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But yesterday, who's that close? Because the news cycle is still intense. And I ain't got to do all the personal stuff. You've got to remember all the gift giving. You got to remember answer. People who are sending you well wishes, on and on and on and on. And you get the same thing. I'm not whining here.

I'm just stating, report it. And so when you get the combination of work and personal, it just goes, anything goes wrong. And stuff always does. Then things start to cascade down into chaos. Anyway, on the Smart Life segment tonight, I'm going to give you a preview of what I'm going to do on Christmas Eve, which is my favorite part of the season. But first, the new president, Donald Trump, held a press conference yesterday, and that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points memo. So this was the first press conference that Donald Trump has held since being re-elected. In his first term, Trump held 88 press conferences.

By contrast, Biden in four years, same amount of time, okay, has held 37. So 88, Trump, 37 Biden. Yesterday, President Trump alleviated for an hour and 11 minutes. But here was the headline. The press usually contentious, usually aggressive, mean-spirited, sometimes. They were, oh, it looked like they were all sedated. And there is a reason for that. And I'll tell you in a moment.

So Trump had the field all to himself. And I could have picked 10 sound bites, but there are two that caught my attention. The first one is on the drones. Everybody's speculating. Some people panicking. I love people panicking. And here's what Donald Trump said about, the drone situation. The government knows what is happening.

Look, our military knows where they took off from. If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage. They know where it came from and where it went. And for some reason, they don't want to comment. And I think they'd be better off saying what it is. Our military knows and our president knows. And for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense. And that's true.

But the big headline there is Trump is not getting national security briefings from the Biden administration. He should be, but he's not. So another ridiculous situation coming out of the White House under Joe Biden, just tell the folks. All right, there's no update today. I said to myself, find me something new, nothing new. They floating around and they won't tell us who's setting them up. And I do believe they know. It's not hard.

Capture a few of them. You look at the hardware. You can trace it back. All right. The most interesting thing, as far as the country is concerned, because this drone thing isn't going to be big. It'll be defined, but it just shows you how incompetent the Biden administration is. But the most interesting, long-lasting thing is that Donald Trump is going after the media. So yesterday we reported George Stepanopoulos defamed Donald Trump, and he did, and Seponopoulos does that to Republicans routinely, but this was really vicious. So ABC had to pay $16 million, a $15 million of which goes to the library that Trump will build after he leaves office, and a million to Trump's legal expenses.

And George Stephanopoulos himself has to pay a million, I understand. They're keeping that kind of secret, but it's money out of his pocket. Okay. So Trump wins the definition lawsuit that he filed against ABC because they say, settle. That's a win for Trump. In addition, Trump is suing CBS News, alleging that they took a soundbite from Kamala Harris and dishonestly edited to help Harris in the campaign. I don't know, but CBS News will not release the transcript, and that is certainly suspicious. And the third ones against the Des Moines Register, which had an outrageously wrong poll in Iowa.

So the president addressed this. Go. I'm doing this not because I want to. I'm doing this because I feel I have an obligation to. I'm going to be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster who got me right all the time. And then just before the election, she said I was going to lose by three or four points. And it became the biggest story all over the world. because I was going to win Iowa by 20 points. We're filing one on 60 Minutes, you know about that, where they took Kamala's answer,

which was a crazy answer, a horrible answer, and they took the whole answer out, and they replaced it with something else she said later on in the interview, which wasn't a great answer, but it wasn't like the first one. The first was grossly incompetent. It was weird. And that was fraud and election interference

by their news magazine, a big, part of CBS News. All right, so we can expect more of this from President Trump. It's a good thing because as we have chronicled here for years, the corporate media in America is corrupt, dishonest, hateful, and I've been in here 50 years doing this. There is no greater expert on the media in the world than me about that for braggadocio. But it's true. I've worked CBS News, ABC News, Inside Edition, Fox News,

and now we have the most successful independent news agency in the world. Want to know about the media? You come here. All right, so summon this up. Donald Trump is a big opportunity to at least intimidate the American media into being not dishonest. You're never going to get good coverage if you are a conservative republic, or Donald Trump. And believe me, they still hate Donald Trump, even though they're kissing his butt. Now, the sedate media yesterday at the press conference, they're scared. Because where do you

see what happens in 2025? I mean, if I'm George Stephanopoulos, I'm not buying any big houses, if you know what I mean. If I'm the ladies on the View, I'm a look, you know, big things are going to happen. All over. NPR, by PBS, C. you, MSNBC, where do they go? One year, where do you see what happens? And we're on it. We are on it. And it's all because they devoted so much hatred, and that's the word, toward one man,

Donald Trump, that Americans, even some of those who don't like Trump. We can't tolerate this. They're using the First Amendment protections to try to disarmes. to destroy an individual? Donald Trump. Can't have it. Huge story. And that's a memo.

