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

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Speaker 3 This particular episode will be up on Tuesday, April 1st. And as ever, there's just so darn much to talk about.

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Speaker 1 Victor,

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Speaker 3 You're a pretty man, Victor, I think.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 that are very involved in left-wing politics, and this federal judge does.

Speaker 1 Judge McShawn, for sure. Right, right.

Speaker 3 It's the echo of.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 They either have daughters or they gave to Democratic candidates or they ham it up like Ngeron or Kaplan, you name it, Jack Smith.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I'll tell a story about Judge Jim Buckley maybe if we have a little time.

Speaker 3 We have issues with California water.

Speaker 3 Western ranchers getting tormented by the federal government, declassifying the crossfire hurricane documents, so much more.

Speaker 3 And Victor, we will get to all of this and your thoughts on all of these things when we return from these important messages.

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Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 I want to encourage our viewers, listeners, to check that out. There's probably roughly four to five.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 the

Speaker 3 signal,

Speaker 3 Walsh

Speaker 3 Goldberg,

Speaker 3 the Atlantic editor, getting on there. And you have some other thoughts that you'd like to share.
Please.

Speaker 1 Well, the poster Mark Penn made sort of a snarky but quite accurate remark. He said, if you think,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 no accident. And so, as we said earlier, it either had to be

Speaker 1 Waltz or his assistant, is it Alexander Wong or something like that? I forgot his name, Andrew Wong.

Speaker 1 They knew him and they 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

Speaker 1 pre-programmed phones, signal devices, some indication that people said they were, and somebody inserted in Alexander Vinman fashion this arch Trump hating reporter.

Speaker 1 And then they 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 personage and see the face on there, demand-a-face

Speaker 1 appearance or something.

Speaker 1 Or

Speaker 1 someone,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I don't know which it would be. But they've got to get down to the

Speaker 1 they have to find out

Speaker 1 or it's going to happen again.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 they just they've got have better staff work, they really do. Because that they don't have any margin of error with this small congressional

Speaker 1 majority. And the entire media, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, still for the most part, the money, the campuses,

Speaker 1 the popular culture, they're all against them. And they're still, even in the polls, if not slightly ahead, and the country is 20 points in their favor of going in the right direction.

Speaker 1 So they've 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.

Speaker 3 On the margin of error, that's Elise Stefanik has

Speaker 3 her nomination to the

Speaker 3 ambassadorship to the UN has been withdrawn. Do I have the right person?

Speaker 1 This is.

Speaker 1 That was a smart.

Speaker 1 They don't have enough. That's because of the margin of error, yeah.
Yeah, and they don't have enough seats, maybe after the midterms.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So usually, you know, Biden thought everybody, I think it was in 2022, everybody considered Biden was spectacular because he

Speaker 1 drained the strategic petroleum reserve and he canceled student debts. He gave amnesty for marijuana convictions.
convictions and most importantly in that June, July

Speaker 1 to the midterms, there was the Roe versus Swade, and they were all saying there was going to be followed by a national abortion ban, and we're going to go back-to-back alley abort, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 he only lost nine seats.

Speaker 1 That was enough to lose him the house, but

Speaker 1 they thought he was going to lose 40 or 50.

Speaker 3 Right. Yeah, there was the wave that never happened.
By the way, that aide is Alex Nelson

Speaker 3 Wong.

Speaker 1 Wong, yeah, Alex Wong.

Speaker 1 He's been ubiquitous around,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 I don't want to use the word vindictive, but ambitious prosecutor.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they seem of a type of Beltway couple that have their fingers in

Speaker 3 numerous pies of consequence to our nation. What's the problem? Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's the problem. It really is.
I mean,

Speaker 1 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...

Speaker 1 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 brand.

Speaker 1 He doesn't do that. He speaks over their head, over the media's head, over the Democratic grandees' head.
He's got to keep doing that.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 That's not who he is.

Speaker 1 And I think everybody needs to take a deep breath at this point, Jack, and say, you know,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 or a Japanese prime minister, and say,

Speaker 3 We've just concluded a great trade agreement.

Speaker 1 We've done some defense.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's very hard to confront them and say, listen, you're our friends, but you cannot run those trade

Speaker 1 surpluses with asymmetrical tariffs. And you've got to honor your promises to rearm and help us out.
That's hard.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We have, I don't know, $37 trillion in debt, a $1.4 trillion trade deficit. I'll just play musical chairs and the music will run out on my successor.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And so they have an enormous task in front of them, and they need to explain to everybody that they've got an unpopular course. And you know what?

Speaker 1 I loved Ronald Reagan, but Reagan did not try to balance the budget, and he did not try to get equal trade.

Speaker 1 And we ran up big budget deficits and trade deficits. His idea was cutting taxes, expanding the economy and deregulating it work.

Speaker 1 George W. Bush, same way.

Speaker 1 George H.W. Bush.
George W. Bush, same thing.

Speaker 1 John McCain, same thing.

Speaker 1 That's what he ran on.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Nobody's done that. And at the same time, wage a cultural counter-revolution and stop this madness.

Speaker 3 We're at a hinge moment for all these things.

Speaker 1 And that's hard to do.

Speaker 1 And what I'm saying by that is hard to do.

Speaker 1 When Elon Musk got on television with Brett Baer, that was a wonderful interview.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And that's what the message has to be. It's a counter-revolution that we've never seen before.

Speaker 3 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 issues.

