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Mr. O'Reilly, we are a short time away from what is an inflection point for our country.
83 days until election day, 34 days until early voting starts.
And uh here's my proposition to you.
I contend that, yes, Kamala is enjoying a wonderful honeymoon.
He's enjoying a sugar high.
He has been hiding from the mob, the media, state-run media, pravda, and she has done so successfully.
Uh she is now trying to shift, change, and alter her own positions on every major issue from fracking to drilling to gun buyback programs to Medicare for All to the Green New Deal, uh to tips on uh taxes on tips, etc.
I don't think she she can run, and she's gonna run for a while and and outpace everybody, but she's not gonna be able to hide from this record.
There's no way that can happen.
In in the sh even in the short amount of time we have.
I think this will have a deep and profound impact on the electorate, but I might be wrong.
I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe America's ready for Bernie Sanders on on steroids, and we'll have the consequences that will naturally ensue if those policies are implemented.
I don't think because she wants Bernie Sanders uh or socialism.
Uh I think that number is maybe 25% of Americans would buy into that.
Well, whoa, whoa.
You you oh you don't think she wants it.
She said she wants it.
She sponsored the Green New Deal.
No, I think the country doesn't want it.
Oh, the country doesn't want it.
Okay, I stand corrected, Mr. Riley.
I did not hear you properly.
I I I apologize, sir.
I know you're aging rapidly.
I understand.
I'll speak slower and louder.
Um did you come on this program really to start in?
Because I could fire right back.
I'm gonna be nice though.
Go ahead.
No, we have to get information to the folks, so we'll we'll we'll do that another day.
Uh there's an author, uh Tony Hillerman, who writes thrillers about New Mexico, and he's uh expert in shape shifting.
Uh which is a Native American uh tenant, where uh what you see is not what is really happening before your eyes.
I think that is an brilliant analogy to what we are seeing with Kamala Harris.
What you are seeing and hearing from her, unchallenged, is not really what the woman stands for and it's not even close.
Now, how do you get that message across?
This is the difficulty, and it is a difficulty.
So programs like yours and others, uh mine, not to the extent of yours, because I do a little bit of a different thing.
But I have been very clear that I think Kamala Harris is a dangerous woman for the country.
I couldn't be any clearer on that to my audience.
But programs like ours, our audiences as big as they are, are overwhelmingly going to vote Republican.
So how do you break out of that and go to the independent precincts where there are persuadable people?
It's up to Donald Trump and his campaign, which by the way is getting very little support from the Republican establishment.
I don't know if you've noticed that or not.
Bill, the Republican establishment has always hated him.
They hate him now.
They want him to lose even though it's in the worst interest of the country.
That's that's a given Johnson I don't think Speaker Johnson wants him to lose and I don't think most of the uh people in the House is Senate.
People like Mitch McConnell probably do, but I I I think that's a minority.
But what I'm trying to say is the the Republican National Committee, which did put on a successful convention I mean even Democrats have to realize that was very successful.
Right.
They have they're not stepping up alongside of Trump to hammer home three messages.
The first message is that the Biden Harris administration has hurt you and all you have to do is go to the grocery store up 20%.
And it's not coming down your big headline today is inflation's coming down.
Yes, but prices aren't coming down.
You think the media would ever report the difference that's my lead story on the no spin news tonight.
Yeah inflation's coming down but that doesn't mean prices are coming down they're going to stay where they are the rate of inflationary growth is coming down.
And so that is message number one.
Message number two is we are now literally overrun with foreign nationals who should not be in the country because of Biden Harris.
And number three, the vision of Kamala Harris is equity favoring one group over another based on skin color and gender, going against all of the founding fathers wishes.
And now I'm bringing in my history so those are the three that Trump and the Republican establishment over and over and over again yet we see the pr a former president diverted into stuff that doesn't matter and the gleeful press picking it up and ramming it down his throat he's got to stop that and go into the three things that I just mentioned.
I would argue there are five but I think you hit the top three I think inflation the economy is definitely number one I believe number two would be the open borders the biggest national security threat in our lifetime we now have a hundred and eighty people coming from a hundred and eighty countries including top geopolitical foes, people with terror ties and it's it's a matter of when not if this country's going to get hit again.
