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And usually while we try to be snarky and somewhat humorous on this show, we're going to talk about all the serious things. The horrible shooting that happened in Australia, the FBI foiling a New Year's Eve attack, and how France is handling those very same things in their country in the exact wrong way. All that more coming up on this episode of Turning Point. Tonight. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. Together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback. This is Turning Point Tonight. Before we get into any of those stories, I gotta remind you that the email is tptpusa.com Send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms. We're not a lib organization. We welcome criticisms when it is due. 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Horrible shooting that happened in Australia where guns are banned by the way they, they their Port Arthur shooting caused the government there to say, hey, all right, we're taking away all the guns. And lo and behold, the still bad things happen. It's almost like it's not a gun problem, it's a people problem. But just to recap briefly, there's a Hanukkah celebration on the beach. Hanukkah by the sea 2025 took place on Sydney's iconic Bondi beach. The event marked the first day of Hanukkah where shots were fired, sending hundreds of people fleeing. And at this point in time, if, if the, the number has gone up, pray to God that it doesn't. But it's about 15 people. Sorry, not about 15 people have been killed in that attack. And God willing that number won't increase by the time this, you're actually watching this. The officials in Australia officially designated it a terrorist attack and it was designed targeted at the Jewish community. They're celebrating again the first day of Hanukkah. It is a tragic situation. Victims ranged from 10 to 87 years old. In addition to the fatalities, at least 27 others were hospitalized. Twelve of them are in critical condition as of this particular moment. And this is one of those situations where I mean generally like being sarcastic and satirical about this sort of thing. But it's difficult when tragic situations happen because it's, it's kind of tough to thread that needle just out of giving you all sorts of a behind the seeks but behind the scenes peak. But who are the suspects? Well, jihadists is what it looks like. Two suspects involves a 50 year old father who was killed by police at the scene and his 24 year old son who was critically injured and in the hospital as well. Both of them the all of the news outlets because they, they love to point this. It's not, it's not that bad because, because they were born in Australia, supposedly naturally born Australian citizens. Which brings up the question of birthright citizenship which we've talked about on the show extensively. Just because you're born in a geographical location does not mean that you accept and adapt to the ideology of that geographical location. But again birthright citizenship can be a different topic for a different time. And again we've already talked about that frequently but that's one of the factors in this that the lib media is saying oh no, look at they were Australian. Did they adhere to the customs and the culture of Australia? I don't know. The father had legally, according to this news outlet owned his firearms since 2015. The son. And again, I don't want to, I don't want to be over sarcastic and I don't want to over overly serious satirize this but the son was previously investigated by law enforcement and in Australia and in the intelligence community from 2019 to 2020 but at the time was deemed to not be a threat. In other words a history of oh hey maybe this guy is going to go do something terrible and awful. The Prime Minister of Australia called it a, a horrible act of evil anti Semitism which of course it is. Um, and they are now using this. Well, let's not be super negative. They are now calling for more gun control in the already very gun controlled country of Australia. There's a lot of different fallouts from this, but the main point is that Australia's deadliest shooting was 1996, the Port Arthur massacre, when a bunch of people were killed. And Australia basically said, we're taking all the guns. And the Australian citizenry said, yeah, that's that. That seems okay. But of course, the argument that we have to continually make as second amendment advocates is that it's not the guns, it's the people. Whether it be mental illness or ideological disassimilation with the culture. Well, you know, you know what I'm talking about. Jihadism. Effectively, uh, both of those things are factors and both of those are a people problem as opposed to a gun problem. Erica Kirk said it best when she was interviewed by the New York Times at their book convention. Believe it was like two weeks ago, saying it is a deeply, deeply, deeply human problem and not a tool problem. But of course, the Australian legislators over there are saying, well, this is definitely a problem that needs to require taking more control of over the guns. Now, there was an act of heroism there that you probably have seen the video of another guy who disarmed one of the shooters and was injured in the process. That was heroic to watch to say the least. But again, a terrible, terrible incident that happened in Australia. Well, how does that tie to what's going on here? Well, I think there is a global kind of cultural shift with this newfound acceptance of violence for some reason, most specifically on the left, pretty clearly. But even in Australia they have this brain rot theory that, well, you gotta, you gotta watch out for right wing violence. The Prime Minister himself said as much. Watch. This is cut 7. The Prime Minister of Australia, the Director