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Why Patriotism Is Fading - July 2nd, Hour 2
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Beautiful All right, Leonard Skinnard's simple man, that can only mean one thing on this radio program, and that is all things self-proclaimed simple man.
That is all things Bill O'Reilly.
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Mr. O'Reilly, sir, I have three topics of discussion today.
How are you, sir?
Uh I'm okay.
Thank you for asking Henry.
I'm all right.
Okay, so you uh in your commentary, you quoted the Gallup poll.
I saw, I believe it was the pew poll.
No, it was Gallup also.
Sorry.
I'm uh I think we're looking at the same one.
How proud are you?
Because Friday's the fourth of July.
How proud are you to be an American?
Extremely proud, very proud, moderately proud, only a little proud or not proud, not at all proud.
And here's the fascinating numbers as you look at it here.
Republicans have been very, very consistent.
Republicans have always been ninety percent plus, uh, with the exception of the Biden years where they were in the mid to upper eighties.
Democrats in the Trump years uh you know went down.
They were a little above 40 percent.
At one point, if you go back to 2001, they were in the actually low nineties at one point, and by 2015, I'm not sure why they were depress or I'm sorry, 2007, they were down to like 75 percent.
Now they're down to 36%.
Republicans that are very healthy, 92%.
Um, Bill, I think it's a no-brainer.
You don't have to think deeply about this.
You just need to open your eyes and look around the world.
We live in the greatest country God ever gave man, and liberty and freedom has led to prosperity sec liberty and freedom has led to prosperity second to none.
Okay, well, let me analyze from a historian's point of view, rather than uh party uh apparatus because I'm not associated with any party.
The Democratic Party right now sells grievance.
That's what they do.
So you're getting screwed.
Uh that'sn't it deeper than that?
Aren't they also selling hate?
Well, let me steer sip it here.
So they're selling grievance.
That's how many Donnie won the nomination uh in the Democratic primary in New York.
You're getting screwed, the billionaires, Bernie Sanders, the on and on and on and on.
The younger Americans who have no frame of reference, it's an easier sell in that crew.
Because you have to struggle in this country in our system to be successful.
Both you and I had the lowest level jobs we could have, and we worked our way up to the top.
That's how it's done, but it wasn't easy.
It was painful, correct?
Am I correct here?
Bill, I think uh number one, nothing in life is easy.
Number two is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Paper boy, dishwasher, cook, construction, ten years in restaurants, ten years in construction.
No, it wasn't easy.
Okay.
So you and I understand that the capitalism system requires a bit of pain and discipline to succeed.
The younger people are only experiencing the pain.
They don't know if they're going to succeed or not.
So when the Charlatans come across and say, oh, you deserve success.
We'll give you success.
We'll give you free rent.
We'll give you this, we'll give you that.
They buy it.
And um if those people aren't in power, which they're not, then the younger people are disenchanted.
That's number one.
That's a historical.
That's why the Democratic Party's proud number is so low.
So younger people in the party don't understand what it takes to succeed in capitalism.
Number two, I've been to 86 countries.
I just got back from China.
I know the world.
And there's nobody that comes close.
And by the way, there is a follow-up to that.
Bill O'Reilly has since been banned from 86 countries.
But go ahead.
Yeah, I was only deported by half of them.
Um I know.
I know.
I've been there.
Um I've seen it.
Even Great Britain, where I lived for a year, our staunchest ally, isn't anywhere near the opportunity that you have in America.
Because when you're 16, you gotta take a test.
All British school children take it.
And if you don't score well in the test, you don't go to college because it's funded by the government, and most people can't afford private college there.
So again, Americans don't understand any of that.
I'm not being supercilious, word of the day, condescending, telling you the truth.
They don't know.
And then when you get into the history of it, how millions of Americans have sacrificed their lives.
I mean had their legs blown off to try to bring freedom to other people who didn't have it.
And you turn around and you say you're not proud of your country, that's just ignorance.
Let me let me ask you about there's an article in the New York Post.
The democratic party we knew died the same way it lived with fear and hate.
Um, I look at the democratic party now it is, there's no resemblance to the democratic party that we knew most of the years we've been in this industry.
Now, I do think that a lot of people hid their true beliefs and and that led towards socialism and incremental socialism, et cetera.
Uh, but they were not as audacious, word of the day, as this this current group of Democratic leaders.
