vindman fashion this arch trumpeting reporter and then didn't, I don't know why they didn't have a staffer go around the entire room and check everybody's initials with their position and actual person to see the face on there, demand a face appearance or something. or or someone

the more nefarious choice

someone or something, or someone, the more nefarious choice,

someone in that chat group's assistant deliberately tried to put him on there

to expose this and either was feeling that Trump was either too paleocon

or too neocon.

I don't know which it would be.

But they've got to get down to the... They have to find out or that's going to happen again.
And they just... They have better staff work.
They really do. They don't have any margin of error with a small congressional majority and the entire media, Wall silicon valley still for the most part the money the campuses uh the popular culture they're all against them and they're still even in the polls if not slightly ahead in the country is 20 points in their favor of going in the right direction so they've done done a wonderful job, but they don't have any margin of error, is what I'm saying.
So they've got to keep absolute discipline. On the margin of error, that's Elise Stefanik.
Her nomination to the ambassadorship to the UN has been withdrawn. Do I have the right person? Yeah, that was a smart...
They don't have enough... Because of the margin of error, yeah.
Yeah, and they don't have enough seats, maybe after the midterms. But usually, you know, I think the last president that won seats was George W.
Bush. He won one or two seats.
And that has never happened before. And that was because of 9-11 so usually you know biden thought everybody i think it was in 2022 everybody considered biden was spectacular because he drained the strategic petroleum reserve and he canceled student debts he gave amnesty for marijuana convictions and most importantly in that june july to the midterms there was the roe versus wade and they were all saying there was going to be followed by you know a national abortion ban we're going to go back to back alley abort all that stuff and he he only lost nine seats that was enough to lose him the house but they thought he was going to lose 40 or 50 right yeah there was a the wave that never never happened by the way that uh aid is uh alex nelson uh wong wong it's yeah I, I, you know, he's been ubiquitous around and, um, I don't prejudice because his wife was a federal prosecutor that went after the January 6th, but she was mentioned in context that were not connected to him, that she was an especially, I don't want to use the word vindictive, but ambitious prosecutor.
Yeah, they seem of a type of Beltway couple that have their fingers in numerous pies of consequence to our nation. Yeah, that's the problem.
It really is. I mean, Donald Trump's brand is that he's talking right now to people in texas in the inner city in the san joaquin valley he's not and that's why it's hard to do it's much easier to court the in-house media to go to lunch with them to have the power couples at the a-list dinners but he's not doing that that's his.
He doesn't do that. He speaks over their head, over the media's head, over the Democratic grandee's head.
He's got to keep doing that. And he doesn't want those people that are complete swamp creatures that gravitate in and out of NGOs and USAID and CBS and NPR and politics and the White House, and they have no political ideology but power, that's not who he is.
And I think everybody needs to take a deep breath at this point, Jack, and say, you know, and I think the Trump administration would benefit if they altered their messaging. It is very easy to break the law and let in 12 million people.
It's very hard to secure the border and find 12 million people among 345 million. It's very easy to go on, get a photo op overseas, pal around with a Euro or Canadian or Japanese prime minister and say, we've just concluded a great trade agreement.
We've done some defense. And then you find out later, six weeks later after the op-ed, that they're running a huge trade surplus with us and we're subsidizing their defense.
It's very hard to confront them and say, listen, you're our friends, but you cannot run those trade surpluses with asymmetrical tariffs. And you've got to honor your promises to rearm and help us out.
That's hard. It's really easy just to overlook tariffs.
Say, well, we have a, it's not going to fall, it's not going to destroy us on my watch. we have, I don't know, $37 trillion in debt, $1.4 trillion trade deficit.
I'll just play musical chairs and the music will run out on my successor. But it's very hard to say I'm not going to borrow and give away.
I'm going to cut and save. That is hard.
And so they have an enormous task up front of them, and they need to explain to everybody that they've got an unpopular course. And you know what? I loved Ronald Reagan, but Reagan did not try to balance the budget, and he did not try to get equal trade.
And we ran up big budget deficits and trade deficits. His idea was cutting taxes, expanding the economy, and deregulating the work.
George W. Bush, same way.
George H.W. Bush, George W.
Bush, same thing. John McCain, same thing.
That's what he ran on. Romney, no Republican in the last 60 years has run on the agenda that I am going to slash government, eliminate agencies, try to balance the budget, and try to force all these other countries to have symmetrical trade.
Nobody's done that. And at the same time, wage a cultural counter-revolution and stop this madness.
We're at a hinge moment for all these things. Yeah, and that's hard to do.
And what I'm saying by that is hard to do. When Elon Musk got on television with Brett Baer, that was a wonderful interview.
And those Doge people, one guy was a rocket scientist, the other, I think he was the vice president or president of A, B, and B.

They were all gifted people.

They were sober.

They talked carefully.

That helps them a lot more than getting a chainsaw on stage.

You know what I mean?

Or tweeting that we're going to go cut another.

That's what they need to do, that messaging, that it's hard, it's difficult. They did not ask for it.
But if they don't do it, the country's going to go broke and go broke. And that's what the message has to be.
It's a counter-revolution that we've never seen before. I think complicating the importance of those issues is when we talk about taking over Greenland, which maybe has to happen, or maybe some kind of agreement has to take place.
But I think it distracts, personally, I think it distracts from these more oppressive matters. We did take it over once in, I've got to remember, in April of 1940, there was no Denmark.
The Nazis overran it in four days. And then this big near continent sized, call it an island, that was near, it's a North American territory, not a European.
So what happened to it? Well, the Nazis were ascendant and they were eyeing it. And they were thinking at the tip of Greenland, we will put bases and we will interrupt British shipping and the North American convoys from Canada won't make it.

And then when we declared war, Roosevelt just said, we're going to put bases in there.

And we used it as a base and we took over the entire continent, so to speak.

We didn't put bases everywhere, but it was very valuable in monitoring our convoys to go to Great Britain, especially up to Scotland and things. And then when the war was over, we just said to Denmark, well, you folded pretty quickly.
So here's this big, huge colony of yours, and we're going to give it back to you. And that's what we did.
So when they start saying, we don't resent this. No, you lost it.
We saved it. We gave it back to you and that's what we did so when they start saying we don't resent this no you lost it we saved it we gave it back to you and now we have not nazis but we have people that want to use it to explore the arctic for natural resources exploitation and for national security and if a missile comes from russia or china toward america it's going to come over Greenland and the Arctic Circle.

So it is very valuable.

And I think what Trump needs to do, again, is to be a little bit more carefully in the message. He's starting to do that.
He doesn't need to say the U.S. wants it.
He says that we're all Western countries. and somebody has to step up and make sure that this whole piece of strategic real estate is protected defended and used to detour our enemies and if that's the united states we'll step up but we'll let the people of greenland who are now semi-autonomous decide it's their choice we're not vladimir putin invades borders but he needs to explain that.
The Panama thing we haven't heard because that was art of a deal chaos. And then all of a sudden Panama says to us, you know what? You guys were kind of right about that.
We were flirting with the Chinese, probably violating the spirit of the treatment of the actual language. And China had only one interest 6,000 miles away, and that was interrupting or adjudicating east-west maritime traffic and north-south land traffic.
And we'll put an American company now at the entry and the exit. How's that? And that's what he achieved.
So.

