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Howie Mandel
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Megan McCardell
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Congressman Wesley Bell
It does seem to me that there is some awakening of a desire to act together to solve problems where they are.
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Joe Bob
You know, I am a believer in America and that's worth fighting for.
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Megan McCardell
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Howie Mandel
Hey, it's Howie Mandel and I am inviting you to witness history as me and my How We do it gaming team take on Gilly the King and Wallow267's million dollars gaming in an epic global gaming league video game showdown. Four rounds, multiple games, one winner, plus a halftime performance by multi platinum artist Travie McCoy. Watch all the action and see who wins and advances to the championship match against Neo right now@globalgamingleague.com that's GlobalGamingLeague everybody.
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Joe Bob
Games are libs now on our side regarding money. If so, this is fantastic news. Maybe they'll partner with us in trying to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse. Or maybe they only care about money when it's politically convenient for them. The first big Trump admin resignation. It's actually a little bit more nuanced than I think a lot of people are talking about. We will discuss here. And a big time lib is now a big time loser after the Illinois primaries. You just hate to see some of those big online only libs lose disastrously in races that they thought they would be a shoe in for. All that and more coming up. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. Together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback. The show starts right now. It would be difficult to count the number of headlines in lib media outlets discussing how much money we've now spent in Iran. And while I do think that's a worthy conversation, it's a little bit ironic coming from the side that it's coming from. We will discuss that. And the new frontier of waste, fraud and abuse is starting to come into the limelight and I I'm just giddy with excitement. But I gotta remind you first, tptpc.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms, those are all welcome. TPTP USA.com love hearing the discussion in the online chat. Also, generally, as much as we can like to get back to some of those emails. But you only have that opportunity if you go to tptp USA.com send an email there. Tptpc.com remember, those emails are gross, disgusting, vile, just downright nasty. We actually probably will read them on the show because that's what fits in with the tenor of what we're trying to do here. Tbt@tpusa.com now, in the last couple days, really the last couple weeks, the libs have been doing something that they often never do. Conservatives are generally the ones who say, hey, would like to make sure that this money being spent that is taken from my pocket is being put to good use at the very least. Frankly, I don't want you spending it at all. But if you're going to at least make the dollar stretch now, libs on the other hand, never are concerned about that literally at any point. No, no, the money should go here. We should put more money here, tax the rich. This will all be fine. They never care about where the money is going unless it is politically advantageous for them. Over the last couple weeks we've seen a number of headlines from lib outlets expressing how bad it is that we are spending any amount of money in Iran. The New York Times had a headline the Pentagon tells Congress first week of Iran war costs more than $11.3 billion. CNN headline said this. Here's how much the war with Iran is expected to cost every day. And of course Ms. NBC or MSNBC or MSDNC or PMS now, whatever it is, the Rachel Maddow blog said this. Democrats seize on the Iran war's enormous daily price tag. Mediate, which is the lib of the libs says this hegseth dod blue not spent blue $22 million on steak and lobster in one month, their watt watchdogs claim. So clearly the libs because it's politically advantageous for them Are, are now fiscal hawks, which is something none of us would have expected, but they don't like what's going on. Orange man bad. Therefore, we're going to crack down on the spending. Now, here's obviously the, the difference when we look at spending, both governmentally and also in your own homes, what we actually look at instead of spending is, is value. Have we gotten value for the money that we've spent? If I go to Costco and I buy things, it doesn't really matter how much it is. I mean, it does, but what I really care about is, is there value? If something is very expensive, but I'm going to get great use out of it and it's going to enhance my life, I am willing to spend the money. At the same time, if something is very, very cheap, but it doesn't work and it won't enhance anything that I do, I think it's a worse deal than the expensive thing. So we've set the parameters of how conservatives are look at things. If you put that in the context of the Iran war, okay, well, what's the worst possible outcome? Well, the worst possible outcome, if we're being frank about this, is the regime doesn't change. They kind of stay in power, but even then, we've severely limited or at least stunted their nuclear program, which is what we're all concerned about and what everybody around the Western world has a problem with. At the very worst, the regime stays in power, but we've completely debilitated a lot of their nuclear capabilities, their war manufacturing, all of the worst stuff, we put them 15 years in the past. That's at the worst. At best, though, the entire regime changes by the Iranian people rising up, taking back their country, and the destabilizing force in the Middle east and also around the globe is now no longer the threat that it once was. In other words, the value being assessed to the war is, well, at the very worst, still pretty okay, and at the very best, phenomenal, which is, again, how we look at spending money as conservatives. Now, for reference, the war, yeah, is, is expensive. Wars are expensive. But is that really the crucial