General of Asia, has warned about a range of threats, be it anti Semitism, the rise of right wing extremist groups as well. And we continue to work closely with our security agencies. Yeah, not sure about that one, Mr. Prime Minister. It's threats of anti Semitism and threats of right wing extremism, which, by the way, we don't necessarily need to get into all of the numbers, but there are so many statistics out there that the live media uses. Well, the, the right wing has been more violent than the left wing. Um, it's just that the left wing has, has bigger ripples in the American culture and therefore it's perceived that the left wing is more violence but really, realistically, statistics don't actually show that. Well, the statistics do show that. If you actually were to take the statistics accurately, the domestic terrorist organization groups that have all pinpointed this as right wing has more violence, neglect to account for several instances of violence unequivocally caused by the left. They just don't factor that into the statistics. For example, there's, there's several incidents at Young Americans for Freedom yaffe events where there are bomb threats and threats of violence. And that wasn't counted in the statistics. But my personal experience, I was at the University of California, Davis when a bunch of antifa people broke through the police line, made it all the way up to the door. I had glass shattered in my face, which the video we've played before on this show, we don't need to show it to you again. But you, you all understand that wasn't counted as left wing violence and pretty much nobody was arrested for anything they did on that day. So yeah, I guess if you don't count the statistics correctly, then you can come up with an inaccurate assessment of what is actually going on. But the bottom line here is that overwhelmingly around the globe, the political left is more and more and more accepting of violence to push their plots. Case in point, what the FBI dismantled. Thankfully in Los Angeles and also New Orleans, the FBI and the Justice Department disrupted what they call a credible terrorist plot targeting Los Angeles on New Year's Eve. Cash Patel and Pam Bondi are out talking about this. The federal authorities arrested suspects in Los Angeles and New Orleans in connection with an alleged anti government bombing plot. In total, four individuals were arrested in Los Angeles, plus a fifth suspect in New Orleans believed to be linked with the plot. The suspects were. Get to hold onto your seats, folks. Fasten your seat belts on this one. This is gonna, this is gonna shake you. This is super surprising and shocking. The suspect identified themselves as part of a radical offshoot of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a far left extremist group. Whoa. Who, who could have seen that coming? All of the times that President Biden came out and said, you know, one of the biggest threats to the democracy, the American experiment, is right wing extremism. None of that was true. None of that was ever based in actual fact. What we see and what we perceive with our own eyes and ears is the constant push from violent leftists trying to push their ideology or their beliefs on everybody else through violence. This shouldn't be super contentious. This is not really like a, that big of a question. Their stated goals included freeing Turtle Island. And if you're not familiar with that, that is the indigenous term for all of North America. So, okay, so this, this small little island, you know, of a continent that's, that's what we need to free, which is a ridiculous term, but it goes against American imperialism. And alongside calls for freeing Palestine and also freeing Hawaii and Puerto Rico, which I have a lot to say about Hawaii and Puerto Rico, but that's, this is not necessarily the time or place for that. Go, go ahead, Puerto Rico. Try, try to go, go at it on your own without American subsidies. Same thing for Hawaii, given their tourist effort destination. And there's a lot to be said there that we're not going to get to right now. The group's ideology is pro Palestine, anti government and anti law enforcement and anti capitalist. So a bunch of socialist, Marxist, violent leftist extremists were foiled again, thank God. The suspects were allegedly planning on using improvised explosive devices, IEDs, including pipe bombs. They were targeting locations on New Year's Eve. The group planned to attack five separate sites on New Year's Eve in Los Angeles. Beyond New Year's Eve, the group in their signal chat was also discussing attacking Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and vehicles in early 2026. So past their pipe bombing destruction on New Year's Eve, they were going to go, okay, after we get through that, we're going to attack ICE and vehicles and just use again political violence to try to curb the culture to our wackadoodle way of thinking. They were caught again, thank God, on their way out to the Mojave Desert. They were purchasing a bunch of items in order to make their improvised explosive devices in Lucerne Valley on December 12th. So last Friday, the FBI intervened before functional bombs were able to be assembled. These suspects now face charges including conspiracy and possession of unregistered destructive devices. Cash Patel, for his part, obviously praised the disruption. We, we don't want to see anything like that happen. And called it an imminent terrorist threat that undoubtedly saved countless lives. Attorney General Palm Pam Bondi described it as preventing massive and horace horrific series of bombings. Yes, again, I think we all say thank God that that was foiled. But I think the deeper problem here, again, to kind of echo what Erica said at the New York Times eventually, this is a deeply human problem. We have