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In the modern political era where you have some difficulty trying to decipher who's saying what and what's saying, huh? And this person was saying this six months ago. It's difficult to delineate. That's been my crusade the last couple days, and even now I want to talk about something that is technically right but argumentatively wrong. Also, Elon, will he be the first trillionaire as SpaceX looks to IPO, and will that cause AOC to spontaneously combust or crumple up into a small ball and weep bitter tears until she no longer has tear ducts? I don't know what that would actually do to her. And the arc de Trump? Yum. The arc to triumph that Trump wants in Washington, D.C. plans move in a direction that looks advantageous to the President as well as the clip. Clean out the shows clips that we didn't get to this week in the clip. Clean out all that more coming up on this episode of the show. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. The show starts right now.
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As I mentioned, one of my current crusades is trying to decipher what the left and the right even is anymore. I think on Wednesday's show, Tuesday's show, whatever day it was, we went on and on about how to distinguish good and bad because some people who were very, very traditionally on the right six months ago are now, for whatever reason, not. And it's all crazy. One of those other delineating factors are coming up in phrases that we use, and phrases that are definitely true but as they're being used as argument are wrong. Just from an argumentative standpoint. I'll explain. And I also do think it matters, especially when having conversations with everyday people in everyday life, as you probably often do with your church congregation or other people around your community. We'll get to that in just a second. But I got to remind you, TPTP USA.com is the email address, send along your thoughts, comments, concerns, even criticisms. 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We were talking the other day about Oregon and Washington and California and some of these deep blue states really just being controlled by the population centers and Trump doing very, very well across a lot of states that wouldn't traditionally be considered conservative states. In the primaries that happened earlier this week, we got this email from Jeremy, who I believe is in Oregon, says Portland and Eugene are the blue bastions of blue tarps and tents. If you've walked around Portland, you know what he's talking about. He says most of Oregon and the Oregon coast wave the Trump flag in 2024. Even Salem seemed to have turned red in the 2024 election cycle in favor of Trump. Yes, that is, that is correct. People forget, especially those libs who think that the they would win all the presidential races if we strictly switch to a popular vote. Fail to remember that there's a lot of conservatives in those quote unquote deep blue states that for whatever reason don't participate. Well, the reason is they don't. They know they're not going to win the state and the Electoral College. A popular vote would activate those people and it would not spell success for libs if they were to go in that direction. But thank you for the email, Jeremy. TBT tbsa.com if you'd like to participate in the conversation. Speaking of the conversation, it is worth pointing out some of the current flaws in the semantics that we use. Dumb that down. Some of the arguments being used are both true and wrong. You recognize that might Sound a little bit confusing, but one of the things that's been bothering me is how certain phrases are being used in the modern political culture. And they're correct, but they don't exactly tell you the whole story. For example, and I'm going to pick at this one because this has been the most irritating thing, especially this week, especially in light of some of the losses in, well, wins if you're Trump, but losses in the incumbents with the primaries. The term America first is accurate. It came about when it didn't seem like some folks, especially on the left, actually held that idea. America first as a phrase is true as an idea is definitely accurate and something that all politicians and anybody in the political scope in the United States should hold. And that was put to the test when a bunch of libs during the last administration prioritized open borders and subsequently aiding anybody who was in the country illegally. It effectively was raised to prominence the idea and the phrase of America first, deservedly so, because so many libs exemplified the opposite of that. It's like, no, no, no, foreigners first. We're gonna take care of them, we're gonna aid them, and therefore that's who we're representing effectively. In other words, the term America first gained prominence in a very, very justifiable way. However, the way that it's currently being used on the right now in these like inter political squabbles is not an accurate depiction of where the right is. In other words, it's being used as an argument in this case specifically by the isolation list. And I'm just using this as an example to argue something that, well, actually doesn't entirely make sense if both parties in the argument have the opinion of America First. Let me give you a quick analogy. A father, as a dad myself, a father could not be faulted by putting his family first. That is his first priority. A dad says family first. Now, those two things can look very different. One father who says, yes, absolutely, family first could decide, I'm going to isolate, I'm going to sequester my family from the horrible and corrupt society that