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Guaranteed Human government schools are in steep and rapid decline, but at least they're also crazy expensive and a waste of money. The Clintons are being deposed. Hillary today, Bill tomorrow. Will anything come out of it? And queering the Bible, a heretic who calls himself a pastor will get the full tongue lashing that I expect to give in the Thursday tribunal. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. The show starts right now, Constantly. There are people talking about government schools and they need more funding. And abolishing the Department of Education is the worst thing that could happen to the kids. But like I mentioned, government schools are declining rapidly from test scores and just the overall feeling about them. But at the very least, the good news is they are also extraordinarily expensive and waste taxpayer money. Except, of course, some instances where that's not happening. Which we will get to some encouraging news out of government schools from a place that you may not expect. Before we get into that, I Gotta remind you, tptpsa.com is the email address if you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms. And if those emails or comments, wherever it is that you happen to be watching this on social media, are disgusting, nasty, bigoted and vile, they will actually fit in with the show. Several of you have taken that to task and write these crazy headlines with words that I can't say here on this show. And then you say, hey, just thought I'd grab your attention. You said this would fit in and here you go. And actually those people are the ones that generally get mentioned. TPT@TPOSA.com is that email address if you'd like to send along those thoughts, keep them vile, keep them nasty and disgusting, because that's what we're all about here, obviously satirically. Other thing I am going on, going on the road, doing some comedy shows. The only one announced so far is in Anaheim, California, March 19th. Coming up, if you happen to be in the area, send us a message. Tptpc.com if you'd like a link for tickets. It's gonna be a fun one. The the comedy world is will be met with political satire from yours truly. That again, the only show announced is Anaheim, California, but many more to come. Please stay tuned to those as they get announced. Like I mentioned, government schools tragically have been falling in declining in the perception of the American public. Again, who knows why? Well, actually, I kind of happen to know why. And we'll get to that in just a second, but I want to set this all up last month there was a really, really interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jason C. Reilly. Sorry, Jason Riley. C. Riley, that's the actor Jason Riley, entitled to save public schools, say pays a public education look at Mississippi. Now, there's a lot going on. Don't have time to get to all of the things. But this has been on the back burner for a really long time. And the more I think about it, the more important I think it actually is, especially in the context of this national conversation with about education and schools and money and funding and the Department of Education and Trump and the school districts and the unions and all of these things are actually super important. So with that, I think it's important to realize what's working, what isn't, what's expensive, what isn't, and have a better understanding of what we should do going forward regarding government education. Jason Riley starts off with saying there's a national crisis in the public education, which is a shock and new information to just about no one, and cites the fact that public Trust in the US government school system has fallen to a 24 year low because of obvious reasons, several of which are exemplified in cut 6 Happy Pride.
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We celebrated Pride Month in our kindergarten classroom by making our very own pride flags filled with attributes of things we are proud of about ourselves. First, we read some stories about the origin of the pride flag. Then we watched a video about what each of the colors of the pride flag mean. I do get called Ms. Maestro and Mr. Maestro in the same vein. I don't love it, but I get that they're confused. We have a lot of English language learners at this school. I'm not going to be that mad about Miss and Mr.
