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Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the latest edition of Looking out for you. Let's get started. Maybe my most controversial commentary that I've done on YouTube and I got to deal with it. I really want to, but I have to deal. So you remember in October 7th, 27th, I should say October 27th, Tucker Carlson had a guy on his podcast, Nick Fuentes. All right. So Mr. Fuentes is a young man, 27 years old, political commentator, and he's far, far, far right. And not only that, but he rewrites history. He kind of likes Hitler in the Third Reich. He doesn't like Jews very much. And a lot of things he says are anti Semitic. In my opinion, he would say they're not, but you can decide that for yourself. But he raises the question of antisemitism in America. And that is what we're going to deal with tonight because you need to know about it in a fair and fact based analysis. So let's start off with a soundbite from Fuentes and Carlson. Go.
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And what you're saying about putting aside the tribal interest for the corporate interest, that's absolutely the case. And that's the only way the country is going to stay together.
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Exactly.
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That's my concern. And I absolutely agree with you. I would say, though, that the main challenge to that, a big challenge to that is organized Jewry in America.
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Organized jewelry is offensive to Mr. Fuentes. And apparently Mr. Carlson agrees that there's some kind of organized jewelry. Okay. And now I'm not quite sure where that is. They have an office. Can I go visit? Every ethnic group in this country has organizations. Okay? You have Italian, you have Irish, you have Polish. They all have clubs and fairly organized. Some of them have political action committees that legislate on their behalf to try to get whatever they want put in front of the public. So it's not paramount in the United States. But, you know, if you look at New York City, we got Little Italy, we got Chinatown, we got Woodside, where the Irish people are and people band together because they have commonality and the Jewish people do that too. But there's some kind of organized thing that's doing something wrong. All right, so if one does apparently objects to support for Israel, I'm an Irish guy, I support Israel. I understand why Israel is the way it is because millions of people would kill all the Jews. So that's why they got to have a strong defense. They can't be tolerating terrorism or they'll be dead. It's as simple as that. All right, so Fuentes goes on there and he says this stuff about organized jewelry and I'm going, what are you talking about? All right, he doesn't define it. Now earlier, a few years ago, he did define how he believes and it's scary. Roll that tape. Let's just get the Hitler thing out of the way. Do you actually admire Adolf Hitler?
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In some ways, yes. And I'm not a national Socialist and I'm not, you know, I wouldn't identify that way because I'm a, I'm a Christian. So I'm not any kind of a socialist or a fascist. I like ye believe we should have a Christian government. It's Christian country, God runs the world. We should have a government in accordance with that. But, but honestly, I don't share this histrionic Jewish view that Hitler is this exceptionally boogeyman evil figure.
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Now that is really frightening. Now I don't care what Nick Fuentes says. I don't care. He doesn't know anything. He's dumb. If he reads my book Confronting evil, which is 100% fact based, you'll see what Hitler and the Third Reich did to Jews. Now there's no two sides to that story. There's one story, it's documented. If you want to think it isn't, that's your neurosis. But believe me, when you go out and pedal this stuff, that Hitler is not an eagle figure. I mean, that is just off the chart. That's the kind of stuff that disqualifies you from the court of public opinion. So I'm not going to book anybody who said that on my program, even though I can debate them into pudding in about two minutes. Why bother? Why give them a forum? They haven't earned it. This is stupid. You can say and make up anything you want, right? That's what I told Bill Maher over the weekend. And if you want to see some of that, it's on billorilly.com but I said Marr didn't have mine. I didn't have them on. Why? Why would you put people like. That's so irresponsible and hateful. Because millions of Jewish people lost ancestors who were burned alive or brutalized