The next thing I would talk about is law and order and safety and security and the insanity of you know defund dismantle no Bell laws that she and Tim Walls share that view on.
The other price issue that is impacting everybody the high price of energy and electricity and gas uh that that's a big issue for Americans and the last would be and maybe not top of mind but it might be in the next couple of days and that is America's role in the world if Iran uh as they are claiming they're going to do attacks Israel and it becomes a three or four front war against the only democracy in the region I think all this will happen.
Here's where I am though this is the biggest this whole campaign is predicated of Kamala Harris on a lie.
She she was the tiebreaking vote to sick the IRS on service workers to tax their tips and get their money.
She said in her own words, Medicare for all, and she wants to eliminate private health care.
She said in her own words, she wants a mandatory gun buyback program, which is called confiscation, where I grew up.
We know that she is on record saying no fracking.
He would ban it.
No, no drilling.
She would ban that.
We also know that she's saying now that she would tackle inflation from day one.
My question is, where have you been?
We also know that she's the borders are and she's going to deal with the border on day one.
Where have you been when asked about it?
She said, well, I haven't been to the border, but but I haven't been to Europe either which kind of scares me if she wants to be president but putting all of that aside at some point this is going to penetrate into the bloodstream and the consciousness of the American people there's no way that anybody can flop and flip and flail and try to create a false illusion to this level and and pull the wool over the the eyes of the American people.
They're going to be aware of it.
I've have all of the all the audio of Tim Walls and all the audio of Kamala Harris on my website Hannity.com and people can download it and they can give it to their friends their family their coworkers and strangers and and you could use it on your no spin hour and do whatever you want with it.
I'll give it to you for free.
I've done all the hard work and you could borrow it and you can have it.
You don't even have to give attribution but the reality is Bill this there's no way she can hide that long from those positions nor will people buy this election year conversion.
I don't believe that's possible.
So I think that this this race is going to have a lot of movement in it unless I'm wrong in the next eighty three days.
I'm not so sure uh that the majority of voters are going to get the message I hope they do the big exposition on that will be the debate whether Trump can make the three points that I laid out and I understand your other two points um social disorder and foreign affairs but you can't make five you can make three that will stick in people's minds.
Once you get above three it gets to be fuzzy.
Well if Trump on the debate hammers the three that we both agree upon then that will go a long way of getting those things to people who don't pay attention because everybody will watch some of the debate on social media.
Then I gotta watch newscasts and I get into any of that.
I mean my I've expanded my audience vastly by YouTube and they watch uh my individual commentaries on certain things on YouTube.
Um and it's blown up my organization it's it's crazy.
And that's what Trump has to do.
And an association the Republican National Committee remember these political action committees which have all the money to buy the ads that's going to mean something in late September early October when they flood the airwaves of political ads.
But don't muddle your message.
Be very very disciplined and on point.
So far we have not seen that from President Trump or from the Republican Party in general.
All right, we continue now with all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly at BillOReilly.com.
I think this is one of these moments where for the folks, as you call them, the people that actually make this country great, it's not, you know, idiots like us on radio and TV that make the country great.
And it's not politicians that make the country great.
It's the people that get up every day, work hard, play by the rules, pay their taxes, obey the laws, raise their kids, go to church.
They make the country great, Bill.
And those are the people I admire the most.
But to have what I think is...
the greatest misinformation a presidential election predicated on the level of lying and manipulation that they are trying to pull off here is unprecedented.
You have a book coming out in September.
I actually finished it, and it's about the presidents, and you go through all of them.
And what's amazing about that book is you really need another chapter just on the unprecedented campaign of Kamala Harris and how nobody has ever, she never changed her positions on any of these issues until she became the presumptive nominee, Bill, and the idea that she, even with the help of a compliant, complicit media, I don't think she can pull it off.
If she can and the American people now they'll either vote for her because they agree with it, which I don't think they do, or they're gonna be bamboozled, lied to, and the real Kamala Harris will come out the day after she's declared the winner.
He's not changing her positions.
This is this is the swamp at its worst.
I hope you're right.
I hope so too.
