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This is our Friday news special, I guess I would say.

We're not going to look at all the news, but we are going to look at a few important things going on in politics today.

Part of it's with Elon Musk and then also the Democratic Party and maybe a little bit of talk about inflation.

But first let's listen to these messages and then we'll be right back.

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This is the Victor Davis-Hanson Show.

Victor is the Martin and Nealey Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marcia Busky Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

Welcome, Victor.

I hope things are going well for you.

And are there things on your mind these days before we start?

I should say, are there things that are not on my mind?

Yeah, well, I'm like most of our listeners, just wondering how much more we have to endure before we find relief from these Orwellian 14, 15 months of Joe Biden.

But that's something we can bring up during the time.

Yeah, yeah, we can.

So what we're going to do first is look at Elon Musk.

Again, revisit him, but

it seems like he's giving us endless news these days.

And then we'll talk a little bit about the Democratic Party.

And then I have a special question for you on the Biden inflation.

But Elon Musk, first, we hear the left out there.

frightened and sort of shrieking about things, especially what they call the tyranny of free speech.

And so they're a little bit worried that it might unleash hate speech if Elon Musk gets in control of Twitter.

And I was wondering, what are your thoughts on Elon Musk's recent acquisition?

Yeah, I mean, their flipping out is really reveals what ninnies they are.

I mean, they really expect us to sympathize with them.

First of all,

they loved Elon Musk.

Remember, he was the green guru.

He was going to take on the big three.

He was going to take on the fossil fuel.

He was the outsider, Tesla.

All of a sudden, he revolutionized the entire car industry.

Tesla, you know, can go 400, 500 miles miles now.

It's almost equivalent to an internal combustion engine and its performance characteristics are getting close.

So they love, they should love him.

And remember,

they said they were going to destroy him, the big three would destroy him.

He's got more market capitalization.

He's got a trillion dollars in market capitalization.

I know that's inflated, that he sells, you know, one-tenth of the number of cars that Toyota does every year, but they should love him.

They should love him because he's like the original Star Trek-y.

He's got his space exploration company.

And that's what the left loves, I thought.

You know, this guy is doing all these wonderful things in Space Force.

Look at what he did with his

next generation internet linkage.

He gave it free to the Ukrainians fighting the oppressive Russians.

So they should love him, but they despise him.

They hate him.

It just flipped.

And why?

Because.

Suddenly he was successful in gaining a majority control of Twitter and they're angry about that.

Now, why are they angry about that?

Because in a normal sane world, our listeners would say, Victor, why are they angry about that?

Mark Zuckerberg's got a 2 billion people person audience in Facebook.

He's got, I don't know, eight or nine times the amount of listeners or participants, I should say, not listeners, participants than Twitter does.

Twitter's, I don't know, it's worth just a fraction of what Facebook is.

And so why would they be worried?

And Mark Zuckerberg, remember, infused $419 million, stealthy, in a stealthy fashion, into pre-selected precincts where he absorbed the responsibility of the registrars to warp the balloting, to get out a high number of early voting and mail-in-ballot left-wing voters.

He did so in such a spectacular fashion, they couldn't even shut up about it.

Remember, Molly Fast in Time magazine bragged and bragged about it.

They were so proud of what he'd done.

Jeff Bezos, who's now, after his divorce and after the rise of Musk, the second wealthiest man in the world, he not only bought the Washington Post, but he politicized it if that was possible.

And it's even more activist than it ever was.

And Steve Jobs' widow.

Lisa Jobs, she owns the Atlantic, and she's turned that into a hyper-partisan instrument of political bias.

So my point is, think of their argument.

It is, you can't have a multi-billionaire buying and controlling a media platform.

And that is why we hate Elon Musk, but we have given exemptions to Lisa Jobs and to Mark Zuckerberg and to Jeff Bezos and a whole score of others I haven't mentioned.

Nobody's going to buy that.