TikTok CEO, this is a fascinating, fascinating story. OK? So TikTok is an internet platform where you can post short form videos. It's enormously successful. All right. They have all kinds of budgeting, cooking, finance, beauty, influencers, advice, tips, everything. Comedy. I have never been on TikTok in my life. I wouldn't know even how to get there. But I know it's powerful. And it's owned by the Chinese.

Okay? There lies the problem. It's owned by a company called Bite Dance, B-Y-Dance. T-E-D-A-N-C. And it is run by the Chinese government as every corporation in China is. So people are worried that if you are on TikTok, your information is being stored by the communist Chinese. I don't know whether it is or isn't, but I guess it would be. So the following companies have banned TikTok. Afghanistan, India, Iran, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Somalia, and others.

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I don't know how the Supreme Court's going to rule. I don't know if they'll hear it. I don't know. It's big. It's big. I don't know what the Chinese communists would do with our personal information, but I certainly don't want them have access to it. TikTok itself is just like all the other social media, there's a lot of garbage on it,

but I guess there's good stuff too. Anyway, following the story for you. Joining us from New York City is one of the best lawyers in town. Name is Arthur Dahlia. I mispronounced it last time. I Dala. I Dala. I Dala.

Like a dollar bill. Like Dollar bill of which you charge. many. Okay, I got it. All right, let's run them down. Trump case. Would you have filed this case? Would you have signed on to that case? Here's the truth. You want to talk about money. Most of those cases you take on as a lawyer on a contingency fee. So you say, I won't get paid if I win. I would not take that case on a contingency fee because I don't, I think you're correct. I don't think they're going to win. During the discovery process, they may be able to get that transcript as part of evidence,

as part of the discovery process. And unless CBS is successful in putting some sort of a gag order on that evidence, some sort of it's called a protective order, Trump could then release it and achieve the goal that he may want to achieve it. They may actually dismiss the case after that, okay, we got what we want, we're done. But as a lawyer, you better make sure you're getting paid up front because, as you said, Mr. O'Reilly, the First Amendment gives a lot of protections to the press as it should. So I don't think ultimately he would be successful, even though they went to a venue where they knew the case was going to a judge that would be sympathetic to President Trump based on his political leaders and the fact that Trump appointed.

But you said they might be able to get the transcript. They'd have to be able to get it because that's the crux of the case. the judge couldn't deny Trump's lawyers the opportunity to see what the case hinges on that would be impossible, right? Unless they want a motion,

a summary judgment motion to dismiss. That's a whole different thing. If they got the case thrown out and they filed last week to get the case thrown out, do you think it's going to get thrown out? It's a close call. I mean, most cases are not a close call, but it is a close call because the First Amendment

is, it really safeguards the media from being bullied or really. I don't think it's going to get thrown out. I don't think the conservative judge in Texas is going to throw it out. And if he doesn't throw it out, CBS can't appeal that, that rule. And it has to go forward then, right?

Right. Yes. They're also asking for it to be moved to New York, the venue where CBS is located, and they may not get that either. So if it does stay. Why would it, Why would a conservative judge be sympathetic to CBS?

Right. They're not. It's like the Florida judge in a Mala Lago case, was sympathetic, thought it was an overreach by the Biden administration and go after Trump like that. Okay, let's get to the shooting of the CEO, the United Health Care CEO. So far, I think the authorities have handled it very well from the Pennsylvanians who got the guy and then the New York cops went out. they got them here. Evidence is overwhelming.

