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Joe Bob
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Bobby Bones
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YEAH Nonprofit Representative
Learning an instrument allows them to discover a little bit further of who they are and be comfortable with it and then share a little bit about that with others. And if it's done in an environment that is celebrating and championing them, then that confidence can only go up.
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See full terms@mintmobile.com when I was diagnosed all I wanted to do was get back to work. I wanted to get back to that trajectory that I was on prior to the cancer. I always felt like I had value. I had a place on the team to just be treated with dignity. It means everything. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing, learn more and sign the pledge@workingwithcancerpledge.com the Strait of Hormuz and those good for nothing Euros doing exactly what what good for nothing Euros do, which is effectively nothing. Take down Tuesday, the new probably gay Ayatollah comes in for a kicking. Except for only has one leg, also allegedly, but I guess that wouldn't make a difference if we're the ones doing a kicking. A bunch of news to get to Happy St. Patrick's Day. Thanks so much for tuning in. My name is Joe Bob. The show starts right now. Before we get into the very serious topics of the Iranian war, Europe and their relation to the United States of America, whether NATO is good for anything, I do want to wish Everybody a happy St. Patrick's Day. And now that may seem a little bit odd coming from me, but many of you may not know. I don't know how you would know. My mom is actually Irish, so I am more Irish than most people probably watching this show, most people in this country, which is the reason why I'm wearing green. Now. If I weren't wearing green, I would hit. Actually, sorry, let me rephrase that. Because I'm Irish and because I'm wearing green, I go around each and every St. Patrick's Day and say, it's my culture, it's not your costume. Because, you know, lives love to do that. Like if you're, you know, dress it up for Halloween or, you know, your kids are playing cowboys and Indians, some indigenous person will go, how, this is my culture. It's not your costume. I love. Like St. Patrick's Day is like the perfect day to like do an UNO reverse on any libs who are like, clearly not Irish wearing green. Just, just try it out. I know it's probably late in the day, you probably won't be seeing anybody new, but next year, try that one out. It's. It's very fun. My culture is not a costume. Fun to throw that one back in their face. Especially because several libs are not Irish at all and choose to participate in my culture. Tptpsa.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms of which there were many yesterday, several heated emails coming in completely Mischaracterizing what I said. Well, break those down later on in our mailbag segment of the show, tptp USA.com and remember, as always, if those emails are grotesque, disgusting, vile and downright nasty, the chances of them being read on the show are substantially increased. Several of you are taking directions on that. You'll email these honest to God emails that I can't, for language purposes, read on the show and then follow up saying, hey, we actually love the show. You just told us to be, you know, mean spirited. To which I say, good, thank you. I appreciate that. Not only do I appreciate the fact that you watch the show and happen to like it, but I also appreciate the fact that you follow directions. As a person who loves order instead of chaos, I appreciate those of you who follow instructions. TPT@tpusa.com Speaking of those who are not following instructions, I don't know if that's necessarily fair. I don't think the Euros are not following instructions. They're just a bunch of whiny little brats. The straight of Hormuz. Well, say, let's back up. Let's set this up. Obviously you're aware of the Iran war going on. The United States said, hey, this has been a problem for like the last 50 years. They're trying to get a nuke. They keep saying, death to America. Hey, we're gonna kill everybody because we're going to. That's our, that's our jihad thing. We want all of you dead. So the United States and all right, fine, enough of that. They saw an opening with Israel's help and said, boom, up, bye bye. I don't know how you say bye bye in Farsi or whatever they speak in around. Uh, and the United States is in this war now. We are in a period of time in which there is some pretty big political risk. That's not what we're talking about necessarily here. But that's how all of this started. The United States said, this is a thorn in the entire world side. We are going to do our best to take that thorn out. Now because of that Iran or what's left of their regime, and I use regime air quotes because, like I said, I'm not entirely sure what of the regime is left except for the probably gay new ayatollah who may or may not have one leg and impotency, they have said, hey, because we're really, really mad about this, we're going to pull out all the stops. We're going to close the Strait of Hormuz, which I'm sure you've heard about by now, but if you haven't, it's a very small stretch of of ocean about 21 miles wide. Were 20% of the entire world's oil goes through. Now, of course, if that is closed and a fifth of the global oil can't get to where it's going, that's going to cause competitive markets. Now, many people will say, well, Europe won't actually be affected by this because 20%, sorry, 90% of the oil that goes through there goes to Asia, goes to China, Japan, Indonesia, a bunch of different Asian countries, and therefore that's not really going to affect Europe. Except for anybody who understands the minimal amount of economic theory would say that, okay, well, if that oil isn't there, but they need it, that is demand. And therefore they're going to bid on the open market for all of the rest of the oil in the world, which would increase prices in Europe. Now, the United States thankfully is somewhat insulated. Long conversation. But for the most part we are effectively energy efficient. We should ramp up our drilling. President Trump is doing some of that. That offshore in California and a bunch of different places around the country. But again, not exactly the topic that we're wanting to get to. Now. The bottom line is because the EU, because the European countries import like 95% of all of their oil, this is going to affect the prices of energy in the eu. It's either that compete with all of the rest of the countries in Asia who aren't getting their oil from that goes through the straight of Hormuz, or continue to buy from Russia. Neither one are great options. Now because of all that, President Trump says, okay, look, this is closure of the Strait of Four Moose isn't gonna affect us nearly as much as it's going to affect you. So how about you help out a little bit? How about just a minimal amount of effort? Because I don't know, you guys don't really do that. You kind of leave every problem up to the United States to solve. And if you know anything about President Trump, he's not a huge fan of that happening. Here's President Trump over the weekend, effectively saying as much. This is cut 6, done a great job.
