Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Russia-China Threat with Guest Graham Allison, Immigrants Surging the Canadian Border, Mexico's Corruption, & More

Episode Date: February 23, 2023

Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: Russia pulls out of the last standing nuclear treaty with the U.S., this as China pledges to discuss the issue with Vladamir Putin. Bill examines where we stand with Russia and China Harvard Prof. Graham Allison joins the No Spin News The immigration crisis now moves north as the border patrol asks for help along the Candian Border The Biden administration rolls out new asylum policies that mirror the previous administration This Day in History: George Washington is born Final Thought: Ash Wednesday *For the trancript of this interview, go to BillOReilly.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023, stand up for your country. I had a long conversation with Sean Hannity on this radio program today about Putin and Biden and Ukraine and Ukraine and Russia. In fact, usually when I go on Hannity, I do two or three topics, but this was very intense. And Hannity and I disagree on a couple of things. We have posted all that conversation on Bill O'Reilly.com, so you can listen to it. But essentially, it's my posture about Putin is that you've got to be patient. Okay, you can't jump to conclusions now. It is that it is is hurting the United States because we're sending hundreds of billions of dollars over there,

and that's taxpayer money. But at this point, the level of evil that he is bringing to the world is going to cost a lot more should he be victorious in Ukraine. So it's a very interesting conversation. I appreciate Hannity having me on for the half hour. And the situation is bad. When you add in China, which we'll talk about in a moment, this is not a good time for humanity. And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So they're totalitarian four. There's four of them that are totalitarians and their threats. Russia and China, they were the big ones.

And then you got Iran and North Korea. So those four totalitarian regimes threaten the rest of the world. Whether the rest of the world knows it or not, Any kind of breakout conflict tanks the worldwide economy and changes the dynamics of this planet. And most people go blithely through life and they don't really see the big picture, but that is the big picture. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, lawmakers, and even the President of the United States.

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So when you're administrating to that as the President, Secretary of State, because we are the world's leader in stopping totalitarianism and have been since the early 1940s, and that's not going to change. Now, you have politicians in America, Tulsi Gabbard is one of them. basically saying, and the same thing happened before World War II, no, no, no, you can't get and can't police the world. It's not about policing the world. It's about preventing a Holocaust.

Okay, that's what it's about. And we as the superpower are in the position where we have to lead the defense against the totalitarians. That is the big picture. Now, Putin is just evil. All right. I mean, there's no, I think Trump might be able to reason with him somewhat. I'm going to get down and see Trump in a few weeks. I'm not going to give details until after I see him, but it's an important meeting between me and the former president. And I've got to get a little bit more

perspective on Putin from his point of view, okay? Because now all I can tell you is that this guy's not going to stop in the near future, Putin. Now, whether anybody can make them stop, I don't know. Now, Xi, the Chinese, they're going to visit Moscow. We think in April, but we're not quite sure. Now, Beijing is putting out that they're going to go as peacemakers and try to get some kind of negotiation to stop this Ukraine war. That's their public posture. But behind the scenes, there are threats that China may send Putin weapons. If that happens, then it's just, oh, because then the United States and the West,

NATO would have to slap sanctions on China, economic sanctions, which the Chinese are in no position to accept right now, but they'd have to because their economy is not the greatest. All right, so there's all kinds of swirl and conflict in this, and it takes brink. brilliance to try to fend this off and not make it worse. And I implore you not to watch cable TV and listen to these people because, A, they don't know anything. And B, their speculation is just

insane sometimes. I mean, this is something that has to be handled in an authoritative way with patience. Okay. Yeah, we're going to have to spend. the money. And no, Germany is not going to pony up their fair share. And there's nothing we can do to make them. We can put pressure on NATO and New West to pay more, and we've been successful somewhat in doing that. And finally, I don't have any confidence at all in the Biden administration. You know that. They can't even handle a train wreck in Ohio. You've seen what has happened with the economy. You've seen what has happened on the border. I have no confidence in them. However, at this juncture in history, President Biden is doing the right thing, in my opinion.

One more before we get to the best expert, I think, in the country on China. One of the things about Hannity and I's discussions where we disagreed was sending jets to Kiev, Zelensky. I say no, because once the Ukrainians attack and bomb Russia, that turns Russian public opinion, which is against Putin now, a thousand Russian casualties a day, okay, that turns it all around. And then Putin becomes Hitler in 1938. Oh, look, they're attacking the homeland. Oh, look what they're doing. Okay. And then it gives Putin an excuse to up it, all right, to up it because he can. And so you've got to be very careful with the planes, the F-16s.

