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that's the baby amazing story. Easter Sunday, there is in a Popemobile after pretty intense two months of illness, double pneumonia, 88 years old. And he's out in Madison Square, thousands of people. And then he talks to Vice President Vance. We'll get into all of this.

It's an important story. Even if you don't believe in God or the California, church or the pope or anything like that because it clashes theology and politics and that's we're going to increasingly become important in this world not just in this country and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo so pope died at 735 this morning monday in Rome and it was 88 as I mentioned and people were shocked because of yesterday's Pope Mobile appearance and he looked very clear and eyed as he walked around and greeted everybody and they were ecstatic I was in Vatican City I think it was 80 81 on Easter Sunday

It's an amazing thing to be there. And the Pope spent 17 minutes with Vice President Vance and gave his children, you know, he had small children, some chocolate eggs, and they had a nice conversation. It was not intense. The Vice President said that the Pope invited him. It was the Pope's invitation. So I guess Vance was the last.

outsider, a famous person, to talk with the Pope. And I'd be interested to hear what the Vice President has to say about that conversation. He's in India now, talking to Modi, the Indian president, about the tariffs and all the stuff that's going on. All right, a little bit about the Pope. Jorge Mario Burgolio, born in Flores, Argentina, right outside of Buenos Aires, came a Jesuit priest in 1969.

in 1969, that Jesuits are the intellectual wing of the Catholic Church. It is a liberal group now. Back then, not so much. The Jesuits were involved in a movie The Exorcist in the book. He was appointed Cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Now, in that time in Argentina, I was down there covering the Falklands War, so I saw it firsthand. It was ruled by a military junta coming off Juan Perron.

There was no freedom there, really. It was a police state. And most of the people were poor, desperately poor, because the oligarchy in Argentina stole all the money. Very important for you to understand that. So what the Cardinal saw, then subsequently the Pope, was massive poverty fueled by corruption. And he became a liberation theologian.

And many, many Catholic priests who work in the third world are that. The problem that Jorge Mario had was that he put the blame on capitalism for the poverty, and that was wrong. There is an editorial in the Wall Street Journal stating that. It wasn't capitalism that were keeping the people poor. It was the corrupt administration government in Argentina, run by a guy named Galtieri when I was there. And you had to fear him.

Galtieri would have you killed. And I don't blame, I don't think there were stories about, you know, how the Cardinal didn't do what he should have done. A bunch of books. All right, so then he gets to be Pope, and he comes on in. And eight years ago, almost a day, I met him in a very brief conversation. But I was in his proximity for two hours, and I'm a reporter. And I watched every move the man made.

And he dealt with hundreds of people. He was exceedingly kind and patient. And he was 80 years old. My interaction with him was just a greeting primarily, but he and I, like, stared at each other for maybe 15 seconds after I said Buenos Aires, I addressed him in Spanish, and it was eerie. He didn't, he didn't break my gaze. I don't know whether he recognized me or knew I was in the small group. I don't know.

But it was just as something came off of him. Okay. So the Pope ran into trouble in America and some other European countries because of his, because not sympathy so much, but he, promotion, I think that's a better word. He promoted illegal immigration in the sense that he said, if you are a, Christian you have to treat these people with dignity that was everything now on December 31st 2019 five and a half years ago here's what I said as for Pope Francis himself he is a liberation theology guy he lives in a world where religion

Christianity and Catholicism are there to improve the plight of the poor You must understand where he is coming from. That is his mission. The poor, help the poor, the downtrodden, the incarcerated, the migrants, help them, help them, help them. It does not go against Christianity, does not. The only problem with Pope Francis is he gets into trouble when his solutions make the poverty and migrant problem. worse and hurt good-minded people, which he has done. Pope has done that. Remember, when the Pope spouts a political opinion, it had nothing to do with theology,

he's not infallible, it's not dogma, it's not any of that. It's just his opinion as an Argentinian cleric, which is what he is. I like him. I think he's a sincere man. I think he tries to help people. And that's my bottom line for Pope. I don't need Winston Churchill in there. So I think that's the most accurate assessment you're ever going to get on Pope Francis. Now, if he's not in heaven, then there's no hope for me. Okay? But, and there is that but, he didn't analyze the migrant movements in a way that I believe was effective.

objective, number one, or responsible. Number two, not, I guess I'm committing a sin here calling a former Pope irresponsible, but he wasn't actively trying to do that, but he couldn't see the big picture. And you'll remember his quote about the Trump administration, you have to build bridges, not walls. Well, you've got to obey the law, your holiness. I wish I had been able to I was close to getting an interview with him. And I wish I had because that's what I would have said. You can't obey the law. The law is there for a reason to protect people.