Victor, I know you don't want to travel anymore.

No, I don't want to travel.

That's how I got COVID twice and this flu.

Well, you do have that dream of going to Sweden.

So maybe one day we'll do a final Victor Davis Hanson tour.

Stop in Greenland on the way and visit Sweden Does this new cruise ship stop in Greenland? Mr. Cruise Master.
I don't. I don't.
I know some do. It's a long way from Scandinavia.
Yeah. It's possible on one of these cross.
You call me Mr. Cruise Master.
Oh, my gosh. It is possible on a repositioning that it, but I've never heard of anyone going to Greenland on a cruise.
So, Victor, I need to say something about our friends at besthotgrill.com. They make hot, fast solar infrared grills with rising prices everywhere.
You want to make sure your hard-earned money is spent well. So here's what you get when you buy a 21-inch or larger Solaire Infrared Backyard Grill.
American made, built to last with all stainless steel, welded design, and commercial quality features. Radiant infrared burners that heat up to 1,000 degrees in just three minutes regardless of the outside temperature high direct heat that

results in the juiciest and most flavorful food you've ever had from a gas grill and limited lifetime warranty on the burners grates and stainless steel and when you buy a solar infrared grill at best hot grill.com you support our advertisers which help them keep our voices and values on the air.

Learn more about Solaire Infrared Grills at besthotgrill.com, including their try-before-you-buy demo rental program. That's besthotgrill.com, besthotgrill.com.
And we thank the good people at Solaire for sponsoring the Victor Davis Hanson Show. Victor, before we, you know what, we want to talk about Boesberg and his daughter, but let's distract a little before we go into our next break about something that happened recently with you.
You were talking, you've talked about on this podcast about the time you were stung by bees and how that affected you and you went into shock, etc. And you talked about that with somebody else.
And that led to some AI generation of you going through this really terrible event. And it really wasn't a cool thing to do.
So, Victor, maybe you talk about this as you want, but also about how AI can be unsettling when used in weird ways. Well, I do a lot of, I try to do two interviews a day.
Probably my assistant, Megan, probably gets eight or nine requests. But she has a group of people she really trusts and likes, and so do I.
I really like Megan Kelly. And I do hers any time she asks, and she's so professional.
I like Mark Levin. He's one of my favorite people.
I don't know if I ever told you, Jack, that my daughter who passed away from leukemia was working at the Kirby Center, you know, with the Hillsdale Washington office. And it's right across from Heritage.
And, you know, she was a Pepperdine graduate student interning, and her job was to meet people coming in to register to use so there were politicians celebrities media people coming

back and forth the ai congress you know just to go use the facilities they had a wonderful studio there and everything you know and she once turned i saw i asked her once uh bike and she said well i don't know these people you know i'm just a nobody kind of like the person at the McDonald's window.

I'm just an ordinary person.

But Levin kind of gave, one of them was Mark Levin, and he kind of gave a Trump answer to it. You're not nobody.
And he said of all the people that he was the sweetest and nicest and most unassuming. I thought that was really interesting.
So I really like doing this. I like doing John Anderson from Australia.
He's wonderful. I like doing Steve Edgerton.
He is with GWB Broadcasting. I think he's going to freelance now.
And all of them are professional. So there was a person at Stanford.
I'm not going to mention his name because I don't want to bring any criticism to him, but he was starting out as a graduate student with almost no audience. And Megan, my assistant, is always looking for young people to give him a chance, you know, and not that I can do much for him, but I started to do maybe once every six months an interview with him and it kind of took off.
I think one of them got a million views. So he, over the last few years, got bigger and bigger, and he bought equipment, and he hired engineers.
But then three things started to bother me. One, I don't mind when John Anderson does it.
He does it it, he does it in a different way but when you do say 80 minutes and the host then cuts it up you know into 3 to 5 segments and just keeps issuing it as if like you're in a series I wasn't in a series but I had people writing me and say why are you working for this guy and I didn't know what he was doing. But he was taking the interview and then just cutting it up.
And then the next thing I knew, he was discussing all of these other people. So he was deliberately inviting the Stanford leftist community on the idea that they would be irritated that I was even given a platform on his.
And he was kind of contextualizing it as if I defend you to these other people, but the best way for me to be defended to these people is not even be on it, because I could care less what they say. So I was being used as kind of a foil, but then the start, and I didn't object.
I still had been trying to help him. He was very professional.
He's got all this equipment now. He has engineers.
It got really big. But the last thing was he started using AI to illustrate when he interviewed me.
So he was asking me about immigration and what to do with her.

And I said in this election that the Mexican-American community was going to split down the middle because a lot of them were impacted negatively and that they are becoming upper middle class, upper middle class, upper upper middle class. and I said, I was just treated by three Mexican-American paramedics

and I said they kind of saved my life because I didn't know that I had a lethal, I have an immune problem, but I didn't know it had manifested itself with bee stings because we have an orchard of 40 acres and probably 7,000 trees and there's bees everywhere and I get stung every year and nothing happens. But this, a year ago, I almost died.
So I went into anaphylaxis. The last thing I did was call my wife.
She called 9-11 and these three young paramedics came out and they were wonderful. That's all I said.
The next thing I know, people called me and said, did you get stung by a wasp? You've gained weight. You're swatting.
I thought you were old. You're standing up you're standing up swat and then i thought so i looked at the thing they were sending me and it was like i would so my point is that he was taking artificial intelligence and creating false videos of me to illustrate anything i said or some things i said on his thing and he never asked asked me for permissions to divide up these.
He never, I didn't really know that I was being a foil where he would have people come on and trash me and then he would try to explain my point of view. I never knew.
The point was that I thought in a way that Megan never does or Mark Levin or Dennis Prager or John Anderson. They like to have conversation.
This wasn't. This was a use of me and I thought was not fair.
And I was a little paranoid anyway because when I was away, we got swatted. My wife was here alone.
Three sheriffs showed up. And I know a lot of the sheriffs.
And apparently somebody had called in. There must have been an intruder.
Luckily, she was out in the orchard walking the dogs because they were surveying or walking to find something in the barnyard, the packing shed, everywhere. And so I'm going to discontinue, and I asked him yesterday to take down all of those things.
I don't know what the law is about artificial intelligence, but when you completely fabricate film and you glue somebody's head on it, and then you have an incident and you don't tell them that this is fake, then you get a lot of people writing and say, Victor, I thought you said that the paramedics came out and you were almost you were just swatting it around and i wrote back and said that's not that's not me and i didn't even know it was occurring so i felt that he had abused trust and and i thought you know i'd said before in these broadcasts i think everybody when they get in their 60s and 70s they have an obligation to mentor people and help and I had mentioned in the past that people like John Keegan the military historian wrote the forward to my second book and really helped me so I was trying to help him as a graduate student and I didn't realize that that magnanimity would be interpreted in a different fashion but it was as exploitive. The old line about no favors going unpunished.
And the aforementioned Megan is just, she's not involved in this, but she is just one of the most terrific people. So I know you think that, and I just want to put that as an exclamation point.
She is. So anyway, I was, oh, by the way, I have one last little off the cuff mark before we go to some more serious business.
Our mutual friend was just appointed the ambassador to South Africa. Who? The media center.
Mr. Buckley.
Yes. Brent Bozell.
Brent Bozell. Oh, so brent yes so brent was appointed to the had the global media but i thought he was an ambassador to south africa no no he's he's going to be uh he's been nominated for the global media agency and that oversees voice of america radio free europe radio liberty unless it's another buckley uh or another Bozell.
But yeah, actually, the interesting thing is Trump wants these agencies essentially dismantled. And Brent's been nominated to run this.
And I guess if anyone is going to dismantle them, he's the guy that can do it. It's kind of a shame that the voice of America is really the voice of leftists in today's day and age.
Yeah, and that's... Yeah, it says that Trump, four days ago, Leo Brent Brazile III as U.S.
ambassador to South Africa. What? Yes.
Are you kidding me?