in cams run by Nazis. And Hitler ordered it, Hitler wanted it, Hitler did it. And you got a punk like Fuentes running around saying, Hitler's not an evil figure, so he disqualifies himself. All right, now most people know that. But then it comes down to, well, if you're an analyst or a podcaster or something, shouldn't all sides be heard? Roll a tape on that. Now let's talk about Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes. I would never platform Nick Fuentes. I would just never do. There's no click or view that's worth highlighting someone who is an absolute lunatic who's detrimental to humanity, period. I mean, to put Joseph Stalin On a pedestal, ten 18s a day, you just don't do it. All right, so I come down on that side. I mean, I'm you. I'm not gonna. I'm obviously a believer in free speech, but why legitimize somebody who doesn't know anything? Or maybe they're not quite right? I'm not gonna do that. All right, let me run down a few things so you can get this into perspective. But that ignited the anti Semitism debate in America. That ignited it, that back and forth. Because the social media with Mr. Carlson is very powerful, reach a lot of people. Okay? There are 7.5 million Jewish Americans. There's 341 million of us and only 7.5 Jewish Americans. This is cabal. Come on. It's. There's just no numbers. All right, New York, L.A. miami. That's where most of the Jews live in America. 23% of Jewish homes, households earn 200,000 or more. That creates envy. So Jewish Americans work very hard. A lot of my business people are Jewish, and I've known them for decades because they're very good at what they do. I'm Irish, they're Jewish. I raised in Levittown. There were Jewish kids all over the place. I never had a problem, ever. I don't know what it is. I just don't know what it is. Why would you pick out Jewish Americans for any scorn for what? Now, anti Semitism began more than 3000 years ago because, all right, the Egyptians subjugated the tribes that evolved into Jews. You saw the Ten Commandment movie, Charlton Heston, Yule Branner, and they were slaves. The Jews were slaves under the Egyptians. And then the Jews escaped. All Right. And then they formed a bigger tribe. And the tribe clashed over land and culture because the Jewish people believed in a certain God and a certain theology. Enter Jesus. Okay. Who was a preacher in what is now Israel, Palestine. Now the Romans, who governed that territory back then, they despised the Jews. They thought they were the lowest precincts and. And vice versa. The Romans taxed them up to here. And Jesus was a Jew. And Jesus was attracting all of these crowds, thousands of people showing up. And I write about it. In Killing Jesus, which is a history book, not religious. The Romans basically came to the conclusion Pontius Pilate was the governor. This guy's not worth the trouble. Because the Jewish authorities in the temple at Jerusalem, they were jealous of Jesus. They weren't a part of Jesus. He was taking away their power. So they solicited the Romans to kill him. And the Romans did. Then Christianity developed that after Jesus died. And some Christians blame the Jews for killing Jesus, which is not historically accurate. The Sanhedrin didn't like him, but they didn't have the power to kill him. Only the Romans did. Then Rome collapses and the middle of Europe descends into chaos. There is a sin in a Catholic Christian religion called usury. You know what usury is? That's lending money for a profit. Big sin back then. So the only people who could lend money in medieval Europe were Jews. When the money was not paid back, some Jewish landlords, money lenders, took the land, took the home. That lit another fuse of anti Semitism that exists to this day. That combination of Jesus and money lending formed the anti Jewish feeling of which then exploded in World War II. And it wasn't just Hitler. Stalin hated the Jews. Ukraine, Romania, you name it. And the Third Reich. The Nazis tried to wipe out the entire population of Jews. They got more than 6 million of them. After World War II, Jews had nowhere to go. Nobody wanted to take them in in Europe, nobody. So they petitioned the British. Who own land in the Middle East. Yeah, they owned it. They took it over. And then with the help of President Harry Truman, in 1948, Israel, the country was established so the Jews had somewhere to go to protect themselves. Ever since then, there's been conflict between the Arabs and the Jews. One more thing. So the prophet Muhammad, he shows up in the 6th century A.D. okay, he's born in 570 AD, Anno Domini. I use that. And he grows up and to be the prophet of Islam, he clashes with Jews. All right? It was political land. And that formed the rivalry between Islam and the