Trump Signs Marijuana Order & AOC vs. JD Vance: 2028 Showdown? | Dec. 19, 2025

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Hey Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News, Thursday December 18th, 2025. Stand Up For Your Country, one week before Christmas Day. So everybody's busy and we're very pleased that you are with us. A lot of stuff to tell you about. I hope you have a pen and paper there. A lot of very interesting stats you can talk about with your Christmas socializing,

if you'd like. But today we're gonna look ahead. So what's likely to change next year, 2026? The economy. Certainly going to change, but I don't know whether it's going to get better or worse. I think it will get better because I really want to think that. Not just because of the Trump administration, but because it benefits you and me. All right? But it seems that the structure of consumer spending, which drives the American economy, and the way that America has positioned itself in the world, still got the best tech products and all that. I think it's going to be okay, but I could be desperately wrong.

Political hatred is going to get worse, with the midterms next year vital for both parties. It's going to be savagery. And we're going to be here to point out all the deception, and there will be many. How about your job? Now, this is something you need to think about. There are going to be millions of jobs affected by artificial intelligence, and it's over a rollout period of about five years.

I don't know what your job is, obviously. I mean, if you are fixing stuff, you'll probably be able to do that without any intrusion. But if you're in a white-collar world, it's going to be a lot of replacements. And so you need to look at your situation, think ahead.

Plan B, because that marketplace in America is going to change. Recreation, no. Still going to be sports, sports, sports. Winter Olympics should be fun. Super Bowl, a lot of sports betting, that's not a good thing. But it heightens interest and so sports, we are a sports crazed country. Most countries are. Most countries is soccer. Here it's NFL

football, but basketball, baseball, hockey, they still have a big, big audience. So recreation is going to be built around spectator viewing of events. And your own personal recreation is up to you. I recommend you walk as much as you could possibly walk, all right, as you could possibly walk. All right, as you get older in particular. And then you got to stretch, all right, every other day.

And if you're more motivated, go to the gym and get a trainer and all that. All that is good, okay? Make sure you get eight, nine hours of sleep. It sounds like a lot, it's not. You got to regenerate, particularly if you work hard.

And finally, we'll be here for the year God willing. Okay we're signed up for another year. Got to take it year by year. I mean look I'm the last man standing. There's nobody in my peer group. Britt Hume has been around longer than me, but he's got a pretty soft job down there in Florida. He appears on Fox a couple of times a week, and he does what I do on NewsNation. Brit's a smart, very competent guy.

But I'm doing a full load here. I'm doing radio, I'm doing TV, I'm doing books. So how much longer can I do that? I'm gonna do it because I think it's worthy, not just for me. So we're in for another year and that is important because fewer and fewer media vehicles

are telling you the truth. It's so hard for me as a professional to really find out what's going on. I gotta check everything three ways because if people didn't, there's no standards. Social media has no standards

and the ideological TV and newspapers, they're just gonna throw on what advances their cause, not tell you the truth. We will. So keep that in mind when you're looking around for a last-minute gift. Premium and

concierge membership on BillOReilly.com. That is, you know, our elite. That's what we need to keep going. So we want to build those numbers and it's very easy to get a free book of course and all that. All right, Talking Points memos on President Trump's speech last night. 18 minutes. He read too fast. I don't know why. He sounded like Joe Biden. Remember that time Biden was like on speed?

Read it up and down. And Trump wasn't that bad, but he was humming. I don't know whether he had something going was an abbey, but he was humming. I don't know whether he had something going on afterward or not, but I kind of would have did less than a tempo a little bit. Speech itself is what I reported on NewsNation, a pep rally.

And that sounds dismissive, but it isn't. It's smart. What he did was smart. Because the polling, latest polling, Reuters got his job approval at 39%. The liberal polls have him at 40, 39.

The conservative polls have him at 45, 46 job approval. There's a five point gap. And no matter how you look at it, he's below 50% in job approval. He's got to get it up to 50, at least among the conservative pollsters. And he knows it. And so it was a pep rally. Here's what I've done for you. I'm not gonna play a lot of speech,

but this encapsulates what the president was trying to get across. One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail. Totally failed. Now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.

