Why the Blue State Project Is Imploding Before Our Very Eyes | Victor Davis Hanson

As a leftist, that's typical because they pose as their egalitarian and worried about the poor and the people, but they're actually elite snobs that run the party. They always have been. Do you think that the Democrats are losing this fight? I think they are, but I'm not sure the American people think they are. Because there's no rationale to it. They want to defund the Department of Homeland Security, but it's already funded. They can't affect that. So they're hurting FEMA and TSA, and they want to make that connection to the people and saying, well, we're trying to protect you from ICE, but here at the airport, there's ICE. So the only thing they can really do to win popular support is start to protest ICE, where ICE is now at the airport. But they're handing out water. Everybody likes them. They're speeding along the lines, so they can't. I have this feeling that something's going to happen this weekend, some sort of ground forces. We've seen Trump moving ground forces. If he is going to open the straits of her moves, you can see these missiles are being aimed at the Emirates, Qatar, Israel, two or three salvoes. Well, they have these cluster munitions. So theoretically, they could shoot them right at a aircraft carrier or destroyer. So he's got to go have a sanitary corridor on the shore opposite the strait. And that would mean he'd put troops there, and they would have to go house to house or field to field and make sure there's not missiles, drones, speedboats with mines. And that would be a very difficult operation. He would say that that's not inserting ground troops on the war, that it would be more like putting ground troops to rescue Maduro, rescue, I mean, kidnap him. And it has a definite mission and a definite term. And then if he were to do that, he would think that he could back off, and he wouldn't even have to bomb very much anymore. He'd say, we'll just sit here and wait till they go broke. Politically, that's almost impossible to pull off. So that's why he's frustrated. That's why some days he says we're going to negotiate an end any minute or we're almost done. He says, give me more troops, come over. Hello, and welcome to Victor Davis Hansen in his own words. This is our Saturday edition where we do something a little bit different in the middle. Victor's going to be talking about the ancient goddess Hera today. So first we'll look at some continued news stories from our Friday news roundup. And so on deck we have the DHS news secretary has been appointed and then the airport disruptions of the TSA due to the shutdown in DC. So stay with us and we'll come back with those stories. If you enjoy Victor Davis Hansen, you might enjoy the Daily Signals flagship show, the Tony Kennett Cast. The same common sense perspectives you love weekdays at 7pm Eastern. 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So Victor, I just thought I would ask you a little bit if you have any thoughts on the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen and or Jimmy Kimmel's bad joke that ended with we have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now and I was wondering if you had thoughts on that derogatory statement. Yeah, Jimmy Kimmel, I mean, you could say so many things about that. As a leftist, that's typical because they pose as their egalitarian and worried about the poor and the people, but they're actually elite snobs that run the party. They always have been. Remember that guy for CNN, Mark Caputo, and he said he went to a Trump rally and he had more teeth than everybody in the audience. I thought that was cute. Then of course you get to the Klingers and the deplorables, the irredeemables, then Joe Biden, common man using the word garbage and chumps and dregs. They do that all the time. They can't help it. They have nothing but contempt for the middle classes. But Mark Wayne Mullen, first of all, as someone who lives in a 150-year-old home and has been on to the house a lot doing plumbing, every time I see a master plumber, they're like a heart surgeon. No, no, Victor. No, no, no, no. Long, not 4-inch, 3-inch here. Inch and a half is okay here. Pressure, hot water. They know everything. They're very skilled people. They're much more skilled than a psych major in high college. Then the second thing is he took that business and then he made a multimillion dollar. I think he has over 150 employees. It was at one time one of the largest plumbing supply companies in Oklahoma, I think. He was a businessman. He had four or five companies. Jimmy Kimmel's just ignorant. He's just so consumed with the fact that he thinks he's smart. He thinks only he knows what's wrong with the country and it's Trump. Nobody listens to him. He gets more and more desperate to find an audience. He's going to go the way of Colbert. They're not very funny people. They're boring. You hear the same thing every night. It's sad, but he represents that bi-coastal elites contempt for people who work with their hands or they don't have degrees, even though in many cases they're as successful or more successful than the so-called college educate. What these people don't understand is getting a BA from Stanford, I'm just taking the place where I work. In 1940, you really knew something. You really knew something. Getting a BA from there now, I mean there's remedial math, high school math they teach. Yale gives 98% A's. It doesn't mean anything anymore. They're not teaching real stuff except for math and engineering. It's not hard to graduate in college. It is hard to be a master electrician, a master plumber, a skilled sheet rocker, a really good woofer. Those are hard things to do besides a toil on your body. These people are dinosaurs or anachronisms. They don't understand what's going on right now. We have enough Jimmy Kimmel's in the world. We don't have enough good plumbers. Mark Mullin will probably show himself, Mark Wayne, sorry, Mullin will probably show himself to be very skilled at his upcoming job. He's had a lot. He's been in Congress for years and he's done a lot in business, Congress. He was a mixed martial arts guy for a while. He's got a very, very background which is good. Yeah, never hurts to be successful in business. Let's turn then to the airports and the disruption because the TSA agents are not being paid yet. We all know they'll get their back pay probably so that in the long run it's not going to be problematic, but it's still a problem for travelers who are stuck in these lines. I was wondering one thing on this whole showdown between the Democrats and the Republicans. Do you think that the Democrats are losing this fight? I think they are, but I'm not sure the American people think they are because there's no rationale to it. They want to defund the Department of Homeland Security, but it's already funded. They can't affect that. They're hurting FEMA and TSA and they want to make that connection to the people and saying, well, we're trying to protect you from ICE, but here at the airport there's ICE. The only thing they can really do to win popular support is start to protest ICE where ICE is now at the airport, but they're handing out water. Everybody likes them. They're speeding along the lines, so they can't. The problem is that they have a lunatic. I can't use the word base anymore. The base is expanded to the party and it's lunatic. It's not just Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. It's a squad and AOC and Jasmine, the soon to be ex-Congresswoman and they're not in touch with reality. You have Chuck Schumer who's this old stegosaurus that just mous- everything he says on conservative sites, Fox News, all they do is pull up something he said in the 1990s and he contradicts it completely. He believes him anymore. This is he's going to be gone pretty soon. Then there's Heikham Jeffries. He gyrates from really awful things he says, sometimes their foul mouth. He was hitting, practicing with a bat like he was going to club somebody during the prior shutdown. Then he