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President Trump
And when we want to know, do you have any minesweepers? Well, would rather not get involved, sir. I said, you mean for 40 years we're protecting you and you don't want to get involved in something that is very minor. Very few shots going to be taken because they don't have many shots left, but they Said we'd rather not get involved. I just want the fake news media and everybody else to remember that that was said because when I've been a big critic of all of the protecting of countries, because I know that we'll protect them and if ever needed, if we ever needed help, they won't be there for us. I've just known that for a long period of time.
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Joe Bob
You know, small, very minimal tangent here. It's so funny because things like this is the reason why I love President Trump. He communicates with the American people, with you and I the way that you and I would communicate. He kind of mimics or mocks the European leaders. Well, sorry, sir, we won't be able to. He's done that throughout the entirety of his candidacy and his presidency. But that actually is a huge reason why libs don't like him and why the people on the international scene, all the globalist libs, don't like him either. Well, he's not very presidential. Look, if being presidential is communicating effectively with the American people, he is the most presidential out of anybody. Is it conventional? Probably not. But the goal should be to communicate best with the United States of America and as a whole. And he does that through relatable messaging, like mocking people who deserve mockery and ridicule. One of those people who deserves mockery and ridicule actually started to make some sounds of support kind of after President Trump says, hey, you losers, why don't you help out just like a little bit? Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the UK kind of sounded like he was going to make some concessions. Cut 14. But ultimately we have to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to ensure stability in the market. That is not a simple task. So we're working with all of our allies, including our European partners, to bring together a viable collective plan. Now, that is Jihadi, who's appen happens also be the Prime Minister of the UK kind of making some noises the other day of, oh, we actually, we do have to get this open because this is going to affect us. Now, more specifically, London houses all of like the global shipping insurance, which is a whole different subset of problems for them. But more broadly, there were some European leaders saying, yeah, we do have to participate in kind of figuring this out. Now the question is, did any of that happen? Here is President Trump today being asked, hey, has there actually been any support from those do nothing good for nothing Euros? Here is his response.
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President Trump
Ready to leave yet? But we will be leaving in the near future. We'll be Leaving in pretty much the very near future. But right now they've been decimated from every standpoint. And again, we've had great support from countries in the Middle east, great support, but we've had no support from, essentially no support from NATO.
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Joe Bob
So unfortunately, despite the Prime Minister of UK's noises he was making of, oh, we've got to figure this out effectively, zero support from the Europeans, from NATO, from anybody. The most slap in the face comment, I think came from the German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, in which he said, what does the world expect? What does Donald Trump expect from a handful or two handfuls of European frigates to achieve there in the Strait of Hormuz, which the powerful US Navy cannot manage alone? In other words, you don't need our help, United States of America. You're big enough and powerful enough. And while that is true, the United States is big enough and powerful enough to handle it all on our own, we would then ask the question, so then what the hell is the point of NATO if, if the United States is going to be able to handle all of these military skirmishes alone, why do we need to have any support from you folks there who talk from your high pedestals of, ah, we are so much better than, we don't need to get involved. The US Handles, handles this okay, well, if you get attacked, why should we come to your aid? Because if we're attacked or we are in a position where we need aid, he's effectively saying himself, what the heck is our small little handful of vessels gonna do that you, you can't already do? So with that being the case, you have to ask the question, what is the point? Is there a point? Is, is there a point in time where the United States, President Trump specifically, should maybe even considering re. Consider rethinking NATO? Well, interestingly enough, also today he was asked about that. Here's what he said. Are you rethinking the United States relationship with NATO, possibly getting out, or.