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How on earth did Americans trust in public education fall so far so fast? Nobody has any idea. And we may never know except for the fact that some so many of these types of clips have been floating around the Internet for the last several years, prompting the question, what the hell are they doing in government schools? Where are our tax dollars going? And outside of the expense of it all, Holy cow, what are they doing to the kids? A kid going to that classroom is going to come out with a distorted view of the world and that is bad for everyone. Not only is it A waste of money. You're not producing contributing members to society. You're, you're producing people who will go end up spending exorbitant amounts of money on fancy private universities who take them in because they want their money, go into massive debt having learned absolutely nothing except for how to disrupt police officer operations in the guise of a quote unquote protest. Bottom line is, nobody is shocked at the. The public trust in the institution of education more broadly in this country has fallen to a 24 year low. But the question is, well, how do you fix it? Well, if you ask libs, you just have more money. Now. Just before that, the latest National Assessment of Education Progress scores fourth graders and eighth graders showed the lowest reading and math performance skills in decades. And then that is just one example of a widespread spread stagnation or decline overall. But again, the only thing we need to fix that is money. I mean, I could have pulled a billion of these types of clips, but I figure why not knock one? Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who's been constantly in the news. This is just one example of many libs saying that exact thing. We need more money. We cannot afford for funding to fall
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know if school funding increases, students academic outcomes improve. Is that true though? Is that accurate? When school funding goes up, do the academics actually improved? Short answer, no, but we'll get to that in just a second. She said something really interesting there that I'd like to touch on. We cannot go back to pre pandemic school funding. If you remember, during the pandemic, There was a $1.9 trillion bill passed in the first month of President Biden's term and it just gave a bunch of money to a bunch of different schools. And the libs are saying, we don't want that to stop. Now the reason they're saying that is because they're beholden to the teachers unions. And the teachers unions, interestingly enough, care about the teachers instead of the students. They're the ones who kept schools shut down. They're the ones who lobbied for more and more and more and more of your tax day or payer dollars to, to not improve anything. And now you have libs saying, well, the only way that we can ensure that public education gets back on the right foot is we give them more money. This is the case all over the country, but in New York State specifically, lawmakers are pushing to restructure the finances of New York City's public schools and give them an additional billion dollars in finance. Funding according to New York City's Independent Budget Office. Now there are several different people arguing, well okay, is that actually going to make a difference? New York and New York City specifically already pay a substantial amount more per student per year than other places around the country. Is that going to make a difference? But of course, unfortunately the conversation stops there. Well, no, we just need more money for the kids. Kids. And if you argue against it, you get hit with the why don't you care about children? Well, I do, which is why I don't think more money is the fix. More money actually goes straight into the union's pockets and unfortunately produces more mediocre or below average teachers and all of the wokeness that you see in the classroom. But I think the best example is what Jason Riley pointed out in his articles to save public education. Look at Mississippi Miss. Mississippi, interestingly enough, is a surprising success story when you think of higher education generally. I would imagine Mississippi doesn't come to the top of mind. It was once ranked near the bottom nationally regarding all education at the lower levels, not the higher education, but grade school to high school. Now, however, it has emerged as a leader in academics according to the same studies that rank the entirety of the US government school system. Now you might ask yourself okay, well did they get more money? The answer is no, they didn't at all. Not only that, their spend per student is substantially lower than those of New York and the academics are actually doing better. How did they do it? Riley explains in their piece. And this is going to shock so so many of you. It's, it's it. I wouldn't was just floored by this information. What drove the turnaround was the state adopted straightforward evidence based approaches to focusing on fundamentals rather than progressive methods. Again, I strap your seatbelts in folks. This is a wild ride. What they did was instead of promoting the hot new thing in teaching, which often never works, they went back to basics. They took the woke stuff out of the classroom because of course they did. And also said Common core math doesn't really work. Hey, maybe when you're gonna add 54 plus 62 you shouldn't separate the 2 and the 6 and then the 5 and the 4 over here and then bracket those by 10 integers. And no, just teach kids how to add like they've been doing for the last hundred years. And yes, the public school system hasn't been around for hundreds and hundreds of years, but education and how you teach people has all of the new ways of doing things. So often is just to Please the teachers unions. And to get grant money to fund the research for