And that said by every single leader that I've spoken to over the last five months. All right. So the president's opponents are not gonna believe that. They don't wanna believe it, they won't believe it, and there's nothing you can do to make them believe it. And the president's supporters, most of them will,

unless they're in dire straits, unless their whole economic world is collapsing. Most of them, I think, remember, 77 million people voted for Donald Trump, a record amount of people voted for him, Americans voted for him. I would say 85, 80 percent are willing to give him the

benefit of the doubt a little bit more time. That's my measure. And for him to get out there and say, look, it's going in the right direction was a smart move. Now, there weren't many problem-solving specifics in the speech, with one exception. President wants to give Americans $1,500 to put into a healthcare savings account, tax-free. So you build this up in the healthcare savings account,

and then when the bills come in, you can pay them. All right? That is the plan. And then when the bills come in, you can pay them. All right. That is the plan. Here's what the president said. I'm also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that have gotten rich on billions of dollars of money that should go directly to the people.

The money should go to the people. That's you. So they can buy their own health insurance, which will give far better benefits at much lower cost. It will be far better health insurance. The current unaffordable care act was created to make insurance companies rich.

It was bad health care at much too high a cost. Okay, so $1,500 doesn't sound like much, but when you compound it, because you, if this passes, you'll be able to put money in it yourself, like an IRA, it won't be taxed. So you build and build and build and build and build, and then there's a formula on how the money is invested safely, so it grows. That is the plan but not everybody would get it. Alright so if you are family of four making more than 225,000 which not many

families are doing then you would not get the money. Okay and it will cost federal government 10 billion it says I figure about 20 billion. They always underestimate. Now it's got to pass the Senate and that means you got to get 60 votes to advance to the floor for a vote. For some reason Democrats opposed this 1500. I don't know why.

Why would you do that? You know, so the Care Freedom for Patients Act 2025, 51-48, to advance the bill to the floor, that's not going to cut it. You need 60 votes in the Senate. Now, it might come back, they might get it, if they sweeten it up for the Democrats a little bit. My solution is this Extend the affordable care subsidies for one year and it is a disaster

It is just hemorrhaging money and and causing the whole health care Industry to rise in cost. That's what Obamacare is doing Okay because more and more and more people are trying to get it than was originally thought and Then the deals are making with the insurance companies as mr. Trump said benefit the insurance companies not you not the government All right, but if you extend for a year Then you have 12 months for both parties to come up with a fair and

equitable health care law that doesn't add trillions of dollars to the debt. So that's what I am recommending. Possible?

Sure.

Hope it happens. Also the president is giving each military member $1,776. It's a bonus payment. They all get it. It's going to cost the federal government $2.6 billion. That's okay. Now, the president doesn't need Congress to accrue that. He can do that by an executive order. So that's what happened last night. Just wrapping it up, smart move for President Trump to give the speech. I don't think it was well watched because

people are distracted around Christmas time and anybody who doesn't like Trump not gonna watch it. And you know right away as soon as he got off the air I switched over to CNN. I never watch MS that's ridiculous. CNN was trying to punch it up you know like they always do. News Nation falling away the fairest if you're looking for fair on in America. All right executive order to lower marijuana to a classification of narcotics,

that's pretty much you can take it. So the president signed it. I don't know why. Marijuana is bad for you. It might help a few people who have medical maladies, maybe, but studies show it doesn't really do it.

And you get addicted. 30% of all people who use marijuana for medical purposes become addicted to it. And it is an addictive substance. So it's terrible for your health.

Awful.

I don't care at this point in my life. I got by my kids not using it. I don't, of course, use it. But I, you know, a lot of people are making a lot of money off pot. Now, I'll say this to you one more time. So legalize pot, legalize pot, legalize pot.

And that's not what this bill does, this executive order. It just makes it, you know, the federal government's not gonna prosecute you. You walk down the street in New York City, any street, eight in the morning, nine in the morning, pot smoke. You stand outside a middle school,

that's 11 to 14 year olds. These kids smoke this pot every day. I've seen it, I've done it. You pick the school out, poorer the neighborhood, the more kids are smoking pot. Sorry, it's true. And they're going into Glass Stone.

Where do they get the pot? You're not supposed to get pot. If you're 11 years old, okay. The drug addicts, heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, they can buy all the pot they want. So they go in, they buy the pot, then they sell it to the kids. And what they make selling it to the kids, they use on heroin.

That's what it is.

All right? Now, you're never going to hear that analysis anyplace. Oh, pot, pot, pot, pot, pot. I don't want pot in my neighborhood. I don't want to smell it. I don't want to see it.