surrounds us on all sides. I'm going to keep my family away from all of that. It would be very, very difficult to poke holes in that logic of that father who is family first. And there could be another dad in a situation that says, well, you know, my family engages in this community, they're a part of this community. So I want to do my part to help shape this community. Therefore, I participate in the public forum in the political local sector and want to make the community that my family is a part of as good as it possibly can be so that my family can be a part of that community. Well, that dad also can justifiably and deservably call himself a family first dad. In other words, both dads are family first. They just have a different way and a different approach. Which is exactly what this idea of America first is. The phrase is 100% objectively true. But earlier in the week when we saw some folks who were much more isolationist go down, the argument being used was, well, this is not America First. But the problem with that is just factually not true. There are different ways to pursue America First. And of course, if someone isn't America first and they're looking out for the interests of foreigners over Americans, that's objectively bad. But also, there's nuance in this conversation. It very well could be that folks who think the United States should not participate in any sort of foreign intervention anywhere in the world, we should strictly be isolationists, throw walls up, manufacture everything here, do cut off the entire world. They can, you know, say, well, we're America First. And at the same time, you can look at the American system, you can look at freedom and recognize freedom thrives off of stability. And that stability is true both domestically, but also in foreign relations. If you have a free market, if you're going to engage in trade with the rest of the world, that stability or that freedom depends on stability. And therefore, if you want to enforce that freedom which is in the benefit of the American people, sometimes you may have to intervene. In other words, to be America first could also mean intervening in the global economic situation on behalf of the American people. What I'm getting at here is currently there are folks that think only America First. America first only means domestic issues. Problem is, that's just not reality. That's not pragmatic. And I'm not really even taking a side necessarily. Personally, I'm much more of an isolationist than I am an interventionalist. But at the same time, personally, I also understand that the United States of America is the biggest, most powerful, most prosperous country in the world. And that comes with some certain responsibilities. What I mean to say is America first is 100% true. We should put America first. Any politician representing the American people should. Should put the American people first. And sometimes that looks different. And when certain factions of people who, who do have America's best interest in mind use America first to bludgeon people who also have America at the top priority, just see it a little bit differently. That's silly. It's not a good look for the country at large. Any politician that is objectively foreigner first, yeah, sure, that's bad. But there are different ways to put America and the American people at the top of the priority list. Just one very, very quick example, and I'm not even necessarily making the argument for the interventionalists, but earlier this week the FBI shut down an Indian call center in India because they were scamming Americans, which if you're a total isolationist, you want to cut off everybody and everything thing, you know, the difficult argument to make that that intervention in another country by the American government isn't also America first. I think I've said America first like 19,000 times in this segment, but I'm really trying to hammer home this point. As conservatives, as the right, it doesn't benefit us to just use semantics to kind of gloss over more nuanced arguments. What we pride ourselves on the right doing is having the difficult conversations, trying to wrestle with and figure out which direction it is that we are going. And that nuance gets eliminated when you have people using phrases that are true in order to make a bad argument and think that they've done something, something a little bit heavier than we generally have on a Friday. But I just, I, this is my, this is possibly my new crusade of just trying to, trying to separate, you know, good arguments from bad arguments. I again, I am very, very sympathetic to the isolationist point of view. But simply saying, well, America first means domestic policy only is silly. It's just not practical, it's just not pragmatic given America's standing on the world stage. TBT tbsa.com if you have any disagreements with that and I'm sure that probably going to get a ton of emails on both sides of this and I'm happy to accept them. You can either, you know, if you agree with me, that's totally fine. Send us an email tbtvc.com if you're wrong. Your email is also more than welcome. Tptpsa.com but this is, I, this is one of those things that I just feel like is so important given our current up in the air political system. So let us know in the comments section in the emails. We'll be right back with several points. Harvard actually looking like they're doing something good even though it might be a more difficult thing to pull off than they might think as well as a bunch of stuff that we have to get to and get to the point and then after that, the clip. Clean out everybody's favorite segment of the week right after the break. Don't go away. We'll be right back.
