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Tony starts the second hour of the show talking about the House Republicans holding a press conference on DHS funding. Tony also talks about leftist users on Twitter/X against the U.S. strikes on Iran. Tony later talks about a video of a Marine protestor getting his hand caught in a door.
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Live from the heartland and the crossroads of America. It's Tony Katz today. House Republicans decided to have themselves a little bit of a pressur today. They're talking about homeland security. And we forget that it's still not funded by the Democrats. This is still going on. Thank you for coming. Let me start by being very, very clear. The rain in regime is not a part of her peace. It is the regime that will hesitate to kill our troops, our diplomats, for our citizens, if given the chance. This is the same regime that has already murdered hundreds of Americans.
The same regime that chanced the death to America actually in their streets. And the same regime that races to develop a nuclear weapon capable of killing thousands more. And you know what? When this regime threatens death to America, I actually believe them. I take them at their word. And I take those threats very, very seriously. And you know what, can people do too? I would hope they do. Well, there seems to be a lot of people who don't care about these threats at all. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, if I didn't say hello. That's Lisa McLean. She is the Republican conference chairs. They have this pressur on funding the Department of Homeland Security. And I think it is important that Republicans keep on this and keep reminding people that America is more at threat because Democrats are more interested in politics than they are
in policy. That's clear. Yesterday, I saw two things that struck me, which is weird. There comes a moment, I think, for all of us, where we're a little jaded about the progressive. And like, there's nothing left that can shock us. How possibly can you be shocked by these people? Any more in actions and reactions? Right, we're not talking about disagreements in policy. We're talking about madness. And so the first thing I saw and it's not that it was the first, it's not that this was chronological. It's the first thing that I saw was a post from this leftist who goes by the name of Jojo Injures.
I guess she's from New Jersey. Okay, I don't know what makes her famous. I have no idea. I have no idea why she is considered a celebrity amongst the left. At all, she has a million followers. And she had posted this, this very weird statement, very, very strange statement. And she refers herself as a mom, Jersey, Democrat, news junkie, Lebanese, hothead, views are my own. Oh, okay, hothead, sure. And it read, we just blew up an Iranian ship and international waters and left all the survivors to drown.
This is who we are now. And I thought that was quite literally the craziest thing I had ever seen. Because I had responded to that by asking, I think, a very, very simple and easy to understand question. Do these people not understand how wars work? Are all leftists new to war? Yes, we had a submarine shoot down the latest top of the line Iranian warship. Because the Iranian warship needed to go. We're in a fight with the Iranians. They're terrorists. They're going to engage in more terrorist activities. If they have ships out there in international water, it's to threaten other ships that are out there,
disable shipping lanes, damage others, take over their ships, and they have to go. It's us or them, and I choose us every day of the week and twice on Sunday. This, this lefty is amazed. We just blew up an Iranian ship in international waters and left all the survivors to drown. This is who we are now. Who we are now? Did you never read a book about World War II? Do you think we stopped to really save everybody? We hit a U-boat on any German ship anywhere on land? What the hell is going on here? And I said, that's the weirdest thing. I have heard. Then I saw what you saw this, this marine
who decides to interrupt a Senate subcommittee hearing. His name is Brian McGinnis. And Brian McGinnis, it turns out, is running for office. He's running for Senate. I think he's running in the Carolinas as a third party candidate. And he is in his dress blues. And he is disrupting the hearing and refuses to leave. He won't leave. He is holding onto the door. So the door has multiple ways to exit out, like three different doors and it's got the posts in the middle.
And he is fighting the cops as he's being taken out. And he puts his hand onto one of the posts and so one of the doors closes and closes on his hand, closes on his hand. So what happens is that what you see is that here are these cops trying to drag him through, thinking he's holding on, and his hand is holding on to his hand. See is that here are these cops trying to drag him through, thinking he's holding on, and his hand is stuck. He was holding on, but then his hand gets stuck. And all of a sudden you hear somebody screaming, I'm not playing you the audio because I didn't get the check if there was any cursing or or anything else. I mean, this guy is screaming like a freak. Someone starts yelling, his hand stuck, you broke his hand. And I
and I said to myself, this is what they're focused on. This is the focus. The focus is that this guy maybe broke his hand or broke his arm. His arm is stuck because he put it in a place to be stuck because he is yelling and screaming. And I realized that the left does not seem to understand what is happening around them. They certainly don't understand what a war is. They don't understand what a conflict is. They don't understand what it is to win.