lib talking point that the libs are making it out to be? Yes, $11 billion is getting spent, according to the New York Times, but what is the overall budget for the Department of War? For reference, it's $839 billion. In other words, the numbers that libs are citing of how much is being spent, it's just so much money is almost. Is about 1% of the total Dow DOD. I'm getting used to the Department of War acronym, the Department of War budget. And again, I'm not saying that I don't care about money being spent, but it's less about the cost and more about the value added. But you know, again, since libs now care about value added, let's take a look at some lib areas. Los Angeles, specifically in the godforsaken state of California. Again, since lives are worried about $11 billion being spent on a war that could benefit the trajectory of humanity as a whole. Okay, well, let's look at Los Angeles, who is now spent $24 billion on homelessness since it started its homelessness initiatives. Okay, what did we get? What was the value that the taxpayer got for that $24 billion spent more homelessness, actually. Unfortunately, the value was not where we wanted it to be. Like I said, conservatives care about value. Bang for buck. Libs just care about throwing money probably at their cronies. But I guess that's not entirely fair. We did get more than more homeless as we also got fraud. Now, this isn't a new thing that we're talking about, but just, you know, to put this in context of how we're looking at fraud nowadays, not only in California, but very much in Minnesota, Here's Vice President J.D. vance explaining just just one kind of the many multitudes of fraud going on in Minnesota, but also probably in the state of California is cut 13.
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Vice President J.D. Vance
We saw evidence that in Minneapolis there were Somalis, primarily illegal immigrants, who were defrauding a Medicaid program that was meant to be go to autistic children. So they were taking children who were supposed to get benefits and they were claiming that their kids were actually autistic even though they weren't.
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Joe Bob
Now that's just one instance in one particular area that the Vice President is talking about. But again, like I've said at the beginning, well, if libs are now on board for cutting waste, fraud and abuse, if they now care about the budget, if they now are fiscal hawks, I say welcome to sanity. Let's take a look at several other things. Obviously he's talking about Minnesota, but specifically California, which I think is the next frontier, how much of a difference is there? Now there's a ton of indictments that have happened in Minnesota and that has not happened yet in California. But the thing is, I think, and many people think it's coming, there already have been a couple cases in California of waste, fraud and abuse in their billions of dollars being spent. Again, that's just Los Angeles, California More broadly, I would guarantee, has a much, much bigger waste, fraud and abuse budget, as we talked about before. But again, the Minnesota stuff has been indicted. California is the next frontier of fraud. And as long as our lefty friends are talking about budgets and spending, well, have that. There's been a couple high profile cases. One dude was charged with stealing like $23 million and has a luxury home in LA, a $7 million mansion, luxury car, sends his kid to private school, and all of the clients of the Homelessness Help Institute got ramen in microwaves. But again, that's just one instance of what I believe is a bunch of fraud going on in California. I mean, the question really is not, is it there it is. How deep does it go? Interestingly enough, videos circulating around the Internet makes me think very, very deep. Especially in the context of the Vice President saying, well, it's these types of different fraud things, billing fraud, that's the actual problem. This is a video that's making the rounds. One among many in the state of California that gives insight into how people are defrauding the government. It's cut 14. If I have metal care. You check my blood pressure and my heart rate.
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TSA Agent / Official
Yeah, medical.
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Joe Bob
Just as long as you have active medical. Active Medicare. And you'll give me 15? Yeah. If you don't have your card on you, type in your social. But where does my information go? It goes to our clinic. What clinic? The clinic, probably, allegedly, that will then bill the California Medicare system or the federal Medicare system or Medicaid or whatever government institution subsidizes whatever that clinic is, and probably will bill them for millions, possibly billions of dollars. For the record, giving people money to sign a petition is like, super illegal. It's called bribery. Like, you can't do that. I'm stopping myself from going on a tangent about how libs preemptively bribe people with other people's money, saying, hey, if you vote for us, we'll give you a ton of stuff. It's the same thing, except for they're doing it after the election, which is just as bad in my opinion. But again, we'll go off on that tangent. Bottom line, giving people money for that sort of thing is super, super illegal. And like I said, they could be using that information for, for anything. If they now have your name and Social Security number, they can bill the government and say, hey, we're giving this homeless person shelter, we're giving them food. They could be billing the government for a multitude of different things, including hospice care, which, interestingly enough, seems like it is the next frontier in the new frontier of fraud. Hospice care seems like the peak of the mountain in the broad mountain range that is California fraud. Several weeks ago, Dr. Oz went to California and pointed out several institutes that were supposedly hospice facilities that had, like, nobody in them and said, well, there's at least three and a half billion dollars here, but he's only in town for a little while now. It's kind of funny to say, but Nick Shirley is in town and he's doing some of his own digging, which we were all so fond of. I just cut 15 here in California.
