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I heart Radio. Yes you can. A five minute quick and easy calorie burning workout. Give it a try. Come join our sweatsesh on TikTok. King Trump reigns supreme with absolute dominion over the American electoral process. But actually, it's less about Trump than a lot of people think. And libs, according to yesterday's elections, really want to tax the rich but refuse to tax themselves. No shock there. Other big libs gathered for their Bad Ideas conference, of which we have a ton of clips and a potentially very controversial take that I have on Gen Z home ownership. Stay tuned. Thanks so much for tuning in. My name is Joe Bob. The show starts right now. I actually do think President Trump's style of leadership, not his kind of bombastic throwing Instagram posts or tweets or truth posts out, uh, but his actual pragmatic style of governance is the forefront of what went on yesterday in the elections. But we'll discuss that at full length, including a peek behind the curtain at how this business actually works, which might be very, very interesting for all of you folks who may be interested in that sort of thing. If you are, tptpusa.com is the email. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms. You're allowed to be wrong in our email inbox, but everyone is welcome. TPTP USA.com also follow us on social media. Leave a comment wherever it is that you happen to be watching this. If you can't find us on social media, just type in Jo B O B pretty much anywhere you'll be able to find us. There's not a lot of Joe Bob's out there and if there are, they're probably not brown with all of their teeth. So that's a good indicator that you've gone to the right place via social media. And if your emails or comments on social media are gross, disgusting, violent, downright nasty, the chances of us reading on the show actually go up. Like today's All Star email. We got some hate mail, so this is actually very exciting. We don't get this too often. Timothy says this on the topic. Yesterday, the beginning of the show, we were talking about the ideas between, you know, good and evil, which are less apparent than I think I'm comfortable with. But you know, at least that just means we have to restate what those actually are. But Timothy says this. I thought it was pretty ironic that you had the audacity to become noble and and a man of principles when criticizing Luigi Mangione's justification for taking out a corrupt insurance CEO. However, when it comes to potus, and then he goes yada yada, yada yada about a bunch of geopolitical global war situations. I did mention yesterday explicitly as a caveat, I'm not talking about war. War is messy and unfortunate. War is bad. I don't like war. Having said that, sometimes it's also necessary and that's up to the discretion of the people in power who we have a say in. So I said explicitly, that's the caveat. What I'm talking about is unjustified killings on the street. If your opinion of that depends on who the murdered or the victim or, you know, the perpetrator of the violence is, then you are wrong. He finishes up and says, you see all of you right wing mega nuts are sick, and then goes on and on about all of the other things that we explicitly mentioned as the caveat yesterday. We don't have time to get into a big discussion on that, but maybe we will later on in the show. What I'd like to talk about today is, as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, King Trump, which of course I'm only saying to make all of the folks on the left mad with their whole no kings thing. Obviously I don't think President Trump is a king and if he were, he wouldn't be a very good one. He like listens to the courts when they say he can't do things, even though it's super frustrating and annoying, which a king just wouldn't do. But Anyways, all that aside, President Trump dominated yesterday in the primaries, as he has often done. And what does that actually say about the direction of the country and the. The quote, unquote fractures in maga? I also want to give you a peek behind the curtain of this industry to kind of explain where I think those quote, unquote fractures actually come from. First things first. 37 and oh, President Trump endorses last night in the primary elections were undefeated in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Idaho, Oregon, Kentucky, Alabama. All of that in the face of MAGA is dead. It's a pretty alive dead thing, if you ask me. 37 and oh is nothing. It's not even like 36 and 1 or 35 and 2, which would still be an utterly dominant performance. No, undefeated last night. Now, I've joked obviously that, well, this is the doing of King Trump, who has absolute dominion over American electoral politics. But actually, I think it's deeper than that. We've talked on this show about the style of President Trump, and, you know, obviously there are people that have some difficulty swallowing the style of the current president, which I totally understand. And there are some things that he posts that I'm not super thrilled about. Having said that, how he campaigns and how he actually governs seem to be totally separate things. If you're following it all, which I'm sure