These beach bozos put up a memorial to their cluelessness.
Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” was back on the beaches for Memorial Day finding the dumbest GenZ revelers in California — just months after pulling off a similar stunt with Florida’s spring breakers.
Many of the college-aged merrymakers didn’t even realize which American holiday they were supposed to be celebrating.
And any basic history about the wars that Americans fought and died in? Forget about it.
“You know, I thought it was Veteran’s Day,” one bright-red-bikini-clad young woman obtusely remarked in the video.
And the meaning behind the holiday? These kids had no clue.
“Memorial Day is…it’s America’s birthday,” one young man confidently told Fox producer Johnny Belisario.
“Um, that’s a good question,” another young woman said, before blaming her non-response on “an edible” she’d taken before arriving on the Los Angeles beach.
Who did Americans fight during the Revolutionary War? Not a concern to these beach-goers – whose responses included France and “ourselves.”
“I mean, if you probably give me a couple of hints, I’d probably know,” one shirtless man suggested, to which Belisario offered: “King and queen.”
But even that wasn’t enough to get the wheels turning.
“Oh man, you’ve got me bro,” the young man said.
His ignorance apparently didn’t stop there.
“What were they fighting over in the Civil War?” Belisario asked.
“Was it something that was very popular around that time? Is it still around in this time?” the partier said, then hemmed and hawed before gobsmackingly guessing: “Dinosaurs.”
“I’m gonna go with taxes,” another young man replied.
The answers didn’t improve when the beach-goers were asked who Americans fought in World War II.
“Albania,” one woman said.
“Russia,” another responded.
“Vietnam,” one man said – but not before the bikini-clad woman on his arm warned him: “Your dad would be so mad if you didn’t know this.”
Who bombed Pearl Harbor? According to the respondents, Americans did.
And when asked who won the Cold War, the answers ranged from Russia to New York.
One young man even insisted that war got its name because “it was snowing.”
“I’ve played games called ‘The Cold War’ so that I know,” he remarked – and then said “the New Jersey bomber” was behind the War on Terror.
Outraged Americans flooded the viral video’s comment section.
“There is no excuse for these young people to be this stupid,” one person opined.
Another suggested that passing a US civics test should be required for Americans to be able to vote.
“If these kids are the future, we’re in big trouble,” a third person wrote.
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How News Aggregators Reinforce Political Ignorance
The other day, a young lady got on the elevator and promptly whipped out her smartphone and began scrolling.
“Excuse me,” I said, “can I ask you where you get your news?”
She said, “You mean like news about what’s going on in the world?”
“Yes.”
“Oh, TikTok.”
This reminded me of a dinner conversation I once had with economist Thomas Sowell. We discussed the overwhelming consensus among economists that the minimum wage does more damage than good. He called the minimum wage perhaps one of the most studied topics in the field.
Sowell talked about a 1987 New York Times editorial with the headline, “The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00.” It said:
“… There’s a virtual consensus among economists that the minimum wage is an idea whose time has passed. Raising the minimum wage by a substantial amount would price working poor people out of the job market …
“An increase in the minimum wage to, say, $4.35 would restore the purchasing power of bottom-tier wages. It would also permit a minimum-wage breadwinner to earn almost enough to keep a family of three above the official poverty line. There are catches, however. It would increase employers’ incentives to evade the law, expanding the underground economy. More important, it would increase unemployment: Raise the legal minimum price of labor above the productivity of the least skilled workers and fewer will be hired.”
Now The New York Times has since reversed its position. But Economics 101 has not been repealed.
“Given this consensus,” I asked Sowell, “why does the minimum wage remain so popular even among some Republican politicians? Why haven’t you economists won this argument?”
He said, “Because many people, especially on the left, have never heard the arguments against the minimum wage. They get their information from TV news, and they’re not interested in the downside of the minimum wage.”
This conversation about this “ignorance bubble” took place about 25 years ago. Today, most people no longer get their news from the evening newscasts on ABC, CBS and NBC.
News aggregators like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo, TikTok and YouTube now serve as primary news conveyors and deliver the news feeds that pop up on smartphones. As aggregators, they select stories from news outlets and serve them to consumers based on what the platforms think users want to see.
This means the aggregators increasingly prioritize stories that reinforce a user’s preexisting worldview. Their goal is to keep the user glued to the phone. The best way to do this is to tell people what they want to hear and give “news” that confirms what they already believe. And that’s the problem: People increasingly consume information that confirms their beliefs instead of challenging them.
All Sides is a company that measures media bias, whether from the left or the right. This is from a recent analysis:
“AllSides conducted news aggregator bias analyses in late 2025. Among the most biased remain Google News and Apple News — in 2025, Google News (Lean Left) curated 73% of articles from outlets with a bias on the left and just 1% of articles from outlets on the right. Apple News(Lean Left) curated 50% from the left and just 2% from the right.
“Most news aggregators curate primarily from media outlets with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Left or Left. Our 2025 analyses found that most curate less than 10% of articles from news outlets rated Lean Right or Right. Aggregators tend to source from legacy media outlets that Americans and expert bias reviewers on average rate Lean Left or Left, like CNN (Lean Left), AP (Left bias), and The New York Times (Lean Left).”
Take one narrative pushed by the likes of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani: “The rich don’t pay their fair share in taxes.” In fact, the top 10% of earners pay nearly 75% of all federal income taxes. The top 1% pay over 40% while earning roughly 20% of the nation’s income. These numbers certainly undermine the narrative that “the rich don’t pay their fair share.” Indeed, based on their share of the nation’s income versus their share of federal taxes paid, one could argue that the rich are overtaxed.
Large numbers of Americans do not know this. If the news aggregators have anything to say about it, many Americans never will.
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Why the Left Hates America’s Founders: Education
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”—Thomas Jefferson
That Democrats and other Leftists hate America’s Founding Fathers and the country’s Judeo-Christian heritage is a fact I’m not going to waste time in the article attempting to prove. Everything the Left does is designed to uproot and destroy the principles our Founders tried to build the nation upon. One of those principes, a very vital one, is a correctly educated populace. We have been complaining for many years now, and rightly so, what the Left has done to America’s education system since getting control of it about a century ago. Our Founders warned us about it, but, of course, Americans in general have paid no attention to them on this as on most matters they taught us.
Let me provide a few quotes on education, mostly from our Founders. Some of them, in general, the Left would say they approve of (but not in practice). Saying and doing, of course, are two different things. The quotes below are all from Thomas Jefferson, unless otherwise noted.
1. “A well informed citizen is the best defense against tyranny.”
Obviously, people who don’t know what “tyranny” is will never be able to defend against it. Leftism, because of its belief in totalitarian government, has a vested interest in preventing people from knowing what tyranny is.
2. “The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.”
The people, in a representative democracy (a republic) must have wisdom and virtue in order to elect people of wisdom and virtue. James Madison said almost those exact words.
3. “If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”
Notice the contrast here that Jefferson makes between “ignorance” and “freedom.” The idea being an ignorant people will lose their freedom. Marxists believe that as a foundation principle, as I will show later in this essay.
4. “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people…They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”
So far, Democrats (Leftists) might give lip service of agreement to what Jefferson said. The sage of Monticello’s general dictums on education and freedom are broad enough to allow acquiescence by nearly all classes of people. But when Jefferson gets specific, he will lose the Left.
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