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President Trump
I'm disappointed in NATO that we spend trillions of dollars on NATO. Think of it. Trillions over the years, many trillions of dollars. It's one of the reasons we have deficits and we help other countries and when they don't help us, I mean, it's certainly something that we should think about. I'm not exactly thrilled when we help them with Ukraine. Look, Ukraine would have been over in one day if we didn't help. Frankly, Ukraine would have been over in the first day. They had the best equipment in the world. It was our equipment. I will say that I'm not happy about it.
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Joe Bob
And there you have it. I mean, yeah, maybe we should consider reconsider it. He didn't go out and say that right there, but he says, yeah, you know, I'm, I'm not happy. And who would be? Because like we mentioned previously, this is going to affect the Euros more than it's going to affect us in the same way that the Ukraine war is happening in their very own backyard. The Russian energy coming in affects Europe on so many different levels more than it affects us. But then why are we the ones effectively doing all of the groundwork if it's going to affect the euros way more than it's going to affect us? Because we're effectively energy independent and you know, given 18 months we can be entirely unreliant on any foreign exports or at least any non North American exports. Why would we care? The entire world agrees the Iranian regime needed to go that that really isn't up for debate anymore at this point. And yet even with all of the work that the United States did on the front end when it comes to, I don't know, ensuring that the European energy prices don't freaking skyrocket, they go, eh, you handle it. I would say I do have a thought on this in just a little bit. Pound sand Euros. This is more your problem than ours, this specific straight area. And I recognize you could say, well the United States started it, but then you could be like, well it kind of had to be done. We all agree on it. The bottom line is this is going to affect you more than it's going to affect us. So why in the world would you not help? Except for the fact the Euros are a bunch of scared little pansies. Now. Not all of them think this way. Interestingly enough, the General Secretary of NATO, Marco Root, has some his own opinions on whether or not NATO or the United States and everybody else, everybody else needs the United States of America. Here's what he said. When President Trump is doing good stuff, I will praise him and I don't mind him publishing text messages. And if anyone things here again that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US keep on dreaming. You can't, we can't. But for Europe, if you really want to go it alone and those who you are planning for that, forget that you can never get there with 5%, it will be 10%. You have to build up your own nuclear capability. That costs billions and billions of euros, you will lose then in that scenario you would lose the ultimate guarantor of our freedom, which is the US Nuclear umbrella. So, hey, good luck. You are dreaming Europe. He effectively says in a funny accent, if you think that you can do this all on your own without the United States of America. And by this, I think he means much more broadly in terms of global security, and he's absolutely 100% right. So here's what I would propose, and here's what I think, what I hope the President and the administration would do. There's been a lot of talks of, how do you get those tankers through the Strait of Hormuz? One of the options being thrown around is naval escorts going through, making sure, hey, there's no mines, hey, the missiles that are coming in, we've got air defenses for that. Making sure that the Iranian navy, or lack thereof, some guys in a rowboat, because we suck, sunk all their battleships, don't do anything damaging to those oil tankers in order to get them through. So if that is a necessity, and if the option on the table is the United States escorting anybody through, you know, so long as it is deemed reasonably safe for the US Navy to do so, okay, go ahead. But it's going to come at a cost. Maybe we say, yeah, we'll escort these tankers through at great cost, but that cost is gonna get passed on to you because the United States, by escorting those ships through, would effectively, in my opinion, should take an equity position. Hey, you wouldn't have this if it weren't for us. Therefore, 20% on top 40 for whatever the percentage is of the cost incurred to the United States taxpayer by escorting those tankers through should be passed on to those buying the oil. Now, you might think, well, that would increase the oil prices. Yeah, it would, but it wouldn't increase the oil prices. Probably. I'm not a military logistics expert. I would imagine it probably won't increase them more than the lack of the 20% of oil that is now going to be fought over between Asia, Europe on the open market, because this is not exactly our problem, or at least because that this is going to affect the European countries more, they should do something. And if they aren't, and the United States decides, okay, well, those ships have to get through because it's affecting a bunch of different things, including us from an export import for a lot of different reasons, then, fine, we'll escort the ships through, but you're gonna have to pay up, which is kind of been a theme of President Trump from the very onset of this. Now, wrap this up in a nice pretty little bow. This may be relevant, maybe not. I did want to get to this because this is interesting polling coming out of cnn. You know that not right wing news outlet cnn, they did some polling on conservatives and their support for military action in Iran. Now there is a lot of chatter online about what we should do, what we shouldn't do. Forever wars is being thrown around, which is crazy. We're two and a half weeks in. Let me know in, you know, a year now. President Trump said five weeks. We should all be willing to give him the five weeks at the very least to update us, say, hey, here's what it's going to take. The idea of throwing around we're in another forever war is, I don't know, definitionally wrong, among many other reasons. But the bottom line here is the CNN polling that shows where conservatives are behind President Trump's actions in Iran. The numbers may shock you. Okay, MAGA GOP on the U.S. military action Iran. Look at this.