you are, if you're watching this, President Trump has objectively campaigned as a populace, you know, what's going to be the most popular among the electorate. And let's just go ahead and talk about those things while at the same time in actual government responsibilities. As a governor, he's actually been super pragmatic, and I think a lot of that is evidenced by his poll numbers. President Trump's poll numbers are not great at the moment, which honestly, I think means that he's doing his job. What I think the poll numbers indicate is the fact that President Trump understands that sometimes the right thing to do, or at least in his opinion, the right thing to do for the American people aren't exactly going to be super popular. I mean, that's kind of the whole reason we founded this country in the way that we did. It's a representative democracy, meaning that sometimes the right thing to do will not be the popular majority opinion of the American people. And I think that shows by President Trump's current poll numbers. He's doing things that, in his opinion and also mine, are necessary for the country to continue forward, but might not be the most popular thing. Now, to the idea that, quote, unquote, MAGA is dead. Where does that come from? Well, one, it's the mainstream media landscape wanting to echo those opinions that are being espoused by folks who I think I mentioned yesterday, six months ago, were staunch conservatives and now are like, wow, this is the worst thing that's ever happened in the world. Now, obviously the mainstream lamestream media loves to talk about that sort of stuff because they love seeing fissures and fractions inside of the conservative coalition. But who's actually promoting those ideas and why are they doing so? I know this sounds probably suit too simplistic, but the reality is it's just money. The people that are promoting the ideas that MAGA is dead are strictly out for money by way of clicks and advertisements. Now, the peek behind the curtain that I'm about to give you, just so you know, and just so we're being transparent, doesn't really apply to this show. The way our contract is set up doesn't have any of these sorts of incentives which, you know, to the team, sometimes that can be a little bit frustrating because there are things that we can do and say that would garner a much larger audience, although we'd have to sacrifice our morals. And unfortunately, we happen to be a, or at least try to be as virtuous as we can here on this show. So the bottom line is we could do all of the things that these smaller podcasts are doing, which then get echoed by the mainstream media, which puts the sentiment out there that quote unquote, MAGA is dead. The peek behind the curtain I'd like to give you is some of the finances on the back end of what these podcasters can look forward to if they gather an even small number of people. Now, I've mentioned on the show here, some of the big cable news shows struggle to get a million and a half people per night. If you look at it mathematically, based on the population of the country, that even a million people, that's. That's a big number for cable news audiences. That's still 0.3% of the population. But the thing is, mathematically and financially speaking, in order to be an incredibly successful podcaster, you don't even need those numbers. In case you don't know, the way that advertisers pay for advertisements on podcasts is what's called cpm and it's basically cost per thousand viewers. So in other words, if 1,000 people listen to your podcast every single day, which is a very small number, the ad spend that somebody would pay to advertise on your podcast is about 25 bucks. In other words, it costs $25 in order for an advertiser to get in front of a thousand people. Just say you're doing a political podcast that lasts 45 minutes every day, and in that 45 minutes, every 15 minutes, you do an ad. So you have three ads in that podcast, each worth about $25 apiece because you have a thousand viewers. Now bump that up to 50,000 viewers every single day, and the numbers actually start to look pretty dang good. At 50,000 downloads, at $25 per thousand, that's about 12 $50 per ad. If you do three ads in a show, that's $3,700 gross revenue per episode. Now, obviously you understand this, but 50,000 people is not a lot of people. It is an infinitesimally small number relative to the population of the country. But if you can gather that dedicated 50,000 person audience per week, you can make up to $18,000 in ad revenue per month. It's about $81,000 per year. 260 episodes Monday through Friday, you're looking at about $1 million per year. And this is for a very, very small audience relative to the population. In other words, what I'm trying to say here is that the people in the podcast space, which again is myself included, but again, our contract works a little bit differently, have incentive to not appeal to what most of America is thinking, but instead to find that very, very small, very, very niche group of people that will watch their show every day because that will translate to a million dollars per year. And because of that, their sole focus is attention. What can I do to get attention? If I can draw