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Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the latest edition of Looking out for you. Let's get started. I want to tell you about GO Banking rates. It has a study out and it says that if you want to live comfortably in New York City, if you're single, not married, single, you need $185,000 in salary or investments or whatever. 185 to live comfortably. Whoa.
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You know, that's not an easy number to get. And even if you get the 185, you pay 34,000 in federal tax off that at least. State 10,000 FICA, okay, 13,000 New York City local taxes, 7,000. And that'll go up if Van Damme wins. So you're in for more than $60,000 in taxes, a third of your take home, gone, gone. And then every time you walk out on the street, you'll have to pay tax on everything you do. So you got to know that if you're going to live in New York City, it is, but it's not the most expensive. So 185 here are the most expensive. San Jose, California, $265,000. You need to live comfortably there. That's for the housing. San Francisco, 250,000 San Diego, 206,000 Louisiana 195,000. All right, we told you, New York, 185,000. Long Beach, California, south of LA, 180,000. Seattle. Whoa, 180,000. Boston, 170,000 Oakland. And why would anybody want to live in Oakland, 164,000 and D.C. 158,000. So if you want to move to someplace cheap, Detroit is the least expensive. You just need $66,000 to live comfortably in Detroit. That's it. So New York, 185,000. In Detroit, 65 other inexpensive cities, Memphis, Wichita, Kansas, Baltimore, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Oklahoma, El Paso, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, San Antonio. So out of all of those cities, I would probably say that Indianapolis and San Antonio would be your best bets. Stuff to do in Indy, big basketball team and, you know, it's a fairly sophisticated downtown. San Antonio is, you know, make out well down there. No state tax hot, but a good downtown area, the Alamo, the Riverwalk, that kind of thing. So Mandami maintains his lead in the polls and his big thing is I'm going to bring down costs of living in New York City. Well, he's not number One, because he'll do the income redistribution dance. He'll raise taxes on everything he can raise taxes on, and then people will leave, and then it'll go deeper and deeper into debt, and that'll spiral down. So in four years, a mandami. It's possible city will go bankrupt because he's not going to have the tax revenue to do anything. He can't even pay the cops, and he doesn't even want to pay the cops. So that's another thing you got to take into account. So the future is not bright for New York City. Even if Cuomo beats him. Cuomo is not the end all that's for sure. He's just not as bad as So I don't know. But New York is resilient. I'm not giving up on it, but boy, oh, boy, how did we get here? Thank you. De Blasio. Right. Well, that was the beginning of the. The skid. Tonight, I want to start over. Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York State. So she says she's being selected by President Trump for vengeance. She is charged with real estate fraud. You know the story. Ms. James, of course, went after Donald Trump in a selective way. Even campaigned on getting him before she was elected ag but now she's on the other side and doesn't like it. But here's the real rub. She's campaigning for Ma' Am, Donnie, a guy who doesn't like the cops. Whoa, whoa. All right. So Letitia James shows up Washington Heights yesterday with all kinds of grievance. Roll it.
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You see, I know what it feels like to be attacked for just doing your. But I also know what it feels like to overcome adversity. And so I stand on solid rock, and I will not bow. I will not break, I will not bend. I will not capitulate. I will not give in. I will not give up. You come for me, you gotta come to all of us.
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Well, you don't have to come for me. And I want to be fair here. I'm not convicting Letitia James of anything. She deserves the presumption of innocence, and she might very well beat the rap. It's federal rap, okay? In Virginia, that's where it's going to be tried. She may be acquitted, and if she is, I'm not going to have any beef with it because I don't know. I don't know what she did. It looks like she did something wrong. But for her to say that she's attacked for just doing a job. Hello. I think we know Someone else who falls into that category, Ms. James. And you were the perpetrator. But even worse, you're stumping for ma'. Am. Donnie, roll the tape.
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I see the courage that is embodied in Zoron, and that's why I am supporting him. He is a leader fighting for a better future for this city. And he, like me, knows what it's like to be attacked, to be called names, to be threatened, to be harassed. And each and every day, he wakes up with this fire in my belly. In his belly. Because he wants to build a better New York.
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Oh, give me a break, lady. You're the Attorney General. You're supposed to protect all New Yorkers. This man wants to cut a billion dollars from the police budget. What is wrong with you? Bodies will pile up as the cops quit if he wins. Are you kidding me? My God. And this is what ideology does to a person. She puts that above her job of protecting New Yorkers. There's no sane person that feels Mandani is going to protect the city of New York for. From violent criminals. He doesn't want to. He said it. My God. Team President Trump does not want Mam. Donnie to win the mayoral race. I think it would be better if Mr. Trump stayed out of it, but he doesn't want to stay out of it. He's a New Yorker. I understand. And here's his latest. Roll the tape.