Speaker 1 We did take it over once in,

Speaker 1 I've got to remember, in April of 1940, there was no Denmark. The Nazis overran it in four days.
And then this big

Speaker 1 near-continent-sized

Speaker 1 call it an island, that was near, it's a North American territory, not a European. So, what happened to it?

Speaker 1 Well, the Nazis were ascendant, and they were eyeing it, and they were thinking at the tip of Greenland, we will put bases, and

Speaker 1 we will interrupt British shipping, and the North American convoys from Canada won't make it.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 then when the war was over, we just said

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So when they start saying, we resent this, no, you lost it. We saved it.
We gave it back to you.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I think what Trump needs to do again is to be a little bit more careful in the message. He's starting to do that.
He doesn't need to say the U.S. wants it.

Speaker 1 He says that we're all Western countries. And somebody has to step up and make sure that this

Speaker 1 piece of strategic real estate is protected, defended, and used to deter our enemies.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But he needs to explain that. The Panama thing we haven't heard because that was Ard of a Deal chaos, and then all of a sudden Panama says to us you know what

Speaker 1 you guys were kind of right about that we were fruiting with the Chinese probably violating the spirit of the treatment 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

Speaker 1 we'll put an American company now at the entry and the exit. How's that? And that's what he achieved.

Speaker 1 Victor,

Speaker 3 I know you don't want to travel anymore.

Speaker 1 That's how I got COVID twice and this flu.

Speaker 3 Well, you do have that dream of going

Speaker 3 to Sweden, so maybe one day we'll do a final Victor Davis-Hansen tour or stop in Greenland on the way and visit because it's a good thing.

Speaker 1 So does New Cruise ship stop in Greenland?

Speaker 1 Mr. Cruzmaster?

Speaker 3 I don't. I know some do.

Speaker 1 It's a long way from Scandinavia.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's possible on one of these cross.

Speaker 3 Did you call me Mr. Cruisemaster? 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,

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Speaker 3 Victor, before we, you know what, we want to talk about Bose Berg and his daughter, but let's distract a little before we go into our next break about something that happened recently with you.

Speaker 3 You were talking, you've talked on this podcast about the time you were stung by bees and

Speaker 3 how that affected you and you went into a shock, etc.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 So, Victor, maybe you talk about this as you want, but also about

Speaker 3 how

Speaker 3 AI

Speaker 3 can be unsettling when used in weird ways.

Speaker 1 Well, I do a lot of,

Speaker 1 I try to do two interviews a day.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I really like Megan Kelly, and I do hers anytime she asks, and she's so professional. I like Mark Levin.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 Washington office. And it's right across from Heritage.
And

Speaker 1 you know, she was a Pepperdine graduate student interning and her job was to meet people coming in to register to use.

Speaker 1 So there were politicians, celebrities, media people coming back and forth, AI, Congress, you know, just to go use the facilities. They had a wonderful studio there and everything.

Speaker 1 And she once turned, I saw, I asked her once,

Speaker 1 what

Speaker 1 like, and she said, well, I don't know. These people, you you know, I'm just a nobody.
It's kind of like the person at the McDonald's window. I'm just an ordinary person.
But

Speaker 1 Levin kind of gave, one of them was Mark Levin, and he kind of gave a Trump answer to you're not nobody. And he

Speaker 1 said, Of all the people, that he was the sweetest and nicest and most unassuming. I thought that was really

Speaker 1 interesting. So,

Speaker 1 I really like doing his. I like doing

Speaker 1 John Anderson from Australia, he's wonderful.

Speaker 1 Um I like doing Steve Edgerton, he is with the GWB broadcasting, I think he's going to freelance now.

Speaker 1 And all of them are professional.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 I think one of them got a million views so he over the the last few years got bigger and bigger and he bought equipment and he hired engineers but then three things started to bother me

Speaker 1 one

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 I don't mind when John Anderson does it. He doesn't do it.
He does it in a different way. But when you do,

Speaker 1 say, 80 minutes and the host then cuts it up, you know, into three to five segments and just keeps issuing it as if like you're in a series.

Speaker 1 I wasn't in a series, but I had people writing me and say, why are you working for this guy? And

Speaker 1 I didn't know what he was doing, but he was taking the interview and then advertising, just

Speaker 1 cutting it up. And then the next thing I knew,

Speaker 1 He was discussing all of these other people, so he was deliberately inviting the Stanford leftist community

Speaker 1 on the idea that they would be irritated that I was even given a platform on his.

Speaker 1 And he was kind of

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I was being used as kind of a foil, but then the star, and I didn't object.

Speaker 1 I still had been trying to help him. He was very professional.
He's got all this equipment now. He He has engineers.
It got really big.

Speaker 1 But the last thing was he started using AI to illustrate when he interviewed me. So if he was asking me about immigration and what to do with,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And that they are becoming upper middle class, upper middle class, upper, upper middle class. And

Speaker 1 I I said, when you go, and I said, I was just treated by three

Speaker 1 Mexican-American paramedics, and I said, they kind of saved my life because I didn't know that I had a lethal,

Speaker 1 I have immune problem, but I didn't know it had manifested itself with bee sting, 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.

Speaker 1 But this a year ago, I almost died. So I went into anaphyloxis.
The last thing I did was call my wife. She called 9-11 and these three young paramedics came out and they were wonderful.

Speaker 1 That's all I said.

Speaker 1 The next thing I know, people call 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.

Speaker 1 And then I thought, so I looked at the thing they were sending me and it was like I was. So my point is that he was taking artificial intelligence.