Now, if Putin's forces were moving toward Keev, okay, then you've got to reevaluate. Can't let Putin win and take over that country. But right now, I think Biden is doing the right. right thing, and that is the memo. So the president will be back at 840 this evening from his Polish jaunt. And let's get right to our guests. I don't have anything more to say about it. So Graham Allison is a professor of government at Harvard University, the Kennedy School. He was the dean when I attended Harvard at the Kennedy School. All right, I've known him, I don't Boy, it's going on 30 years now, and he still talks to me, which is, you know, that's impressive.

And in my opinion, as I said, Dr. Allison knows more about the Chinese situation than anyone else in this country. He joins us now from Cambridge, Massachusetts. All right, in my analysis of Russian, we'll get to China very specifically in a moment. Am I making any mistakes? Let me just, I may discredit you, but I would say, you're also a student of whom I'm very proud. So if that makes people suspicious, that's it. Well, we had some fun up there. I don't know if they've ever seen anything like me at the Kennedy School, but it was not like it is now, that's for sure.

And the free flow of debate and ideas, I learned so much. when I was there, they had so many foreign students there, they had military students there. It was, and everybody got along. It was really, really a great experience. But in my analysis of Putin and the current USA, Ukraine thing, am I going wrong anywhere? Have I missed anything?

I think there's a big picture roughly right. So Putin has made himself this basically unmasked himself as the face of evil in the world today that he is. Putin's invasion of Ukraine was a grave strategic error. Napoleon had a good line about this. One of his, one of the other leaders of our country made a fatal mistake. He said, worst to the crime, Oblonga. So when the big strategic chessboard, Putin has already lost way, way, way more than any tactical game of territory that he may accomplish, even if the war ended today.

And I would say good, good for Putin's failure and good for the West, especially grave Ukrainians, in existing his effort to basically erase their country from the amount. and good for the West and Biden in getting the best to stand up to support Ukraine in this effort. Right. You're absolutely right about patience because this is a long, complicated venture in which Putin always has trump cards to play that we can't avoid. I want to remember I work for Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan would say every day we'd start the composition. A nuclear war cannot be won and must therefore never be fought. That's a fundamental foundational proof.

And Putin is in the situation where if he were forced to lose to choose between a decisive defeat and escalating the level of destruction, I think there's every reason to think he'll choose the latter. Okay. The only wildcard there is that if Putin is certifiably insane, the rationale of mutual destruction won't even matter. But I don't think he's certifiably insane, and that's one of the reasons I'm going down to have a discussion with Donald Trump, who knows the guy pretty well.

Now, let's go over to Xi, who's playing games in Beijing with this Russian thing. obviously it's what the Chinese do. They're trying to gain power from this conflict in Ukraine. Do you have any insights into what the Chinese really think about this situation? Well, that's interesting one. I certainly have studied Xi as well and much closely. Actually, I published, I first produced for the government, and then after they had a I mentioned from short that I published a piece back just before the invasion, in which I offered

the briefing chart for Xi, what I imagined to be the briefing chart, his team gave me, on advantages for China, if Russia invades, and disadvantages. And then the advantages, the biggest that I said was that this would completely distract the U.S. from China. What she once was from China is neglect. Just reading space to do this thing as China continues to get bigger and stronger. So here, a situation that has consumed as much of our focus and attention and effort and will do for some considerable period of time, and will leave us for the foreseeable future with a serious danger of a Russian Putin who could attack somebody else, therefore, in effect, having to confront a two-front situation, which is exactly what you don't want to do.

If you think about the geopolitics center, we hardly have enough military to be sure we can deal with one major contingency. The idea that at one at the same time, we're both doing military and diplomacy with two serious rivals divides our attention, divides their energy, and from this point of view, that's positive. Yeah, that's what he's, he wants to exacerbate. the situation to strengthen China and weaken the West. Is there any chance, though, that he would throw in with Putin by helping Putin in the Ukrainian war? It doesn't seem to be beneficial to Beijing because there would be reprisals to that. But I'm not sure that, you know, maybe he sees his

grand alliance of Russia-China totalitarianism. Maybe that he would do. do that and just stir the whole world up. What do you think? I think he's trying to play a much more careful games, just as you suggested, in which he can both, he can have it both ways. So on the one hand, if you ask what is Xi and China done since the invasion, they've become the buyer of last resort for all the oil and gas and every other resource, which they're happy to do, since they need an infinite amount of resources. So oil and gas, if they get at a at a discount, that's a plus for them. If you look at trade in general with China, again, plus for them.