I don't want people using it in my neighborhood. I don't want to smell it. I don't want to see it. I don't want people using it in the open. Am I crazy? I think it's a public safety hazard. Anyway, I'm not going to criticize President Trump for the EEO. He's got his own reasons. I don't think it's important. American homeowners, the FBI has been warning all of us about a type of real estate fraud called title theft. The target? Your equity. With just a forged signature, ownership can be transferred out of your name and without protection in place you are facing an emotional and financial

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What does it do? It stops diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Defense Department. They can't do it. It's against the law. Okay. Authorizes active duty troops along the US-Mexican border. Good. Some of those troops are going to go into Mexico because that country is not wise enough. It's going to have to be confronted. Deploys a Golden Dome missile defense shield. I don't know what that is.

I do know it's going to be a lot of money. And it includes a 4% raise for all service members. That's fine with me. And you can't, if you're in a military academy, if you're a transgendered person, a male, you can't play against women, which is, nobody does that anyway. And it authorizes $800 million in military spending for Ukraine. Okay, so that's in, that's passed, that's important.

Republican health care bill passes in the House and, let's see, what was the vote here? Thought I had it but I don't have it in front of me. But it passed along party lines and it goes to the Senate but you need 60 votes and they're not going to do it because it doesn't have anything about subsidizing Obamacare in it. So the Republicans in the House put forth a bill and says no we're not going to have any more subsidies for Obamacare and it passes along party lines because Republicans control the house but in the Senate you need 60 and

there are only 53 senators on the Republican side. No it's not. It's going nowhere. This is just symbolic. No more spending, spending, spending, spending. And really if you, I don't know whether you're involved with party politics or not, I'm not.

I'm an enriched, independent, I don't care what they do. I just want the best for the country. But Democratic Party is just spending, spending, spending, spending, spending, taxing, taxing, spending. You gotta stop.

You gotta stop.

You reach it up to here. Stop. I mean, that is a big thing for me. All right. Gender care. Interesting bill that I support.

So it would criminalize if a doctor changes the gender of a minor by surgery. It would also criminalize doctors, pharmacists, anybody who give minors hormones, puberty blockers. Pass 216 and 211 in the House. Again, Senate's going to block it because the progress1 in the house. Again, Senate's gonna block it because the progressives in the Democratic Party, which is most of them,

don't want it. I don't think it's morally right for a physician to take a minor, even with a minor and a parent's consent, into an operating room and do this kind of surgery

Okay, 18, all right, you're an adult under the law But it won't get past Death with dignity

All right, this is assisted suicide So New York governor Kathy Hochul, which is a wishy-washy, weak leader, didn't like this at first, but it suddenly changed her mind, of course. Why not? A Catholic woman, says she is. So terminally ill New Yorkers who are less than six months to live, according to physicians, have to certify that, can have the state kill them.

Medical aid in dying. Thirteen other states have it already. California, Hawaii, New Jersey, Washington, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Delaware, Maine, Oregon, D.C., Montana, Vermont. All except Montana, progressive states. Other countries that have it, Canada, Holland, Australia, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, New

Zealand, Switzerland. Russia really has it, but it's not codified. All you have to do with Russia, if you want to commit suicide over there or have the state do it, is just stand outside a Kremlin and shout obscenities at Putin. And they'll just shoot you and you're gone. It's a much easier process.

I know I'm being kind of gallows humor, but I'm a Roman Catholic and I subscribe to that theology and the theology says that the Creator is responsible for birth and death and the state shouldn't be executing anybody, any time, anywhere, for any reason. So I don't believe in a death penalty, but what separates me from the people, mostly progressives, who don't want it, is that if you are convicted of a capital crime, you go to a special prison where you engage in hard labor for the rest of your life, six days a week. That's worse than death. And

if you don't cooperate, then you get a minimal amount of food. Now you'd have to go in the cruel and unusual punishment routine, but you get my drift. You don't go to some fed prison where you're playing ping pong or lifting weights. So I'm against capital punishment, I'm against assisted suicide, and of course I'm against abortion, but I can't impose those beliefs as a commentator and neither can any of the legislator. I got a letter from a priest, a good man, says why don't you do more about abortion? I said, father what do you want me to do? I'm on a record,

everybody knows what I believe, but I can't impose that belief. That's not my job. I can try to persuade, but not my job to tell somebody with a counter belief they're going to hell or whatever. I mean, that would be wrong. So I just wanted you to know where I'm coming from on that. And you know, the final thing on this assistant suicide. There's so much pain management new technology and pain management so much

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