Uh if you look at Marxist Mamdani as one example, then you can look at Jasmine Crockett, then you can look at AOC, then you can look at the squad, then you can look at Grandpa Bernie and Pocahontas, and if you then look closely at the Democratic leadership, Chuck Schumer, for example, uh, why isn't Chuck Schumer condemning uh Marxist Mondament Donnie?
Why isn't he condemning him?
Because he's afraid of them.
Well, he's scared to death that AOC is going to primary him, and if she does, I believe she would win in your state of New York.
And you can correct me if you think I'm wrong.
I don't think I am.
Uh I think I have a pretty good uh finger on the pulse of politics in the country.
And what's scares me is this is now the most radicalized party.
Couple of examples.
You know, Kamala Harris, their presidential candidate, wanted taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegals and for convicts.
A running mate wanted gender-affirming care without parental consent.
He wanted taxpayer-funded tuition for illegals in in his state.
Uh he wanted tampons put in grammar school boys' bathrooms bill.
Uh you add to that DEI, you add to that woke, you add to that, you know, cradle to grave, womb to the tomb, green new deal, and this is not Bill Clinton's Democratic Party anymore.
Sure, and Clinton, though, is the guy who instituted welfare reform where you had to look for work, uh, or you're cut off.
And so the Democrats who supported that, they're turned around going, oh no, you can't do it now.
Look, what I believe happened in the Democratic Party is they were bought.
The party was bought by the George Soros billionaire Hollywood people that pump an enormous amount of money into the political action committees of very far-left candidates like Bragg in New York and people like that.
So the par oh the party was bought, they sold it.
Um whereas in Clinton, Obama that it started there.
That's where the the big money started to come into the radical left under Obama.
Um, so it is a different party.
They've sold their soul.
And uh, I don't see that changing anytime soon.
I don't see one moderate policy, not one, coming out of the Democratic Party.
They don't even want to give working class people in America a tax break in the sense of keeping the 2017 tax rates.
They want it to rise.
That's just insane.
Um So they sold it, Hannity.
They sold it.
All right.
So now we're on issue number three, and it has to do with now the Senate barely, but they got it through, passed this one big beautiful bill, um, and now it's going to the House, and there's a lot of consternation and anger, I predict eventually, maybe not this week, but maybe next week.
At some point I believe it's going to pass because I I think Donald Trump is going to insist that these guys pass it.
And let me be very clear, there's not everything in there that I like at all.
Uh you will get a tax benefit in this living in New York that I don't think you deserve this the state and local tax deduction.
It rewards that I make too much money, I won't get anything.
But that's all right.
I don't need it.
No, you'll get you'll get the forty thousand, but it's not gonna impact your life very much.
Uh you know, you're too you're too rich a Republican.
But here's here's what I see, and here's how I look at it.
When you have such a slim majority and you have to do things to get votes, it's unfortunate, but it's the way the sausage is made.
And I've seen this my entire career without exception, even when Ronald Reagan was president.
And here's where we find ourselves, and if I'm a Republican, I'm looking at I get to tell my constituents that Democrats voted for the largest tax increase in American history, voted for no tax on tips and and overtime and social security, and it frustrates me that people can't see the big picture.
And and I I you know when I did these town halls with the House and the Senate, I I first thing I said is you all know you're not going to get everything you want.
Your majority is too thin.
It is too small.
Am I right or are they right to fight it and then ultimately you know, if they win, then the American people get the largest tax increase in history.
Well, I think they're right to fight it, but in the end they have to vote for the welfare of the country, which would be uh to pass the bill, because if you don't pass it, country goes into a recession and the midterms go the Democrats' way.
So that's a simple equation.
But I don't mind people fighting for a better bill.
I think that's what we all should do.
Republicans bought Markowski in the Senate.
They bought her.
Uh you know, that as you pointed out, has been going on uh f in earnest since World War II.
It really started then.
But it it's been present uh since George Washington to some degree.
So the Republicans bought her and won.
Uh they'll have to do the same thing in the House.
So right now, uh Well the pro the problem is is uh look I was up all night, not last night, the night before, and at two in the morning, at four in the morning, at five in the morning, I'm checking in.
It wasn't until eight o'clock in the morning that I found out that they had the votes to pass it, and all I kept getting was feedback that they didn't have the votes.
If the House changes it, that means it has to go back to the Senate and go back to the House.
Uh and they're at a point where I think Republicans don't understand how to take wins and then come back for the next piece.
They still have the majority.
Yeah.
And Lilith, look, you interrupted me, but I was gonna go down that road.
So y you have to pass it now if you're a Republican in Congress, because if you don't, you're basically nailing your own party.
Okay.