If you were the defense attorney, you'd be up against it, correct? Yes, I would definitely be up against it. And, you know, but this is where you have to get creative. I just want to go back to the police work because I did speak to Chief of Patrol John Shell yesterday. And he wanted to make sure that citizens got credit that they deserve. You know, this was a lot of old-fashioned police work

getting his picture out there. there, but then the citizens were the ones who really helped. But the cops were on the verge of getting his DNA. They were on the verge of getting his fingerprints from the cell phone. His DNA was from a bottle that he dropped at Starbucks that they saw, and they were able to get that bottle. So he was on his way to being in some big trouble. Bill, in terms of a defense like this where he has a written confession on him,

a lot of the job of the defense attorney, any defense attorney, is to make sure everyone plays by the rules. all of his rights are observed and maintained and stood up for and then you write a book on his life and apparently he had a bad operation that affected him and you hope maybe the prosecutor says all right as opposed to 25 to life which is what you're going to get after trial

will give you 23 to life and save us the money time effort and energy two years I don't think this guy's ever going to get out I don't think he's ever going to get out because it was so blatant and such a horror, a message has to be sent. But I understand you're trying to mitigate the sentence to some degree. Hopefully the guy can rehabilitate himself.

I might even go for insanity on this guy. He's pretty out there. So maybe if I'm the defense attorney, I'm saying he doesn't know what he's doing. That doesn't work very much, though, right? It very rarely works. And the other thing people brought up is an excuse called extreme emotional disturbance that takes manslaughter down to manslaughter. So you can get up. Not going to miss that.

Right. But he was in a videotape. He's just too cool about what he's doing and all that. He's not agitated. It's very, very planned and premeditated. All right. So Arthur Penny, then we go into the last case that we're talking about here. I predicted this.

It wasn't a hard prediction. I still have faith, even though it's New York City and the folks, that they reasonable doubt all over the place. But the key question is, the district attorney in Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, George Soros Progressive, okay? He knew there was reasonable doubt all over the place because the police had interviewed the people riding in the subway car. Bragg had all of that information in front of it. He knew that his odds of getting a conviction were low, and he did it anyway. Am I wrong? No, you're not wrong, but you know, you showed that clip of the angry supporters of the deceased here,

and that's the constituency that obviously Alvin Bragg was trying to please. But that's political. That's not justice. Well, Bill, unfortunately, the days of Frank Hogan, the Manhattan District Attorney and Bob Morgothor, where politics was not supposed to play a role are gone way out the window. All right. And any chance, any chance,

Hockel removes Brag down, fires drag down. No, no, no chance. You're kidding me. She's afraid of her own shadow. She's going to take down the first African American district attorney in Manhattan. Her approval rating is 35%.

Her approval rating is 35%. And after the congestion parking, it's going to be 25. She does not have the intestinal fortitude to do. So what's insane to me, Bill, is people out there are trying to compare the crime that this Luigi kid did to what Daniel Penny did. And, I mean, it really gets me upset. It's ridiculous. That's just loons.

I mean, I don't even bother them. All right, counselor, it's always good to talk with you. You can listen to Arthur on his own radio show, The Arthur Adala, as in money, power hour on AM 9. The Answer in New York. So have a nice Christmas, and thanks for helping us out. Really appreciate, Arthur. We'll see you. Thank you, Bill.

Thanks for all you do for our country. Appreciate you. Thank you. Joining us now from Washington, D.C. is the aforementioned Attorney General of South Carolina, Alan Wilson. Pleased to have you. The fairness thing in Tennessee, South Carolina, and other states, parents say, hey, we don't care.

In fact, we want our child to transition. And it doesn't matter from male to female and female to the mayor. And you, the state, have no right to stop that. And you say? Well, first off, the states have an inherent general police power to do all kinds of things. We regulate the practice of medicine as a profession. That has done at the state level, not the federal level. You know, states have been upheld by the Supreme Court.

States can pass reasonable restrictions on when a minor can ride in the front scene of a car. when a minor can buy tobacco, when a minor can consume alcohol, when a minor can even consent to having sex. This state of Tennessee, South Carolina, and 23 other states have passed laws passing restrictions on something that is far worse than those things I just mentioned, an irreversible procedure that can never be turned back. Taking hormones, engaging in chemical castration or genital mutilation

is something that cannot be undone. The states have determined that is something we want to place a reasonable restriction on. Again, this is not a parental rights issues. Parents have the rights to raise their children however they deem fit. But again, you can't withhold an education from your child. You can't beat your child. You can't put your infant in the front seat of a car in our state. You certainly can't give your minor child alcohol. So these are reasonable restrictions. So the way you're framing this, though, if a parent or parents want their child to be able to transition, they're abusing that child. That's really what I think. Well, what I'm saying is that the

state has a compelling interest to protect a health and welfare of its children. And again, a parent taking their child out of school and never educating them or giving them alcohol when they're 10 years old could harm the health and welfare of their children. I'm not necessarily accusing parents of, well, I personally think having your 10 or 12 year old engage in gender transition surgery is child abuse. But if you believe that is the case, you know, then you can obviously raise your child however you want. You just can't, you know, have irreversible surgeries performed on them. That's all we're saying.