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It comes through the White House. The funding for New York and for every place comes through the White House. And I'm very generous, and I was always very generous with New York, even when you had opposition there. But I was always very generous. But I wouldn't be generous to a communist guy that's going to take the money and throw it out the window.
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All right. But there's nothing much that Donald Trump can do to New York City, even if Mandani is elected, because Congress allocates the money and the block grants, but Trump can give him a hard time. And you'll remember, during COVID Trump was very generous in New York. Actually moved a ship into the harbor so that people could be attended to who had Covid on the ship. It was never used by Governor Cuomo, by the way. Interesting. By the way, I'm sorry about that cliche, but it was never used. But Trump was generous, and he's, you know, as I said, I mean, he's got a soft spot for the city, but he can give Mandami a hard time, and I. And he will. His Mandami hates Trump, and I don't know If Trump hates him, but certainly doesn't like him. All right, there's another story. And this stuff just never ends. And this is one of the reasons that if you vote for Mandana, you get more of it. So there's a judge in the city named Ralph Wolf. He's a liberal guy. And in walks 32 year old Dimitri Marshall in front of this judge. Marshall is arrested for slashing a human being. Okay. And his rap sheet, he's got multiple arrests for assault, beating people up. He's a violent career criminal. Yeah, I serve time. Demetri Marshall. So he's standing there in front of Ralph Wolf, the judge, and he's charged with slashing a 27 year old man across the face for no reason. No reason. Okay, what does Judge Wolf do? Well, he lets him out, no bail, and then what happens? Marshall slashes another person very short time later. So it's Wolf who did it. Marshall is some sick guy who should never see the light of day again. He's now being held without bail at Rikers, but you got two guys with lifelong scars on their faces and many other people. Okay, And Wolf let him out and it was seven hours later when he slashed somebody else. In seven hours. There's no way to prosecute Wolf. There's nothing you can do about him. That is really. That's what needs to be addressed. Yeah, Marshall, give him 20 years. Get him out of society. 20 years is what this guy should get. But what about Wolf, the state legislature, they should have a mechanism to get these judges suspended at least, because this is dangerous and everybody knows it. I don't have to convince you. Yeah, you'll have some progressive loons that object to me saying what I'm saying, but they are marginal people. They don't really matter. The regular folks who live in and around New York City know. And who signed that no bail law? That would be Andrew Cuomo, which complicates, of course, the mayoral race. And I haven't seen a lot of remorse. Yeah, he said, ah, maybe it wasn't a good idea. But he doesn't seem to be that upset about it to me. So anyway, look, my job is to tell you what's going on, to report the truth. I am doing that. I think the state legislature in Albany is horrible. If Mandani wins, Hokul will lose a year from now. I truly believe that because New Yorkers will hold her partially responsible for Mamdani. This is a very serious one tonight, and I'm going to be very methodical in how I present it to you. So I don't want any misunderstandings or anything like that. So we're going to talk about Charlie Kirk's legacy because it's under fire from the left. The progressives don't like him at all. And after Mr. Kirk was assassinated, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said on Fox and Friends that he kind of admired Mr. Kirk. Roll that tape.
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The more I learned about him, I thought, this guy's a modern day Saint Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist. He's a hero. He's one, I think, that knew what Jesus meant when he said, the truth will set you free. And to do it. Now, I understand he was pretty blunt and he was pretty direct. He didn't try to avoid any controversy. He didn't even try to avoid confrontation.
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The difference is the way, the mode, the style, that he did it always with respect.
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All right? So that is the Cardinal's opinion. Enter Ben Jealous. He is a former leader of the naacp, very liberal man, okay? And he goes after Dolan. He says Charlie Kirk is a hater, a bad guy, and that Dolan is wrong to give him any praise whatsoever. So he writes a column in the Chicago Sun Times this week, and I'm just going to give you some of the highlights of the column. When a church leader blesses cruelty as holiness, he's not preaching Paul's gospel, he's sanctifying Sodom's sin. Even the gospel is most cherished. And conservative pulpit's Matthew leaves no room for such cruelty. It's Jesus does not build walls, he breaks bread. He warns that all law and prophecy rests on the love of God, a neighbor. And he defines that love in action. For I was hungry, you gave me food. I was a stranger, you welcomed me. To preach that gospel while excusing violence against the stranger is not fidelity, it's hypocrisy in holy robes, unquestioned quote. And then Jealous goes on to say that Dolan needs to apologize to everybody. Now, Jealous is basing his column, part of it anyway, on the case of silverio Gonzalez. On September 12th of this year, Mr. Gonzalez, an undocumented migrant in Chicago and father of two, all right, who had been here for a while in this country, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Franklin Park, Illinois. All right? He was shot and killed because the ICE personnel say that he was using his car to try to hurt them. They were attempting to stop Gonzalez, who had a battery of vehicular arrests, basically alcohol related stuff. And they wanted to talk to him. And Gonzalez didn't want to talk to the ICE agents, so the ICE agents shot him dead. There is footage on this camera footage, and it's unclear whether Gonzalez tried to hit anyone, but it was clear that he was not cooperating and he was using his car to try to get away. Gonzalez is from Mexico. He worked in a restaurant, and unfortunately, when he was killed, he had just come from dropping his children off at school. So this has been a cause of the progressives who don't want any enforcement by ICE at all. Jealous uses this as a cudgel against Dolan and Charlie Kirk. But we researched that, okay? Kirk didn't address this case. All right? He didn't. So Silverio Gonzalez was not part of Kirk's resume as far as commentary is concerned. And certainly Dolan didn't know about this man, but Jealous somehow hooks him into Kirk. Now, we also found that Kirk did address a 2024 border incident. Remember, that was when Joe Biden was president in El Paso, when a large group of migrants broke through a border barrier, overrunning ICE agents. All right, you might remember this story about 600 migrants overwhelmed ICE agents. Kirk did not like that. Here's what he said. Go.