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Bobby Bones
Nearly nine in ten, 89% approve of the U.S. military action iran.
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Joe Bob
That is the MAGA GOP base. Just 9% disapprove of it. This is tremendously popular among the Republican base, which again CNN has no reason to lie about. I recognize there's a lot of stuff going around, a lot of people saying a lot of different things. But what we try to do here and what I'd encourage all of you folks to do at home is be pragmatic about the situation. I also don't want to be in a long forever war. And you know who else doesn't want to be in a long forever war? You know who doesn't like going to war at all? President Trump. He's mentioned that a number of times in a bunch of different ways. The guy doesn't want to be in war, so he has every incentive to get this done as soon as possible. And he also deems it as absolutely necessary for the betterment of not only the United States of America, but also the world, but mostly the United States America. TBT tbsa.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms, those are also welcome for some reason. TBT tbsa.com we'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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Bobby Bones
it's Bobby Bones from the Bobby Bones Show. You know, Eddie and I recently stopped by YEAH in Nashville. It's an incredible nonprofit empowering kids through music education. Thanks to Hyundai, we recorded a special podcast episode while we were there. Check it out. What's the dream for? Yeah in the next few years we
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YEAH Nonprofit Representative
would love to have more consistent programming during the weekend. Our Rock Block program is dependent on funding venues that are available to host band based programming. We would love to extend the camp to a second consecutive week so that kids can go a little bit deeper into what they've created during the first week camp. And we'd love to expand our programming to offer more industry related skills like audio, lighting, production, recording so that kids can be on a track to see where what they may create with an instrument can lead, but also to welcome those that may not want to be on stage but lack the opportunity at school to have an entry point into music.
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Bobby Bones
The full episode is out now presented by the Hyundai Ioniq 9. To donate and learn more about yeah's mission, just visit Yarocks.org When I was
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Joe Bob
diagnosed, all I wanted to do was get back to work. I wanted to get back to that trajectory that I was on. Prior to the cancer. I always felt like I had value. I had a place on the team to just be treated with dignity. It means everything. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing, learn more and sign the pledge@workingwithcancerpledge.com hey Sal, Hank, what's going on? We haven't worked a case in years I just bought my car at Carvana and it was so, so easy. Too easy. Think something's up?
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Joe Bob
They got thousands of options, found a great car at a great price, and it got delivered the next day.
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Joe Bob
easy to buy your car, Hank. Yeah, you're right. Case closed. Buy your car today on Carvana. Delivery fees may apply. Spanish. Lol. Based kid. I don't want to speak Spanish, Mom. I love. I'm an American. We speak English. Or American as Pete Hagseth calls it. I think she's probably trying to be like, all right, I'm sad this kid doesn't want to speak the language that I grew up speaking. We're in America now, son. Learn the language. Or go back to Tijuana or wherever. I don't know. They're probably a great family, but I don't know. A based kid. Cool. Fun. All right. Hey, fun stuff going on in the news today. Well, I say fun, not exactly fun. Some, some doom and gloom at least a little bit. But you know, lots of points to get to. So it's time to get to the point. Get to the point, get to the point. All right, getting to the point here. First up, this is from Fox News. GOP triggers marathon Senate fight to expose Dem's opposition to the Trump backed voter ID bill Official business has quite a bit of the Save act going in there. But Senate Republicans successfully launched a floor takeover beginning a multi day debate on the Trump backed Save America act, forcing libs to go on the record against voter ID legislation. Now there is some internal conservative wrangling over this which is crazy. Like I said, this Bill has like 90% of the American people approving of it because of course you should have to show your ID in order to vote. But the real problem is the libs. The, the normie libs that believe, hey, if this passes, they're going to eliminate women from being able to vote. Which actually. Just kidding, I'm kidding. TPTBC.com if that joke offended you, but what was I saying? Oh, the libs that believe that unfortunately in certain states, like where Murkowski, Senator Lisa Murkowski, who is in a state where maybe if the libs there think that, well, this, if Murkowski's vote made it so that women or minorities who are too stupid to get an ID can't vote, then therefore she is bad, therefore we should get rid of her. That is I think what the actual holdup is. Those are some of the opposition there, interestingly enough Even according to Fox, the bill is expected to fail without some lib support. Schumer has vowed a prolonged opposition. The 60 vote threshold, conservatives obviously cannot meet it