And they refuse to accept the idea that the person who acts improperly engages improperly might end up getting hurt. Let's apply this to something that we have discussed on the regular. If you are one of these absolutely ridiculous, ridiculous protesters who blocks traffic, what have we said? Time and time and time again, you should expect to get run over. And when they do, they act shocked. How dare you? How have we described it here? We've said, this is an abuse of the social contract. The left believes that you have to engage and support the social contract at all times. And they can do anything they want. So when they block traffic, you're not allowed to run them over or hit them with your car or nudge them out of the way. You have to stop. You have to wait for the police to arrive. Then you have to uncuff them or undo this.
You have to treat them humanely. When you have to give them water, somehow when they glue themselves to the to the roadway, you have to come out with a jackhammer and help them safely get to the other side of the street and then give them medical care. When they destroy artwork and glue themselves to the walls of museum, museums, you have to shut down the museum and you have to make sure that they're okay and make sure they're well fed. I don't buy into anything of that. I don't buy into any part of that. You glue yourself to an art installation. You're now part of the art installation. We build a cage around you with a mirror with a window in it and people can slowly watch you die because if you glue yourself to a wall, I am not somehow forced to unglue you. That's your problem. You block traffic. You should expect that you're going to get run over. You keep an ambulance from getting to my sick kid. You should expect worse.
You're telling me that we have engaged in a war action against Iran and the left is amazed that we actually killed Iranian soldiers. It's insane. These people aren't prepared for a fight. They think the job of the military is just to sit there and look good. I don't think you should send the military here there and everywhere and I don't think you should send them for lighter transient causes. I think when you send them, your job is to kill the enemy until the enemy is dead and that is every member of the enemy. And this is where we get into the absolute stupidity of, oh, you're fine with sending somebody else's kid. You're always sending somebody else's kid. I don't want to hear it again. Yeah, we're going to send somebody else's kid and that kid might die. We better train our people to be the very best. We better fight to the very best of our ability and we better come with overwhelming force. So we limit if not eliminate our possibility of casualties. But we can't let them keep being terrorists.
What are we insane? The answer is the left isn't sane. They wouldn't fight if their lives depended on it. It's weak cowardly nonsense. Yes, we're going to blow up Iranian ships and they're going to die. Shouldn't have been terrorists. It's us or them and I choose us. This guy, this ex-marine, do you say former marine? I don't care at this moment. Things he can disrupt a meeting. He is the ones trying to stop himself from being carried out. Therefore leads to his own arm being injured to the extent that was injured, injured, damaged, etc. And I'm supposed to feel bad for him. That's the problem. The problem is he's disrupting the meeting and he's screaming no wars for Israel. I'm not fighting for Israel. We're fighting for us. If you think we're fighting for Israel, you're listening to the dumbest people on the planet. I don't feel bad for these people. I don't feel bad for this marine.
You disrupted a meeting. You got carried out and you fought that. Well, bad things happen to you. Life's tough in the NBA. Renee Good didn't listen to police. I still want an investigated. But she's the one who's blocked traffic. She's the one who sat in her car. She's the one who backed up. But she's the one who hit a cop. She is culpable in her own death. Could we all just grow up? And the answer for the left is no. They can't. They think they can good feelings their way to success. These are unserious people who can't win a war. These are unserious people who can't keep a country safe. These are unserious people you cannot vote for. They're unserious people who are not focused on the action. They're only focused on what you do wrong. So then they can complain so they can feel self-righteous. Their self-righteousness is going to get you killed and get your kids killed. Dear Lord, stop voting for these people. But the left is not the only problem. Let's get into the woke right. That's coming up. I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony Katz today.
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