1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: Live from ball hartbind and the Crossroads of America. It's 2 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 1: Tony Cats Today. 3 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 2: Welcome back to Tony Cats Today. This is Mike Coolidge 4 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: filling in for Tony Katz. Coolidge is spelled with a 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 2: K K double O L I D G E CANF. 6 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: I'm me on X Coolidge with a K, just like 7 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 2: cats with a K. We do have cats as well 8 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 2: in our house. We just are fostering a blind cat, 9 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,879 Speaker 2: if you can believe that. I'm not intending to be rhyming, 10 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: I swear, but it's a really really cute little cat, 11 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: which I think we have a name for, but totally blind, 12 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 2: no eyes and whatsoever. Only about seven weeks old. The 13 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 2: com cutest can be anyway. That's what's going on in 14 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: our world, in the in the in the world of Washington, 15 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: d C. They had this shut down. You probably heard 16 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:19,479 Speaker 2: a little bit about and what did that all mean? 17 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: What was that all for? There's a piece in Real 18 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 2: Clear Politics Today by J Peter Zain shut down just 19 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: the latest battle in democrats long warning kind of gets 20 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 2: into a little bit we talked about in the last 21 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 2: hour about how the DC establishment, the New York establishment, 22 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: the coastal elite establishment, that used to say, Hey, this 23 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 2: is how things are. This is these are the important 24 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: stories going on in the world right now. This is 25 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 2: a scandal, But that's not a scandal. 26 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 3: Uh. 27 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 2: That world no longer exists and that's a good thing. 28 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 2: J Peters Ain. The Democrats never miss a beat. The 29 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 2: moment their efforts to blame Trump for the government shutdown 30 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 2: went poof, they resurrected Jeffrey Epstein to suggest the president 31 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 2: is a pedophile. Of course, the shockingly ugly Epstein smear 32 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 2: has no more to do with morality than the Democrat 33 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 2: engineered shutdown did with saving Obamacare subsidies. The point is 34 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 2: not the policy, but the fight. Both are just the 35 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 2: party's latest salvos in their long war against Trump and 36 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 2: our political norms, one whose major battlefields have included the 37 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 2: Russia Gate hoax, the two impeachments of Trump, the string 38 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: of dubious cases aimed at destroying the former president, and 39 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 2: the aggressive lawfair aimed at anyone who questioned the outcome 40 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty Actually remember that I ran for 41 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 2: Congress in Illinois in twenty twenty two and late twenty two, 42 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: and man, wow were the questions from the the mainstream 43 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 2: media here in Illinois, I mean eighty percent of them 44 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,679 Speaker 2: seem to be about January sixth, January sixth, January sixth. 45 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 4: What do I mean? 46 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 2: What do you think about the election? 47 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 3: Was that? 48 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: Was that? 49 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 2: Like, are you questioning the results of the election. Yes, 50 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 2: we're allowed to question anything the government does ever, including 51 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 2: conducting elections. And last I checked the government. Yes, local governments, 52 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 2: state governments, they conduct elections, and if they mess up 53 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 2: or they do things weird or they don't follow the regulations, yeah, 54 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: we should question them. Remember that whole campaign to stop 55 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 2: people from merely questioning election results, just like the COVID craziness. 56 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 2: We can never ever let that happen again. Yes, we 57 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: can always question election results, and we can protest about 58 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 2: election results too. Can we throw things through windows and 59 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 2: breakdoors that we're not supposed to go into? No, and 60 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 2: we face consequences for that, just like we do if 61 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: I did it at my local county government right now, 62 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 2: throw me in jail if I break a law. But 63 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 2: you can't throw me in jail for standing on a 64 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:27,239 Speaker 2: public mall and expressing my viewpoint about something the government 65 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 2: specifically did or didn't do. Anyway, back to this piece 66 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 2: politics has never been being bag famous quote from Illinois's 67 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 2: own David Axelrod. But the Democrats and their supporters are 68 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 2: pursuing something altogether different. They have lost the capacity to 69 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: accept defeat and seek change within the system. Instead, their 70 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 2: leaders pursue underhanded strategies to recap their opponents and undermine 71 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: faith in the institutions of governments. Almost a little insurrectiony, there, 72 00:04:58,920 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 2: isn't it. 73 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 4: They claim. 74 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 2: Trump is an authoritarian when he seeks to exercise the 75 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 2: authority of his office, as he violates the dictator's playbook 76 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 2: by allowing the courts to decide whether his actions are constitutional. 