Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, December 31, 2024

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

Trump honors Jimmy Carter, Americans censoring themselves more than ever before, the most liberal colleges in the country, and why are we dropping a ball to start the new year. Plus, the Message of the Day, and Elon and Vivek’s view of success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update, sponsored by Tax Network USA. America's number one choice for tax resolution. Please go to TNUSA.com slash bill or call 800-245-6-0-0. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Wednesday, December 31st, 2024. last day of the year. Here's what's happening. Today in America, Donald Trump honors

Jimmy Carter. Americans censored themselves more than ever before. A report ranks the most liberal colleges in the country. And why are we dropping a ball to start the new year? It's coming up. Then my message of the day about Elon and Vivek's view of success. The first, Donald Trump issuing a statement on social media after the passing of President Jimmy Carter. Trump said, quote, while I strongly disagreed with him philosophically and politically, I also realized that he truly loved and respected our country and all it stands for. He worked hard to make America a better place, and for that I give him my highest respect. A study released by Axios finds Americans are increasingly censoring themselves. 40% are afraid to voice their true beliefs. Researchers say

folks fear being canceled for unpopular opinions. A quarter of the population believes they can be fired for saying the wrong thing. 10% have reported losing friends or family members over politics. A survey from Forbes magazine ranking the most liberal universities in America of the year. The schools are judged by inclusivity, commitment to climate change, access to progressive courses, and far left professors. The top five starts with UCLA, then Yale, Cornell, then Berkeley, and the most liberal college in the country, Stanford. The ball will drop in New York City tonight. A 12,000 pound crystal ball will descend a 12-foot-tall pole to commence the new year.

We've been dropping this ball in Times Square since 1907. The first was made of wood. How did Times Square become the epicenter of New Year's for America? It started in 1904 when the New York Times moved their headquarters there. And to announce their new location, they held a massive New Year's Eve party with an all-day festival and fireworks at night. And it was such a great success. they decided to have the party every year. Two years later, though, the city banned the fireworks.

So the owner of the Times had to come up with a new idea. And he was inspired by the Western Union Time Building, which every day at noon dropped a giant ball from what was then the tallest building in the city, 10 stories tall. And they dropped the ball at noon every day so people could set their time pieces. So since 1907, we've been dropping a ball to start the new year. Message the day. Next.

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Elon said the other day that we need to win as a country. And the way to win is to import tech workers from the rest of the world, which we do with the H-1B visa. We have 750,000 people on this visa right now here in America. 75% of them are from India, 12% from China. The Economic Policy Institute says that these workers are paid up to 47% less than their American counterparts. And they also can't quit because then they'd lose their visa and have to go back home. Some critics have called this a form of indentured servitude. We talked a bit yesterday about why Elon and other Silicon Valley people are supporters of expanding this program.

And a lot of MAGA people are like, wait a second, this is no different than any other form of mass immigration. I'd like to highlight one point, if I may. Elon keeps saying that we need to import the best around the world if we want to win. To which I say, win what? Elon and Vivek have this mindset that life is all about. success. Okay, well, what is success? Money. There's a lot of people who think that the metric of success for America is GDP and nothing else matters. And a personal metric of success is net worth and nothing else matters. And I would argue that maybe that's a metric

of something, but it's not even close to the metric. In American history, you are always judged not by how much money you have, but by the person you are. I would like to introduce into this H-1B visa conversation, the idea of virtue. We don't even have a proper framework for virtue. I'll share a story, Sam Rayburn. He was a very powerful speaker of the house in the 50s. And he was from a tiny town in Texas.

It was 1900. And his dad hitched the buggy and took him to the train station. He was 18 years old going off to college, leaving the family farm. And his dad stood on the train platform with his suitcase, which was a bundle of clothes tied together with a rope. And his dad handed him $25, which was his life savings. And his dad shook his son's hand, gave him the money and said, son, be a man. He didn't say go and make a lot of money.

He didn't say go and become speaker of the house or go and achieve or go and be a success. he said go and be a man and that's literally what the word virtue is it comes from the Latin word veer meaning man how much money you have was never the sole metric of success in America and we know that's true just the other day we were talking about it's a wonderful life isn't that the whole main theme of the movie in the Elon and Vivek mindset mr potter is the success but of course that's not right it's George Bailey who's the hero it's the lowly Bailey business building and loan and how he was able to serve the community and give breaks to people on tough times, gave loans to people who wouldn't otherwise qualify, built a small

neighborhood for people who've never owned a house before. Those are the people we admire the most and should and always have. The view of the world where there is no soul and there is no virtue and we should just treat people like insects who only value is how much money they can make. That's a bleak world. That leads to a lot of Mr. Potter's running everything and everyone else living in Pottersville slums. But that's not success. As George Bailey said to Mr. Potter, in my book, my dad died a much richer man than you'll ever be. Money used to be the means in America. It's now become the end, the purpose, the point of life. I would suggest we bring virtue back into the equation. We'll talk about resolutions. Next.

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Now it's time for my annual New Year's resolution advice. First, to those who don't make them anymore because what's the point? The great Samuel Johnson was coming up to the year 1776, and he wrote in his diary, when I look back on resolutions, which have year after year been made and broken, either by negligence, forgetfulness,

casual interruption, whatever the excuse, when I find that so much of my life has been stolen unprofitably away, and that I can describe by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed. He's like, I look back in all of my resolutions I bailed on, I failed for whatever reason, good or bad, and only like a couple days of the year did I ever do what I should be doing. Why do I yet try to resolve again? I try because reformation is necessary and despair. is criminal.

The point is you should make a resolution. We should all try to be better people all the time, not just at the new year, every day, but at the very least, at the start of every new year. Now, if you want to keep your resolutions, I got the answer for you. This is from the book Atomic Habits. It came out many years ago.

The idea is you have to not make outcome-based resolutions. That's what people used to do. They say, hey, I want to lose weight. Well, that's not specific enough. Okay, be specific. I want to lose 20 pounds. Good, good, good, good. It's never going to happen.

So people are like, hey, you know what? Don't make an outcome-based goal. Make a process goal. What does that mean? I'm going to work out five days a week. Okay, better. You're getting better. But you're never going to do it.

Got to keep digging. The key is you have to make an identity goal. So think of three concentric circles. On the outside circle, that's the outcome. Lose 20 pounds. The next inner circle is the process, work out five days a week. But if you dig one more layer, If you go in one more circle, that's your identity.

And that's what we need to change. Who am I? What kind of person am I? I'm the type of person who never misses a workout. If you resolve to change your identity, then that will change the process and the outcome will follow. So instead of saying, I want to read more or even I'm going to read every night, 10 pages, it's I'm the type of person who reads all the time. I'm a reader.

As opposed to, I don't want to be late anymore. Try, I'm the type of person who always shows up early to everything. When you're making a resolution, ask yourself, who's the person I want to be? Make an identity-based goal. Who's the person I want to be? And then prove that to yourself every day. I hope you have a wonderful new year. And may we all keep all of our resolutions.

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I'm Mike Slater for the podcast, Politics by Faith. Thank you for listening. I hope we have a wonderful New Year's night. And it's going to be a great year coming up.