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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Taxing.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
I saw a great interview last night Sean Hannity over
on Fox News talking to yet another DSA co chair. Again,
there's like fifty five co chairs. Co means you know
one two? Why there's somebody co chairs? Not quite sure.
But the point is that this guy's name is Oliver Larkin,
no relation to Barry, and he's asked by Sean. And

(00:35):
I like this because Sean does not let go of
the frisbee here, so to speak. There was when this
guy tries to filibuster and give these ambiguous answers around well,
when we talk about taxing the heck out of millionaires
and billionaires, well, you know what does that mean? Exactly
what number are you talking about? And Sewn just keeps
trying to the corner and you're going to hear that

(00:55):
if you make five hundred thousand dollars a year, how
much of that money should be taxed one hundred and
fifty thousand, more than fifty percent, seventy percent? And uh,
this is the way you conduct interviews with these people, because,
as I've said, and I'll say it again, these are
unseerious people who don't have a clue what they're actually
proposing in terms of specifics.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Cut number six.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Go somebody making one hundred grand a year, how much
of every dollar should they be able to keep?

Speaker 5 (01:23):
Okay, I think that the tax rate on the number
most middle class Americans and all of our give me number.
It's not that.

Speaker 6 (01:29):
Much out of every dollar should they be able to keep?

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Cable news?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
But one hundred grand, no think we should be How
much we should they bring dollars?

Speaker 6 (01:36):
Should they be able to keep it?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
To a similar question, how how much are you willing
to let the government take?

Speaker 6 (01:42):
How much? Give us a number.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
I want to see a return on our taxpayer investment.
We can stay number benefit.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Somebody works hard, makes one hundred grand a year, how
much of every dollar should they keep.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
The I'm not interested in changing the tax rate middle
class Americans on people making one hundred grand.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I want to somebody that makes five hundred grand a
year getting five hundred thousand a year, how much out
of every dollar should they be able to keep.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
It?

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Is it is in proportional to the top marginal tax.
Give me a number where if you're making.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
Oliver, give me a number. How much out of every dollar.

Speaker 5 (02:21):
Should they keep that simple?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
It's not that simple. Your one that wants to be
that the new deal, what.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
They put into the system. Okay, so your we should
have put the ownership of utilities?

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Do you say?

Speaker 6 (02:35):
People talk a lot about fairness.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
What is fair for a guy that makes a half
a million dollars a year out.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
Of every dollar?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
How much should the government get? Answer the question, why
do you stop playing games?

Speaker 5 (02:46):
The person making the person making half a million dollars
a million dollars a year, they should pay the same
rate in Social Security tax?

Speaker 6 (02:52):
And how much of every dollar tax paralyzed? I think
we got it.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I counted twelve, give me a numbers by Sean and
he had every right to be impatient. It would not
answer the question because they don't want to commit to
a number because you know that number is going to
be horrific, Like it's already bad enough that half your
pay goes towards a government, and then you see all
the fraud that goes on, all the money that's completely
misspent stolen. Even so, then what the government should get more?

(03:20):
They should be rewarded with more of your money, especially
socialists who want to just give away a bunch of
free stuff to people who don't work for it. Come on,
come on, so good job by our friend Sean. Now
let's move on to well she just won't stop. Well,
she she just won't stop. Hillary Clinton does an interview

(03:40):
like every day now. It's almost as if like she's
thinking of running, like why would you have yourself out
there this much? And it's some random podcast and she
looks tired, and she looks still angry ten years later
about losing an election.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Nobody thought that she would lose. And now well.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
She's making a list and checking it twice. She thinks
that Donald Trump is naughty, not nice, and in this case,
when he leaves office, she's making a list of things
that she wants to tear down, destroy after Trump is gone,
which is a totally weird way for a late seventies
gal to be thinking when she should just go off
into the sunset and stop embarrassing yourself at this public

(04:17):
therapy tour.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Anyway, cut number seven.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
Go are you going to de gold Horses?

Speaker 6 (04:22):
The gold Horses take Down? Have you seen him on Gold?

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (04:27):
I saw, I saw the picture.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
I saw.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
It feels like Saddam Hussein.

Speaker 7 (04:31):
Is you know what that's a very You know, when
I was in Baghdad after the fall of uh Saddam Hussein,
I had meetings. I was then a senator. I had
meetings in some of his palaces, and they were quite
reminiscent of what we are seeing in our own White House.
It's just insane. Is that hard for you to watch?

(04:53):
Or yet, like I'll take down. It's sad to me.
It's sad that it's so tacking up and it it's
a reflection of you know, his narcissistic personality.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
And this goes on for a while, all right for starters.
I guess since Trump's been compared to Hitler and to
Mussolini Stalin Maw, I guess Saddam we have to throw
in there at some point, right as far as that comparison,
which again you're worried about the way he renovates the
White House. If I'm Hillary Clinton, the last thing I
am talking about are things that go on inside of

(05:28):
the Oval office and things that again after what we
saw from President Clinton with a with an intern, and
I know that was a long time ago, but my goodness, gracious,
you are the last person to be talking about stuff
that goes on in the White House, and she just
sounds so damn bitter and again comparing Trump to Saddam. Okay,

(05:50):
I guess you know we were due at some point. Meanwhile,
so there were a couple of results last night from
various primaries, especially in the Midwest, which we've been watching closely.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Here, and.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Fake doctor Abdul l saied. He won in Michigan, but
not by a very big margin. Certainly, the posters were
off by about twenty points there and he didn't even
get to fifty percent in terms of primary votes for
the nomination for Senate in Michigan. As far as being
the Democratic nominee. Anyway, he'll go off against Mike Rodgers
in November. Now, all that said, there was another socialist

(06:27):
out there running and somehow this person's even more insane
than l sied, which is a really, really low bar.
But Francesca hung well. I saw the betting markets where
she had a ninety six percent chance of winning that
gubernatorial race. Last night, some polls have her up twenty
five points and she lost, and I mean barely lost.