Jewish faith. So you could See, if you're Jewish, you got everybody coming after you. Now, America is a tolerant place. And there's a poll. Washington Post. All right, September, how safe do you feel as a Jew in the USA? This is only among Jewish Americans. Okay, safe 70%, less safe 30%. That tells you that there really isn't rampant anti Semitism in this country. And I believe it. I've been all over, as I said, my experience. I didn't have any problem ever. I got a Jewish friend, Jeff Cohen, goes back to six years old. And as I said, all my business people. What is this? So the two areas that are fueling anti Semitism in America today are the far left. Progressives who hate Israel, hate that country. Fascist, genocide, you name it. That was the college stuff last year. Vile, vile progressives hated Israel and by extension some of them hate Jews. Then you get the far right. Nick Fuentes, neo Nazi people. I'm not calling Fuentes a neo Nazi. I don't know him. But he accurately reflects their point of view. There are many of those people, there are far more progressives who hate Israel than neo Nazis that hate Jews. Okay, not many neo Nazis, thank God. But still today, I think you ask any Jewish American there ought to be here, okay? Because we are not a nation that embraces anti Semitism as a whole. You know, I was in California over the weekend and then I was up in New England on a way back. And people outside of New York, the New York metro area, they call all 16 million of us. Can you imagine that? 16 million people. You wonder why traffic is so bad. Well, they don't really understand this mam. Donnie thing the way that we do, because we see it, we live it, and the national media doesn't really care about it, number one. And number two, falsely reports a lot of things. So I was on a Bill Maher program on HBO Friday night and everybody in LA is talking about, you know, Mandani and New York because LA's got a little bit of an inferiority complex to New York City. Lazy, second largest city, but we double them really in City population, LA county is the biggest county in the country, but it's a, it's a whole lifestyle thing. So people in California supposed to be laid back, they get the nice weather and then New Yorkers are aggressive and whether it is so. So and. But there's a rivalry. A rivalry. So I knew Maher was going to ask about Mandani. Why wouldn't he? That's the big story, political story last week. And here's how that went down. Go. I mean, here's a Mandami quote from his speech. He said, we will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve. Yeah, wait, wait till they get to the. I can tell Bill O'Reilly thinks that's ridiculous. So crazy. Look, first of all, he won because he was running against Bela Lugosi, all right? I told Andrew Cuomo, why don't you just campaign with a cape on, turn into a bat? The guy was as dour as possible. Man, that is a good campaigner. I mean, guy was smiling. You know, when he's going to come to your house and take your stuff, he's going to smile. Thank you for the couch. Bring it on. Well, I'm just going to. Tonight. Let's look, let's give him a week, okay? I've been critical. Let's give him a week to say just congratulations. All right, that's fair. You know, Give him a week. If I had to make a major bet, I would say in three months, that's 12 weeks. And we'll start to feel pain of a 34 year old socialist in charge of the nation's largest city where the police don't like him. And I do believe that the commissioner, Jessica Tisch, is going to stay on. I do believe that will happen. And it can be hard for her because the cops are going to be under pressure by civilian review boards, the city council, and, you know, then she's got to stand next to man Donnie. She's a Jewish woman. He doesn't particularly like Jews. You know, there's a lot of cultural there. But I do have it from good authority that she will probably stay in that position. She likes the job, you know, and her rationale would be, look, I, if I walk away, more bad things are going to happen. At least I can do some good by staying as commissioner. And I would never challenge that at all. I wouldn't tell or suggest to Commissioner Tisch that she walk. But I will tell you that Mandani is a problem. He's going to be an administrative problem, a philosophical problem, and that will manifest itself. They call it unintended consequences. Okay? And you don't know, but his point of view is so extreme and it's not based on reality. I mean, he can't fund all these programs and he's got to butt heads with Albany. Hochul is in dire straits up there. The more she supports him, the more likely it is she'll lose to the Republican next year. Then she could boot it out of there. Now she got to worry about a