The second argument is we hate Elon Musk because he's for free speech and he wants people to participate.

And we are the party of censorship, Soviet suppression of free expression, and we're monopolies.

And we don't like somebody trying to break up our monopoly.

And third, they are terrified of that guy because they feel that he is breaking down the door of Silicon Valley.

And if he succeeds, who knows?

Maybe within these companies, I don't know, it's not just Twitter, but maybe within Facebook or Google.

Google's changed a little bit, by the way, or Snapchat or all of these YouTube.

There's going to be people coming out of the woodwork, the employees that won't be afraid anymore.

Maybe some of them are traditional Americans.

Maybe some are a little bit conservative.

Maybe this will give encouragement to True Social or Parliament or Rumble will get more influential.

And so they feel that...

It's kind of like the Berlin Wall.

If a bunch of Germans go out there and say, and Reagan says, tear down this wall, and they start using sledgehammers and they break it down maybe it'll spread all over eastern europe so he's ronald regan saying tear down this wall silicon valley and they they are terrified because they do not have 51 we'll get to that probably if you want to ask me why the democratic party is so terrified but they are terrified of him yeah and they hate him and they it's it's just surreal how he went from a folk hero on the left of the little guy the david attacking the goliath of the automobile industry or the space exploration industry and all these philanthropic things he does, and they despise him.

Yeah.

And, you know, it's interesting reading all these articles about him, especially from the left-leaning press.

One of them was talking about, well, he's going to be stupid in the industry and he's not going to know how to handle all the algorithms that are used to censor people.

And he might get, the article said he might be undermined by some of the employees there.

I don't think he's going to be that stupid.

No,

I think somebody who built the largest company, automobile company in the world, and took on Toyota and GM and Ford and Mercedes and Honda needs any lectures from a bunch of geeks in Silicon Valley about naivete.

I think we know how he operates.

He's probably going to get a couple of ramrods and say, go through the list and tell me which SOB was intellectually honest and knows this thing from A to Z and get him in here.

And he's going to say to him, look, you want to work here or you don't want to work here?

You've got a wealth of expertise.

I want you to head an entire team to open up this monopoly.

And I want algorithms that allow people to have free speech and are consistent and humans can't go in there and massage them as they have been doing.

You know this.

So what do you want to do?

You want to be famous and work for me or you want to be part of the old Soviet regime?

It's up to you.

And then if you don't want it, I got a guy behind you that's sitting in the waiting room.

That's how he runs things.

So he's not afraid of that whatsoever.

Weird thing is that Twitter's 270 million people worldwide.

It is true.

They were disproportionately white.

They were disproportionately liberal.

They were disproportionately bicostal.

Okay, we all knew that.

And that's why they hated conservatives.

And that's why they drove them out and they canceled them And they ostracized them.

And they deplatformed them.

And they defaned them.

And they suppressed the Hunter laptop story, et cetera, et cetera.

And now that it's slipping away, have you heard Jinsaki and Jory Reed?

Well,

who needs Twitter?

It was a bunch of old white people and liberal people and bicoastal people and it wasn't representative.

In other words, we hate our former selves for using it because now we can't control it.

As long as we control it, we kind of like this bicoastal, wealthy white persons club.

And now we're going to hate it.

We hate ourselves now.

It's just ridiculous.

They are so pathetic.

They're coming up with every type of weird Orwellian exegesis to explain the fact that somebody just walked into Silicon Valley and said, here's 40-something billion dollars and threw it on the table.

And now he's one of them.

They can't control him.

They don't know what he's going to do.

And mark my words, the way the left operates, as soon as that deal went through, or even before, they got on the phone to Merrick Garland and they said, you know what?

Go after that guy.

We want you to go after him, Bruce Orr fashion or Eric Holder fashion.

That's how the left operates.

They're so sanctimonious, think they're so morally superior.

They can do anything without accountability.

And they will go after him and after him and after him.