stuff that doesn't end up working. Mississippi put an emphasis on phonics. Again, shocking sounding words out hearing them in your head, as opposed to this sight reading idea, which, by the way, if you do, you can still learn how to read through phonics and then eventually get to the sight reading that the new wave schools are producing. I know that because that's what I do. I'm a sight reader by nature. I just kind of skim through words. I don't sound them out anymore. But that didn't just come naturally. That's kind of what I progressed to, to try and teach students how to. How to do that in the early phases of learning have just shown to be confusing to them. Mississippi dubbed now the Mississippi Miracle has said, well, maybe we should go back to the basics on phonics and maybe we should not do all of this new progressive nonsense. Mississippi also stuck to higher academic standards, accountability measures and reforms that they enacted around 2013, including a third grade reading level gate that held students back if they couldn't read it, among many other standards. In other words, places like California and places like New York, if you don't know this, if you are of the age of the grade, it does not matter if you've met the standards of that grade. If you can do math at a kindergarten level but you're in the fourth grade, the fourth grade teacher doesn't say, hey, we, we want to keep you back because we want to help you out. Instead they say, no, Johnny, you just go right on ahead. Go to fifth grade knowing absolutely nothing because we need our money and we don't get our money if you get held back, we don't get our test scores. We don't get any of the other privileges that we get as the teachers unions, which is overpay in so many different instances, which, dang it, now it's a tangent I probably should go on, but I won't right now for the sake of sticking to the topic. But the teachers unions get their bucks if the test scores show that you are passing even though you can't read at the level that you're supposed to read. Bottom line, Mississippi said, yeah, we're going to not do that. They focused on critical score core skills instead of lowering expectation grade inflation or easing graduating requirements. Now, if you're not hip to this, like I said in California and New York, instead of keeping the kids to the high standard that they should be, these schools so often lower the standards like, oh, hey, you know, a C used to be average, but ah, maybe now a C just goes to everybody and an A is average. We see this even in better schools where a ton of students are getting A's, which statistically and mathematically just shouldn't work out that way. An A is exemplary. An A is the top of the class, and not everybody can be the top of the class. Harvard has had a lot of problems with this and still has problems with this. Giving out a bunch way too many high grades. Now higher education is obviously different. I personally think more people should fail out of higher education because that kind of separates the wheat from the chaff here. But we're not necessarily talking about higher education. Through these groundbreaking reversions back to what people have been doing for the Last thousand years, Mississippi has climbed dramatically in the national ranks. Fourth grade reading scores in 2013, when they kind of started to implement all of this, were at 4, 49th in the nation out of 51, because people often include Washington D.C. but bottom line is they were at the bottom when all of this started. Nowadays, according to that National Academic Excellence Program, I think that's what that acronym was called. Hold on, let me. National Assessment of Educational Progress, they're now in the top 10. Went from 49th to the top 10. There are strong gains across all demographics, including low income and minority students. When adjusted for demographics, Mississippi ranks among the top, including near to number one. The overall leadership in the progress and performance compared to other states despite lower pupil spending is astronomically high. In other words, the bang for the buck is also massive in the state of Mississippi. How massive? What is the actual contrast? Just for reference, Mississippi and surrounding states like Alabama, who have also kind of implemented some of these tactics, spends between 12,000 and $13,000 per pupil per year. Okay, well, what does New York City spend? I don't know. Is it 15,000, 16,000? No. Okay, 20,000, 25,000? No. New York State average spends $32,000 per year per student. New York City specifically, who is set to get another billion dollars, spends $42,000 per student per year. And they are falling behind. Places like Mississippi, Louisiana even, is doing pretty well. Alabama is doing pretty well because they reverted back to the things that we've always done. Those states are spending multiples less than the biggest technologically advanced New York City and getting better results. Who would have thought? Like I mentioned at the onset of this, this is not groundbreaking information. We have all seen what schools unfortunately have become. The wokeness in the classroom, the pride flags everywhere. The lack of teaching the normal core curriculum, reading, math, writing, reading, arithmetic, wasn't wasn't old enough to have all of those like slang terms. But yeah, the, the core subjects being taught in schools, reverting back to that actually improves student outcomes. And remember too, by the way, you're forced to pay for government schools. So wouldn't you want the bang for your buck that the government is promising that kids will be educated and then people will enter society to be productive members of society? Isn't that the whole goal of education? Not just to spend money that the teachers unions can get as much as they want for as little as they do for the students like in New York City, like in Chicago, like so many of these