WEBVTT - Victor Davis Hanson on the Governor's Race 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.840 And we continue at two oh five in the afternoon 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:07.800 on the John Phillips Show. Mister Randy wgings in Culver City. 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:12.080 John, it was the grand opening for the La Metros 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.560 extension of the D line, going all the way now 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.919 from Koreatown to the Miracle Mile. And to celebrate there's 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.280 free Metro rides all weekend and they're even giving away 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:23.760 t shirts that say. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:33.840 Ride the d oh no, yep. Well, I'm sure those 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:38.640 shirts will be popular, but not for the reasons they're anticipating. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.040 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.519 jellphone number one. Eight hundred two two two five two 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.560 two two. It is our pleasure to bolcome our next 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.720 guest to the program. He's with the Hoover Institution up 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.880 at Stanford University. He's also author of the forthcoming book 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.320 The Counter Revel The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.520 and the MAGA Movement, available online at Amazon dot com. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.960 You can follow him on x at VD Hanson Victor 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:16.920 Davis Hanson, Welcome, Thank you for having me, well, thanks 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.080 so much for stopping by. And you are, in addition 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.440 to being a guy who has his pulse on American 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.839 politics and classics and all of those things. You're also 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.399 a guy who understands California backwards and forwards. You're a native. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.920 You live here, you have raised your family here, you've 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.840 worked here, paid taxes here. And I've got to tell you, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.959 as someone who has lived here my entire life as well, 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:49.600 I've never been this concerned, slash depressed about the future 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.360 of the state. As I look at the stable of 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:58.920 candidates running for governor. This unimpressive list of career politicians, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:03.600 of people who have failed upwards their entire lives, who 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.440 think that they're capable of running a state the size 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.240 of California, But all of us know that they're not. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.400 They are bright enough to understand that they can't run 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.200 on their own record. They can't say that things in 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:21.920 California have improved under sixteen consecutive years of Democratic Party rule, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.720 first for Jerry Brown, then with Gavin Newsom. They know 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.400 that crime is worse, They know that homelessness is worse. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.320 They know that the bullet trains a disaster. They know 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.799 that none of us can buy insurance either for our 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:39.000 homes or our businesses. They know that the budget is 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.360 upside down and they're going to probably raise our taxes 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.520 in any number of ways in the coming years. So 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.240 what do they do. They spend all of their time 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.799 talking about Donald Trump. And because they spend all of 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:56.400 their time criticizing Donald Trump and criticizing Ice and weighing 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.000 in on federal policy, they don't really spend much time 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.600 at all talking about California Now, the voters who are 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.400 going to be deciding who the next governor is. Of course, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.320 they don't benefit from that, but it also makes it 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.920 difficult for one of them to break away from the 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.799 pack because they're all saying the same thing. They're all 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:20.760 criticizing Donald Trump, and they don't really create a differentiation 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.840 between themselves and the other candidates for the voters. Are 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:29.560 you as pessimistic as I am about this upcoming gubernatorial election? 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.840 I'm afraid I might be more pessimistic. I have a 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:40.040 scenario where it's probably close, maybe for a while, and 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.480 then we have it. The counting will go on in 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.200 typical California fashion for a month, and all of a sudden, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.680 we'll start to see sciu ballots start to be counted 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.560 that we're mailed in twenty days later or except for 0:03:54.840 --> 0:04:00.000 people who were not here legally. So I'm just as 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.400 suspicious of when speaking as a veteran of three or 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.520 four different here in the San Joaquin Valley of congressional 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:13.560 races where Republican candidates actually one on election day and lost. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.839 I think that's happened two or three times now. So 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.080 a part of the problem in California is that they 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:28.000 control that they've controlled with supermajorities, the legislature. They control 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:32.440 the appointments to the judicial bench. All the superior court judges, 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.640 I mean all of the sports leader judges are retired 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.920 or retiring. So they have legislative executives, not one set 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:44.000 wide Republican executive. And they have the legislative executive and 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.640 judicial and then they have the administrative states. So there's 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:52.760 there's nowhere. And then it's even more depressing that when 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.280 you talk to people in your family and my family, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:59.400 they're voted for this and others forms that do. They 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:04.200 admit that things are terrible, but they still keep voting because, 