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We are in a brand new space race with China and unfortunately racism does play a role for some reason. Also, President Trump addresses the nation re Iran and we'll discuss briefly Pam Bondi's ouster and the Trump administration and why nobody ever talks about tactical moves when libs are in office. Lastly, a California hospice is boasting a 95% survival rate, which is crazy. All that more coming up on this episode of the show. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. The show starts right now. What a crazy last 48 hours it has been. Started off yesterday with birthright citizenship, massive deal at the Supreme Court. Trump goes to the Supreme Court for the first time ever. Then later in the day, rockets blasting off to the moon, American dominance on display yet again. Then President Trump addresses the nation on the war in Iran. Today the Attorney General gets kicked to the curb kind of, but I think it's just a restructuring thing. We'll talk about all of that, but honestly, I do think the rocket launch is probably the most important. I'll explain why in just a second. First, I gotta remind you, tptpusa.com is the email address. If you like to send on your thoughts, comments, even concerns, you can send those to tptp USA.com love reading all of your emails and we do read pretty much all of them. Don't have a chance to get them. Get to them all here on the show. But if you'd like the opportunity, the chance to be read aloud here on Turning Point tonight, make sure your email is disgusting, vile, downright nasty, and it'll actually fit in with how we run things on this show according to many of the lips. TPTP USA.com is that email address. I will also be in Anaheim, California April 16th doing a comedy show. TPTP USA.com if you'd like information on tickets as well as April 28th at the University of Idaho with Michael Knowles and Matt Walsh. Also tptbsa.com if you'd like any info on either of those events or would you like to be, you know, kept in the loop on where we're going, what we're doing as far as live events. Tptpsa.com for any of those inquiries. Like I mentioned, massive news stories coming out, one after another after another after another. But honestly, in the long term, in the marathon that is the Western civilization, I do think the new space race between us and our arch nemesis on the global scale, China is the most important, especially when you look at the long scope of things. Yes. You know, can things go disastrously wrong in some other news stories? I guess theoretically that's possible. But one that's here to stay and very important, which I'll explain why throughout the remainder of this segment is the new space race. First one would just like to express my excitement for the rocket launch that took place yesterday. But unfortunately, I don't know if I can do a better job than this kid on CNN. This is cut 12. Why do you want to be here?
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Why do you love space? Why do you love being a part of history?
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We're going back to the moon.
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Going back to the freaking moon. Yeah, yeah. Now what is, you know, space exploration? What's it all for? And kind of what's the trajectory of things? Well, obviously scientific exploration, that is a thing that we've prioritized in this country. We like doing stuff and with that comes technological advancement and therefore technological demonstration. We got to show the world why we're so much better than them. And as a part of doing that, we acquire resources. One, the ability to produce this technology, but to whatever the technology gets us towards, meaning the moon in this particular circumstances and the resources that are on the moon that we could use for our good, which of course, if you're talking about resources and resource allocation based on who has them now you're talking geopolitical influence around the world. That is why all of this is super important. Yesterday, Artemis 2 became the first deep space launch since the Apollo launches. Nobody's landing on the moon this particular time, but that is the ultimate goal. The first crude lunar landing is now eyed for 2028. Either Artemis 4 or Artemis 5 using SpaceX's Starship as well as potentially some blue origin technology in there, which is a part of this new space race. If you haven't heard about this, you're not hip to the space race. I guess space race is space race between China. It is a massive deal in the long term. Just generally speaking, China is targeting a crude lunar landing before 2030. No firm like public date on that but unfortunately they are making pretty steady progress. The plans for this year, China in 2026 plans to fly uncrewed test flights. They have a bunch of infrastructure in the works at their launch site. They've got crewed missions going to their own space station. So there's the ISS and then there's the Tian Gong space station that they launched in 2021. They've got a crewed mission going there, they've had a bunch of lander tests, they've landed on the moon four different times with robotics to gather data and information and bring it back to China. And in those missions that the Chinese, and the Chinese government took to the moon, they came back with some really interesting findings. Some of those