You can't just say, ah, I don't like this law because it hurts some poor people. And it does. Our exclusion of everybody in the world who's poor hurts people. If they could come here, they'd be a lot better off. That's true, but we can't do it. We can't afford it. We can't supervise it. We can't assimilate it.

No nation could on this earth. And that's the truth. So I put this up to the Pope being naive and living in a world of theory. And here's the kicker on Pope Francis. Jesus, the Nazarene, was exactly the opposite, not in his compassion. Jesus was the most compassionate person ever to live if you believe in the works, and I do. Okay? But Jesus respected the law.

They tried to trap them with the coin thing. And then he said, render to Caesar to the things that are Caesar's. And the message was, look, you have an obligation as a human being to help. the downtrod and to help everybody. That's Christianity. You've got to help other people. If you can't do that or won't do that, you can't be Christian. But you have to obey the law, even if it's Roman law. And Roman law was horrible. Going on vacation, we're here for it. With kids who turn a back seat into a courtroom drama over whose tablet is louder, whose charger is faster, and while watching the same cartoon for the

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and you're on a cross if you didn't. But Jesus understood that he couldn't preach himself. if he defied Tiberius. They would have killed him in a heartbeat, just as they killed his cousin, John the Baptist. They beheaded him because he criticized adultery on the part of the Roman governor. And if you're going to do that, you're going to die.

And Jesus knew it. And Jesus' time was. not to die. He needed two years to establish Christianity. So Jesus is much more realistic than Pope Francis. I get a lot of mail van der Well, Pope Francis, walls in the Vatican, and he doesn't let everybody in. Okay, I got it. I got it. But that's just, that's not important. What's important is the mindset, all right? That you've got to help people. people. If you're Christian, all right, you have to, you're compelled to. But you can't hurt people in the process. You can't hurt other people in the process. And I don't think Francis

ever molded, melded those two together. If you did, I didn't see it in the public statements. All right, so Donald Trump will be over there, and I was thinking about going, but I probably can't, but I'm going to think about it overnight to go to the funeral, but I don't know if I can do it logistically, but we'll, I'll think about it. And that's a memo. Harvard's suing of the Trump administration. My God. So the president doesn't like Harvard. I can tell you that because I attended Harvard and he knows it and, you know, it gives me jazz. All right. So 2.3 billion is gone. Harvard's going to lose that from the federal government. Now he may freeze another billion dollars, and Harvard's fighting back. President is named Alan Garber, okay? And Garber

is now ordered his counsel at the school to sue the Trump administration. Quote, these actions of stark, real-life consequences are patient, students, faculty, staff, researchers, and the standing of American higher education in the world. Moments ago, he filed a lawsuit to halt the funding freeze because it is unlawful and beyond the government's authority, I encourage you to read our complaint. Harvard will lose in federal court, but it'll have to go to the Supreme's. They'll go all the way up, but I think they'll lose. Because we, the taxpayer, have no obligation to fund ideological schools. According to the student newspaper of the crimson, which is decent. That's run by lefties, but they try.

82% of the Harvard faculty is liberal or far left. 82%. How does that happen? It happens because the people doing the hiring at Harvard University are only hiring left-wingers. I guess there aren't any smart conservatives or traditionalists or libertarians. There's no smart people in those categories. 82%. So you got an ideological college. That's what you got. And my tax money is supposed to go there? I don't want Rush Limbaugh University financed either. Okay? If you're an ideological school, I'm not, you're not entitled public tax money. Period. That's the constitution. The public money is for the public good. Promoting far left tenants isn't the public good. It's an ideological good.

So Trump's right. And Harvard just try to come to some accommodation. All right, joining us now is the guy who graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA. His name is Anson Fredericks. I got him on for two reasons. He's got a new book out called Last Call for Bud Light, The Fallen Future of America's Favorite Beer. But he did go to Harvard. He's a smart guy.