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Investigator / Analyst
What makes this hospice and home health care fraud so hard to crack down on? Take, for example, this one right here. All day hospice care, they have billed $3.1 million, and per beneficiary, that's about $6,000 and 24 claims per patient, with only two codes, which.
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Joe Bob
Which, again, sounds super suspicious. Now, for the record, there's no allegations or indictments that have officially been made, but also, this is eerily similar to what's going on in Minnesota. In Minnesota, the feeding our future was like the big one. That's the one people were stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from. And at least it seems to be clear that the state, the governor of the state, Governor Walls, knew about it. Now, Minnesota at some point did stop the funding to all of these very, very suspicious government billers, but then, remember, it magically restarted and nobody knows why. Governor Tim Walls doesn't even really know why, but they basically said, hey, we caught this fraud, but now we're going to let it continue. Which, again, is eerily similar to what's going on in California. Governor Newsom in California is, in my opinion, doing his best impersonation of Governor Tim Walsh, not prancing around like an allegedly gay man, rhetorically speaking, regarding his policies. He's getting out front of what I think is the oncoming onslaught of fraud investigation and saying, yeah, we've been all over this. This is something that we've been keeping an eye on for years. Now. Here's him saying as much.
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Governor Gavin Newsom
Cut 16, saying they're somehow connected to the mob around hospice. Hospice. We've been after that for years and years before Oz was even on the scene.
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Joe Bob
Ah, yes, they have been after hospice fraud for years and years and years. Now, to put this in context, they actually have done some things. So that's what Gavin is using to point back to the. No, no, no, no. We've got this covered, ladies and gentlemen, because they did couple years ago institute a moratorium on new licenses for hospice cares. Basically, a bunch of different hospices had red flags saying, hey, these guys are stealing a bunch of money, allegedly. Probably we're going to pause all new licenses in order to look into that. But here's the problem. Just this month, According to a CBS investigation, it showed that 700 plus Los Angeles hospices, not throughout the entire state of California, just specifically in Los Angeles, had red flag fraud warnings. And yet we're still operating and billing the government. So maybe not. Maybe this is just Gavin trying to get ahead of something that he's so severely let go and trying to pull a. A Tim Walls. I don't know why I did that. A Tim Walls and say, no, no, we, we have this covered. Even though. Do they really? It sure doesn't seem like it. This all ties back to the main point here with all of the criticism from the left of the cost of war in Iran. Maybe it, it could be that libs are turning into fiscal hawks. To which I say welcome. There's a long list of things that we can all look into together, but realistically, I think they only choose to be fiscal hawks, look after the budget when it's politically convenient for them. Now, to wrap it up, I will offer them though, this one caveat, and this is specifically, particularly to Governor Newsom in California. The caveat, the extended grace that I will offer is maybe, maybe it's the fact that they can't read. And I'm not saying I'm not trying to be mean here. I'm taking Governor Newsom at his own word. Maybe they've been so behind on this whole fraud, waste and abuse because maybe because they can't read. Here's Gavin saying it himself. Cut 17.
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Governor Gavin Newsom
I still can't. I've never read a speech I can't read. Really can't read. I can't write. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech representing every possible color, creed and community. And that diversity, in the words of the late Kevin Starr, is the persistent DNA code of California. And perhaps.
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Joe Bob
Well, that was weird. I mainly meant to play the part where he said he can't read and give him some grace for maybe not being able to keep up with all of the fraud going on. But that very last clip actually looked like he can read. Anyways, no matter. As long as libs are keeping an eye on the budget, as long as they're pretending to be fiscal hawks. I and all conservatives should say welcome. Let's take a very, very long gander at places like California, Washington, New York, Illinois and any other deep blue state that probably has a massive amount of fraud underneath the surface. TPTPC is the email address if you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, criticisms. What are you guys looking at? What? What is that? What is the big story of the day? Let us know. TPTP USA.com Sometimes you know, everybody's paying attention to a bunch of different things, so I'd like to see see what what all you folks are paying attention to is the biggest story and it could be locally, could be nationally, but love to hear your thoughts, comments and concerns. TBTPUSA.com Lots of points to get to. This is rather heavy points to get to, or at least big points to get to. We will get to the point coming up after the break. Don't go away. We'll be right back.