And you're getting a third party involved. You're getting the state to sanction it. If the state doesn't, if the state says it's, as the majority of states allow this. So they're basically saying, we don't care. If the parents are down with it, we'll go along. What separates Tennessee, South Carolina, the other 23 states from the permissive states? Because it's a big golf, I think, wouldn't you agree? I haven't read every single gender transition law for minors in every state, but generally they're all the same.

There's very negligible differences. Obviously, some states allow you to perform it as early as you want their parents in some states, blue states, transitioning their children as early as two or three years old. I mean, it's really, to me, that is real child abuse. It's horrible. But the states, remember, the states have inherent power, the authority, a general police power to regulate themselves. That's not a dispute. You're going to win the case.

Supreme Court's going to rule 6.3 that the state at Tennessee and every other state has a right to regulate this. But I'm trying to get into the gulf between New York state, where I am now, and your state, South Carolina. So you feel compelled to protect the minors there from a decision that you rightly describe. as life-altering can't be reversed. Yet the people here in New York, they don't care. You set the table, put on a playlist, even made the lasagna from scratch,

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Listen, I cannot get in the head of somebody who would support gender or genital mutilation and chemical castration on a minor child. I just can't, I can't do that. You don't know. You never talk to anybody. I don't have an answer. Yeah.

Okay. It's fascinating, though. It really is because the Gulf is so huge. Let's go to the undocumented Obamacare people. Now, you know you're going to be accused of being heartless and putting these people at risk. They're here. and now the federal judge says, nah, you can't, even if they don't have any money,

we're not giving them health care. How do you justify that? Well, first off, I mean, it's the law. It's federal law. I mean, I can't imagine anyone in America expecting to go to any European country or Latin American country and expecting to live on their welfare system.

Again, this isn't about being heartless. This is about following the law. I thought it was heartless to have the immigration policies that Biden and Harris had for the last four years where you allowed tens of thousands, millions of people in-mast across the Rio Grande into the interior of the United States releasing them. We can't find 300,000 minors right now who came across the Southern border. To me, that is heartless.

And Bill, I want to remind you of something, I take very personally, it was in 2009, a congressman on the floor of Congress yelled out at the president, you lie when he said that no illegal aliens would ever receive taxpayer-funded health care. That was someone I happened to be related to, Joe Wilson, if you remember. And here we are. We have an administration then Vice President Biden, President Biden now, doing exactly what the Democrats said they wouldn't do. Where does it end? It's a slippery slope that you can't fund the entire world's welfare program.

No, listen, I understand that. But if I'm sitting next to Pope Francis, he's going to say, Mr. Attorney General, these are human beings. They don't have any money. They're here probably shouldn't be. But they're sick. What do we do? Well, I would tell Pope Francis, you don't violate the law. I mean, obviously, there's all kinds of social services.

There's faith-based groups. There's organizations out there that can help those people in need. But basically, when you basically reward people for committing a crime and you incentivize more of that crime, the system can't withstand it. It cannot hold up. And we're just going to incentivize. Ronald Reagan tried to deal with this 40 years ago. It was supposed to be temper.

Barack Obama did it again. It's going to get worse and worse and worse. We simply can't afford it. Okay. Fiscally, it is a huge problem. How much has the open border Biden policy hurt your state? The Palmetto state, right? South Carolina, the Palmetto.

Yes, sir. On January 2nd of this year, the first workday of the year, I had a press conference with state and federal law enforcement agents. We indicted 64 people and seized one. one and a half kilos of methamphetamine and one kilo of fentanyl. By the way, one kilo, one kilo of fentanyl can kill half a million people. All of it came from the south, across the southern border in conjunction with Mexican drug cartels working with gangs.

It came up through Atlanta into the upstate of South Carolina. This is the fourth or fifth major drug conspiracy that we have prosecuted in the last three years involving Mexican drug cartels piping in that poison in the South Carolina. So it has a major impact. Okay. How much of a problem is the trans kids in South Carolina? South Carolina is a red state. It's a conservative state, church-going state, traditional value state. How much of a problem is that trans thing for you? I mean, we have the population of trans is so minuscule.