findings which matched the US Lunar Prospector spacecraft, which the main thing is it showed a increased lots of normal amounts of hydrogen within a crater. This is the Shackleton crater. Let me pull up graphic one to show that Shackleton Crater bunch of hydrogen, which could mean that there is the presence of ice water or sorry, water ice. I guess there's a, not like ice water that you get at a restaurant and it's a cooling, calming beverage on a nice hot day. No, no water ice which is just basically, hey, there's water here in the form of ice. Okay, so why does that matter? Why is China now in a race with the United States? Remember, they're eyeing, sometime between 2030, we're eyeing 2028 to land people on the moon entirely. It's, it's targeted with heavy, heavy influence towards the lunar south pole and that Shackleton crater like what you just saw. Why? Well, because according to US research and Chinese research, there could be water ice there in the permanently shadowed craters of the Shackleton crater. This could provide drinking water, could provide oxygen, could be rocket fuel. You know, if we can figure out how to make hydrogen into the rocket fuel. Basically it is a possibility that people could be on the moon towards the lunar south pole for the long term, meaning that people can just be there. Okay, so, well if people are going to be there, we want it to be us, we don't want it to be our geopolitical adversaries. It also that south pole, that lunar south pole has near constant sunlight, which could lead to solar power, which could perpetuate long term human stability in that area. And lastly militarily it provides a strategic high ground for long term bases, communication relays and potential resource extraction. Helium 3, which I don't know anything about that. It just other smarter people than me say that that's important. As well as rare minerals, rare materials, I'm used to saying rare earth minerals because that's what, you know, goes into our silicon chips and our phones and all that sort of stuff. But it's not rare earth. It's, it's rare moon because it's, because it's not Earth. Bottom line here is that China's International Lunar Research Station is partnered with Russia and a bunch of others and aim to put bases, and by bases you can probably extrapolate from that military bases on the moon by 2030. And that could also potentially include nuclear power, which of course then means if our adversary has a goal of being on the moon by 2030, before 2030, and then the goal with China and the other access of a whole adversaries of the United States want to put military bases there. All that means is we have to do it first, right? That's, that's the only outcome here. This is a long term race that needs to be won by the United States of America. Now what exactly we get to it, we're not really sure. But what we do know is that if there is any upside, that means that our adversary can't get to it first. Okay, so what does this race look like? Who has the advantage? What are some of the disadvantages? What are the hurdles that we have to overcome? According to again, a lot of people smarter than me, the United States advantages include decades of crude spaceflight experience, obviously from the Apollo missions all the way up to now. We have a strong commercial sector which other countries don't have. We have SpaceX Blue Origin, a bunch of the other commercial space aviation flights, and we've got a bunch of international partners. We buy our parts from first world countries that have the manufacturing capability that we, not, not that we don't have, it's just that we can outsource so that we can, you know, build relationships for the purpose of conquering the moon first. China's advantages unfortunately though include rapid and consistent execution. They keep launching things up. They've done four robotic moon landings like we talked about earlier. They have a high launch cadence which is effectively a repeat of this first bullet point that I wrote down. Not entirely sure why I did that, but they keep sending stuff up, they keep, they keep doing it and you know, love them or hate them, they're doing it. They also have a strong robot robotics program which has had far side of the moon landings and samples returns. Like we've talked about earlier, the US hurdles, some of the problems that we've been having are technical delays Heat shield land or development. Obviously there's the cost convincing the American people, which is kind of what I'm trying to do here, why this is necessary and why it's important and why. Yes, it's not a war. It still is some sort of military race against, like I've mentioned a number of times, our biggest adversary. And scheduling slips, which I'm not really too concerned about that. Guys like Elon Musk, although not at NASA, love to set very, very optimistic deadlines. Sometimes you get those, sometimes you don't. But the bottom line is we have our own hurdles that we have to deal with. And China has their own hurdles. They have obviously have less public transparency. They're still building deep crude, deep space, crewed space flight, which they haven't really quite done yet. But everybody involved in this space race has harsh lunar environments to deal with. They've got radiation, life support and obviously the high costs. So what is at stake? I mean, basically we mentioned all of the military advantages, the resources