And I assume because he's Elon Musk, that he has taken preemptive action to preclude that.

We'll see.

I'm sure he has.

This article that I was reading in the very moment after it said he might be undermined or sabotaged by somebody from within, it said that he required Twitter to lock down the algorithms before he would buy it.

So he's not all that stupid.

And he looks at the political landscape.

Notice he didn't buy this on January 7th, or he didn't.

buy it a week after the election of 2020.

He's surveying the landscape and he says, you know, all these left-wing pundits that say, oh, there might be a slight correction.

Oh, we could lose a few seats.

No, he's saying this is going to be an existential referendum like 1932, 36, more so than 2010.

People have had it with the left.

It's not just the issues of Joe Biden that no one likes from inflation to gas prices to racial obsessions to the southern border.

It's not just Joe Biden as a walking,

what do we call them, cognitively challenged?

Is that the euphemistic word?

Non-complos mintas.

It's not just that Kamala Harris can't open her mouth without spouting juvenile gibberish.

It's holistic.

Everybody's saying, I got to decide whether to drive to LA and here in California or have a food tonight.

I can't afford both.

You know, they're not talking about 9% wholesale prices, 11% wholesale price increase.

We're talking on key

stuff of life items gas 40 building materials 50 60 percent food 20 housing 40 cars 35 percent we've never seen in these key areas of what it is you know to live you know a lot of people say oh well you know paper hasn't gone up well who cares i mean you don't need paper or they always do that they look at little things that are not essential but when essential things to live people are saying to themselves, I have never seen anything like this.

I cannot believe it.

And I don't know if this system is going to work.

When they go into downtown LA or San Francisco here in California, and they look at the street and the homelessness and the excretement and the violence, they say, I cannot believe this.

When they read about people throwing people in the subway or killing people, and they think this person, before they even get to the end of the news, they say this person's obviously out on bail from a Soros prosecuting federal, local, state attorney.

And they're right.

So they think the whole civilization is collapsing, and they're going to take it out on the Democrats, and they should.

And Elon Musk knows that.

And he's saying basically,

you guys let me in and I'll reform you, or those Republicans are going to take the House and Senate.

And then this crazy world, who knows?

They could take 60 seats.

Everybody said that's impossible.

Nothing is impossible.

This is like the British at the Battle of, you know, after the defeat at Yorktown's playing the end of the world, right?

They don't,

anything is possible right now in the United States.

Anything.

And the left said, yes, anything is possible.

We're going to let criminals out.

We're going to print $5 trillion.

We're going to cancel student debt.

We're going to use race as the primary criteria to hire and retain people and admit them.

And the majority of American people are now saying, okay,

you Mr.

Corporate Boardroom, Mr.

LeBron James, Mr.

Professional Sports, Mr.

Hollywood, Mr.

Corporate Boardroom, Mr.

Wall Street, Mr.

Academic, Mr.

K through 12, you have all of the decks stacked against us.

But when we come in, we're ready for you this time.

And we come and vote in November, there's going to be a tsunami and we're not going to play by the Marcus of Queensbury rules anymore.

And I think they're terrified of this.

And they're ideologues, so they will not change.

Believe me, they will not change.

And you just reminded me when you were talking about our non-composment

president and our juvenile vice president that the third in line is Nancy Pelosi, and she's senile.

She's just, this is crazy.

I can't believe that our first, you know, the three people in line for the presidency are

not competent for the job, it would seem to me.

Why are you so nice today?

I mean, utterly unqualified.

I mean,

ask the audience right now.

We have thousands of people listening, and we have small business people,

we have high school principals,

we have

Uber drivers, we have everybody.

And would you hire Joe Biden if he came and said, I want to be an Uber driver for you, or I was a very distinguished classroom teacher.

I want to be a substitute.

Would you hire him?

No, you wouldn't.

He wouldn't be capable of even doing that.

No, Jill would drive up and drop it.

Jill would drop him off.