77 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 2: They lambasted rulings that support his actions as more evidence 78 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 2: of his unbridled appetite for power. It's the politics of heads. 79 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 2: I win, tails, you lose. Ginned up by leaders who 80 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,239 Speaker 2: compare Trump to Hitler and Republicans as an existential threat 81 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 2: to America, Democratic voters do not wait for the next 82 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 2: election to try to move the needle. Instead, they and 83 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 2: pretty much only they threaten with startling regularity. Protest is 84 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 2: a hallowed right, but it also involves levels of anger 85 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 2: and intimidation that plain old debate and discourse do not 86 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: It is why some peaceful protests and in violence and 87 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 2: a healthy nation and a healthy mind, taking to the 88 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 2: streets is a last resort, not a knee jerk response 89 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: to anything in everything we disagree with. By the way, 90 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 2: looking at the Fox News reports now just today, there's 91 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 2: more mayhem in my state with these idiots who are 92 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: trying to stop the government from doing its job in 93 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 2: apprehending illegal aliens here in the United States. By the way, 94 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 2: next hour, we're going to speak with a man named 95 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:38,479 Speaker 2: Joe Abraham who lost his beautiful daughter, Katie Abraham, to 96 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 2: a drunk driving illegal alien last year. And the Operation 97 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 2: Midway Blitz that is occurring as we speak, that the 98 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 2: American people voted for, by the way, in twenty twenty four, 99 00:06:53,440 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 2: and we the American public, have a responsibility to let 100 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 2: the government that we voted for enact the policies that 101 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: we voted for, not stop them from doing that that's 102 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 2: against the law. There's a congresswoman or a congressional candidate 103 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 2: here in Illinois who faces up to twenty years in 104 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 2: prison for physically blocking ICE from doing its job. She 105 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 2: is a lot of legal experts saying she's going to 106 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 2: get in trouble anyway, like real trouble that's happening. They're 107 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 2: still trying to stop the government from doing its job. 108 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 2: Back to this peace, even as they eviscerate Oh yeah, 109 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. In a healthy nation, in a healthy mind, 110 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: taking to the streets is the last resort, not a need, 111 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 2: your response to anything and everything we disagree with. It 112 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 2: is the politics of the temper tantrum captured in the 113 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 2: headline of a recent New Year Times article why screaming 114 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 2: is all the rage? Even as they eviscerate national norms, 115 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 2: Democrats and their allies in the legacy media insistently twist 116 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 2: the truth to gaslight the people for their partisan ends. 117 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 2: For the latest proof, look no further than polls that 118 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 2: showed voters were at least as likely to blame Republicans 119 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 2: as Democrats for the shutdown, given the clear evidence Republicans 120 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 2: had voted fifteen times to reopen the government. This result 121 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 2: was a flight from reality. Unless one believes that democrats 122 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 2: demands must always be met, then any GOP opposition to 123 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 2: Democrats aims is obstruction. On Monday, when eight Democrat senators 124 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 2: proved the lie by breaking the ranks to reopen the government, 125 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 2: the vagacy media pivoted on a dime, memory, wiping its 126 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 2: previous descriptions of a bipartisan impass to assail those who 127 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 2: forged to compromise. The Associated Press ran mugshots of the 128 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 2: eight defectors. A political headline quoted one Democrat who called 129 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 2: their actions a complete betrayal, while the New York Times 130 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 2: reported that Democrats are universally furious at the eight senators 131 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 2: who helped broker the shutdown ending deal. Those stories may 132 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 2: be news, but they are also a warning to future peacemakers, 133 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 2: as Democrat Senator Chris Murphy has already suggested his party 134 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 2: might shut down the government when the current deal expires 135 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 2: in two months if they don't get their way. Bring 136 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 2: it on, Chris Murphy, try again. Such biased coverage is 137 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: a major reason so many Americans have lost faith in 138 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,240 Speaker 2: another pillar of our democracy, a former pillar, I would say, 139 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 2: a free and fair press. The media's replacement of facts 140 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 2: with talking points helps explain why it is so hard 141 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 2: to have meaningful conversations across the partisan divide. The shutdown 142 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: may be over, but the Democrats war on the norms 143 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 2: of our democracy marches on feeling chesty after their electoral victories. 