Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - White House Helps Gov. Newsom Fight Recall and The Media Covers For Biden – Was It A Lie or Just Another Gaffe?

Episode Date: September 8, 2021

Tonight’s rundown: President Biden is caught in a lie over the mass shooting that took place at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 – but does he even realize he is lying? Over the weekend, Mexican officials stopped a 400 migrant caravan headed for the U.S. border  President Biden and VP Harris plan to campaign for disgraced California Gov. Gavin Newsom as he heads into a recall vote next week Vermont is looking to get ahead of the curve as unemployment benefits end and people finally get back to work, by offering new employees $7,500 to move to the state The NFL will bring back its social justice initiatives for the new season This Day in History, 2020: President Donald Trump holds a press conference on the economy and COVID vaccine update  Final Thought: Chief Investment Strategist, Alexander Green has some shocking stats on our use of machines  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Tuesday, September 7, 2021, stand up for your country. So we have two major stories tonight. We have the president, and we have COVID. I spent some time over the Labor Day weekend, you know, doing some of the investigation on this COVID thing. I think I have a little clarity for you and it's important, important for you, your family, and those that you interact with. And that'll be coming up. Joe Biden's in the New York metropolitan area tonight, New Jersey, Queens, looking at Hurricane Ida stuff and promising, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to come on in. and fix things up, and that's fine. I mean, that's what presidents do, no beef for that. But here's an interesting story that took place late last week that was completely blacked out

by the corporate media, which is becoming a major problem, obviously. So you remember back in 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 11 people were murdered at the Tree of Life Cetagogue. Okay? It was a purely anti-Semitic crime. Just let's kill Jews. So the guy who did it, Robert Bowers, 46, he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison. And that's that. But it's not that for the people who lost loved ones. You know, this is the 20th anniversary week of 9-11. I mean, people don't get over that. people don't get over that kind of stuff. So anyway, because this week marks the Jewish holidays, President Biden on Thursday last,

had a conversation with some Jewish leaders, and he said this about the Tree of Life Senegal. I remember spending time at the, you know, going to the, you know, the, you know, the Tree of Life Synagogue, speaking with them. It just is amazing these things are happening, happening in America. And I guess the point I want to make is that it just shows that if we walk away from never again, it's going to happen again.

It can't happen again. Okay, so you see in that Salmite that President Biden said, you know, going to the Tree of Life Senagogue. Now, he didn't go to the Tree of Life Synagogue. Okay, it wasn't even close. So you say to yourself, that's not the kind of lie because the right wing jumped on it. It's not kind of lie. Any sane, rational person, but sad because you could find it out in 10 seconds. If you didn't go, you didn't go. You don't say going to. So what happened was that the White House says he was referring to a call he had with Tree of Life rabbi in 2019, all right, a year after.

You know, so, okay. So then the media, the right-wing media, he's lying, he's lying, he's lying, but he isn't lying. And this goes back to what I've said from the very beginning with the man. A lie is when you know the truth and then say something false. you bear false witness. The Ten Commandments, that's a lot. Biden doesn't know what he's saying. Now, I'm not giving him a pass.

I'm telling you that the situation is much worse than a lie. It's he doesn't know what's coming out of his mouth. And those of us who cover the news from a fact-based point of view, understand that. Therefore, when he said this, all right, it was in the newspapers, but ABC evening news, NBC, evening news, CBS, even news, no mention of it. Didn't mention it. Now, you'd imagine if Trump said something like that, or Bush, or Clinton, even Obama, all of them, even Obama, would have said, what are you doing? What are you talking about? And then the president, whoever it may be, so, well, I made a mistake. I made a verbal mistake.

I'm sorry. No. Here, blackout. Black out. Okay? So we're in a situation now where we have the leader of the free world, most powerful man in the world, not knowing what he's saying. that's where we are. And I have said this for months. And that's way beyond lies and deceptions and way beyond bad policy. That's in a frightening realm. So whoever is telling him what to do is really in charge of the country. Not the man who was elected by the people. There's no doubt about this. There is no doubt about it. Because this isn't the first time. And the corporate media is giving him a complete pass. Now, you'll remember that Reuters, a left-wing news service, broke a story that was leaked to them about Biden's phone

call with Ghani, the president of Afghanistan, in July. Put it up on the full screen. Okay? I need, this is Biden, quote, I need not tell you the perception around a world and are parts of Afghanistan, I believe is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against a Taliban. And there is a need, whether it's true or not, there is a need to project a different picture, unquote. Okay? So, Biden is telling Ghani, hey, whether it's true or not, you're to put on a face of confidence and try to rally your people. Now, that's a pretty big story, right? Leaked transmission from an American intelligence agency to Reuters' news service. Well, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, NBC, CBS, and ABC ignored the story.