Same thing for Indian, to take it, for example. So, from each person thinking about its own advantages, just looking at this that way. On the other hand, they've stayed very carefully short of the things that the U.S. said that they should not do and that if they did, they would be sanctioned, in particular, the provision of borrowers. So that's why the current discussion about, obviously, the U.S. must have discovered some intelligence about the prospective supply of arms that's been now discussed in the paper.

And whether or what she plans, I think is unclear to me or that I think they seem to have worked very hard to stay short of a sanctionable line. Okay. I'm glad to hear that because we don't need that, that's for sure. What is this balloon thing all about? I mean, I still don't understand why the Chinese would even bother doing this, but they must have a reason. I mean, I think you're a puzzle and everybody's puzzle. My bottom line on it is spies, spy. For anybody who was shocked about the fact that China is spying on the U.S.,

They've either been their brain dead or they're just ingenious. But whatever they might have collected by this balloon would have constituted less than 1% of what they are collecting every day on us in every way. Right. Why bother? I mean, they had to know if they're at 60,000 feet. It's going to get discovered. Had to know it.

I think basically there's probably some accident or miscalculation in this, winds probably had some impact run. And if you look at it, again, spy agencies develop all the mechanisms that they can. So the whole near space, the space beyond 60,000 feet and 330 miles, is a great area for exploitation,

both for intelligence and military purposes, but also commercially. So there's a lot of commercial in that space. I mean, it just, the Chinese... There's a question. How many weather, how many weather balloons do we release every game that go through the space?

Right, but it wasn't a weather balloon. It was a spy balloon. Right. And it made them look bad. It made China look bad. They think that it, I don't know what they think, but it made them look bad. I mean, we have to shoot it down,

and it's the Chinese, again, causing trouble. and all of that. I mean, it's, I don't even think she knew about it. I think it's a, if you look at it when, in the case of the Cuban missile crisis, you'll remember from class, when a USU-2 flew over Cuba on the most dangerous thing of the missile crisis on what Prusuf thought might have been a last look at targets, it was just off, off the, it had been tampered stuff around the border, and it was, you know, cross, Kennedy had no idea that was. So generally, intelligence agencies are doing thousands of things every day that the leader's not necessarily the price. Yeah. It was, I think the story was overplayed, but the fact the Biden administration didn't annihilate the thing over the illusions in Alaska, that made the story bigger, and then they waited and waited.

The State Department last week issued an order for all Americans to get out of Russia. Very unusual, okay? And they say, get out fast. I'm sure that caught your attention. Is there something behind that we don't know? Again, I don't have any special information about it. I certainly noticed it, and I think that it's unusual, and I would take it seriously. I think they're recognizing that I have a piece in the post today. that basically we're asking about what the likely future for as far as anybody can see in the relations with Russia.

We're into a new cold war, very much like the one you and I remember from the Reagan administration, which will become ever more in tips with Russia. As long as Putin's Russia, he's going to be the evil man that he is posing a serious military threat to our European allies and finding other ways to be unhelpful to us wherever he can. So no detente with him. The line has been crossed. A Rubicon, as a cliche goes. But anyway, look, after I talk to Trump, I'm going to call you.

I'm going to give you some what he tells me, not public. It'll just be private. I mean, you're doing me a big favor because I know how busy you are by being on the broadcast. Trump may have something. And I'm going to ask him what I can say publicly. and what private, you know, that's how these things go. I mean, if it's off the record, it's off the record. Anyway, Dean, we really appreciate your expertise.

If you see anything that you think is, you know, the people should know, the folks should know, who are watching, we're worldwide broadcast now, and we reach almost everywhere. So just let me know, give me a heads up, and it's very kind of you to help us out today. Happy to do. I'll send you a suggestion for your question.

for Trump. Okay, thank you. Okay, good. I will take those questions. Thank you. Okay, so the Canadian border, we got a lot of Mexicans flying from Mexico City to Montreal or Toronto and then illegally crossing into the USA.