Well, I didn't know that.

The reason I'm asking you and I didn't prep for this

is because I didn't know

what Brett's real...

Is his first name Leo?

Well, L. Brent Bozell.

Yeah, so it would be Leo.

As U.S. ambassador

to South Africa.

Could be.

I don't know if Brent has a son

who's also L. Brent Bozell the fourth.

I don't know.

But I think he was ambassador.

Which brings up my...

Thank you. He was a U.S.
ambassador to South Africa. Could be.
I don't know if Brent has a son who's also L. Brent Bozell IV.
I don't know, but I think he was an ambassador. Which brings up my advocacy that, as I said before, one of the key places in the Mediterranean is Cyprus.
We've usually had a career diplomat there. I don't think it's worked out all that well.
And we have the ideal Cypriot person. We have the ex-president of USC, an engineer with a scientific mind who's an expert on energy issues, which is very opportunistic in Cyprus, given the EastMed program with Israel, Cyprus, and Greece.
I think Trump will greenlight. Biden, remember, said, oh, new Green Deal, you can't do that, Europe.
You don't need any more natural gas. And, of course, he was born in what is now occupied Cyprus.
So he's fluent in languages of the Mediterranean. He'd be the best ambassador.
He's a loyal Trump supporter. He would be Donald Trump's best appointment in the ambassadors.
I hope he can still do it. So there's my little advocacy.
So, Victor, just so I'm not, I'm late to the game. Yeah.
Yeah, Brent was nominated for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, and that was withdrawn, I think, maybe because of the impending destruction of it and elimination of it.
And yeah, he has been nominated to South Africa. Not to take away from your desire that – Max Nikias.
Yeah, have – Max Nikias, yes. He would be the best ambassador in the entire Mediterranean.
Yeah, so. Well, you live and you learn when you listen to the Victor Davis.
Well, you know, it's funny because one last thing, and then we'll get to back. One of my favorite people that I've ever met was Andrew Marshall.
He was the head of the Office of Net Assessment. And that was in the Pentagon, deep in the bowels of the Pentagon.
They had guards at the door. And when I was a professor at the Naval Academy, you got a security clearance to go in there and you would sit there.
He would invite you in and he would say, what if China does this? Or what happens in Iraq if this should occur? Or what would Iran how do we do so they were theoreticals and then he had a team of experts full-time employees and they would write position papers and when they were done they would present them at the table and then he would bring outside critiques and I was one that went there oh about every six weeks in and three. And then Andrew Marshall used to visit me at the Hoover.
He was a wonderful man. He lived into his late 90s.
But anyway, that was his office. And usually people tried to eliminate it that were on the left.
But after he died, I knew one of his assistants who was a very nice guy, but he wasn't made director. And so under Obama, but especially under Biden, it became, it's mentioned in Mark Moyer's book, whom we've had on a podcast about USIAID.
Mark was very prescient, remember? He warned us that the whole USIAID was contaminated, if that's the word, or nihilistic. But anyway, they're going to eliminate it.
That's going to be eliminated. That was targeted by Doge.
If that had happened 20 years ago, I'd say that would be a mistake. But given the way that it's devolved, I don't think it'll be missed.
Yeah. Yeah yeah i think last episode we talked about these rallies uh the aoc bernie sanders rallies and many of the occup many of the attendees the professional protesters uh were with organizations that were being funded by usa id so agreed victor It totally needs to get ditched.
Now, we need to hear from our sponsors,

and then we're going to come back and talk about Judge James Bosberg and his daughter.

And we'll get to some rural issues also, which are of great importance to you, Victor, and to many of our listeners. And we'll do all that when we come back from these important messages.
Hey, Kristen, how's it tracking? With Carvana Value Tracker. What else? Oh, it's tracking.
In fact, Value Surge Alert trucks up 2.5%. Vans down 1.7.

Just as predicted. Mm-hmm.
So we gonna... I don't know.
Could sell, could hold. The power to always know our car's worth.
Exhilarating, isn't it? Ah, tracking. Always know your car's worth with Carvana Value Tracker.

We are back with the Victor Davis Hanson Show recording on Sunday, March 30th.

And this episode is up on Tuesday, April 1st. I am in gloomy Milford, Connecticut right now.

It's kind of dark at the windows.

All the windows open.

What are I going to do?

It's gloomy here, too.

In sunny California. Oh, well, i thought it never rained in california um are you a global woman well i'm i was waiting to hear that global warming was the reason for well as soon as gavin and jerry brown announced that you know i think it was gavin said that we're we're stuck with climate change and every time in the summer i'm 71 i was born in this farm and it's not i can tell you in 1959 i remember it was my parents complained it was 111 in august but every time it gets up to 105 they say global warming global warming we always have a drought every fourth year well and the big drought we had four years ago.
It's up to 105. They say global warming, global warming.
And we always have a drought every fourth year. Well, and the big drought we had four years ago, it's over with.
California is over with. And now we've had pretty much normal rain or excessive rain, I think, four out of the last five years.
And no new reservoirs to contain itself. which includes three huge earthen dam reservoirs at low elevation with very little environmental impact.
At Temperance Flat, Sites Reservoir, Los Banos Grandes, five, six million acre feet in a wet year. And what does Gavin Newsom do? He defies the will of the people.
I thought you could get in peace for that at the federal level if you do not spend congressionally authorized money, but it would be even worse if you did not spend the people's plebiscite approved money and they approved it. And what did he do with it? It wasn't just that Gavin did not build those three down.
He used a quarter billion dollars to blow up four on the Klamath River that provided about 80,000 homes with clean hydroelectric, flood control, irrigation, beautiful recreation, and he turned it into a mud flat where once he blew them up, the erosion, the water, it's just a mess. And now he wants to do the same thing in Marin County.
Wonderful ranching families, reservoirs that provide up to, you know, half a million people water. And I guess the idea is that if you're very healthy or you're very politically connected and you're not self-employed and you're not dependent on battling nature to provide food for people or beef or whatever, then you can live in a utopia and you can dwell on other people that have no such protection.
So they want to blow up dams, they want to drain reservoirs, and they feel that this, I guess they feel California is not 41 41 people but it's 1860 and there's about a million people here and therefore all the rivers should run to the sea or that native american people today 10 generations later are 100 native american they're still owners of all the land and da da da da da well let-da-da. Let's get to Boesburg next.

Let's talk about the water.

Here's a headline, Victor, from a site called Unwon,

a very interesting website that covers issues in the West.