All of them. Didn't report it. Yet, the Trump phone call with Ukraine led to an impeachment. So we have two danger zones. We're in two danger zones here. we have the most corrupt media in the history of America. It's never been worse. Covering up for a man who doesn't, literally doesn't know what he's saying.

This is off the chart dangerous. Now, some of the folks are getting it, some aren't. Daily tracking poll by Rasmus and today, 47% approve of president. in Biden's job performance. Are you kidding me? 52% disapproved. However, the second question is a country going in the right direction, okay? 34%, only 34% to the right direction, 61 wrong direction.

So anyway, look, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is super bad news. And you watch me and you subscribe to this service and you tune in on the radio to hear the truth. and I'm telling you the truth. This is not going to get any better with Joe Biden. And it's going to go into every area of this country. And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing the American people can do other than to understand

that 80 million people voted for Joe Biden, most of whom voted emotionally because they hated Trump. And now we're in a judge. dangerous position. California, which deserves what it gets. Now paying the highest gas prices ever. $4.39 regular on average. The national regular is $3.18. Okay? The national regular is up 45% from this time last year. California is bigger than that. Okay? It's a bigger rise. Now, why so bad in California? Two reasons. 51, excuse me, 51 cent a gallon tax

on each gallon. 51 cents goes to Sacramento. Not only that, but California's cap and trade program, all right, targets refineries and slaps another 14 cents a gallon so that other other states don't have to pay. So 51 and 14 is 65 cents a gallon in California for everybody there that other states don't have to pay. You guys deserve what you get because you're electing far-left progressive people who don't want you to drive for global warming reasons. all right um south of the border apparently the mexican army has broken up that 400 person caravan heading for the border you know we have record um intrusion on the border it's going to be two million people the fiscal year under joe biden come in here illegally two million that are

apprehended you imagine there's another million or so that aren't So this is just a catastrophe. And we have a situation where California is again impacted because of this stuff. And I'm going to get now to my guests who has been patiently waiting to talk to us. A week from today is the California recall of Governor Gavin Newsom, one week from today. Now the polls out of the L.A. Times and things like that. that are fake. If you look at the methodology, you can see it's like 15, 20 points to the left. So they're asking people to the left, left-wingers, what they're going to do on recall day.

What do you think you're going to get? Okay. It, by other accounts, a very tight race. And anything could happen. Ruben Navarrett is an honest guy. All right. He is a newspaper columnist, works for the Washington Post Writers Group. It is a podcast. Ruben, in the the center. We've known him for years. He tells you what he thinks in a fact-based way. So can you name one problem, Rubin, and we appreciate you coming on, one social problem that Governor Newsom has solved or partially solved in his tenure, just one. Bill O'Reilly, so good to be with you again, my friend. I'll tell you, I can't come up with one. It's difficult. I come up with many more areas where the governor has failed, it explains his difficulty and the difficulty he's

having with all groups, including Latinos in California, Democrats and Independence as well. I think if you wanted to go, say, in the realm of education, you could make the argument that by keeping the schools closed, he kept students safe for 18 months. I would challenge the argument and say that actually he was doing that to kowtow to teachers unions, which run the Democratic Party and therefore the state of California. Hispanics are going to loom large Hispanic voters in whether Newsom survives or not. Has he done anything outside of COVID? Because COVID, look, the guy shut down the economy in California, okay, and then he did this and then he did that.

So I understand both points of view there, but I don't understand why he hasn't solved any social problems. Not education, not crime, not homelessness, not cost of living. Gas prices are crazy. He didn't done any of that. So working-class Hispanic voters are going to make or break them. How do you think they're going to go? I think they're going to go a long way toward breaking him. All the polls show, even the polls you talked about, the fake polls coming out of the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere,

saying that the gap is closing and Newsom's in good shape. Even those polls bills say that Latinos lead the pack in terms of all the groups out there and wanting to get rid of Gavin Newsom. Nobody can, no matter how hard you spend it, you can't do away with the fact that, Latinos don't like Newsom. He's never connected with him. He's never connected with them. And I think that to answer your question, one of the reasons he's gotten this far,

despite having not solving social problems, this is a deep blue state where you don't need a single Republican vote to pass anything. And he takes full advantage of that. He's gotten really lazy and complacent and entitled, and that's the wrong place to be. All right.