the Irene of the President of the United States. Yeah, you know, a bunch of normal people, pragmatic people may not like me, but I can get, I can gather those 50,000, a thousand loyal viewers and make my million dollars a year just talking to them explicitly and exclusively. That is what these people are after. And what better way to gain attention, especially with the president who will happily truth social against you, is to say that MAGA is dead. In reality, is it really? Or is it those podcasting people who really, really just want to capture that very, very small percentage of individuals who don't fall into the more normal political view want to say that MAGA is dead. And obviously the mainstream media wants to repeat that to try and ingrain it to us to, to prove that. No, actually pragmatism has gone out the window. If yesterday's election proved anything, is that. No, it hasn't. The podcasting class who has gathered their small collection of people that are in whatever little pockets they are, do not represent the country here on this show. We like to tell it to you how it is. I think this was a pretty transparent explanation of what I think is going on. But at the end of the day, the broader American people, despite all of the MAGA is dead, conservative coalition is over, Donald Trump is blah blah blah blah blah. Yesterday proved none of that is true. It wasn't 35 and 2, it wasn't 36 and 1, it was 370 in some not, not red meaty states. Yeah, you know, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Alabama, but there's also Oregon and Pennsylvania in there. In other words, not exactly bastions of conservatism. And yet the pragmatic governance of the President's endorsements of the candidates ended up prevailing. That's just some analysis for you. I'd love to Hear your thoughts. TPTP USA.com Any thoughts that you have. Am I, am I on track? Am I way off base? Was it interesting to know that you can actually make a decent amount of money with a very small audience in the podcast realm? Is it frustrating to know that we don't do that? Our producer is nodding his head politely, but also frustratingly and annoyingly. But yeah, we, we again around here have a moral code that we tend to stick to and therefore want to tell you the truth whether or not it garners that audience that would warrant those kind of numbers. Tptbusa.com is the email address. Coming up One of my more controversial takes revolving revolving around Gen Z home ownership. I actually don't think it's very controversial. I think it's actually pretty mainstream as well as a veto in Virginia, the Dems, the Libs, Ideas gathering. All that more coming up. We'll be right back after the break. Tptposa.com don't go away.
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I don't pay taxes. So true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes and it's a perfect again if people want me to pay more billions, right, then let's have that debate. But don't pretend you know, that this. That that's going to solve the problem. You could. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens, I promise you. This is. So you can't connect those two things, not logically. You know, there are more examples of why is rent expensive? Why is rent so expensive? I recently saw somebody blamed it on Airbnb. Okay. Airbnb is not the cost of expensive rent. In fact, it's been almost none of this year. One sec. It's already been outlawed, right, In New York City, and rents are still very high. So we know Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention.
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You know, again, I'm not a defender of Jeff Bezos, but at the same time, you know, when he's right, he's right. He actually, I think about a year ago, made sure that the Washington Post, the news publication that he owns, advocated for free markets and free participation in those markets without government interference. And he's absolutely right on this particular point. Now, what I thought was ironic and interesting about this is he said, well, you. You can't connect those two things. Billionaires. What was this stat that we've used before? If every single billionaire was taxed 100% of their entire net worth, which is not feasible. Possible, or they would just leave the country, that would run the federal government for about eight months. So he absolutely is right. Like doubling his tax base or his is a contribution to the income tax would not really do anything. And he then says, you can't connect those two things, at least logically, to which Mamzan Zuhani, the communist Ugandan Islamic mayor of New York, said, I have some New York teachers that disagree. Yeah, you're proving the point. You can't connect it logically. So the illogical. Ooh, almost said it. Almost said a bad thing. Stop myself. The very dumb mayor of New York City then did exactly what he said. You can do. You can. You can't collect it logically. To which ma' am Zan Doohani said, well, here's. Here's a way to not collect it logically. They did. He did the meme. All right, let's see. When there are lots of points to get to, we do have to get to them, contractually speaking. It's time to. Time to get to the point. Get to the point.