alone. Bottom line is at least bringing it to the floor will get libs on the record saying, hey, this is, this is why we think people who aren't in the country legally should also be able to vote, which of course is unconstitutional, but what do they care about that? Um, all right, moving on. The New York Post. What was that from? That was from Fox News. I think I mentioned the New York Post. Millions of Californians urged to lock themselves indoors as heat wave smashes state. Here's why. Unusually early heat wave for California. I bring this up specifically because I'm in California. Actually, it really isn't even necessarily about the heat wave. The, the main thing that I really would like to have gotten to is Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles. What? Just. I'm going to give you like 10 seconds to guess what she blamed the heat wave on. Now, you may think, you may think it might be obvious. You know, it actually is not as obvious. But I'd love for you to send Those guesses to tptbc.com before I tell you the reason why it's so hot in March in California. Or at least the reason that Mayor Karen Bass gave herself. Ding, ding, ding. Timer is up. The reason that she gave and again might shock you. Climate change. That's surprising to anybody. No. Oh, sorry. Okay. I must have misread the room. Bottom line, very, very hot in California. I can attest to that personally. My family did a little morning outing today and it was honestly miserable. We had fun. Fun because we sat with some friends and our kids were able to play. And that, that's fun. Good times. But at the same time, God's hot in California and it's dang near miserable. And it's all. It's because of climate change, because that's the only reason for anything. Not just, hey, sometimes it gets hot, sometimes it gets hold. There are several instances in the winter where I'd be like, gosh, sure, use some global warming here. But. But she made a big thing about this. Mayor Karen Bassin looked like a fool. Point number two, making our way around the horn. This is actually going to be kind of interesting. This is from ground news. U.S. house panel subpoenas. Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Epstein probe. In an Epstein probe, House Oversight Committee James Comer issued a subpoena requiring Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear for deposition on April 14 as a part of the panel's investigation in the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files. Now this, actually, I'm hoping that this can get kind of serious at this point. First of all, I don't know why my mind goes here. April 14, a day before the worst day of the year, which is April 15, which is when your taxes are due and subsequently lit on fire by those in power. Um, but actually, I, I do think this could get really interesting. I, I've been saying for a long time on the Epstein file stuff, if you want to get actual information, you need to subpoena or at least question the investigators who decided to not pursue charges. Right, that, that, that's the big thing here. Right? Big show about the Clintons. We talked about it all a lot here. You know, whether anything was going to come from it. What in reality you should be doing, if you're serious about getting to the bottom of this, is figuring out who in charge at the FBI or the DOJ did not decide to pursue any sort of charges. And why not? Obviously now we have millions of documents that are now out there. Now, you know, the public or attorneys can look at those documents and then ask the question to the investigators on the case, hey, what was going on here? If you're actually serious about getting to the bottom of this, that's what it's going to take. And this actually looks like at least somewhat of a step in the right direction, not necessarily grilling Pam Bondi, although I know there's several out there. Little bit over her act, and I can sometimes see why sometimes she gets a little bit over. Over her skis here, but basically asking the question, hey, why weren't any charges filed to the actual investigators, to the people who would have brought charges against these folks? Who. Why didn't you do anything that actually is taking a step in the right direction? The whole, I don't know, crazy media circus around the Epstein files is its own thing. What I'm interested in is why weren't any charges filed. Now that we've got a bunch of the data and, you know, either the cases made for or against are compelling or they're not. And we'll all just kind of watch how that plays out together. Getting more to the point, this is actually pretty interesting. President Trump and President Xi, why don't. Why do I fall for the language and Xi Jinping, the dictator of China, but is called a president so that he can be looked upon favorably by the rest of the Western world. Are scheduled to meet. Were scheduled to meet but according to NBC and, well, pretty much everybody, this is just the NBC headline. Trump delays triple to China for five or six weeks while US Focuses on Iran. President was set to Travel to China March 31 through April 2 for discussions focused on trade. He has said, yeah, we're gonna go ahead and push that back. You know, one of the things that I thought was interesting, a bunch of people in the media hit President Trump really hard when he kind of made an offhanded comment, hey, China needs to get involved in opening up the Strait of Hormuzzi. And they would have been like, wait, China's our biggest geopolitical or enemy? Why would they help us? It's not really helping us, it's helping them. Like we mentioned in the prior segment, what like 80, 90% of Chinese energy or oil comes through