144 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 2: On November fourth, party influencers and leaders once again talked 145 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 2: openly about their desire to rig the system to get 146 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 2: their way. Strategist James Carvel predicted his party would retake 147 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 2: the White House in twenty twenty eight and immediately moves 148 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 2: to add four new seats to the Supreme Court, instantly 149 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 2: creating a liberal majority. Atlantic columnist Jonathan Chait once again 150 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 2: flow to the argument for ending the Sellate Senate filibuster, 151 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 2: which would allow Democrats to pass monumental legislation, including adding Washington, 152 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 2: d c. And Puerto Rico as states with a bear majority. 153 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 2: Does anyone doubt the first order of business if Democrats 154 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 2: retake the House in twenty twenty six would be impeaching 155 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 2: Trump once again. So again, what I'm talking about like 156 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 2: getting out voters who voted only for Trump the last 157 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,479 Speaker 2: three presidential elections but don't come out in the midterms. 158 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 2: We gotta get you guys out, You gotta vote, You 159 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 2: gotta gotta do it, or this is going to happen. 160 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 2: The Democrats will do it, and they're not representing the 161 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 2: country by the way, They're not representing that. It is 162 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 2: not an accurate representation of the country when Democrats who 163 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 2: are really really good at voting and getting people. I 164 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,320 Speaker 2: saw a really funny pumper sticular the other day. 165 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 4: It said. 166 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm gonna get it wrong, but it said 167 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 2: something like when I die, please don't make me vote Democrat. 168 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 2: That's an old, old old thing here in the Chicago Land, 169 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 2: Illinois area, with dead people voting anyway. This piece concludes, Finally, 170 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 2: supporters of institutional norms might feel the nation dodged a 171 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: bullet when Republicans dismissed Trump's call to scrap the filibuster 172 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 2: to reopen the government. But given the democrats commitment to 173 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 2: achieve their aims by any means necessary, one wonders if 174 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 2: principled stands are become a form of unilateral disarmament. J 175 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 2: Peters Ain in Real Clear Politics. So Jadie Vance was 176 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 2: on Hannity I believe last night really good interview. We 177 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 2: got two clips. First one is about the shutdown and 178 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer's fate. Let's play that Chuck Schumer. 179 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:29,319 Speaker 5: This probably ended his career, and he was the person 180 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 5: who was fighting more than anybody to keep the government 181 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 5: shut down. So the far left, they're never going to 182 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 5: be satisfied unless the Democrats are willing to burn down 183 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 5: the entire country. 184 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've seen that they don't have a problem 185 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 2: burning down the country. They don't have a problem causing 186 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 2: mayhem and chaos and violence if they don't get their way, 187 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 2: and the media is arm in arm with them, hand 188 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 2: in hand, some of them marching in the same protests. 189 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 2: Remember back in twenty twenty, it seems like eons ago. 190 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 2: Now you had actual anchors on the news, you know 191 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 2: CNN types, like literally marching with the George Floyd writers 192 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 2: with their cameras and like, you know, not covering the news, 193 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 2: being participants in the news. And then that famous CNN 194 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 2: reporter speaking in front of a fire exploding in the 195 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 2: background of violence and chaos and mayhem, saying, hey, it's 196 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 2: mostly peaceful protests. It's mostly peaceful, Yeah, mostly peaceful. That 197 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 2: kind of chaos and violence and insanity can come back 198 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 2: in an instant if we don't continue to win elections 199 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 2: and get people out to vote. I'm going to take 200 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 2: a break. On the other side of it. I got 201 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 2: another clip from jd Vance talking about a really important 202 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 2: issue that is going to if we don't talk about it, 203 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 2: it might result in us losing the House next year, 204 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 2: maybe even the Senate. We'll tell you what it is 205 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 2: after this. On Tony Kats Today, I am Mike Coolidge 206 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 2: filling in for Tony. Stay with us. We're back on 207 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 2: Tony Katz Today. Mike Coolidge spelled with the k filling 208 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 2: in for Tony. I believe Tony. We'll be back on Monday. 209 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 2: We're hoping you're having a wonderful Friday here in the 210 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 2: greatest country in the world. Right smack dab in the 211 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 2: middle of it, we are. And before the break, we 212 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 2: played the first clip of JD Evans on Hannity last night. 213 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 2: The second clip is talking about something that we need 214 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 2: to have a plan for. When I say we, I 215 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 2: mean the right, I mean Republicans, I mean Conservatives, I 216 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 2: mean we cannot rest on our laurels for these midterms. 217 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 2: We can't do it. We voted for Trump in twenty sixteen, 218 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty, in twenty twenty four. A lot of 219 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 2: us only voted those three times. Didn't vote in the 220 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 2: municipal elections, didn't vote in the midterms. We got to 221 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 2: vote every single time or the left will take back power. 