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Victor Davis Hanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

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.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Well, they always ask. They don't say where it's come from. Why doesn't he say this? We need $40 billion of federal money. And the reason we need it is I was running a $75 billion deficit, even though I raised taxes to 13.3, the highest in the nation, because I was doing things like putting $50 million in a legal fund to sue you, Donald Trump. who I want to give us $40 billion.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Well, they always ask. They don't say where it's come from. Why doesn't he say this? We need $40 billion of federal money. And the reason we need it is I was running a $75 billion deficit, even though I raised taxes to 13.3, the highest in the nation, because I was doing things like putting $50 million in a legal fund to sue you, Donald Trump. who I want to give us $40 billion.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Well, they always ask. They don't say where it's come from. Why doesn't he say this? We need $40 billion of federal money. And the reason we need it is I was running a $75 billion deficit, even though I raised taxes to 13.3, the highest in the nation, because I was doing things like putting $50 million in a legal fund to sue you, Donald Trump. who I want to give us $40 billion.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Or I gave $500 million for illegal alien special health fund during COVID. Or I gave another $30 million for immigrant rights legal suits. So all of that stuff. And then he hates Trump. And then he's asking for $40 billion. I think Trump will just say, why don't you go sell off high-speed rail to somebody? And then he never says this. They just demonized Elon. Why wouldn't he just say this?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Or I gave $500 million for illegal alien special health fund during COVID. Or I gave another $30 million for immigrant rights legal suits. So all of that stuff. And then he hates Trump. And then he's asking for $40 billion. I think Trump will just say, why don't you go sell off high-speed rail to somebody? And then he never says this. They just demonized Elon. Why wouldn't he just say this?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Or I gave $500 million for illegal alien special health fund during COVID. Or I gave another $30 million for immigrant rights legal suits. So all of that stuff. And then he hates Trump. And then he's asking for $40 billion. I think Trump will just say, why don't you go sell off high-speed rail to somebody? And then he never says this. They just demonized Elon. Why wouldn't he just say this?

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

I'm Elon Musk's governor. I don't have enough funds to create sewage, water, infrastructure to allow this stuff to get rebooted. However, I need $40 billion, but I will help you find it. Now, Elon... How much can you find me $40 billion in USAID? Can we go into the C.C. Abrams stash and give me $500 million? Can I go into the Pentagon? I hear you're getting rid of $68 billion in DEI.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

I'm Elon Musk's governor. I don't have enough funds to create sewage, water, infrastructure to allow this stuff to get rebooted. However, I need $40 billion, but I will help you find it. Now, Elon... How much can you find me $40 billion in USAID? Can we go into the C.C. Abrams stash and give me $500 million? Can I go into the Pentagon? I hear you're getting rid of $68 billion in DEI.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

I'm Elon Musk's governor. I don't have enough funds to create sewage, water, infrastructure to allow this stuff to get rebooted. However, I need $40 billion, but I will help you find it. Now, Elon... How much can you find me $40 billion in USAID? Can we go into the C.C. Abrams stash and give me $500 million? Can I go into the Pentagon? I hear you're getting rid of $68 billion in DEI.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Can I have $8 billion there? Why does he just talk like that? But instead, it's gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. And I hate you. Gimme, I hate you. Gimme. It's like a petulant teenager, you know, to her parent or something.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Can I have $8 billion there? Why does he just talk like that? But instead, it's gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. And I hate you. Gimme, I hate you. Gimme. It's like a petulant teenager, you know, to her parent or something.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Can I have $8 billion there? Why does he just talk like that? But instead, it's gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. And I hate you. Gimme, I hate you. Gimme. It's like a petulant teenager, you know, to her parent or something.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

It's two things drive California, you know, when you think about it. It's left wing, coastal, boutique politics. And by that is D.I. and radical environmentalism and then illegal immigration. And the Democratic Party feels that they flipped California from the Reagan, Dick Mason, Pete Wilson, Schwarzenegger era by allowing us each year to have half of all of the illegal aliens that came.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

It's two things drive California, you know, when you think about it. It's left wing, coastal, boutique politics. And by that is D.I. and radical environmentalism and then illegal immigration. And the Democratic Party feels that they flipped California from the Reagan, Dick Mason, Pete Wilson, Schwarzenegger era by allowing us each year to have half of all of the illegal aliens that came.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

It's two things drive California, you know, when you think about it. It's left wing, coastal, boutique politics. And by that is D.I. and radical environmentalism and then illegal immigration. And the Democratic Party feels that they flipped California from the Reagan, Dick Mason, Pete Wilson, Schwarzenegger era by allowing us each year to have half of all of the illegal aliens that came.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

The only thing that's ironic about this, Jack, is that we have 45 to 50 percent of the population declares themselves Hispanic. But after 30 or 40 years, many Hispanics, I think the majority are middle class now, and they're looking at their payroll checks and they're thinking, my God. I don't have anything left. It's California, 10, 12, 13. I think it hits you at $60,000. It's 10%.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

The only thing that's ironic about this, Jack, is that we have 45 to 50 percent of the population declares themselves Hispanic. But after 30 or 40 years, many Hispanics, I think the majority are middle class now, and they're looking at their payroll checks and they're thinking, my God. I don't have anything left. It's California, 10, 12, 13. I think it hits you at $60,000. It's 10%.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

The only thing that's ironic about this, Jack, is that we have 45 to 50 percent of the population declares themselves Hispanic. But after 30 or 40 years, many Hispanics, I think the majority are middle class now, and they're looking at their payroll checks and they're thinking, my God. I don't have anything left. It's California, 10, 12, 13. I think it hits you at $60,000. It's 10%.

The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Promises Made, Promises Kept: Executive Orders and Energy Dominance Unveiled

Then they look at the sales tax. Then they say things to me like this. Well, why doesn't other people pay taxes? I said, like who? Well, look at all these guys on the corner. They're selling stuff. They don't pay taxes. I said, yeah, I know they don't. We have the largest black market economy in the country.