primary. Hochul does from the left. They're going to primary her from the left. That's why she's, you know, supported Mandani. Anyway. Complicated thing, but I figured you'd like to hear that soundbite from Mar, who's a quintessential Los Angeleno. You know, I used to like going out there, and I don't really anymore. And my whole crew felt the same way. We got on a plane coming back and nobody was going, oh, boy, can we stay a couple extra days? There's just some heavy shroud over that whole city, Los Angeles, and unfortunately, I think it's coming here to New York. Rudy Giuliani, legendary New Yorker. I met him when I was anchoring Inside Edition. He was our criminal justice correspondent because he was a U.S. attorney. This was before he was mayor. So Giuliani did one of the best jobs ever running the city of New York. Drove crime down. Tough guy, honest, I believe. And his mayoralty should be the template. Of course it isn't, but it should be for how to run the biggest city in the country. Now, he got into trouble, and I don't know Mayor Giuliani that well. He's been in my home and, you know, I know him to the extent that when I see him, we have conversations. But I'm not a confidant of his. But I did tell him, I did mention one time to be very careful with the 2020 election fraud charges. And I didn't know at time. I mean, I was open to if it happened, I'm going to report it. But we never got enough evidence to make that determination. And that's what we don't do speculation. We don't do wishful thinking. We don't do any of that here, as you know. So Giuliani got involved with the fraud allegation in the election of 2020 because he was a top advisor to President Trump who lost the election and didn't like it and said it was fraud. Giuliani, 77 years old right now. He's 73 when all this crazy stuff. No, I'm sorry. He was 72 when everything started. And he has been charged and sued and bankrupted and everything. So over the weekend, President Trump issued a proclamation providing a pardon for Mayor Giuliani and a few others involved in 2020. Didn't get a lot of coverage. And the pardon is basically symbolic because Giuliani doesn't have any criminal activity against him now in the federal arena. Georgia is still going after him but that case is falling apart because it's corrupt in Fulton County. I don't think it's ever going to get anywhere. Remember, the president cannot pardon you from a state charge, only federal, so. But Trump wanted to make a statement about Giuliani and those who helped him in the 2020 election, and that's why he issued this. Now, I feel very bad for Rudy Giuliani. And even though I knew that bad things were going to happen to him and others, it's not I told you so because the man is a hard worker, government service. He did work for some law firms, but he wasn't a money guy. He wasn't like Nancy Pelosi, compiling millions and millions of dollars through his public service. And then he had to sell off some of his memorabilia. He had to declare bankruptcy. What a nightmare. Had to move out of New York, okay, down to Florida. Because in Florida, no matter what happens to you, they can't take your home. Okay? They have a Homestead act in Florida. Where in New York, if you get screwed and you lose lawsuits or the government fines you, they can take your house in Florida, they cannot. So Giuliani's down in Palm beach area somewhere. I'm not in touch with him, but I don't really like what happened to him. And I think a lot of it was vengeance on the left. And right now, he's still on the hook for millions and millions of dollars and about 350,000 in administrative fees. On and on and on and on. And he didn't have it. Doesn't have the money. So for a guy 77 years old, that's supposed to be your sunset years where you don't have to deal with amazing amount of stress. He does, and that's why I feel bad for him. Okay. So that's where Mayor Giuliani is. I'm going to make an attempt to see him when I go down to Florida this winter just to make sure that, you know, if he needs something done, I'm at his service because, you know, as I said, sympathetic to him. So Mayor Elect Mamdani says he's gonna call the White House, roll the tape. Do you plan to call President Trump?
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I will be reaching out to the White House as we prepare to actually take office, because this is a relationship that will be critical to the south successes.
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So it wasn't just a hypothetical scenario on our debate stage. You're actually going to call him. What will you say?
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Well, I'll say that I'm here to work for the benefit of everyone that Calls the city home.