So Hispanics, in your opinion, Rubin, and you obviously live among them in San Diego, and tons of them there. They're more likely to throw. Roe Newsom out, but then Larry Elder would probably be governor, and he's a very, very right-wing guy. Will that have any effect in the vote? Yeah. Well, see, I've known Larry for 27 years. He and I used to host radio shows for KBC together many years ago. I know him to be a really kind of good guy. I like him. I disagree

with him on many issues, but he doesn't fit the caricature that the liberal media in California is trying so hard to draw of him. So I think he will probably. probably do probably better than expected with Latinos because people expect them not to do very well at all. He'll do better than that. But the main problem for Newsom is he can't at this late date connect with this constituency. They might just stay home, Bill. That's really the issue. They don't have to defect to elder. They don't have to vote Republican. No, they get his vote. They can just check one. They don't have to check the second box about who you want. They can go fishing. They can go fishing and not even not even go vote because he hasn't connected with them. That's the apathy now.

has become the big question. Okay. So tomorrow, Vice President Harris goes to San Francisco. This looks a waste of time to me. San Francisco is Newsom's base. He used to be the mayor there. You know, who's going to come out to see Harris say Newsom's great? I don't think this changes any minds, does it? It does not. California is really 12 states in one by geography. I live in the San Diego area, but I was born and raised in Central California, which is very conservative, conservative farmland. There are many conservative Mexican-Americans out there. there who vote Democrat, but they're conservative Democrat. They will vote for the right Republican, and they have shown that. And that never gets covered, Bill. That's never covered by the liberal

media. They pretend that doesn't exist, you know, but that kind of constituency, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom just don't speak to. They don't know those people. Yeah, I don't see this. But then Biden goes early next week. So this is, I don't know. No. Biden goes down and, you know, to speak to Californians to keep Newsom in there. But Biden is so shaky at this point that he could say anything. I mean, they got to be nervous just about Biden showing up and saying anything, correct? Yeah. Here's what they're doing wrong, Bill. They're targeting people who are already going to vote for Newsom. When you bring Harris and Biden out, you're speaking to the converted. The folks who are already in your You need to go after the folks who are wavering.

The folks who, like in my case, I voted for Gavin Newsom in 2018. I didn't want anything to do with the Republican Party in California in 2018. They've dug themselves into a big grave on immigration. But at the same time, he lost me. He lost me in those almost three years. They should be speaking to people like me saying, how do we get you back? No, they're speaking to the diehard dark blue voters. They already have.

Now, in this state of California, you heard my monologue on, Biden backed up with facts every step of the way. The folks, even if they won't admit it, because a lot of people don't want to admit that their vote was poorly thought out, they just won't admit it. But most people know that Biden, there's a problem here. Does California know that? About Biden or about Newsom? About Biden. Yeah, I think increasingly the whole country does, and even the California Democrats do. You will hear, look, they're grateful to be rid of Donald Trump. They're glad Joe Biden is there.

It's very hard, though, to find anybody who will defend his performance on Afghanistan or many other issues in which he's failing. And there's a parallel there with Gavin Newsom, right? I don't find Latino Democrats who will defend Newsom and saying, oh, he's doing a great job. All they'll do is play the fear game and say, you've got to keep the Republicans out. Larry Elder is terrible. And again, I know the man, he doesn't fit that caricature. So they left me flat.

They're not making a good argument as to why we should keep Gavin Newsom. Yeah, because I'm trying to figure out if there's any hope that California might come back to the middle. So that you have now two things in play. You have California paying an enormous amount of money just to put a gallon of gas in your car. Right. I mean, if you're a worker and you're already paying high housing costs. You bet. Right.