And you can't justify that.
So you will get another chance to have legislation.
For example, I support separate legislation on dreamers in America.
I support that it's a very good article by Donald Grant, used to publish the Washington Post when it was a decent newspaper, saying, Look, these people were dragged here.
It's no fault of their own, should not be punishing them.
Let's have separate legislation for them.
I support that.
By the way, there it just so you know, Donald Trump is working on deportation exemptions.
Uh part of it would include illegal farm and hospitality workers and and people that you're mentioning that maybe through no fault of their own came here are participating, paying taxes, working, etc., no problems.
Um, you know, if you're here twenty years and you've not gotten in trouble and you pay your taxes.
Okay, you're not you're you're not the illegals that we're generally talking about.
I think that look, uh I you know better than me because you talk to these people and nobody ever wants to talk to me, so I have a disadvantage.
Um when you said you think it'll get done.
It's obvious that it has to get done.
And if any Republican Congressman does not said that, then they don't deserve to be in Congress because you're giving the Democrats, and that party is on the rope, Sanity.
You know it, I know it.
Democratic Party.
That's why they should take the win and go home and say they voted to raise your taxes, they won't secure your borders, they don't care about working men and women.
Uh they don't care.
They're the appeasement party, they don't care about national defense, and they're the party of do nothing radical, you know, Marxist Mondamis, Mondani's and AOCs.
You can say that the Republican Party has now given the working people in America more money.
If you pass Exactly.
That's it.
That's all.
By the way, and you say I'm not affiliated with any party, Hannity.
Bill, when's the last time you voted for a Democrat?
This uh in uh November.
Who?
No, I'm not telling you.
I don't tell my votes.
Come on, O'Reilly.
Just between me and you.
Uh guy running against him.
And I'll let him you're not supporting Mondani, are you?
Marxist Mondani.
Only only if he uh uh appoints me Czar of New York City so I can run it.
Um that's the only way I told you to leave the state.
You didn't you didn't listen to me.
Uh all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly.com.
Sir, thank you.
Appreciate you being with us.
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Quick break, right back, we'll continue.
Uh all right.
Jonathan in Tennessee.
Jonathan, hey, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, I'm doing great.
How about yourself?
I'm good, sir.
Glad you glad you checked in.
What's going on?
Man, I'm I just want to let you know, I am so mad about this big beautiful bill thing.
I cannot see straight.
It just doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.
You know, they always talk about Republicans never miss an opportunity to screw things up, and I think this is the perfect example of that.
Um, I don't think I'm well, let's go over the bill, and you can tell me all the things you don't like, and we probably will agree, to be very honest.
There are things I don't like in the bill either.
Um and and the good news is too, and Mike Johnson dealt with this and others have have dealt with this, is it can all you know, we can come back with another reconciliation bill.
This is the first bite of the apple.
They bit off a lot.
It might have been better to break it up.
I'm not gonna sit here and second guess it guess it at this point because we are where we are.
But let me ask you the the things that I like about the bill.
I like that it has the largest tax cut in American history, and Democrats voted against it.
Do you like that part?
Absolutely.
Do you like the the parts about no tax on tips and and overtime and social security?
Yeah, but I think they should have gone one one step further and added in uh active duty service membership with that as well.
Okay, fair enough.
But you like the part that's a pretty big selling point, and Democrats voted against working men and women, right?
Yes.
You like that it's funding building out completely the border wall and providing necessary funds to find all of the unvetted criminal illegals uh that are, you know, in this country.
Do you like that part of the bill?
Yes, definitely.
Okay, do you like the part of the bill that is our military has been neglected four years under Biden?
And we've depleted many of our resources and we're not keeping up with our geopolitical foes.
Do you like that it is funding the the Department of Defense and it is allocating massive billions amounts of dollars for the the Iron Dome, which may one day save American cities from devastation.
Do you like that part?
As far as I'm concerned, they they can never put too much money into the military.
I'm with you.
I totally agree with you.
Do you like the part that really paves the way to open up energy dominance?
Yes.
You like the part that has a work requirement for for Medicaid recipients so that then people are not getting a free ride and states now have to contribute uh of a portion of monies to Medicare.
Yes.
Okay.
I like all of that.
Now tell me what you don't like about it, and I'll tell you if I agree.
Okay, the thing that's killing me on it is you know, Trump started talking about the tax the tax cuts and then and the no tax on the tips and and social security and uh overtime.
You know, it's it's been almost a year since he even brought that up, and we still don't have it.