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I don't know if President Trump's going to take that call. I hope he does. I think it's the right thing to do. Ma' am Donnie is the mayor of the nation's largest and most important city, but I don't know if he will or not. We'll follow that story. Now, the reason Mamdani has to call Trump and he's got to be nice, can't be disrespectful, can't be arrogant. None of that is because the Federal Government in 2026, the upcoming fiscal year that we're in now, because the fiscal year the federal government starts in October, has earmarked $7.4 billion in federal funding to New York City. 7.4 billion from the feds. That's six and a half of the total spending. Six and a half percent. What is it? Go. Department of Education, Department of Housing, Children's Services, Temporary Assistance for the Poor, some homeless stuff, but not a lot. So the money is coming in now, if Ma' Am Donnie disregards the Constitution, for example, or promotes anarchy by harming the New York City police, and he's threatened to do that by cutting a billion dollars from the budget. Trump's going to stop that money. Now, that'll cause lawsuits and angst. The progressives in Congress will jump up and down, but, you know, President Trump Mandani steps out of line, there's any trouble at all, ICE agents are attacked in New York City. Anything like that, that money's going to stop and the city will go down even faster. So Mamdani has to reach out. Boy, do I hate that cliche. Oh, geez. To the President of the United States and try to say, look, I'm not as crazy as you think I might be. I really want to work together for the benefit of all. If he puts it that way, maybe Trump will give him a chance. I don't know. Okay. But there comes a point where Zorhan Mamdani is going to have to grasp the reality. You heard Governor Hochul said, we don't have the money to give you for free buses. So free buses is gone already. Already gone. Not going to have free buses because Mamdani doesn't have the money. Think it's 800 million a year that would cost. And the State of New York none had the money to give him because both the city and the state are in massive debt because they spend so much on entitlements and union contracts and on and on. You know the drill. Now we have Other things that are in play. Free child care. That's not going to happen. That's more expensive than the free buses. Now Hochul says, well, I have some money for that, but where do you see? So Mamdani wrote in on free, free, free, and I'm looking at it. I'm not seeing a lot of this. Final point. One of his hallmarks, the new mayor, is that he doesn't want to send the cops into potential criminal situations like domestic disturbances. Well, if you know anything about the police, you know that some of the most dangerous encounters are domestic calls because you don't know what you're getting. You don't know if there's weapons in the house. You don't know how irrational the people are. Madonna is going to send in social workers without knowing what kind of danger lies behind the door. Unarmed social workers are going to go in there. No, it's not happening. Not going to happen. And it's my job to point out reality to Zorhan Mamdani, and I will continue to do that. I have said ever since Mandani announced he was going to run for mayor if he wins, that Kathy Hochul is toast. This time next year, November 3, 2026, I believe she'll lose. Now, there is a new poll, but it's too early, I know. To be fair to Governor Hochul, this is a very early poll. JL Partners, which is an independent market research research firm, here's what they asked. If the 26th election governor of New York held today, who would you vote for? Hochul, 46. Elise Stefanik. 43. Don't know. 11. Wow, that's a tie. Second question. If the election. Well, today, would you vote to reelect Hochul or do you think it's time for somebody new? All right, reelect Hogle. 18. Firm. 19. Maybe time for someone new. 55. Final question. Do you approve the job Kathy Ogle is doing as governor of New York? Approved. 40. Disapprove. 54. Don't know. 6. Where are you? Don't knows. At least to find a good campaigner. Going to have a lot of money run up against Hochul. The more man Donnie screws up, the worse it is for Hochul because she endorsed it with a little hand up in the air, you know, the whole thing. So I'm sticking with my prediction. A lot of people think I'm crazy, but I'm pretty good at these things. So on the shutdown front, my congressman Tom Suozzi was one of six Democrats in the House to vote to open the government. Way to go, Mr. Suozzi. Laura Gillen on the south shore of Long Island. No, no. She wants to keep it closed and then get money for millions of people who can't afford health care or something along those lines. How could you vote to keep the thing