222 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 2: They're doing it in these big cities. I know they're 223 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 2: already blue. I know they're already you know, Democrat super heavy, 224 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 2: but far leftists far left is there was just yes 225 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 2: or just this morning it was announced a socialist, a Democrat, socialist, communist, Marxist, 226 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 2: is taking over Seattle. She barely beat another Democrat there 227 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 2: a normal Democrat, the few of them that are still left. 228 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 2: So you got a Mum Danny on the west coast 229 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 2: Seattle and Mum Danny on the obviously in New York City, 230 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 2: biggest city in the country. Anyway, here is and why 231 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 2: did they win? Here is Jade Vance talking about affordability. 232 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 5: The most important way to fix this affordability crisis is 233 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 5: to make people's wages go up. And that is where 234 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 5: the Trump economy, I think, just objectively, obviously I'm very biased, 235 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 5: but I think objectively is doing better than any economy 236 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 5: in fifty or sixty years. Blue collar wages are going up, 237 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 5: working people's wages, middle class wages are going up. And 238 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 5: that's how we ultimately chip away at the Biden affordability crisis, 239 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 5: is that we make an economy where people can afford 240 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 5: to buy the things that they need. The best way 241 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 5: to do that is good jobs and good wages, and 242 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 5: that's why the president's focus is where it is. 243 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 2: He's right, of course, they did inherit this awful Biden economy, 244 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 2: of course, But there's three things beyond just prices of 245 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 2: like coffee and butter and groceries that are causing I 246 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 2: think a lot of young people to look at these Marxists, 247 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 2: Communists and saying, huh, what are they all about? Oh, well, 248 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:10,640 Speaker 2: they give them a shot. The three things the affordability 249 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 2: of housing, the affordability of health care, and yes, the 250 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 2: cost of higher education student loan debt. These young people 251 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 2: talking about people under forty people are not much younger 252 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 2: than definitely people JD. Vance's age and younger. Basically, these 253 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 2: are the problem is they don't understand why student loan 254 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:47,360 Speaker 2: debt is so insane, why college university tuition is so 255 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 2: insanely high. They don't understand why healthcare health insurance is 256 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 2: so insanely high here in the United States. And they 257 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 2: don't understand why they can't afford the same houses, even 258 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 2: if you adjust for inflation, that their parents could afford 259 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 2: when they were first buying homes and they were the 260 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 2: same age. They don't understand it so they hear these 261 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,719 Speaker 2: Marxist communists come up with a solution for it, and 262 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 2: they don't hear a whole lot from our side on 263 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 2: what we can do to make those numbers go down, 264 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 2: to make affordability a thing. And we know we have 265 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 2: the solutions, we know we have the right answers. We 266 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 2: don't express them enough though, we don't make the arguments. 267 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 2: Back to what I was talking about the first hour, 268 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 2: if you didn't join us, we have the time and 269 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 2: the space and the mediums now to bring people to 270 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 2: our side, to educate, to inform why conservatism, why capitalism 271 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 2: ultimately leads to less people being in poverty, ultimately leads 272 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 2: yes to a rising tide raising all ships. We need 273 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 2: to not just call the communism and the Marxism insanity. 274 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 2: We need to show why our policies are better. We'll 275 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,800 Speaker 2: get into that with Eddy's Scary from the Federalist after 276 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 2: this on Tony kats Today. This is my cold Jim 277 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 2: for Tony Don't go anywhere. We're back on Tony Katz Today. 278 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 2: I am not Tony Katz. I am Mike Coolidge. And 279 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 2: this is one of my former bumper songs, Bumper music 280 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:51,360 Speaker 2: songs on my old radio show been off the air 281 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 2: for about three years now. It's so very involved in 282 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 2: politics behind the scenes, but I do miss radio coming 283 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 2: on every day. I do some filling work here and 284 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 2: there in Chicago and elsewhere, but honored to be on 285 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 2: filling in for Tony Katz again here in the great Midwest, 286 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 2: United States of America. And before the break, we were 287 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 2: talking about affordability and how if the Republicans. 