That's what I thought. Right. So it's more of a philosophical thing for South Carolina on the books than a thing that you. you're dealing with every day. I mean, absolutely, but philosophical points matter. I mean, taking a stand on principle matters because it leads to other things in the future. Obviously, if we don't win this case in the Supreme Court, what does that mean for men playing in women's sports and vice versa? I mean, there is a slippery slope and the principle does matter. Yeah, well, you're going to win.

I mean, there's no way this court is going to take states rights away for a dubious, under a dubious premise. Because I agree with you. I mean, I can't imagine because kids are kids and they change. You know? And if once

they're over 18, okay. But under 18, leave them alone. Help them out. But whatever right. I want you have a nice Christmas, Mr. Attorney General. It's very nice of you

to help us out today. Merry Christmas. All right. New poll by Scott Rasmussen. about Hunter Biden's pardon. First question. This week, President Biden pardon his son. For all the crimes he may have committed,

do you favor or oppose? Favor 30, oppose 62, two to one, opposed. Not sure eight. Second question, President Biden has said, Hunter Biden was unfairly targeted by prosecutors' political purposes. Do you agree or disagree? Agree 37, disagree 54.

And then there's a footnote to Rasmussen's research. 46% believe the Justice Department unfairly targeted Donald Trump. And 42% disagree with that. Okay. Now, there are two big media obsessions. One is deportation of undocumented people. And the other is, will Trump take rewerewsons? revenge on the people who tortured him.

Those are their obsessions in the media. Okay. So Trump goes on Meet the Press on Sunday yesterday. And here's what he said. Is it realistic to deport everyone who's here illegally? First of all, they're costing us a fortune. But we're starting with the criminals and we've got to do it. And then we're starting with others.

And we're going to see how it goes. All right, that's an interesting statement. So the criminals are toast. All right, they're going to be gone. If he can catch them, if the federal government can track them down. But he didn't say he's going to break in the doors of peaceful undocumented people. He goes, we'll see how it goes. It's going to be a long process.

It's going to be so many lawsuits. It's going to be insane, how complicated it is. if you are non-criminal. If you're criminal, you'll be able to get rid of you, Trump will. Now, I've done some analysis on this that you might find interesting. So if I'm President Trump,

and I am sworn in on January 20th, on January 21st, I say, every mayor and governor in the country must cooperate with homeland security. And if you don't, we are going to charge you, the governor or the mayor, or the sheriff or whoever it may be. You don't cooperate with obstructing a federal investigation, which can be a felony. And then to make my point, I would send the head of the FBI, wherever it may be, probably

B. Cash Patel, himself, to California, wherever, to put the cuffs on the politician involved. You got to have the evidence. You got to have it. And read that person their rights. I bring cameras in. That's what I would do. We're not playing anymore. That is my. analysis on that but what do i think's going to happen in the end i think a lot of criminal aliens will be deported i think uh mexico will cooperate and put their troops on the northern and southern border which will cut down the caravans and all of that and the drug smuggling and uh a lot of the wall will be built and that will calm down but interior with the 15 million or whatever it may me, every state official has to cooperate or they get charged. Make sense to you? Bill at

Bill O'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, name in town if you wish to opine. All right, so I'm getting a lot of mail about why Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State under Donald Trump, 2018 and 21, isn't being considered for defense secretary, a job he could obviously do. There are two reasons. I told you I would investigate, and I have. And I found two reasons. The first one is that Mr. Pompeo has been a little bit critical of Donald Trump. Roll of tape.

First, if the allegations are true and there's lots of indications that they are, President Trump had classified documents where he shouldn't have had them. And then when given the opportunity to return to me, he chose not to do that for whatever reason. Okay, so Trump didn't like that. But the second and biggest reason is that, Pompeo has been a very ardent supporter of Ukraine and American military aid and money into Ukraine. Trump's not there. And he doesn't want another John Bolton.

You remember that John Bolton, national security guy, was very, very bullish on interfering in foreign situations. And then Trump fired him. And he turned on Trump. This episode is brought to you by. San Pellegrino Chau. A new kind of flavor of sparkling water. The kind made with real fruit juice, a pinch of Sicilian salt, and the sparkle of the Italian sun.