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:09.960 as you say, it's we're not Donald Trump, or California's 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.479 got the tech industry or since rediculous. But they'll talk 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.200 about everything except the price of gasoline, kill a lot 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:23.279 of hours, property car insurance, house insurance, the fire in 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:27.240 La the fire and this year, any the water crisis, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.800 anything that matters to people, they won't talk about because 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.080 they know what they did. But they also know that 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:35.839 they know what they did, and the people are going 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.440 to vote for them again. I think we've got to 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.479 realize that it's not necessarily a political problem. It's a 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.800 demographic problem. We've lost about two hundred and fifty to 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.280 three hundred thousand people a year, and that adds up 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.040 after thirty years, we've lost about eight million people more 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:58.599 mc majon, Reagan, Pete Wilson, Schwarzenegger voters. And then we've 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:03.240 had this eleven twelve trillion dollar market capitalization in Silicon 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:08.159 Valley with this limitless amount of money. But that's why 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.680 we have. The center of power is left southern California. 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.440 There's no Sammy Ordians or anybody like that anymore. It's 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:24.279 it's Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, you 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:29.120 name it, Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom. They're all Northern California 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.120 leftists that are all either nevol kids, are very very 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.599 wealthy and they feel they have all that Silicon Valley 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:40.280 money and they live on that coastal strip. So the 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.360 Joyas Brooke League, and they heard a lot of their wealth. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.520 But some of them they make a lot of money, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.640 and it's a kind of a medieval society. Everybody else 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.680 is pretty poor. There's no middle class like there used 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.960 to be. We add into the matrix at twenty seven 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.440 percent of the population was not born in the United States. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.400 So if you've got a problem with truckers from India 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.560 that haven't been property licensed, and that's a constituency. If 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.040 suddenly you're a racist and you're anti Indian. If you 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.320 have a problem with DUI with a lot of Hispanic 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.040 drivers they're here illegally from Mexico, then you're a racist. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.200 If you've got a problem with people swarming in a 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:28.120 jewelry store in la or walking out with something and 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:33.880 you hate blacks and that DEI and MESSI. So it's 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.320 just DEI, d I d I in down Trump Donald Trump, 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:42.560 and nobody talks about the real problems that affited everybody. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.800 And I've never said so, I'm pretty pisionistic. 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.400 I have a friend of mine who is a smart lady, 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:56.840 college educated lady, white collar professional, retired now homeowner in California, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.680 fun to go drinking with, fun to have dinner with 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:06.600 politically a partisan liberal Democrat, and you get a couple 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.840 of drinks dinner, and you start talking about the homeless problem, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.560 and she hates it. She moved out of Los Angeles 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.320 because she can't stand it. You talk to her about 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.320 retail theft. She hates the fact that her local drug 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.440 store is shut down, her local Starbucks is shut down 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.440 because of retail theft, and because of all the problems 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.360 associated with crime. She recognizes that the bullet train is 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.200 never going to be built. She complains about the fact 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.920 that her insurance company dropped her and it's very difficult 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.080 for her to buy insurance. She doesn't like to pay 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:45.079 more money in taxes. She understands that people are stealing 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:49.679 from medical in terms of everything that we've learned from 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.200 Nick Shirley and CBS News regarding the hospice care fraud 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.120 going on in the San Fernando Valley. But when you 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.640 ask her, okay, are you ready to start voting different 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.280 and put an end to that, she doesn't regard those 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:08.200 issues as political. She regards those issues as parochial, as 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.640 just problems with the area that you live in. To her, 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.920 politics is all about Donald Trump and hating Donald Trump, 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.880 and she takes that extremely myopic view of what is 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:25.480 political and what is politics to her, and that's how 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.600 she casts her ballot. How do you break through to 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.600 someone like that who knows better but will not change 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.520 the way they vote, at least now. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.480 I don't think you can, because I've had that similar experience. 