said ICE will shoot people in the airport. There's something about him that he doesn't seem to be processed information when you look at him and somebody asked him a question. He looks like his eyes go blank, like his mind is blank and then it's like, oh, oh, what should I say? Then he's, it doesn't come out right. He's a very ineffectual leader and they were wise. They get rid of both of them. That's hurting them. Then the other thing is they go back to chaos theory. Elon Musk is going to windows. Let's go run Teslas off the road. Let's scratch them in parking lots. That's a firebomb Tesla. Donald Trump, he has a lot of executive order. Let's do no Kings. No Kings will just go out there and make all and they, they cause so much chaos. As I said, they think we're going to go into a fetal position. So the ISIS, this is the third shutdown that they have done and it's getting close. It'll get close to the longest, the 42 day one and all three of them have shut down a department of Homeland Security, but they have no, what do they want? They want, I mean, it's a federal agency. So these state governors and who say they're going to forbid ICE to do this, they can't. They're federal officers. I don't know that, I don't know what they want. They want, when you get an illegal alien who shoots somebody, they want to keep them here. I mean, they're so patently obvious now that three years ago, you would say they believe in the great replacement theory because they write books called Demography is Destiny and the New Democratic Majority and they destroyed the border to let in 12 million people who were in dire need or supposed dire need, housing, food, educational supplements, supplemental income and then they wanted to grow the bureaucratic welfare state. And now if you say that, everybody goes, yep, that's right. That's not controversial. That's not racist. That's what they do because they say it. And then the other thing is their protection of illegal aliens, when they couldn't stand up in Congress, when Trump asked them, you know, who do you prefer? Them or citizens? They don't prefer citizens because they think that illegal aliens are a more left wing than citizens. So they prefer them and they don't, they're not, they don't mind if they're violent. They don't mind at all. That's collateral damage. So when Lincoln Riley or this poor girl in Chicago was shot, that's acceptable for them and that's why they say wrong place and wrong time or that Mayor Johnson, who is the worst mayor in the history of Chicago, going all the way back to the gang killings, he stands there and an illegal alien who had been let out, had not been deported, had tuberculosis and may or may not have been out killing somebody so he could join the trend gang, shoots and kills this innocent girl who runs, he shoots her in the back. So it's got all of the classic symptoms of a cowly despicable act and he can't even talk about it very much. And then he says, and we're not going to let this affect our concern for every, every, he said all, every all illegal, does this mean all the criminals that just happened? And then he's speaking with a garbage truck that has abolish ice on it. He's the mayor, he's a complete buffoon and he's just had this huge riot. It's all over the internet and it's on news where dozens, if not hundreds of black teenage youths have gone through the million dollar mile and just swarm things and beat people up and looted on control. And you think given that and the murders every weekend that he would say there is a crime problem among black youth and we're going to address it. And he's not, he's just blame, all he can do is blame white people and call people racist why the city goes bankrupt. I'm really worried about Chicago. It was, you know, Carl Sandberg Chicago was the second biggest place in the country. It's going the way of LA. We're going to lose two big cities, Los Angeles and Chicago in the sense that their downtown area is going to be uninhabitable. And unless you get rid of this paradigm of a blue DEI mayor pandering to DEI constituents, promising them more stuff and more stuff and then we get the corrupt, the Somali corruption now California corruption. It all has the same thing. Democratic operatives, Democratic officials turn over billions of dollars to crooked NGOs or whatever aid societies or bureaucracies that don't serve the people who need it and up scorn with the funds. And then if you say this is wrong, oh, you're making fun of the Somali community or you're making fun of the Latino community in LA. No, you're not. And that's, and that's a way, and then they say, we've got to raise taxes. Washington's got to raise taxes. Chicago's got to raise taxes. So everybody's leaving that can leave. That's not tied to a, you know, a business or something. And I've never seen anything like it in this country that the whole blue paradigm, the whole blue state project is imploding before our very eyes. And these were the most picturesque, most beautiful places in the world. You know, Chicago was a beautiful city. So was Seattle, so was Portland. They've destroyed them. San Francisco may be the best of all. Yeah. And LA has already, just FYI, LA has already, its downtown is already uninhabited and uninhabitable. And now it's got the destruction of the. I used to go down to LA a lot to speak downtown to one of the downtown clubs, the Jonathan Club, Capitol Club. And you had to time your drive carefully. It was like bumper to bumper. The sidewalks were full of well-dressed people, you know, and that was this 1990s to 2010 renaissance where you had these new skyscrapers and everybody was bragging that LA finally had a downtown. It wasn't just spread. It was beautiful buildings. You had Wilshire area, Rodeo, all this stuff. And then I think it was three years ago, it drove down there and I thought, oh, oh, I'm back going down there. There was nobody there. It was just zoomed right in. And then when I parked at the hotel, I could see why there was no one there. You had canteens selling. There was all the stores were closed, but you had canteens, black market probably. And then you had homeless people everywhere. And then you had to, you look at the parks and there's all these thugs in them. And all the storefronts had windows broken and were boarded up. And then the high-vices, like, I'm not talking about the ground floor, five, six, ten floor, have graffiti all over. They destroyed it. Karen Bass, more than anyone, destroyed it, but Villa Rossa did too. And at some point, people are going to say, they're going to be like my senior tyrants. They're going to be mysenian deserted cities. And everybody's going to go, what were these things? Who destroyed them? Were they Sea Peoples? Were they Dadorians? Somebody came in here and destroyed all these beautiful cities. Where are the people? Well, they destroyed themselves. Omega Man, Victor. Love that movie. One of my favorites. All right. I would like to welcome back a sponsor, Pure Health Research. 