Headline, at the Cloverdale Town Hall, rural California community takes first step against dam removals. Cloverdale Fire Chief Jason Jenkins opened last, this is last week, last night's town hall by acknowledging the building was filled well beyond capacity.
Community members lined the walls, spilled into the entryway of the Veterans Hall, etc. It was one of the first attempts to rally Lake, Mendocino, and Sonoma counties whose survival and way of life is threatened by a massive dam removal project.
Insiders say we'll cut water supply for 600,000 people along with fire suppression, economic well-being, agriculture, and natural ecosystems.

Victor, this is demented.

We know who's behind it.

Usually behind these projects, they have about five things in common.

They either have an MA or a PhD.

They're either working as advisors in tenured spots in environmental studies or water resources at universities or for the State Water Resources Board or their Native American ethnic activist that want water. And then they produce an idea that they have ancestral fishing rights or something like this.
But they have all one thing in common, and most of them, they don't get up in the morning and know that they don't have a check. So these ranchers and farmers, every single day they borrow money to produce food or to produce beef, and nothing is known.
They have a terrible problem with the regulations of California. They have a terrible problem with the tax code.
They have a terrible problem with zoning. They have a terrible problem with radical environmentalists.
And what they don't need are nihilist anarchists to blow up things, and that's what they're dealing with now. You know, when I was first, I came home from graduate school in 1980, and we had a packing house.
My twin brother and cousin and older brother were packing our fruit, and this was during the Pete Wilson, you know, and George Dugian era. Reagan, George, Pete Wilson.
But it was right, as you know, Jerry Brown was elected. So we had all the regulations for fruit on this big board.
And when I came, there were two. You had to, by law, put them on about packing fruit.
When I decided after 15 years that I could no longer be a professor, teach four classes, commute 70 miles, write books, and farm full time, I told my brothers, I can't do it, but that wall had 28 of them. I counted them.
28 of them. And it was about everything.
It was about paint. It was about lighting.
It was about sound. It was about, it was just impossible to follow them all.
And that's why I keep saying California is the most lawless place and the most lawful. They make so many rules that so few people follow.
It's just insane. And why they would go after these old ranching families and farming families that have done that, they don't understand.
Go up to that area in Napa or Mendocino counties or a place like Guerneville or Sebastopol.'s these families out there they're apple growers they're cattle ranchers their vineyard does some of them have been there for a hundred years and they're not just farmers they create families and these families have values and that's what created the america the homestead farmer and the homestead agrarian ethos of children that are hard-working they honor tradition and just to blot all that out for some stupid tenured bureaucrat or apparatchik is just crazy i wish they would do that with the universities you know what i wish they would do jack they told all the faculty, we don't know how much we're going to pay you. We have no idea.
You're all self-employed with us. We're all self-employed.
So here's what's going to happen. Your teaching will depend on how many students are paying you.
And we're going to have to evaluate to see how big your classes are, or you're going to lose them. And your salary will be adjudicated.

We'll give you a minimum little salary, like a farmer borrows from the bank.

And at the end of the year, we'll split it up.

And it will depend on how well we appeal to the donor class and how well we were attracted students and how well the students actually paid us.

And if we don't have the end of the year and they, you know, they would say, well, I don't know how much I'm going to make today. Yes, exactly.
Well, I can't plan. Yes, exactly.
Well, I might be working all year and know that I didn't make any... Exactly.
Just like the head of the land bank told me when I walked out the door. Hey, Victor, when I looked at your application for next year, how did it feel to pay $12 an hour to get on that tractor at $105?

I said, I didn't do that. He said, oh, yes, you did.
Yes, you did.

Given what you guys lost this year and how many hours it takes, you had a 40, 50 hour week added up.

You paid $12 an hour for the privilege of being on a tractor.

Thank you. year and how many hours it takes.
You had a 40, 50 hour week added up.

You paid $12 an hour for the privilege of being unattractive.

We could tell a faculty member, hey, you know what?

You went in there and taught 12 hours of class and you did another 12 hours of prep and you had six hours of office hours and you didn't make any money.

Because that's what they're talking about. That's what they're talking about.
these cattlemen and these farmers. They have no idea what they're going to make.
And they have a very thin margin of survival. And to blow up water, the key life source of their entire entity, is criminal.
And I hope everybody writes them and stops it. Well, we have another rural story to get to a little later.
And I'm going to get to Boatsburg after this because, folks, we need to talk very briefly about what's happening to our money right now. Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency just uncovered something shocking.
14, quote, magic money computers, end quote, at the Treasury Department that create dollars out of thin air. I think you probably wish you had one of those, Victor.
I do. This isn't conspiracy theory.
This is what they're finding as they audit our government for the first time in decades. As Musk has said, if the government were a public company, it would be delisted immediately and the officers would be imprisoned.
And while bureaucrats print money, unlimited money, what's happening to your hard-earned savings? The U.S. dollar has lost 95% of its value since 1913.
That's not an opinion. That's mathematical fact.
Meanwhile, investors are fleeing U.S. stocks at historic rates.
According to Bank of America's latest survey, we've just witnessed the largest drop in U.S. stocks and allocation in history.
Americans are voting with their feet, running from both our currency and our markets. So where is the smart money going? Huh, folks? Where? Well, it's going to hard assets, physical gold, physical silver, things that can't be created on a government computer.
And that's why our friends, our friends, I should say, at American Alternative Assets are offering a free wealth protection guide to help shield your retirement from what's coming. Inside, you'll discover how magic money computers are destroying your purchasing power, why central banks are stockpiling physical gold at unprecedented rates,

and a simple three-step strategy to protect your wealth from currency devaluation. History is clear on this.
When governments print money without restraint, those holding physical precious metals preserve their wealth. Those holding paper assets get wiped out.
Don't let your retirement savings evaporate, evapor Call 8332-USA-GOLD or visit victorlovesgold.com right now to claim your free wealth protection guide. That's 8332-USA-GOLD or visit victorlovesgold.com.
Protect your wealth, secure your future before it's too late. One more time.
Call 833-287-2465 or visit Victor Loves Gold to claim your free wealth protection guide. And we thank the good people at American Alternative Assets for sponsoring the Victor Davis Hanson Show.
Can I ask you a question personally? Have you ever had a root canal? Several, and I need several more. Yes.
Well, I've had about, because of a bike accident, and I've had about eight implants, and every other, I found out when I went last, every tooth I had, I have very soft teeth, and I have a problem with my saliva's overly acidic. But anyway, I'm fanatic about brushing three times, flossing, water, but it doesn't do any good but anyway my point is this that as you get older the doctor he would kid you he said when you get in your 30s you get fillings when you get in your 50s or 60s you get root canals when you get in your 70s you get implant false teeth anymore i guess if you can have the money or put up with the pain, but when they just did one not too long ago, they took out a...

A plant? false teeth anymore i guess if you can have the money or put up with the pain but when they just

did one not too long ago they took out a plant uh no i didn't do an implant it was a new procedure where they go through i had a root canal but the tooth had got in a cavity on the side you know and it wasn't complete

it's a long story but anyway

they took out the gold crown in a cavity on the side, you know. It wasn't complete.

It's a long story, but anyway,

they took out the gold crown

and then they cleaned it all,

what was left of the little,

there wasn't much left, right?

It was a root canal with a little tiny spike

and then they put another,

but this is my point.

They gave me a little plastic bag

and they put the gold.

Did they do that to you?