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I heart Radio. Of the 87 people charged, all but eight are of Somali descent. And that has added to the spotlight being put specifically on your community. Why do you think this fraud was allowed to get so widespread? Well, I want to say, you know,
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this also has an impact on Somalis
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because we are also taxpayers in Minnesota. We also could have benefited from the
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program and the money that was stolen. And so it's been really frustrating for people to not acknowledge the fact that
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we're, you know, we're also, as Minnesotans,
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as taxpayers, really upset and angry about the fraud that has occurred.
Joe Bob
Okay, all right. I can't stand the lady. Can't stand her policies, can't stand politics, can't really stand her as a person. Especially somebody who oscillates between accents. She's got the smiley accent and then the second she says Minnesota is then full blown Midwestern accent. I, I can't. Can't stand a lot. That's a decent spin, right? As, as a crafter of words and someone who tries to, you know, that that's a decent spin. You gotta hand it to her. That's a decent. But actually, you know, Somalis, we're taxpayers too. So we are just as upset about the money that we stole. It's a bad answer, right? It's a disingenuous argument. It's a bad answer. But for somebody who's like kind of just tangentially paying attention to the news, that's. That's a good one. That is a good spin there, albeit again, dishonest and, you know, not actually good argument. It's a good spin. All right. Hey, when there's points to get to, well, we have to do it. I think we're contractually obligated. It's time to get to the point. Get to the point. Get to the point. This is actually really interesting coming from the New York Post, Harvard University, one of your Ivy League, snooty schools. I. Okay, I'm not hiring at this point, but if I were, I don't know that an Ivy League education would be something that is like a positive feature to somebody's resume. Right? Like, it's, it's kind of like, oh, and here is going to rub some feathers the wrong way. Fraternities. It doesn't. It's not, it's not. It's not a good thing. Oh, I'm a part of so and so fraternity. And like, you know, I recognize that there are some good fraternities, but for like, the majority of my college experience, the. The understanding I had of a fraternity is like, I get trashed Thursday through Sunday and then like, kind of go to classes. And so like, when you put that on your resume as an employer, I would go, great, I guess. And that's the way I feel about, like, Ivy League schools nowadays. Again, I'm not hiring. And if I were, I can't imagine the percentage of applications coming in would be coming from Ivy League schools, but I'd probably look at it and go, Harvard, yeah, do I want that? I don't know if that's like a positive when it comes to your resume. Anyways, here's one of the things that possibly could correct my current inclination towards acceptance of someone from an Ivy League school. Harvard is making it more difficult for undergrads to earn A's by limiting the number of A's awarded in courses. Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to cap A grades to no more than 20% of the students in the class for the beginning of the fall 27 semester. Now, on its face, this sounds like a good idea because currently there's too many A's. There's too many A's. I've said that it was relatively controversial, or it's been, but I've had this opinion since college. More people should fail out of college. My wife is a perfect example. My wife has her master's degree. She's a marriage and family therapist. Although she doesn't really practice. She. She does. The more important job in the household is raising our kids. But nevertheless, she. She got her degree. And there were a couple people in her graduating class in her master's program that were just adults. They were just not going to use the R word here. But they, it's. Man, they were stupid. Not like, oh, like their opinions were different. No, these people were dumb. I interacted with them. I engaged with these people. And when I left go, I went, these people are in a master's program. And they ended up getting the same. They got the same degree. Which again, reiterates my point. More people need to fail out of college, whether that's master's program, doctoral program, it shouldn't be that easy. And in the case of Harvard, they recognize that, hey, if everybody gets straight A's at our university, that eliminates the prestige of actually getting straight A's. It's like. It's like calling something racist. If everything is racist, then nothing is racist. If everybody gets an A at Harvard, then effectively nobody got an A at Harvard. Now, the problem is, although it looks great on its face, the problem is how it's being done. I don't know that you should, in an academic setting, limit the amount of grades being raised. Like, for example, there's a difference between if you raise the standards by limiting, by