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Now, you may think this first Point that we get to here today is seemingly irrelevant, and in some ways it is. But at the same time, it's indicative of how I think American should be run. Uh, a small town Georgia mayor resigned weeks after he fired the entire police department. Now again, if you come from like a, a bigger city, a more suburban area, you might be like, holy cow, he fired the entire police department. That's crazy. But actually the mayor of Kahoota, which is a small northwest Georgia town, fired three cops. And I'm not saying, I'm not saying that's good. I'm just saying he fired three people. This town is only about 700 people. And he resigned amid the controversy after he fired the entire town's three person police department last month following a dispute involving the officer, officers and his wife. So the officers, the three person police department had some sort of dispute with his wife and so he fired the entire police department of this 700 person city and then weeks later resigned himself. His wife had also recently been terminated as the town clerk. Here's why I think this story is interesting and worth paying attention to. Does it matter that the mayor of a 700 person town resigned? No, not really. But actually this is a great example of local control. This very, very small town, I guarantee you, has a much more intimate relationship with their cities or town leaders than you do with yours. I mean, I know the city council in my city, but. Well, I guess in theory I can go and knock on the door, but that, that's beside the point. Most people in most towns can't. You know, if the city is doing something they don't like doing, like spending a bajillion dollars on like a street sign, which happened in like Phoenix the other day. It's pretty difficult to get a hold of your city council. You can go to city council meetings, but then you got, you know, three minutes to air your grievances and they're all just sitting there texting on their phone. In this particular town, it's like, no, it's, that's, that's Ron, he lives over there. It's just go say hi, air my grievances that way. And in local cities like this, you know, if somebody is the mayor and his wife works as the town clerk, eh, that, that might be a little, it might be a little conflict of interest maybe. And then the police have an altercation with his wife or some sort of dispute, he fires the whole police department. You know, in a big city you might be able to actually get away with that. Unfortunately, in a small Town. Nah, there's. There's pressure in that small town. There is some local auntie who bakes all the pecan pies there in Georgia, who told him and his wife, hey, you're not getting one this year unless we see some consequences. And he says, dang it, I'm being held responsible by my constituency. And I really love Miss Mary May's pecan pie. So dang it, I'm gonna resign. Now I'm. I'm imagining it was more contentious than that, but I'm just giving you an example of how America should be run. Direct communication with your elected leaders. Because that's the way we were designed. That's what an elective republic is. I understand this is a municipal system, but broader idea notwithstanding, uh, speaking of locals, locales, small cities, I think a lot of people sometimes couch different states by how their major metropolitan areas vote. If I say Oregon, everybody watching this show will roll their eyes and go, those freaking commies over there in Oregon. But really, that's kind of just Portland. If you go, you know, anywhere east of the Oregon coast, slash Portland if it is blood red. Oh, that. That is how red the counties of Oregon are outside of the major metropolitan areas in Portland. Which is why I think you see elections turning out like this. Oregon voters overwhelmingly rejected Measure 120 in the 2026 primary with an 80% voting against. Now that would include the libs that dominate Portland, which was proposed tax hikes on the tax hikes on the state's gas tax, payroll tax and vehicle registration titles and fees. In other words, Oregon, a lot of small towns, especially east of the main population, coastal centers, the. The 5 freeway or I guess I 5 if you're not from California. That's one of those weird California things that was exemplified perfectly on snl. For whatever reason, Southern California, we say the in front of any of the freeways, whereas most people around the country say i5 anyways, i5 east blood red conservatives, they actually coupled with the libs who want to tax the billionaires to say, eh, how about no on any of these taxes? It would have raised the gas tax from $0.40 to $0.46 per gallon, increased title fees from $77 to $216 and double payroll tax used for public transit from 0.1% to 0.2% until 2028. In other words, cash grab by the libs that control Oregon from their major metropolitan areas. And the voters said absolutely effing not. Which is good. We like that sort of thing. We like it when Libs do semi reasonable things, which interestingly enough I think is what's going on in Virginia. Governor Spanberger, who we've had a lot to say negatively about, according to the Virginia Mercury, vetoes a cannabis bill, stalling legal sales again in the state. Governor Abigail Spanberger vetoed legislations that would have created Virginia's union long delayed adult use cannabis retail market five years after the commonwealth legalized marijuana possession. Now you can look at this in two different ways in my opinion. You can look at it as a more libertarian idea. Hey, you know, conservatives, the center right and the center left kind of agree on this. Let's just go ahead and make it legal. And would eliminate a lot of problems, would put drug dealers out of business, we generate tax revenue. Or you can look at it from the Christian perspective. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that's gonna, that's, that's gonna give me a lot of trouble. I, I tend to be a little bit harsh on the devil's lettuce, uh, but you know, it's called that for a reason. Um, but anyways, the veto came after the General assembly rejected Spanberger's substitute proposal and sent back the original unchanged document to her desk. But the governor, the, the person we've made a lot of fun of and deservedly so, argued that the state needs to build a stronger regulatory framework and enforce the structure before retail sales can begin. To which I, as an anti devil's lettuce advocate would say, yeah, sure, whatever delays it longer, I'm fine with. And also too, you know, structurally, you do have to set that up. We've seen a lot of problems in states that have legalized it. California specifically, especially from like a banking standpoint. You've got armed security at all of these weed dispensaries because federally speaking, they weren't able to deal in the credit system, so they had to use cash, which means these places are flushed with cash, which means they were getting knocked over and robbed constantly, which made it more dangerous. All that to be said is, I guess, kudos maybe I get. But she probably. The thing is like even, even when a broken clock is right twice a day, there's still some like sinister reason behind it. Usually don't exactly know what is here now, but that's what's going on in Virginia. And I'm sure people from both sides are upset about that. I for one though, don't have a problem with it. I guess things I do have a problem with though, and this is where the controversial take of the day Comes in. Is this from the ap, the Associated Press reporting. Single Gen Z women outpace Gen Z men to homeownership despite overall decline in first time buyers. Single Gen Z women as opposed to single Gen Z men when it comes to homeownership, which accounts for about 35% of all home buyers in their generation. Oh, sorry, sorry. Homeowners women. Gen Z women account for 35% of all home buyers in their generation as opposed to just 18% for single gen Z men according to the national association of Realtors survey. Now they go into some of the statistics of what percentage of homes are being purchased by Gen Z and it's not a lot, which is not good. But here's a controversial take for you that I can back up and defend. Although it might not be the most popular take. Neither party should be buying homes. It's it. There is a point in life where you should buy a home if you're not married, but you should get married first and then buy a home. The single Gen Z women buying home versus the single Gen Z men buying home. Why don't those single people just get together, get married and start your life together? Because, because here's what I see happen often, especially in God forsaken hell like California where I've got a lot of single friends who are single much later in life than they probably should be saying, hey, well we still want to hit these life milestones. You know, we're going to get a career and I get, you know, all the things buy a house. And that's kind of one of their things. And the problem that I've seen in the millennial generation, which I am a part of, is the people that buy homes separately when they do finally end up getting married. There's some issues. There tends to be some issues. Let's just say best case scenario, both parties, the husband and wife, have a home separately. Okay, well which one are you going to live in? Can you afford to make payments on both? Do you keep both houses? Which side? It's just tricky. It's not impossible to solve, but it is tricky. What gets even more tricky is when only one of the sides have a home because there's this, this isn't how it should be. This isn't how it ha. You know, I'm sure there's certain couples and certain marriages that, that don't have this, like this, this problem. But I also have seen problems where, well, she owned a house and they got married. So he moved into her house or vice versa. He owned a house they got married, she moved into his house. See where the problem there is? When you get married, you are one thing, but there's this weird thing in the back of your mind that says, well, this is mine. I had this house before she came into the picture. Therefore, this. She's moving into my house. Or vice versa. He's moving into my house. And it could take a significant amount of time in order to get over that hurdle. So what I'm recommending here is, hey, you know this, this statistic, Gen Z women are outpacing Gen Z men buying homes. Single Gen Z men and women don't do that. Buy a home. Once you've started your life with somebody else, go ahead and make that the priority after you get married. And then you might think, well, you know, well, what if an opportunity rises? I don't want to be paying rent. Okay, get married earlier. There's that, that, that. Just do that. Get married earlier. Start your home together so that the biggest investment purchase you will make in your entire life, which is your home, is done as a unit, as opposed to, I just want to hit these career miles. No, no, don't. Don't do that. Get married faster, sooner. Buy a home together. Go into it as equal partner, as one unit, as opposed to, she's moving into my house, he's moving into my house. Messy. I don't know how controversial that is, but it feels controversial to me. Hey, looking at the time, we're gonna maybe. Oh, this is, it's a good one, but let's go ahead and skip it for today. Maybe we'll bring it back tomorrow because it'll still be relevant then. Good news coming out of. Oh, I'm sorry. Actually, no bad news. Bad news coming out of Chicago's top courts. We'll get to that. Maybe tomorrow. Let me just read the headline. Colorado's top courts orders Children's hospitals to Resume Gender. Gender Child mutilation for minors. We'll get more into that story a little bit later on if we have time. But I want to make sure we have time for official business. TBT. TBSA.com is the email address. Is that take controversial Gen Z or just really any single person buying a home? Now, look, I get it. There's, there's, there's limits, you know, if you're still single, you know, in your mid-40s. Yeah, I understand. You don't want to pay rent forever. I get it. But just generally speaking, that's what I think. Disagree. Agree. Tbtpusa.com we'll be right Back after the break. Don't go away.
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It's okay. We're not going. No, we're not doing it together. We're not doing it together. I. I have. It's okay. It's okay. Hi. Sorry. A homeless person just tried to get into my car. Yeah, I just think. I don't know how that can be avoided. They just, like, jumped in the car.