And they hand you back the gold and I said, No, I only had one gold filling. I never got it back.
Well, you know, about, I don't know, 20 years ago, I got a really bad case of mono and I had some immune problems. So the doctor decided to take out all the silver fillings I had.
Man, that was painful. And replaced them with gold.
And then it had been replaced with this new white stuff, you know, hard porcelain. But anyway, I never thought about it.
But this time he handed me a little plastic bag. And there was the little gold.
And look, minute. So I said, well, I still have it.
He said, well, you have to go turn it in. It's worth $75.
So I was wondering what my head. I don't want to announce that because given my growing number of enemies, I feel like somebody would target me.
Have a pair of pliers while they're at it. I know it.
I know it. Well, $75, you can half fill up your gas tank in California.
No. Not even.
No, it's more like $100 and something okay victor boesberg so let me i know folks are tired of me reading but suffer through it folks offered up for the souls of purgatory the daughter of you of dc district court chief judge james boesberg is employed by a non-profit that receives million in government funding this daughter opposes daughter opposes the nonprofit opposes the Lake and Riley Act, and whose founder argued that the jurist rightly blocked President Trump from swiftly deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members. Catherine Boesberg, the daughter of the federal judge who halted the Trump administration from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to send alleged train de Aragua members to a mega prison in El Salvador, conducts, quote, capacity building work in public defender offices across the nation, end quote, for the non-profit group's partners in justice.
Victor, another child of another federal judge or a local judge even, engaged in activist politics. The judge does not see this as grounds for recusing himself from vindictiveness against Donald Trump.
On a normal, there's nothing in the Constitution that talks about the lowest court district or the second tier circuit. It talks about a Supreme Court whose size is not even delineated.
And it says, and lower courts may be necessary. So my point is we have about 700 of these low ranking federal district judges all over the United States.
And then we have these appellate court, which we call circuit courts. I only know this because my mom was a state appellate court judge.
So nobody knows these people, and nobody should know these people, because they should be trying cases where somebody breaks into a post office or tries to steal from a federal armory or has a dispute with another state about water delivery, interstate. That's what they were there for.
But what's happened with the left, with all of this money floating in these political action committees and these foundations, and we got a taste of them with USAID support they send out

orders and they say you're going Donald Trump to put the background for everybody and I think you know it as well as I do they don't have the Congress neither house they don't have the Supreme Court they don't have the White House they don't have a 51 percent plurality on any of the issues. So they have various strategies to stop this counter-revolution, which the people have approved.
One is neo-terrorism to firebomb Teslas, to keek Tesla's car, to swarm the dealerships, and then have a buffoon like Tim Waltz brag about driving down the stock portfolio of Tesla, of which he's the custodian of in Minnesota, like a buffoon that he is.

Or they have the potty, smutty, vulgar, what are you going to call that?

The videos where they all say SHIT or they do the kickboxing or you then they unleash a moronic Jasmine Crockett. And she talks about threatening people, hitting them.
Then they get the A-S-S-H-O-L slur from Senator Kelly, except Waltz has used the same term. He said he's going to kick the that was the funniest thing jack he was going to kick the ass of the republicans that roly-poly guy that looks like he's 90 years old i mean i'm skeletor but that guy is 10 years younger than i am and anyway that was the street theater and then they have the congressional disruption where you have al green you know trying to disrupt and stop the speech the joint session speech by trump you've got jasmine crockett screaming and yelling as a proud black woman that stuff and then you have the third leg of this uh resistance and that is this money coming from these well-funded left-wing funds and organizations to pick 700 of these guys.
There's about 180 of the appellate district court. And you pick them.
And then you give them their marching orders. You say, we're going to sue because of this.
And about 60% of them, because there's been, I mean, if you look at the judges there for 30 years and you look at the last 30 years, let's just say the last 25 years, we had 8 years of Bush and 4 years of Trump, which is 12 in the new millennium, right? But they had eight years of Biden and eight of Obama following Clinton, because I should say it's a little longer than that, eight years. So they had 16 years as 20.
And we just had Bush in the last 30 years, 12 plus Trump was for 16. So there is more.
There are more. And then the other problem is, of course, the law schools turn out 90 percent left wing people, as do the big blue chip firms.
So most of the lawyers are left-wing that come judges. So unlike Democratic appointees that become conservative, that don't become conservative, Republicans do become liberal when they get on the bench.
So my point is that that's 700 judges, probably 400 of them are left-wing. And that's the pool who's going to run the country and they have a list a computer printout they know exactly every ruling they've done so judge anna rays the first latina lgdpq she was cherry-picked to stop the transgender ban in the Pentagon.
And Mr. Judge Furman, he was picked to stop uh the deportation of mahmoud khalil and his brother i think is a was a chief advisor to barack obama economic advisor and judge bozberg was picked because he has a long record i think he's's also going to be repicked, isn't he, to rule on the signal documents and make sure that they're available to the public or they can't be deleted or something.
But on these particular cases where he's stopping the enforcement, he's basically taking the point of view that if you come in for the express purpose of damaging the united states which these gang members did they were unleashed by their home countries and you're here you entered illegally you're here illegally and you're in a terrorist designated gang then you there is no legal impediment to that. But if you choose, unlike the Biden administration, to deport them, there is a legal impediment to following the law, but there's no legal impediment to breaking the law.
That's his theory. And he now has basically more clout in terms of

national security and defense

in matters of these dangerous

aliens than the Secretary of Defense,

the Secretary of State, the National Security

Advisor, the Vice President, and the President

put together. One man

can stop all this. And it's gone to

his head. Did we know

who Judge

Boasberg? No. Did we care? No no now he is a megalomaniac and he's on every newspaper he's everywhere and as all these judges they have these deep administrative state political ties to the left and then they hide behind the cloak how How dare you attack the judiciary? No one has attacked the, everybody got to remember, no one has attacked the judiciary like the left.
It was the left that went to the homes of the Supreme Court justice. It was the left that an assassin came from the left who was going to shoot Kavanaugh and was turned over by his sister to authorities.
It was the left in the form of Chuck Schumer who called out Gorsuch and Kavanaugh by name and threatened them and said, you don't know what's going to hit you and you're going to reap the whirlwind. It was the left that wanted to pack the court.
It was the left that leaked the abortion illegally, the original draft. So it's not when everybody says, well, Trump shouldn't.
He said Trump is wrong to say he's impeached. That might have been politically unwise, but that pales in comparison to what these judges are doing.
They have hijacked. They've taken a tiny sliver of one-third of the power of the government.
That is a one-person judge court, and they have decided that they can alter the entire elected government. And if they get away with it, we're not going to have a country left.
So the Supreme Court has got to intervene quickly. And they've got to say no district judge can rule on matters of national security, enforcement of the law, and apply that one particular ruling to the entire country, way out of their jurisdiction.
As I said on one broadcast, it would be if academics are very vocal about this, but can you imagine a law professor who says, oh, here's my syllabus at Stanford. It's really brilliant, and I'm the most brilliant person, so I demand that every law school in the United States follow my syllabus, or they're not going to be accredited.
Nobody would do that. And that's exactly the principle that they operate on.
Yeah. Victor, also on a geographical basis, you did have this judge out in Hawaii that was making rulings on, I think, on health care.
Make a ruling that pertains to the geographical district. You remember the judge? I won't mention his name.
i've met him and know him but when we passed two ballot propositions mostly due to minority voting in the 90s suggesting that marriage in california would be only between a man and woman and there were civil unions for people who were gay but not traditional marriage, three days later, they had it all prepared.