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Howie Mandel
Hey, it's Howie Mandel and I am inviting you to witness history as me and my Howie do it Gaming take on Gilly the King and Wallow two six seven's million dollars gaming in an epic Global Gaming League video game showdown. Four rounds, multiple games, one winner, plus a halftime performance by multi platinum artist Travy McCoy. Watch all the action and see who wins and advances to the championship match against Neo right now@globalgamingleague.com that's globalgamingleague.com everybody games.
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Congressman Wesley Bell
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Interviewer
And I guess your political affiliation without asking you any political questions?
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Joe Bob
Yes.
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Interviewer
What's your name and where are you from?
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Joe Bob
I'm Tanner and I'm from Indiana.
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Interviewer
First question we got today, it's St. Patrick's Day. What's your beverage of choice? A Miller Lyde Miller or Budweiser. I think I have an indication. Tanner, what's your favorite ice cream flavor?
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Joe Bob
Strawberry.
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Interviewer
I'm getting the vibes. If you could have your dream job, any job, money's no object, what would it be?
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Joe Bob
A fishing guide in Florida.
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Interviewer
A fishing guide in Florida. Would you say you want to be like a snowbird and move to Florida?
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Governor Gavin Newsom
Maybe.
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Interviewer
I have a lot to think about, but I think that your political affiliation is. I think you're a classic Republican.
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Joe Bob
You're correct. Why did she have to ask so many follow up questions? She's like, I'm going to ask you about yourself and then I'm going to guess your political affiliation. What's your name and where are you from? I'm Tanner from Indiana. Yeah, he's a conservative. I. What, what's your favorite? Who cares? I already know the answer. You just, you wasted a bunch of time asking other questions that weren't necessary because his name is Tanner from Indiana and he looks like a wealth put together. Young man. I could have told you that instantly. Like, geez, yeah, I'm gonna stop myself at the risk of going off into trouble if you're. What's your name? I'm Mohammed Abdullah and I live in Dearborn, Michigan. Let me guess, your political affiliation. I think that's all the questioning that I need. I've just, I don't know, I'm just, just saying, don't, you know, maybe, maybe that'll make it into the show, maybe it won't. All right, there's a lot of things going on around the news of the day. Lots of points to make. So let's do it. Let's get to the point. Get to the point, get to the point. All right, so first up on the docket, I actually think this is a super interesting one. This from cnn, but it's being reported pretty much everywhere. Iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez accused of decades of sexual abuse as annual celebrations are canceled nationwide. Bunch of scheduled Cesar Chavez day events scheduled for March 31. He is now being accused of sexual abuse over the course of decades. Now, let me just say this at the onset, if there is truth and validity to these allegations, they should be looked into as fervently as any other allegations. Okay? Yes. Also the man has been dead for how many years and now this is coming to light. And if I were to be a massive skeptic of this, knowing a little something about Cesar Chavez myself, he is not the lefty labor hero that they want and or need at this point in time, politically speaking. If you know anything about Cesar Chavez, 1, he used some very aggressive language, um, describing, let's see, I don't know if I'm allowed to say. Am I allowed to say what happens to you when you dump water on your head and when you have an itch on your back? He used that term more than anybody. I think he came up with that term, which is obviously deeply offensive to a bunch of libs. Um, on top of that, especially, you know, in light of the news of the day and the political reality that libs currently have, Cesar Chavez was the most anti illegal immigration person in modern political history. That guy hated illegal immigration, which is very, very, very inconvenient to point out for the libs right now. I will reiterate, if any of these allegations have any sort of validity or weight to them, they should be looked into. And he, I don't. He can't be prosecuted. He's dead. All of the things. Okay, all the things actually, terrible. There's a, there's a rape accusation from the 60s, if that were the case. That's terrible. And the timing of this seems all too convenient for a guy who does not fit the lib. Labor up with. Labor up with the common man mold of the modern day. Considering especially immigration being the biggest topic that it is and Caesar Chavez being the most anti illegal immigration person in modern history who the left does not want to promote right now. Again, the allegations are true if there's any validity to them, if there any proof of them. Yes, terrible, awful. And this seems way too convenient for the timing and the political age of the day. Speaking of people coming to the country legally, I don't know if that's a great transition. It might be. This from cnbc. Cuba partially restores power as President Diaz Chanel vows unyielding resistance to the UK US oil blockade. Last week we did a big long segment about how President Trump is effectively squeezing the Cuban communist regime by way of cutting off oil. Obviously, Venezuela taking out Maduro, arresting Maduro, not to conflate terms, had a huge impact