And then he would come in here and he'd say, they told me I'm supposed to talk to you.

They won't let me say this.

They won't do this.

And you wouldn't hire him.

And then with her, if you brought in Camilla Harris, you'd say, hmm, I run an insurance company.

I need somebody at the front desk.

And she said, front desk?

We love front desk.

It's a new front desk experience.

I've been a front desk person all my life.

The desk is in the front.

And I am a front desk person.

That's what she would say.

And you would say, man,

where did you come from?

What planet did you zoom in from?

We do not need you, Kamala.

Sorry.

You may have a lot of resumes.

You may have a padded CV.

You may check all of the gender and racial boxes, but I'm sorry.

You should go get a real job.

You're not going to be working for us.

And she can't get a real job.

These people are unemployable.

They are.

And that's why they're there where they are, because

we've stooped pretty low to have Joe Biden as president.

She makes Spiro Agnew look like a senior statesman.

Yeah,

that's for sure.

Okay, Victor, let's take a moment for some messages and then we'll be right back to talk a little bit about the Democratic Party.

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And Victor, I have our Democratic Party seems to be so crazy now compared to how they were 30 years ago on things like border security and defunding the police and even things like character assassination of judicial candidates like they did to Kavanaugh or accepting accusations of harassment without due process.

And I always remember Hirono saying, she has to be believed.

And anybody that there was.

Women, she said like this, women have to be believed.

And you're thinking, okay.

Tara Tara Reed, she called her mom that she was physically and digitally penetrated by Joe Biden.

And her mother called in on a talk show and mentioned that my daughter works for a very famous.

So there was some much more than there was nothing with Kavanaugh, but there was something there.

And then they asked her, women must be believed.

And of course not.

They never believed that.

That's just a complete abrogation of the due process in our system, which is anybody who listens to that has to be astounded by somebody saying that.

But you know, half the country is like, Yeah, that's that's cool with me.

That's what scares the bejebis out of me.

But what's scaring the bejebis out of the Democratic Party?

Well, I mean, what you're saying is if Joe Biden of 2022 talked to Joe Biden of 1990, remember good old Joe Biden from Scranton that wanted to put all the drug dealers in prison for life, wanted to close a border.

Remember Nancy Pelosi,

92, 96,

you know, Democratic Convention.

We've got to close those borders.

Those illegal aliens are hurting our union job.

They would call their former selves racists

and bigots.

And so the question we have is what happened to the Bill Clinton Democratic leadership?

And we can rule out one thing really quickly.

It wasn't because in the year 2016, 2018 or 2020, they hit upon a new, as they say they did, a new progressive paradigm.

Now we're going to be socialists.

Remember that news week?

We're all socialists now when Obama came in.

And that would mean that, hey, everybody wanted an open border.

They don't believe in borders.

That's why we're so popular.

Hey, the only way we're going to get a green revolution is to get that $6, $7, $8 gas.

We're on our way.

Everybody loves it.

They love that $7 gallon diesel fuel in California.

And then they thought, you know what?

They don't want pipelines.

They don't want Anwar.

They were tired of America, you know, puffing up their chest.

They loved the pride flag and Kabul and the gender studies program and then skedaddling out and turning over $80 billion in military equipment.

They love that almost as much as they did the woke.

So my point is, the agenda of this new Democratic Party is not.

It's not the catalyst.

It's not what's making them

reject their former self.

So, what is who is it?

Because they don't have any public support, they can only win when you know it's COVID lockdown, Donald Trump killed everybody, or Donald Trump is a Russian agent, or Donald Trump made up a lie about Hunter Biden's laptop.

It has to be a psychodrama, or something has to do it.

And so, the answer is: The Democratic Party became the party of the super, super rich.

Look at any zip code by income look at congressional district by income look at the forbes 400 any barometer you want the wealthiest people and the near wealthiest people and the upper upper middle class are that bi-coastal seattle to la jolla boston to miami elite they were the beneficiaries of globalization.