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Well, there was never any chance that you could negotiate with them because nothing they say or do can be verified. They never tell the truth. They just said that sent out a missile that could have gone 2,500 miles. They said they don't have missiles over 2,000. They just disclosed they had enough fissionable material which supposedly didn't exist to make immediately 11 bombs. They said they didn't kill 35,000. They're killing them as I speak right now. So you can't deal with that regime unless it's completely defeated. It's like you can deal with the Tojo militarists in Japan. You can deal with Hitler if they're defeated, but you can't ever negotiate with them because lying is their brand. So then the question is who's winning? Well, they think that they can take an enormous amount of punishment to their military assets and their power, their water, their sewage, their communications will be untouched because they think we believe that the people will rise up and we don't want to hurt the people by taking away their daily sustenance. And so that's what the Ropadope is. In addition to that, they believe that Donald Trump is under pressure from the midterms coming up in seven months, from the Europeans and the Japanese and the Western world about the economy and his MAGA base. If I had said six months ago, Tucker Carlson who was at the White House or Marlago all the time or Megan Kelly or even Candace Owen would be Personae Nongrata. But there's a breach there and it's getting bigger. We don't know how big that ultra MAGA is, to quote Joe Biden, is, but it's something that in a narrow election might matter, especially in the midterms of getting out the vote. So that's what Iran is thinking. Trump is thinking, I have destroyed probably a trillion dollars of munition. They can't rearm for 10 years. And I did a big favor for the Israelis. I need to get out of here because I have different agendas than the Israelis do. My agendas were enunciated as stop the missiles A, B, get rid of the nuclear materials so they can't make a bomb, C, stop the subsidies for their Pterus proxy, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, or destroy them. And that's pretty much done. And D, protect the Gulf monarchies and don't let them be the radical influence they were in the Middle East. He's more or less accomplished that. And then there's a little asterisk. And people said, but that's fine and good, Mr. Trump, but it's not set in stone unless you change the regime. So now he's starting to think, yeah, he believes that. But then he has Nancy Mays and he's got all the Rand Paul, all these other people and say, you promised no ground troops. You said we're going to get out of it because they're all up for reelection or up for office. And so he knows what he has to do. If he really wants to stop the war, he has to take an enormous risk. And that would be going into Carg Island, which is not as risky as it's not the mainland. But they know it's sort of like part of half of Manhattan. It's got about eight miles. It's big. And it's probably been mined. It's got labyrinth like Hamas underground facilities. It's got drone coverage. We would lose a lot of soldiers probably. But that would stop all of their oil revenue and that would starve them very quickly. And then two, if he is going to open the Straits of Hormuz, you can see these missiles are being aimed at the Emirates, Qatar, Israel, two or three salvoes. Well, they have these cluster munitions. So theoretically, they could shoot them right at a aircraft carrier or a destroyer. So he's got to go have a sanitary corridor on the shore opposite the Strait. And that would mean he puts troops there and they would have to go house to house or field to field and make sure there's not missiles, drones, speedboats with mines. And that would be a very difficult operation. He would say that that's not inserting ground troops on the war, that it would be more like putting ground troops to rescue Maduro, rescue, I mean, kidnap him. And it has a definite mission and a definite term. And then if he were to do that, he would think that he could back off and he wouldn't even have to bomb very much anymore. He'd say, we'll just sit here and wait till they go broke. And then they'll, they will go broke and the people will take over. But politically, that's almost impossible to pull off. So that's why he's frustrated. That's why some days he says, we're going to negotiate an end any minute or we're almost done. Some days he says, give me more troops, come over. Well, let's then turn back to the Gorman murder in Chicago because I know we talked about it on the Friday news roundup, but a few things have popped up since. And one of them is the school newspaper at Loyola University apologized for using the term illegal immigrant, even however accurate that term is. And I was wondering if you had thoughts on that. And then also I'll just lay it out. The tuberculosis that the assailant has, there seems to be an epidemic reoccurring in the world of tuberculosis. I know that for a fact. And then the third thing is what do you make of Rod Blagovich who said, I've been in prison for eight years before he's not currently in prison. He said, I could see this easily being and killing to initiate into a gang. And I was wondering any of it or all of it. Well, that was the, the first that he wanted to be in the trend gang. And he just put his hoodie on and his black clothing and just sat out there waiting for somebody to stroll up here and then shoot them. Why he was ever here, I don't know. He should have been deported. Then he should, he was a shoplifter. He's a murderer. He destroyed this family, the whole family by killing this wonderful girl. And the mayor, Johnson doesn't really care. And Pritzker, all he wanted to do is wait four days so he could figure a way out to blame Trump. They let in 12 million people and then Trump's fine to find the 500,000 criminals. And he says, well, the fact that you haven't found them means it's your fault. It's the most absurd thing I'd ever heard. And then when you look at the scot, then you look at the sick left wing mind of all these people, these Democrats and these leftists. So the school newspaper is more worried about the word illegal alien, which is the IRS uses it, the Supreme Court uses it. It's the only accurate term. Are they aliens? A, alpha privative in Greek or Latin and, you know, Leon, place. Not of this place, yes, alien. And are they illegal? Not, they don't have lex on their side. That's where the word comes. Yes. So what's the problem? Undocumented immigrant doesn't tell you anything. It just says they're an immigrant and they don't have their, oh, this guy was coming in from Venezuela and he left his passport and documents in his car in Venezuela. So now he's undocumented. No, he deliberately came in without documents. He never had documents. He never wanted documents. He's illegally here. He entered illegally. He's residing illegally. When these papers do that, this university academic left-wing mind does that. It just shows you how absolutely and utterly callous they are. It's the same style. I mentioned before, it's a Stalinist idea to make a socialist omelet. You got to break some eggs. And so you can get a Democrat. My, literally a Democrat in the back room would say, well, you know what? I didn't say we're not going to mess up some people's hair when we let in 12 million people without audit. But the fact is they're here and there are constituents and they're going to be voting under mail in Valin. And it's going to do cosmic good for the poor. And if you have to lose a few people, it's not going to be us. We live in safe neighborhoods. We have security details. But if she's in the wrong place in the wrong time, as we were told, then things happen. That's how evil these people are. And I don't know how you deal with them. It's so, it gives them a high to think that they're liberal and caring and magnanimous as long as it doesn't affect them at somebody else's expense. Yes, but their use of language seems very detached from reality. So we could look back at all of their use of the term. What George Orwell said. Yes, that their terms racist or no Kings rally when you have an elected president. I mean, it's completely detached from any real world thing. So there's something wrong with them. Not an aggression because they can't find any racial aggression. So they have to come up with a word micro, micro because they can't detect it otherwise. So trigger warning, what does that mean? A trigger warning. Pull, you have to pull the trigger on Mark Twain so people will know not to read it. Is that what it is? Or you're, you know, safe spaces. What does that mean? A segregated place by race in a university. And what is a micro aggression means? It means a complete fabrication or excuse to call somebody a racist. And do you think though that the human, it's human nature really to seek out things or people or in this case, people who use vocabulary that really reflect reality and to reject people who are living in sort of a delusional or hazy world