on Cuba because Cuba got like 50% of their oil from Venezuela and then putting pressure on Mexico to say, hey, you don't give them any oil either. If you, if you weren't Hip to this story, there are blackouts. Full day blackouts. Entire Cuban island entirely dark for like 29 hours. Millions without electricity. The worst energy crisis since the Soviet Union's collapse, which I think is a, actually a big win. President Trump made some statements the other day about, yeah, I think I'll. I think I'll take Cuba. Hopefully that doesn't mean military force. Although, you know, again, trust the guy to make a judgment call on this. But the bottom line is Cuba finally restored power and the president is saying, the president of Cuba. And I can use term president use loosely, not exactly an elected democracy over there. Uh, the president says we will continue to fight. Yeah, dude, you just had no power for almost 30 hours for your entire island. Good luck with the continued fight, bro. Um, and speaking of the continued fight, one of our favorite libs to dislike. I don't know how to pronounce this woman's name. Cat Abu Hazela has unfortunately lost the primary election bid for the Illinois U.S. house seat. This is from the 19th. I'm not entirely sure what that is, but some news outlet, and I only pulled this one specifically because it has her name on it. Libs are trying to distance themselves from the online crazy people as conservatives are too. Everybody is trying to distance themselves from the crazy people. The libs are trying to do it. They identified this, they them as a crazy lady or they themselves. And most of the mainstream news outlets were highlighting the winner, who nobody has ever heard of, which is fine. You know, not everybody needs to hear of every single congressional candidate. But this lady specifically, or they them not sure, made a bunch of headlines. We covered it on this show where she decided to block traffic to an ICE facility and was arrested for it. Pushed ice, I think allegedly pushed ICE officials on video and was arrested for that as well. And then because she's an online lefty celeb in some way, she said, I'm going to run for Congress. And that did not go well. And it was an open primary seat too. She now, she wasn't. She wasn't trying to primary anybody on her own party. This is a very lib area. She also, if I remember correctly, I think, like, just moved to that district, which is hilarious. But bottom line, interesting. I. I don't know, is this a good thing or a bad thing? Tptvsa.com I'd actually love to hear your input. Is it good that the lib crazy people lose? Like, is it good that this lady isn't going up against a conservative in the general election? Because that actually would probably be way tighter, which would cause libs to spend more money there, which would have them take money away from other races. Or, or is it that good that they them lost. And now a more normal lib, even though I probably disagree, but more normal lib is going to take the. I don't know, I don't know what is the best approach to this. Tptpsa.com if you have any thoughts on that. Speaking of spicy, speaking of the infighting, which I'm not a fan of, I don't think this is like super. Well, let me, let me say it like this. Well, first let me read the headline. This is from the New York Times. Joe Kent, top US Counter terrorism official resigns over the Iran war thing is the director of the National Counterterrorism center, longtime Trump supporter. I actually like Jokent. I a lot of things that he has said that I'm like, oh cool, sounds like a, sounds like a dude who I'd agree with on a lot of different things. This one specifically, not so much which I think the nuance here is. That's fine. In this particular instance, you've probably already seen. I'm not going to read his whole statement, but he is a pretty strongly worded statement saying I cannot support this, Makes some comments about Israel, talks about President Trump getting pressured into a war. I happen to disagree with that assessment. Obviously, you can come to these things with different opinions, I think, and I've made it clear on this show and several of you in the email have, have supported this stance of, yeah, Iran's been a thorn in the side of the entire world for the last 50 years and finally somebody did something about it. And so just because there are mutual interests between the United States and Israel doesn't mean that one country is bullying around the other country. Seems like a pretty pragmatic approach. And remember, President Trump often runs as a populist, campaigns as a populist, but governs as a pragmatist. And just it seems like it makes sense right from what the administration is saying, from what I think all of the resources that we're gathering seems like hopefully, you know, the outcome is that the United States prevails and this is over quickly and we get what we want out of it. That's what I come in at as, and that's what a lot of people come at it as. Jokent, on the other hand, doesn't agree with that and he has every right to not agree with that. And on a personal level, he obviously is a military veteran if you didn't know this, served I think 11 combat tours in the army. His wife tragically was killed by a suicide bomber. I believe in Syria. Totally understand why you would be super apprehensive to other foreign wars. Totally get that. And what I say here is two good people can disagree, which is fine. That's what politics is about. That is what you know, conservatism really is about. And, and I will note too his decision to resign I think is principled. Like he doesn't believe in this clearly as he stated and he's decided I'm gonna resign. I don't think that makes him a good guy. I don't think that makes him a bad guy. It just makes him a person who disagrees and showed it by resigning. Yeah, it's a harshly worded letter and you know, maybe you disagree with that, but again that's okay. Reasonable people can disagree. We happen to on this front, the online, you know, discussion over this like just making perpetual enemies out of each other. I think