The majority of American voters, I hope they actually think about their country and about these two candidates and even if you hate Donald Trump, put that hatred aside, it's a destructive emotion, put it aside and take an objective look at what his policies were in four years and what she's spouting now.
And if that happens then Trump will win.
I'm not so sure it will and I base it on my fallacious prediction uh that the Republicans would do much better in the midterms at twenty two.
I really thought they would do better and they didn't I think the I have a my own theory on twenty two.
I won't go into a great specificity in detail.
I think that all that was all a reaction to the Supreme Court decision on Roe.
I think that played a very big part in it and had that not happened the you know I think now people I think Donald Trump has actually handled the abortion issue very well and I think Kamala and and Tim Walls no restrictions at all on abortion creates a vulnerability for them.
Look this is all going to play out however if they get elected Walls and and Harris this country's going to be unrecognizable.
Their policies are radical extreme and frankly dangerous Bill most progressive would be the most progressive by far administration in history there has been no presidential candidate outside of Eugene Debs who wasn't even a serious candidate that has been that far left into the socialist area ever.
But the Republicans and this is important handing if the Republicans can hold the House and even gain the Senate all right that will block Harris if she were to win from doing in every executive order she signs will be challenged in the courts every one.
So we'll see what well we'll we'll see what happens but you know um there's a lot at stake I will say that I've never been this worried about our country and about the state of the world in all the years that we have been doing this.
I never have been this is a real clear present danger for America as we know it.
We do appreciate you being on, Bill.
All things Simple Man, Bill O'Reilly at BillOReilly.com.
Thank you, my friend.
800-941-SHAWN is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
I find it interesting.
Again, we keep watching this evolution, if you will, of Kamala Harris.
And now, all of a sudden, after being the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, which was to hire 87,000 IRS agents.
We went into great specificity, how they literally were designing an entire system to tax tips of service workers.
This was her back then and what she said when she cast that tie-breaking vote.
And that's why you cannot trust the lying campaign that she is now running.
It is a bait and switch.
It is disinformation.
It is propaganda at its worst.
And it is an acknowledgement, a tacit acknowledgement, that they know deep down they can't win.
If everybody knows who she is...
Tim Walls is so they have to change it and they have to hope that you don't notice and that the media will will do their job and and be dutiful radical socialists and try and prevent you from finding out listen.
On this vote the years are fifty the nays are fifty the Senate being equally divided the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed.
Of course we're gonna laugh about that Bill in Michigan, Bill you're on the Sean Hannity Show.
How are you sir?
Doing real well Sean oh we definitely need Michigan in just eighty three days I I hope Michigan comes through for us.
Well Sean I just kind of augmenting Bill right I have a couple thoughts about Kamala Harris, if you have a second.
I you won't going back since the uh the debate, even after the first few days when he was in denial and he she said he had a bad day.
It's kind of going back a few more months where she was calling him vibrant and tireless and you know, basically I call it the sharpest tool in the shed approach that she took.
Instead of calling her a liar, which you just made some good points about her being a liar, but instead of calling her a liar, I look at it like No, you aren't lying.
You have such poor judgment.
You have no assessment skills, Kamala, you have no appraisal skills, no evaluation skills.
How are you going to deal with like Kim Jong-un or Putin or uh Xi Jinping?
You're you are the worst judge.
You actually thought by you're the last one in the room with him in every meeting, and you actually thought he was the sharpest.
It's unbelievable.
No, no, she didn't think that.
She knew better, but she lied.
And she covered up.
Like the media, I mean, I played those videos for four years.
They all lied.
They all covered it up, and they're lying about it even still today.
Now, Joe Biden had a report reports out today, he's very angry at Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, her in particular, and Chuck Schumer over the coup to push him out.
He's angry.
They're happy, he's angry.
And he'll show up dutifully next week when we're in Chicago at the DNC uh convention.
By the way, the things that I won't do for this audience, I'm actually going to put myself in the middle of that Adam Schiff show.
Can you believe that?
Well, that was my my first point.
But you're probably right.
That that just you know reinforces that she was lying.
The alternative is she's the stupidest woman ever.
