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Foreign Bill O'Reilly, here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
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Thank you, Bill. It is the final day of the year, December 31, 2025. Here's what's going on today in America. Unfettered access, 85 people charged, Bitcoin, ATM fraud and AU revoir Clooneys. It's all coming up. And Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, a federal judge ruled the that ICE officials can access Medicaid data to find people who are in the United States illegally. It is against the law for illegal aliens to even access Medicaid benefits, but some states have state funded plans that do allow it. The Trump administration has allowed Homeland Security to access HHS records. But in July, 20 states filed a lawsuit saying that you're not allowed to do that. But the judge said that basic biological location and contact information is legal. So ICE has access now to six categories of basic personal information, citizenship and immigration status, address, phone number, date of birth and Medicaid ID. The Attorney General, Pam Bondi announced that 85 Somalian nationals have been charged regarding the fraud that's been going on for years in Minnesota with, quote, more prosecutions coming. She said Nick Shirley's work has helped show Americans the scale of fraud. And in Tim Walls's Minnesota, she said we have more prosecutions coming. Buckle up, lawmakers. Nick Shirley's video has over 130 million views. The FBI announced that this last year, fraudsters have tricked Americans into sending $333 million using Bitcoin ATM machines. In 2024 scammers caused $250 million in losses and that was double from the year before. And now it's $330 million. There's 45,000 of these Bitcoin ATMs nationwide. You insert cash and send bitcoin anywhere in the world. Only takes a few minutes and once the transaction's done, it's impossible to recover this money ever again. The D.C. attorney General sued one Bitcoin ATM company saying that 93% of the transactions on their devices were helping fraudsters and the median age of the victim was 71. George Clooney and his wife Amal have been approved for French citizenship. They own a farm in France. George was born in Kentucky. He claims it's because France has more privacy laws which benefits their children. Good timing for the Clooneys. Next year, the French government is making a requirement that you can only become a French citizen if you can speak French to the point where you can defend your opinions, understand complex texts and communicate spontaneously with a native French speaker. George Clooney said his French is horrible. Heaven forbid we have an English requirement here in America, not how Somalis can set up the Quality Leering Center. No one bats an eye. I'm Mike Slater. Your message of the day coming up next.
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Mike Slider filling for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly Update. Message of the day. The great Andrew Breitbart said that politics is downstream of culture. It means culture comes first and politics follow. Politics are a reflection of our culture. Therefore, it's important that we take our culture back, not just an assessment on who controls our culture. Today, there's a new movie coming out on Netflix called Steps, an animated film that follows Cinderella's evil stepsisters who are actually depicted as kind and misunderstood. Coming out spring of 2026. Gee, Slater, the movie hasn't even come out yet. You haven't even seen it. How are you going to turn this into something bad? Because we've seen this a million times. This is what the culture makers and Satan do today. It's very sneaky. They blur the line between good and evil. It's not black and white, it's all gray. Who really are the bad guys? Are they really bad or are they merely misunderstood? If you think this doesn't matter, we see the same type of thinking in our criminal justice system. Oh, is this murderer really bad or was he just misunderstood as a child? Sure, this guy's been arrested 83 times, but, oh, he just needs a, he needs a hug and an 84th chance. Then he'll, he'll be an astronaut. This worldview starts in children's books and movies. Paul Antleitner He's a cultural critic. He said girls have been hit particularly hard with a what you were told was evil is a misunderstood good bad. Messaging from Wicked Maleficent Cruella what's the end result of internalizing this message throughout your childhood? A moral compass that has no sense of true north. I've not seen the movie Wicked because it looks awful and the stars in it are the wokest people imaginable. So I'm out. But I looked at the plot. Essential point of Wicked is that the Wicked Witch of the west is profoundly misunderstood due to prejudice propaganda and her green skin, which leads to her being scapegoated as evil. Despite her advocacy for the oppressed. The story reimagines her as a smart, fiery outcast who faces lifelong bullying and discrimination, challenging simplistic good versus evil narratives. Born different, the witch accepts this while boldly opposing injustices like the silencing of talking animals, earning her the Wicked label from the wizard's manipulative regiment. The evil wizard brands her as wicked to unify Oz against a common enemy, using propaganda to control the populace. Blah blah blah. Cruella was another movie where Cruella deville Devil Cruella deville was bullied as a child and her mother died because she was pushed out of the window by a dalmatian us. Who really is the bad guy? Villains in our postmodern culture have been reframed as victims of prior oppression and trauma. This is why real life criminals are portrayed as victims. It's all part of the progressive moral matrix. Everything is upside down. We used to live in a culture with clear good guys and bad guys because we were a people with moral clarity. In the movie It's a Wonderful Life, who's the good guy? Who's the bad guy? It's obvious and we need to make it clear not only for kids, but everywhere in our culture today there is good and evil, and good is called to fight against the evil. So C.S. lewis wrote a beautiful essay about children's books and the importance of them. He said, since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and Dungeons Giants and dragons, and let villains be soundly killed at the end of the book. This is the year where we bring back the good, the beautiful and the true. Reject all movies with moral inversions. This is a time for moral clarity and courage. I'm Mike Slider, something you might not know next.
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Mike Slater filling it for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. It is important that we understand the 1965 Heart Seller Act. Barack Obama about a month ago said, what's unique about America is this idea that you get a bunch of people from every corner of the planet who don't look alike, don't worship the same, don't eat the same foods, don't have the same last names. That's what makes this country exceptional. That's not true. That's not what America ever was, a bunch of people from every corner of the planet. I've been told my entire life that diversity is our strength, that America is exceptional because we have nothing in common at all with each other, can't even talk to each other in the same language. That makes us great. What are you talking about? Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, whose family's from India and Pakistan, now he's a congressman. The other day he said, you know, Donald Trump, he's a Democrat. So, oh, Donald Trump wants to bring us back to a 19A pre 1965 immigration policy. I thought that's an oddly specific date. Why did he pick 1965? Well, from 1921 to 1965, we had what was called the national origins formula, which restricted immigration from around the world. The formula was used to determine how many people we let in and from what country around the world. The quota was 3% of foreign born persons from each country based off the 1910 census. So if the census in 1910 said there were 10,000 Italians in America, we're only going to allow 300 Italians a year. That's it. Now, three years into this experiment, they said, you know what, this isn't tough enough. Let's go back to the 1890 census and lower it from 3% to just 2%. And then for good measure, in 1925, we passed the Asian Exclusion act just to make it clear that we're not letting in anyone from asia. So from 1921 to 1965, there was no third world immigration in the United States. And I would argue that this was for the best for our country. It was a time for everyone to assimilate to something specific, something good, something defined not just a bunch of people from everywhere who can't talk to each other and have nothing in common. As Barack Obama put it, in 1921, 14% of the people in this country were foreign born. We got that. Dropped down to 4% in 1970. Today we're all time highs at least 15% and we don't really know because we have no idea how many legals are here. It is time for another version of the 1965 Hart Cellar act, because diversity, dare I say, is not our strength.
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Have a wonderful new year. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. We'll see you in 2026. Spread the word.