Speaker 1 and creating false videos of me to illustrate anything I said or some things I said on his thing. And he never asked me for permissions to divide up these.
He never,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 The point was that I thought in a way that Megan never does, or Mark Levin, or Dennis Prager, or John Anderson, who they like to have conversation. This wasn't.

Speaker 1 This was a use of me, and I thought it was not fair. And I was a little paranoid anyway because when I was away, we got swatted.
My wife was here alone.

Speaker 1 Three sheriffs showed up and I know a lot of the sheriffs and apparently somebody had called in. There must have been an intruder.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 I'm going to discontinue and I asked him yesterday to take down all of those things.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 then you get a lot of people writing and say, Victor, I thought you said that the paramaics came out and you were almost, you were just swatting it around.

Speaker 1 And I wrote back and said,

Speaker 1 that's not me.

Speaker 1 And I didn't even know it was occurring. So I felt that he had abused trust.

Speaker 1 And I thought, you know, I had 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.

Speaker 1 And I had mentioned in the past that people like John Keegan, the military historian, wrote the

Speaker 1 foreword 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.

Speaker 1 But it was, as exploited.

Speaker 3 The old line about no favors going unpunished. And the aforementioned Megan is just,

Speaker 3 she's not involved in this, but she is just one of the most terrific people. So

Speaker 3 I know you think that, and I just want to put that as an exclamation point.

Speaker 1 She is.

Speaker 1 So anyway,

Speaker 1 I was.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Who?

Speaker 1 The Media Center.

Speaker 1 Mr. Buckley.
Yes.

Speaker 3 Brent Bozell?

Speaker 1 Brent Bozell?

Speaker 3 Oh, oh, so Brent, yes, so Brent was appointed to the head of the global media.

Speaker 1 But I thought he was ambassador to South Africa.

Speaker 3 No, no, he's going to be, he has been nominated for the Global Media Agency, and that oversees Voice of America, Radio for Europe, Radio Liberty, unless it's another Buckley

Speaker 3 or another Bozell.

Speaker 3 But yeah, actually, the interesting thing is

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and that's

Speaker 1 yeah, it says that Trump four days ago Leo Brent Bozel III as U.S. ambassador to South Africa.
What?

Speaker 1 Yes. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 Well, I know. 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.

Speaker 1 Is his first name Leo?

Speaker 3 Well, L. Brent Bozel.

Speaker 3 Yes, so it would be Leo. As U.S.

Speaker 1 Ambassador to South Africa.

Speaker 3 I don't know. Brent has a son who's also L.
Brent Bozel IV.

Speaker 1 But I think he was ambassador. Which brings up my advocacy that,

Speaker 1 as I said before,

Speaker 1 one of the key places in the Mediterranean is Cyprus. We've usually had a career

Speaker 1 diplomat there. I don't think it's worked out all that well.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 East Med

Speaker 1 program with Israel, Cyprus, and Greece. I think Trump will greenlight.
Biden, remember, said, oh,

Speaker 1 new Green Deal. You can't do that, Europe.
You don't need any more natural gas.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 of course, he was born in northern occupied, 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

Speaker 1 Donald Trump's best appointment in the ambassadors. I hope he can still do it.

Speaker 1 So there's my little advocacy.

Speaker 3 So Victor, just so I'm not

Speaker 3 late to the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 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 the elimination of it.

Speaker 3 And yeah, he has been nominated to South Africa. Not to take away from your

Speaker 3 desire that

Speaker 1 Max Nicias, yes. He would be the best ambassador in the entire Mediterranean.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so. Well, you live and you learn when you listen to the Victor David.

Speaker 1 Well, you know,

Speaker 1 it's funny because one last thing, and then we'll get to back.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He would invite you in, and he would say, What if China does this?

Speaker 1 Or what happens in Iraq if this should occur? Or what would be

Speaker 1 Iran? How do we do it? So they were theoreticals. And then he had a team of experts, full-time employees, and they would write position papers.

Speaker 1 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 about every six weeks in 2002 and 2003.

Speaker 1 And then Andrew Marshall used to visit me at the Hoover. He was a wonderful man.
He lived into his

Speaker 1 late 90s. But anyway, that was his office.
And usually people tried to eliminate it that were on the left.

Speaker 1 But after he died, I knew one of his assistants who was a very nice guy, but he wasn't made director. And so

Speaker 1 under Obama, but especially under Biden, it became,

Speaker 1 and it's mentioned in

Speaker 1 Mark Moyer's book, whom we've had on a podcast about USIAID. Mark was very prescient, remember? He warned us that the whole USAID was

Speaker 1 contaminated, if that's the word, or

Speaker 3 nihilistic. But anyway,

Speaker 1 they're going to eliminate it.

Speaker 1 That's going to be eliminated. That was targeted by Doge.
If that had happened 20 years ago, I would say that would be a mistake. But given the way that it's devolved, I don't think it'll be missed.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think last episode we talked about these rallies,

Speaker 3 the AOC

Speaker 3 Bernie Sanders rallies, and

Speaker 3 many of the attendees, the professional protesters,

Speaker 3 were with organizations that were being funded by USAID. So, agreed Victor, totally needs to

Speaker 3 get ditched. Now,

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Speaker 3 our sponsors, and then we're going to come back and talk about Judge James Boesberg and his daughter.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 We are back with the Victor Davis-Hansen Show recording on Sunday, March 30th. And this episode is up on Tuesday, April 1st.
I am in gloomy Milford, Connecticut right now.

Speaker 3 It's kind of dark at the windows, all the windows open. Whatever I can do, Victor.

Speaker 1 It's gloomy here, too.