closed after 43 days when you know the Republicans aren't going to. Okay, Covid spending on Obamacare no matter what. Come on, let's get into the real world and help the folks. This shutdown hurt a lot of New Yorkers lot. And you're into some theoretical world. Oh, we knew. Look, if you win the midterms, the Democrats. I'm talking now, then you can start spending crazy stuff again. $38 trillion debt. And you'll hear in the body of common sense tonight how that's threatening all of us. Segment on that. Democratic Party doesn't seem to know or care about that. And I'm not a party guy. I don't know why the Republicans don't have any health care plan. What are they doing? That's one of the most important issues. So a lot of people giving up on New York and they're moving out and yelling and screaming. I have not. I told Sid this morning, Sid and friends, I'm staying. You know, I'm gonna fight the good fight because this is the home court right here for me. And I'm very comfortable. My places, where I live, the communities are excellent. They treat me very respectfully. I try to help them out when I can. I have a good dynamic. I mean, going to Tennessee at my age, I, you know, it's a nice state, but it's not New York. I mean, the options alone, even Florida, you get down to Florida. I'm not a golfer. If you're a golfer, it's a whole different thing. I'm not a pickleballer. So what am I going to do down here other than annoy people? So, I mean, you go in the water. The ocean is nice, but there's only so much of that because the options for entertainment, sports discourse. It's the action. The action we have in New York. So if they pass a wealth tax, I'll have to go. That'll drive me out and a million other people. And they may if Hochul continues her swing to the left. But again, I don't think she's got a hold on reelection at all. We're going to the Democratic socialist precincts. Bernie Sanders, Ocasio Cortez, man, Donnie, and a whole bunch of other people here to stay. It's Not a fad here to stay. Lots of Americans, millions and millions and millions, want the government to take care of them. They're willing to sacrifice their freedom, a lot of their money to have the government, nanny state and the far left. That's what they want. Gotta put that word democratic in front of the socialists, because people do vote here. So let's go to Sweden. Been to Sweden. Nice country. When I go to Stockholm, I stay in Gamla. Stan is the old quarter of the city. And you can't go in the winter, it's 14 below zero. But I'd say from May 1st until October 15th, Sweden. Nice place. Okay. Very laid back stuff to do in Stockholm. And then it goes way up to the Arctic Circle. If you want to tour around. It's not as pretty as Norway. Norway is beautiful, the fjords. But Sweden is Sweden. It is a socialist country, democratic, because it votes. So here are the stats. You love the stats, right? Population of Sweden, 11 million. Okay. Overwhelmingly pale Swedes. All right. Scandinavians, Vikings, 2% Syrian, 1% Iraqi. They don't have any minority over there at all. It's all one race. The Nordic race. USA, of course, has 343 million people. So a little bit different than 11 million. Median household income in Sweden, $60,000. That's not a lot of kroner. They don't have kroner anymore. They have the EU 60k. However, everything is controlled by the government. The rates of your rent. I think you can buy a home independently, but everything's artificially kept down. So anyway, median income, average, I should say average annual wage In Sweden, $60,000. In the USA it's 84,000. No, we're living a lot better than they are in Sweden. Unemployment in Sweden ready 8.4%. That's a lot of people in a country of 11 million not working. Why? Because you don't have to work. The government will give you whatever you want. Why go to work? In the USA is 4.3, 8.4% unemployment in the nation of 11 million. A lot of people just walking around. Because I know why should I work for 60,000? When I was over the last time bombing around, I wanted to get a late lunch. I get about 1:30 in the afternoon. Nothing was open. Siesta, hello. From 1:30 to 3:30 or 4, all Swedes are racked out. Nothing open in the middle of the prime day. And I said to one guy, and everybody speaks English in Sweden, what? You can make some money staying open because all your competition is closed. And he goes Government will take it. Why make it? They're in. Okay, so here are the tax rates. We have a top rate in America. 