288 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 4: Are not. 289 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 2: Smart, if they're not on the ball, if they don't 290 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 2: counter this leftist move to make our country communist Marxist socialist, 291 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 2: which seems to be resonating. That viewpoint is definitely resonating 292 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 2: in some of these big cities New York City. Just 293 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 2: last night in Seattle, they crowned a socialist Marxist out there, 294 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 2: the new mayor there. She barely squeaked by the opponent, 295 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 2: who was a Democrat, by like half a percentage point 296 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 2: or something. So they have a Mumdannie, a female Mamdanni 297 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 2: in Seattle, now beautiful city, Love Seattle, New York City, 298 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 2: the biggest city in the country, Marxist socialist and the 299 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 2: people that voted for them are wrong, But they and 300 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 2: are they being at least exposed to the alternative viewpoint, 301 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 2: which is that capitalism and conservative policy leads to less 302 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 2: people being poor, you being able to afford groceries, you 303 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: having a better paying job, you being able to afford healthcare, 304 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 2: you being able to afford a new home. That viewpoint 305 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 2: on our side, quote unquote is not being articulated enough. 306 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 2: And Eddie Scary from the Federalist Who's to come on 307 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,439 Speaker 2: my old radio show regularly wrote a great piece in 308 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 2: it about that today. I think it's a little harsh 309 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 2: on President Trump, but he thinks shady Vance is is 310 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 2: good at expressing this anyway. Eddie Scary joins us right now. Eddie, 311 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 2: welcome on to Tony Katz today. 312 00:21:58,119 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 4: Hello, happy to be with you again, Mike. 313 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a while. I still read your stuff. 314 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 2: Still a big fan. When I get into your book 315 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,399 Speaker 2: later too, which is a very you know, nice calm 316 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 2: title talking about the Democrats. But uh, firstly, let's get 317 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 2: into this affordability thing. You have this piece of the 318 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 2: Federals today. Trump should learn from JD. Vance when it 319 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,959 Speaker 2: comes to talking about prices and affordability. Make make make 320 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 2: your argument. 321 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 4: Well. 322 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 3: I like a lot of right wingers over the past 323 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,479 Speaker 3: week and in recent days was pretty appalled to see 324 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 3: the President saying publicly things that sounded a lot like 325 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 3: the last administration and what the media was saying last 326 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 3: time around under Joe Biden, which is just lying to 327 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 3: the American public with their face, telling them that everything's 328 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 3: fine when everything is not fine. And obviously we're still 329 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 3: this administration is still young if it's his second term, 330 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:59,399 Speaker 3: but he's still not too far in it. 331 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,160 Speaker 4: We're not even really a year into it. 332 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 3: And yet still now is not the time to do 333 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 3: a victory laugh, which is what it has felt a 334 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 3: lot like the President has been doing. And as I 335 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 3: write in my piece, I don't think any of his 336 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 3: voters begrudge him indulging in the trappings of his position, 337 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 3: you know, the stuff he's doing with the with the 338 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 3: White House, the renovations, it's. 339 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 4: Really not a big deal. In fact, I. 340 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:23,199 Speaker 3: Think that a lot of people agree with him that 341 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,439 Speaker 3: the White House needed these renovations, the ballroom, the rose garden, 342 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 3: all those. 343 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 4: Types of things. 344 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 3: And yet we expect to return, also on our investment 345 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 3: from the last election, which was giving him the keys, 346 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 3: giving him the keys again, and what we expect is 347 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 3: to hear day in and day out, what you are 348 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 3: going to do to fix this mess that we found 349 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 3: ourselves in over the previous four years. 350 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 4: It's not over. 351 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 3: And if you want, if you you know, again, he's 352 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 3: the president of the United States. He does need to 353 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 3: be meeting with world leaders again. This preoccupation with this 354 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 3: ballroom and meeting with his billionaire donors who are funding 355 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 3: this ballroom. That's all fine and good, but we should 356 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 3: you should be able to do. 357 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 4: Both things at the same time. 358 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 3: And not only that, but when you're asked about it, 359 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 3: don't say I don't want to hear about affordability. Don't say, actually, 360 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,359 Speaker 3: the prices on everything are down when that is not true. 361 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 3: And he likes talking a lot about these about the 362 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,440 Speaker 3: gas prices dropping, which is that is true, and I 363 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 3: think everyone's grateful for that. And yet at the same 364 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,440 Speaker 3: time home energy prices are going up, so it pretty 365 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 3: much nullifies any any benefit we're getting there. But at 366 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 3: least we did have JD. Vance, who only just about 367 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 3: two weeks ago, two weeks ago, who's an interview with 368 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 3: the New York Post Miranda Levigne or divine the Divine, 369 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 3: and he said all the right things, which is, yeah, 370 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 3: we knew that this is going to be hard. Everything 371 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 3: isn't great. We're still working on it. We have chipped 372 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,400 Speaker 3: away on it, which is true. Again, it is true. 373 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,119 Speaker 3: Certain prices have fallen, and certain prices have fallen in 374 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 3: at a very least certain price on things have stalled 375 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,040 Speaker 3: that they're not they're at least not going any higher. 