He's a president of Strive Asset Management. And he knows the turf about Harvard and about Bud Light. so we'll get into both of those. First, Harvard, did I make any mistakes in my commentary on it? No, Bill, I think that you nailed it. I think most importantly is get to take a step back, I think we would be asking ourselves should the federal government, should your tax dollars be going to fund universities in the first place? This is sort of a relic of an older time. The U.S. government never funded universities really until World War II. Okay, let me stop. Let me stop you, though. The government asks Harvard. Harvard doesn't ask

the government to fund their research. The government asked Harvard to do it because the smartest people, or very smart people, are at Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Penn, and they have areas of expertise. So the government comes in and says, look, we want you to find a cure for Alzheimer's at the Harvard Med School, and we're willing to fund your research and try to find that cure. That makes perfect sense to me. It doesn't make sense to you? I think it might have made sense maybe 50 years ago, when again, you didn't have venture capitalists, you have private equity, and have a lot of money that was going into trying to solve cancer or trying to create the next great thing on the internet or trying to do AI.

Because you had a very kind of nascent sort of private markets at that time. And Harvard, with $3 billion that used to spend in 1970s, they could actually help create the internet, help create these technical advances. Today, the government's spending over $60 billion a year. You know, most things the government starts spending money and that just keeps spending more and more and more. And we're seeing less than less that's actually coming out of these universities. Much more is coming out of the private sector.

So I actually think that the federal government, they should be incentivizing more private companies, whether it be a tax break, whether it's being private. I mean, look, in both cases, the folks watching us should know that nobody's held accountable if you fail. So the government's financing a doctor to research a disease, and he doesn't come up with anything. The doctor still gets a federal money.

There's no performance clause in the private sector or in the academic world. And that troubles me a little bit. All right, let's pivot over to Bud Light. So this was one of the dumbest things, and everybody knows it was dumb. You hire a trans person and Dylan Mulvaney, right? Now, Kaz was looking at your book last night,

to sell a beer that's consumed mostly by men, straight men, macho men, sports men. And there is this Dylan Mulvaney person, smug, promoting Bud Light and the Middle America goes no

we're going to punish bud light that's essentially what happened right that's essentially what happened actually this is really

much related to what happened at Harvard one of the reason that Harvard and Trump is rescinding a lot of the funds

is you recall that under the Civil Rights Act in 1964 you can't discriminate if it's of race, sex,

religion, et cetera yet two years ago you had Harvard's president caught in

game after Israel was attacked by Hamas could not say if to the genocide of Israelis was hate speech. And this is because you had people on the left like Harvard and this whole cadre of what I call the DEI complex. You had McKinsey who was pushing

DEI studies. You had BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager pushing DEI and ESG. You had the universities doing it. And they essentially kind of follow the money bill. They were the ones that were directing large corporations. I mean, Anheuser-Busch became the essentially the poster child of what went wrong in corporate America. But a lot of other companies were essentially putting money towards supporting very progressive, very... Okay, but it doesn't make any... It was, Anheiser Bush was the one that just became the one that became the poster shot of what went wrong.

When you're in Harvard Business School, they're teaching you how to make money. It's a capitalistic thing. I know there's DEI, but Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch, and you work for them for 11 years. Are they that stupid? That's a question. Are they that stupid? Well, they were, because when I worked there, you never would have gotten Bud Light. the largest beer brand in America that was enjoyed by Democrats and Republicans

for life, you never would have had a touch anything that was close to a political issue. You wouldn't have a touch transgenderism. You wouldn't have a touch abortion issues. All right. So you had horses. You had Clydesdales dragging the beer thing around. Budweiser frog, real men of genius, the was-up guys. And you got it.

Like, that's what beer was. He's actually brought people together. That's what excited people. That's what brought people together. But when you had this ideological capture, a lot of companies, you remember, you know, Disney got involved in the parental rights issues down. Florida. Right, right.

Coca-Cola got involved in voting rights issues. This became kind of... But here's what I don't understand. Why would the board of directors, why would the president, CEO of Anheiser-Busch allow something that could backfire so badly? Surely they had to know that there was risk in putting this transgendered individual in their ad campaign. Surely they had to know that.

This was ideological capture at Finest Bill. is if you have this, a European company now. So what a lot of don't realize is Anheuser-Busch is owned by a European company. This European company, InBe, has boards of directors that believe in more of this stakeholder capitalism philosophy, where businesses are supposed to get involved in social and political issues. That's the purpose of a corporation in mind. They want every company to be like Ben and Jerry's.

That's the problem. Those are not American values. That's not how most companies act here in the U.S. That's where the company got into trouble. And that's where the company still hasn't apologized to this day because it's really captured I think a lot of Europeans and European thinking that businesses are supposed to be kind of part of social enterprises working with the government, not for the benefit of share. I got it.