lost the plot when it comes to living up to the values of Western civilization. People have lost their direction and lost the understanding of what made the west as great as it is. And when that happens, when you lose Western values and therefore effectively lose God, why would you not go commit political violence? Of course, again, that is happening, in my opinion, almost entirely on the left side of the political divide. Rather than making this segment unbelievably long, there is kind of like a culminating conclusion here of what we should do in response to that, including how I believe one of the targeted groups in these, these, these attacks continually throughout history responds to violence towards them. Um, but that'll be next segment. We're gonna talk about what's going on in France and how they're responding to the threats of violence. And it is the exact wrong way to do it. TPTP USA.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, Concerns, praise for the FBI for thwarting a new New Year's Eve, potential attacks, Sympathy for the victims of the Jewish community in Australia. Like I said, we usually try and keep it light here and maybe, maybe we'll get back to that tomorrow. But there's too many serious things happening around the world that are just too important to not dive deeper into with the, with the hope of again keeping the west alive. How to save the west is I think our main concern at this point. Tptp USA.com if you have any emails, thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms of how we're discussing this, that's totally fine. TPTP USA.com also go subscribe to our Turning Point Tonight YouTube channel, which again is growing by leaps and bounds. You don't want to be the last people on the Turning Point Tonight social media accounts just type in J O B O B. You'll be able to find us pretty much anywhere on social media coming up the exact wrong way to handle the violence that is unfortunately permeating around the world. We'll be right back after this. Don't go away.
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Hey, wanna watch a Christmas movie? Yeah. What's your favorite? I love Home Alone. What about you? It's a Wonderful Life. Really? I love its subtle meaning on the importance that every life has and how we shouldn't take a single moment for granted. I didn't expect that from you. Let's ask Granny. Her favorite. Granny? Yeah. What's your favorite Christmas movie? That's easy. Die Hard. That isn't a Christmas movie.
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It's an action movie. How is that? It's violent, has explosions, and there's terrorists. Christmas is just the backdrop for the story. It takes place on Christmas Eve at a Christmas party. And the theme is about family, redemption and sacrifice, which are common among holiday classics. Wow, I never thought of it that way. And Christmas is mentioned 18 times throughout the film. Well, that's a fun fact. Looks like we know what Christmas movie we're watching.
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Exactly Correct. The the principles of Die Hard align definitely with Christmas and. And more broadly, Western values. Hans Gruber, that communist terrorist who's thwarted by Bruce Willis, just. And saving Christmas, by the way. Of course. It's a Christmas movie. That actually is pretty fitting for what we're going to talk about next. I appreciate that. That clip there. Die Hard is 100% a Christmas movie. Email us tptbusa.com if you disagree, I. E. You're wrong about that. Die hard is 100% a Christmas movie as it not only takes place during Christmas, but exemplifies several Christian and Western values throughout the film. But tptbc.com for some reason you decide that no, it's not. Back to the more serious stuff. And again, I would love to be jokey and humorous about a lot of the stuff, but it's kind of tough, especially over this, this last weekend. Can't not mention the Brown University shooting at this point in time. Depending on when you watch this suspect is still, I believe, at large. The shooting there. Again, tragic situation. A lot remains unknown on the motives here. More specifically, because a young girl named ella Cook was 19 years old, a conservative Christian and the vice president of the Republican Club at Brown University was among the two that were killed. It remains to be seen how that pans out. And if she was specifically targeted, if she was, nobody wants just to use this for like political points. It's a tragedy regardless. But at the same time, if it turns out that she specifically was targeted, what just. It just reinforces the point that we've been making. The the left is violent and continues to be violent and continues to allow and accept violence on their ideological side. Where you exactly diverge from how you respond to this, I think is explicitly happening in Paris. There's obviously a multitude of different ways to respond to violence and political violence and ideological violence, but how you exactly don't handle it is what is happening in Paris. For six decades, 60 years, Paris has celebrated New Year's Eve on the Champ Elysees. Probably pronouncing that wrong. I don't speak French. I'm an American. I don't speak French. Last year this concert drew about a million people on the famous avenue. Oh, that's where the Arc de Triumph is. Okay. The traditional celebration features a massive midnight concert on what many people call the most beautiful avenue in the world. However, they've officially canceled that New Year's concert. The live event will now be replaced with a pre recorded video for viewers to watch at home. Fireworks, I guess, are still going to be blown off at the Arc to Triumph, but the officials there are urging people to watch on TV instead of actually attend the event in person. Paris police pressed the