Victor Davis Hanson

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The Victor Davis Hanson Show · Overexposed: The Truth and Troubles of Left Politics · 25 Feb 2025 podcast

She was given every type of fairness, if not advantages. And then all she did for six or seven years was she could not... She couldn't finish a show without saying white, white people, white people, white people, white people. And I thought, why are you doing? I think she's married to somebody who's white, isn't she? I think she is. I can't believe that she would.

And so I thought to myself, Joy, stop it. Even your left wing, bi-coastal elite who are white are not going to want to hear that white people are the alpha and the omega of all mortal sins in the United States. And when you say that, you come off from a position of perceived self-doubt or inferiority complex or something. Just talk about issues without being upset.

She couldn't talk about anything but race is what I'm saying. And to put Bowman on there who… You know, he committed a felony, and then he lied about it. And then he was anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic, so the Jewish community helped defeat him, and then he got mad and screamed. That was the rally. You remember when AOC did her rain dance?

She got up on the thing, and she started leaping around, like jumping Jack Flash or something.

Yeah, he kept using all these bad words. Yeah, he's gone. And then Cori Bush, she's just as bad. I think she wasn't the one that had the – her husband was doing the security detail or something. She got in trouble. Yeah. It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what tribe you say you belong to.

Once you are perceived to have exemption or advantage, whether it's DEI, affirmative action, or asymmetrical application of the laws, then that's not good. And we know that from Jim Crow in the South. Poor white people or any white person who was charged with something and received either a lighter sentence or was exonerated and a black man was not treated the same.

It wasn't good for white people either because they got a sense of entitlement. And then to take that asymmetrical, wrong, amoral system and flip it back. And I'm just basically quoting chapter and verse of the life work of Tom Sowell. That wealthy white people flipped this system over and put it on black people and it wasn't going to be good because it didn't hold everybody accountable.

She was never accountable to the ratings game. And she had a brief moment... For about a year after George Floyd, where she capitalized on that, and if she had been a disinterested person, she could have offered analysis and opinion, but she just got obsessed with race. Race, race, race. I think her ratings were below 500,000. I think they were getting down.

She lost half her audience, at least after the election.

I'm sorry about that. I thought I was, I'm thinking of somebody else.

There's another, there's another prominent African American, um, I think Elie Mestel, you know, the guy that's got the wacky hair, he's a Harvard Law graduate and he's always talking about white people. I think his wife may be white.

Well, you know, I never understood her popularity because in – I think it was 2018. I'm doing this from memory, but she ran for governor. She lost by 50,000 votes. Immediately, she became an election denialist. She toured the country for a year, raising a lot of money for herself. I think she had a – she didn't declare bankruptcy, but she had all this credit card debt and financial problems.

And then she wrote these – pathetic, risque novels about sex and stuff that didn't go very well. But she became a hero of the left, and it was so incongruous because they were... Two years before and during that time, they were calling... that Trump was illegitimately elected in 2016, Russian collusion.

And here they had a person who then after 2020, it became even worse because then they were saying Trump won't accept the election, but she had never accepted the election. And then when Joe Biden ridiculously pre-announced in panic over the George Floyd riots that he was going to pick Trump, essentially a black woman.

He surveyed the landscape, and wow, there were people who said it's either going to be Kamala Harris or Stacey Abrams, somebody like Susan Rice. And she really helped Kamala Harris, because Kamala Harris compared to Stacey Abrams was mainstream. So what they did was... I remember that Kamala Harris, she went to Georgia and she said, we're doing something new.

We're going to take this billions of dollars out of that $20 billion slush fund. I think it was $2 billion. And we're going to give it directly to these groups. But what she didn't tell us was two things, that Stacey Abrams would be the clearinghouse. And as Lee Zeldin said, that she had never had more than $100 in this defunct PA pack or whatever it was.

And it increased by 20 million times to $2 billion. So you were letting sort of an arsonist dispute disperse fire prevention money. That's basically what it was. Somebody who was completely irresponsible with her own finances, would not accept elections. played the race card ad infinitum, and then you're turning over $2 billion.

And the second thing they did is they didn't trust that everybody could waste that money quickly because they did it as they were going out the door. So they put it in a Citibank account. In other words, as if it was already spent.

So they took it out of the EPA because they didn't want it to sit there and then have to disperse it because they thought they couldn't blow through $2 billion in time before Trump came in. So then they just took it all out and put it in a city. And that's what Lee Zeldin is doing now. He's suing to get that money back if there is any left. Yeah.

So, you know, when they all talk about Elon, why don't they just say stuff like that? Why don't we just, why doesn't the left just say, look at this wonderful program. We've got this sober and judicious Stacey Abrams, known for her physical sobriety, and she is overseeing $2 billion. And, you know, the average person pays $20,000 in income tax. So she's representing the investment.

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