Speaker 1 In sunny California.

Speaker 3 Oh, well. I thought it never rained in California.

Speaker 1 Are you a global warmer?

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 I was waiting to hear that global warming was the reason for the...

Speaker 1 Well, as soon as Gavin and Jerry Brown announced that, you know, I think it was Gavin said that we're stuck with climate change. And every time in the summer,

Speaker 1 I'm 71. I was born in this

Speaker 1 farm. And it's not, I can tell you in 1959, I remember it was my parents complain it was 111 in August.
But every time it gets up to 105, they say global warming, global warming.

Speaker 1 And we always have a drought every fourth year.

Speaker 1 Well, and the big drought we had four years ago,

Speaker 1 it's over with. California is over with.

Speaker 1 And now we've had pretty much normal rain or excessive rain, I think,

Speaker 1 four out of the last five years.

Speaker 3 And no new reservoirs to

Speaker 1 no new reservoirs. The last one was the 1983 New Milonas Dam.
L.A. built one, of course.
But no, no. Win California pass,

Speaker 1 we tell the people, do you want to build new reservoirs and save water? And they say yes.

Speaker 1 They vote for $7 billion, which includes three huge earthen dam reservoirs at low elevation with very little environmental impact at Temperance Flat, Seitz Reservoir, Los Banos, Grandes.

Speaker 1 Six, five, six million acre feet of in a wet year. And what does Gavin Newsom do?

Speaker 1 He defies the will of the people.

Speaker 1 I thought you could get impeached 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.

Speaker 1 And they approved it. And what did he do with it? It wasn't just that Gavin did not build those three dams.
He used

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 once he blew them up, the erosion, the water, it's just a mess.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I guess the idea is that if you're very

Speaker 1 wealthy 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

Speaker 1 will on other people that have no such protection.

Speaker 1 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 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.

Speaker 1 They're still owners of all the land, and da-da-da-da-da-da.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 let's get to Boseberg

Speaker 3 next.

Speaker 3 Let's talk about the water.

Speaker 3 Here's a headline, Victor, from

Speaker 3 a site called

Speaker 3 Unwon, a very interesting

Speaker 3 website that covers issues in the West.

Speaker 3 Headline, at the Cloverdale Town Hall, rural California community takes first step against dam removals.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Community members lined the walls, spilled into the entryway of the veterans hall, etc.

Speaker 3 It was one of the first attempts to rally Lake, Mendocino, and Sonoma counties whose survival and and way of life is threatened by a massive dam removal project insiders say will cut water supply for 600,000 people, along with fire suppression, economic well-being, agriculture, and natural ecosystems.

Speaker 3 Victor, this is demented.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They're either working as advisors for in tenured spots in environmental studies or water resources at universities or for the State Water Resources Board or they're Native American ethnic activists that want water and

Speaker 1 then they produce an idea that they have ancestral fishing rights or something like this.

Speaker 1 But they have all one thing in common. And most of them, they don't get up in the morning and know that

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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...

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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, an older brother

Speaker 1 were packing our fruit, and

Speaker 1 this was during the

Speaker 1 Pete Wilson, you know, and George DeMasian era, right? Reagan, George Pete Wilson, but it was

Speaker 1 right, as you know,

Speaker 1 Jerry Brown was elected.

Speaker 1 So we had all the regulations for fruit on this big board, and when I came, there were two.

Speaker 1 You had to, by law, put them on about packing fruit.

Speaker 1 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, and I can't do it.

Speaker 1 But that wall had 28 of them. I counted them.
28 of them.

Speaker 1 And it was about everything. It was about paint.
It was about lighting. It was about sound.
It was about.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's just insane. And

Speaker 1 why they would go after these old ranching families and farming families that have done

Speaker 1 they don't understand go up to that area um in napa

Speaker 1 or mendocino counties or you know a place like guerneville or

Speaker 1 sebastopol there's these families out there they're apple growers they're cattle ranchers they're vineyardists some of them have been there for a hundred years And they're not just farmers, they create families, and these families have values.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 that's what created the america the homestead farmer and the homestead agrarian ethos of children that are hardworking they honor tradition and just to blot all that out for some stupid tenured bureaucrat or apparatchek is just crazy i wish they would do that with the universities you know what i wish they would do jack if 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.

Speaker 1 So here's what's going to happen.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We'll give you a minimum little salary, like a farmer borrows from the bank.

Speaker 1 And at the end of the year, we'll split it up. And it will depend on how well we appealed to the donor class and how well we were attracted students and how well the students actually paid us.

Speaker 1 And if we don't have the end of the year, and then you know what they would say, well, I don't know how much I'm going to make today.

Speaker 1 Yes,

Speaker 1 exactly.

Speaker 1 Well, I can't plan. Yes, exactly.
Well, I might be working

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 When I looked at

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Yes, you did. Given what you guys lost this year and how many hours it takes,

Speaker 1 you had a 40, 50 hour week. Add it up.
You paid

Speaker 1 $12 an hour for the privilege of being on a tractor. And we could tell a faculty member, hey, you know what? You went in there and taught 12 hours.

Speaker 1 class and you did another 12 hours of prep and you had six hours of office hours and you had and you didn't make any money.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And they have a very thin margin of survival. And to blow up water, the key life source of their entire entity, is criminal.

Speaker 1 And I hope everybody writes them and stops it.

Speaker 3 Well, we have another rural story to get to a little later, but and I do, I'm going to get to Bostberg after this because, folks, we need to talk very briefly about what's happening to our money right now.

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Speaker 1 Can I ask you a question personally?