advantages, if they are there, that need to be won over China. It's not just a who lands first, it is who gets there and is able to set the rules for lunar operations and resources use. The winner obviously gains a huge technological advantage. If there are resources there that we can bring back to Earth, they gain economic advantage. And if you gain economic advance and via resources, you obviously gain global influence advantage, global space leadership overall. One of the problems though, with all of that, and you know, there are big issues, there are big advantages the United States has, like we've mentioned, we've got the free market. One of the issues that we run into that China does not have is, as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, unfortunately, racism. And by racism, I mean the crazy wackadoo people who consider race in everything that they do. I know this might sound kind of non sequitur, not exactly related, but trust me, it is. Yesterday, during the Artemis launch, Sky News from Australia had some crazy person on talking about the racial makeup of the crew. This is that clip and this is why. I'll explain why. I think this is unfortunately very important when it comes to beating China. This is cut 13. Yeah. And they are going for all humanity this time. You know, Apollo was all white men and this time it's not. And I think that really speaks volumes for the journey that NASA has been on. And this is a much more representative crew. Okay, so, yes, because there are some black people and women, I think I don't even know. I mean, okay, I do know, but it, it doesn't matter to me and it shouldn't matter to anybody. It shouldn't matter that Apollo was a bunch of white guys. They represented the United States of America. And we won in the space rates against Russia effectively, to get to the moon first. We won. Doesn't matter what you look like, doesn't matter what you came from, what it doesn't matter your height, none of that stuff matters. But if there are going to be hindrances to NASA in the race against China, our biggest adversary, it is stuff like that which is going to hinder us the most, unfortunately. What is this effectively? This is effectively a test of systems, as it was against the Soviets. Free market versus Communism. It's still a similar vibe going on here. The United States being a free market society that attracts brilliance, it attracts a meritocracy versus communism, which I don't know, advocates incentives through fear. That's what this ultimately is, or at least that is going to be what decides who wins this space race. Unfortunately, just a side effect of our freedom comes with sometimes the difficulty of organizing priorities. While it should be abundantly clear that we need to beat China to the moon and we need to build bases on the moon before China does, which side? Note what a good idea the Space Force was. Remember when Trump got made fun of for developing the Space Force and launching that and everyone was like, this is stupid and unnecessary. Oh, yeah, look, hey, China's trying to build military installations on the moon. Maybe we should do it before them. Wow. Very ahead of his time. President Trump was at the time, she's, where was I? At the end of the day, we have to have the best and brightest and cannot be hindered by. Well, is the first biracial, lesbian amputee blind person gonna be on the team that builds the military base on the moon? No. Who cares? The bottom line is we have to freaking win. Okay, I recognize there are a lot of things that may sound super important, and they are, they're not. Not important. But in the grand scheme of things, in the long term, over the next decade or two or three, this matters a lot. And with the launch of Artemis yesterday, regardless of what you think about the makeup of the crew or anything like that, it matters that we did it and it continues to matter that we continue doing it. Artemis 4, 5, whatever it ends up being, mission wise, hopefully in 28, putting people on the moon again. And not just people, Americans, because it matters who wins this, this new space race. It matters for America, but also Western civilization as a whole. Will the free market Society that prioritizes meritocracy and brilliance win, hopefully. But we're going up against the communists and ultimately that's what this is going to end up being. Who controls the moon will control the direction and the trajectory of, of the globe, to be honest, and frankly, I'd rather be Western and more specifically American. Tpt if you have any thoughts on this. Like I mentioned, a bunch of news stories go just a ton. This is one of those days where the most difficult part about the show today was picking what to talk about because there's so many things to talk about. And we'll get to some of that. We'll get to President Trump's address yesterday, as well as Pam Bondi out as Attorney general, or at least moving on to the private sector is what President Trump issued any. That's not probably not untrue. She's probably going to make a lot of money in the private sector, which is a different discussion. But anyways, all those things and more coming up after the break. Tptpsa.com, we'll be right back. Don't go away. With verbo care. Help is always ready before, during, and after your stay. We've planned for the plot twists, so support is always available because a great trip starts with peace of mind.