And now you're filling up to the tank to the tune of $70. right and and there's one man respond well in california it's the whole progressive wing that's responsible for it but nationally biden's responsible for it he attacked on the first day of office the fossil fuel industry and then wham you saw what happened um so i'm trying to think if there's any hope that california may stop being the citadel of progressivism and we will know next Tuesday when the recall vote is, well, no, if Californians are coming back a little, or are they going to stay out in left-ling Loonville? Last word. I love this question, because if California does make it back to the Purple Center, it'll be Latinos who drag it there, conservative

Latinos who go there, and not white Republicans, they don't have enough juice in California. It's going to be Latinos who take them there, and that's going to be very interesting to watch in the years to come. All right, Rubin, thanks for helping us out, the podcast again. Rubin, the center. So I want everybody to check that out. We really appreciate time of them. Thanks again. You bet. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford gold. And you can do this. Get,

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that was yesterday, to Labor Day last year, 300%. All right, that comes from Johns Hopkins University research. Hospitalizations are up 158%, all right, from Labor Day to Labor Day. Don't have the deaths. Don't have that data. And I'm being very careful here. So the question is, why? how many of the cases, of the COVID cases today are unvaccinated people? That's the big

question. And the problem is that CDC doesn't have that data. Why? Medical privacy. So when you get a vaccination, if you want, you can show your card to whoever. All right? But if you don't want, So the way this works is every state of the union, all 50 states, report to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. They report COVID cases, COVID hospitalizations, COVID deaths. A lot of them are behind in it, but they all are compelled to report. But they don't report on vaccination versus unvaxed because they, the medical privacy data intrudes on an exact picture. Are you with me so far?

Okay. Now, I know a lot of people in high levels in the American health system. So over the weekend, well, I should have been chasing Holly the Terra dog and jumping in the ocean and making some calls. So what I got, the consensus is this. 85% approximately of the new COVID cases are among the unvaccinated. 15% are the so-called breakthrough people, all right, who are vaxed, but get it. A lot of those breakthroughs are Johnson and Johnson Vax, which is 60% effective, as opposed to Pfizer and Moderna, 90%.

Now, 15% breakthrough crossover. That's a lot of people. So you hear, and I know friends who are vaxed and they get it. The difference is they get it in a much milder form and virtually nobody dies. Because if you die from COVID, then they can get whether you were vaxed or not. And then I get zero. there are a few cases, but they had immune problems. The system was not good. Okay? So, this is an epidemic among the unvaccinated, with a 15% approximately breakthrough crossover component.

That's what's happening. And because in America, we got about 62% vaxed, We're not going to knock this out until that number goes to 75%, which it should. But I wish, and I had prayed, that it would be there now because we are enduring another horrific COVID cycle. It's the best information I can give you. I hope you respect it.

Chicago, 63 people shot over the Labor Day weekend, six fatally, one four-year-old boy, eight victims under the age of 18. Okay, we do this. How many times have I done this in the last five years, hundreds? So the mayor of Chicago is Lori Lightfoot. Obviously cannot do her job. Cops hate her, can't control anything, a total disaster. There is no way to remove this woman from her job before May 15, 2003 when they vote for a new mayor. That's it. So Chicago, once again, just like the Biden voters, you vote for her, this is what you got. Can't, won't, whatever, and you're going to have every single weekend dozens of people being shot and four-year-olds being killed.

And a little kid was getting a haircut in his house when the bullet went through and killed him. You imagine that. Vermont. So if you want to work, and that's like a 50-50 proposition now in America, thank you, Joe Biden, the welfare king. Vermont will pay you, the state will pay you $7,500 to move there, $700 bonus to move to Vermont. Here are the work categories, cashiers, fast food, home health, waiters, waitresses, janitors, cleaners, landscapers, cooks, bartenders, elementary school teachers. All right. Retail workers, carpenters, construction workers, accountants. The minimum pay in Vermont, 13 bucks an hour. Oh, you're looking for a job.

Nice fall foliage. It only lasts for two weeks, but it's nice. It's a little chilly. Nice state, beautiful state. National Football League starts Thursday, Tampa versus Dallas. Okay. anybody bidding on that game is insane. Nobody knows what's going to happen there. So they're in the NFL, 58% of all the players are black. In the NFL, the players union want social justice on the field. So the owner said, okay, once again, here's what's going to happen this year. In the end zone, they're going to have two slogans stenciled onto the grass or turf. It takes all of us and end racism. I have no problem with those statements.

But stenciling them on a sporting field? I don't know. Also on the helmet, the individual players can put if they want to the following slogans and racism stop hate. It takes all of us. Black Lives Matter. No, that one I don't like. Inspire change, say their stories.