They had the global markets.

They were in insurance and law and media and academic affairs and investment.

And they made out like bandits and they just ridiculed the people.

And they're never subject to the consequences of their own ideology.

And they poured that global money.

I mean, this is the...

This is something we've never seen in the history of civilization, the staggering amounts of wealth.

And when you got Mark Zuckerberg pouring $419 million to warp the responsibility of state registrars in the 2020 election, our Silicon Valley general.

And in addition to that, they took over the institution.

They said, you know what?

Screw those deplorables.

We don't care about Latinos.

We don't care about African Americans.

There are subjects.

There are peasants.

There are serfs.

We control the narrative.

We took over the NBA, the NFL, Hollywood Academia, K through 12, corporate boardroom, Wall Street, foundations,

Silicon.

We control it all.

We can create fake consensus just by our levers of influence.

And in addition to that, they open the borders.

They open the borders wide open.

So the last 30 years, or now people came across, especially the last two years, there are almost 50 million people living in the United States, legal residents, not legal, some citizens, most not, who were not born in the United States.

And most of those people came in impoverished, without a high school diploma, without capital or skills, and were beholden to the Democratic Party.

And that was the other thing they did.

And now they think, hmm, we've got all the money.

We're the party of the rich.

We're the party of institutional control.

We change the demography.

But the polls show that everybody hates Biden's guts and they don't like Kamala Harris.

And we're going to get a tsunami in November.

Uh-oh, let's start indoctrinating the youth.

We read about it in 1984.

The Soviets were good at the North Koreans and the Chinese.

We're going to get little kids and we're going to start telling them that they're going to be the truth will make them free.

If they just get vaccinated at five and get their four boosters or whatever it will be soon, and they get set right with transgenderism and they get woke and they confess their white privileged sin, they will be good little leftists for us.

That's one of the things they're doing.

And the other is, you know,

we can't appeal to the people.

We're radical.

We'd rather be ideologically correct and lose than ideologically incorrect just to get power.

So we got to change the whole damn system.

Get rid of the check.

Get rid of the electoral college.

Get rid of the filibuster.

Get rid of the federal government, the state's rights to set individual balloting laws.

Get rid of 50 state union.

get rid of almost everything.

And maybe we can work the system that way, change the rule.

But you can see the common denominator.

They adopted a wealthy person's boutique socialism that made them feel so good about themselves because

they were never subject to the downside.

They don't care about $6 gas.

They don't care about going into downtown LA or Detroit.

They don't care about an African-American guy getting shot in the ghetto or a poor white guy out in the middle of nowhere on drugs from fentanyl coming across the border.

And they thought, why should I care?

I control all the institutions.

I got a big megaphone

and I've altered the demography.

I'm going to be the spokesman for the untrodden masses that I don't like and I don't want to be around, but they're useful idiots.

That's how they look at the poor.

But where does the specific agenda come from that is a pro-agenda?

I mean, you're talking about the things they don't care about that pop up, but things like

transgendered in a girls' swimming race or.

Yeah, but think of what I just said.

What are they going to talk about?

I just said, are they going to say, that border was wonderful?

You didn't like Keystone any better than I did.

Why did you ever think that we were going to follow content of our character from Martin Luther King Jr.

rather than color of our skin?

You know that color of our skin is everything.

So they had these agendas, protocols, policies that nobody wanted.

So then they thought, well, how do we scare people?

Because they don't like us.

They don't, they're common sense people.

Well, we're going to call them racist, but racism is sort of hard now because class distinctions are more important.

What did we, you know, Oprah's a victim, the Obama's a victim.

So let's get on to the new cause, transgenderism.

That is one quarter of 1% of the American people.

Well, we're going to turn it into a civil rights issue and call everybody racist and sexist and homophobes and transgender phobes.

And that's what they're doing.

And all of a sudden, with this crime spike, it's guns, Sammy.

It's not Soros DAs.