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Oh, I. She doesn't know how it can be avoided. I, I got some suggestions. Don't let homeless meth heads roam around the streets. And you probably solve the problem. God, I'm good at this. I should. I should answer all the questions. I. Maybe. What other questions do we have as a society? I can give you a pretty straightforward, very concise, easy, simple answer. Don't let homeless people wander around the streets. And guess what? That would eliminate the possibility of a homeless person trying to get into your freaking car. Holy cow. All right, San Francisco, where sanity goes to die. Hey. When officials in their official capacity talk, it's becomes our business because it effectively is and legally speaking is official business. All right, so the libs had their big ideas convention, which is honestly funny. Like, it's. It's because libs are in a situation where they have to outwoke each other consistently. And like, that's the whole point of everything they do. These types of things are like watching them punch each other in the face. And I, rhetorically speaking, by the way, and I can't get enough of it. If, if they're going to continue going down the path of out woking each other. These types of conventions should happen once a week, every single weekend. I'll put it on. I'll fund the thing. Hey, let's get all of the libs from around the country to talk about how progressive they're becoming, and it'll make it easier for us to win elections. Go 37 and oh. In President Trump backed primaries. This is Governor Newsom trying to establish himself as the dominant figure in his own party. From the Ideas Conference, the Center for American Progress. Cut six.
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We have agency. We have a responsibility. It's just like the issue of redistricting. We could have decided to write an op ed. We could have decided, you know, you know, hold hands, have a candlelight visual, win the argument. These guys are ruthless. On the other side, Trump's not screwing around and nor can we. Yeah, it's uncomfortable. Fighting fire with fire. Yes, we all want the better Angels. Yes, we want the Sorkin sound and music, little West Wing. I do. But we'll lose our country. We will lose our country.
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Okay, So, I mean, there's a. That's kind of what the country is. You know, fight ideas with ideas. I'm not sure what Governor Newsom is insinuating there, but he said, yeah, win the argument. Great. We get a round of applause. Why don't. Okay. But I mean, that's. That's assuming that you've won the argument. Considering how elections have been going the last couple years, I don't think that's a. I don't think you're making a good case there. You. You win the argument by winning at the ballot box. That's kind of the whole. What our political system does. But then he goes on to say, well, you. You gotta. You gotta go past winning the argument. Holy cow. What does that mean? What would. What would Benito Mussolini have thought that meant? He probably would have been sm. Ooh, this is this. So I can't do an Italian accent, this, but this sounds very good. I'm not. Mama mia. I don't know. He probably would have loved that. And. And yet, for some reason, libs are the pointing the finger. It's like, you guys are fascist now, but that is the most fascist thing I've heard. Hey, you know, we could. What good is winning the argument if you can't cripple your opponents into submission? Uh, okay. All right. Governor of a state appears to be calling for fascism. All right. Speaking of a governor of a state from the same conference, Governor Spanberger, who I. I wouldn't say I praised. Maybe I did. Maybe it was a little bit of a praise. Earlier in the show, only did so because it was apparent to me that she would be coming in for a kicking, rhetorically speaking, later on in the show. Here's her effectively announcing an executive order to block federal law enforcement agencies from going to polling places, which is an insane take to have, but here she is, cut seven.
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You heard it first here. Tomorrow I'll be issuing an executive order, so. Surprise, Sorry. To my comms team in ensuring that we are putting out from the state level some guidance across public spaces, including polling places, of how Virginia state employees or people who are working in support of Virginia's state run elections can react to, in this particular case, federal agents who might be appearing at a location and where the worry is that they're principally there to intimidate or scare people.
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I have, I have no problem with law enforcement there to intimidate or scare criminals. Is that, I mean, I mean, think about security, the security to that event. Right. Obviously, if something goes wrong, which nobody wants to have happen, the security is tasked with stopping any sort of threat at that place. But at the same time, the whole point of having a lot of security, wherever it is that they were, is deterrence. In other words, scare criminals away so that they don't do crime. So find me an American citizen that has the constitutional ability to vote in federal elections who is worried about going to a polling place. If ICE is there, you would find zero people. And if you find one, it's because they're scared because of misinformation spread by the misinformation police. Police. Which is interesting in and of itself. All right, here, last thing to wrap this up here is, is this Hakeem? Hakeem the dream? I don't know. Hakeem Elijah one was the dream. This Hakeem is like the nightmare. But what rhymes with nightmare And Hakeem, Hakeem the bad dream. Jeffries, same event. Trying to outdo his fellow woke compatriots. Cut 8.