where they can't decide what words mean here and there. Yeah, I think that's why people were not offended by Donald Trump because he would, you know, I'll give you an example. Robert Mueller really used the law in a very vicious way when he was in Boston and he destroyed Carter pages. That Mueller investigate, they were evil. So Trump said he's glad he's dead and he can't hurt anymore people. Everybody went outraged and they said he was a fine public servant. But Trump was actually closer, Trump was cruder than the left and you shouldn't speak ill of the dead and he did and that's regrettable. But he was accurate when he said he can't hurt anymore people. He hurt a lot of people by intent and so people appreciated that Trump was blunt because they never hear it from politicians. It's always euphemisms or sugar coated or misdirection in their speech and you know, it's like Latinx. Has anybody ever seen anybody who's Latinx? I live in a community of 85 to 95% Mexican Americans. I've been everywhere with them. I have never seen one, heard one person say Latinx. That's a wealthy white academic world. Well I hope, I guess the elections will tell us, right? If human nature is inclined to people who have a attachment to a real world and are talking about a real world rather than a real world. You would expect but there's so many variables in the election. Because human nature has another aspect that after about two years everything fresh seems old so they think, I want to vote for Donald Trump. I'm so sick of Biden, Harris. Now I see Trump. Now I want to go to get something. So the president's almost an 85% of the cases lose the midterms and then there's a question of women very lucky about this Save America Act, the Save Act because it shows you what these people really believe. When you have 85% of the Americans and about 75% of Democrats and minorities saying they want IDs and you have these Democrats in Congress that won't do it then you can see why they won't do it because when you bring in 12 million people illegally and you register anybody who shows up at the DMV and they get a special exemption on their license then they get mail ballots and there's no ID then you can see what happens and that's what they won't give up because they have no confidence in their agenda. They do have a lot of confidence in registering people who shouldn't be registered and getting out of the vote and so that's a human propensity too and I don't know how you stop that other than you require everybody to show up at the polls and pull out an ID and show it and then you have all of these white liberals and black elites who are so condescending and say oh you're going to suppress minority as if they just they sound like Gavin Newman making fun of black people. I mean it seems to me like every time I go into local supermarket when I see somebody asking for cigarettes they ask for an ID and they ask for IDs. They've asked me for an ID at 70 years old and I look 80. So the point is they have to have an ID but I guess in the Democratic standard of value that what would you do if you said you don't have to show an ID for buying beer or I don't know buying cigarettes would they be for that? No they're always asking for IDs for people. They want the government to regulate it. So they and their way of thinking going to a bar or drinking is a lot more dangerous or needs to be regulated more and it's more important than voting. Voting is just a way to get us in power so we're just going to water it down. Then they have to lie about it as they do and say that black people can't register. Anybody can go on the internet and you can get a certificate in two seconds and then you have a real ID. You're supposed to only have a license that's guaranteed by the federal government not just the states and they have to follow federal government protocols that says you need a birth certificate or a passport and I look at the airports and they seem to be pretty full. So either that everybody has an ID or illegals are coming in and using their Venezuela or Salvador passport. All right Victor so before we go to break another break let's I just have one last thing. Did you see that John Brennan the former CIA director? Someone is going to say don't get on John Brennan you beat that horse to death. Speaking of delusional things he said on a talk show I believe Iran more than I believe Trump. Well we don't care what he says because he is a pathological liar. He went into the Senate under oath and was asked by Dianne Feinstein and other senators did you as CIA director order that our Senate staff computers should be tapped and he said no I did not. And then he came in again to a congressional committee and they said is there collateral damage are we killing civilians on these 500 predator CIA target assassinations on the Pakistani Afghan no there were 500 of them and then they called him back and then they said well we should get him for perjury they didn't and so he was a known liar then you think that he would be totally discredited. 2020 comes up laptop guys he sees his laptop Hunter being Hunter is so high leaves a laptop he's got the Hunter's name on it he looks at it and oh my gosh and so he calls he makes a copy calls the FBI they take a thing they try to hide it which they do they verify it but they don't tell us and then Biden thinks oh my gosh what are we going to do and then his future secretary of state probably is the other staff they say we got a we've got a solution we'll call up old Mike Morale at the CIA he's a good liar and he'll round up the usual suspects and that will be John Brennan and Leon Panetta and James Clapper and they'll all swear that this has all the hallmarks of a Russian but we got to be very careful because we know they're going to lie and we know that it's a thingy because the FBI has leaked it so we'll use the word information it has all the hallmarks of a Russian information operation so if they say disinformation we can say well we said it was information just providing more information and so it was all a bonus but and then we had a poll that said would you have changed your vote if you had known that Hunter Biden in his laptop was talking about the big guy in 10% and theft by the Biden family and lying and he was a cokehead and porn auger yes I would have changed my vote so that was it worked and he was at the source of that that con too so now he comes out of the woodwork and you know it's very funny with the left they say you guys are using law fair you're going after Brennan and Ltd they're not very good at it they're not doing what the left did I mean they put Trump in four civil criminal courtrooms in one big lawsuit five courtrooms and they coordinated them all and they impeached him twice and they tried to get him off the ballot but it's it's amazing that these people are still after all Comey James Comey was asked 245 times questions he said I don't remember I can't remember I don't know he just flat out lied under oath John Brennan lied under oath James Clapper said uh well I uh has the NSA spied on American citizen uh no they have not everybody knew he was lying so they get the data they brought him coming back in they said you just lied under oath to us I did it for the national security and I gave the least untruthful answer and they didn't do anything to him yes they didn't do anything to him so they're all getting away with it and even recently Comey has been in testifying and he's still nobody's on the jail yes and I'll tell you a rule in Washington about these people if you commit a crime or break a statute and you get away with it like Clapper Comey Comey was really the instigator of the whole Washington collusion he was the man on the ground that did it all then you get empowered and your attitude is if I can get away with this big crime and they're afraid to indict me or I can get a Washington or New York jury to equip me and they know that then I can do anything I want so I'm gonna mouth off even more so Comey now is back in the news mouthing off Clapper is back in the news he