It's not defunding the police.

It's those damn guns.

It's not even guns.

It's what?

These orphan, shadow, weird guns that these white guys with beer bellies put together in their garage in Michigan.

Somehow these are killing thousands of innocent people of color in Chicago.

That's how desperate they are.

And it's radical abortion on demand.

That's another big thing they're into.

So they are looking looking for what they call wedge irrelevant issues.

And not that they're irrelevant per se, but right now at this time and space, they are irrelevant given the existential challenges we're having.

And they're intended to distract, is what you're talking about.

All those things that they're they do, though.

They have two ways of distraction.

Well, I mean, they have,

as I said, they have three ways of getting power.

Use that huge amount of globalized money and use the institutions to warp the way people think and import a different constituency.

And that has not been enough.

So they educate our children and indoctrinate them.

They try to change the institutions and that isn't enough.

Not this November.

This is a reckoning.

So now they are going to, they get in a room, Jin Saki and Ron Plain and Jill Biden, and they call in Michelle and Barack and Bernie and Elizabeth Warren and maybe

one of the more respectable, that's an oxymoron, one of the squad members.

And they say, okay, we've got to find a wedge issue.

January 6th insurrection.

And somebody says, ah, we drove that in the ground.

That thing is dying.

Donald Trump destroyed America.

He's polling higher than Joe Biden.

Genderphobia?

We've been, that's useful, but it's not enough.

So that's what they're doing right now.

How about, and then somebody says, well, I went to Harvard and I went to Yale Law School.

And my parents said it would be a good investment strategy strategy to take a loan out for a Yale law school for 200.

And I still owe it.

I'm not going to pay it off.

Maybe I can be forgiven.

Yeah, let's forgive student loans.

And that's what they're doing.

They're like a clock.

They're predictable.

Well, Victor, let's take a moment because I think you're right about the Democrats distracting the population.

Oh, I know.

I had one more question before we go to a break.

The social media then, since we were just talking about Elon Musk, really plays into this as well because they need to be able to stop people realizing the things they say are lies for example the desantis new law is a k through third grade law and they act like it's every it's all encompassing and i think

yeah don't don't say gay i'm i'm just like they just want to be able to stop anybody from showing the lies that they engage in to combat criticism of their various positions, I think.

And that social media seems to play the big role in that.

I mean, people who know that left-wing mind across time and space, whether it's Dofsyewski or George Orwell and Farewell to Catalonia or

some of the people who wrote about the Bolsheviks.

or Tocqueville, who wrote about democracy versus the alternative.

Everybody knows how that mind works.

It's based on the premise that the whole ideology is contrary to human nature.

Socialism is contrary to human nature.

And this Marxism is contrary to human nature.

And they know that.

So they have to use threats and force and all sorts of levers and tangents to distract people.

And that's what they do.

One of the things they're doing now is Vladimir Putin.

I mean, nobody dislikes Vladimir Putin more than I have.

Nobody wants the Ukrainians to win more than I do.

But the idea that Vladimir Putin caused inflation when the 70% of the current

impossible rise is horrific inflation was already there.

And you know it was already there.

We've said before because they had a whole vocabulary of excuses.

Remember, transitory, it's just a bunch of elites that didn't get their exercise equipment or.

it's Donald Trump's fraud.

That was all before Vladimir Putin.

Now Vladimir Putin, we forgot all about that.

It was all his fault.

He caused gas.

And so it's always finding some kind of a scapegoat because the ideology does not work.

It's not empirical.

It's not designed to give people a good living and give them freedom of expression and freedom from government and freedom.

and security and liberty.

It's just not.

It's too uncontrollable.

And these people across the ages are so predictable.

They're the wannabe intellectual, the wannabe great thinker, the privileged little person that somebody

pushed down in grade school and has been nursing his wounds ever since.

Whatever it is, these people, they're mean, little nasty people.

And

they've taken over the Democratic Party.