I, I don't know the lib. That's, that's exactly what the libs want. I think is what I'm ultimately saying. The libs want us to be at each other's throats and have and so division and cause division. And we also don't have to participate in that. We can say, hey yeah, you know, we happen to disagree on this. Good luck, best of luck in the future. It is a principled move to go ahead and resign. Sure, fine. Best of luck. Hope wish for continued success in the future and leave it at that. I would love to not play into the libs trying to so division. You may have strong feelings about that if you do. TBTPA.com uh, let's see. Last point to get to. I'll try to make this really quick as I know we discussed Joe Kent for a little bit from Newsmax. President Trump moves to lower fuel costs with waivers. President Trump issued a temp temporary 60 day waiver of the Jones act which is a 1920 law required requiring goods transported between US ports be carried on US flags US built US crude vessels to allow foreign flagships to move energy products and other commodities domestically. So basically saying other countries or other sorry other not US owned ships can help maneuver stuff around which hopefully will increase the supply which will hopefully lower the costs. That's all there's to say about that. Hope it works. Interesting idea. Hope it's successful that those are all the points. No, not all the points. There's no way to get to all the points, but those are a lot of the points that we'll be talking about and covering. Appreciate you sticking around. My favorite segment is coming up next where officials discuss official things in official business. That is after the break. Tpt comma is the email address. We'll be right back. Don't go away.
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Lib Senator Tina Smith
Brings me to the so called Save America Act. This legislation will not save anything about America, but it will destroy something precious about this country. It is not meant to empower people to determine the direction of the nation, but to deprive them of that power. Not to encourage citizen participation in government, but to discourage it. Not to heal a nation that is badly divided, but to cause friction, further division, disunion, and democratic decay.
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Joe Bob
Everything he just said is total, utter and complete bullshit. I, I just, it just is. Which, which gets me thinking. I appreciate the fact that conservatives are now using like the age old lib tactic of like naming something. Naming a bill. That sounds good, if you know what I'm talking about. Libs love to, to like call things one thing and they just do the exact opposite of the thing. Like in California specifically, there was a ballot initiative which allowed like theft up to like $500 or something crazy. And it allowed short release programs. It allowed a bunch of different things that made people less safe in the bill. The referendum I think was called the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools act did the complete opposite. So anyways, I like conservatives participating in like hokey names for bills. I like the SAVE Act. What I think we should do next is name things even more outlandishly, not what they are again, to compete with what the libs are doing. Like, we should call the voter ID bill the Puppies and Ice Cream for All bill and make libs like Adam Bulshiff get up there and say why they hate the Puppies and Ice Cream for All bill. I just, I feel like that's the next step in our, in our political discourse and I think we should take it. I think we should beat the, Beat the libs to the punch. Let's do it. Um, all right. That was a small taste of, of official business, but of course that wasn't official because we haven't played the singer yet. So let's get into it here. Officials are saying things, which makes it official business. All right, up first we've got Congressman D. Wesley Bell. Congressman Wesley Bell from Missouri discussing the. Just maybe we should start calling it now the Puppies and Ice Cream for All bill. He's against it, which is horrible. But here's, here's Some commentary that we will all laugh at together. Together. What is this? Cut six.
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TSA Agent / Official
If any TSA agents are listening tonight, I can't tell you and how much I appreciate you. And when I'm going through TSA, which I'm going back and forth to D.C. and St. Louis, I have to do a lot. I try to tell them every time I see them, because I can't. I. I appreciate the work that you're doing. And oftentimes it takes a while to get legislation passed. Let's be honest with that. But you got to plant your flag and then start moving that flag forward and getting it done. I believe the work that TSA agents do is of the utmost importance. And when there's a fight going on and there's a shutdown, as a result, TSA agents should be able to get paid because they work every day. And right now, they're working without pay. And we must ensure that this doesn't happen again.
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Joe Bob
All right, so I misread the Q line there. That is. He's talking about the DHS bill that hasn't gotten through, which is the libs fault. It's. It's, it's. It. It's very reminiscent of Governor Newsom looking around California and going, there's poop everywhere. Homeless people doing drugs in the middle of the street. Somebody needs to fix this. As if he hasn't been in the statewide government for like, the last decade and a half. Same thing going on with libs in Congress, in the Senate, saying, hey, we appreciate all the work the TSA is doing. And to show that appreciation, we're not going to pay them because the Hill that we've chosen to die on is. Well, you can't have immigration enforcement at polling places. Literally. That's the Hill. So, yeah, very, very funny. And official, because it is official business. Moving on. In official business, here is Lib Senator saying the quiet part out loud in the SAVE Act. This is U.S. senator Tina Smith, D Minnesota.