And the one that benefit was Modelo, the Mexican beer. So the book is Last Call for Bud Light, Anson Freericks. You might want to check that out. It's fascinating on how to destroy your profit margin. Thanks, Anson. We'll talk again soon, I hope. Okay, let's go to NPR. They're reporting, I guess.

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Number one, NPR has learned. From whom? From whom? Now, you want to keep them anonymous, you say that. But they don't even say that. NPR has learned. That's not reporting. Then the White House may be looking.

maybe looking are they looking or not this is just dumb ridiculous reporting and we're paying $535 million a year to NPR and and PBS in the form of tax dollars. Sorry I got my stupid phone and I didn't turn it off. Anyway, Trump of course, gets this question, and here's what he said. Go. Pete's doing a great job. Everybody's happy with him. We have the highest recruit the numbers. I think they've had in 28 years. No, he's doing a great job. It's just fake news. It just bring up stores. I guess it sounds like this frontal employees. All right, so so far, the president's standing behind. Hegseth, I think Heg Seth is shaky. Rated T for Teen. Each year.

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Now, deep stay, people ate Trump. All of that's involved. All of it's involved, it is. I don't know what's going to happen. peep, but one more, and I think it's over for him. But it has to be real, not NPR'd. Pope Funeral Update, he will be, the ceremony will be Saturday morning at 10 a.m. Rome time. President Trump and the First Lady will be there, along with leaders all over the world. It will be a dignified ceremony.

President has ordered all flags in the USA to be half mass until Saturday evening. Not much criticism from the left about Pope Francis. I watched the view today, very painful, to see if they were going to criticize the Pope. Whoopi Goldberg loves him. So there was no, nothing was sniping. Just a little bit on the right. Go. Do we want to continue and basically said as a woke direction in the Catholic Church,

or do we want to return to an affirmation of the faith based on what the apostles handed down? Okay, it's traditional Catholics versus liberal Catholics, but we went over to the Pope commentary. I hope you saw my presentation on News Nation last night with Lilin Vitterd. If you didn't, we have it posted on Bill O'Reilly.com, and that's worth watching, because I mill the migration thing into it and all of that. Border, lowest in history now, amazing achievement by the Trump administration, and it is. 673 a day in March.

That's it. Okay, that was down from 5,000 in March 24 under Biden. 5,000, 673, 94% lower because Trump's just enforcing the law. And he got Mexico to put their troops on the northern border. That's why. But apparently illicit drug seizures are not down. What? So some stats, 49 million Americans are involved with substance abuse.

27 million of them drug addicts. That's a big market, 27 million. USA spends 46 billion to fight the drug problem every year. 86,000 died from overdoses in the latest stats. 178,000 died from excessive drinking in the latest stats. That's in a year. That's horrendous. I mean, a quarter of a million people biting a dust.

Joining us now from Springfield, Missouri is a former special agent of the DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency. He served in law enforcement 28 years, Brian Townsend, who is an expert on the drug situation. All right, I don't understand. So if you're sealing a border down and illegal migrants, many whom were carrying illegal narcotics, narcotics with them for the cartels, smuggling them in. Why aren't drugs, why are drug seizures actually up from the Biden administration? Yeah, thanks, Bill, for having me on.

The problem is these cartels, these criminal networks are, they're highly adaptive. They're very sophisticated. And they're going to respond to our movement on the border and the, you know, the decrease in apprehensions in a way that makes them successful and unfortunately. Specific. Specific. I mean, if they're nailing down all of the illegal crossings in the night over the river, into the desert, there's a truck, picks them up, takes them to Chicago. If all of that is stopped, how are the heroin, the cocaine, a methamphetamine, the fentanyl, how do you get in?

Well, the legal points of entry, the same roads and highways that we would take to go into Mexico are the same ways that they're bringing a lot of the drugs into the United States are just, you know, they're trying to overwhelm our resources there with just the high volume of traffic. And, you know, fentanyl is, it doesn't take a lot to do a lot of damage. I mean, so, you know, multiple small loads is just as effective as, you know, one or two large loads. And, you know, they'll use tunnels. They'll use, you know, the ocean, Canada. I mean, they're going to, they're going to adapt. They're going to figure out ways to. All right, I got it, but it should, I'm stunned that the drug importation is up while the migrants have been largely stopped.

Now, fentanyl is usually mixed in with heroin or cocaine, and that's how it's sold on the street. The price of drugs on the street is pretty cheap right now throughout the United States, right? It is. Unfortunately, we haven't seen a rise in our prices. It means they just saturate the market, and they continue to do so. They're very good at that. they control the supply chain, the distribution chain. And yeah, we haven't seen a reduction in the prices, unfortunately.