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I guess part of how we as House Democrats view this moment, either MAGA extremists are going to break the country or we're going to break them. And our goal is to break them. We will defeat them. We have to beat them electorally, and then we have to break their spirit because of the extremism that's being unleashed on the American people. That's completely and totally unacceptable.
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Yeah, that's that. That tracks. President Trump is the worst president in American history because he divides people. Also, we need to break the spirits of half the country, not defeat them electorally. Break their spirits. I want to see them crying in their home alone with broken spirits, and I want to promote unity. Kind of ironic there, isn't it? Par for the course. Hey, coming up, it is Wednesday, so we'll, we'll give you, we'll give you an addition of Woke Wednesday as we come back on the show here. TPT tbsa.com what do you think about Governor Mussolini? Sorry, new saline. Sorry, new some. I'm not sure what's happening here and his comments on going past winning the rhetorical argument, which is what we're supposed to do in this country. Let us know tbtpusa.com we'll be back with Woke Wednesday after the break. Don't go away.
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Let's play. What's your most Republican take Sometimes I kind of understand owning a gun, like just for self defense, no bullets, like just to scare them off.
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And I'm pro choice, but like, if you were raised pro life, I can have sympathy for like growing up with those ideals. For sure.
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I know it's like cops, but also in Brooklyn, sometimes the cops are black. And what do you do then?
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That's so true.
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I've never thought about black cops. Okay, my turn, My turn.
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Black people should date black people.
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White people should date black people. It's funny. It's. It's that. That's funny because that is the perceived perception. Wow, fantastic lexicon there, Joe Bob. Perceived perception. That is the perception of libs and how they view conservatives. Obviously that's not true. And interestingly enough, and ironically, it's true on the other side, like, that they're very much like racial segregation. You see a bunch of these universities now having like the black commencement or the Middle Eastern commencement. And just, you know, that's just. That's a lib thing. They're very segregational in themselves. But. But also too, the. Funny. That. That was just great. That was great social and political commentary. What's your actual most conservative take? Well, things that are very reasonable. But what if the cops are black? Are the cops still racist then? Well, no, the cops aren't racist at all. That's the thing. You've kind of illuminated the point there that we've been trying to make for a very long time. Thank you for doing that. And the one thing that everyone's like. No, no, no. It's actually the thing that they do. So I. What a great piece of Internet content. You're welcome for bringing it to you here on the show tonight. You're also welcome for this. This is Randy Weingarten, one of the most contemptible people on the planet. Oh, shoot. I got to play. I got to do. It's w. Actually, I may have. I may have not jumped the gun there. That. That looked to be Randy Whitegarden herself, I think. I'm not sure. It's kind of interchangeable. Look very similar here. Here she is. Oh, geez. I will play it and. And. And discuss.
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And those attacks are why I had to write this book, why Fascists Fear Teachers. I warn about the dangers of these attacks on knowledge and pluralism. And I spell out the ways we can fight back. And it will be in bookstores in September.
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Oh, okay. So let's connect the dots by default here. So she the head of America's Teachers Federation, American Federation of Teachers One of the most powerful unions. Not only teachers unions, powerful unions in the country is writing a book about why fascists are afraid of teachers. Okay, so just extrapolate that with me briefly. I'm worried about teachers. I'm not a fat. I'm a parent. So what is she. Is she equating then the people who have the biggest problems with currently the WOKE nonsense going on in schools are the parents of the kids going to those schools? Which then. Are you comparing parents to fascists? Interesting. Interesting. I wonder what her kids. Oh, shit. I don't think she has any kids. Okay, well, not entirely sure why you've dedicated your career to helping kids, which there's actually a really interesting local component here that I can't really get into because it requires too much explanation. But she's paid about $600,000 per year and is one of the main reasons, one of the main drivers of why schools were shut down so much during COVID because it was her wanting to get more money for her folks. She's used about a million point four. $1.4 million in union resources to write and promote her books, which she describes as a manifesto fund covers her ghostwriting services. Yeah, she didn't write herself.
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Duh.