the Strait of Hormuz. It makes up 20% of the entire global oil trade and 90% of that goes to China. You would think they have a vested interest. Yes. Are they diametrically opposed to the United States of America? Uh huh. But also they don't want to be paying an upcharge for oil. So people, basically, people made President Trump out to sound like a crazy guy. Why would they help? I don't know. They pretty clearly have a vested interest in this, so why would they not? Bottom line, President Trump is delaying that meeting with President Xi. Dang it. I did it again. Dictator Xi. Dictator. Winnie the Pooh. That, that'll get me thrown off some parts of the Internet. Specifically in China, which I can't imagine. There's a lot of people in China watching the show. Last but not least is I thought was one of the more fascinating headlines. Costco announces partnership for discounted fertility treatments. Yet Costco is partnering with Sesame and ivirma to offer member discounted fertility care, which includes up to 80% savings on medications, like a medication that I've never heard of through exclusive pricing. This is actually great. Great. Alex Clark's gonna get on me because a lot of this has to do with IVF and the morality behind ivf, which maybe you should only harvest one egg at a time or try to fertilize one egg at a time. So therefore you don't have, you know, fertilized eggs, I. E. Human beings floating around. Go, go. All of that aside, Costco stepping in and saying, hey, people aren't having kids. That's a problem. Maybe we should try and fix this. Yes. Is there a market incentive for it? Probably. But at the same time, maybe the market is. I saw A tweet basically saying somebody at Costco was like hey, in looking forward to you know, 2035, who the heck is going to buy this 48 pack of go Gurts? We we need to intervene and make sure Americans are having kids. Now as a pro having kids guy myself, I am all for this. Removing the big conversation of the morality of IVF is it's, it's complicated. I, I understand that. That's not what I'm saying. I think mostly what I'm saying is one, it sure is an interesting product to pick up at Costco. Hey sweetheart, what'd you, what'd you get at Costco? Well I got some eggs, I got the 2 gallons of milk and, and a child even though Hannah I'm pro child so that that's not the worst thing in the world. Interestingly enough they all the article also says this is from the USA Today announcement follows President Trump's February 2025 executive order expanding access to IVF amid efforts to address infertility, which I think there's lots of other things we can do to address that but can bigger conversation for a different time. Well that has been get to the point. We got to a lot of points there. That's it's been get to the point got to a lot of points which is the point of get to the point. TPTVSA.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. Official business is coming up next. We'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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I need to be healthy every day to survive it and go through the next chemo round and the next chemo round. So it's important that work was part of that to keep my mind busy for eight, nine hours and then I had to go back and face the reality. I had a goal and the goal is to survive. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing, learn more and sign the pledge@workingwithcancerpledge.com. This guy is going to disprove the existence of God by shaking this box of nails to show that chaos can in fact become order. Just ignore the fact that an outside intelligent force is causing the box to shake until order is obtained. This isn't a new idea. However, they actually first tried getting rid of God with nails nearly 2000 years ago. Didn't work then. Won't work now. That was a great little ending there. That's. I like that a lot. Yeah, I don't know. That's a dumb experiment. Ooh, look at if I shake this box enough, the nails will all align. Therefore, this proves chaos can result in some sort of intelligent design. Well, they don't say intelligent design. Some sort of order, right? Neglecting the fact that, well, you you still have to shake the box. What would be impressive is if you put a bunch of scattered nails in a box and left it on the counter with no outside force and see if it aligned then honestly, you would have to believe in God at that point, too, because it should. How else would it have happened? Magical fairies. I don't know. Uh, I like that. I like. I like the new trend of, hey, look at how silly the people trying to disprove God look. All right. Oh, yeah, that's right. It's official business. My favorite part of the show, where we highlight some of the things officials say in their business, which makes it official business. First up, first up in official business got Senator Fetterman, who is such an interesting character. Uh, in a lot of ways, there's a lot of things that we like about Mr. Fetterman, or at least that we like that he's been saying recently. He's pretty, you know, pro. Yeah. Iran's a crazy country and they need to be dealt with and send a lot of good things on that front. He's not saying great things on the SAVE act, which is kind of the focus of today's official business. Uh, here is one. Senator Fetterman, on whether or not, again, one of the more likable libs, but not in this case specifically, your feeling about the president's emphasis on hard emphasis on the so called Save America Act. Well, there's. There's a couple truths embedded in this conversation too. I don't support, as in its current, current state to vote Save America, and the president is constantly critical on mail in voting, and that's ridiculous. It's safe. Some of the best, best examples in the country are from red states. Like. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of problems with what he's saying. Yeah. Mail in voting for active military that happens to be overseas. Okay, fine. For other people. Maybe we should take a look at that. Sending ballots out kind of to everybody, which is what California does, is a terrible recipe, is a recipe for disaster in so many ways. He's not the only lib making the rounds talking about how terrible and awful the SAVE act would be. Here is Representative Maxine Dexter. I'm wondering, I'm hoping she, she does the. The standard it's racist somehow to show an id Bipartisan housing package to help address that. But it's being threatened at the House level this week because the president wants us to focus on the Save America act, which is actually a voter disenfranchisement bill. So even though the Senate and the House have this amazing package to finally address housing challenges. Our president's more focused on trying to undermine the sanctity of elections and everyone's ability to fairly vote, which is actually voter disenfranchisement, because, remember, it's voter disenfranchising because we. All of the language that we put in there to say that, well, black people and women are too stupid to get an id. I really do. I feel for Americans who buy that it's disenfranchising voters. It's undermining the sanctity of the elections, which has been severely undermined by people who wish to dismantle the sanctity of elections, like what they did during COVID All right, let's breeze through those so we can get to one of my favorite ones. Uh, here is TPT tpz.com if you have any pronunciations. I do like the phonetics that some of you put. Really helps in my. In my everlasting attempts to pronounce the mayor of New York's name. It's very, very helpful. But he made it into official business today with an absurd amount of irony. Cut 10. What we are doing is to create a central office solely focused on the well being of queer New Yorkers so that their needs may be better met by every city agency across our administration. The queer community, as well as intersecting communities and adjacent communities are under extreme attack in this country from all angles, it seems, from the highest levels of government to society in general, and to even sometimes people that we consider friendly fire, unfortunately. And so now more than ever in this moment, it is so critical, I think, to have trans leadership, because New York City is where the LGBTQ civil rights movement started. All right, just two things. Why don't we. Why don't we take that individual just as a. As a kind of like, I don't know, a sociological experiment. Put. Put this person in the room with all of the Muslims eating on the floor in the mayor's office, like two days ago. Just see what. I just see what happens. I don't. I'm not sure what would happen. My guess is that if they had their way, they'd chuck them out a window. But I, again, I don't know that to be true. The only thing I'm drawing on is the massive amounts of times that Muslim communities have done that to the Alphabet people. The second. Only two points here. The second point is the idea that they. The trans community, the. The Alphabet community is the most under attack. Unfortunately, tragically, it's the opposite that they're the ones doing all the attacking. And to say otherwise is stupid. And that's all I'll say about that. Idiocy at its finest. But again, yeah, go ahead and throw, throw that person into that room with all those. Why don't we just, I don't know, let them go participate in, I don't know, one of the. The Red Green Alliance. What? Dang it. I launched myself into a tangent that I don't have time to get into right now, but maybe we'll talk about the Red Green Alliance a little bit more. I don't necessarily know if the trans folks fall within the red section of that Red Green alliance, but they might as well because they always are kind of in the more communist wings. But anyways, tbtpsa.com Time for Takedown Tuesday, right after the break. Don't go away. We'll be right back after this. Yellow, yellow man baby is white skin. Baby is Asian. White and Asian together. Correct in middle. I don't. Is that real? Like, is that, Is that a couple doing a skit for the Internet or is that. I don't know, dude. I could see that real being real. Your Chinese mother in law saying, does your white and he is yellow. What does white and yellow make? I guess like a. I don't know, like a, like a soft yellow, like a, like a. I don't know. I like that term Weijian, though. I wonder if I would be considered a Wayian, because anytime I'm doing like, standardized, you know, jotting down of, you know what, what you are right. There's Pacific Islander, but Pacific Islander slash Asian. I also probably could put Irish because as we mentioned on the show, half Irish. It's a culture, not a costume on this St. Patrick's Day. But I don't know my awasian. If Asian, Hawaiian, Pacific Islander is all one category and then my mom is Irish, does that make. Is that. Is wagin. Is that offensive? Is that like, is that a slur? Or is that like an accurate way to describe people who are half white, half Asian? Anyways. Oh, my goodness. We don't have a ton of time to get to take that Tuesday, but I'd say it was earlier. Take down Tuesday. No, it's Take that Tuesday. Take that, Ayatollah. Probably gay. Take that Tuesday. It's time. Take that Tuesday. That's my favorite one of the zingers. I just, I'm, I'm having fun with that one. All right, before we run out of time here, I