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.280 And what's going to change is that what can't go 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.880 on won't go on. And when you're losing well over 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.720 a quarter million high earners and you've already got one 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.680 percent paying almost fifty percent of the income tax, which 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.959 is intel of the budget, and you're driving out refineries, 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.679 and now you're doing the most suicidal thing, driving out 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.760 the billionaires. And then you've got twenty one percent of 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.680 the population below the poverty line, and you've got fifty 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.320 percent of all verse or medical verst forty percent of 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:18.680 the population is on medical. At some point, there's not 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.800 enough to victimizers and offensors to pay for the victimize 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:27.760 and the oppress. They're running out of targets and pretty 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.080 much they're getting down to the nitty gritty people who 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.480 are you know, have a farm or they have a 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.240 family business, or their grandkids are here, they can't leave. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:41.880 But anybody that's mobile is leading. And these are the 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.000 people who pay. These are the people they despise that 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.680 they pay the tab and they're not the people who 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.880 are on public assistance and getting cash. They're not the 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.080 people who need the scene of an accident. They're not 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:59.480 the people who shoplift, They're not the people that's the 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.080 overhead charge in California. These are the people pay for 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:07.000 that overset charge. But when you lean when these people leave, 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:11.000 and it's all different ethnic backgrounds are leaving. You know 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.880 a lot of successful in Mexican American, Indian American people 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.920 are leaving. And when you get all of these successful 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.160 people or upwardly mobile people, then who is going to 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.600 pay for these people, especially if you have a Republican 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.520 administration again, because I'm not going to bail them out anymore. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.840 And it's just I don't know. I mean, all the 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:37.080 successful sectors that we need. The oil and gas has 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.920 been destroyed. The timber industry has been destroyed, the membal 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.760 industry have been destroyed. They've got hundreds of thousands of 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.640 acres that are out of production because they can't get water. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.520 Even though we have a pretty good wet year every 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.600 year now. So they've attacked agriculture. They go after all 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.520 the successful industries and make it almost impossible, and then 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.319 when people leave, they insult on it. I talked to 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.840 a very prosperous guy that's a big donor at Stanford, 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:05.800 and he said, it's not so much as they gouge 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:10.040 me taxing if they insult me. So it's like it's 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.360 my duty to pay for all these flaudulent schemes they 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.280 dream on, and then they insult me for being so stupid. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.880 So I'm not even stupid anymore. And I think that's 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.480 what's getting people angry. They insult them as well as 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.280 take them to the cleaners. And they're not going to 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:30.360 do it anymore. And you know it's and that's hard 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.640 to do in California. It's the most naturally abundant, affluent, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.520 beautiful state in the nation, and how you turn that 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.079 into prevatory is pretty hard to do that. They've managed 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.480 to do it, and they won't stop. It's never enough 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.480 for them because they get up every morning thinking I 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.840 haven't had enough socialism. I have to do allow of 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.200 social stuff today and I have to hate Donald Trump 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:55.360 more and then they go to bed. I think I 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.560 didn't do enough. I should have done more to hate 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:03.760 Crump and playing more socialism into Californy. And it's always 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:08.160 it's very sad. We have the top twenty universities in 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.560 the nation. We have supposedly the top five, not the 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:17.800 top five to five of the top twenty Stanford, cal Tech, UCLA, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.800 UFC and U s boute. But when you go to 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.440 those campuses and you see what they're teaching, when you 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:27.400 talk to people who hire their graduates, would you want 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.160 to hire a law graduate from UCLA or Standing when 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.959 they've when they've driven out of federal judge or a 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:37.679 speaker in sulfomm and their whole curriculus dei and they 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.440 don't really know contract law or bond law or any 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:45.120 of the traditional legal disciplines. So everything has been done 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:50.080 down four or five notch is the medical, legal media, everything, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.240 it's kind of a common denominator. They have so many 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:58.679 people that are poorly educated that you really can't have excellence. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.600 And when you try to strive for excusing that whole 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:07.000 Bourg comes in your face and says you're a classicist. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.440 And I mean in the sense that you hate people 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.319 of a different class you hate, you're a racist or 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:16.440 a natives, your chancellors, you're homophobis misogynous. That they never 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:21.400 deal with the argument. And so unless it's got to 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.560 get a little bit worse, I think until the state 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.320 is dysfunctional, and then maybe they'll call am a cavalry 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.400 or I don't know, the fire department, somebody that's put 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.760 out the flame. But it's amazing just watching that debate 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:39.360 with Karen Bath. I just her whole debate was, I 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.280 can't say a word because I destroyed the city as 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:46.240 much as it was not destroyed when I inherited, I 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.920 destroyed it further, I'm just going to kind of smile 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.920 because I know I have all the unions behind me, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.800 and I'm gonna, you know, call you all these names. