Victor Davis Hanson
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I think the messaging, I think, could be improved. I would get a little bit more tragic than braggadocio. In other words, I wouldn't have a chainsaw when I'm cutting. I would say something along the following. I don't like laying people off. I don't like the idea of getting in arguments with Canada, and I'm willing to hear things, but I didn't start this. I didn't open the border.
I think the messaging, I think, could be improved. I would get a little bit more tragic than braggadocio. In other words, I wouldn't have a chainsaw when I'm cutting. I would say something along the following. I don't like laying people off. I don't like the idea of getting in arguments with Canada, and I'm willing to hear things, but I didn't start this. I didn't open the border.
I didn't let in 12 million people. I didn't run up $37 trillion. I didn't get us into $3 billion in interest a year. I don't like any of that. But I'm the one that's tasked with fixing all this. And that sometimes is a rough thing to do because in this transition, there's going to be people that are going to have to change their methods. They're going to lose jobs.
I didn't let in 12 million people. I didn't run up $37 trillion. I didn't get us into $3 billion in interest a year. I don't like any of that. But I'm the one that's tasked with fixing all this. And that sometimes is a rough thing to do because in this transition, there's going to be people that are going to have to change their methods. They're going to lose jobs.
And I'm going to try to get as much federal investment as I can. $3 trillion worth. And for every person that we have to... eliminate their job. We're going to try to get them something better in the private sector. But I think a little bit more of that tone that we didn't ask for this, but if we don't do it, nobody else is going to do it.
And I'm going to try to get as much federal investment as I can. $3 trillion worth. And for every person that we have to... eliminate their job. We're going to try to get them something better in the private sector. But I think a little bit more of that tone that we didn't ask for this, but if we don't do it, nobody else is going to do it.
And they left it, they being the whole progressive agenda and project, and we have to do this and there's no, we ran out of time. It was on our watch, our station, our time, this task fell to us. We didn't ask for it, but we're gonna complete it. That kind of attitude I think would be a little bit better, or at least explain in detail.
And they left it, they being the whole progressive agenda and project, and we have to do this and there's no, we ran out of time. It was on our watch, our station, our time, this task fell to us. We didn't ask for it, but we're gonna complete it. That kind of attitude I think would be a little bit better, or at least explain in detail.
But if you just say, you know, we're going to invade Panama or we're going to take, you know, Canada should be our 50. I understand the art of the deal, but you've got to you. We've got about a 10 percent independent conservative democratic constituency that we've got to reassure that things are going to get better. And we're doing this radical things now. Because they were the radicals.
But if you just say, you know, we're going to invade Panama or we're going to take, you know, Canada should be our 50. I understand the art of the deal, but you've got to you. We've got about a 10 percent independent conservative democratic constituency that we've got to reassure that things are going to get better. And we're doing this radical things now. Because they were the radicals.
We weren't the radicals. We're the counter revolutionaries. They were the revolutionaries. We're bringing things back to the normal. They were the ones that took it off the spectrum. That kind of explication very quickly, each time they have an important announcement, I think would help.
We weren't the radicals. We're the counter revolutionaries. They were the revolutionaries. We're bringing things back to the normal. They were the ones that took it off the spectrum. That kind of explication very quickly, each time they have an important announcement, I think would help.
I hope not. It's worse than Stalingrad. I think everybody understands. I don't want to admit they all understand the contours of a peace. They're not going to get the Donbass and Crimea back, Ukraine. No president ever advocated it. They're not going to be in NATO anymore.
I hope not. It's worse than Stalingrad. I think everybody understands. I don't want to admit they all understand the contours of a peace. They're not going to get the Donbass and Crimea back, Ukraine. No president ever advocated it. They're not going to be in NATO anymore.
But on the other hand, they've got the biggest army of any NATO country, and they're well armed to the teeth, and they've killed or wounded, tragically, a million Russians. And so Russia... Thank you. you.
But on the other hand, they've got the biggest army of any NATO country, and they're well armed to the teeth, and they've killed or wounded, tragically, a million Russians. And so Russia... Thank you. you.
Well, it's a lot to talk about. There's a general rule that Everybody knows in the healthcare industry, Medicare, Medicaid, and the local equivalents, say here in California, Medi-Cal, there is so many people on it now that we've never had a higher percentage of the population on it because we're aging and we're impoverished.
Well, it's a lot to talk about. There's a general rule that Everybody knows in the healthcare industry, Medicare, Medicaid, and the local equivalents, say here in California, Medi-Cal, there is so many people on it now that we've never had a higher percentage of the population on it because we're aging and we're impoverished.
Well, it's a lot to talk about. There's a general rule that Everybody knows in the healthcare industry, Medicare, Medicaid, and the local equivalents, say here in California, Medi-Cal, there is so many people on it now that we've never had a higher percentage of the population on it because we're aging and we're impoverished.
And we brought in 30 million people who were impoverished the last 30 years from south of the border. Okay. Everybody knows that millions of people are dependent as their only source of income and their only source of health care. Everybody knows there's massive fraud and abuse. So when Elon Musk looks at that, he has two warning signs. Number one.