I don't even know this, but from October 22, not so long ago, to now. The Border Patrol reports an 846% spike in illegal crossings from Canada and to the USA, mostly Mexicans. Interesting. In fact, in January, last month, the Border Patrol saw more illegal crossings in the month of January than in the previous 12 January. So it looks like the cartels have expanded or doing some business up there in Canada. Easy to get into Canada. It's not a hard country to get into, even if you fly in.

But anyway, you should be aware of that. And again, I will tell everybody I will not go to Mexico. We'll not travel there because it is a corrupt country. And here is another example of the corruption. But before I get to that, I want to tell you that yesterday, the Biden administration announced new border restrictions to limit asylum claims. So, and I don't think these are going to be enforced, by the way. If they were, they'd be in effect now. But the Biden administration is waiting to May 11th to put this in.

It's so stupid. It really is just stupid. They think we're stupid. But you never even heard of this story, I'm sure, because the mainstream media didn't report it. So one of the rules is that migrants who illegally cross into the U.S. are ineligible for asylum. If they catch you here, you can't get asylum. That's tough. That is tough. Are they going to enforce it? I don't think so.

Second one is that you have to, if you want asylum, apply in another country that you're in. So if you're coming up from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and you're in Mexico, you have to apply for asylum in Mexico. You can't just go through Mexico and apply in the USA. How they can't even figure that out? I have no idea. And unaccompanied children would be exempt. That's okay. I mean, if you get a kid walking up to the border, you've got to take them in.

But again, May 12th, why not now? Why not now? Why are we waiting three months for this? Why? There's never an answer. All right, this is another demonstration of how corrupt Mexico is. A guy named Gianaro Garcia Luna was the top law enforcement agent in Mexico for about 10 years combating the drug cartels. He was convicted yesterday in Brooklyn of six related drug violations, international cocaine distribution,

conspiracy to distribute and possess would intend to distribute cocaine. Cocaine, cocaine, cocaine, cocaine, cocaine. And apparently he made $100 million from the cartels, and now he could go to prison for life. So he was foolish enough to go to Miami, this guy, Luna, and once he left Mexico, which was protecting him, they know he's corrupt. Everybody, now everybody's there, is corrupt. Everybody. Okay, it's, if you don't take the bribes, we'll kill your family. That's what it is.

And you could be way up there in the government. They'll still kill your family. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the worlds of politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between.

It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast, Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. So anyway, he goes to Miami to, I guess, live large off his 100 million, and they arrest him, the DEA, they take him to Brooklyn, they try him there, and he's found guilty. Now, why would I go to Mexico and spend my money there as a tourist? Why would anybody do that? That'd be like going to St. Petersburg, Russian.

Why would you do that? Hey, California, this is a great story. California, last year, 2022, had a $100 billion surplus in money in Sacramento, mainly because of federal COVID aid. Remember, California is the biggest state in the union. So billions of taxpayers' dollars poured into California to help with COVID. They had a hundred billion dollar surplus. You know what the projected debt is this year? $22 billion.

They went from $100 billion surplus to $22 billion in debt. And Newsom wants to $2 billion in debt. to be president? So here's Newsom's excuse. I love this. So Newsom, and he had to announce to the people of California and everybody else, we had $100 billion, but now we were going to owe $222 billion turnaround. Here's Newsom's excuse, quote, listen closely. We made historic investments who protects against the escalating impacts of a change climate, preparing for extreme weather, more severe droughts, floods, wildfires, while increasing support for first responders at the front lines, all the while ensuring our state was prepared for a downturn in revenues by building

historic reserves. What do you mean? You don't have any reserves. You spend all your money on climate change, which is what they did. Now, how could you be this foolish? Okay. California estimated it would get the same amount of tax revenue it had gotten for the last five years. No. So many businesses and affluent people are leaving that state, millions, okay, that their tax revenues are way down. Same thing happened in New York. We're going to go bankrupt here in New York, where I am, because so many businesses are moving out. They're going to, yeah, we're not going to do this. This is insane. all right and they're going to texas they're going to florida going to tennessee the carolinas nevada arizona wherever it may be it's gone all right that's what's happening biggest state in the union Chicago mayor lightfoot looks like she's going to lose the mayoral election in the windy city is next tuesday the february 28th behind in the polls uh the guy running against her paul vallis has 22 percent. Lightfoot is 17. If the good people of Chicago reelected Lori Lightfoot,

then you're on your own. All right? You're on your own. Goodbye. Goodbye. The worst. De Blasio, the mayor, former mayor of New York City, he was the worst. He served two terms. He's out. She's now the worst. mayor in the country. MSNBC. It's just, you know, and I'm doing this because of the Fox thing last week where they're hammering Fox, hammering a hammer and Fox, they didn't handle it right. Everybody knows that, okay?