376 00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 3: But he said, we still have a lot of work 377 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 3: to do. We're gonna keep going. 378 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,119 Speaker 4: Okay, that's a good start. 379 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 3: And yet we also expect the president to be telling 380 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 3: us what are we going to be doing about car insurance? 381 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 3: Because a lot of this does there are government solutions 382 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 3: to these things. 383 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 4: There's all these. 384 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 3: Regulations, all this money that's just going just being pushed 385 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 3: out the door from the government to all these people, 386 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 3: all these industries and regulators in places that don't need it, 387 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 3: and there are things that can be done about that. 388 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 4: At least tell us what's the plan. 389 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 3: What's the plan for what you're gonna do with car insurance? 390 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 4: Which is up. 391 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 3: I think it's like fifty percent since twenty nineteen twelve, 392 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 3: or thirteen percent since just last year. These are real 393 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 3: problems that's just squeezing everyone. I don't know about you, Mike, 394 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 3: But I was thinking this morning, does it not feel 395 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,719 Speaker 3: like you're hearing about all these people that are getting 396 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 3: money and they're not providing any kind of real, real 397 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 3: service for you, and yet it just seems as if 398 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 3: money is just being taken out of your pocket and 399 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 3: going to certain people, and yet everyone still feels like 400 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 3: they're getting squeezed and they're getting poorer. So so that's 401 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 3: the case I'm making this piece. You know that at 402 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 3: a minimum, we don't want the president going on TV. 403 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 4: And thing I don't want to hear about that. 404 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a very crude line, but I think it's 405 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 2: appropriate here about you know, don't pee on my leg 406 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 2: and tell me that it's raining. And that's been one 407 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 2: of the things that you know, Biden was rightfully criticized 408 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 2: for and I think one of the reasons he lost 409 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 2: various other ones, but you know why he didn't run 410 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 2: for reelection blah blah blah, was that, Yeah, don't say 411 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 2: things are hunky dory when they're not. And Trump has 412 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 2: been good about, for example, with tariffs, especially early on 413 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 2: saying and being you know, leveling with the American people saying, look, yeah, 414 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 2: prices on some of this stuff might go up a 415 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 2: little bit before they get better. Advance had a great line, 416 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 2: I think it was on Hannity last night where he said, 417 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 2: you know, we've planted the crops, we got to wait 418 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 2: a little bit for them to grow. So I think 419 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 2: your criticism is is valid on Trump. If I were 420 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 2: to defend him, I would say he might be in 421 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 2: the kind of like, you know, he's always a cheerleader 422 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 2: for the president and his own administration, and it's you know, 423 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 2: it's him. He's cheerleading for himself, which is you know, 424 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 2: he's always been really really good at and I think 425 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 2: it's almost like a reflex for him to do that 426 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 2: and say, yeah, you know, things are are really great. 427 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 2: But but you're right there, this this affordability thing, and 428 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 2: this is where I think we really need to dial 429 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 2: into this. For this coming year, I mean less than 430 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 2: a year, people are going to go to the polls 431 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 2: to either keep Republicans in power in DC or put 432 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 2: the Democrats back in charge. And if Republicans aren't making 433 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 2: the sort of arguments like jd. Vance is explaining how 434 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 2: insanely stupid it is to have the government be the 435 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 2: solution for every problem, just throwing money at things. Uh, 436 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,199 Speaker 2: and that is going to lead to prices going up, 437 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 2: not down. We are going to lose. 438 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that to your to the point. 439 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 3: I didn't see the interview with Jeddie Vance, but this 440 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 3: this quote of him where he says, we planned the crops, 441 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 3: We're just waiting for them to grow. 442 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 4: Okay, keep going, you can, you can. You don't just 443 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 4: stop it. 444 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 3: You don't create like a small little garden and go okay, 445 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 3: well now we're just gonna wait. 446 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 4: Now you can get water. 