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.440 And then but she didn't even she didn't make an 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.920 attempt to talk about the fire or water problem anything, 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:03.800 and they don't. That's kind of a contempt they have 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.120 for the voter. Now, it's like, we own the system, 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.560 We own the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. We have 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.440 to bu rockers, and we can do whatever we want 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.000 if we want to pay somebody in seven hundred thousand 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.440 to hard to run water in power in La into 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.600 the reservoirs. We can. If we want the Wuty Amendment 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.640 mayor to phone in a bomb fleet and be a sellon, 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:30.120 we can. We want the mayor to go to Canada, Ghana, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.200 or wherever she went, we can. It's kind of an 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:34.640 arrogance of power they have. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.920 In the old days in California. And I asked this 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:45.320 question to Joel Pollock yesterday. We had elites that would 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.120 not let us go off the rails. The railroad industry 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:53.280 Southern Pacific, the oil industry, the Chandwer family, you could 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.680 talk about the Boswells and some of the growers in 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.320 the Central Valley. They would pull the plug on these people. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.960 If a mayor of Los Angeles turned in the performance 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.040 of Karen Bass, or a governor turned in the performance 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.880 of Avenues, they would say, Okay, that's all from you. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.080 And they did that. They did that to Upton Sinclair 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.440 when he ran for governor under the Epic program, the 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.800 End Poverty in California program, and he wanted the state 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:25.480 government to own the means of production. And these those entities, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.480 along with Louis B. Mayer and William Randolph Hurst and 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.520 others said no, we're not going to do that. Why 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.000 is it that the elites just roll over to these 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.000 buffoones instead of pulling the plug like they should. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.920 Well, I think the nature of the elite and the 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.000 big money is much different. You're talking about people that 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.320 did real things. I'm not not making some people who 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:52.000 were billionaires. To David mean a agribusiness baron, or an 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.960 oil baron, or a real estate baron. That was something concrete. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.000 It was a pragmatic thing, and they were pragmatic people. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:05.440 But I don't think anybody realizes when you're in Silicon Valley, 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.680 I mean Apples, it's got a market capitalization of a 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.040 billion dollars, and when you add in Google, and you 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.600 add in all of those companies, and the only thing 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.920 that would gives me some hope is that the left 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.840 is so crazy that they're turning on Mark Andresen and 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:28.639 then Whowitz and Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg. They are 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.000 turning on them and a lot of them. They're not 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.320 going to be conservative, but they're not going to give 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.080 them as much money as they used to. And you know, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.400 but when you have somebody like Lisa Jobs, that's worth 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:45.000 ten billion. She can run the Atlantic at a huge 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.560 loss and print all that invective against people. She can 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:52.560 give all this money to all these foundations and causes. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.199 And so the nature of money is much different in 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:01.160 two ways. It's not the pragmatic mind that goes into it. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:05.119 It's a guy that's just very young and he's very insulated. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.440 He's got a particular skill set, he's got a global audience, 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:13.000 and that's a big difference. They're younger, and they're just 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:17.080 completely different than the old wealth. These guys were really different. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.080 And I can tell you here in the San Joaquin Valley, 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.000 when you saw an agrid business billionaire, I knew a 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.359 lot of them. They had cowboy boots on and Levi's 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.679 and a cowboy hat, and you wouldn't be able to 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.880 make a distinction between them. And they're higher than money, 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.439 even though they lived pretty well and they were wealthy, 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.120 but they were pragmatic people. But when I'm at Stamford 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.479 University and when I see these people come on campus, 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.960 so I have to speak and I see these, you know, 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:48.240 a guy with flipflops and long hair and he's stalling 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.600 off about Trump, and somebody whispers to me, Well, he 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.679 just got a paradigm that's better than tapal. He just 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:59.159 sold out for three billion dollars. It's just staggering amount 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.240 of wealth it's in. And that's what it probably mirrors. 