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I do think things are getting too progressive. I got in trouble the other day for using the word homeless. This guy was like, you can't say that. You have to say people without housing. And I was like, dude, I don't think their problem is marketing. It's not like I called him a house retard. Got away with it in Williamsburg, baby. All right,
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that's fun. That's great. I used to have a. I used to have a similar bit. I sang, ah, there's a homeless guy who. Hold one. They're unhoused individuals. Okay? There's an unhoused individual taking a dump in your mailbox. Like, I don't know, sorry for. Is this a semantics game? Like, you have a current problem and you're correcting me on my what I'm calling these likely meth heads. Funny. All right. Hey, lots of. She's. Lots of points to get to. We know we're doing good on time today, so this is, this is going to be good. Lots of points to get to. So let's do it. Let's get to the the point. Get to the point, get to the point. All right, first news, first point up today, big news. Pam Bondi ousted as attorney general. Sources say this, I think headlines From a little bit earlier today was made definitive since then from cnn. Here's the thing. Libs are going to celebrate this. They're like, hooray. You know, there's some, you know, people on our side that'll celebrate this. I see this as a guy governing the way that governors should govern. And I say governor, like, as a person who governs not, you know, obviously a state governor. He's the president, United States. President Trump is doing what, for some reason previous administrations never did and never got flack for. This is not like this is just a change. We talked about this when he made a change in Minneapolis with all of those lunatics riding in the streets. Hey, you know, we got a pr. We lot of different components to this. We're just going to make a change. We're going to make some adjustments, insert Tom Holman. Then ultimately Chrissy Noem is replaced with Mark Wayne Mullen. There's just changes. And you know what's even weirder about then Trump making changes? People saying, oh, turmoil inside Trump's cabinet. The guy's a business person. If the certain point of his business isn't doing what he wants it to do, yeah, you make a change, no big deal. What's crazier is when people don't make changes in the face of clear failures. Literally nobody got fired from the Biden administration. Literally nobody. That's weirder than President Trump making changes as he sees fits. What's weirder is that Jen Psaki didn't get fired from being the press secretary. She took more money. And then KJP identity hire was just there forever. She never quit. She never left. Nobody ever. Nobody ever got fired. Merrick Garland, four years as the Attorney General, never got fired. Despite all of these scandals that plagued the Biden administration. Who else there? Antony Blinken, Secretary of State the entire time throughout all of the things. Even with the debacle of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Now we're going to, we're going to keep par for the course. Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary under Biden, who said on TV multiple times the border is secure, never got fired. Nobody ever was replaced. No changes were made in spite of the disastrous, tumultuous Biden administration. That is actually crazy. President Trump making adjustments is, you know, like it or not, that's he. We elected him because we trust his judgment and he's making judgment calls. Fine. This is, this is not the hit to the right that libs are going to make it out to be. Ooh, there's trouble in paradise. Businessman is Making some business decisions. Fine. You know what's, you know what's crazier is when your guy the last time didn't make any adjustments. Zero whatsoever. Nobody got fired from that admin. That's weirder. Just so we're clear, I'm a little bit more heated about that than I thought I would. Sorry. Bring the temperature down a little bit. I just, I get frustrated at the lack of perspective that so many people have on this. It's just, I don't know, jobs change, business changes. It's fine. It's crazy if you don't adjust. All right, brings us to our next segment. Speaking of adjustments, President Trump yesterday, in his address about a 19 minute primetime address, says that the Iran war. Let me just read the headline from CBS News. Trump says Iran war will wrap up very shortly in primetime address, but pledges extremely hard strikes coming in the coming weeks. He pledged the US Forces will continue striking Iran extremely hard over the next two or three weeks and warned that he will obliterate the country's electric plants and the oil infrastructure if the leaders do not agree to a deal. My guess, this again, coming from a guy that just takes an information and interprets it in my own mind and also tries not to be like super beholden to one thing. I'd like to, I'd like to come to a sense of reasonableness, which is what I think the President also does, at least I would hope. Now, I, of course he does. That's, he's a pragmatic guy. What a lot of people very, very close to this are saying is that the new regime, which effectively it is a new regime because they wiped out the A team and then also the B team and like, are halfway through the C team. So the new guys that are coming to power, it looks very much like they might be willing to play ball in that. Hey, just, you know, fine, we'll, we'll stop the whole nuke thing, which is, again, remember, that's like, that's the goal ultimately. We'll stop the nuke thing. Just, you know, fine, coming in, check, do, do your due diligence, whatever you want. Just, just let us stay in power, which honestly would be a pretty good deal for them. And so that kind of is what I'm getting from this, just kind of observing. Uh, but if you think I'm wrong. Tbtbuza.com I think that would be great if President Trump could get out of Iran in two to three weeks and just be done with some new leadership. Now, obviously we'd like them to be a little bit more Western, not kill their protesters. But at the end of the day, you know, what do I care, you know, if how the Iranian government governs, if they no longer have any sort of inclination to design a nuclear weapon because they could see what could happen to them if they were to continue in that route. So that's what President Trump basically delivered. Strong speech, by the way. Pretty, pretty good. I liked him. But that's that. And we will all find out together how this unfolds. I trust the guy who makes pragmatic decisions in the White House of whom we elected. All right, coming up, number three, getting to the point. This is, this is kind of just