This will be forever unless fans leave and rebel, which they will not. The games are a powerful form of entertainment and the league is going to make Buku money and they're going to give in to the players' unions and do this social activism. Is it a big story for me? No.

I'll watch some of the games, marginal ones I won't. I don't think they're going to have the black national anthem because they're going to play that before every game before the traditional national anthem. I don't think we're going to see that. The games will just, you know, they'll do that 10, 15 minutes before. You won't see it. but I could be wrong. You know, I'll watch Thursday night.

This day in history. Now, this is an interesting one, and I call for this for a specific reason. A year ago today, September 7, 2020, Donald Trump, then president, as you know, held a press conference. Roll the tape. If we'll produce a vaccine in record time,

Biden and his very liberal running, the most liberal person in congress by the way is not a competent person in my opinion would destroy this country and would destroy this economy should immediately apologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now talking about endangering lives and it undermines science so mr trump did get the vaccine in record time operation warps speed we all remember that? It was actually up and running about 10 days before the election, but Pfizer held back the announcement for political reasons. They didn't want Trump re-elected, even though they made the big deal, so did Moderna, so to Johnson & Johnson, with the federal government, which reap tens of billions of

dollars for the pharmaceutical companies. They play politics with the announcement. But the big accusation that Trump made was that Biden and Harris last September a year ago were bad-mouthing the vaccine. And they were. Okay. So here is Joe Biden. Quote, if the president announced tomorrow we have a vaccine, would you take it? Only if it was completely transparent that other experts in the country could look at it, only if we knew all of what went into us, because so far, nothing he's told us has been true. Biden was undermining the vaccine one year ago today. How about Harris? Here's what she said, quote, I will say that I would not trust Donald Trump. And it would have to be a credible source of information and talks about the efficiency and the reliability of whatever he's

talking about. I will not take his word for it. He wants us to inject bleach. I will not take his word. Okay. So that's pretty interesting in a historical context. Is it not? And you can draw your own conclusions. I'm going to take a quick break. I got a good mail segment. And then I have some stats, some facts about this right here. We'll be right back. 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, between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show.

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Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Let's get to the mail. Lorraine concierge member. Lorraine gets direct access to me. Thank you, Lorraine. Bill, in your analysis of Afghanistan, you speak of statistics on Americans left behind? Is it because you don't have the data? Because you believe they don't want to leave like the Biden administration keeps saying. There are no reliable stats. And I explain this, Lorraine, and this will be the third time. Many Americans who traveled to Afghanistan did not register with the American embassy as they were required to do. They didn't. How would we know where they are, who they are? How? So that's why I don't. don't quote stats. Because nobody knows. Gene, concierge member, I think it's unfair to

compare Jimmy Carter to Biden. Carter was incompetent, but Biden's corrupt. He has only truly cared about himself and his family benefiting from his long tenure in public life. Well, that's a subjective opinion, Gene, and I respect your right to hold it. Okay, but, you know, other people will disagree with you. They'll say, no, Joe, Joe isn't. just to enter for Joe. But factually, which is what I do, Carter and Biden, very similar. This is my mom.

We allow this on the message board and the website. Usually you have to give name in town, but if you're on a message board, sometimes I take stuff off that. The comparison to Carter is sadly accurate. The hostage crisis is looming on the horizon. You know, certainly the Taliban, I'm going to want money. No doubt about it.

Yvonne, concierge. Remember, boy, we got a lot of them. I thought Justice John Roberts is supposed to be conservative. Am I wrong? You are wrong. The justice is no conservative. David, concierge, remember? Bill, I'm at the point that the CDC like Fauci has no credibility. If they suggested the sun will rise in the east tomorrow, I wouldn't believe it. Look, I got a lot of those.