deep blue states and cities big that have massive speed teachers unions, slush funds and there's their academics are suffering. In light of all of that, bottom line is you don't have to spend a ton of money. And Mississippi should serve as a stark example of what can be done if only you revert back to the things that have worked for the last thousand years regarding education more broadly. If you have any thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them. TPTP USA.com is the email address. Let's see, there are, there's so many things that we want to get to today, including the Hillary. Bill Clinton, the Hillary and Bill Clinton depositions that are happening in there. Is it in their house? Somebody producer let me know that. I don't think it's actually in their house, but it's in the city that they own a home in. Also, there's a queering. The Bible is apparently a new thing and we will get to that in the Thursday tribunal, the Justice Thursday segment. That is so much fun to do. We'll be right back after the break. Don't go away. I quit whining these days. I paid off my student loans and I bought like a $500,000 starter home and still go and get cold brew every single morning from my favorite coffee shop. Where I'm getting at is I shop sales. I use points for travel. I had roommates throughout my 20s. I bring my lunch to work. I had Gam Gam pay off my student loans and buy me a house because I'm her special little grandson. But I also got peacock with ads. Point is invest and save. Had to be the first half. You know, I, I understand that things are a little bit more difficult than they may have been in the past. I am fully cognizant of that and I have no problem with people helping out their kids or their grandkids. What I do have a problem with is people thinking that they did it all by themselves. I mean, there, there are people that have done it all by themselves, which is great. And this is what, that's what this country is for. You can, you can pull yourself up, you can do the hard work and you can save money. And as a guy who saves money and has been fortunate enough to do some pretty cool things, I get that. But what I don't like is if you know somebody, somebody bought you a house and you act like you did it by yourself. Don't, don't, don't be a poser. You did it by yourself, great. But if, if you got some help, which I don't mind people doing, you just can't claim that. Look at how awesome everything is for me. Wow. What it. That's what time it is. Say what time is it? Irrelevant what time it is. What time it is. Now is it time to get to the point, get to the point,
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Lots of points to get to today. Well, let, let's start it off at the top of this with Hillary Clinton testifies in the House Epstein probe. Uh, at the point in time that we're talking about this, I think it got paused because there were some leaked photos, but I think it's continued on underway the closed door interview with the House Oversight Committee with Representative Comer heading that up. We've been talking about this for now months. I think this is finally it. It's happening. Hills testifying behind closed doors. Closed doors. I am not entirely sure the reasoning behind that. Allegedly supposedly the Clintons are like, hey, we want to do it in front of the cameras. I, I'm not entirely sure of the back end finagling going on there, but I don't. We'll all find out together what kind of comes out of this. I'm be completely, totally blunt and honest with you folks. I care more about Bill that's happening tomorrow. Don't particularly care about Hillary. I did. I'm in no way, shape or form a fan of her. I don't think she is. Will come out of this unscathed. But I really care more about what they're gonna ask the former President of the United States, not the failed presidential candidate who, yes, is a very bad person, very involved in some very bad things. But I, I think what I'm ultimately saying is I'm more interested in what's gonna happen with Bill tomorrow. But good old Hills testifying today. Freaking finally, there's a bunch of news being made to us. This is unorthodox. How is this the first time in however long that it. Yeah, well, guess what? You know what else is unorthodox? All of this. So pound sand. This is what, you know what was unorthodox? When they arrested a former president for crimes that they made up. So, so spare me the. This is unorthodox and therefore it is bad. Now, we've been wanting this for a while and now it's finally happening. And we'll kind of get to what comes out of it when all of that stuff is said and done. Next point, across the coast to California Governor Newsom facing calls to resign over the release of a monster convicted serial child abuser. Um, this is actually very interesting. And it's interesting in the sense that you need to know from around the country what kind of insanity is going on here in California. This guy was charged, convicted and sentenced of abusing multiple children. He was sentenced to three consecutive 25 to life terms, plus after that an additional 25 years. So why is Governor Newsom being called to resign? Well, because he might get out. He's 64 years old and he's potentially going to get out. Well, why three consecutive 25 years to life terms. That, that, that shouldn't happen. Plus an additional 20 years. That there's no way. Well, except for the fact that in 2020, California passed a bill encouraging elderly parole. Hey, if you're old, yeah, you may have murdered a bunch of people, but yeah, we're gonna make you eligible for parole because you're elderly. And then obviously the question is, well, what makes someone elderly? How old do they have to be to be elderly? And again, strap in your seatbelt. Folks. There's, there's gonna be a several of you in the audience that are gonna be very, very upset about this because you fall into the category of what this bill