If they had broken these things up into smaller pieces, the we could have already uh voted on those, and not only would we already Okay, but it but it but it's in the bill in its current form.
But I mean you're you're saying, okay, so he's been president since January 20th.
It's July what, second today?
By any measure, I I correct me if I'm wrong.
There's never pr been a president that has moved as fast as Donald Trump on as many massive issues as he has, including uh deporting illegal immigrants, bringing the murder rate down to the lowest level it's been in decades, um, and moving ten trillion dollars in committed investments for the economy,
uh executive order after executive order, including helping pave the way for energy dominance, um, you know, taking out Iran's nuclear facilities, trying really damn hard to get peace in Europe.
Uh I think it's been the most consequential six months of any president that I can think of in a hundred years, to be honest.
He he's been the absolute best president in my lifetime.
I'm about to turn fifty-seven, so yeah, that's been a while, and I I give him all the kudos that there are out there to give.
My problem with this bill is that with all this stuff that they're packing in together, you know, we can say, well, the Democrats voted against the uh the tax cuts.
They voted against uh the the people, they voted against tax on tips, all these things.
We can say that they did that.
But then they can't.
Well, it gives those politicians, remember, these pol these political animals, you know, all the thinking a lot of them are only thinking about the next election, and you they need those arguments to make if they want to get re-elected.
And we the 2026 is everything's everything's on the line here.
Even James Carvel is saying that, you know, he Trump will do anything to cheat the midterms to avoid impeachment.
It's not cheat.
Democrats, that's all they care about.
That's all they think about is impeachment.
And this election is gonna matter in 2026.
Now that's the I think the biggest benefit is he's moved fast enough to get the economy and he's put the pieces in place, including ten plus trillion dollars in investments in manufacturing uh and energy and all these other issues that the economy's gonna turn by tw by November of twenty-sixth, and that's gonna help every Republican in the midterm.
Well, here's the part that everybody's missing, and no one's bringing it up, is if we had just had separate bills, then we could have absolutely said they did not vote for this.
I don't disagree.
I think you could have broken it up, but it didn't happen that way.
Why are we going backwards?
We already debated whether it should be one big beautiful bill, other bills, you know, they decided to go this way, but it's not the only bill either.
Yeah.
You know, Mike Mike Johnson was very very clear.
Mike Johnson made made a very good point.
He said we plan to do more reconciliation work after October, after they're done with this.
And by the way, that means trying to get the balance but the budget balance.
They're not there yet, but they're making strides.
Yeah, but i i if if they had done one at a time, we I know you keep repeating it, but I mean, on measure, is it good that he were passing it or bad?
In your view.
I'm sorry, say it again.
On measure, with all the things we discussed, is it good or bad that it's getting done?
Oh, it's definitely good that it's getting done.
I just think it could have been done better.
Okay, fair enough, but there's nothing good, there's nothing that gets done well in that that swamp.
It's it's it's horrible the way things work there.
But it's the way the system was actually designed.
It was not designed to be easy by our framers and our founders.
It wasn't.
They they wanted you know the people's house, and then they have the more deliberative body in the Senate.
Look at look at the how hard it is to even do a reconciliation bill.
Anyway, listen, Jonathan, I gave you a lot of time.
Uh I hope you uh feel you got your say and uh appreciate the call.
Uh let us say hi to Dan in Michigan.
Dan, how are you?
Glad you called.
Uh I'm doing great.
Thanks for taking my call, Sean.
I I I have a question here.
I'm trying to understand what's happening in New York City with this mayor race.
I'm not very familiar with um ranked choice voting.
Um they basically understand if somebody doesn't get over fifty percent the first time they start going to second and third choices.
And I'm also this election wasn't even close.
Andrew Cuomo in this election was not close.
So I guess I need help understanding why everybody's saying he needs to drop out because the way I see it, you have a socialist communist on one side, four relatively speaking normal people on the other side, and if ranked waste voting, I don't believe any of those people who are voting.
Yeah, but that doesn't happen in a in a general election in New York City, just so you know.
Listen, the the re only reason that Lisa Murkowski survives, he doesn't win the Republican primary.
She loses it.
He wins on ranked choice voting.
And I I personally don't like the system.
I think you should have straight up you have a winner, you have a loser.
That's it.
That's my preferred that's my preference.
So I totally agree with you.
I guess I'm just trying to understand.
I mean, if you have these four other people who are, you know, not gonna have Mammy, I can't see somebody having Sleeva and then Madame or you know, Cuomo and then Mamdami, so wouldn't that help the normal people?
