Newsom’s Billionaire Tax, Iran War Escalates & Israel Acknowledges Genocide | PBD Podcast #825

Podcast hosts condemn progressive policies like wealth taxes and minimum wage hikes as harmful to small businesses and the middle class while praising moves toward traditional values and deterrence against crime.

• Newsom Tax Push — Gavin Newsom shifts to support a national billionaire tax after opposing a state version, targeting households over $255,000 [10:44]

• Soros Midterm Donations — George Soros and son funnel over $100 million to left-wing candidates for the midterms [19:04]

• Minimum Wage Plan — Proposal raises federal minimum wage to $25 an hour, which critics say doubles costs like a Big Mac to over $12 [27:57]

• Citizen Vigilante Film — Movie depicts a wealthy man executing rapists and corrupt judges after government fails victims, banned in Germany [37:40]

• Iran US Strikes — US bombs Iranian drone sites after attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, timed after market close [1:02:24]

• Israel Genocide Recognition — Israel unanimously approves acknowledgment of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides by the Ottoman Empire [1:07:13]

• Idaho Execution Change — Firing squad becomes the state's primary method for certain child sex abuse convictions starting July 2026 [1:49:12]

• Why does Uruguay cancel its soccer team's private jet after early World Cup elimination?

• What specific scene in the Citizen Vigilante movie involves a judge declaring rapists as victims?