mayor to cancel the concert, citing security concerns as a unpredictable crowd movements. In other words, there were threats against this event and instead of saying, nope, we are going to height, I don't care if there are more police officers, military officers, whoever need whoever, whatever it takes to make sure this event is safe. We're going to continue to go on with it. Instead they said, nope, we're going to cancel it. We're going to capitulate to the terrorist threats that are coming from a lot of different places and we're just going to let them win. France's interior minister has warned about a very high terror threat from groups like Al Qaeda and isis. So far, I guess this is the, if you call this thwarted, is the sixth terrorist plot that's been thwarted in France, which again, I don't even know if this is thwarted, but we can, we can discuss that a little bit later on in a little bit more depth. But all six of these events were plotted by terrorists between 17 and 22 years old. The Christmas markets are being treated like a height, like high risk targets with increased presence by police and restricted vehicle access. I think a lot of us have seen the memes online, which again, you're, you're, you're like trying to convey truth through humor, which I, believe me, totally fully understand. But the blockades for cars on all the Christmas markets is like, yeah, the jihadist proof vehicle blockers is kind of like the online meme. But the bottom line here is that in the face of terroristic threats against the livelihoods of people who are simply trying to celebrate, well, the New Year, but again, more broadly exist in Western civilization, instead of getting as much police, military presence, whatever it takes to ensure that the event goes smoothly, they say, nah, we're, we're gonna, we're gonna chicken out. And look, I don't want to be too harsh and critical because there are times where things need to be altered. I don't even want to say canceled, postponed, moved in a different direction because the threat level is too high. But on this scale, in Paris, on one of the very celebrated traditions on New Year's Eve that's been going on for 60 years, that is something that is too big to capitulate on. That is something that is too universally known to, to say, ah, the terrorists win. Because that's effectively what it is that France is saying here. We think that, well, you know, there's some concern and, and because of that concern, I totally understand the concern for human life. But what are you giving up if you capitulate to threats like this? What are you giving up in terms of the livelihood of the people by allowing terroristic threats to cancel an event entirely? We're talking about, talking about a huge event. And again, I don't care what it takes on this particular instance, I don't care if there are, all of the roofs are littered with people, I don't care if there, there need to be anti aircraft presence in the area. You cannot just go, ah, well that's just, we're, we're just not going to do it entirely. That is the exact wrong approach to take. Because when you take that approach, the terrorists without killing anybody again, thank God, by the way, nobody actually wants any of the violence. They effectively win. The ideological battle has to be persistence, it has to be fortitude in what it is that we believe. Because if we don't have that in these types of events, what do we have? And if we don't have anything effectively, again, like I've said a number of times, the terrorists win. This is 100% the wrong way of going about it. And to tie it in to the more broader conversation that was prompted by the horrible, horrific attack on the Jewish community in Australia. One of the things that I've always admired about the Jewish people is their resiliency. I've got plenty of Jewish friends who have seen some of the most horrible things happen to their community. And you know what they do every single time they come back? They don't allow the threats of violence to deter them from doing what they want to do. Then I think that, I think that is something unbelievably admirable in the Jewish community, I think. Well, I have a very good friend who was going back and forth between Israel over the last several months, couple years and one of the things that I noticed through watching, you know, the social media posts there is that life has to go on. There has to be a continuation of the way of life of any Western civilization. And in the, in the face of violence and threats, the best way to deter that violence is to not necessarily be unfazed because you do have to have heightened security, you do have to take things a little bit more seriously, but also you have to just keep doing it. And that I think is one of the things that is the most admirable about really the, the entirety of the Jewish community. This is a terrible thing that happened in Australia. And unlike the government in France, the Jewish community, based on thousands of years of them doing so, will be completely and entirely undeterred. They will beat, they will heighten security, they will try to effect change in terms of thwarting antisemitism. But at the end of the day they're going to continue, they're going to persevere. And by the way, this is one of the things that I think Western civilization was based on and founded on. And it's something that we can't lose. One of the. This is somewhat related, just popping into my head right now. There's a book by a guy named Tom Holland called Dominion. And it kind of outlines the trajectory of Christianity from a specifically Jewish religion to obviously more broadly a global religion. And one of the things he points out that I thought was really interesting is this resiliency factor. When the Jewish people throughout, you know, biblical literature were