Victor Davis Hanson
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Mar
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And then they say things like, well, you've got a big base at Rammstein and you've got these 80,000 troops and we help pay for them and maybe they should go home. Promises, promises. If you don't like them, send them home. America is happy to send them home. But I was reading a pretty good sophisticated account when Europe says it's going to send troops to be peacekeepers.
You hear that, Mr. Stormer? Stormer said that. They don't even have the logistical lift capacity to supply them. They couldn't do that. They depend on refueling from America. Their planes need to be refueled in wartime conditions by America. They need the C-17, C-130 lift capacity, et cetera. And that's talking about a debased form.
We're not in the great shape that we were militarily, but still at this low level, we're heads and shoulders above the whole European continent.
Exactly. Promise is made, promise is kept. And remember what happened with energy. He vastly increased by two or three million barrels. Biden came in and he canceled Keystone. He canceled new liquid natural gas terminals. He did it at the end of his term. He put ANWR off. He started lecturing fracking. He made an EV mandate. And then the 2008
22 midterms came up and prices hit the ceiling during the inflationary period. Here in California, it was in the San Joaquin Valley, I paid $5.50 a gallon. And then suddenly, he started draining the petroleum reserve to get reelected. And he went from about 90% all the way down to 50%. And then they came to Joe Biden and said, you are not going to get elected. So here's what you're going to do.
You're going to tell everybody that you're a new green dealer and you're you're going to talk up EVs, but you're going to drill. So they went back and they started to drill like Trump and they got it back to Trump and even a little above. Now, Trump comes in and says. that wasn't what I really wanted. That's where I was before I lost that election.
And now I'm going to go back to what I had originally planned. And that's 20 million, 22. He's going to go full blast. The only problem he's going to have is he's going to have to produce the, he's going to have to convince these oil companies who have very sophisticated measuring, uh,
capabilities of what their reserves are to go out and start producing a lot of oil and a lot more work with the price dropping and make the same amount of profits where they drain their long-term reserves. So how is he going to get around that? He's going to have to give them some kind of tax concession or he's going to have to open new fields and find vast new reserves. Gavin Newsom is...
Theoretically, sitting on the Monterey Shale formation along the coast range, it has apparently a lot of natural gas, but we don't use it. And we could easily do that instead of we're outlawing national gas in new homes, you know? Yeah.
There's a huge, huge gas reserves there on the shale. Yeah, he's become a, I can't figure him out. It's kind of like mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Now I want to get elected, so I'll say anything that is contrary to what I actually did when I was governor.
The Me Too left turned on him and now he's angry. And Chris Cuomo, every once in a while I listen to what he says and it's... They fired him, of course, and he says some things that are pretty out there, but he doesn't sound like old Chris Cuomo in CNN anymore. He does not.
So, that's a remnant. Remember shovel-ready jobs right after Obama came in? And then there was the... Then there was Solyndra, cash for clunkers. All of these government programs were failures. And then Obama, because he was so far left, he thought that he was going to use this prop. This is very important to everybody.
The idea that we had this waxen effigy, Joe Biden, who they used and manipulated as sort of a cardboard, mixing my metaphors, cut out the last four years, that started in 2009 when they made him vice president. They said, you know Joe from Scranton. Good old Joe. He's a tough old hombre. He's going to watch every penny of you know, cash for our plonkers and shovel-ready jobs.
And all the postmortems on all those programs showed they were failures. And the government, you can't have the government do certain things. It's envisioned for a particular role that private enterprise can't do, and that's things like national defense and collect taxes. And I know some people are listening and said, well, actually, Victor, we could get private companies to, like the Romans did,
The Romans had a very effective, they just had the tax collectors get bonuses, and they were very effective and hated.
What did they think? Yeah, yeah. So-called conservatives voted for her. That's one thing we could learn from Europe, because we know now that the United States could get all the ballots tallied within 48 hours if we just said this. You all have to show up on Election Day like you used to, or maybe 70 or 80 percent. You'd have a paper ballot.
And if you want to request an absentee ballot, it has to be because you're ill or something or you're out of town. But there's not going to be any more early balloting or blanket mail-in balloting, and you have to have an ID. And it would work very easily. And we know the Democrats will always oppose it.
And yet, when you poll the population, the citizenry, whether they're white or black or Hispanic, they all poll that they want IDs. The Democratic Party, you see, everybody, you know that better than I do. It has a message now that no one wants. This is not the Democratic Party of minimum wage, disability insurance, Social Security, 40-hour work, overtime. That's all done and settled.
This is a different socialist redistributionist monstrosity, and no one wants it. So they have to use the courts. They have to use the deep state to do what you don't want. And nobody wants this system of election. This is more the party of Robespierre than it is of Dan Rostenkowski. Yeah, it's the party of Robespierre. It's Jacobin party. There's no doubt about it. And I say that not lightly.
What did Robespierre want? Oh, he wanted a year zero. Oh, we had one called 1619. What did he want to do? He wanted to go after the church. They killed 6,000 priests and nuns. Oh, we went after anti-abortion people and said they were white Christian nationalists in the military. Almost every Jacobin agenda item is what the Democratic Party, the modern version of it, they embraced.
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