called he called Trump a Russian asset a traitor Brennan now is back in the news they're all back in the news because they think there's no consequence even the generals youth when Trump was president all of them McChrystal said that he was a liar macafer said that he was Mussolini Mattis said that it was Trump was like the Nazis on the other side of the D-Day Beach McRaven said he should be removed soon as soon or then later from office I could go Haydn said that he was like the architects of Auschwitz all of them said it but nothing happened to them nobody enforced the code of military justice so then when Biden came in they knew they all started and now they're doing it again and so you know oh yes very famous thing what Rousseau said in Candide about Admiral Bing the English have this peculiar custom every once in a while they hang an admiral for in courage to encourage the others Admiral Bing was pretty much innocent but he came late I think it was it was in Amsterdam or the Dutch campaign I'm not sure and they just said well we better hang him and they said well Admiral Bing's a nice guy and he didn't didn't do as nearly as bad thing yeah but we haven't hung somebody a long time and that'll encourage the other yeah and still that hasn't been done but we could go on this subject I'm sure a much longer we better take a break and then come back and talk about the ancient great gods and this this Saturday we'll talk about Hera so stay with us and we'll be right back hey I'm Bradley Devlin and just like you 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gods versus the Christian idea of monotheism and about everybody in the seminar I got really angry oh what are you talking about you right wing nut polytheism is much better you get more gods you get much more interesting gods they have sex they do that was and it makes the Greeks look so much more confident that their gods are no better than people famous line in Euripides Bacchai when at one point Cadmus they killed Penteas and Cadmus and Tyrosius say to Dionysus men should be better than gods god should be better than men excuse me because Dionysus being an insecure horrific god kills Penteas for being arrogant he says you should be better than men and that was what anyway so the thing to remember about the Greek gods is they they represent historical processes all of these names Zeus Hera Athena are on linear B tablets of the Mycenaean period from 1800 to 1200 so all of those tholos tombs those big citadels that Tyran those were Greek speaking people with these gods we don't know anything about them gods because they would they didn't have a literature we don't know whether Kronos and Rea the first generation were there and they were on there too and then you had this devastating phenomenon where all of the Mycenaean citadels within about 70 years were destroyed whether both the Dorians the sea peoples of course climate change is now a cult cult explanation or whatever the cause was then you had a dark ages so now you have the ingredients for mythology then civilization comes back around 800 bc under very different auspices the Greek city state and they use a very different alphabet the Phoenician adopted alpha beta gamma not the pictographs syllabic though they were and then in this dark age people series people saw the Mycenaean the ability of Mycenaeans to build these wonderful things and population when they crashed dropped by 90% and people were not farming as much they were at herdsmen and there were no city states and they were impoverished and there was no literature Mycenaeans were at least some of them were literate that linear B was lost and so in that oral culture oral bards like Homer started to sing about these wonderful tales that they're great great great great grandfather who was a Mycenaean had told them the Mycenaean they had gone to a citadel in Asia, Troy they had fought thebes but these were probably factual actual events but in that caldron of 400 years they were exaggerated generation by generation and it was this period in which those names on the mid linear B became the new gods of the stories started to occur that Zeus had a thunderbolt or Poseidon was responsible for earthquakes so those gods were formalized and then when the city state came in and people could write then these stories and Homer and Hesiod were written down and we had the the official pantheon of 12 Olympian gods and you know it it's sort of like what's going to happen to us someday well I only feel like I'm in the dark ages when I go by the California aqueduct on the way to Stanford and I see that beautiful aqueduct and I see the San Luis project and then I I see that we can't the high speed rail for 15 years who were these people who were these Mycenaeans wow look at this dam look at this aqueduct we couldn't do that today and then I was just reading about the part the animal parkway that it's I think it's 50 feet oh it's 200 feet long excuse me and it's taken four years it's going to take five years 115 million dollars to let bobcats and bobcats and lie mountain lions coyotes so they won't get run over so they can go in these upscale homes backyard and kill their cats and pets you know it's from the more rural area to the suburbs but my point is it's taken them already four years for this little 200 and they built the entire I think it's 5 000 feet golden gate bridge in the depression in four years and they built the 23 000 foot bay bridge same time started the same year four years so you go by the I think we're going to go by the golden gate and say who are you people how do they do this maybe you better take pictures of it so we can build this animal ridge because we don't know how to do it anymore and that's where we are but that's that's how you create myths and you would say these people were mythical and so after the cataclysm and most of these gods had they were explicatory gods they explained natural phenomenon if you heard a tidal wave or you saw a tidal wave or you saw a thunder lightning you had to explain that and it would say Zeus is mad and he's hitting the mountains with lightning or we were wrecked by Poseidon because we didn't sacrifice to him or my husband left me because Hera was goddess of the household and marriage and this stable female as opposed to the asexual Athena who was warlike and the very sexual Aphrodite goddess of love but her role was and these replicated what people in their daily lives did so in this male dominated society Zeus is very promiscuous he fathers all these illegitimate gods and half gods and Hera is always jealous and when people say how do you know that victor because there is no nothing in the the early Greek mythology texts say there are written handbook of Greek mythology we just look it up you have to piece it together from poetry the Iliad the Odyssey Hezias works in days and Theogony but she represents then the Greek idea of the perfect housewife and protector of the house and realm and reputation and people worship her not as widely as Zeus but she had three all of these gods appealed to different people in Greece different city states based on their region whether that whether by the sea or their inland where they grow olives or whatever and so her cult is most prominent on the island of Samoth there's a huge harem one of the biggest temples one of the first ones and then there was a Argyve harem at Argos really you can go there today it's out in the country but that was a regional worship the Argyves built it she was the patron saint of the city state of Argos and then Sparta Sparta really thought because they really championed women and they felt that they you know they had Artemis was one of their patron gods but Hera had a prominent place because they they felt that men were away for so long and fighting and you needed somebody to hold down the home front and so people would pray to her keep the family stable these gods names originally then they came out of Indo-European they meant something so Zeus is cognate to I think it's Sanskrit Dios and that when you when you decline