forced out of where they lived or conquered or any of the other bad things that can happen to a people, they maintained their belief in God. And that is unique among so many different religions. More specifically, there's. I think he makes the case of Ahura Mazda, I think is the Persian God's name. And he basically outlines the fact that, hey, you know, Ahura Mazda was this big deity in Persian society, but then when their kings and their leaders lost and the people dispersed and, you know, had different ideas of how things work, that God effectively faded away. He effectively kind of just faded into the ethereum because, well, it wasn't real. What I think this proves in that line of resiliency, what I think this shows is that the God of truth brought to everyone through the Jewish people is a God that perseveres. He is a God that maintains dominion over his people even in the face of tragedy and in so many different cases. I think the west more broadly in Western civilization needs to stand up to any of the threats coming from all sides. The violent left, the Muslim extremists, the Islamic fundamentalists, which I guess I repeated myself there. It's the same thing. Needs to take a page out of the long history of God and his people in resilience. And we can't become like France. Go. Yeah, the, the, the, the threat is too high, so we're we. And it would probably, it would be too expensive to make sure that this was safe and just cancel it. It's kind of par for the course for France. You know, if you're, if you're going with the history of France, the, the joke is how do you say hello in French? I surrender. Wave your little white flag. That's the exact wrong way of going about any of this stuff. And again, I don't want to pretend like there are no instances where the safety of people are, you know, is compromised to an extent where it's not viable to actually do that. I get that. I'm not trying to. This is not a blanket term. But in this particular instance, in an event this rooted in French tradition, in an event that this big and seen by the world, you absolutely cannot just capitulate and fold to the threats because eventually what you're doing is you're folding in on Western ideas. And that is not the world that we want to live in. We have to fight to save Western civilization, as difficult as it might be. Like I said a number of times, this is a little bit more serious of a conversation than I think we generally have on this show. Usually we keep it light and fun and maybe, maybe we'll do that a little bit later on in the show. Some, there's some fun stuff on Ilhan Omar. I didn't know how many times this lady was married. It's actually kind of interesting in and of itself and whether or not that's permissible under her religion. So there's that. Maybe we'll get into that in a little bit. But coming up, there's actually a really, really interesting poll that was in Reason magazine that I it is troubling, to say the least, on our kind of theme of very serious things on the percentage of college students who think that words are violent, which is no, they're not. And the amount of college students that think that is scary, to say the least. That coming up. TPTP USA.com if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms, even, you know, this I'm sharing, I'm sharing what I think about things, which, you know, we usually do, but a little bit more in a philosophical trend I think here. So if you disagree, that's totally fine. TPTP USA.com our mailbag segment is at the end of the show and if there's any super harsh disagreements, I am happy to read them tomorrow in our mailbag segment. Tptpsa.com also go subscribe to our Turning Point tonight. YouTube channel just growing by leaps and bounds. Rumble, Facebook, X Instagram, all the social media accounts. Just type in J O B O B. You'll be able to find me pretty easily as well as any of the Turning Point tonight, Internet exclusive content, including our One Last Point podcast that doesn't air here on RAV because we don't. There's too much, there's too much to talk about and too little time to talk about it. You can only find that on our social media accounts. We will be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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So where are my taxes going? Well, all your taxes are going straight to England. Support King George iii. Men, throw the tea off the harbor. No, not my teeth. So where are my taxes going? Well, 95% of your taxes are assisting foreign affairs in several different countries. And the other 5% is going to national parks. Like Yosemite. Exactly like Yosemite. What a relief. Glad my tax dollars are going to good. I. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How are we right now the same country that started a revolution over tea taxes. Now, the American revolution was started over many other things and that was kind of the. The climax of it of like this is. This is absolutely enough. Like, you know, the Stamp Act. There's a bunch of different things that happened leading up to the Boston Tea Party. But how are we the same country? A. A relatively small tax on tea. No, we're. We, we. We're going to fight a war to separate ourselves from the king here to now. Hey, here's 40% of my income. Federal government and state, depending on your income. Here's. Here's half of the money that I make. What are you doing with it? Well, we're actually promoting transgender theater in Brazil. Great. How has that not sparked a revolution, obviously not a physical war like revolution, but an electoral revolution at the ballot box. How is that not the thing? Well now, geez, here I am at the risk of going off on another long diatribe about taxes and the broadening the tax base. And when you minimize the tax base, nobody cares what happens. I think the majority of