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Podcast Host
That is not the half of it. Just consider all the people who will face new challenges just to vote for no good reason. If you are a student who just moved to start college, Republicans will make it harder for you to vote. Because if this bill passes, you will need to show a photo ID and proof of citizenship in every single state. But a student ID won't count.
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Joe Bob
Yeah, duh. You know who prints out the student IDs? Freaking students. I think I had several fake student IDs. Interestingly enough, not for anything nefarious. I don't really participate in that sort of thing. But into like, to get into like football games, you had to be like a senior. Seniors got or fourth year, whatever they call them in college nowadays. Like, you know, if you're a senior, you get into the football game for free. So my friend who was printing student IDs at the student lounge like I asked, hey, can you print me an ID that says that I'm a senior at this school so that I can get into the football game for free? Shocking you. You mean to say that that shouldn't be an acceptable form of proof of citizenship? Wow. Unbelievable. The last unbelievable thing that we'll probably have time to get to in our official business is Representative Ted, you actually, Representative, very close to where I live, responding to white libs, don't want ICE or really anybody, any enforcement whatsoever near polling places. This is the on the hue. I'm not, I wasn't going to say this, but the queue line does say he is dumb af. I don't necessarily approve that type of language, but I'm just telling you that that's what it says. Let's all assess the validity of that statement.
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Megan McCardell
Congressman, Democrats have repeatedly expressed deep concern over ICE being at polling places. But if illegals aren't voting in American elections, as you just alleged, then why is that of such great concern?
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Commentator on Pete Hankseth
Oh, because people with guns around a polling place would be intimidating to lots of Americans, and why would they even be at a polling place? Right. There's no reason for that. And I am glad that the administration has repeatedly said they're not going to have ICE near polling places.
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Joe Bob
All right. So according to this congressman, no cops anywhere near polling places because that would make it intimidating. Which, geez, man, if, if it makes something intimidating to have a police officer, not even immigration enforcement. He said anybody with a firearm will intimidate people. God. Gee, I can't. Those people probably can't go anywhere. Can't go to the mall, can't go to the park. Sure as heck can't go to the city council meeting and express your interest in what the city is doing. You can't do really anything if you're that afraid of people with firearms. And that really is sad that those people have to suffer such a terrible, terrible phobia. All right, well, hey, that's official business. Coming up next is, you know, I probably can't or shouldn't say this is my favorite segment, but I just forgot today's woke Wednesday. And so even though I said official business is my favorite, I may have lied unintentionally but it may have been a falsehood. So Woke Wednesday is coming up after the break. Tptbsa.com, we'll be right back after this.
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Parent
You guys did a great job completing your chores this week. Here's $10 each.
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Child
Thanks. I'm gonna buy my lime ice.
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Parent
But remember, we have to set aside some of your money.
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Child
Oh, yeah, Savings and giving.
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Parent
Don't forget a dollar set aside for taxes.
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Child
Taxes.
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Parent
Money we have to pay the government.
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Child
Why do we have to pay the government?
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Parent
Well, they pave our roads, pay for firefighters, libraries.
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Child
Are they the ones that spray the weeds on the side of the roads with chemicals?
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Parent
Well, yes.
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Child
Taxes are for war, too, Oakes. Oh, yeah. Well, do any taxes go towards home school? No, but that's not fair.
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Parent
We pay to educate the population as
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Child
a whole and build their football stadiums. Well, how much of what we pay go to things that we don't want? Yeah, taxes. Is that no more taxes? No more taxes.
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Parent
Maybe we'll just learn about taxes when
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Joe Bob
they're a little bit older. Sounds to me like they understand taxes perfectly.
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Interviewer
No more taxes.
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Joe Bob
I can only hope that my kids will understand taxes the same way that those children, children in that very funny sketch do. All right. Hey, without wasting any more time, let's get into the the wokest day of the week. We probably should update the zinger because all the other zingers have been updated. But since we haven't yet, it is Woke Wednesday. Jaime Tara Rico, again, I think is how you pronounce that. I will also take submissions. TPT tbusa.com I know. We're trying to figure out how to say the mayor of New York City's name, I think, or Ma' am Danny or mom dummies or a mom dummy. Also, James Talarico, I think could be. We could have some consideration there, too. I think. Again, I'm trying to be, you know, respectful of this guy, Jaime Talarico. Maybe it because he's trying to not be white because for some reason that's bad in his eyes. Anyways, Woke Wednesday. Kicking off with this clip that's making the rounds. Here is a masked Senate candidate in 2022, way past anybody wearing masks, sitting in a restaurant that looks just about empty telling people in Texas to not do their favorite thing. Go ahead.