the word Zeus the nominative is Zeus sometimes you can say Zenos for the genitive case but the genitive is Dio D I delta Iota or Omaga Omega Sigma and that means light bearing the light god in an Indian and Sanskrit and so Hera people don't know what that word means there's so many different ways they think it might be hero she's heroic or but nobody's ever been able to take a Greek word that sounds like Hera and say this is what her original task was in a way that they can with other gods do do these do these gods ever the belief in these gods ever move people do we have any evidence like in a play or something the you know Hera got angry there for all the women went out and you know tried to stop them in from doing something or something like that did where they moved in mass by the gods I mean I could see in their private lives where they think you know I want a strong household I'm going to pay attention to worshiping Hera carefully and what she wants right but you know do we have mass yeah you do I mean look at look at a Rupiti's Bacchai when they reject Dionysus coming into Biosha and Thebes then they pay a terrible price and then when Katma says you should be better than men and you're not he says then you basically should worship us so the problem is by the fifth century when these plays of Sophocles Escalus and Euripides or Peron the gods are just all of the tales of the gods are like stock characters or like Star Trek you know Captain Spock Spock Captain Kirk and then you you make you can change them you can any contemporary thing birth control put Captain Kirk on a planet and talk about getting somebody pregnant murder you know go to a different planet and see what their law so that's what they did they took these god these tales about 30 of them and then they rework contemporary themes into their mouths so one of the themes of the fifth century is a lot of people didn't believe him anymore so the gods were angry about that or they were inadequate sometimes they don't always appear you know Escalus was the first generation of the fifth century so he's more devout and his his or more using the gods to reflect morality and laws that can't be changed and the gods are more humane and just justice of Zeus by the time you get to Euripides they're not necessarily worthy of worship but you also at this time have people the Socratic movement and Platonism the Epicureans the Stoics and the Aristotelians and and they talk about the prime mover or the one god or they believe in trans crime trans migration of souls kind of like reincarnation or the Pythagoreans so there's a whole bit of there's a whole group of sex sects that are arguing for monotheism and the gods themselves and become institu- mostly they're institutionalized so when you go to Athens their patron god is Athena so if you go up to the aquapolis you see the Parthenon that's Athena Parthenos they all have subtitles so aspects of the worship so when you go into the Parthenon you are worshiping Athena the Virgin who never married chased smart if you want to go outside the Parthenon and you can if you go there you can still see the Stylobate for that huge they had a 60 foot statue of Athena and with a bronze spear you could see it all the way out it from Aegon out in the Aegean she was Athena Pro-Makos Athena the war the the military protector of Athens and then she was also Athena Pro-Polis a protector of the of the civic sense of the city and so they all each different city-state there's 1500 of them would pick a particular god or gods and then they would have a particular aspect and they would put that apopet after them and then they had all of these mythological tales that they would enact out on stage or they would have blind vards who were illiterate that had memorized these tales through the dark ages we find them fascinating because there's if you add the Roman Rome was captivated by the Greek gods and renamed them you know Zeus becomes Jupiter and Hera becomes Juno etc but when you add the Roman mythologies to the Greek gods and Rome picks up some indigenous Italian agrarians to a myth that are not Olympian at all then you get a very rich tapestry of all these different stories they all have morals to them and the gods are very intimate you know in the Christian sense it's it's very striking for the first time to read the New Testament see that Jesus says he will rise again and three days and he's there for four that doesn't I mean that's commonplace that you'll be walking out in the country and a god Hermes will see you but he'll be disguised as and how you treat him do you offer him food as a traveler he's a god of travelers as well as a messenger god so so it sounds like maybe this is a subject for another time that the fifth century was a time of obviously flourishing of ideas in a free society Greece or as free as it can get but it also was important to monotheism because some of the central ideas of monotheism came out of that I think they're in fourth century the piety of the fifth century and their traditional religion that had been codified when this city-state arose say 800 you're now 300 years later their degree of piety and observance was kind of comparable to America so on Easter how many American families realized that it's the resurrection and there's an Easter Sunday versus Easter egg hunt and bunnies right and same thing with Christmas you ask I if I watch Fox and I see so-called Johnny on the beach asking people questions and they have an IQ I shouldn't say IQ but they have a they have a degree of knowledge it's like a third grader in 1950 truly and if you were to ask them what is Christmas or Easter they wouldn't know because we have mass scale disbelief agnosticism atheism there is a Christian Renaissance going on but that's kind of what the fifth century was like person might go out in the battlefield and cut the throat of a goat and sacrifice him to Aries the war god but he did that because you were supposed to do that you know he didn't really believe that Aries then would come down the battlefield fight beside you or make you a godlike to kill the enemy all right Victor let's go to a break and then come back for some more stories or more news stay with us and we'll be right back since the founding of America 250 years ago many things have changed but some things never do the commitment of husband and wife the importance of passing along our values to our children the faithfulness of god some wonder how we can ensure America will continue to thrive as long as we keep first things first we've only just begun America the beautiful welcome back Victor Davis Hansen in his own words so Victor I wanted to look at the protesters in Philadelphia they're protesting the war and we we see this you know quite often that there's a war going on the US is involved we have protesters they want the US to be out of the war they want to protect the soldiers from getting into a weight useless war that's the type of protests we're used to but these protesters are different they're yelling things like we cheer on um well actually better say it the way they did for every soldier brought back in a casket we cheer so they are happy that the soldier has been killed and they also are yelling us to its knees this is a very strange protest yeah what would we what would our grandparents my parents and people listening to me many of your grandparents and great parents what would you do if let's say I don't know right when okinawa was being fought you had Americans saying go tojo and kill more Americans in times square or something they wouldn't have put up for that so yes free speech but it doesn't nobody has a right I looked at the crowd I would say it's 50% can't use the word Karen but 50% democratic useful idiots students and stuff 50% Middle Easterners probably with a large component that are here on work permits tourist visas and especially student visas but the left keeps saying they have rights they have rights yeah if they commit a crime they're accorded the all the protections of the constitution they can say whatever