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just classic, classic California politics and is kind of a bigger or a smaller part of the bigger story that is fraud around the country, unfortunately. Hospice, this hospice facility. Why don't I just read the headlines? CBS News hospice, where staggering 97% of terminal patients survive, is accused of defrauding Medicare of seven and a half million dollars. You don't say. Hold on. We are, wait a minute. You're telling me that the hospice, where, if you're not familiar with hospice, is where people who are terminally ill go effectively to a home or their home to be on hospice to inevitably pass away. You're telling me that a hospice had a 97% terminal patient survival rate? Get out of town. What? One of two things are happening. One, they are guilty of defrauding the taxpayer to the tune of millions of dollars. Or two, they're working miracles over there. They have a magical potion. They have devised and developed the fountain of youth in this rundown strip mall hospice in Los Angeles, probably in California. And then we should just send everybody there. Anybody, we. They've solved our medical crisis. Anybody who is sick, just go to this hospice. You will be cured or at least have a 97% curse chance of surviving whatever it is that ails you. So those are the two options. It's either fraud or they're the second coming. I like, I don't know. There's no other. There's no wiggle room here. One of those two things. The FBI arrested the folks that ran that hospice and they're describing the arrests as a serious targeting hospice fraud in the state of California. The high survival rates were one of the many things that flagged investigators to that. But again, like I said, I, you know, I am willing to be convinced that these people have discovered the cure to all ailments. Actually, I hope that's the case. But, but likely it's fraud. All right, next point. Let's see. Hegseth, Pete Hegseth. This is from the New York Times. Of all the places to get this, we got it from the New York Times. Hegseth reverses helicopter crew suspension over the Kid Rock flyby. If you haven't seen this video, man, that's. This is. This is on me. I should have brought the video to you, but I'm sure you've seen it already. Bunch of helicopters, military helicopters flew by Kid Rock's house, which I think the biggest thing I learned from this is, holy cow, Kid Rock has a nice house. And Kid Rock's out there standing out there waving, saluting to the helicopters. And then because libs are for some reason now, like, fiscal hawks are like, you know how much that cost a taxpayer? Like, yeah, okay, yeah, it did cost the taxpayer a little bit of money in fuel, I guess. But remove the plank out of your own eye before you move the speck out ours. Big, big story on the lib side of the aisle. Those helicopter pilots were suspended. And then Hagseth goes, no, dude. What? That's dumb. Okay? Kid Rock has not publicly commented, although he might as well have by showing off his super nice house. All right, point this. This point. Maybe. Maybe we'll get to one more after this, but we'll see. Arizona woman who went missing without a trace for 32 years was found alive. That's actually incredible. That's very nice. That's very good. Christina Marie Plante, who vanished without a trace at the age of 13 in 1994 from Arizona while walking to a horse stable near her home, has been found alive 32 year late, 32 years later, which is unbelievable. Despite extensive initial searches, national database listings, and periodic case reviews, no viable leads emerged for decades until the sheriff's new cold case unit used modern technology and investigative techniques to develop a breakthrough to confirm her identity. Unbelievable. Authorities have resolved her missing person status, but released no further details, which I. I will be fascinated. This is one of those, like, follow up stuff. Like I'll. I will follow up on this because this is fascinating to me, and I'm sure would be fascinating to you. How they did it, why they did it, where was she, what was going on. If any of that stuff emerges, I promise we will bring it to you to the best of our ability. All right? Hey. Official business is when officials in their official business capacity issue statements or make comments on a microphone to the world, which makes it our business. Which makes it official business. Official business. Coming up next TPT tbsa.com if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns about this, I'd really be curious about your thoughts on Bondi. Like I said, I don't see this as like this big panic button moment. If anything, there are some things that Pambani was doing that I wasn't a huge fan of. But again, overall, businessman makes business decisions, leads to some changes. Fine, move on. What's crazier is when nobody makes any changes in the face of disaster. But TBD tbc.com if you have any thoughts on that sort of analysis. We'll be right back with Official Business after the break. Don't go away. All right. If you can't read that, it's says, what does it say? Watching Jesus reshape my life. Chaotic. Chaotic and crazy sometimes, but ends up fine. Tower's still standing. Isn't that a, isn't that a great metaphor, how life sometimes goes that looks a little rocky, looks a little hectic, a little crazy, and then turns out everything, everything works out in the end. All right, hey, official business is when we officially, I'm trying to use the word official. Basically, it's when government officials or officials appointed by other bureaucrats say things in official capacity, which makes it our business, which makes it official business. All right, first up here in official business, Producer Glenn I'm going to pull a curveball on you or throw you a curveball and go down to Senator Alex Padia, who I think is how he'd like it to be pronounced. I think, remember when he got super offended that Vice President Vance didn't know his name. And I honestly think JD did not know his name. He says 435 members of Congress, Hunter Centers, you're not going to know everybody's name, probably. And when he tried to pull that whole, I'm being attacked when he was allegedly trying to attack Kristi Noem and then didn't tell anybody the whole thing. And JD Called him Jose Padilla. I think he called him Jose Padilla, which. That's funny. It's a joke within a joke. But anyways, Senator Padilla talking about voter fraud, interestingly enough, has a lot to say about a thing that he doesn't know a lot about. Cut seven.
