1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: Three more things to get to Tony Katz. Tony Katz Today, guys, 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: good to be here, Good to be with you live 3 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 1: streaming over at the YouTube's just look for Tony Katz 4 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: and subscribe. You can go to Facebook Tony cats Radio, 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: but Facebook kind of stinks. Twitter X Tony Katz. I'm 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:19,479 Speaker 1: even on LinkedIn and I'm open to work. I don't know. 7 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: Every time I see that on someone's LinkedIn profile, I 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: just I feel a little sad inside. I do. But 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: maybe it's the right thing to do, right, Oh, they're 10 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: looking for a job. Maybe maybe it is better. What 11 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: I do know is that the people on LinkedIn who 12 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: share their pronouns, I don't hire those people. Nope, no, no, no, no. 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: If you share your pronouns, what you're telling me is 14 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: that you're not interested in the work. You're interested in posturing. 15 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: And I don't need those people. 16 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 2: I don't. 17 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: I don't want to work with those people. You're not 18 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: gonna provide me any value, no shot, no chance, no way. 19 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: Three more things. These are There are three stories that 20 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: I think should be front page news, but won't necessarily 21 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: be front page news, Starting with Senator Corey Booker, who 22 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 1: has unveiled a bill to make seventy five thousand dollars 23 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: an income tax free. I'm listening. Tell me more, Spartacus 24 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: about your plan. So the senator from New Jersey, he 25 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: would set the standard deduction at seventy five thousand for 26 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:32,919 Speaker 1: married couples thirty seven to five for individuals. The standard 27 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,559 Speaker 1: deduction right now is thirty two to two for couples. 28 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: So is theious as goes as it goes? Right here? 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: American households quote, don't pay taxes on their first seventy 30 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: five thousand dollars of earnings. It will have a significant 31 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: impact on the average American in raising their income. Okay, 32 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: all right, I like it. I like it about it? 33 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: How are you gonna pay for all this? Oh they're 34 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:08,239 Speaker 1: going he wants to raise taxes on upper earners and 35 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: large corporations. Oh so this isn't an interesting idea. This 36 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: is progressive crap. You're gonna tell the people who make 37 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: seventy five thousand and under they pay no taxes, and 38 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: you're gonna tell the people at whatever income range you 39 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: decide that they pay double the taxes. Yet everybody still 40 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: gets one vote. I understand this, right, I've got it together. 41 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: Everybody still gets one vote. But these people don't pay 42 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: any tax, and these people pay double the tax. Where 43 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: are the cuts? Where are the cuts to social programs? 44 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: Where are the cuts to planned parenthood? Where are the 45 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: cuts to everything you like? No, no cuts, just spending 46 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: and tax people more well, well, tax the corporations. No 47 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:05,399 Speaker 1: corporation pays tax. People pay taxes, corporations don't pay taxes. 48 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: So this is not so much a plan as it 49 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: is some level of weird, self indulgent, massapatory fantasy. Then 50 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: there is this story out of Texas. This is crazy polling. 51 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: So you've got the runoff for the Republicans for who's 52 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: going to be the Senate candidate, the Republican candidate to 53 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: take on James tall Rico, who is y, very very creepy. 54 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: If you think this guy is a moderate, you'll fall 55 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: for anything. It's Ken Paxon versus John Cornyon. John Cordon 56 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: is the incumbent senator. Ken Paxton is the former attorney 57 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: general who is running for the Senate seat, and they 58 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: have a runoff election. Trump has not yet endorsed, although 59 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: I am told that he was leaning to endorsing Cornyn. 60 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,839 Speaker 1: Cornyn being the incumbent, maybe thinking it's an easier win. 61 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: Paxton worked to blunt that by putting out into the 62 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: world if the Senate passes the Save America Act, remember 63 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: voter I d I'll drop out of the race. It 64 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: could be Cornyn's. But if corn isn't going to vote 65 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 1: for this, I'm running, so he's It's it's one heck 66 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,280 Speaker 1: of a of a of a hail Mary to get 67 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: Trump on your side. Trump hasn't endorsed. Here's the data. 68 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 1: This is crazy talk. The data says in the current matchup, 69 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: Ken Paxton leads John Cornyn by forty nine forty one 70 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: percent in a runoff election, eleven percent undecided. If Trump 71 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: endorses Ken Paxton, it's a run away. Paxton will get 72 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: fifty eight percent of the vote in this runoff, corn 73 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: thirty two percent. There's a ten percent to eleven percent 74 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: not sure undecided. So if Trump endorses Packston, Packson runs 75 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: away with it. If Trump endorses Cornin, it's Paxton forty four, 76 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: cornn forty three. So if Trump endorses Paxton, Paxton wins. 77 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 1: If Trump endorses Cornin, Paxton still possibly wins. That is nutty. 78 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: Now grain assault The thing for me, this poll has 79 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: seven hundred and eighty one likely voters and a margin 80 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: of error of three point nine percent. It ain't perfect, 81 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: but my gosh, that's a story. It's a story. It's 82 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: a story, and I say, I don't know if I 83 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: trust it. But if you're Ken Paxton, you feel pretty 84 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: good right now. And if you're John Cornyn, you're seriously 85 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: considering a voting for the Save Act and helping to 86 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 1: remove the filibuster. Who that is nuts. And then there 87 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 1: is this symposium that's taking place in DC on anti Semitism. Interesting, 88 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: I didn't know this was taking place. I wasn't invited 89 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: to it. It's totally fine you weren't invited to it either. 