Speaker 1 Have you ever had a root canal?

Speaker 3 Of several, and I need several more.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 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 have, I have very soft teeth, and I have a problem with my saliva is overly acidic.

Speaker 1 But anyway, I'm fanatic about brushing three times, fallossing, water, but it doesn't do any good. But anyway, my point is this, that as you get older, the doctor, would kid you.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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...
Implant?

Speaker 1 No, I didn't do an implant. It was a new procedure where they go through.

Speaker 1 I had a root canal,

Speaker 1 but the tooth had got

Speaker 1 a cavity on the side, you know.

Speaker 1 It wasn't complete.

Speaker 1 It's a long story, but anyway, they took out the gold crown and then

Speaker 1 they cleaned it up. 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 3 No, I only had one gold filling. I never got it back.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Man, that was painful. And replace them with gold.
And then they've been replaced with this new white stuff, you know, hard porcelain. But anyway,

Speaker 1 I never thought about it, but this time he handed me a little plastic bag. And there was the little gold.
It looked minute. So I said, well, what, what? I still have it.

Speaker 1 He said, well, you have to go turn it in. It's worth $75.

Speaker 1 so I was wondering what my head I got I don't want to announce that because given my number growing number of enemies I feel like somebody would

Speaker 1 come and tax

Speaker 3 a pair of pliers while they're at it know it know it well 75 bucks you can have fill up your uh your gas tank in California so no

Speaker 1 not even no it's more like a hundred and something

Speaker 3 okay Victor Bosberg so let me I know folks are tired of me reading, but suffer through it, folks. Offer it up for the souls in purgatory.
The daughter of D.C.

Speaker 3 District Court Chief Judge James Boseberg is employed by a nonprofit that receives a million in government funding.

Speaker 3 This daughter opposes the, and the nonprofit opposes the Lake and Riley Act, and whose founder argued that the jurist rightly blocked the President Trump, blocked, excuse me, President Trump, from swiftly deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members, Catherine Bosberg, the daughter of the federal judge who halted the Trump administration from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to send alleged Trenda Aragua members to a megaprison in El Salvador, conducts, quote, capacity-building work in public defender offices across the nation, end quote, for the nonprofit group's partners in Justice.

Speaker 3 Victor, another

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 1 Donald Trump. On a normal,

Speaker 1 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 a set

Speaker 1 lower courts may be necessary.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 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 courts, which we call circuit courts.

Speaker 1 I only know this because my mom was a state appellate court judge. So,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 has a dispute with another state about water delivery interstate. That's what they were there for.

Speaker 1 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% plurality on any of the issues.

Speaker 1 So they have various strategies to stop this counter-revolution, which the people have approved.

Speaker 1 One is neo-terrorism, to firebomb Teslas, to key Tesla's car, to swarm the dealerships, and then have a buffoon like

Speaker 1 Tim Waltz brag about

Speaker 1 driving down the stock portfolio of Tesla, of which he's the custodian of in Minnesota, like a buffoon that is.

Speaker 1 Or they have the potty, smutty, vulgar,

Speaker 1 what are you going to call that? The videos where they all say S-H-I-T,

Speaker 1 or they do the kickboxing, or you then they unleash a moronic Jasmine Crockett,

Speaker 1 and she

Speaker 1 talks about threatening people, hitting them.

Speaker 1 Then they get the A-S-S-H-O-L slur from Senator

Speaker 1 Kelly,

Speaker 1 Waltz has used the same term. He said he's going to kick the...
That was the funniest thing, Jack.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You've got Jasmine Crockett screaming and yelling as a proud black woman,

Speaker 1 that stuff.

Speaker 1 And then you have the third leg of this resistance, and that is this money coming from these well-funded left-wing funds and organizations to

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And about 60% of them, because there's been, I mean,

Speaker 1 if you look at the judges there for 30 years, and you look at the last 30 years,

Speaker 1 let's just say the last 25 years, we had eight years of Bush and four years of Trump, which is 12 in the new millennium, right?

Speaker 1 But they had a

Speaker 1 they had eight years of Biden

Speaker 1 and four years, eight four 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,

Speaker 1 and we just had Bush

Speaker 1 in the last 30 years, 12, plus Trump was 4, 16. So there is more.

Speaker 1 There are more. And then the other problem is, of course, the law schools turn out 90% left-wing people, as do the big blue-chip firms.
So most of the lawyers are left-wing that come judges.

Speaker 1 So unlike Democratic appointees that become conservative,

Speaker 1 Republicans

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 Reyes,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil. And his brother, I think,

Speaker 1 was a chief advisor to Barack Obama, economic advisor. And Judge

Speaker 1 Bosberg was picked because he has a long record.

Speaker 1 I think he'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.

Speaker 1 But on these particular cases where he's stopping

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 enforcement of 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 unleashed by their home countries.

Speaker 1 And you're here, you entered illegally, you're here illegally, and you're in a terrorist-designated gang,

Speaker 1 then

Speaker 1 you...

Speaker 1 There is no legal impediment to that. But if you choose, unlike the Biden administration, to deport them,

Speaker 1 there is a legal impediment to following the law, but there's no legal impediment to breaking the law. That's his theory.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 One man can stop all this. And it's gone to his head.
Did we know who Judge Boesberg? No.

Speaker 1 Did we care? 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.

Speaker 1 And then they hide behind the cloak. How dare you attack the judiciary?

Speaker 1 No one has attacked the, everybody got to remember, no one has attacked the judiciary like the left.