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All right, Syria, Assad has gone. He ruled that forlorn country for 24 years. Been there briefly. Horrible place. You don't want to go. So the army wouldn't fight for him anymore. He got on a plane, went to Moscow.

and Putin gave him asylum because he's been cooperating with Putin for 24 years. Putin's made a lot of money in Syria, by the way. And if you read my message of the day about Putin, this guy. But can you imagine getting asylum in Russia? Is that really when you want to stay in the rest of your life? I don't think so. And he can't go anywhere. The side can't go anywhere.

Any other Arab nations wouldn't take them. Bad, bad guy. So right now we have a U.S. base in eastern Syria, keep an eye on ISIS. ICE is going to try to exploit this. We don't know the new leadership, but they don't have any power other than Putin Assad out. They're former jihadists. Turkey is the main driver there. but Israel, obviously, if they don't like something, they'll come in.

But this is good, that Assad's out of there. You're horrible, horrible. Now, the best summary I read was on Global Post. You get everything you want to know about this in one page. So you know that there are foreign news partners, Global Post. And they've offered half off for all NoSpin News, Watch, and listeners. It's GlobalPost.com. Okay? Like it's $23

a year. Well, you just go look at it today and see what they have. It's really good. So if you want international foreign news and they're not shading it, it was a factor to factor to fact. I learned a lot. And it took me six minutes. Okay. College is dismantling DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Here are the latest, University of Utah and Weber State in Utah, University of North Texas, University of North Florida, University of Missouri, University of Michigan, whoa. They have one of the biggest DEI machines, and they are now cutting back saying you don't have to make a diversity statement when you apply for a job. first step not woke first step okay colleges why are they doing this because enrollment's down big time according to national student clearinghouse research center kids aren't applying i don't think the big reason is the woke dei nonsense i think it's uh the money so it's 80 000 dollars to go some private universities now's ridiculous absurd totally insane

Okay, don't do it. Go to a state. You'll get just a good in education. So that's why I think is happening there. But it doesn't help. If you come from a conservative traditional home, you can't walk onto the college of Yale. You'll be scorned and shunned.

Your grades might be affected by it. You've got to know where you're going. All right, California raised a minimum wage to $20. okay and it was centered around the fast food industry so according to the Employment Policies Institute we always back up our stats here 6,000 fast food jobs have been lost in California in a year and three months six thousand so McDonald's Taco Bell in and out burger they're going we can do the same with less. But here's the kicker. AI coming in. And they're not going to pay people

20 bucks an hour. So instead of keeping the minimum wage where the fast food joints can make some money, no. Virtue signaling and now the industry is cratering. Okay, there's a final thought of the day. So, as we just said, are not woke gears flying out of here. But what What exactly is woke? So there's a definition of it, okay? Aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues, especially racial and social justice. That's from the Miriam Dictionary, Webster Dictionary.

All right. But what does that really mean? If you are woke, there are two things it means. You are virtue signaling. We're trying to convince people that you are a noble human being, that you have compassion, that you are a special, special, sensitive person. That's what it is. It's personal.

There's also, I'm better than you, because I want all the illegal migrants to be happy to have everything and they're people too, but you want to restrict them. So I'm a better human being than you. That's built into this. That's what virtue signaling is. All right. So these people, they don't regard any kind of reality, no unintended consequences at all by an open border,

how much suffering and how badly it's damaged the country. It doesn't even, no, I, I'm compassionate. I'm woke because I'm just superior to you. Where is this on display more? There are two places in the country. If you go there, you will see this all day long. Boston, Massachusetts. Just pick up the Boston Globe, okay?

Woke, all day long. Not the workers, not the blue collars. They have the common sense up in Boston. But there's that. And Los Angeles, California. I don't count San Francisco because that's a totally socialist, communist situation there. It's much more complicated. But Los Angeles, particularly in the entertainment community, you know they are.

So enlightened. We're so enlightened. So my suggestion is if you know somebody who's woke and you don't like that person, they're annoying, He sent him a not-woke tea. Anonymous leaders drop it in their mailbox that they'll be so annoyed. I mean, you would like, and blame it on me. You know, I got the shirt. You throw it up there with me?

There I am. Look at that. We have a navy blue, too. And the Tara Dog will not go to sleep without the not woke-woke tea. It's a not-woke corgi. I'm exploiting Holly the Taradogone, you know, but for a good cause. We're paying our people very well this year. Okay, that's it for us.

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