calls elderly. This law calls Elderly50. Send your emails tbt tbusa.com does that make you mad? It makes me mad. I'm not 50 years old. But that, that, that's. Find a 50 year old if you're not one yourself or if you're below that age and go, holy crap, 50 is elderly. Yeah, right. I there, I guarantee you there's some 52 year old that is frantically emailing the show. Tptbusa.com by the way, if you'd like to send that email is saying California thinks I'm elderly. Anyways, the elderly parole, you have to meet two qualifications. You have to have been in jail for 20 years and be 50 years old. This child abuser, convicted serial child abuser, meets those qualifications and therefore he might get out of jail. Because California is where sanity goes to die. Now the headline here is a little bit, probably a little bit rambunctious. Governor Newsom facing calls to resign. That's this a normal day for him. Everybody wants him to resign at all times. Unless of course you're bought by the unions, in which case you don't care either way. You just like, I just need my paycheck to keep coming in because that's how corruptifornia operates and runs its business. But us normal folks have been calling for his resignation his first day in office. So, uh, the headline may be a little bit blunt, maybe a little bit repetitive in the sense that we continually call for Governor Newsom's resignation. But this is one of those that should be, this should be bigger news. California is freaking out of its mind. Um, speaking of, of children here, and this is some good news, actually going from terrible news to some decent news. Or at least, at least I think this is decent news if it's actually enacted in the way that it's being portrayed. Instagram to alert parents when teens search for info on suicide or self harm. This is from CBS News meta's Instagram will soon notify parents via email, text or WhatsApp or the in app messages if their teen repeatedly searches for suicide or health self harm related in a short period of time. Time. My questions are what is repeatedly and what is a short period of time? Other than that it's probably a good idea. Now okay, before you send your emails, which by the way, tptp wasa.com yes, I am aware and I agree with you. The best is just don't let your kids go on social media as much as you can. Try to keep them off of social media. Now, in the event that they are on social media, this seems like a decent option. The new safeguard started rolling out first in the us, uk, Australia and Canada. Includes a bunch of different resources including blocking content for minors who are searching for destructive content or seeing destructive content. Now, are they perfect in this? No. Should we believe them that they are being perfect in this? No. But at the same time this is at least a step in the right direction. They gotta do. There's a lot bigger of a burden of proof to show me that yeah, you actually care about kids. And there's that whole lawsuit going on in California as well. Zuckerberg testified on whether or not. His platforms are intentionally addictive to kids, which. That hasn't been decided yet. So we'll. We'll kind of keep an eye on that. But overall, I just. I. Maybe I'm. I don't know, too optimistic about things, but this seems like a decent step in a decent direction. Not just. Not to absolve them of any guilt and on the other circumstances, but this is a good start. Hopefully things continue to go in that direction. Speaking of tech and robots, getting into the silly points here, I know there's a lot of news going on around today, but I assume you watch a bunch of news prior to this, and now we're getting some sillies. Guy accidentally takes command of 7,000 robots in the homes of 7,000 strangers while trying to control his vacuum with a gamepad. It's from PC Gamer, a software engineer discovered a security vulnerability in the dgi. Dji Romo vacuums while trying to control his own device with his PS5 gamepad. And accidentally. I have no idea how much of an accident it was. If this guy's a programmer, I think he probably maybe knows a little bit more. And authorized access to 7,000 robots worldwide. He obtained live video feeds of. Oh, wow, now that gets. That's. That's even worse. Live video feeds, floor plans. How much of this was an accident? The title says accidentally, but it looks like he actually did some digging. Yeah, and I analyzed the network traffic with the CLAUDE code, which is one of their big AI systems. Anthropics. That's their claude is their AI obtained a bunch of stuff. DJI quickly patched the main vulnerability and then acknowledged some backend permission issues, which. Yeah, that would be a big problem. Again, bottom line here. Again, you can email tbtboca.com I know some of you are already frantically writing, this is why you don't have robots in your house. Agreed. I. I've wanted a Roomba or one of those, like, automatic one, because our house is all wood and it just. It gets dusty. We have pets, dogs, kids. It's very dusty all the time. And I feel like I vacuum, like the majority of the day I do this show and then I vacuum and then sleep occasionally. Those are the two things that I do. So I've been lobbying for a Roomba, but our hesitation is like ass. We try to keep all the smart stuff away from the house for this exact reason. Some hacker could hack into that system and have the vacuum robot kill us all. Last point to make on getting to the point. The mta New York City, the Transportation authority there is going to start blasting 75 decibel ads in the subways. The latest disruption for NYC commuters and the good news is, may be terribly annoying, but at least the agency will barely make any money from them because of course government run programs are just the worst thing in the world. They're launching this new pilot program, station audio advertisements in select subways and commuter rail stations playing 30 second ads every 