C (5:00)

That there's, there's providers inside the community that are then victimizing the community himself by signing them up. Because when we're going to some of these people, they're like, I had no idea I was in this program. So I think it's, it's asking us then, you know, for every crime, which of course the majority being committed by white men, asking us to do more about that. I think it's crime in general.

B (5:21)

This guy is an idiot. And. Okay, but it's more than just stupidity. More than that. He's trying to divide. See, he's trying to get away from the actual occurrence of a massive billion dollar fraud against the taxpayer into white men are evil. That's a game this guy is playing and he's a governor of Minnesota. This guy should be on the street someplace just wandering around talking to himself. This is harrowing and it's not unique. I ignore most of it. I don't do anything on social media with these crazy people ever. We just don't do it because they're trying to make money being crazy. Why would I publicize that? That's irresponsible. You go on social media and you listen to these loons. They're saying crazy, outrageous stuff because they want people to click in and then they get money from that. Not going to help them. But an elected official, somebody with power over 6 million people to sit there. No apology from him. No, gee, I'm sorry. My state police should have been watching this, and we should have known about it. Two journalists uncovering it. And I'm sorry we didn't. We'll be more vigilant next time. No, none of that. That's white. White men in some kind of crazy comparison that makes any sense anywhere to anybody. Now, what happened in Minnesota, I know the state, okay, is that the media got taken over by the far left and the newspapers, and most of the people live in Minneapolis, St. Paul. Rest of the state's very rural and fairly conservative. But, you know, the big. It's like Oregon, Portland. It's the little states with the big cities dominate. That's what happened there. And then they support guys like Waltz and they throw everything behind him. And then the big donors from out of state pour the money in for him so he can buy TV commercials. And that's how they get power. And as I said many times, most people don't pay attention. They don't know what the deuce is happening. If you were in Minneapolis right now and you go, hey, that crazy governor you got, he's blaming white men for this fraud. People go, like what? What? They don't know? Well, now they do, because we have a powerful microphone. Going to be a lot of changes in the Trump administration in 2026. They've already started. Assistant FBI Director Dan Bongino is out. I don't know really why he's out. We'll know, it'll drip out, but he's just gone. And there'll be a lot of others moving out, too. And this happens to every administration because there are personality conflicts, there are performance questions. It's on and on and on and on. But what people don't understand is how brutal it is to. To work in a federal bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. everybody's trying to kill everybody. Everybody's stabbing each other in and back. It's really something. I have stayed away from that my whole life. But I, as a CEO myself, I run three corporations. I know that you got to hire good people. And when I say good, the first word attached to that is honest. Honest people. So if they make a mistake, they admit it. If they are not doing the right thing, you can talk to them about it. And they're not defensive in making excuses. That's very rare in Washington. Now, Bongino was a conservative bomb thrower on the media. That's what he'll go back to. He attacked me on many occasions, didn't have Any effect on my life at all. I'm not a conspiracy kind of guy. And when people do that without factual backup, I call him on it. If it's important I stay out of most of that conspiracy world, I don't have the time to do it. And I think it's dull, tedious. But anyway, what I was recommending and I did support Cash Patel as director was a little more hands on experience in an organization like the FBI because the agents across the country are very good. They just got those guys out in LA who are going to blow up stuff on New Year's Day. And the FBI is good, but the agents, they want people with the same experience that they have. See? And when you bring somebody in from the media, that's hard. So again, I don't know what happened there. It is a fact that I oppose Mr. Bongino's nomination, as I did with Pete Hegseth, for the same reason. So the Defense Department, the Pentagon, the military chiefs, they want people who have been through what they've been through. Now, Hegseth has experience in military, but he's primarily a media guy, okay? Not a lifelong military guy. And I knew that in that culture that they were that President Trump was dropping these individuals going to be turbulent. And it's turned out to be turbulent. I don't think he'll survive. 26 could be wrong. Actually, I hope I'm wrong. I don't wish old to the man, but I got to call it the way I see it now. Something happened earlier this month that I actually stuck up for Bongino. So he gave an interview to Sean Hannity and he was talking about his past, that he was in the media and he was talking about things in an analytical way, which means that he wasn't reporting, he was analyzing. He was putting his opinion in. Well, the left used that to call Bongino a liar. Here's the tape. Go. Listen, I was paid in the past, Sean, for my opinions. That's clear. And one day I'll be back in that space. But that's not what I'm paid for now. I'm paid to be your deputy director. And we base investigations on facts. Okay? So when he says that we based investigations on facts than the far left liars, and I hate to use that word, but it's absolutely true. Oh, so he wasn't basing his analysis on facts. I'll just give you a sample. It is garbage. Go. What world were you living in before when you were getting paid that you thought you would just Ignore facts. This is why things are so broken. Because there is just a movement, especially on the right, to say to hell with facts or to do whatever gets me the most clicks and gets me the most money. This is how we're going to own the liberals. No, this guy's ridiculous. What Bongino is saying was he wasn't a hard news reporter, he was a commentator, which is true. Wasn't suggesting that he was lying in his commentary. Has anybody with an IQ over 50 would know, but this is what it is. So anyway, I'm a fair man, okay? If somebody's being treated unfairly, I'm going to point that out even if I'm not a super fan of that person. And I did. That was on December 8th. And I didn't do it for any other reason than to get it across to the American public that when a person says anything in public that is political, the other side, the opposition, will demonize that person and not tell the truth about them. And I've been doing this commentary business now. It'll be 30 years in 2026. I started in 1996 doing national commentary and you know, they've accused me everything under the sun because they want to hurt you. And that's the central theme. So there's