447 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 3: Yes, you keep going. What's the next one. Okay, let's 448 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 3: expand the field a little bit. You can keep going, 449 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 3: and you don't have to stop and say, okay, well, 450 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 3: now it's just time for us to wait. 451 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 4: No, pick up the next problem, pick up. 452 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 3: The next domestic problem we have. There are no shortage 453 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 3: of problems here. 454 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 4: We have plenty of them. 455 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 3: And yet the president and it's it's I'm sure that 456 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 3: there are things that are going on that we just 457 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 3: simply don't hear about. And yet where the president's focus 458 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 3: is is clearly abroad. He's really busy talking about Israel 459 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 3: and Ukraine. And every two seconds we're hearing that he 460 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 3: solved nine wars before they even broke out. Okay, now, 461 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 3: now let's talk about car insurance. Now, let's talk about rent. 462 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 3: Now let's talk about how you're going to make it 463 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 3: more conducive for comfort, for places to build, for states 464 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 3: to build, you know, on federal land, more licensing. Do 465 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 3: what tell us there are there are plenty of places 466 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 3: where you can be addressing these things and bringing up 467 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 3: a new a new program, a new proposal every single day. 468 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 3: But again, his emphasis really has been on all these 469 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 3: all these foreign things and the dignitaries and meeting in 470 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 3: the Oval Office with these dignitaries, and he says that 471 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 3: he's doing all these deals and that's finding good. 472 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 4: And yet still it needs. 473 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 3: To also be said that there are legislative things, there 474 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 3: are things that his agencies could be doing. 475 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 4: You do hear about it. 476 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 3: I don't want to. I don't want to be too 477 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 3: hard on him. I give his I give his I 478 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 3: give him a lot of grace, a lot of credit. 479 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 3: But I think that I'm in the mainstream of the 480 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 3: right wing when I say that there has been a 481 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 3: loss of focus on the things that are really important 482 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 3: right now. 483 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think there's ever any And you know, 484 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 2: my liberal friends who asked me, you know, would you 485 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 2: or criticized Trump about anything, like do you think he's 486 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 2: just great everything? I say, yeah, I'll criticize him when 487 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 2: I don't think he's being conservative enough, when I don't 488 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 2: think he's his policies are are pro capitalist enough. Yeah, 489 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 2: I will absolutely criticize him. And I think that the 490 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 2: shoe fits in this case. Now, this other story I 491 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 2: wanted to ask you about again, just with the distractions 492 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 2: and the stupidity in years past. And I'm not going 493 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 2: to ask your age, but I think you're younger than 494 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:31,960 Speaker 2: jd vance right, it's that accurate. 495 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 4: I actually I'm not even sure. 496 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 2: Okay, he's forty one, forty two years old. 497 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm younger. Yeah yeah, Okay. 498 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 2: So back in the nineties and in the eighties when 499 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 2: I was a small child, the media could get away 500 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 2: with calling out, you know, just saying, okay, there's a 501 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 2: huge scandal. There's an email from Jeffrey Epstein that says 502 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 2: Donald Trump ate Thanksgiving with him in twenty seventeen, and 503 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 2: he was in a room with a victim in the 504 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 2: same room. So the headline is Trump's name is in 505 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,959 Speaker 2: the Epstein files, and all these insanely inaccurate and in 506 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 2: some cases like libelous possibly things that are being you know, 507 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,479 Speaker 2: said on X about the president and pedophilia and all 508 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 2: this craziness. Can you break down this insanity that is 509 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 2: being attempted here yet again by the left and thankfully 510 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 2: is not going to be successful because they don't control 511 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 2: the narrative anymore. 512 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, and thank god. 513 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 3: I mean that's the thing is they really shot their 514 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 3: wad through through the last i would say, like six 515 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 3: seven years with every single incremental thing with you know, 516 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 3: Russia Gate in particular. It is supposed to be a scandal. 