But since the Lester Holt debate, this is what made me want to call into you, where she said we've never we've been to the border, we've been to the border, and he challenged her very lightly, and she said I'd never been to Europe.
Well, now that she's come out with this, I've been in the tunnels and I, you know, prosecuted gangs and cartels and drug and human trafficking.
We should take that as face value too.
Instead of challenging her on it, just say, yeah, but wouldn't that wouldn't that change your life, Sean?
If you and I were prosecuted, we're sitting there with a family of uh a girl that was trafficked to prostitution, and she she's done nothing for ten years since she was attorney general.
That she should be held to a higher standard given the fact that she was getting involved in that back.
She she's not like Pete Beauty Jug from South Bend.
She's right there in the in the trenches, and she still just walked away from it and let ten million people in the country minimum.
So 11 million, and now she wants to offer a path to citizenship.
That's called the amnesty.
And I'm sure that all of those people will look at that as something of great value, which it is American citizenship.
And I'm sure the implicit transaction includes, well, you're gonna vote for us, right?
And you know, all this talk, well, this is about white replacement theory and all this nonsense.
I don't really care where anybody comes into this country.
I just ask that you do it legally, that we get to do a background check on you.
That you obey our laws, respect our borders and sovereignty, and and after the background check, and you show you have the financial means to take care of yourself, and you won't be a burden on the American people, like the five billion dollars spent in New York on illegal immigrants of Harris and Biden and all the crime associated and murder and rape and and everything in between, then uh then welcome to our country.
And I don't really give a hoot where you come from.
No, none of her positions are sustainable economically.
Hey, what before I leave you, I just let you know, longtime listener.
I remember vividly the stop Hillary Express when she didn't even make it to Iowa and Barack Obama stepped up.
So you did stop by.
I listened to you every day.
You did uh you've been talking about Biden's problems with uh um everything of his memory on for three years, basically, and you finally stopped him, but it reminds me of Stop Hillary.
Be careful what you asked for, because now we got a little uh little fight.
But anyway, more this is where all of you in this audience can play a very big role in this election.
Knowing that the media is going to continue to run interference and try to prevent the mainstream of society from knowing who she really is and vetting her.
Uh I'm putting all the materials out there.
All you have to do is is go to my website, and it's all there.
It's in written form, and it is in audio form.
Tim will and video, is it audio or video, uh Linda, that we put up.
So it's audio.
Um with a full transcript.
Kamala in her own words, Written and audio versions, and you can give it to your friends and your family and your co-workers and your neighbors and anybody you might run into contact with.
And if everybody in this audience did that, it's gonna go viral.
Um I contend that I don't think they can keep this up for 83 days.
I hope not.
It's possible they can.
The media as an institution is extraordinarily powerful.
You know, we see what what Google is now doing to basically donate to Kamala Harris and her campaign.
It's it's nauseating and it's sickening, but it's also predictable.
And we have got to, you know, counter it, and this is where people can can jump in and you know play a very pivotal important role.
I mean, the Harris campaign has been editing news headlines and descriptions within the Google search ads that make it appear as if credible news organizations.
That is a dubious claim, by the way.
But like, for example, news organizations like Guardian Reuters, CBS News, and many, many others uh are on her side.
Axios had a very big investigation on this.
That would be all part of the distortion, lying propaganda misinformation campaign.
This is all an illusion.
This is all one big lie.
They are trying to hide who she really is, and the question is will you let her be successful?
Will you let walls be successful?
Or is this serious enough in terms of the the state of the country to stop it?
And you can stop it with information and sharing it.
Elon Musk is not going to censor you.
At least we got one place to go to.
Truth, you know, social is not going to stop you.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
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Uh Joe is next.
Joe, how are you?
Glad you called.
My old stomping grounds.
What's going on?
Hey, what's up, Sean?
Just want to tell you first of all, you do a great job.
Let's get right to it.
My question to you, and I respect you as one of the best journalists across the board.
In 50 years from now, what are our people going to say?
Whether it's a Republican Party or the high elites, the intelligent people of the world, aren't they going to say, why didn't we revolt?
Isn't there enough counterfeitness that's going on here, starting with Biden with all his shenanigans?