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Research, travel. Very, very expensive and extensive promotion of said book, but doubt it'll sell much. It is interesting though, the. The Marxists themselves try to accuse. I mean, it's again, straight out of Goebbels. The Nazis would be so proud of this. To accuse your enemy of that which you are doing. Fascinating. All right. Hey, we're gonna get some mailbag coming up after the break. TPTPUSA.com if you have any thoughts, comments, concerns. I want to get some hate mail. I like the hate mail. Those are. What was his name? Timothy. At the beginning of the show. The comment that we read, if you're watching again, would love some more criticism. I thrive on it. I don't say that we don't get ton of hate mail here, but if you spend your evening hate watching the show, more power to you. TBT tbsa.com if you're one of those people or if you just have any thoughts, comments, concerns about anything we've talked about here on the show, send us a social media comment. Just follow J O B O B. If you can't find us on any of the social media platforms. We'll be right back after the break with Mailbag. Don't go away.
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This past tax season, because of no tax on tips deduction, I received approximately $4,000 back that money for me went directly towards a budget for law school applications and campus visits. It became real savings that I would not have had otherwise. That refund kept the door to my future open and I wouldn't have these opportunities without it.
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In case you missed that, I think it's probably pretty clear that this guy's a restaurant worker and the no tax on tips surprisingly benefited him and his financial situation. Who would have, who would have thought that was happening? But anyways, wonder if any of the mainstream is going to cover that. And he's giving a testimony to Congress saying, hey, the whole this, this actually helped quite a bit to help me better myself, better my educational opportunities, better my opportunities as the whole in general. So thank you, President Trump. Not going to hear any thank yous from a bunch that I wonder if because I would imagine the voting constituency that works, you know, restaurants kind of like AOC did at the bar pending days, probably vote very, very liberally, I would assume. I wonder if they're also taking those no tax on tips exemptions. I don't think they should. They didn't want them actually. Sorry to argue against myself. Remember, Kamala also then copied President Trump on his policy and so. All right, let's see. TPT tbsa.com is the email address. Want to start off with some, some fun ones, Kevin with pronunciations of the NYC mayor's name, the Ugandan communist Islamist who Nan Owl Man Baggy. That's. That's a stretch, Kevin. I'll be completely honest. That's a stretch. Not entirely sure. I hope, I hope I didn't just say like a swear word in a foreign language that I'm unaware of, but that's a stretch, Kevin. Take. Take another shot at it. I understand. I'm equally confused, but appreciate you sending the message in. Nice note from Damon says, man, you make me laugh. Talk like me sometimes all over the place. I see that last part. I'm not sure that's a compliment. I appreciate the kind words.
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I don't.
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Yeah, that's just how the brain works. Mark, frequent correspondent Mark on the topic of one Jaime pal, Rico's totally real, definitely 100% legit, not imaginary girlfriend. Said the dude's girlfriend is probably a chatbot. Yeah, I can see that. Scott, on the topic of Tal, Rico's definitely real, not imaginary girlfriend reminds me of a plasticky Howdy Doody. Not sure what that means. Oh, he also, I guess had a. Scott had also had an imaginary girlfriend at one point in time. Okay. Oh shoot. I get. Oh, geez, I shouldn't have read that one if. If it means what I now think it means. All right, let's see. Jay from Florida. I think I met Jay in Florida. This. If I'm, if I'm getting the right J. Said my gaydar went off the moment Jaime Del Rico opened his mouth. He's transiting into a straight man. In the meantime, he's borrowing Ricky Martin's old girlfriend. That's funny. Thank you, Jay. Oh, we do have time to read some social media comments. Let's go with 12 first here. Glenn, just so you can get the idea of what you're missing on social media. It's a bunch of. A bunch of this sort of stuff really. You know, it's working really well on the social media accounts is the all of the commentary read the California election. Um, this is talking about downtown San Jose. No name says signs posted in downtown sales. A San Jose tell you the times of day where people are not allowed to sleep slash camp on the street. Uh, Ray commented this on the mayor of San Jose who's running for governor California. He's like the dollar tree Gavin Newsom, which is like another iteration of like the TEMU Governor Newsom. David says I live in San Jose, California. We have a well hidden homeless population with our fair share of violent crime. Saw two guys. Well, geez, I can't say that David. Relieving themselves on Alameda Boulevard on the way to home. Downtown is the most vacant and a pool of the thing that they were doing on the side of the street. All right, that's all we have time for today. Tptpsa.com or leave a comment on any of your social media platforms. We will see you tomorrow. Thanks so much for tuning in. Same time, same place. God bless America.