I didn't get one letter supporting Fox News after my analysis, which was fair. And for those of you are premium or concierge members, you can watch that or get the transcript. I couldn't have been more fair. Even Chris Cuomo said, do you have to be so even-handed? And I said, yeah, you know, yeah. So I'm giving you MSNBC, because this is NBC News, I'm giving you every day. Now, Andrea Mitchell yesterday said that the Florida Governor DeSantis didn't want to teach kids about slavery. Today she retracted that story.

All right. I'll have that for you tomorrow, so I want to look into it just a little bit more. Okay, but last night, this happened, a guy named Jason Johnson, who's a professor at Morgan State University, and a contributor to NBC News, said this, go. In my view, there are three states yet you can't really run from if you're trying to win across America. You run from New York, you're too crazy, you're liberal. You run from California, you're too crazy, you're liberal, you're trying to make sure I can't get plastic straws.

You run from Florida, it's all crystal meth and alligators, right? That's what people think. I'm not saying that that's the case. I'm saying those are sort of the national reputations of those states. Does any of you, when you hear the word Florida, think of crystal meth? Anybody? I don't. Alligators, all right.

They have plenty of alligators down there. Okay? They have wildlife. But I think you could run for president being from Florida if there's alligators in Florida. I don't think that would lose you any votes. Crystal meth, now that's a strong narcotic. But Florida has the lowest crime rate it's ever had. And so this is the kind of propaganda that NBC News puts out every single day. Yet we don't get the hysteria. Now, granted, to be fair and accurate, even-handed, right, the election controversy was a far bigger story. But I will reiterate the Russian collusion story, totally bogus, where NBC, CNN, the other networks convicted Trump, totally bogus, lied about it. Okay. Even after they knew the

story was shaky, they continued to lie about it, was at par with what an FNC did on the election fraud. Much is my opinion? My opinion. I remember that song, how much is that doggy in the window. You have to be alive in the 1950. I was a little kid. I just remember, I think it was Patty Page. I don't even know. It's kind of, we're on pretty good at this music stuff. But there was a song, big hit, how much is that doggy in the window? Well, in Florida, there's a proposed new law, SB 932, that would make it illegal for drivers to allow their dogs to put the heads out of the window. How much is that doggy in the window, right?

Now, this is true. This is absolutely true. So the law is going to be voted on in the Florida House and Senate, if it passes, DeSantis may or may not sign it. But listen to this, there is a reason for the law, according to the humane people.

Quote, although most dogs love to stick their heads out of open windows, the wind can seriously irritate mucus membranes and blow pieces of grit or other debris into their eyes. All right, but do we need a law? No, you get enough laws. And the terror dog, holly the terror dog, never does that. Number one, she's too little. But number two, she wouldn't do it anyway because she knows I wouldn't like it.

Okay, this day in history, February 22nd, 7.7. 1732, George Washington was born, okay? All right, second best president ever. He's born in Westmoreland County in Virginia. Well, it was a colony. He was one of six children and a fairly affluent family. He enlisted in the Virginia militia, fought in a French and Indian War. It's a long war, nine years.

So he fought for the British against the French and Indians and distinguished himself. He came back and married Martha Dandridge Custis, a wealthy widow with two children. George Washington had any children of his own but adopted Martha's children. In 1775, he's a man named commander-in-chief of the Continental Forces because of his experience in a French and India War. Then after we won the war, Washington became the president of the Constitutional Convention. Okay. Now, I know this because I'm writing about it right now and killing the witches, my new book, which will be out in September.