they want however they don't have to be here that's a guest you don't have to give them any you don't have to give any reason you just said I don't want that person and so why do we they can just say you know what we just we thought about it in that visa we kind of changed our mind you're you're undermining morale you're causing grief and discomfort for families of the of the deceased you don't like this country if you hate the country you want Iran which is a medieval theocracy to win and kill Americans so why don't you just go back to Jordan or Morocco or whatever you want to go just go back we no hard feelings but get out and I think there's going to be a lot of people that comes from Philadelphia at the same time that was going on their DA is it Larry Krasner he gave some kind of wow it was kind of like an on-hinge rant at the airport saying that he was pointing I think he was in an airport he was pointing to ICE people and they were trying to help trying to get all these lines and I want to tell you if there's any of you people and you do anything I'm going after you and I'm gonna we got a long and you're gonna be subject to the rules of Philadelphia no that's not right Mr. Krasner I mean if they commit a felony obviously as a private citizen but you can't go in and arrest them for things they do at work they are federal employees and you should know that under federalism and that city seems unhinged it really does well they're all unhinged all these blue cities these great cities it's really sad do we have any um similar times in history I mean for example was it is it any some is it similar to the Vietnam protesters who were taking the side of the it's very similar and they paid a big price Jane Fondo was completely disgraced until 20 years ago excuse me 40 years ago she's 88 well when she was about 40 48 almost 50 I would say around 1983 or 4 she wisely apologized she didn't mean it but she apologized to veterans and then she started doing exercise videos she was kind of the first person who said you could do a video and people would watch it and she would go you know she would do all of these leg lifts and jump or jumping jacks and say oh oh three more come on girls that kind of stuff and she she mainstreamed but she went to Vietnam and got on an aircraft anti-aircraft battery and posed with a Vietnamese helmet and as if she wanted to shoot down American pilots and that was really uh uh when I was at UC Santa Cruz in 1971 the war was mostly over on the ground but there was a Cambodian invasion I think the next spring and it was Ho Chi men and you know they they always chanted Ho Chi men they loved Ho Chi men and it was always hey hey I remember I just used to listen to him from my hey hey lbj how many babies did you bomb today kill today yeah and there was country Joe and the mcdonald and the fish all that stuff it was all pro they got the biggest shock on our life a lot of leptis journalists said we were so sick of the lives of the americans we're going to stay here when the wonderful north vietnamese come in so they came in on highway one and the first thing they saw they roughed up all the south vietnamese and a million people just took off and got on boats and the next thing they knew Cambodia was taken the Khmer Rouge started taking they killed over two million people they just sent every intellectual anybody with glasses anybody with western out in this countryside to starve and then you had vietnam vietnam fighting china and it was just exactly what everybody said they said I guess that we said at that point and we had about 80 000 refugees coming into Fresno and it was the communists were just butchering people re-education camps butchering driving them out yeah I think that these modern protesters though the one thing that's maybe a little different is there was nobody in during the vietnam era saying we want our soldiers to come home dead yeah there were there were wow okay absolutely sds what do you think the simonese liberation was like that's true what do you think the weathermen were what do you think bill airs was doing yeah the difference is are these people blowing up draft centers and are they blowing up police stations because that's what they did in the 60s there was a bomb in 1970 a bombing about every week 50 or 60 a year more yeah and I I'd listen to it because you see you see sanikus had just opened my agrarian father thought it would be a really cheap place to put three kids in the same place no tuition in those days we could rent a house together or something so we all went there and it was like there's a nightmare it had really good faculty I learned a lot but the campus life was like living in Moscow you know it was just crazy absolutely crazy and that it was hate america I sat in a greek a greek history class where they came in and overturned all the chairs and it was to moratorium because we had gone into camp bomb cambody or something and a couple of us said we're not leaving and then mr. spaghetti arms started to confront there was one guy with me there's three of us who wouldn't leave and he was a penitentiary three years in the south carolina penitentiary under a new uc santa cruz prison program to bring prisoners it was like a wolf among sheep and the heat came in there and he just flattened that kid and then he took off and i'm sitting there and this kid's going oh oh oh he's all bleeding the campus police came and they had blazers because he didn't want to be too offensive with their uniforms the guy comes on ice but what happened here and i said x person not this y person down and he's this y person was trying to disrupt the class and destroy things in the class so he wanted to protect the class but then he thought he wouldn't get a fair hearing so he left he said you know who he is i said yes i do but i i can't rat him out and then the other person said i can tell who he was so they had you know and they they got him and they i don't know what they did to him there was no such thing as expulsion you could do anything at that place and they would not expel you well that's a scary thought that the sds and the people like that were saying we want our soldiers home dead and bill eris still had some significant influence on the government after that they blew people up they killed people and they shot police when they all went to cuba they were heroes in cuba for killing police and the symbol symbolize liberation front the sla was a big heroic that kidnapped patty hers all of that stuff was crazy yeah sure was that's why when i see those protests and la or minnesota and i see the faces of those people they're in their sit they're my age i'm 72 some of the older creaky jointed people i just think to myself i must have sit met your twin or your avatar or something at uc santa cuz they never grew up yeah no they haven't did you by chance see that video of that they kept calling him the male karen going out in front of the guy who was driving his motorcycle around and he was the actor jack reacher of the tv series and he's big and that guy just tore apart that was like a cultural contrast that mister physically fit tough guy is on a motorcycle nice one with his two kids teaching him how to ride very young kids and they're just going around the block and then mister male karen's gonna get out and like put his hand up and stop stop and try to knock them out because he thinks that's too noisy may have been too noisy so as soon as that happened he just threw him down the ground and punched him about three times and the guy got up and he just kind of put his tail between his legs and walked over to his nice big beautiful home didn't the police show up and kind of say well that's how things go the police you could tell were very sympathetic to see that guy beat up because that's exactly the kind of people they have to deal with yeah well victor let's we're getting close to the end so i'm gonna just skip to you and these news stories some where it shows that there are cultural victories in trump's revolution revolutionary movement we have the international olympic