90 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 1: But there's been a lot of this talk regarding what's 91 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: going on on the woke right. I mean, there was 92 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: this just was this just yesterday. This is on Meghan 93 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,559 Speaker 1: Kelly's show, and she's talking to Tucker Carlson. 94 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 3: And what people like Levin, whom I'm not attacking, I 95 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 3: feel sorry for because he's clearly living in hell. 96 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 2: But what they're trying to do is. 97 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 3: A species of witchcraft. And it's really simple. You repeat 98 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 3: something until it becomes true. 99 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: He's talking about Mark Levin, and he just said that 100 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: Mark Levin is guilty of witchcraft. Cocaine's a hell of 101 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: a drug. No, it's not it, He's not Hunter. Then 102 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I can't diagnose what 103 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: it's going through Tucker's mind. Someone's gonna scream at drugs. 104 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: How would I know someone's going to scream he's getting 105 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: paid off? How would I know? All I know is 106 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: is that this is nuttery, it's some kind of witchcraft. 107 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: And Megan Kelly is just saying that, uh huh hm. 108 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: It's one thing to disagree, disagree all you choose. And 109 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: I never said you have to like Israel, don't like Israel? 110 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: What do I care? You live your life booboo. It's witchcraft. 111 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: That's that's a special kind of cuckoo. It's also outrageously dangerous. 112 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,960 Speaker 1: And this seems to be the conversation that Senator Tom 113 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,839 Speaker 1: Cotton is having at this symposium because he is doing 114 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: something I very much approve of, which is the calling 115 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 1: out of these influencers, specifically on the political right. Who 116 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: what do they actually influence except their own future careers. 117 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 4: I know many of you are also concerned, though about 118 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 4: a seeming rise of anti Semitism among influencers on the 119 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 4: erstwhile right now. I use sarcastic air quotes for a reason. 120 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 4: First off, these influencers are perceived to be on the right, 121 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 4: and maybe they once were, maybe they once wrote for 122 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 4: center right magazines, maybe they once worked for center right 123 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 4: websites or media companies. But I do not agree that 124 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 4: I share a political movement or a political party with 125 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 4: anyone who traffics in anti Semitism. And I don't know 126 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 4: and for that matter, doesn't just traffic in anti semitism, 127 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 4: or at least adjacent to anti semitism, shares Liz Warren's 128 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 4: economic policies or or Rashidah to Lebs foreign policy, because 129 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:14,599 Speaker 4: if you noticed, these so called influencers, like anti Semites 130 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 4: usually do often have a deep antipy antipathy to free 131 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 4: market capitalism. Whatever their views once were, they have since adopted, indeed, 132 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 4: Liz Warren's economic policies. We also, as I said, share 133 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 4: Rashida to Lebs foreign policy, which could be stummed up, 134 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 4: as Jeane Kirkpatrick once said, blame America first. They all. 135 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: That is very very direct, extremely so, and I could 136 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: not agree more if only because I've said it here now, 137 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,959 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, he was a little more. 138 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 5: Direct, and I just want to encourage the men and 139 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 5: women here. The fact that this room is persuaded does 140 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 5: not mean that the college campus is. It does not 141 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 5: mean that the Capitol Hill interns are. It does not 142 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 5: mean that the interns at Heritage and CPI and every 143 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:36,440 Speaker 5: other conservative institution in this country that they're persuaded. Understand 144 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 5: that this has been an operation with money behind it. 145 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 2: Cutter is spending real money. 146 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 5: By the way, Tucker also now is a Katari real 147 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 5: estate owner. 148 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 2: He's purchased a home, and Cutter. 149 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 5: He's literally become a vocal proponent of Islamists. And by 150 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 5: the way, to show you just how anti Semitism leads 151 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 5: to anti Americanism. 152 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 2: What is Tucker saying this week? 153 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 5: He's saying Donald Trump has called for unconditional surrender in Iran. 154 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 5: When you surrender unconditionally, what it means is that soldiers 155 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 5: can rape your wives and your daughters. And so if 156 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 5: Iran surrenders to America, American soldiers will rape the women 157 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 5: in Iran. That is a grotesque lie. And by the way, 158 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 5: American soldiers have not done that in any war we 159 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:43,079 Speaker 5: have fought, and yet Tucker is willing to impune the 160 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 5: entire American military. And then he also says the other 161 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 5: way to do it is we can drop nuclear weapons 162 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 5: on Iran, and he says, I believe we're getting ready 163 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 5: to Nukran. 164 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 2: That gives you the sense. 165 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 5: By the way, right now, the Iranian TV is playing 166 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 5: Tucker's show. Across the Muslim Brotherhood is tweeting out Tucker's show. 167 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 5: They have decided he is the most effective spokesperson for 168 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 5: their message, which is that America is the great Satan. 169 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 5: And I will say one thing also that this room 170 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 5: should do is follow the money. 171 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 1: You're more than welcome to follow the money. Cruz calling 172 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: Tucker the biggest demagogue in America, well, I don't know 173 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 1: how I would rank them. What I do know is 174 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,439 Speaker 1: that the discussion of the influencer class is a conversation 175 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,839 Speaker 1: that is far overdue. I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony 176 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: Katz today.