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Masked Senate Candidate
Have I think heard more and more issues of animal welfare? I think not just because it's the right thing to do and the moral thing to do, but also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change. It is now Existential. That we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society. And so I, I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non meat campaign. So we have. We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses. The point is that I think all of us, not just policymakers, but everyone, has to take personal responsibility in this effort.
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Joe Bob
You know, I'm curious how much commentary is actually necessary here. This is a man running in the barbecue capital of the world. Now, I know there are some people in Kansas City that are very, very upset that I just said that. But I don't know, I've tried both. I'm a bigger fan of Texas. Terry Blacks, specifically in Austin, or Interstellar, which is a little bit north. Okay. Bottom line is Texans like meat. So how much commentary is actually necessary other than to say good luck, sir, good luck at trying to run a campaign? One that is fueled by vegan owned businesses, of which I am told there are at least three, but we're not entirely sure if there's more than that in the state of Texas. Also telling Texans that not only do they not have to eat meat or they can't eat meat or that they shouldn't eat meat, that they're doing so to combat climate change. Don't eat meat to combat climate change. Which by the way, he didn't say it in this clip, but the reason that libs think that you shouldn't eat. How does that have anything to do with climate change? I kid you not. This is actually a thing. Libs think that because cattle are herded in order to be food, because that's delicious. When they're herded, their cow farts contain enough methane to break down the ozone layer. You can look this up. That is literally why libs think that we shouldn't eat meat, because cows farting is bad for the environment and therefore will lead to climate change. He didn't say that here, but that's the case that he's making. To which, how much arguing do we have to do? Should we just say, I think, I think this is true. There's been a bunch of rumors that one bunch of Texas conservatives convinced good old Congresswoman Crockett to run for Senate because they knew she would lose and therefore end effectively her political career. But two wanted her to lose in the primary so that we could get a hold of this guy who is substantially worse. So best of luck, buddy. TBT tbsa.com is the email address we'll get to Some of the emails that came across the line yesterday right after the break. Don't go away.
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Commentator on Pete Hankseth
Pathetic is Pete Hankseth at this point?
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Joe Bob
You know, we've been watching his, his press conferences. He's saying all these crazy things. I mean, what can you say? You know, he's, he's always been pretty pathetic. Yeah, it, it pains me as a Minnesotan. Okay. I wanted to play that because I'm. I would like to solicit opinions. TPT tbusa.com Is this good news? Is this good news that Representative Ilhan Omar is calling herself a Minnesotan and not a Somalian? I don't know. I would love to open it up to your thoughts. Tpt. Com. This is the first instance I've heard her say, I'm a Minnesota. I'm. I'm a Minnesotan. She even throws on the accent. Is that good? Is that a good thing? Or is it just another instance of her trying to pander? I don't know. Tpusa. Com. Look into some of the emails really quick. Only got a couple here. A little bit of limited time. Greg says this on libs. Why the libs are scared of the SAVE Act. The libs have said the quiet part out loud. If the SAVE act is passed, then 21 million people will not be able to vote. That is according to them. Interestingly, Greg says that is the same number of illegal immigrants in our country currently. Of course, they don't have birth certificates because they weren't born here and therefore can no longer vote. That's an interesting theory, Greg. I'm. Regardless of whether or not it's true. Yeah, let's try and make sure that people are able to vote. But that is an interesting one. Libs are saying, yeah, 21 million people. Where did they get that number? Oh, is it all the illegals in the country? I don't know. Thanks for the email, Greg. Mike says this. Hey, Joe Bob. Enjoyed your show. From Seymour, Connecticut, a conservative town in a heavily lib state. You know, the risk of going on I. So that that's the exact opposite of where you want to live. I happen to live in that. In that part two, Mike. So I sympathize with you a lot. Being in a red town in a blue state is unfortunately I like. It's the worst. What you want to do possibly even is. And I don't even know if this is a blue city in a red state is like you get all of the cool arts culture, cool coffee shops, all of the good restaurants in a red state where they can't do anything too crazy. In a lot of ways, that's my ideal. Anyways, Mike goes on, basically just to give some encouraging words. So appreciate it, Mike. And remember, I can sympathize with you as a conservative town in a very, very blue state. It's not the best. The other flip those, reverse those, and it's not. It's not the best either, but it is substantially better. Tptcpusa.com is the email address. Thank you for all of those who send emails. I'm sorry we can't get to all of them, but try to read all of them at least. We will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. God bless America.