They sure have.

Yeah, they tried it with McGovern.

They came out of the woodwork and they drove that party in the ground.

And then they got...

Jimmy Carter after Watergate, Jimmy Carter was supposedly the remedy.

And then they took over the Carter administration.

And Reagan crushed them.

And then the Republicans for 12 years crushed them until Bill Clinton.

And the only reason that Bill Clinton won, he never won 51% of the vote was that he wasn't a Democrat.

I mean, he wasn't like them.

I mean, he might, deep down inside, he was, but he was smart enough to bring in Dick Morris and that.

James Carville and those guys.

And they, you know, it was, I'm going to be your president of school uniforms.

And remember, Sister Soldier, hey, sister soldier, I don't like racism and you're a racist, that kind of stuff.

And it worked.

Yeah.

Well, Victor, let's take a moment for some messages and come right back and we'll talk a little bit about Biden's inflation.

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We're back, and we know that inflation has been tough this year.

And I know, Victor, that you've been working on your house, so you've been to Home Depot a lot, at least, and noticed the prices.

And I was wondering wondering if the prices were getting any better, given that Biden is now telling us that inflation is starting to abate, or at least he seems to be claiming that.

No, it's not.

I've had some kind of self-contractor.

So I see things I cannot believe.

I mean, it's not just the big ticket items like a 1500 gallon cement septic tank, but it's fittings.

It's one inch elbows.

It's couplers and plumbing.

You know, it's a dimmer switch, a dimmer switch, 25 bucks.

And it's getting worse.

And when you get into certain things, you have to have.

I'm taking a little 600-acre old carriage house that my grandparents actually lived in, my great-great-grandparents lived in with animals.

I mean, that was partly a manger and partly the original house.

And then later it became a shop for tractors, then a garage.

I'm trying to make it into a nut, but you need one inch plywood.

One inch plywood, four by eight is about 100 bucks.

And it's not even good plywood.

When you go there, it's been picked over in the stacks at the lumber yards.

So it's not getting better.

And the gas is not going down very much.

If not, in California, not at all, really.

Diesel fuel still hovers around $7 a gallon.

And you look at a steak in the store and it's like gold.

And you go to some of these places,

the drugstores or the foods, and they have things locked up like you're in a prison dispensary and you're a convict or something.

And no, it's not getting better.

And they know it's not getting better.

And you get the feeling that they almost like it.

You know, it's like, ooh, you can't drive.

Ooh, too bad.

Can't drive your big monster truck at 20, 18 to 20 miles a gallon.

Isn't that too bad?

You might just have to bike or you might just, ooh, you can't get all your tools, can't get that snowmobile trailer.

You might just have to, you know, get a Tesla, get on a waiting list.

That's what Biden said.

You sound like Jen Saki.

You might have to be the speaker.

You might have to be the

metaphor for our time.

She really is.

She's the most heartless, cold person.

She really is.

And when she does not care, I mean, she's the person who talks about bringing back civility and calls Peter Doocy an SOB, basically.

So that's how they operate.

They operate.

I think everybody's wondering, well, Victor, you're a little bit too hard today, or or what happened to you?

Did you get too little sleep?

No, I'm just trying to be empirical.

And after spending a lifetime with these people in academia and in the media, I can tell you, I don't have the rhetorical gifts to describe what they're like.

And a lot of it's because of affluence and leisure.

They don't have any grounding with what it's like.

to go out there and work all day.

If you took any of these little journalists or these White House aides or these nasal-sounding social media lily pad people and you put them out digging a trench, yesterday I'm having trenches ducked because all of these buildings, these old barns and stuff and outbuildings have to be,

they can no longer be on the house power supply.

So I'm working with some guys that put trench.

They should try doing that.

They should try digging a trench through underground electrical wires and pipes and everything, and not break them to pieces or get electrocuted or whatever, and try to lay conduit.

And then they should, if they don't like it, they should go up 40 feet on top of a roof and nail shingles.