committee has announced that there will be no biological males in female sports in the olympics in 2028 and i think that's a big victory and then the case missouri versus biden which was about biden's agencies federal agencies trying to force social media to remove and suppress stories they didn't like about covet like the hunter hunter biden story and the missouri ag got a consent decree so if the feds come in again and try to start suppressing eric schmidt i think it was eric schmidt when he was an attorney he was he's been a very good senator he yeah he did that so trump loses in the lower district court and then he wins 60 40 in the circuit apparel court but at the for all the criticism of john roberts he wins 90 in the supreme court and just takes too long to get there but two cultural victories i thought those were really nice so let's turn to comments from people who actually write in and i have um one who wrote quite a long letter so i'm only going to read parts of what they wrote your stories of your mom being a wise judge and your dad being wise are wonderful we enjoy your stories of farming teaching travels your experiences in the 1980s academia and family loss and we know of sorry and we know of your next phase teaching us history and commentary in a special way i especially like how you consider your audience to be practical and wise i really think your audience wants to write you and tell you our stories and support you because we all we all know about you so they feel they know you really well victor yes very nice letter i think all of them are i think are from the thousand letters i've been reading and comments they all we all have one thing in common we don't hate our parents my generation blamed every neurosis and psychosis they had on a well-meaning parent yeah and i felt that i was very lucky i had two wonderful parents that was from sue bartah Bart cow yeah well thank you sue walk sorry sue i your last name was hard to pronounce um and here is from oh i don't have wait i do have his name one second it is from oh i don't have his name because it's hard to read sorry about that um and he says this as a 60 year old disabled veteran i love your stories and sacrifice i traveled all over the south pacific in my 20s while i was in the us coast guard and felt all of those who died when i visited all of the mariana islands many times tenion the sipan yeah i thank you for serving your purpose sharing the truth and history you are the real deal having lived in sonoma when i was younger i know exactly what you describe and i missed that innocent beauty of california and these letters were both much longer but well 19 my my first memories of california was when i was four or five yeah 1956 78 all the way to i would say 1975 it was a golden age everything seemed to work can do you had pat brown wasn't a bad governor ronald reagan was a much better governor pete wilson george duke masian it was really a wonderful time they really invested in the state they built the dams the aqueducts the reservoirs the highways the airports the uc system it was really advanced the tripartite junior college state college ucs no tuition no such thing as huge student loans i remember i came home i said to my grandfather i came home from uc san jacuzzi i think it was 1971 i said i could not believe it gas was 42 cents a gallon well boys we have a lot of oil here but there's some people who don't want to use it that was even then but there was you know there was we were developing our resources it was cheap to live and so it's a whole different world almost yeah it was think about it but we were three of us over there we were all living in the dorms it was like so my father went over and he found a failed there was a kind of a show house you know it was only 1200 square feet but was new and they were going to make small little houses but the development failed so he was walked in to look at it and he said where the house it said we just have the demo house and he he had four thousand dollars and he put it down and bought it for 25 thousand dollars then he put and the mortgage was i think 180 dollars so he put us three and then we had three renters to pay the rent and the point of it at that time that house was the same price as something here in fresno or selma and there was no shortage people were starting to build and then they just put a lid on it not in my backyard no no no not going to do that and housing just everybody that went to high school was i came back home and they had all bought homes it's it's so funny they were all married and had children in their early 20s and then we created this ethos of i'm going to kind of sort of maybe take some classes i'm going to kind of sort of date and i'm going to kind of sort of maybe have a ill-german kid maybe but maybe not because of global warming and maybe when i'm 35 i might get out of the basement of my parents house and i'll kind of maybe have a half a child that's a grim tale victor that's a grim tale what do you think the fertility rate is 1.6 it's 2.1 in 2000 yeah 2.4 in 1980 europe's 1.32 we're shrinking and aging and disappearing and with that we would like to thank the audience for joining us today and thank you victor no that's a Debbie down i was trying with our cultural victories under the trump era revolution there is a big backlash coming people are tired of it they don't want to they don't want to turn on tv and see a joey stewart looted or a poor guy works his whole life at a 7-11 knocked over or 83 year old veteran thrown into the subway by somebody or open bought 10 000 people swarming they're just tired of it or some guy with a husky voice who says that he's a beautiful girl you know yeah you know knocking somebody with a volleyball down in girls throat people are they're just tired of that yeah i think it's going to be i hope it's a nice peaceful correction i think it's already going on but the left doesn't want a peaceful correction no and i'm i worry about it although i have to say those chicago riots that just happened last night it's thursday today uh they already had eight people arrested by this morning for what went on i know but given what i saw hundreds they should have arrested 300 of them yeah they were kicking people on the ground they were stealing they were it was just out of control yeah sure was and you know i don't think anybody is responsible for people of their particular ethnic affinity but if you have mayor johnson there always talking about race always talking about racism always talking and you're getting 20 or 30 people wounded on every saturday night in the summer and then you have these rampages then he because he's taken on that mantle of as racial spokesman of grievance then he has to man up to it and say there is a endemic problem in this community of broken homes and children going up without fathers yeah and we need to address that it's far more important than saying some wealthy white guy is a racist and he's made all our problems and that's what he does every day yeah and lori lightfoot and all of them they need to say this is the problem of the community we're getting too many people killed we're creating havoc and we have to deal with people 12 to 30 that are growing up in broken homes without fathers and just deal with it yeah but they won't touch it anybody who says anything about it as a racist so then we play this dishonest game or you go to chicago and you you talk to your sister and where can i walk in chicago what where's dangerous and then somebody says well i think that's really racist what you're saying because i that's a code for you don't want to be out with a young black teenager yeah it is a code you know yeah so i don't know well victor let's go ahead and call it a day on this saturday we hope you all enjoy your weekend and thank you for joining us or choosing to join us on this saturday thank you victor for all the wisdom i mean having us everybody and watching and listening this is sammy wink and victor davis hanson and we're 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