Here's a v if if if Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, M. Momdani, Marxist Mom Donnie, if they split the Democratic vote, you could see Curtis Sleewa slip it.
You could.
Now, when you break it down within the Democratic ranks, and there's one other radical leftist, but you know, maybe that's a two to three percent drain, but they're gonna splinter the Democratic vote, and in that scenario, uh, I think Mon Mom Dani wins.
Well, and then if that's I mean the p look, don't don't go by me.
The betting markets have him had him earlier this week at seventy-six percent odds are he's gonna win.
So it doesn't so basically if those other four non communists don't have Mam Dami as their second or third choice, that doesn't matter.
Not not in the general election, no.
Doesn't exist in the general general's gonna be a straight up winner loser.
Ah, okay.
So I Okay.
So they ha they they do it one way in the primaries and then another way.
I guess I can Democrats love that so much.
Yeah, why do you think I don't live in New York?
Well, I'll tell you what, if you want to come up and live in Michigan's upper peninsula, it's always a hundred degrees everywhere else.
It's usually about seventy-five degrees around here.
Why do you think Linda left and she lives in Pennsylvania?
Anyway, appreciate the call.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh all right, let's go to big time AJ Houston, Texas.
What's going on, baby?
How are you?
Big time Sean Hennedy.
Hey, hey, happy fourth.
Happy fourth, man.
What's going on?
Everybody in America.
Because boy, I tell you, Trump has done a great job of getting us back to the stripes that we are.
And Sean, that idiot that's running in New York.
I'm back to them now.
Uh who if New York wants to go down like that, the movements taking over like they do in Minnesota.
I mean, I'm I'm I'm like, who does this do they country, Sean?
And the media's on the bill.
Come on, people.
What what is it?
Trump is a businessman.
The man got the plan.
Let's see what the plan is.
So far, we doing pretty good is what, six months, Sean?
So far.
I won't disclose the name of somebody.
Um when this guy won, you know, uh it's it's a prominent name that you would recognize immediately, but I I don't I I I I believe private conversation should remain private.
This person said, I said to me, Well, how are you loving your city now?
And the person said, Well, you're just a quitter.
I'm like, I'm not a quitter.
I like I just recognize that you know, you guys destroyed the city, and I don't think you can salvage it.
And, you know, I even let's say Curtis wins, Curtis is gonna be Rudy Giuliani two point oh in my view.
I really believe that.
And I hope he does win.
I think he'd do a good job for the city.
I think he fight hard for the city and make the city safer.
But you know what?
The odds are are are not with him, but I hope he can overcome them.
And I he'll be he'll face opposition lawfare, the likes of which you've never seen in your life.
It's pretty similar to what Trump goes through.
Exactly.
Sean, you did what I did.
I left Michigan to come to Texas.
And boy, I've never regret it.
I love Texas.
You could I have never regretted coming to Florida.
Never.
You couldn't dig me out of Texas.
You couldn't dig me out of Florida.
Can't do it.
Hey, Sean, we shake it and baked it.
Come on.
We shake it and bake it.
Come on, babe.
Uh, all right, big time, we love you.
Quick break, right back to our busy telephones, 800 and 941 Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
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It's 800-941 Sean.
Jim in Florida, we have about a minute.
Jim, it's all yours.
Welcome to the show.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
Um, I preface by saying that my wife and I are both retired members of the NYPD.
I was gonna say, I hear that New York accent.
What's going on?
I'm glad you called.
Glad you're in the free state of Florida.
What's going on?
What's happening?
Well, I'd like to just point out one of Mandami's uh hypocrisies that really disgust my wife and myself.
So someone who's calling for the to dissolve the NYPD and replace us with social workers, now that he's the Democratic nominee, he is taking NYPD security.
Just like the uh a presidential nominee can take so uh Secret Service security.
So he was the very people whose job he wants to take away, and he wants to disempower, providing his personal security now that he's a nominee.
Yeah, no, he and they'll be armed, and he says he wants to ban all guns.
Looks I had this battle when De Blasio came in studio uh on my TV show once, and I said, Does he should every New Yorker have the right to defend themselves with a firearm?
Every New Yorker has the right to be safe.
I said, I didn't ask you that.
And we went back and forth and back and forth.
I'm like, why can't you have armed guards right there?
They weren't on camera.
I said they're NYPD guys.
And by the way, I believe every politician, Democrat, Republican, communist, Marxist, they we've got to protect our elected officials.
Period end of sentence.
I do not deviate from that.
I don't like political violence.
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