And all these judges that have been appointed by him, which is just lopsiding the table here.
And we're what they're doing is they're faking it till they're making it like they're saying that this is correct.
It's not.
It's like we're hypnotized, and I believe that they're doing this in an effort to for that whole world reset that we heard about that Obama proclaimed about, where you have to create chaos, break down the population, and then rebuild with the digital currency.
That's what this looks like.
It looks like a footprint to that, because the border alone should be the only thing that Trump should be saying right now.
You can't enjoy money unless you have a safe protected border, period.
The border, law and order, the economy, inflation, uh energy prices, all of it.
It all matters.
Look, you gotta understand something here.
There are powerful, powerful institutions that are aligned against Donald Trump here.
Joe Scarborough said it very well this morning when he said, uh, you know, he he give me Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump.
And this for them is stop Trump at all costs.
You've got the deep state, which is very real.
We saw that in 2020 with the 51 former Intel officials.
We saw it in 2016 with the Pfizer warrants and the dirty disinformation dossier, the Russian dossier that Hillary paid for, and of course the emails and the private, you know, top secret classified information that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
We saw all of this.
But you've got that institution.
You've got the media in you got a corrupt media institution, and you got a Democratic Party that'll say and do anything for power.
These are powerful forces combined all aligned to prevent Donald Trump from ever getting back into the White House.
The only the thing that can stop it are we the people.
That's the only that's the only weapon we have, because we can't do what they do.
I'm not I don't I'm I'm I'm I won't support breaking the law.
I'm not gonna support support uh subverting our constitution.
Is it constitution for an unruly government?
We the people must overthrow that government.
What constitutes unruly?
What are we gonna wait for?
They're only gonna think you're talking about the declaration, but I but your point is well taken, yeah.
Uh, but I bel but we don't want that in this country.
We want a peaceful transfer of power.
You know, I think Laura Trump used pretty a pretty good phrase.
It's gotta be too big to rig.
The victory has to be that overwhelming.
The only way they're gonna have that is to expose Kamala Harris.
The only way to expose Kamala Harris and Tim Walls for who they are is to bypass these institutions and go directly to the people.
That's gonna be in the form of the Trump campaign doing their job.
That's gonna be in the form of alternative media like talk radio and and shows like mine on Fox and and a few others of us on Fox, you know, doing our job, and then it's gonna be up to you.
I can't do if I could do this on my own, I would do it.
I just I don't have the means.
You gotta understand every day I'm being undermined by by the it by the mainstream media.
They're not doing what we're doing.
They're not playing her radicalism in her own words.
They're not playing Tim Walls' radicalism in his own words.
So therefore, bypass the media, do an end run to round them.
You know, you gotta do more than vote.
You've got to share information.
That information is in the form of the Kamala Files and the Walls files on Hannity.com.
Anyway, I appreciate the call real quick.
Mike in Ohio, Mike, you're next on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Sean, thank you uh for taking my call.
It is an honor and a privilege, long time listener of yours and uh student of the Golden EIB as well.
Um I just want to say Kamala is simply put a a suckless puppet.
We know No Show Joe was a puppet, and my belief is they are from the school of Alinsky.
They're from the school of Barack Obama and his ill, Schumer, Pelosi, and Underlings, Jeffries, and the squad.
And people have no idea.
The Five Alone fire bell is ringing right now in this country.
There's a gentleman called Yuri Besmanov, Warning to America, 1984.
And if people haven't listened to it, I suggest they listen to it.
And the way this ties in is the way they are radically transforming this country through subversion of these radical policies that are affecting your workplace, i.e., ESG companies, uh, the the race and gender politics that has taken such a toll on so many people,
um, where they are actually uh putting parents in courts because they sneak around and they let their children make the decision for look at what California and Minnesota believe and support and you know feminine products and boys' bathrooms and schools and gender affirming uh, you know, transitions without parental consent or if any parental involvement if they try to stop it, you know.
Well, you know, they're gonna lose the they risk losing their own children.
This is look, how do I say this?
This is a level of organized radicalism I didn't think we'd see in our lifetime.
And it's all hanging in the balance.
This is why I keep saying it's an inflection point.
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