517 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 3: Every tweet is a scandal. You're supposed to get really 518 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,959 Speaker 3: anxious about it and really worried and upset, and then 519 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,920 Speaker 3: people see that the sun rises the next day and 520 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 3: you're fine. Like I really think that that was the 521 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,719 Speaker 3: dynamic that it's played out for so many years. Now, 522 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 3: there's just okay, if you're telling me once again, I 523 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 3: mean I feel this. It's the same fatigue I have. 524 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 3: It's okay, you expect me to drop what I'm doing 525 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 3: to pay attention to this Epstein story one more time, 526 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 3: and I'll even go ahead, I'll entertain you. Oh, I 527 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 3: just I seem I see now why the headline is 528 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 3: Trump's name in epstein story rather than email shows that 529 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 3: Trump knew about the sex trafficking, Like that would be 530 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 3: the headline if if there was actually something here. Instead, 531 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 3: I read the initial New York Times story about it 532 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:23,719 Speaker 3: it was and you get around like I think, like 533 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 3: five or six paragraphs in where where I guess it's 534 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 3: Epstein messaging Glaine and says Glenn Maxwell and says, yeah. 535 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 4: He wanted, he knew, he wanted. He told me to 536 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 4: stop with the girls. 537 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 3: And I'm like, Okay, that seems like that's kind of 538 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 3: the important part here if we're trying to implicate Trump 539 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 3: in some way, and that it seems like that would 540 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 3: maybe be the headline, and also it fits exactly with 541 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 3: what what Trump has already said publicly. 542 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 4: But I there was a separate. 543 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 3: New York Times story I was reading just a little 544 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 3: bit before we got on the phone here. Uh, there 545 00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 3: was about the right wing media's response to this and 546 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 3: how they've collectively shrugged and they've kind of like feeded 547 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,479 Speaker 3: on the one detail that it was the victim had 548 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 3: actually said already that Trump was only kind to her, 549 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 3: never didn't and she never saw anything untoward. And I'm like, yeah, 550 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 3: because that's the truth. This is not interesting. I'm sorry 551 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 3: that I wasn't exercised enough about this. I didn't write, 552 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 3: you know, a million pieces, and you know you're probably 553 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 3: not doing segments about it because it's just really not 554 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 3: that interesting. 555 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, completely quick break here. Can you come back for 556 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 2: like three minutes? I want to talk about your book, Eddie. Yeah, sure, 557 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,480 Speaker 2: we'll be at back on Tony Kats today. Stay with us. 558 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 2: We're back on Tony Katz today. Mike Coolidge, Eddie Scary. 559 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 2: We got about two minutes Eddie Scary's book, Traders, The 560 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 2: Democrat Parties collapse into anti American filth. What is this about, Eddie? 561 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 3: Well, it's about a lot of things. Mostly in the 562 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 3: titles explained it all. But what I really wanted to 563 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 3: do with this book is make sure that there's a 564 00:33:54,800 --> 00:34:01,960 Speaker 3: real chronicle depiction of what happened in twenty twenty four. Specifically, 565 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 3: we go over a lot of material, but especially as 566 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,000 Speaker 3: it relates to the twenty twenty four campaign, because that's 567 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,720 Speaker 3: when it became just so clear that the Democrat Party 568 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 3: is not even just super liberal. It's not like we've 569 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 3: grown overly partisan the Democrat Party. The simplest answer is 570 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:20,799 Speaker 3: that it has just become truly and fundamentally anti American, and. 571 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 4: They showed it so vividly through the. 572 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 3: Election and with what they tried to do, first with 573 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 3: denying Trump from the ballot, trying to take away people's choice, 574 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 3: then of course using the law fair, trying to put 575 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,280 Speaker 3: him to zero out his finances, put him in prison, 576 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,320 Speaker 3: and then ultimately what happens, he's almost assassinated. So that 577 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 3: those are the things that I really really want nobody 578 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 3: to ever forget and remember just how anti America the 579 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 3: Democrat Party is. But it's also about the issues, every 580 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 3: single major issue that has dominated the national discourse over 581 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 3: the course of the last three four years. Democrats are 582 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 3: on the anti American side. Whether it's crime, they want 583 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 3: more of it, They're against law enforcement, They're okay with 584 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 3: law fair. Something that's not supposed to be part of 585 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,879 Speaker 3: the Western world, the advanced Western world. Immigration, they don't 586 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 3: believe in checking it. You saw a sitting US senator, 587 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 3: Democrat Senator of Maryland, Chris van Holand, leave his constituents 588 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 3: behind to go re import a professed illegal alien. 589 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 4: That was a Bregio Garcia if you remember him. 590 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, on and on all of those issues 591 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 3: anti American. 592 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that the second hour, Eddie 593 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,760 Speaker 2: Scary Traders, the Democrat Parties collapse into anti American filth. 594 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,680 Speaker 2: Find it online on Amazon and on Apple Books. Eddie Scary. 595 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:41,960 Speaker 2: Thanks for coming on Tony Cass Today