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Why do we have a military? Why do we have men with guns if we can't use them? Having a country means being able to draw a line on the ground and say, this is our sovereign territory. If you enter, we have lethal force and we're willing to use it. And you can escalate. You don't have to start with lethal force. And by the way, I don't rejoice in this. I don't want to have to use force. But these people are criminals. They're invading. They made the decision to invade. They made the decision to do a pincer movement into the United States of America. They are bringing force upon themselves.
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So you can agree or disagree with Mr. Kirk's analysis, but it's certainly not unreasonable. It doesn't violate any gospel that I know of, and I'm pretty versed in the Gospels. Twelve years in Catholic school. So if a country is being sieged by foreign nationals, which is exactly what happened under Biden's open border policy, country has a right to defend itself. Now, Kirk is being fairly inflammatory here with the lethal force and all that, but it's not. I want them hurt. I want these poor people stomped. And it's not just jealous. This is the entire progressive movement doing this. Totally taking things out of context. Totally. Now, I've been doing commentary, what, 30 years now, there are ways to make your point without having the point misconstrued, even though I've had that dozens of times. But I'm very, very, very, very methodical in the way I make my points. Kirk is 32 years old. You can't expect him to bring that kind of discipline. So Jealous just wanted to get Dolan because he doesn't like Dolan's opinion that Kirk was a positive force in the world. That's what this is all about. And once again, I'll remind you that Ben Jealous doesn't want any enforcement of immigration law at all. The ICE agents on the ground, they're not in charge of adjudicating who's a criminal and who isn't. How could they possibly do that? Their job is to round up people who don't have credentials to be here. They take them in, detain them, and then their cases are reviewed. That's how it works. So they don't know. All right, second one is on affirmative action. This is a little more troubling. So Charlie Kirk made a statement about affirmative action and mention four black women. Roll the tape.
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If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called the BR racist. But now they're coming out and they're saying it for us. They're coming out and they're saying, I'm only here because of affirmative action. Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.
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Now, I disagree with that last part. All right. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously. You had to steal a white person slot. That's wrong. But that doesn't negate Charlie Kirk's entire career or him as a person. That was a mistake, him saying that. And I would debate him all day long. Here's why it was a mistake. He doesn't know about the brain processing power. Of the four ladies involved, they all admitted. Three out of the four admitted. Ketanji Brown didn't say anything about affirmative action. The Supreme Court Justice. So he was wrong. Three of them, Sheila Jackson Lee, Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, all said they were held by affirmative action. Okay, but as far as assessing their intellectual capabilities, Charlie Kirk can't do that. He doesn't know them. He can observe them. Now, I think Joy Reid is a racist myself, and that means that she sees everything in skin color, prism and she doesn't really like white men. I think that's demonstrable. Sheila Jackson Lee not as extreme as Reid, but in that zone. She's a congresswoman, former congresswoman from Texas, Michelle Obama. You know, she treated my daughter very well, Michelle Obama. And I think Michelle Obama is a smart woman. I do now. She might have been helped by affirmative action. She says she was in her book. I'll believe her. But I don't think she's a dumb woman. I don't think she took any white person slot. So I debated Kirk on that. But again, you have to look at the totality of a person because you could cherry pick any human being and make them look like a hypocrite or a hater or anybody you can do it to. It's wrong. So Dolan titled his opinion that Charlie Kirk spread the word of Christianity, which he did in a positive way. Jealous is entitled to his opinion that Kirk was a destructive force for him. However, Jealous did not honestly portray what really happened with Kirk and Kirk himself. Some of the things he did were good, some not so good. I think that describes every human being. Thank you for listening to Looking out for you. Remember to subscribe to my podcast feed. Also, consider becoming a Billor.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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