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This whole premise of voter fraud is false, Right? There's zero evidence of the massive voter fraud that they constantly claim as a pretext to make it harder for people to register to vote, harder to stay registered to vote, and harder to cast a ballot.
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Yes, it's definitely false. In the state where there are two people in the Secretary of state's office, which was he the secretary of state of California? I think he was before he got appointed. He backfilled Kamala Harris in California when she ascended to the vice presidency. And then, interestingly enough, and this is just me being a stickler on elections, he was appointed by Governor Hairspray. And then when running for election, on all of his campaign material said reelection, Alex Padilla, which is. Which is just not. That's just not true. He never got elected. He was just putting out signs that said, reelect me. He was appointed and then was running as the sitting senator. Nobody elected him the first time. They did the second time, but it was a lie on his campaign. And that's just. You're not supposed to do that in campaigns, but nobody faces any sort of consequences in the state of California. I don't even remember what he was saying, but he's basically saying voter fraud is so rare that we don't look into it. Which would lead to you not catching much voter fraud because you're not looking into it, which could leave millions of cases possibly to go underneath the radar, unseen, uninvestigated, because you don't investigate it, because you claim it doesn't happen. See, that's kind of like a vicious circle there, Senator Alex. He's, you know, I don't want to be cruel and rude. That guy's not very smart. Like, there are smart people on the other side of the aisle. And I'll acknowledge that I've said this a number of times. Nancy Pelosi, very, very smart. Very, very tactical. I think she's wrong about everything, but she's not dumb. Alex Padilla, Senator Padilla, kind of dumb. It's kind of like. It's kind of like how I see the Supreme Court. I saw a tweet the other day yesterday about the libs on the Supreme Court, and it was like Kagan, smart, smart judge, happens to be liberal. That's the. That's the only problem with her. Sotomayor. Dumber than most Supreme Court justices, but not, you know, an absolute moron. Katanji sets women back a hundred years. That. That's how dumb she is. So on the sliding scale of, hey, I disagree with you, but I can see that you're intelligent person to absolute blubbering moron. Senator Padilla, a little more tied to the blood ring moron. Wow. Went on for him for a little bit, but, you know, he deserves it. He deserves all the rhetorical kickings that we give him. Which brings us to Representative Catherine Clark on CNN talking about being in touch or sorry, what is in touch with the American populace. Let's check in on good old Rep. Clark.
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People are just also feeling like you guys just don't get it. I mean, over and over again this is not the first shutdown that they've been dealing with and at some point this will get fixed. How much pain will be felt and how that lingers is unclear. But going forward, like do you support the idea? I've seen some efforts they've never gone through. It's like the conversation of term limits. Everyone wants it, but it's never going to happen that, that members of Congress should not also should also not get paid if there is a shutdown or there is a default. Do you like at some point feel the pain that people are feeling?