10 minutes up to 75 decibels starting in June and saving you all the details is not going to make any money relative to the expense of the transit authority there. It's not going to, it's not going to actually make any money. So great ads are coming everywhere just, just in your head. They're going to just start sending them to you and the only way you can get targeted is if you have robots in your house that could be taken over by some gamer and don't have robots in your house. Wow. Lots of points, lots of interesting ones today. I know lots of things going on around the world. But thanks for joining us and getting to the point. Not entirely sure that playing that a second time is entirely worth doing. But hey, we're trying things out. Let us know tptp state.com if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns with the Mississippi schools or with any of the points that we've gotten to. What are your predictions on bills and hills depositions going on? Let us know tptpusa.com we will be right back after the break. Don't go away. Are you fasting for Ramadan? No, I'm not. You're not Muslim? I am not Muslim. Oh, okay, you are Muslim. Yeah. Salam alikum, brother. How's it going? I don't have any issue with Muslims though, obviously. 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Right? That's it. That's good. Did he say that? Yeah, we're all one. We're all together. Says a guy who's not speaking in a language that everybody understands. And I'm not saying he has to. Different countries, different cultures have different languages. That's fine. What I'm saying is yes, we are all one human race, but we are very diverse in the way that we look at things. And, and if you look at things objectively, the United States is the best. United States is generally a predominantly built on the foundation of Christianity. So there's that. All right, let's, let's get to this. We're flipping the Order a little bit. We have, we generally have our official business segment. We're going to push that back to later because I do like, I would like to give this full shrift. So today is Thursday and that means it is Justice Thursday. The Thursday tribunal is coming at you right now. Thursday tribunal, Justice Thursday. Wow, that's, that's more aggressive, it gets more aggressive every week than I remember it being on today's Justice Thursday. The Thursday tribunal in which I either decide to indict and then prosecute and then am the jury and find someone guilty or not and also the judge sentencing them to whatever it is that they should be sentenced to, usually exile or execution. One of those two things is usually the sentences I've laid down upon people in this Justice Thursday segment. All of those things are happening today. We're going to take a look at a. I'm hesitant to call some folks Pat. Like Pat is pastor Priest. He's a guy standing at what looks to be a Christian pulpit talking about queering the Bible. And I recognize this, just playing this may upset some of you folks. And that, that's, that's fine. Totally understandable. TBTBC.com if you don't want me to play this sort of stuff. But at the same time, I think it's worth looking at, especially when people like this guy think they're making this astute, learned, educated, academic point when in reality they're not tethered to reality. Watch this and we will discuss. And then again, of course, I will pass binding judgment to this individual when the court has finished its, its investigation into whether or not this person has violated some sort of crime that I have imposed. Cut a querying. The Bible takes Jesus and other outsiders and religiously stigmatized folks in the past and juxtaposes them with contemporary queer folks and Christians, realizing that despite our past cultural differences, sexual and gender differences, that we share similar histories of out of placeness or vilified sexualities and gender diversities. Jesus Kingdom practice is queer in the sense it questions identities and blurs distinctions. Now, blurring the language is what these folks do so often. And when you don't have an objective language or objective meaning, objective truth, then really anything can be true. Go read Abolition of Man. Maybe we'll reference that in a little bit. But I think the point he's trying to make, if we're trying to take him at his word now, obviously I think this is heretical, but if we're taking him at what he's saying, it's what he actually thinks okay, well, there's several problems with that thinking. In the bigger video, he kind of talks about, well, Jesus ate with a diverse group of people. Now, obviously Jesus dined with tax collectors and folks that weren't super well looked upon in the community. And that is true. Now the difference is what this guy says is, well, he also then affirmed everything at the table. Now, that's not exactly what he said, but that's what he means. Using invoking the well, Jesus ate with people that were different than him. He ate with people that weren't liked in society. Again, accurate. But the goal there was to bring them over to his side of viewing the world, to bring them him over to this new way of life that he was bringing into existence. It wasn't to say, sit down with the tax collector and say, hey, yeah, you're probably swindling people and that's okay because you're just doing you. Which is effectively the argument that this I get. I, I don't want to say pass. What do I heretic is making? He's, he's saying, well, because Jesus wanted to have a big tent, that must mean that he's accepting of all the things in the tent. Okay, just factually inaccurate. When Jesus said, he who's without sin cast the first stone, what he didn't say is, ah, all of you are right. Everybody here is accurately describing what is going on and they themselves are correct. And I will affirm you in your correctness. No, there's a right and a wrong. And just because Jesus ate with sinners, which he