Speaker 1 It was the left that went to the homes of the Supreme Court justice. It was the left that

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 you've got 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.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 it's not when everybody says, well, Trump shouldn't, he said he, Trump is wrong to say he's impeached, that might have been politically unwise, but what that doesn't, that pales in comparison to what these judges are doing.

Speaker 1 They have hijacked, they've taken a tiny sliver of one-third of the power of the government, and that is a one-person judge court, and they have decided that they can alter the entire elected government.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And they've got to say no district judge can rule on matters of national security,

Speaker 1 enforcement of the law,

Speaker 1 and apply that one particular ruling to the entire country, way out of their jurisdiction.

Speaker 1 As I said on one broadcast, it would be if academics are very vocal about this, but can you imagine a law professor

Speaker 1 who says,

Speaker 1 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 don't 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 the on a geographical basis you did have this that judge out in Hawaii that was making rulings on I think on health care like

Speaker 3 make a ruling that's pertains to the geographical district.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 in the 90s, suggesting that marriage in California would be only between a man and a woman, and there were civil unions for people who were gay, but not traditional marriage. Three days later,

Speaker 1 they had it all prepared. He ruled that unconstitutional.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You've got a conflict. And they said, how dare you mention that?

Speaker 1 How dare you mention that?

Speaker 1 And so that is now, that was the law.

Speaker 1 And I don't think this judge,

Speaker 1 I can't put, he doesn't care about what he's doing to the judiciary. He doesn't really care about the reputation of judiciary.

Speaker 1 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 Lake School. If you say that today,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 or

Speaker 1 Megan Kelly's going to eat you alive. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 If you you go out, because the status or the cachet of a professor has eroded considerably, as has judges, because of their

Speaker 1 arrogance, partisanship, and empty titles. I hate to say that.

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I had mentioned this on the last

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 his powers to strange areas,

Speaker 3 and why not even now? Why couldn't he actually

Speaker 3 order the U.S. to and be involved

Speaker 3 directly in Ukraine?

Speaker 1 Well, the International Criminal Court tried to have jurisdiction under the Biden administration on what we could do or not do in Afghanistan.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But when you look at those judges, Judge Kaplan in the Eugene 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.

Speaker 1 When he said rape, and they said, and remember, George Stephanopoulos had been sued successfully. ABC

Speaker 1 had to settle because he said 11 times, I think, that Donald Trump was a rapist.

Speaker 1 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 them on the shoulder.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And then we had Judge Ngoron and the Letita 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?

Speaker 1 He fined Donald Trump originally over $400 million

Speaker 1 for putting assets down on a loan that the Deutsche Bank approved, analyzed, audited, gave the loan.

Speaker 1 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-Lago was worth more than $17 million.

Speaker 1 And that judge was hamming it up for the, he was a hard leftist.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 non-disclosure agreement. And

Speaker 1 supposedly Donald Trump did not do it to protect his family. He did it only for for his selfish political reasons, and therefore it should have been a campaign expense, and he didn't report it.

Speaker 1 And Judge Mershon, whose daughter,

Speaker 1 what would be the word,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He had donated a small sum, but to the Democrats.

Speaker 1 And then you've got the federal prosecutor Jack Smith. He went after him for the same thing Biden had been excused by Robert Hurr.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Anyway, that's the whole background of this law affair and judges. And the more that they keep doing this,

Speaker 1 and it's spreading to Europe now, the Romanian High Court just eliminated the elected government, and now we see Miss

Speaker 1 La Pen is leading in all the polls. She has the largest number of seats in the lower house in France,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 the judiciary and a panel is trying to take her off the ballot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, these are people who lecture us about democracy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Dies in plain sight.

Speaker 3 Quickly, Victor, you know, Jim Buckley, the late Jim Buckley, who was a federal judge, and on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the little Supreme Court.

Speaker 3 But even as a retired judge,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And when that political event, small fundraiser for a guy who was thinking of running for Congress, when that happened, he left.

Speaker 3 I mean, there were judges, many judges who were so, and you would 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And no one has really said anything about it. They just expected that most lawyers are left-wing, most law schools, the government lawyers are left-wing, and the judges are left-wing.

Speaker 1 And they can use, they have, they have filed more writs to stop Trump initiatives in one month than conservatives did in four years under Biden. So,

Speaker 1 but what's weird about Trump is he has no blinders, no

Speaker 1 gags. He just goes, and he had, what, three gag orders from three different judges and these things.
He just goes goes out, he should be MP.

Speaker 1 And everybody says, that's crude, that's an attack on the judiciary.

Speaker 1 And it got your attention, didn't it? That 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,

Speaker 1 what, take over the entire

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He told everybody.

Speaker 1 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, I mean, they were condemning Trump.

Speaker 1 This is so unprofessional. You never attack a judge.
You don't do this.

Speaker 1 But the judges were acting in an improper and illegal way.

Speaker 1 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 any.
And that's where they came from.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They don't. And so

Speaker 1 they're all going to be famous. They're all going to be hard.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I don't know what it is, but that's the thing about.

Speaker 3 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, big pharma big law.

Speaker 1 It is true. It is too.
It's a very real thing.

Speaker 1 Nobody wants to talk about big law, even conservatives, because they understand that these really, really big, the most lucrative, where you make four or five, six million a year and more,

Speaker 1 need token conservatives because, you know, conservatives will get,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Trump is saying, you know what, no security for you people.

Speaker 1 Why would you ever give somebody a security clearance in the first place who is working for a big law firm just because he happened to have some job in a prior administration?