And it's fascinating what happened. And the reason we tie in the witches to the Continental Congress is because it was a lot of religion in this Continental Congress coming out of the Puritans. It's fascinating. Fascinating, fascinating. Anyway, Washington was then the first president, 1789. He was elected, but not by popular vote. it was the states that elected him and then in 1796 his second term ended and at that point they were getting the popular vote for president but Washington was basically put in there by state electors and the reason he was such a good president is number one he organized the

first government he did pretty well okay and number two he could have been king they would have crowned him king and he could have stayed there forever, but he said no. And then shortly after he left the presidency, he died of a throat infection. So George Washington, way to go. Mail and final thought in a moment. All right, let's get to the mail. Glenda, two questions I've heard that Putin and Zelensky were set to meet to come up with a solution, but Biden pushed this into war. That is false. Who's ever saying that is ridiculous. All right. Two. Does Biden not have the ability to tell Kamala and Pete to go to Ohio? Yeah, he does, but he doesn't do it.

Merrill Nelson, Lake Preston, South Dakota. I just listened to your news commentary on the 2020 election. Could you tell me what happened to the thousands of affidavits filed about fraud? I can't tell you what happened to them, but they don't become matter of record unless they're used in a lawsuit. You get an affidavit from anybody. But if you don't include it in a federal lawsuit, but mean anything, and that never happened. Tanya, Bill, you keep mentioning how many people voted against Donald Trump, I agree with you, but why do you think these people would vote any differently in 2024?

Because the country is in a lot worse shape now than it was two years ago. I'm not saying Trump would win. I'm just saying he's got a pathway. Joe Consiglio, Fenton, Michigan. Love the Nusman News, have all the killing books. Just a quick observation about the 20 election. Could someone please explain how Biden got 12 million more votes than Obama? But won half as many counties because the boats were clustered in the urban centers.

Biden's base was in New York City, Chicago, L.A., where he overwhelmingly won the popular vote. Joe Peterson, Van dera, Texas, I'd appreciate your perspective in regards to why large urban areas are generally Democratic and non-urban areas than a May Republican. Because in large urban areas, you have large minority communities. Many of the people are poor, and they depend on government entitlements, and the Democratic Party is the party of entitlements. Gregory Bates, Marietta Georgia, I watched the notes of the news every night. Last night, this day in history about the German companies that donated to Hitler was an incredible piece of lost history. It was. There's no doubt about it. Luann Hirsch, Walnut Creek. Love

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you until we ship. Where did the day not be a FOP? F-O-P-F-P-F-P. Final thought on repenting in a moment. Here is the final thought of the day. It is Ash Wednesday. I got my ashes. But the makeup here, I don't use a lot of makeup, but it, you know, covers it. And if you're not a Christian, basically is 40 days where you're supposed to repent and think about things you may have done wrong leading up to the Good Friday where Christ was crucified and then Easter Sunday where he was resurrected. That's the Christian season, okay, of repentance. So it is my, and I could be wrong here. I wrote a message of the day about Putin and Biden repenting and it's on bill o'reilly.com and i hope you read it i'm not going to get into it here

because i want you to go every morning and read the message of the day you don't have to be a premium ever anything you just go in there it it but anyway it's been my experience over the past 10 or 15 years that many americans don't feel they have anything to repent for they don't do anything wrong ever this is narcissism of course but it's growing you know so they go 40 days, 40 nights to repent. I could repent in 10 seconds. I don't have anything to repent for. Now, that is a life unexamined because we all do bad things.

All right. And it's not so much that we do actively, I mean, you know, 15% of the population is evil, my opinion. All right. But the other, we let things go. We could stop evil. We don't. We turn away. Or we help it.

We enable it. that kind of thing. And you've got to think about this stuff to, for even to focus. All right. So how many of us turn away, we see something bad, we see a human being hurt, and we don't do anything about it, or how many of us, you know, make big mistakes in our lives, but we don't say we're sorry enough? You know, one of the things about Alcoholics Anonymous is that you have to do if you want to be

in the program is everybody you've hurt during your inebriation, you've got to apologize to. And a lot of people don't want to do that. They don't want to admit. They have an excuse. Rationalizations are at the highest level ever in America now. There's always an excuse, always. It's never my fault. Now not talking about everybody, obviously, those of us who understand how, you know, fallible human beings are, and we're all sinners. And then, you know, I try. to repent. You know, I recognize that I'm a fallible person, okay? And I, you know, and Christianity forgives. So that's why we're doing this stuff now. But anyway, I guess I'm sounding like your local parson. I don't want to. It is Ash Wednesday. I did get my ashes. I can't eat

me today. I got a tuna sandwich waiting for me. And I really appreciate you watching. and listening to the No Spin News. We'll see you tomorrow.