Victor Davis Hanson
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16 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Mar
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When you look at all of those burned out homes and you tell me how they're going to rebuild that. Yeah.
Does anybody think that? Karen Bass is going to go into Pacific Palisades like right now, like Donald Trump did when he built the Manhattan Central Park skating rink? Does anybody believe that she's going to go in there and say, look, I got a contract to get out all of the Crap. The bidding will open today. It'll be done next week. And it has an incentive clause. This is the date we want it.
30 days. Anybody who can do it in 25 gets an extra multi-million. That's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. What is she doing, Victor? Well, you know what? She just fired the police chief. She fired the fire chief who was famous for bragging that as a gay woman, she was going to get... 30, 40 percent, or I don't know what their percentage was of DEI employees.
And they're fighting back and forth. Her writ, Karen Bass says, well, she didn't tell me. She should have told me there was a fire danger before I junketed to Ghana. Well, Karen, all you have to do is open your eyes and be in Los Angeles. I was teaching at Pepperdine, and I would walk outdoor, and I'd see a 45-mile-an-hour wind at night.
And I'd drive through Malibu Canyon Road and look at the dry, and I thought, man. And then I would see at night, if I drove home, these campfires everywhere from homeless people. And I thought, they are one homeless campfire away from Armageddon. Any idiot could have said that, but... We don't have, that's another thing that we don't talk about.
We don't have the public schooling to create a workforce that is anywhere near where we were 50 years ago. And we don't have the public spirit in us. And we are leeches, parasites that are living on the infrastructure that they gave us. And we don't, we just can't. I just got back from Florida. I could not believe the freeway system. I know Floridians are being swamped by us.
Millions of people pouring into Florida. But you look at that infrastructure... compared here, and you can't believe the public spiritedness. I got a car to go to the airport. I got a car to go to the event I was speaking at. I ate out three or four times. It was largely a Cuban-American workforce, not all, but the people were so competent and polite, and everybody I met at the events were upbeat.
confident compared to this place? They built high-speed rail.
Well, they did it. Texas could probably do it, but not this place. Yeah. Not this place.
I said there's so much DEI and given the new Stanford admissions policy, From 2020 to 2000, well, until this year, and given that they're racialists, in other words, they made sure there was only going to be 9 to 10% white males out of, you know, I don't know. that averaged about 200 people out of 2,000 or so, 1,500 or 1,600 that were going to be admitted.
And given that the faculty who are almost 100% left wing will tell you privately, I've either got to give everybody an A or water down the class or introduce a new gut. I just said on this and other places, I don't think an employer in Silicon Valley wants a Stanford graduate.
And I got this guy, I got so many people talk to me, but one very prominent person in Silicon Valley, I won't mention his name, said, Victor, you're way behind. You're way behind. We've been knowing this for years now. We would like Georgia Tech or Texas A&M or places like that where they do teach engineering, computer science. There are no DEI elements in the curriculum.
They don't say what, we don't have a class on what percentage of This community is underserved by laptop computer. They don't have that. Or what percentage of computer engineers are this color or this gender? They don't do that. And then more importantly, we get the worst of both worlds when we hire these guys because we get the act of the sin of omission.
They're not qualified, but they think they are. So they often clog our HR. I thought that was kind of an exaggeration. Until Mark Andreessen gave that famous interview that we've been referencing with Mark Douthat. I mean, Ross Douthat. Ross Douthat. Yeah, Douthat. And when Andreessen said, my lieutenant came to me, my CEO came to me and said, it's not just that they're...
The extremists, they want to destroy us. He's talking about his own employees that were hired. They used to want to get ahead, and now they want to destroy the company. And so ideology and incompetence are a bad mixture. I get so worked up because I see this thing every week, this high-speed rail monstrosity. And it's almost like a golden calf, you know, and we are pagans that worship it.
I call it Stonehenge for a variety of reasons. It looks like Stonehenge because you have all of these bridges. Bridges to nowhere. Bridges. Well, there's no tracks. So what they did, everybody, is there's all of these major thoroughfares that they had to go across on high-speed rail. It goes so fast that they can't make a lot of turns. So they had this route.
And their idea was to build them all in very public places first along the 99. So everybody would see they were making progress and they had big billboards. And then in between them, they hadn't even got the land yet. And they were in court and they hadn't cleared the area. And the point I'm making is they had the most sophisticated people.
publicity team, hit team, that any criticism was always counter, Matt. And I got sick of it. All these people, how dare you say that? How dare you do that? And when you look at the composition of the board, there was a lot of developers on it too, at least one or two or three of them at different times. So I just think the whole thing was a mess. I wish they would have.
And now the question though, Jack, is what do you do with it? Graffiti. Well, I mentioned five years ago, Laura Logan came out to do a Fox Nation on gangs. And then she was here. She said, let's go do high-speed rail. So we went over there and she said... I really liked her, too. She was really very inquisitive. And I know people got very angry. I don't know why. I think she may be controversial.
But she said, my gosh, Victor, it's just a receptacle for homeless people and graffiti that were around the bridges. So ugly. So they airbrush it out now and they try to pressure wash it off. But yeah. Well, Victor, we... It's too bad. It's too bad we wasted so much money.
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