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.520 When San Francisco sneezes. LA gets the flu, we get 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:11.040 the food. All these ideas, all these ideas that are 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:17.480 toxic are invented in that nexus between San Francisco government, 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:23.600 Silicon Valley, Stanford, UC Berkeley twin left wing that trains 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.560 these people. And that's that. You know. LA used to 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.680 be a conservative place, and the left used to say, well, 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.800 we can't compete with them because they're so wealthy and powerful, 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.200 and LA runs everything which we could run of it. Well, 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.000 now they're much more powerful than Los Angeles. They have 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.840 a lot of we're going to have. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.679 We're going to have to leave it there. Victor Davis 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:51.760 Hansen from the Hoover Institution up at Stanford University, author 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.960 of the forthcoming book The counter Revolution, The Fall and 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.879 Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement, which is 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.679 available for pre order online at Amazon dot com. You 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.680 can follow him on x at vd Hanson. 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If you're curious as to how I'm filling 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:47.640 out my ballot, my ballot is on the website right now. 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:49.960 That's not to say that you should vote the same 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.679 way I do. Do your own research, figure out what 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.840 works for you, and vote that way. But a number 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.439 of you email me and want to know just exactly 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:00.800 how I'm voting, So find we put it up on 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.960 the website, so it's there for your enjoyment. 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:08.000 Wait a second, Johnny, you didn't vote for Pamela Price. 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:12.760 Hard to believe, isn't it. 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:19.120 You think people should support Ursula Jones Dixon over this 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.320 crazy lady. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:25.600 If you want to find out why I came down 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.320 that way, Randy, you can check out the podcast where 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.439 we talk about Pamela Price. Oh, we have talked a 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.639 lot about Pammy Price in the past. 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Excuse me, so 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:06.440 many different ways to listen live to what we're doing 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:08.080 here every single day from noon to three. 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:09.240 Make sure you subscribe. 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:11.639 There's a lot of interesting, exciting stuff we're going to 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:13.800 talk about later on in the year, so you want 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:16.919 to be subscribed, and you can download all the podcasts, 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.520 including all the ones where we talk about the airing 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:21.320 of the grievances from one pam E. 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:28.240 Price, Jeph for Brown and find out well we're experiencing 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.120 more problems with the nine to one one system here 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:34.480 in California with those details. Here's mister Randy Waning. 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:37.679 This time it's San Diego County that is seeing a 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.680 shortage of nine one one operators that is leading to 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.960 longer and longer nine one one wait times. For more, 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.840 here's NBC seven in San Diego. 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.520 For me, I need to transfers to the paramedics. 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:55.960 So, based on national standards, the San Diego County Sheriff's 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:59.199 Office is not answering nine to one one calls fast 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:04.160 enough and is an ongoing shortage of emergency dispatchers. 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.199 This is becoming a statewide problem. And part of the 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:11.159 issue here is these standards are very very high obviously 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.879 for these jobs, and they're very very very very stressful, 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:18.159 so people quit and it takes over a year to 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:19.119 train somebody. 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:23.800 We have an update right now for you to an 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:26.879 NBC seven investigation that found that some callers are waiting 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:30.080 minutes for an answer, with many of them just hanging up. 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:32.120 An investigative producer. 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:37.040 What is this Oakland, Well Shang was right on top 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:37.280 of that. 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:42.320 An investigative producer, Mike Dorfman reports the county has essentially 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:45.719 given up trying to fill more than a dozen empty positions. 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:48.920 You know, you'd think that would be the last thing 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:52.119 they do at a time when performance is below national standards. 0:23:52.520 --> 0:23:55.719 Even though the county admits that more dispatcher bodies equals 0:23:55.720 --> 0:24:00.600 a faster response, when every second counts, beeping. 0:24:00.359 --> 0:24:01.200 Noise you hear. 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:06.200 Is bad news, and investigator bad news at the San 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:10.320 Diego County Sheriff's Office. It means at least one nine 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:13.600 one one caller is being forced to wait potentially for 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:14.560 life saving help. 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:18.760 Most Oh, boy, nine on one, please hold well and 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:21.960 keep in mind it's not just crime victims who called 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:24.800 nine one one. You could be having a stroke, You 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:26.840 could be having a heart attack, you could be having 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:30.800 a medical event where getting you to an emergency room 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:34.520 is critical to making sure that you survive or making 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:37.080