want to get to this short Clip from a real life interview that's definitely not AI enhanced. That definitely took place, interestingly enough, in the new probably gay Ayatollah visited his friends somewhere in Africa, Probably Uganda. Cut 16. Why are you gay? You are gay. Now, obviously, that's 100% not edited. The Ayatollah, the one leg or legless Ayatollah, is a cardboard figurine and cutout as displayed by his own people in power. Being asked a question poignantly by the famous, why are you gay? Guy either from Uganda or some African nation, I don't remember which. Uh, but this is actually really funny. President Trump was apparently stunned last week. This, according to the New York Post. And I just want to read a lot of this because it's just, it's too juicy and delicious and fun. Uh, President Trump was stunned when he learned last week that US Intelligence indicated that the new Iranian Supreme Leader, Mostaba Khamenei may be gay. That his father, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, feared the stability, feared his suitability to rule the Islamic Republic. For that reason, Trump could not contain his surprise and laughed out loud when he was briefed on the intel. According to sources, others in the room also found it hilarious. Not entirely. Maybe it's the irony that they find hilarious. I don't know how just being gay is hilarious, but the irony of being gay there is quite hilarious. Others in the room found it hilarious, enjoying the President's reaction. While one senior intelligence officer has not stopped laughing about it for days. One person familiar told the New York Post, all three of the sources. There's three sources that say that the new guy, the one legged pirate dude, is gay. Say the implausible sounding allegations is viewed as credible by US spy agencies rather than false information intended to undermine Khamenei, who's 56, who replaced his dead Ayatollah father. In other words, yeah, this isn't like some, like, hey, we're gonna, you know, jab you from the false information desk. No, this is actually legit. A lot of them say, let's see, is that really it? Oh. A classified US diplomatic cable from 2018 published by WikiLeaks, described Mostaba as being treated in the UK for impotence, though they reportedly did not identify what may have been the causation. Not sure how, what, what treatment you'd get for that. Sorry, buried the lead. He apparently stated two months in the hospital for his impotency. The allegations of homosexuality was alluded to by a CBS News reporter on Sunday that The elder Khomeini preferred a different successor, in part because of the unspecified issues in Mostaba's personal life. And just to wrap this up, New York Post says homosexual homosexuality. Homosexual conduct is illegal in Iran, though the government does allow surgical sex change operations which could which some gay men reportedly are pressured into undergoing to avoid criminal penalties. Sodomy. Sodomy is a capital offense in the nation of 93 million, with some gay Iranians infamously hanged from construction trains. And that is the country that the libs are super big proponents of where it is illegal to be gay and the punishment for sodomy is death. So there's that. Great work, libs. The irony is, is quite, in fact, hilarious, as evidenced by President Trump's reaction to this tbt tbsa.com is the email address Mailbag right after the break. Don't go away. All right, let's get to some mailbag. Don't have a ton of time because we ramble a lot today. We're. Which is odd. We don't usually do that. Mark says on the topic of J.B. pritzker weighing in on the political replacement of the senator in Illinois, weighing in heavily, which he does, or I guess political. I'm not trying. He weighs a lot on both, you know, the scale and political weight. Pritzker. Oh, Mark is making a point too. He's putting $5 million, which is a lot of money. But to Pritzker, Mark says that's just his snack fund. Good point. J says this, I think the political commentator he's on the topic of Don Lemon yesterday apparently was also Joy Reid. Again, I get them confused. Said it wasn't actually Joy Reid. He said I was mistaken when I corrected myself that this was Joyride. It wasn't actually. It was actually a transgender former carnival worker known as Boy Boy. Read once again. Trans people taking jobs they're not entitled to. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, joy. Oh, joy. Thanks, Jay. Appreciate that. I'm rounding the emails out today, Roger. Actually some criticism coming and I mentioned I was gonna get criticized here. Roger says this. I was shocked to hear Joe B. On Turning Point tonight say the tsa TSA workers are overpaid and questioned why leaving their jobs when they were promised receive back pay once the Homeland Security bill is passed. Uh, this is a gross miscategorization. What I said. I think I said that the big problem is the fact that you have to be waiting in food lines after missing a single paycheck, even if you know that you're gonna get back paid, which is not actually a hit on tsa. It's actually more of a criticism on the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle of most Americans. Now, I understand sometimes you can't help it, sometimes an emergency comes up. But the bottom line is if you miss a single paycheck and it sends you to the food stamp line, maybe we should take a look at your finances just a little bit more. That's what I was getting at yesterday. Roger. Sorry if you misunderstood that. Anyways, thanks so much for tuning in. That is the show for tonight. TPT@TPTPCA.COM. we will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. God bless America.