David? I mean, you know, what can I tell you? That's it. That's the only reporting vehicle. You don't trust him. You don't trust him. Kim Larsen, Fort Myers, Florida. There's name in town right there. I've always felt that the left wants illegal aliens in the country to increase their voting base. It's obvious that we need voter ID to prevent non-citizens from voting. I think that's obvious. I think a voter ID should be mandatory everywhere. The excuses are BS. Everybody knows that. Brent Hudson, Sydney, Australia. Good day, May. It's going to be spring down there now. In regards to the U.S. Constitution, I understand the Speaker of the House does not have to be an elected representative. That is true to an extent. The Constitution is a little murky,

but if challenged, so say the Republicans take the House and they say, no, we don't want anybody elected in the House of Representatives to be Speaker, we want Bill O'Reilly to come on in. Supreme Court would slap it down. They find a way. It's never been done. The speakers have always been representatives. Linda Steth, Corpus Christi, Texas, nice town. Bill in honor of their first responders and remembrance of 9-11, I'm bringing a platter of cookies and fruit to a local police station and a note thanking them for their service and keeping us safe. Would you please mention this to encourage others to show their appreciation this week? There you go, Linda. You're a patriot, by the way, and this would be a great week for all Americans to just go down.

I actually did it, but not this week, but I did it in my local town here. You know, bring them some desserts and fruit and stuff like that, coffee. Say, look, I appreciate you. guys. Absolutely. Dennis West, St. Charles, Missouri, I just gave a year's premium membership to my best friend, an old Air Force buddy. He was complaining there isn't any news fit to watch anymore. If everybody did what Dennis West has done, we would double our premium membership on bill o'Reilly.com. And you would be giving a friend a gift that's important. think about it you know um bill at bill o'reilly dot com bill at bill o'reilly dot com you want to reach me of course name and tan if you wish to opine we still have the 40% off uh killing the mob and

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He wrote a column entitled Log Off and Live, where Alexander is encouraging you to get away from this, all right? And I've done this too, but I'm kind of guilty because I have to work so much. with radio, TV, and books and everything that I, I mean, I have to check it. No excuse, but, you know. So here are the stats. Ready for the stats? Americans check their smartphones an average of 262 times a day. Oh, man. All right? American adults spend an average of five and a half hours a day on their phones, five and a half hours. Teenagers seven hours. So if you sleep eight, you're on your phone, it leaves, see, eight and seven or 15,

that leaves nine hours for life, job, school, whatever. Children who are heavy phone users, tend of lower grades. That's true. We know that. 95% of all 13 to 17-year-old Americans now own smartphones. 95% because that's their social vehicle. they don't call or talk they they text all right um 53 percent of kids own a smartphone by age 11 40 percent of teenagers admit they text or email while driving that'll get you killed

that'll get you killed you'll die if you do that on a regular basis 40 percent and finally data shows that americans spend about 30 20 minutes a day reading printed material of any kind so 20 minutes a day reading material, not reading your text, reading killing tomorrow, reading anything, 20 minutes, seven hours on this. Plus, it erodes all of your skills, your interpersonal skills. You know, tonight I'm having pizza. I don't usually have pizza, but I got guests and is a decent pizza place around. So I know when I call to order. that pizza for pickup, that I'm going to have to say my order three times. Now, I am loud, I am bombastic, my pronunciation's pretty good, then I have to use three times. Now, if by the

third time, I have to say, and this is uncharitable, the person on the other end of the phone at the pizza parlor doesn't have the order, then I say, forget it, we'll do it another time. I don't yell, but I disconnect. The reason I have to say it three times is because the person listening to my words doesn't really do that much in his or her life. They do this, not words. They don't listen to words in interpersonal communications. It's all text.

In fact, the takeout places in the restaurants now want you to text. an email. They want that because it's so hard for them to get people who can actually pick up a pen and write down what you are saying. Now, why should you care? Number one, if you have urchins, as I do, all right, this erodes their skill set. So when they are going to be looking for a lucrative job, they are going to have to be able to speak. and to listen and to absorb, right? Speak, listen, absorb to the spoken word. This is wiping that out.

That machine is wiping it out. And that's why all the big corporations now want robot labor. I don't want the unskilled labor. Now, where are all these unskilled people going to go? they're going to go on welfare. They're going to go on government assistance because the robots are coming in and they're coming in fast. Five years from now, all that fast food thing is going to be robots.

Hello, what would you like? And you tell them, boom, boom, okay? And these corporations want the robot labor. A, it's cheaper, no health benefits, no retirement funds, none of that. and they don't have to deal with scrups. The robots will get it right. That's going to be everywhere. Everywhere.

And the unskilled people, people who are not educated well, don't really have a skill, what are they going to do? That's what this progressive socialism's all about. Government's going to have to support them. Thank you for watching, listening, reading my lips, whatever you're doing tonight. We'll be back with another no-spin news tomorrow.