Or they should, you know, if they want to put a new septic system in, first they got to take sledgehammers and climb down in the old one and destroy them and get covered with, you know, what?

And just do that day in and day out.

Or I had a couple of guys doing insulation the other day.

And they should go up in an old attic and have sweeping that stuff out and then putting that stuff in day after day after day and try to live on what is paid and they're getting paid more than ever and these people have no empathy for them because if they had empathy you would hear jin sake or joe biden say you know what we got to do something.

We're all for alternative energy, but this is cruel what we're doing to people to make them pay that much.

So I'm going to open up Anwar and I'm going to restore Keystone.

And we're going to have to be a little bit more disciplined in federal spending.

And we got to get people back to work because the only way we're going to get out of this is productivity and supply.

We're going to create so much supply that inflation can't catch up with it.

The money can't.

So

get back to work.

No more.

But they can't do that.

They cannot do that.

Our politicians don't seem to remember that that's what most of the people they're representing do on a daily basis.

No, they're too isolated.

There's something sick about this globalized, snarky.

I'm in the right zip code.

You know, my Buffy kid went to Harvard.

I got an MBA from Yale.

I got a JD from Stanford.

I, you know, I've got this designer kitchen.

We go to Tuscany.

That's just creepy.

And it's not creepy because they're wealthy.

I have no problem with people, you know, enjoying the fruits of their hard labors.

It's creepy because it exudes kind of a disdain for what they call the deplorables, the irredeemables, the clingers, the dregs, the chumps, the crazy.

I'm just, again, repeating the Biden, Obama, McCain,

Hillary Clinton, Chilly Clinton vocabulary.

Yeah.

Look at all of them.

What do they have in common?

What's Mitt Romney?

They're all, you know, I voted for Mitt Romney.

And I wrote, I think he would have been a lot better than Barack Obama.

But that being said, I don't think I would say, and I'm a conservative, I wouldn't say, well, you know, I'm never going to reach 47 to 48% of Americans because they're on the book doll.

I know some people on the quote doll.

These are people who work their entire life.

And for good or evil, they have no savings.

And if they did, it's been eaten away this year by about 9%.

And they're on Social Security.

And you should try working, you know, you being.

Mitt Romney.

You get on a tractor every day and you make one mistake.

You drop a disc plate blade on your foot or you get off that tractor and you don't quite, you have a leaky PTO driven pump and you get a spray of paraquat in your eyes and you're out of commission and you're out of commission.

You're not going to get any money.

But they don't ever think of that.

They don't think in those concrete terms.

And so that was what was wrong with the Republican Party, but it's long now

with this wealthy, entitled, snobby, snarky Democratic Party.

Those people just get on.

Every once in a while, I look at MSNBC and it's always some multi-millionaire saying she's a victim of racism or sexism.

And I just imagine what she does.

She has any idea how she sounds to the majority of people.

Well, not very many people watch it, but to the few that do, I don't think she does.

Or Joe Biden, when he crunches up his face and he gets angry, like, you know, as I said earlier, you're walking on his lawn and he just, my biggest slatter is white supremacy, terrorism, white supremacist terror.

I I said, no, it's cronyism, beltway corruption, Biden mafia family grifting, quid pro quo Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden and his personal life is a metaphor for the excess in 21st century America, Joe.

That's what's wrong with this country.

It's not some guy in Michigan with, you know, deer horns on his bin and a, you know, 243 that he takes out and shoots.

He's not the enemy.

You are.

Yeah.

Okay, Victor.

That's all the time we have today.

I'd like to thank you, and I hope that our politicians wake up to their commoners' constituency.

I hope Elon Musk will be successful in his new endeavor and that the Democratic Party will remain out of touch.

Thank you for your wisdom today.

Thanks, everybody, for listening.

We deeply appreciate it.

This is Victor Davis Hansen and Sammy Wink, and we're signing off.