Americans don't actually pay income tax. And that's a big problem because if you don't pay income tax, then you don't care where the tax money is going to. And if you don't care where the tax money is going to, sure, go ahead and give it to lesbian interpretive dance in Nicaragua. Who cares at that point? But again, another risk of a longer diatribe there that I'll spare you all today. Then you're send your thanks tbdtbc.com thank you for sparing us your long diatribe about the tax base. Wow. If laughing at us again, we're not in a good place. We're oh boy. This is from Reason magazine. I thought this was illuminating, scary, horrifying, probably, which I realize is further to the scare meter of scary, but is what it is. Survey published in Reason magazine says 91% of college students think words can be violence. Which of course, if you're paying attention, that can fuel actual violence. See the Assassination of My Friend and yours, Charlie Kirk. When somebody thinks that words are violence, they can justify actual violence wrongly. By the way, I'm not saying it's actually justified, but in their own minds they might be able to go, well, that person's words are violence, therefore we get to use actual violence against them. That, that, that, that's how that works. And unfortunately, a new survey from the foundation of Individual Rights and Freedom Fire, which is a great organization and college Poll Pulse, revealed a troubling trend among college students regarding the distinction between speech and violence. The survey pulled over 2,000 undergraduates, including those at Utah Valley University, obviously where Charlie was murdered, along with students students from colleges nationwide. When asked how much they agree with this statement, words can be violence, 91% of undergrad students expressed at least some agreement, 22% of them said, this describes my thoughts completely. 25% say mostly, 28% said somewhat, and 15% said slightly. Even slightly. Obviously there's a gradation there of you know what, actually how much people agree with that. But even slightly, if you think that words can be violence, that is a sign of a severe and much deeper problem. You know, the article goes on to talk about a lot of different things. Gallup obviously has done polls about what, what percentage of people accept political violence between 18 and 29 year olds, 30% say that it's sometimes acceptable to use violence to achieve political goals. 21% of people from 30 to 44, 13% of those people from 45 to 59, in other words, too big, too big of numbers believe that you, you know, yeah, sometimes, you know, violence to assert our goals politically, ideologically is, is okay. Concerning, concerning, concerning, concerning. To say the least, the effect of this is following Charlie's assassination, this survey and polls found that 45% of students across the country are now less comfortable expressing their views on, quote, unquote, controversial political topics during classes and in discussions. In a lot of ways, we are winning the culture war. We are winning the free speech war. And this type of thing proved that there are a, there is a long way to go. I guess the silver lining there is that 53% of students say in their own schools are headed in the right direction when it comes to free speech. But those numbers are not nearly high enough. There is a lot, a lot, a lot of work to be done on our college campuses and universities, which is why I believe Turning Point is one of the most important institutions that are going to continue trying to get through to college students again, which 91% of them think that words can be violence. Man, I wish I had time to go on the Marxist trope about language and how distorting the language and manipulating it can lead to the dissolution of society or Western values more broadly because that's what he was trying to do. He says it explicitly. Marx and Engels talk about the explicit obfuscation of language and that that's a conversation for a different time. I promise we'll get into. We'll laugh a little bit in the next two segments. Here we got Ilhan Omar, who was a congresswoman from the fraudulent state of Mogadishu, sorry, Minnesota, and her comments on the revived, the revived accusations that she married her brother, which she did that coming up as much as as well as the mailbag segment. Tptbusa.com if you'd like to be included. Send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms. Also subscribe on all of our social media platforms. We will be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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Season two of unrivaled basketball is here and the talent is unreal. Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plum, Brianna Stewart and more are back to redefine the game. Unrivaled basketball season two, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy Tips off January 5th on TNT, TruTV and HBO. Max.
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Run a business and not thinking about radio. Think again. Cause more people are listening to the radio on iHeart today than they were 20 years ago. And only iHeart broadcast radio connects with more Americans than TV, digital, social, any other media, even twice as many teens than TikTok. And that reach means everything. Just think about the universal marketing formula. The number of consumers who hear your message times the response rate equals the results. Now let's get those results growing for your business. Radio's here now more than ever. And iheart's leading the way. Think radio can help your business. Think iheart streaming, podcasting, and radio where the reach is real. Let us show you@iheartadvertising.com that's iheartadvertising.com or call 844-844. Iheart one more time. Just call 844-844-Iheart and get radio working for you.