He ruled that unconstitutional.

And there was an uproar that he nullified the will of the entire population of California,

the majority population.

And then his critics said, well, you're gay yourself living with a man.

You've got a conflict.

And they said, how dare you mention that? How dare you mention that? And so that is now, that was the law. And I don't think this judge, he doesn't care about what he's doing to the judiciary.
He doesn't really care about the reputation of... If you said

20 years ago, I'm a federal

district judge, it would be like saying

I'm a professor of classics

at an Ivy League school.

If you say that today,

if you

go on to, say, Fox or something

and you say I'm a professor of this

at Harvard, there's some guy like

Charlie Kirk or

Megyn Kelly's going to eat you alive.

You know what I mean?

Because the status or the cachet of a professor

has eroded considerably, as has judges,

because of their arrogance, partisanship,

and empty titles. I hate to say it.
True. true yeah i had mentioned this on the last our last recording but this mindset he could have been a district judge if you put him back 80 years and dictating well what could happen or not on d-day right i mean why not if he can do this with his powers to strange areas well and why not even now why couldn't he actually well i think things like order the u.s to and but be involved in the in directly in ukraine you know well the international criminal court tried to have jurisdiction under the biden administration on what we could do or not do in Afghanistan.
But it's a pattern.

When Donald Trump's four years in the wilderness,

and I don't know if it was 83 or 88 or 92,

there's different about the indictments,

but when you look at those judges, Judge Kaplan in the E. Jean Carroll case,

he was a partisan Democratic judge,

and he said something that I think is going to reverse that settlement, that $80 million that she got with that preposterous case. When he said rape, and they said, and remember, George Stephanopoulos had been sued successfully.
ABC had to settle because he said 11 times, I think, that Donald Trump was a rapist. And he wasn't.
They said he had sexually assaulted. Sexually assault after the Me Too meeting can mean anything from eyeing somebody to patting him on the shoulder.
And so they reminded the judge that he had not been convicted in his court of rape. And he said it's about the same thing in most people's mind.
No, it's not. That was the judge that said that.
And then we had Judge Ingeron and the Latita James. Remember him? He was the one that, I mean, we have a constitutional amendment.
Is it the Eighth Amendment that prevents excessive bail and fines? He fined Donald Trump originally over $400 million for putting assets down on a loan that the Deutsche Bank approved, analyzed, audited, gave the loan. He paid the interest back timely to the profit and without complaint to the Deutsche Bank who testified they would loan him again.
And he got fined over $400 million because he said Mar-a-Lago was worth more than $17 million. And that judge was hamming it up for the he was a hard leftist and then we had the worst of all in the alvin bragg case that was bootstrapping a federal offense that federal prosecutors had passed on because it was ridiculous and it was 11 year old non-disclosure agreement and supposedly donald Trump did not do it to protect his family.
He did it only for his selfish political reasons, and therefore it should have been a campaign expense. He didn't report it.
And Judge Mershon, whose daughter, what would be the word, grifted off her father's name and many times expanded her political portfolio as an operative and a political consultant, made millions of dollars. Nobody thought that was wrong.
He had donated a small sum, but to the Democrats. And then you've got the federal prosecutor, Jack Smith.
He went after him for the same thing Biden had been excused by Robert Herr. And then we find out that he was getting, what, free legal help from a law firm and never reported it.
I don't think he's under indictment now for that by the IRS. Anyway, that's the whole background of these lawfare and judges.
And the more they keep doing this and it's spreading to Europe now the Romanian high court just eliminated the elected government and now we see Ms. Lapin is leading in all the polls she has the largest seat largest number of seats in the lower house in France.

And the judiciary and a panel

is trying to take her off the ballot.

Yeah.

And these are people who lecture us about democracy.

Yeah.

Dies in plain sight.

Quickly, Victor, you know,

Jim Buckley, the late Jim Buckley,

who was a federal judge, and on the U.S. Court of Appeals to the District of Columbia, the little Supreme Court.
But even as a retired judge, he lived up in Connecticut and his sister had a little political event at her house. He did not live in that house.
He lived in another house on that property. And when that political event, small fundraiser for a guy who was thinking of running for Congress, when that happened, he left.
I mean, there were judges, many judges who were so, and you know, your own mother, were so believed to create an absolute wall of separation that there would be no sense even of impropriety or scandal or involvement in anything that came remotely close to politics.

See, what's different about all this, Jack, is that they have been doing this for a long time, asymmetrical application of the law to go after people. And no one has really said anything about it.
They just expected that most lawyers are left-wing, most law the government lawyers are left-wing and the judges are left-wing and they can use they they have they have filed more writs to stop trump initiatives in one month than conservatives did in four years under biden so but what's weird about trump is he has no blinders no no, no gags. He just goes, and he had what, three gag orders from three different judges and these things.
He just goes out, he's your BNP. And everybody said, that's crude.
That's an attack on the judiciary. And it got your attention, didn't it? That you, what you're doing is unconstitutional and is a threat to the stability of the entire government when you have one low-ranking judge try to what take over the entire immigration policy of the united states that's what he's doing and yet you'll go after donald trump he doesn't care but he did bring attention to it and he did that with all those judges he he told everybody and today ask yourself if trump had not everybody said that that was i read so many articles from people that i know that are legal scholars and i like and when they were condemning trump this is so unprofessional you never attack a judge you don't do this but the judges were acting in an improper and illegal, and they were hiding behind their robes and their titles and their education, and they were so sober.
They weren't. They were no different than Mark Elias or Annie, and that's where they came from.
They were political activists that were rewarded by Biden or Obama for their donations or their activism, and they don't believe in what the Constitution talks about, the separation of powers. They don't.
And so they're all going to be famous. They're all going to be.
Their children will probably cash in like Judge Mershon's daughter. And you're not supposed to ever complain because that would be crude.
That would be anti-government. I don't know what it is, but that's the thing about it.
I'm an officer of the court. I take an oath to the Constitution.
But big law is as much a problem as any other big pharma, big section. It is, too.
It is, too. It's a very real thing.
Nobody wants to talk about big law, even conservatives, because they understand that these really, really big really big the most lucrative where you make four or five six million a year and more need token conservatives because you know conservatives will get you they'll need a lawyer or a conservative administration will be in power and they play so they've been off limits even though most of them are liberal not now trump is saying you know what you know security for you people why would you ever give somebody a security clearance in the first place who was working for a big law firm just because he happened to have some job in a prior administration i that's the one thing that's been really needed to cut back on the security clearances. You know that Paul Weiss, the law firm that Trump punished and then they came to some agreement.
The head of the firm said that action he thought would have cost the firm $2.3 billion. So when you think of the revenue that the enormous wealth these places have, and of course, what do they do with the wealth?

As individuals, they donate it to the left-wing counties.

And they sue the government, too.

As firms, they donate, yeah, right.