37% federal income tax. You get state, you get city. If you live in New York, on and on and on. Never ends. Okay, bottom rate 10. And that's about 24, 25,000. But below that you don't pay anything. In Sweden it's 35%. Okay. Across the board. And they have a different system, so you don't pay it to the government. In Stockholm you pay local. Okay. I don't know how that works out. Crime much lower in Sweden. And here they don't have a lot of crazy stuff. But they have a lot of drugs. They have a lot of drugs running around over there. Big drug market. Immigration. We have 52 million foreign nationals living in the USA. Sweden has 2.2 million, which when you have 11 million total, that's a pretty big number. Okay, 21% of the population is foreign born in Sweden. And in America it is. I can't find it. 35%. No, can't be that. Anyway, it's much higher than that. So we have an immigration. Everybody wants to come here. I don't think a lot of people pounding to get into Sweden other than the refugees from North Africa or anywhere. Can you imagine going from Africa to Sweden just climate wise? So I'm not down on Sweden. If you want to live there, you could have a nice life. But you're not going to hit it big. Okay? You're not. You'll have your Volvo, you'll have your one and a half kids, but you're not going to have any backup. But the argument from the socialist is you don't need it. Because once you retire, government pays your pension, pays all your health care, pays everything. The problem is that it's not as good. So you want a knee replacement in Stockholm the people have assets. They. They go to France or America because there's not many doctors, because you can't make any money. Everything is controlled and you lose freedom. I'm a big capitalist because I came from nothing. No money at all. Zero. I got out of Boston U, I had zero money and now I've made it pretty big because of the capitalism of the United States. If I were in Sweden, they would have paid for my college there. But where am I going then? TV anchor in Stockholm. I'm not going to make very much money. So you're trading. You're trading Opportunity America for security. Sweden. We know we're getting all of this child care Never ends. We're getting it, but it's not top notch, okay? Because they can't afford top notch even though they only have 11 million because the tax base is so low and they don't want anymore. Sweden passed laws to limit immigration. They don't want a lot of people running around over there. They're liberals, but not when it comes to immigration. So socialism is here in America and it's not going to go away because of the public school system and parenting. The combo. So many urchins today are coddled. They're given everything. When I was 10, I cut lawns, I shoveled snow in Levittown. I made some money, but I was out there scrambling. If I wanted ice cream, I had to make the money to buy the ice cream from Good Humor. Now you can buy the Good Humor truck for little Freddy. So everything is. Is there. And then these kids get out of school and they go, well, wait, I don't have a big house. I don't have a brand new Mercedes where, come on, I want it. I want free stuff. School doesn't teach competition, doesn't teach capitalism the way it used to because it might offend somebody. When I taught history in Miami in a ghetto, okay, I told those kids, you can make it big or you can be a drug addict in the gutter. It's on you. And if you become dependent on drugs or anything else, you'd fail and you'll live in a slum. I was pretty blunt and I had parents complain. Oh, my, my. Sally came back very upset. Okay, okay. Sally's 17 years old. He needs to wise up about the world. So I've been always a proponent of our system that provides opportunity. But Europe, they don't want that. Generally speaking, they don't want it. They want to be guaranteed security. Are they wrong? I can't say that it's wrong for me. I wouldn't live there. But for them, if they put security over opportunity, it's their choice. But here in the usa, more and more and more young people, they want stuff. Now, I know that's oversimplifying. And we have a party that caters to that, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Oh, yeah. Here you go. It was amusing. When Mandati gets elected, one day later, the governor of New York, Hochul, says, ah, we don't have enough money to get free bus rides. Couldn't have said that a week before, madam. Of course not. Of course not. That would be being honest with the folks. I don't think it would have made a difference. But, you know, so there'd be free bus rides or free food or free health care. I don't even think they get the health care done here. They can't. Child care, maybe they'll subsidize it a little bit. They could probably do that by gutting the paychecks of New Yorkers and taxing everything. Probably do that. He'll have to try. But again, I'm not a final thought here. I'm not a anything goes capitalist. There has to be oversight on the greedy corporations like the insurance corporations that are killing everybody now. Gotta be some oversight. Rules, rules. Fair rules. 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