(06:47):
And the guy who beat her ended up only getting
about forty one percent of the vote. So not exactly
like a sweeping win for Democrats there, no matter how
you slice it. So again, Wisconsin, a state that Trump
won twice three times, if he asked him, home of
the packers, definitely lunch pale, blue collar m I just
don't know if these kind of candidates are going to
do very well in states like that. Again, it's the

(07:08):
ultimate test laboratory. Well, my network Fox was at the
Francesca Hong watch party and.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
They wouldn't let Fox in. I mean, what is that?

Speaker 3 (07:20):
And it turned out that they said, well, it's a
space thing, fire code thing.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
We were the only network that got turned away, and
probably for good reason because we've been one of the
few networks to actually talk about how insane Francesca Hang is,
including you know that she wants to ban Thanksgiving, Christmas,
July fourth by missing a holiday there Thanksgiving, Halloween, Halloween
as well.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, so zero for four there. But anyway, cut number
five go.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Hoping to do this live shot from inside the hon
campaign headquarters watch party. We arrived with our confirmation materials,
all the registration that we needed, front of the line.
We were told because the capacity that they had the
discretion to turn some away at a Piercebox News was
the only immediate outlet turned away.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
But we can report from out here, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
That is Alexandra Hoff, who was on location at that
watch party where ultimately Francesca Hang, who's never held again,
just like Mendonnia, like, never had a real job in
her life. She wanted to be a sports columnists and
failed at that, and she wanted to be a chef
and she failed at that. She said, well, all right,
I guess the next natural step is to run for
you know, governor. Oh boy, So that's what's going on
out there. Meanwhile, AOC is now pretending that all the

(08:26):
things that she said way way back when, not even
way back when we're talking like, you know, a couple
of years ago, she never said them, and she calls
all of the things that she said crazy, therefore calling
herself crazy. Chris Cuomo, though, however, thinks that that's an
awesome idea for by AOC, that you know, voters had
the memories of goldfish and therefore they're not going to
remember that she wanted to spend trillions of dollars to

(08:46):
fight climate change. They're not going to remember that she
said that the only reason why unemployment's low under President
Trump is because two people have multiple jobs, which is
not how unemployment is counted. She also predicted that the
world was going to end like literally in twenty thirty one,
which is less than let's see, five years away. And
I could go on and on in terms of the
things that she has said over the years, like defunding
the police, abolishing ice.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Still believes in that.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Actually all of these radical ideas.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
And you remember the Green New Deal.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
They had a draft that came out of it, and
at one point, literally the quote was they wanted to
pay people even if they didn't want to work, not
like I can't get a job, I don't want to work.
And that proposal too, said that those people should be supported.
All right, anyway, here's Cuomo saying, yay, AOC for foot
flopping on all your positions because people love authenticity or

(09:34):
lack thereof in this case, cut number three go.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
But we got to draw a line between positions and principles.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Your principles shouldn't really change, but your positions should based
on the pragmatism of what you're dealing with.

Speaker 6 (09:45):
That's what AOC is flagging here. Okay, time to change
why because I want to win elections.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
So I'll say whatever it takes to win elections. Because
Hillary tried that and that didn't work. Romney tried that,
that didn't work. So yeah, that strategy. I'm sorry. If
you think that AOC can suddenly sell herself as a moderate,
you are out of your epping mind, no shot whatsoever.
But I guess the alternative is that she sticks to

(10:13):
all those other positions around no fracking and no off
shorge drilling and electric vehicle mandates, all that stuff. Of course,
government run healthcare and oh, by the way, the government
pays for your child to mutilate themselves. Yeah, I guess
if she sticks with all that openly, she'll lose fifty
one states. If she tries to go to the center,
it'll just be like Kamala Harris. Well yeah, maybe she'll

(10:34):
say face in a couple of them, but she won't
win one swing state that I certainly know. And again
it's only twenty twenty six, so who knows how this
thing's going to turn out. But boy, it's going to
be a mess on the Democrat side because Republicans will
line up and whatever.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
JD.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Evans and Marco Rubio decide to do, whether it's run
with each other as president and vice president, or if
Jad says I want to spend time with my kids.
I got four very very young children, and it's Marco's time.
Now Marco runs the obviously the party will acquiesce.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
It just not Aquias. Well will coalesce.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
He meant to say, right behind Marco, and there won't
be a primary per se, like it's his. I don't
care who else runs. I don't care who else runs.
We saw that movie in twenty twenty four, Nikki Haley,
Ron de Santis capable candidates, no question, but they never
had a shot. And that's what's going to happen in
twenty twenty eight. Whoever Trump decides to endorse and whatever,
JD and Marco decide that's your Republican nominee, and then

(11:26):
they could just not spend any money during the primaries,
build up a huge war chest. While twenty to twenty five,
I think twenty seven Democrats ran. In twenty twenty, you're
going to see a repeat of that horror film all
over again. That is certainly for sure. Anyway, this is
Joe Conca. This is the appropriate name. Joe Concha Show
back with so much more in just a moment,
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