The demand is too great. Yeah, the demand is huge, and it's not expensive now to buy a lot of drugs, even though crimes are committed to get the money by the addicts. My thing has always been you're not going to win the importation war. You're not going to stop the drug importation. It's just too much corruption, too much money, and you're always going to get it in. And if I'm wrong, tell me, because 30 years in this business, you know more than I do. But you can't stop it, particularly when you have almost 30 million Americans wanting to buy it on a daily basis.

But the demand side, you can't stop. And that's what they did in Singapore, where I did my thesis at Harvard on. They stopped the demand side where if you are caught in Singapore, which is a fascist country, with drugs in your bloodstream, you go to mandatory. drug rehab, 21 months. So you're gone. You can't buy any drugs anymore. And they took the market away. So there's no drug problem in Singapore. You couldn't exactly do that here, but you could replicate some of it. Am I wrong? Yeah, we could absolutely do more here to reduce the demand. We, you know, first of all, let's let's have the serious conversation and let's fund it, you know,

instead of putting band-aids on this situation. I mean, we have such a small portion of the world's population, yet we consume the majority of drugs. I mean, we need to figure that out. By far. More than anyone else. Right, because we have money. But you say fund the drug rehab, you've got to want drug rehab. Most of these addicts don't want it.

And that comes from the rehab studies. They don't want to get off it. They want to be high every day. And you can take them in and try to rehab them and they back out and they want to use. Right? Yeah. Unfortunately, we know it does take, you know, numerous attempts through rehab to break through, right, to help them.

So why am I doing that? I don't want my money doing that. I don't want to spend money on those people. I want to take them, put them someplace for a period of time, all right, isolate them. And then if they do it again, then the period of time gets more. And then they'll stop because they can't get their drugs. I don't want to be paying for 15 rehabs. Am I wrong?

Am I mean? I think we need to isolate why are they using drugs. I mean, that's why. What do you mean why? They're using it because they want to get high. That's why they're using it. They want to get intoxicated. I don't care whether they had a bad childhood.

Well, I mean, well, maybe not be our problem, but we can be human towards them and fund that problem because we know that that trauma, the abuse, those things are. Waste the money. If we can solve the root problems, we can help them. to solve the root problem. This is like migration. You can't sign a root problem. The root problem is they're poor in Honduras. We're wealthy. That's the root problem. Ask Kamala Harris. She was in charge of the root problem. The root problem of taking drugs is weakness, cowardice. These people are weak. They want to get high. They don't want to live in the real world. That's what drives me

crazy because we as a country won't admit it. Last word. I think there's more than this than that. And the stigma and the way that we treat folks because of this, you know, make it difficult for them to get treatment. And I think if we look at this a little differently, yeah, we might spend a little more money on the front end, but I think on the back end we're going to be, one, is saving people, and number two, is ultimately saving money resources. Well, you and I have a gentleman's disagreement, and you talk about stigma? What about the stigma of these people mugging some old lady going to the bodega trying to get some food? You know, is that okay?

Yeah, no, absolutely. What about ruining the city of San Francisco? What about shooting up heroin in your neck in front of children? What about all that? Does always feel sorry for them? I'll tell you what, I'm in charge of this, Mr. Townsend. You give me six months. I'll cut it by half, but these people aren't going to like what happens to them.

I'm not going to be mean to them, not going to abuse them, they're not going to be, they're going to be isolated. And that is the only way to do it. We appreciate your time very much. Russia techs Ukraine. We're talking about bad. Bad Vlad. Evil Vlad.

Okay. So he launches 70 missiles, 140 drones at the capital Kiev, kills 10 people at least, 90 people hurt. Why? Why, Vlad? You're supposed to be negotiating peace, right? Well, Vlad's a mass murderer. That's why.

Think back about the people who stuck off of Vlad, by the way. You know who they are. Okay. So Trump is now finally angry at Vlad. Here's what he said on social media. Quote, I'm not happy with the Russian strikes on Keith. Not necessary. Very bad timing.

Vladimir, stop. 5,000 soldiers a week are dying. Let's get the peace deal done. That was yesterday on Truth Social. Okay. That was today. No, it's today, I think. Anyway, Trump has also made at Zelensky,

because here's the game Zelensky is playing. Keep this in mind. I am sympathetic to the Ukrainians fighting their freedom. I don't believe that Ukraine provoked the war. I don't believe that Zelensky is an effective president of Ukraine. I think he's a patriot. I think he's a brave man, but I don't think he's qualified to run a country. Here's why.