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Yeah, and I do feel the pain that people are feeling and I hear it every single place that I go in my district. And this is a hardship. And what we want to do is come together and actually govern. You know what the easy out there would be would be like me personally, I agree. I think that Congress shouldn't get paid. But congresspeople are notoriously not good with finances, especially libs congresspeople. And there you go, that proves it right there. She's so far down the I need this paycheck that she's not even willing to just make the political statement of like, yeah, yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll take that. But also too like that, that is, yeah. If nobody in the federal government is getting paid, why does Congress, why is Congress exempt? That's crazy to me. Also, if the government is shut down. I asked Ted Cruz about this when he came on. Is there a possibility that I can get my federal income tax prorated? Look, I had to go last fall with for 40 something days of no government and I still have to pay for that government. I think myself and you at home should all get tax breaks for the government that we did not get but had to pay for. All right, wrapping up official business here is my favorite. Well, I've got to take on this, but let's just play the clip. This is Spartacus. Sorry Timo Obama, sorry Senator Booker on Meet the Press over the weekend regarding his political future. Cut nine.
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Sounds like you're saying she would be open to your running for president. So you're not ruling it out, Senator?
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I am definitely not ruling it out. I'm running for reelection. I hope New Jersey will support me for another six years. But what I love about her Is she knows as a partnership, we are better than we were before we met. And I'm excited about whatever challenges we may take on as a couple.
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Do it, do it, do it, do it. I have a lot of different reasons for all of my libs who I want to run for office. Remember I think I mentioned that I did an event with Trump Jr. And he said he gives his full throated endorsement to Kamala Harris to run for president again on the lib side of the aisle for which she will lose 48 states. Also made the case that Don Lemon should also run for president. Senator Booker also, I want to run for president, but specifically because when you run for president, it's. It's that whole everybody gets their time in a barrel, which means every. All of the secrets come to light. Uh, there are some secrets I would like to know about Senator Booker, some having to do with possible orientation of his preferences. I'm just, I'm curious. But what I really, really want to come out, what I really want to dig into, and somebody will, if he runs for president, is potty gate. It was almost a year ago today that Senator Spartacus gave a 25 hour speech in which allegedly he did not pee himself. He was asked later, did you wear a diaper? And he totally dodged the question. If you remember from way back then, said, ah, you know, my doctor was not happy with me. That. That's not a no. That's not a no. Senator Booker. So for no other reason, I want him to run for president. One, because I'd be confident that whoever the conservative candidate would, would beat him. But also some journalists would dig in and find us answers that we, the American people, deserve. Did the senator wear a diaper or a catheter or some sort of urinary mechanism on the floor of Congress? We want answers. Tptpsa.com if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns about anything we talk about here today. Coming up Thursday, tribunal. And I believe that all of our lib friends are on the chopping block today. After the break, tptpsa.com don't go away. We'll be right back.
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D
Any they thems here that fizzled out, huh? That fizzled out, right? Last year there would have been a whole bunch. All right, have you noticed this? They're walking that back now. Some of them, they're walking it back. And I'll say this, if you ever went by they them, you should not be able to go back. No backseats. You plural. No back. Se.
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B
Oh, that's. That's funny. I do. There's a. I heard of somebody, and I don't know if this is true or not, but somebody was like, got corrected on the gender thing and just said, no pound sand. I'm not doing that. It's 2026. Kind of making a mockery of like, it's the year so and so. And we're still doing this. Yeah, it's. It's 2026 and we're still pretending the whole gender thing. Like that's silly. But also if you were the one that. Not you. Because obviously if you're watching this, it's not you. If they were the ones that put this whole thing in our faces and shoved it down our throats. No take backsies. No, no, no, no. You gotta stick with it. All right, who we got a brief amount of time for Justice Thursday. The Thursday tribunal, in which I am the judge, jury and executioner if needed. It is just as Thursday. Thursday. Trip hero. Justice Thursday. I am under this. The understanding or the belief that this will be a fairly short, sweet and simple one. On the chopping block today is all libs. Anybody who's running for lib office, how they're they doing in the polls. We'll watch this quick video from cnn who I'm sure hates doing these types of clips, but. And then I will either indict or not and then prosecute and then be the jury and the judge that she's the sentence on all of our lib friends. Watch this. Cut.
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C
Whatever it is, these numbers are just atrociously awful. A double A for the Democrats here. I mean, just take a look here. Congressional Dems have the right priorities. Look at this. Overall, overall, 74%. Nearly three in four say no. Just 25% overall say yes. You might say, okay, well, at least Dems like Democrats. Not the case. Look at this. The majority of Democrats are independent su. Lean Democrats. Look at this. 55% say no. Congressional Democrats do not have the right priorities. And then you just see a minority 45% of Democrats say that congressional Democrats have the right priorities. This to me just jumps out of the screen because it screams primary challenges all over the map.