did on purpose, doesn't mean he's condoning the sin. Doesn't mean he's affirming the things that people are doing in those diverse settings. Which is what this guy is effectively trying to make the claim. Well, I don't know. Look, Jesus, what Jesus was doing is eating with people of different sexual idea, whatever that is that they have, Jesus was there for them. And that's true, Jesus is there for them. But that doesn't mean he condones that sort of behavior. Now, what's really interesting about this and why I kind of wanted to talk about this a little bit more is it just kind of happens to fit in with a passages just happen to be. And I was having to be reading Timothy 2. I, I'm, I'm into the Pastoral Epistles right now. First Timothy, second Timothy and Titus. We don't need to get into all of that sort of stuff. But I just happened to be reading that and I came across. I just, I love this quote, and I think it, or this, this passage is verse and I, I feel like it's super applicable to today with a lot of things going on, this guy included, but can, you know, be expanded outward from there. But let me just read this to you. This is second Timothy 3, 1 8, English Standard Version. But understand this. In the last days there will come times of difficulty for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, appeasable, unappeasable, slanderous, without self control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Having the appearance of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people. By the way, this is a letter attributed to Paul. A lot of people think it's Paul. There are some scholars that say, and we're not entirely sure if this was Paul or not, but he's basically teaching pastors how to kind of participate in the church more broadly. But then he says this, for among them are those who creep into household households and capture weak women burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. Now I understand, might be a little bit, a little bit of a hit at women there, but, but how encapsulating is that of what's going on in so many different areas of our modern culture? There's the inability to settle at a truth, an inability to settle at an objective reality, an objective truth of God's design. And instead this. Well, we're, we're just asking questions. Sure, okay, fine. But also, you do need to settle at some point. The Bible talks about, yeah, gather as much knowledge as you can, but at a certain point you have to accept what the reality of the world is, what God's design is, what human nature is, what truth is. And if you never do that, if you're always gaining knowledge, but never arriving at the knowledge of the truth, always learning, but never arriving at reality, then what's the point of learning then? Everything is pliable, everything is flexible. There's nothing standard set in stone which then just leads you into utter chaos, as we've seen in this church, but also in many, many other places where the reality of what exists is. But folks who really, really are unsettled with honestly, many things in their own life continue to learn more and more and more, but can never settle on the truth, which is a bigger, more expansive problem, but applies very much to this heretical PASTOR oh, that's right. It's Judgment Thursday. So I will, I will. One, I will indict him for ridiculousness. I'm not entirely sure if that's a crime. Go ahead and check the Constitution. I think it's Article 9, which is yes, in fact a new article. I invented two more articles and Article nine does say I am allowed to dictate what the rules are. And one of the rules are ridiculousness. So yes, he's brought on charges there. The jury, which includes it myself, finds him guilty. And, and as the judge, I, I sentence him to exile in Canada. I feel like that's appropriate. And that is my verdict. Thank you so much for tuning in. This has been Tribunal Thursday, Judgment Thursday and also hope you gained a little bit out of that. Maybe, I don't know. Let me know. TPTP say calm. We'll be right back. In the normal order of the show, we get to official business. Some things going on around the the elected officials and the bureaucratic officials and their official business after the break, as well as mailbag tptpsa.com if you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms and remember, you have a chance of being read if those comments concerns emails, criticisms comments are disgusting, vile and nasty because it'll fit right in with the tenor of the show. We'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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I'm a scholar of the far right who has fled the United States States to Canada and I need help. The situation in Canada is absolutely dire for Americans who don't know the housing crisis here is worse than in the United States. I lived in LA for six years and I have not faced rent as bad as here. When my partner, our cat and our dog fled the United States, we headed north with the goal of being close to where our families are located, which is on the west coast. So we are now in British Columbia. More specifically, we are in the Sea to Sky highway in the greater Vancouver area. We are attempting to find housing in this, the western side of this region. My partner and I are here on a visitor visa, which is essential 6 months possible stay for Americans. But while you're here on a visitor visa, you can't work. So we are currently surviving off of what savings we could get together before we fled the United States. And that's not terribly much. And in Canada, I think it's actually the, the cost of living crisis is worse here, especially when you are shut out of the healthcare system, when you can access any of the resources that Canadians have access to. And, and that's understandable. You know, I'm not a citizen of the country, but it is, it is making the financial situation dire because we can't work.