So, hey, Victor, we've got one other story to bring out here today, promised a rural

issue, another rural issue, and it's about the federal government torturing, tormenting

some ranchers in South Dakota. And we're going to get to that after these final important messages.
We are back with the Victor Davis Hanson Show recording on March 30th, a Sunday. This episode up on April Fool's Day, April 1st, 2025.
Victor's website, The Blade of Perseus. You'll find it at victorhanson.com when you go there.
Links galore. Victor's weekly writings for American Greatness in his syndicated column, his appearances, as before mentioned, Victor's, you know, on Megyn Kelly and other podcasts and links to his books.
Ultra articles and appearances. What's that? Ultra twice a week.
Victor writes an Ultra piece for The Blade of Perseus. And he does an exclusive video for The Blade of Perseus.
So if you're a fan of Victor's writing, Victor's wisdom, you should be subscribing. $65 for the full year.
and that's discounted from $6.50 a month. If you're on X, Victor's there gallivanting every once in a while.
At VD Hansen is his handle. I mentioned before the Daily Signal on YouTube.
This podcast, you'll find it on YouTube and Rumble now. If you can stand the look of either of us, you can just listen.
Keep the screen blank. And then on Facebook, VDH's Morning Cup.
And there's a great friendly group, the Victor Davis Hanson Fan Club. Check that out, too.
So, Victor, I mentioned before, Unwon. That's this website that covers rural issues.
And this is one of these stories about why we hate government. Headline, Mother of South Dakota Cattle Rancher Faces 10 Years in Prison for a Pre-1950 Fence.
She's calling on Donald Trump for help. Her son and daughter-in-law are each facing 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
I hope I can make this very quick. There's a fence.
Been there for ages. This family has been ranching there for ages.
I think fifth generation. Some hunter comes along, thinks the land's out of place.
This is the department now of the Forest Service. And you and I always, I forest service is just you know oh who's the who's the bear i can't remember his name anymore smoky smoky yeah smoky in the forest fires no no these guys are radical no let's see whoa the i native american uh blow up dams that's what they do yeah so they, let the fire burn.
Let the fire burn. Well, that's true.
The fire side of things. Never mind.
Let the rotten trees feed the slugs. Yeah, they come check the land out.
Say, we'll give you an assessment of, we think you may be on federal land and they come back a few days later

of course armed tactical gear and serving notice of violation you have to have gag rule your husband

wife can't talk to each other they're going to trial next month i mean it's insane this is uh

and this is south dakota i thought this was conservative territory that doesn't south

dakota have john thuneune, the majority leader?

Yeah, I think that's what is behind Doge, too.

Everybody says, you know, Elon's talking about, he's still very, I think he's up to $200 billion in the first two and a half weeks.

But he thinks he can cut a trillion up and do that.

But if he did, that's not just the point of Doge. those the point of there's three million people working for the federal government and it's an octopus and if you can cut those agencies and those people then you're going to have fewer abuses of your constitutional rights because there's going to be fewer people who have to justify their their existence which is otherwise unjustifiable.
And so it's kind of the way the federal government, any law that those Forest Service administrators thought they were enforcing, I can guarantee you was never passed for this intention. Just like out here in the San Joaquin Valley, when Congress passed statutes with the Environmental Protection Agency, they never, and they wanted to preserve inland waterways from nitrogen pollution.
They were not talking about a low spot and a guy's grain field that would fill up with water after a torrential rain.

And then some inspector said, ah, that's not an inland waterway, but we can tweak it.

And as judge, jury and executioner, we can go out there and test that water.

And then if it has too much nitrogen from its fertilizer, we're going to fine him and harass him

because we have to be important and we have to lord it over these people in the private sector they think they have more money they think they have more freedom we're going to go show them that that i'm the assistant administrator for inland waterways of the regional southwest district how's that and i have a title and a car and a federal you know badge and that's how they think and a gun and a gun in some a gun in some cases. And so it's really important to cut back.
You know what's very funny? This country has so much potential. And we have just squandered it with this huge debt and this ESG, DEI, woke restrictions and regulations.
But if Donald Trump were to be successful, I'm not saying it's possible, but if he were to get close to balancing a budget in two years with a trillion dollars in cuts, and then in addition to that, money coming in from foreign investment, he says he has three trillion. He says four.
I think I've read three trillion coming in. I think every, there's a general, every five to, I guess it's every 15 billion is a million jobs.
You're talking about millions of jobs that could be created. And then there's going to be some tariff income.
There's going to be some income from deregulating and extending the tax cuts, you could have a booming United States. You really could.
I mean, economically. And if you closed the borders and went to civic education, assimilation, integration on immigrants, you could end this recrudescence of tribalism.
And you could really have a, he calls it a golden age, you could do that, but he's got to get to the midterms first. But what I'm trying to say is that we're in the midst of a radical counter-revolution.
I've never seen anything like it. Everybody should appreciate that.
And China, as I said, if you go nominal GDP, it's only about 60, I think we're 30 trillion and there are 20 with nominal GDP, not purchasing power GDP, but nominal. And they have 4.2 times our population.
So you have one American producing one and a half times the goods and services, even at our nadir, than China does. That's amazing that we can have 30 trillion with one quarter of the population of China.
When you look at all of what they're doing, and I did that little video for the Daily Signal, but they're creating eight or nine nukes a month, Jack. Their goal is to have 1,000 deliverable nukes by five years from now, at the end of the decade.
But even if they were to do that, we have 5,100. They want to get 2,000 fighter jets.
We're about 1,500, but I think we have 500 fifth generation. They only have 80.
And more importantly, when you put intelligence planes, helicopters, logisticals, we have 3,500 planes. We have 11 carrier groups, all nuclear.
They have two. We have 90 submarines, 85 to 90 submarines.
Everyone is nuclear. They have about 60.
And I think six are nuclear. My point is that we're at the tipping point where their rate of ascendance is accelerating and they're going to pass us.
But right now, given the legacy and inheritance that we were lucky to have from our grandfathers and parents, we are so far ahead of them. And it's just a matter of rebooting, reinvigorating, recalibrating, and getting back to the essence and say, you know, nothing is guaranteed.
You get up every day, you have to prove yourself. But we're going to go to a radical, free market radical free market merit based uh assimilationist model and this country would really take off with a secure border and yeah america but it is a revolution victor and revolution means fight and i just saw today a headline in virginia that i think it's a fairfax county where much of the fights of the school boards were with women's month.
A is for abortion. I thought A was for abortion.
I saw that. A is for abortion.
I saw that. It's demented people out there.
Well, there's one big obstacle we have. And we have a fertility rate that's fallen from 1995 to 2.1 to 1.6.