Speaker 1 That's the one thing that's been really needed to cut back on the security clearances.

Speaker 3 Well, 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.

Speaker 3 So when you think of the revenue that the enormous wealth these places have,

Speaker 3 and of course, what do they do with the wealth as individuals? They donate it to left.

Speaker 3 And as firms, they donate. Yeah, right.

Speaker 3 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

Speaker 3 some ranchers in South Dakota. And we're going to get to that after these final important messages.

Speaker 3 We are back with the Victor Davis-Hansen 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.

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Speaker 3 So, Victor,

Speaker 3 I mentioned before Unwon. That's this website that covers rural issues.
And this is one of these stories about why we hate government.

Speaker 3 The headline, Mother of South Dakota, a cattle rancher, faces 10 years in prison for a pre-1950 fence. She's calling on Donald Trump for help.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 This family has been ranching there for ages. I think fifth generation.
Some hunter comes along, thinks the land's out of place.

Speaker 3 This is the department now of the Forest Service, and you and I always, I think the Forest Service is just, you know,

Speaker 3 who's the bear? I can't remember his name anymore. Smokey.
Smokey. Yeah, Smokey and the Forest Fires.
No, no, these guys are rattles.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, it's left to be woe-D-I,

Speaker 1 Native American

Speaker 1 blow-up dams.

Speaker 3 That's what they do. Yeah, so they come so you're fighting.

Speaker 1 Let the fire

Speaker 1 giver.

Speaker 3 Well, that's true. You're the fire side of things.

Speaker 1 Never mind. Let the rotten trees feed the slugs.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 they come, check the land out,

Speaker 3 say, well, 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.

Speaker 3 You have to have gag rule. Husband and wife can't talk to each other.

Speaker 3 They're going to trial next month. I mean, it's insane.

Speaker 3 And this is South Dakota. I thought this was conservative territory.

Speaker 3 Doesn't South Dakota have Jon Thune, the majority leader?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think that's what is behind Doge, too. Everybody says, you know, Elon's talking about

Speaker 1 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. I can do that.
But if he did, that's not just the point of Doge.

Speaker 1 The point of there's 3 million people working for the federal government, and it's an octopus.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And so they they it's kind of the way the federal government uh when any law that those

Speaker 1 Forest Service administrators thought they were enforcing, I can guarantee you, was never passed for this intention.

Speaker 1 Just like out here in the San Joaquin Valley,

Speaker 1 when Congress passed statutes with the Environmental Protection Agency, they never, and they wanted to preserve inland waterways from nitrogen pollution.

Speaker 1 They were not talking about a low spot in a guy's

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And as judge, jury, and executioner, we can go out there and test that water.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They think they have more money, they think they have more freedom. We're going to go show them that I'm the assistant administrator for inland waterways of the regional southwest district.

Speaker 1 How's that? And I have a title and a car and a federal

Speaker 1 badge. And that's how they think and a gun and a gun in some cases and so they've got that's it's really important to cut back you know what's very funny

Speaker 1 this country

Speaker 1 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 it's possible but if he were

Speaker 1 to get close 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.

Speaker 1 I think every there's a general every five to I guess it's every 15 billion is a million jobs.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 from deregulating and

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 on immigrants, you could end this

Speaker 1 requescence of tribalism.

Speaker 1 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.
first.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 if you go nominal GDP, it's only about 60. I think we're 30 trillion and they're 20.

Speaker 1 with nominal GDP, not purchasing power GDP, but nominal.

Speaker 1 And they have 4.2 times our population. So you have one one American producing

Speaker 1 one and a half times the goods and services, even at our Nadira, than China does. That's amazing that we can have 30 trillion with one quarter of the population of China.

Speaker 1 When you look at all of what they're doing, and I did a little video for the Daily Signal, but they're creating eight or nine nukes a month at Jack.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 We have 90 submarines, 85 to 90 submarines. Everyone is nuclear.
They have about 60. I think 6 are nuclear.

Speaker 1 My point is that we're at the tipping point where their rate of ascendance is accelerating and they're going to pass us.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 rebooting,

Speaker 1 reinvigorating, recalibrating, and getting back to the essence and say, you know,

Speaker 1 nothing is guaranteed. You get up every day, you have to prove yourself, but we're going to go to a radical, free-market, merit-based

Speaker 1 assimilationist model, and this country would really take off with a secure border and

Speaker 1 American.

Speaker 3 But it is a revolution, Victor, and revolution means fight. And I just saw today a headline in Virginia that

Speaker 3 I think it's Fairfax Fairfax County where much of the fights of the school boards were with

Speaker 3 it's Women's Month.

Speaker 3 A is for abortion.

Speaker 1 I thought A was for abortion for abortion. I saw that.

Speaker 3 Demented people out there.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I mean, J.D. Vance,

Speaker 1 they hated him for saying it, but he said childless cat ladies. And what he was saying is,

Speaker 1 we all have nephews, nieces, children of our own that we don't know what's gone.

Speaker 1 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 a $150,000 loan. Housing prices are unaffordable.

Speaker 1 And they think, you know what? I'm just going to be an urban hipster.

Speaker 1 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 that's a plumber or 7-Eleven that's making a million dollars a year

Speaker 1 that's and that's what we that's our biggest problem right now is telling these 20-something 30-something people

Speaker 1 we marriage is not bad it's good. Children are good.
They're stable. Buying a home as soon as you can

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 good for a lot of reasons, and we're going to help you do it. And that should be our message.
Instead, it's every divisive,

Speaker 1 not normal outlet that we promote is normal. And, you know.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I have nothing against

Speaker 1 trans people. I have nothing against their drag shows.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Number two, did they have fertility?