nothing wrong with criticism. All right? I criticize Bongino, I criticize Hagseth, I criticize Trump, I criticize Biden, I criticize them all. That's my job. I'm like an ombudsman, but I do it in a very surgical, fact based way, okay? I don't do it to hurt them or their families. I don't want to destroy them. There's nobody harder on Joe Biden than me. If you read my book Confronting the Presidents, he's the second worst president in history. Now, that sends Democrats screaming out the door, but I back it up a thousand ways. But I don't want anything bad to happen to Joe Biden or his family. I'm not looking to hurt him as a person. He's hurting the country, or was and did, and I have to point it out. Even Hunter Biden, as pathetic as that man is, I don't want to see him die or anything else bad happen to him, even though he's a grifter and he is. But my job, whether it's no matter who it is, is to tell the truth. And that's not the central theme of the media anymore. It's just not. And that's hurting the country. So there's an interesting story I Told you that. Mandani. New York State, you're going to run to big trouble with the federal government. And because the feds pump so much money into New York State, if they block the money, which is starting to happen, this state is going to be in dire trouble. So the latest is the Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy. He's mad because 50% of the commercial driver's licenses issued out of Albany, New York State are illegal. He says. Okay, what does that mean? It means they're being given to people who are not American citizens who should not be here. When you hear that there is a truck illegally on the Northern State Parkway or other roads around, you can count on the driver of that truck not being able to speak English, doesn't know what the road signs are, and drives the big truck onto a parkway where trucks are illegal because the bridges are too low for the trucks to pass underneath. Hello, wanton Meadowbrook parkways. Now, Duffy says if New York State does not correct its unlawful his word issuing of commercial driver's license CDLS Within 30 days, the federal government is going to withhold $73 million in highway funds from the feds. Think the roads are bad now? Think they're falling apart now? Hello. Now, of course this is all under Hochul. Okay? It's not a man Donnie situation. The hokul apparently doesn't care. I don't know, but if 50% of all your commercial driver's licenses would be given to people who shouldn't get them, you got a problem, lady. And I kind of applaud the federal government from looking at this. Now, some states, they just give all licenses to undocumented migrants. They don't care. But it's against federal law to do that. And what the feds have is the money. Okay, so a precise investigation found more than half of 200 licenses that the feds reviewed in New York State were issued improperly. That's a lot. Okay, Mostly for people who were here illegally. And you know, the liberals will say, oh, you're targeting minorities. Look, you either have laws and regulations or you don't. I understand the progressives want anarchy. I got it. They love the Biden open border stuff, but that's not how an efficient and fair society should be run. How about a little Christmas stuff? Are you ready for that? I hope you are gonna leave you a little. Going to take you back. So most Americans were not born yet in the 1950s. They were later on babies. But I was a kid in the 50s and early 60s and we of course celebrated Christmas because We're Irish Catholic, and we lived in Levittown, which is in central Nassau County. Levittown was the largest suburb in the country. And it was started in 1947, two years after World War II ended. It was aimed at veterans who came back from the war with no money, and they had places to live, and they all want to get married and have kids. So the Levitt brothers and Father Levitt and sons, they bought up all this farmland in central Nassau, and they built identical houses all over the place. 17,447 houses, and they still stand. 70,000 people lived in Levittown by 1953. It was so humongous, they had to divide it into four. Post office, Westbury, Hicksville, East Meadow, Levittown. And I lived in the Westbury portion right off Eisenhower Park. So it was a very ethnic neighborhood. There were three ethnicities that dominated. Irish, Italian, Jewish, all live side by side, house by house. And when Christmas came, every house, even the Jewish homes they had, the menorahs were lit up. And the week of Christmas, there were parties and the urchins were everywhere, playing street hockey and out. And a lot of times it was snow on the ground. So the snowball fights and sled sledding and all that. But every home, you would go and they would invite you in for hot chocolate. I over OD'd on that. Cookies. I mean, it was a sugar bonanza. And then it was enough snow. We'd have snowman competitions with the biggest and best snowman, and everybody participated. It was Christmas music everywhere. It was very joyous. Okay? And even the real tough kids kind of lightened up, you know, I love it. There were brawls every day because it was hundreds kids. It was like, okay. But at Christmas time, for about two weeks, most of that stopped. And then you gotta. You had to figure out what. You get it. Your mom and dad and your sister and I don't have any money, of course, but we figured it out to get them something. I would shovel snow. And that got me some money. Most of the people give you three, four dollars, you shovel their driveway. Remember, all the houses were the same, identical. So my house is a small page Lane. I lived. It had three bedrooms. One upstairs, two downstairs. Tiny, One bath living room with a little tv, black and white, and a kitchen. And that's it. Now, my father added on a back room and a upstairs bedroom was finished. In the beginning, it was an attic. Anyway. I didn't even know it was a small house, because every house was small, but every house was decorated I remember my house was so nice and we had a natural Christmas tree. I'd get up on Christmas day, five in the morning, and nobody was up. But I just sit on the stairs because they banished me to the upstairs bedroom, which is a wise move on my parents part. And I would sit there and just look at the tree and the presence underneath it. And I was magical as a word. I'm sorry I'm stealing it from Drew Barry more. But it was. And it stays with you forever, for your whole life. And it's so different now. It really is. We didn't have any expectations. I would ask for certain things. I wanted a, you know, Ford Apache set or Fanner 50 gun that you had in a holster. You know, I was a. I was that kind of a kid. And maybe some sports equipment, but it was modest. But it didn't matter. The spirit was there. Levittown, 1950s. Really? I'll never. I'll take it to the grave. Thank you for listening to Looking out for you. Remember to subscribe to my podcast feed. Also, consider becoming a BillORiley.com premium member. It will enhance your life. Sign up@billoriley.com membership, get access to full episodes of the no Spin News. 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