And, I mean, J.D. Vance, they hated him for saying it, but he said childless cat ladies.
And what he was saying is we all have nephews, nieces, children of our own that we don't know what's gone. They bought in to go to university for eight years and take three units here and six units here and live in the basement.
Take out $150,000 loan. Housing prices are unaffordable.
And they think, you know what? I'm just going to be an urban hipster. I'm going to go rent an apartment with three or four people.
And I'm going to go out and go to the bars and have promiscuous sex and drugs and take some courses and think I'm smarter than everybody else. And then I'm going to get really angry because my master's in gender studies or my BA in environmental studies did not give me.
There's some idiot. It's a plumber or 7-Eleven.
It's making a million dollars a year. And that's our biggest problem right now is telling these 20 something 30 something people we marriage is not bad it's good children are good they're stable buying a home as soon as you can is is good for a lot of reasons and we're going to help you do it and that's that your message.
Instead, it's every divisive, not normal outlet that we promote as normal. And, you know, I don't know.
I have nothing against trans people. I have nothing against their drag shows.
But I can tell you mainstreaming drag shows is not going to increase the fertility rate, homeownership, families, and that's whether you like it or not, that has been the stuff of civil rights from the very beginning. It's pretty simple, everybody.
You look at everything in the past, and it's just a matter of A, did they have a defense budget? Did they have a good army? Number two, did they have fertility? They replaced it. Number three, did they have a sound fiscal policy? And four, did they have food production? And five, did they have energy? And that was mostly, to tell you the truth, until Industrial Revolution would.
And if they had all of that and secure borders, they thrived. If they didn't, they vanished.
And we should take note of that. Taking note, my friend.
Well, we have come almost to the end. I've talked too much today.
No, no, Victor, you never talk too much. And I know our listeners think that.
So we are now on so many platforms to listen, to watch. Again, those who do it on Apple can rate the show zero to five stars, and practically everyone's giving Victor five stars.
So thank you for doing that. And I have two comments to read here.
One that somebody sent me on LinkedIn and others from YouTube. The YouTube one first is from WandaBr Brown, four, eight, eight, seven, who writes very simply, I have learned the only place to learn.
The real news is to listen to Victor Davis Hanson. So let's go Wanda Brown.
Yeah. Short and sweet.
Then I have this from my old friend, Michael Flaherty. I never thought I would disagree with VDH on anything.
He sent me this on LinkedIn. But given my unique experience, I feel qualified to make a suggestion about situations related to violent street crime.
Never approach an adult where riding a BMX bike. This applies double if the person is wearing a full skeleton mask.
Keep driving and don't engage in conversation. Now, a few weeks ago, Victor.
Yeah, I was at the post office. Was this your trip to the post office? I just thought you encountered such a.
What could happen at two o'clock? I had the flu. I was woozy.
I thought I don't want to go and cough on somebody. So I went into the drive in two o'clock in the afternoon.
And they have the new, in our town, it's not safe. I understand that.
But they had people, you know, that were putting the little hooks in and pulling out the mail. So the post office, if you've seen them, they have those new type.
Right. It's very hard to drive up next to them.
You have to kind of get out and stick them in.

So I was getting out, and I thought I was hallucinating.

I still had a fever, and I looked up, and this skeleton was coming right at me on a bike with a golden skull mask on, gold with glitter on it. And he was all dressed in black with not one ounce of the skin showing on a bike.

And he was going right toward me, and I thought, thought wow you need to go get some more tylenol sounds like antifa luka li i don't know who he was but i was thought i thought and i had done about four years ago i didn't even tell the i put mail into the old box and of course it never got there it never got there i've had it stolen two or three times

i do want to say michael who sent that note he was a colleague at national review a long time ago and then he left and he went to work in boston for billy bulger whitey bulger's brother billy bulger like him not he was he was a conservative on social issues and i did a piece about him now. Terrific love billy and uh then mike started walden media which produced all those movies the chronicles of narnia movies just he's a terrific guy what year did he leave national review a long time ago 1993 for a long time but we've stayed friends for years he's a good man so well i appreciate that advice and leaving national review no but i don't know what you do when somebody's riding right toward you he wrote by i said i went i looked like that and he just went right by me but yeah well that's not the strangest thing i have seen out here i've been looking at a spray rig in a tractor park.
I won't tell anybody where, but I've seen it now five days with a key in it. So I don't know what's going on on the neighbor's place.
You know, when you look in cars at a nearby, Victor, you might see flagrant delicto events. One of the nicest things, just to finish, Jack, is these Tesla security cameras.
So you see these wimpy people, and they walk by, and they think they're going to be clever as their hand is out, and they just walk by in key, and they've got their full face. Their Heidi's on it, yeah.
I hope they do it. I mean, today is the Tesla protest day.
And I'm going to buy, as I said, my wife and I are going to give our Tesla to my son.

It's a beautiful car, but we want another Tesla.

We're going to save our money because we want to support.

I think we're going to do that in May, buy another Tesla.

Listen to that, Elon Musk, and then come on the show.

Yeah, Elon, you're invited anytime to come on. I've written a lot of columns about This renaissance character He is a renaissance person He's done more for the It really gets me angry when you get Tim Walz That attacks him ad hominem And then Not that he doesn't have a ride I know that Elon can But when you see Tim Walz and you say, what have you actually done? What have you done for your country or your state? Your country, your state is a mess.
You're losing people. They're leaving.
You've done this radical, crazy work. You probably single-handedly, the only thing he's ever done that's helped the country he was so buffoonish he and usually vice presidential nominees don't make a difference but he was such a radical contrast with jd vance and he was so inept he was a force multiplier of her inability to articulate and speak and when he you add a layer of weirdo, that Adderall kind of, you know, going out there with that too tight suit.
And then there was a fruity factor to this guy. I don't know what his problem is, but when he goes in there and he gets on, I got an app and I'm like, hey, it's going down, down, down.
You idiot. Why don't you just say, could Tim Waltz create a SpaceX rocket? Could he create a whole EV industry? Could he give me Internet and give most people in rural America and rural the world Internet? No.
Could he open up social media so he can say, no, no, no. So why doesn't humble and say you know i disagree with elon musk but he has a man of many many talents i can say that about bill clinton i disagree with almost everything bill clinton did but he was a natural politician i disagree with a lot of things that barack obama did but he had a rhetorical gift.
He did. And I don't think I didn't like the way it was used, but you can at least acknowledge that people have particular talents.
That's what I'm trying to say. Tim, Tim.
He had none. Well, he has an interesting habit of talent of how he waves.
Maybe some people might not like him. Jerry Brown had a lot of talent.
I didn't agree with him. He had certain talents.
He really did. He knew Greek.
He knew Latin. Yeah.
Well, Victor, we've come to the end except, I'm going to say, those who subscribe to Civil Thoughts, the free weekly email newsletter I write for the Center for Civil Society, where we're trying to save and strengthen civil society. I want to thank you.
Many people write me. They appreciate it.
And if you're not getting Civil Thoughts, you can. Go to civildhoughts.com.
Sign up. Again, it's free.
You'll get 14 recommended readings every week. And we're not selling your name.
So there's no monkey business going on. All right.
All that said, Victor, you've been terrific. Thank you so much.
Thanks for listening. Thank you, everybody.
Happy April Fool's Day. And we will be back with another episode of the Victor Davis Hanson Show.
Bye-bye. Thank you.
Thank you for listening. company has amazing commitment to give back.
Wired2Fish Coffee gives back 25% of profits,

25% to conservation, clean water, and things like missions and evangelical outreach. From

river cleanups and initiatives for fish habitat to programs that give people in slums clean water

and spread the word about Jesus, Wired2Fish Coffee is in it to make the world a better place. They also have just launched a medium roast decaf, and for avid coffee lovers, their much-loved brew is now available in two-pound and five-pound bags.
Join us and enjoy your coffee while making a difference in

the world and join a community of like-minded coffee lovers. Subscribe and save today and enjoy discounted coffee and free freight or just give this great brand a try with discount code Just News or Just The News.
For 10% off your first order, head over to Wired2FishCoffee today

and make this year a year you align your coffee with your values.