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Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show.

Victor is the Martin Inelianne Suns senior fellow in military history and classics at the

Mover institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale

College. He is the author of 28 books. The most recent one is the dying citizen and maybe we'll have

an opportunity to talk a little bit about the dying citizen today. But first, let's go to a few messages

and we'll come right on back and talk about the California reparations and a little bit about

Elon Musk and maybe get into some topics that are a little optimistic as Sammy Wink is often asking

Victor maybe we can have a little optimism so we'll do that today but let's have some messages first.

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Victor how are you doing today? I know we have California reparations on the agenda today and

California is how's the weather out there? It's very I'm kind of a little bit apprehensive because

it's giving me echoes of 2000 the winner of 2000 a late 2021 and which we had this dynamic wet

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