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That. That might have been the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Okay, so an academic who studies the right wing, she's an expert in the right wing. They is an expert. She's probably a they maybe of Zur Zer is an expert in the right wing, decides this country sucks, I'm moving to Canada and then realizes, oh crap, this country sucks worse and I can't work because Canada apparently enforces immigration law. Okay, cool. Good for you on that one. Canada can't work, can't access any of the social systems and can't afford anything. All due to a self inflicted mental illness. That said you had to flee the country. That's like cutting off your arm and then complaining that it's difficult to do things with one arm. I don't, I have zero sympathy for that. Sorry. Um, all right, well, I probably do a whole podcast on that lady. Sorry. That they them or they them. Zerbab Zurzim Zim Zimzer. So we can't do that. We don't have time. It is time though, to get to official business. Holy cow, look at the time. We don't have time. We don't have a ton of time to get to official business. Let me, let me just fly through some of these. This is a. Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota, when asked, hey, the whole fraud thing that's happening over there is what, what does that look like nowadays? Here is her response to the allegations
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of fraud and read those demands and
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Minnesota is, is doing good work in this area and making sure, you know that. That fraudsters are being held to account.
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Wow. Don't worry, folks. Minnesota is holding those fraudsters to account. You know, I'm just looking at the clock right now. I don't have a ton. There's. There's stuff in the mailbag that I really want to get to. So that, that's it. That's it for official business. Appreciate you sticking around for official business. I'm glad. I don't know, this is a lot of interesting things to talk about. More nuanced stuff, which is fun. Hopefully you're having fun. TBT.com if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms, if you have any thoughts, you could be featured in our mailbag. TPT tbsa.com we'll be right back after the break. Explain what you're, what you're carrying there. Dragging three pieces of. Okay, so would you support political violence? I think the country was founded on political violence. So is that a yes? Do you support political violence? I don't. Yeah, I don't want to talk to you anymore. All right. Yeah, classic lib libs are violent, the left is violent. And there's overwhelming evidence for that. Okay, I want to get to the mailbag because I thought this was a couple interesting things here before we run in the last couple of minutes here. TBT tpc.com if you'd like, send along your thoughts. Gene asked this, asked if I saw the video of that clown from Florida. My words, not hers. Ashley Gantt, a representative from Florida, said some very disparaging things about her friend Charlie Kirk. And she's, in fact, an idiot. I did not want to play that video on this show. But I will say this. It doesn't appear that she's married, doesn't appear to have any kids. Therefore her life is purposeless. She went to a unranked law school, an unranked law school in the state of Florida. So she calls herself an attorney. Her donors are made up of a lot of tobacco and alcohol companies, which is terrible, especially considering the fact that she predominantly represents poor people and has a poverty mentality. She also posted a couple things, messages, some screenshots of some messages of somebody said basically, you know, you suck, which is true, and your constituents should deal with you expeditiously. And she thought that that was a threat. Not understanding the guy meant no, clearly they should vote you out. That's your constituents. That's what they can do to you. And she posted that, thought it was a threat, got embarrassed when it was called out, hey, this isn't a threat. This is a guy saying we should vote you out of office. And then she deleted it. So, yes, I have seen that video. That woman is retarded. And we won't be showing it here. If you're, if you're, if you go to go to my ex account and if you want to watch that video, but just wanted to get that on Mailbag because that woman is dumb, Very, very stupid. Also doesn't think that Martin Luther King Jr. Was assassinated, which again, you'll understand if you watch the video. That's all the time we have for really appreciate you sticking around, tuning in. We will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. God Bless America. Go.
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