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These kids that's out here nowadays, they don't know what real truck driving is all about. They get into an automatic truck sitting there going down the road, feet propped up on the dash, wrapped around the steering wheel that you're going to tell me you're going to have enough response time to pull them feet down and slam on them brakes in case something happens in front of you. No. Yeah, too, too late back. They're, they're not real truck driver. Oh, geez. I, I thought we were going to get more whimsical in this. That just scares me. I mean, because this guy, I'm assuming is talking about, like, Americans. Like, we're not even into the fact that, like, oh, hey, legals who don't even speak the language or for some reason we're giving Social Security numbers and CDLs in California. We're not even talking about them. He's just talking about. Yeah, you know, kids these days are soft, which every generation does. And to a certain extent, most of them are right. But that guy's talking about that. Hey, we're not even into the idea of. Hold on. You. You can't even, you put your feet up on automatic and you're in cruise control with no time to actually hit the brakes and you can't read the street signs. Holy cow, where are we? Geez. Well, I guess on a, you know, somewhat lighter notes, we're gonna, you know, people have sent emails in the show tbt tbsa.com hey, you're, you're, you're knocking Ilhan Omar just a little bit too much Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is. I'm just kidding. Nobody's ever sent that. Nobody's ever sent any emails defending Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. She's making the rounds on. I don't know. I don't know what her team is thinking. Why, hey, let's put you out in front of cameras to get you to say more ridiculous things. Uh, here's one of those things. President Trump has effectively revived the conversation of whether or not she married her brother for immigration purposes. And she gives a solid defense of something that we weren't talking about, which makes me think, hey, are you. I did. Did watch this. Clip 8.
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Everybody knows I came to the United States at the age of 12, gained my citizenship at the age of 17, and I am an elected representative in.
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The House of Congress, and so the House of Representatives in Congress.
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His ignorance, and I see it as a national embarrassment that he continues to say those kind of things even though he does know what the truth is. Yeah, okay, so, interesting one there. Congresswoman Omar, you making the case? Look, everybody knows that I was here when I was 12 years old. I gained my citizenship at 17. I did not marry my brother in order to get citizenship. That's not what we're asking, though. Why did you answer a question to something that we weren't asking? What we're asking is, hey, this guy who was living in London at the time, came over to the United States to study, I think, at University of North Dakota or some upper Midwestern school. And you married that guy. And there was possibly allegedly some advantages that he got for getting into the country. And the. The question is out on whether or not he's your brother. So. No, nobody's asking the question that you. Well, no, no. I. I came here when I was 12, and I gained citizenship when I was 17. So I did not marry my brother for my own citizenship. Which would leave the question that we are still asking. Did you marry your brother for his citizenship? I don't know. Which, by the way, I didn't know this. She's on her, like, fourth marriage. She married a dude in, like, the early 2000s. Not legally. In some, like, in a religious Islamic marriage. They had two kids. Then she married this other person who kind of came into the country and allegedly maybe even was allowed to stay longer than he might have been able to. Generally speaking, I think this guy, the guy in question, her alleged brother, maybe. I don't know. Sure seems like it. I think it's not in South Africa right now but then then got married to him legally then re married the first dude but legally in a court now because they had a third kid in 2012 and then divorced from him and now she's married to a hedge fund manager I think and who's who's definitely not taking her insights in Congress and using it to bolster his own hedge funds money. I don't know if it's a hedge fund specifically but he does something in the risk assessment world so this may be me ignorant talking. Tptbusa.com if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns about this. I'm not sure how getting married four times squares with the Islamic religion and I don't I have no experience with this as a happily married dude of the Christian religion. It's not something that we're like super marriage four is not not great. You're not doing great there. So I don't know how that scores tptbc.com if you have any thoughts on Congresswoman Ilhar Ilhan's four marriages, our mailbag segment is after the break. Tptbusa.com if you'd like to be included again. If it's vile, bigoted, hateful and disgusting, you have a better chance of being read on this show. We'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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Season two of Unrivaled basketball is here and the talent is unreal. Paige Becker's Nick Beeza, Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more are back to redefine the game. Unrivaled basketball season two, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, tips off January 5th on TNT, TruTV and HBO.