Speaker 1 They replaced it. Number three, did they have a sound fiscal policy? And

Speaker 1 four did they have food production and five do they have energy and that was mostly tell you the truth until the industrial revolution would

Speaker 1 and if they had all of that and secure borders they thrived and if they didn't they vanished and we should take note of that

Speaker 3 taking note my friend well okay we've we have come almost to the end of the day.

Speaker 1 I've talked too much today.

Speaker 3 No, no, Victor, you never talk too much. And I know our listeners think that.
So I have, you know, we are now on so many platforms to listen, to watch.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 One that somebody sent me on LinkedIn, another's from YouTube. The YouTube one first is from

Speaker 3 Wanda Brown, 4887,

Speaker 3 who writes very simply, I have learned the only place to learn the real news is to listen to Victor Davis Hansen. So

Speaker 3 there you go Wanda Brown. Yeah, short and sweet.
Then I have this from my old friend Michael Flaherty.

Speaker 3 I never thought I would disagree with VDH on anything. He sent me this on LinkedIn.

Speaker 3 But given my unique experience, I feel qualified to make a suggestion about situations related to violent street crime. Never approach an adult riding a BMX bike.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was at the post office.

Speaker 3 Was this your trip to the post office?

Speaker 3 I just thought you encountered such a what could happen at two o'clock.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So the post office, have you seen them, they have those new type

Speaker 1 hard to drive up next to them. You have to kind of get out,

Speaker 1 stick them in. So I was getting out and I thought it was hallucinating, I still had a fever, and I looked up and this skeleton was coming right at me on a bike with a

Speaker 1 golden skull mask on, gold with glitter on it, and he was all dressed in black with not one ounce of the skin showing

Speaker 1 on a bike.

Speaker 1 And he was going right toward me, and I thought, wow,

Speaker 1 you need to go get some more Tylenol.

Speaker 3 Sounds like Antifa Luca Libra.

Speaker 1 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 teleport.
I put mail into the old box, and of course, it never got there. It never got there.

Speaker 1 I've had it stolen two or three times.

Speaker 3 I do want to say Michael, who just sent that note,

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And Billy Bulger, like him not, he was a conservative on social issues. And I did a piece about him, National Review.

Speaker 3 Terrific guy. I love Billy.
And

Speaker 3 then Mike started Walden Media, which produced all his movies, the Chronicles of Narnia movies. Just he's a terrific guy.

Speaker 1 What year did he leave National Review?

Speaker 3 Oh, long time ago, 1993, for a long time. But we've stayed friends for years.
He's a good man.

Speaker 1 Well, I appreciate that advice.

Speaker 1 Leaving National Review?

Speaker 1 No, but

Speaker 1 I don't know what you do when somebody's riding right toward you.

Speaker 1 He wrote by. I said, I look like that, and he just went right by me.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I don't know what's going on on the neighbor's place.

Speaker 3 You know, when you look in cars at a nearby Victor, you might see flagrant delicto events. So, watch.

Speaker 1 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 they

Speaker 1 their hand is out, not in the and they just walk by in key, and they've got their full

Speaker 1 keys on it. Yeah, I hope they do it construction.
I mean, today is the Tesla Protest

Speaker 1 And I'm going to buy, as I said,

Speaker 1 my wife and I are going to give our Tesla to my son. It's a beautiful car,

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 another Tesla.

Speaker 3 Listen to that, Elon Musk, and then come on the show.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He's done more for the it really gets me angry when you get Tim Waltz that attacks him ad hominem. And then, I mean, uh, not that he he he doesn't have a ride.
I know that Elon can be,

Speaker 1 but when you see Tim Waltz and you say, what have you actually done?

Speaker 1 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 woke.

Speaker 1 You probably single-handedly, the only thing he's ever done that's helped the country, he was so buffoonish.

Speaker 1 Usually vice presidential nominees don't make a difference. But he was such a radical contrast with J.D.
Vance, and he was so inept. He was a force multiplier of her inability to articulate and speak.

Speaker 3 And when he added that layer of weirdo.

Speaker 1 That Adderall kind of, you know, going out there with that too tight suit. And then...

Speaker 3 There's a fruity factor to this guy.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You idiot, why don't you just say, could Tim Waltz create a Space AX rocket? Could he create a whole EV industry?

Speaker 1 Could he give me internet and give most people in rural America and rural the world internet? No.

Speaker 1 Could he open up social social media so he can say no, no, no.

Speaker 1 So why doesn't he just be a little humble and say, you know, I disagree with Elon Musk, but he has a man of many, many talents.

Speaker 1 I can say that about Bill Clinton. I disagree with almost everything Bill Clinton did, but he was a natural politician.

Speaker 1 I disagree with a lot of things that Barack Obama did, but he had a rhetorical gift. He did.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 3 Time.

Speaker 1 He had none. None.

Speaker 3 Well, he has an interesting habit of talent of how he waves. Maybe some people might.

Speaker 1 Jerry Brown had a lot of talent. That was.

Speaker 1 I didn't agree with him. He had certain talents.
He really did.

Speaker 1 He knew Greek. He knew Latin.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

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Speaker 3 All right. All that said, Victor, you've been terrific.
Thank you so much. Thanks so much.
Thank you, everybody.

Speaker 3 Happy April Fool's Day, and we will be back with another episode of the Victor Davis-Hansen Show. Bye-bye.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thank you for listening.