Every time the United States gets close to a deal, Zelensky throws another security thing in. Oh, no, you've got to give us this. Oh, no, you've got to give us that. And he knows Trump's not going to do that. What he should know is, is Zelensky keeps doing this stuff that Trump's not going to pay for the war in Ukraine anymore.

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So Vlad says, okay, I'll stop, but I got to keep everything I have, which is 18% of Ukraine. I think you could do a deal, maybe you cut that down a little bit, and then you say, okay, well, elections, whatever. You just want to stop the killing for now. That's what you want to do. But this money from the United States can't keep going in there. And Zelensky's got to know that. So Vlad is the real evil here. But Zelensky doesn't help.

And that's where we are. Smart Life. So the last couple of times that I've flown on commercial, I flew on Delta and it was good. And I'm tough. I'm a consumer. I pay my money, and I don't want any incompetence. Is that unreasonable? They got my life in their hands at 30,000 feet. I don't want any disrespect. I don't want any sloppy stuff. So Delta was good. I flew from LaGuardia in New York to Palm Beach. So the American Consumer

Satisfaction Index, that is an organization. The ACSI, they have ranked the airlines about customer satisfaction. Now, overall, customer satisfaction America has dropped in the last year. Why? Because they lose the bags. They treat you rudely. The food is terrible. The seats are cramped.

The Wi-Fi doesn't work. All of that. So you're getting on a plane, know that. Bring your own food because you're not going to get decent food on those planes. you're not that kind of thing all right so here are the american consumer satisfaction rankings okay consumers like best number one southwest hard to believe southwest a tremendous amount of trouble to delta okay tied for with delta's jet blue now i boycott a jet blue for the last four years maybe

they've improved. I have a couple of friends that took them and said it weren't bad. Maybe they've improved. Got to be fair. But JetBlue, I had it with them. Then the next one's Alaska, then American, then United, then Spirit, then Frontier. Okay? That's customer satisfaction. But here's the smart life tip. If you are going to fly this summer and you don't have a reservation, you're in trouble. So I would spend this weekend, this upcoming weekend, trying to get where I want to go, because if you don't do it this weekend, you're going to be in the middle seat, or you're not going to have a seat, or you're going to have to change planes eight times because the airlines have cut back. And they're, you know, they used to have

wide bodies going from New York down to South Florida. Now it's little planes. Yeah, everybody's jammed in. There's not going to be a lot of seats. So smart life, you always got to plan ahead. Can't just say, oh, I want to the airport. No. New poll on patriotism among younger Americans. All right. So this is 18 to 29-year-olds in the USA. It's taken by Harvard. How ironic this poll. First question. Which of the following best describes you? Proud to be an American, 41% of the 1829s. Embarrassed to be an American, 29%. Neither proud nor embarrassed to be American, neutral, 26%. Democrat kids. Which are the following best describes you? Democrats only. Proud to be American, 24%. Ooh. Embarrass. embarrassed to be an American 54, neither proud nor embarrassed 21.

Republican kids, proud to be American, 76%. Embarrassed 8%. Embarrassed or proud, 16. So Republican younger people are much more patriotic than Democratic younger people. Why? Because of the bubble. So if you are a liberal high schooler or college person, then that's all you hear. Because you're not encouraged to go out and listen to me or other people who may bring you another point of view.

And it's the same thing on the right, but you have to understand that the availability of information on the left is five times as much on the right. five times as much. If you go into the internet, social media, left, left, left, left, oh, there's a right one. Left, left, left, left, oh, there's a right one. And if you go on TV, you know what this thing is.

TV, it's Fox Newsmax versus everybody else. That's what it is. So these kids hear the stuff, they parrot the stuff, they don't know anything anyway. And I'm sorry I'm being super sillious word of the day about the kids, but I didn't know anything when I was,

early 20s, I didn't know much. I thought I did, but I didn't. It takes study. It takes concentration. It takes learning and experience. These kids, they want to be accepted by their peers. And if their peers are all liberal like Harvard, then they're going to be liberal. Because if you're not, you get ostracized.

You're not a cool kid. Same thing in high school. If you're in a group and the group sees it this way and you don't see it that way, they boot you. And that's what's going on. But traditional Americans, which covers the Republicans, they are more patriotic, and you can prove that by the military volunteerism. You get many, many more militaries from the traditional families, particularly in South and the Midwest, than you do from the Northeastern California.

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