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Max, run a business and not thinking about radio, think again. Cause more people are listening to the radio and iHeart today than they were 20 years ago. And only iHeart broadcast radio connects with more Americans than TV, digital, social, any other media, even twice as many teens than TikTok. And that reach means everything. Just think about the universal marketing formula. The number of consumers who hear your message times the response rate equals the results. Now let's get those results growing for your business. Radio's here now more than ever. And iheart's leading the way. Think radio can help your business. Think iheart streaming, podcasting and radio. Where the reach is real. Let us show you@iheartadvertising.com that's iheartadvertising.com or call 844-844-Iheart one more time. Just call 844-844-iheart and get radio working.
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If you're just listening to the podcast. This is a video of a guy. It's like, how do you. How do you thwart people who are talking smack on you in sign language? Hey, turn the lights off. That reminds me. Pretty circle. This reminds me of the Dave Chappelle joke where he's like, I'm not making fun of the transgenders anymore. I'm only making fun of the disabled people because I love to punch down. And then he went on to make fun of our friend Madison Cawthorn, who, by the way, thought the joke was funny. But that. That feels like this vibe for me. I like it. Onto mailbag TPT tbsa.com if you'd like to be included in the mailbag segment of this show. We haven't really done hate mail so far, but we get a lot of messages, emails, about just total hate. This guy named. This is the first time doing this. I just thought it was. I thought it was very funny. Peter Tudocio. Tuducio Tudasio. And I'm saying his full name because he's a very hateful. Email says a Shut up, imbecile. California has the best economy in America and number four economy on Earth and incomes higher than effing Iowa. Okay, didn't need to disparage the good folks of Iowa, but okay. I mean, there's a lot of reasons. I don't want to take up the whole mailbag. Something just going back on this, but shut up, imbecile. If you're a comedian that I'm. I'm the Pope. Interestingly enough, I didn't know that Peter is also now the Pope. Huh, Good to know. Anyways, back to your regularly scheduled mailbags. Email tptpc.com Michelle on the topic of last week, we were talking about the baby who was saved. Unbelievable story there. Doctors again, hopefully saving a baby that a bunch of libs at ABC News wanted to be aborted. For some reason, she says, how do we turn these people around? These people are the children of the devil. I. I would agree with that. Not the baby themselves, but the people that are like, trying to say, no, we should have killed this baby. That would have been great. She says, God bless her. The mother, may she be with the Lord in heaven. I'm not entirely sure of that woman's salvation or not. Hopefully. Hopefully. But you never know. But wraps it up with these people are all nuts on the topic of gas. Actually, Sorry, before that, DH says Sharia Law 101 Islamic law is not compatible with that Western civilization. That kind of harkens back to the topic that we had at the beginning of the show and that seems to be accurate the more and more that we see of that. On the topic of gas, these are a little bit silly but also kind of make me mad a little bit. If you don't know producer Glenn and I live in the godforsaken communist hellhole that is the poopiest state in the union California under the dictatorship of Governor Hairspray. Um, Luke said that there's a California has their own blend of air resource compliant gasoline for your car, which is another reason why it's so expensive. Great. Perfect. Thank you. Good to point out, but also makes me kind of sad. Mark says Gas Buddy is an app that's a good thing get you gas on the high to low spectrum. Unfortunately Mark, gas is expensive even in the cheap places in California. And Debbie just crushing my soul here a little bit. The last email we'll get to today, Debbie in Albuquerque, New Mexico says the Circle K is 228A gallon and there there are some people around the country that will go, wow, 228. That's expensive. I there's a I might drive to Albuquerque, New Mexico just to fill up on gas. That wouldn't make actual logistical sense because I would run out of gas by the time I got back. Maybe I'll fill up a tanker in Albuquerque, New Mexico, bring it to my house, refuel whenever I need to, slash want to and then sell it to family and friends that like if I if I did that, if I bought 228 gas in Albuquerque, New Mexico and then sold it to my neighbors at a dollar margin, if I marked it up a dollar, that would still be the cheapest gas anywhere near where we are in California in that crazy email. Tptbusa.com thanks so much for tuning in. Very serious day. Maybe we'll get to some more whimsical stories tomorrow and making fun of libs in the way that we usually are. TBT tbsa.com is the email. We will see you tomorrow. God Bless America.
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Season two of Unrivaled basketball is here and the talent is unreal. Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plum, Brianna Stewart and more are back to redefine the game. Unrivaled basketball season two, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy Tips off January 5th on TNT, TruTV and HBO Max.
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