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B
Yeah, Producer Glenn, if we can leave that up there while I make my conclusions here. Yes, I will indict libs for being dumb and out of touch with what it is that they're setting as their priorities. We're out of touch with the American people and no idea what their priority is. And as a jury that is trying them, I do find them guilty. And as a sentence and this is where I think it really matters and is important. I as a judge sentence them to continue on their trajectory because I like it. I. I like the path that they are on. Don't change, libs. Don't change. Especially before the midterms because God it would be unfortunate if they found the thing that they actually care about instead of Orange Man Bad. Because that's currently the only thing that they are running on. There's no hey, we're going to do this or we think this policy idea is good for the country. Nope, it is Orange Man Bad. Please vote for us. Why? Because Orange Man Bad. So that is my ruling. It is binding. If you're not aware of that and yeah, their sentence shall be played out over the course of the next several years. Hopefully. TPTP USA.com is the email address you'd like. Send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. That is all sent to our email. TPTP USA.com will be right back at after the break with Mailbag. Don't go away. It's a celebrity. Buy their hair. That's Bieber, right? That's Bieber, right? No way. No way. I lowkey think it's a trick question. Why would they give us 20 bucks if it's this obvious? Who would it be? I think it's LeBron James. Why are you thinking it's LeBron? Cuz I seen this trend on Tik Tok. It's LeBron James. I'm locking in LeBron James. Trust me on this one. I'm sorry, sorry, that's. Oh this is. This is. I think we've played a couple videos of this where they put Ed sheeran's hair on LeBron James and people get all upset. Did we play that yesterday or was that two days ago? But that's the trend and now it's just. It's gotten more ridiculous and comical. So you either get it or you don't. Anyways, mailbag, tptpca.com is the email address if you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. But that is the email address. I'm talking really fast specifically in order to answer Robin's email. Robin, first of all, thank you for watching. She says, hi Joe. Bob, why must you always spit out tptpc.com so rapidly? I don't see the point. It's actually kind of irritating. Robin, I'm sorry that. That is irritating. However, I was challenged by another email. I think his name was Mark. I could be wrong several weeks ago of how fast I could Say it. So unfortunately, we have two poles pulling me in either direction. Go as fast as you can or slow it down. And honestly, I'm more likely to be drawn towards the challenge of how fast I can do it. But I will take this criticism and put it into practice. But TPTP USA.com is the email. Thank you for the email, Robin, and thank you for watching Hillary on the topic of pms. Now, Mississippi, now Mississippi, dnc. I forget what it's called. She just sends a bunch of laughing emojis. And the reason I think for that is for. Is it MIG or Meg? I'm not sure if. Yeah, it's okay. Says this in response to what some people were calling an April Fool's joke, but I promise you it was not. I announced yesterday at the beginning of the show, and it just again, coincidentally happened to be April Fool's, that this would be my last show here and I was going to MSDNC or sorry, pms now Mississippi now to host their evening show. And that wasn't a joke. I don't know why people were taking it as a joke. That was 100% true. But unfortunately, during the the intro sequence of the show, I was promptly fired for being a right wing maga extremist. So anyways, Meg or MIG says this. Don't do this. I almost dropped my bowl of Froot Loops, which is another odd thing. I wasn't, I wasn't aware that Joe Biden had come out with a cereal brand, but sure says wait till 10pm for the program. It makes my day. Hey, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. And I, yeah, just appreciate that. Don't ever kid about leaving Raf. I won't. And again, it wasn't a joke. I was totally serious. Um, let's see. Liberty, which I believe is a moniker, pointed out that Joe Biden often ignored scotus, so he encourages DJ to do so. That I don't. That, I do think, is that Trump has not ignored or, sorry, he's not defied the courts explicitly. Joe Biden, interesting enough, claimed that he did, which honestly, is worse. He, technically speaking, legally speaking, did not. Remember he was told, no, you can't forgive student loans. That's crazy. And then he said, well, I did it anyway. Well, he didn't actually. He just pursued a different path, which also made it to the Supreme Court. But when presidents start defying the courts, that's, that's where we genuinely have a constitutional crisis and a problem. The libs scream about that all the time, but it doesn't actually happen yet, and I hope that it does not. That's all the time we have for today. TPTP USA.com is the email address. We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. God bless America.