putting a cap on the number of A's received, or if you raise the standards, which then leads to effectively less A's. Right. Does that make sense? There's two ways of going at it. They're going at it the way of, like, capping it off. No more than A. Than 1 out of 5 students should get an A in this class. Okay, well, that might raise the standards, but it also might turn it into, like a political system, which in. Within the classroom. I know that sounds a little bit wonky, but, okay, so if my paper is just as good as, I don't know, Abe's paper, whoever pick a person, name them, but, I don't know, suck up to the professor a little bit more. There's a system in which kind of comes to light of, like, how you can get an A, because there's only a limited amount that can be given. If they reversed it and said, no, no, we're just going to raise the standards even higher. You know, I know one. I don't care if people. If the standards are as high as they possibly can be, and those standards are evident to everybody, and more than 20% of people get A's. That. That's a better A than, you know, capping it off. Because if you cap it off, that involves some sort of political finagling within the classroom. Probably over explaining this. But that's. That's where my issue comes. Good, good that Harvard is increasing its standards, hopefully recognizing, hey, if everybody gets an A, then nobody gets an A. The way that they're going about it has some serious flaws. But I think the. I think the positive outweighs the negative there. I think it's a net positive here. Speaking of net positives, net positive for the Bottom line of gambling companies. This is not great. CBS News reporting the World cup is expected to generate more in sports bets than the super bowl, which I mean just statistically and numerically that just makes sense, right? The super bowl is the most watched program in the United States. Borrow a country at 330 million people. So 100, about 135 million people watched the Super Bowl. About 15 million less than that when Bad Bunny was performing. But overall in the country, 135 million people. But remember, soccer is a global sport. The World cup is a global event. So you're not limited to 330 million people in the United States watching. You've got 8 billion people around the world, probably 4 billion that have the capability to watch TV. So of course it's the most watched sporting event. And if it's most watched sporting events, probably go to the most bet on sporting event which I have my thoughts about. Gambling. Gambling. I am not a gambler from like a casino state. I don't, I don't like betting. I don't have a problem with like hey, throw 20 bucks on the game. But currently the way that like prediction markets and sports betting is currently interacting with the, the culture, but really specifically men in general is not good. 20 bucks on win or lose for a game is fine. A six leg parlay on one player and one game and another player and another game and another player, it just means you're gonna lose a bunch of money. I don't wanna get too in the weeds cause I'm not entirely sure that half, you know what I'm talking about here. But the current betting culture right now is not good. And I mean that's the actual story here with cbs. But it's gonna get worse when the World cup comes. Ma', am, Danny has secured 50 tickets for new Yorkers in, in the World cup games which there's more to dig into that, maybe we'll dig into that a little bit next week. But yeah, the planning for that they're planning, they're planning for higher bets which they're planning correctly. Speaking of planning design plans from the AP for President Trump's proposed Washington Arc, the arc to Trump bump, it's not a good, there's a lot of good ways that you can put Trump into things that makes sense. But the arc to triumph doesn't. It doesn't, it can't, it can't flow as well, but effectively is 200250 foot tall arc to triumph near the Arlington National Cemetery received preliminary approval from the commission of Fine arts. So that's good arc to triumph. The one in Paris, right, That's. That's the one. That's what I'm referencing. And Trump is trying to do a very similar arc here. Preliminary approval. That's good. The Fine Arts Commission has said yes, go for it. Speaking of triumph, holy cow, has Elon Musk triumphed in so many ways, but more specifically in a very, very, very expensive way. Not expensive, prosperous way, capitalistic way. With SpaceX. SpaceX plans to explore the true nature of the universe as it preps for the mega ipo. The true nature of the universe. Okay, fine. That's how CBS is couching this sort of thing. I'm looking at the IPO. This could make Elon Musk a trillionaire because SpaceX is so innovative and blows the competition out of the water. Like if NASA is going to be the one who's putting, you know, I guess, people into space and that's fine, they're going to the moon and all that sort of stuff. But the practical advantage of going to the moon is still fuzzy. Like, is that, yes, we're in a race with China. Yes, it's very, very important. Yes, I made the case that we should be doing it. But in terms of actual, like, market. Market necessity, like, the stuff that SpaceX is doing is unparalleled by far. So we should be. It should IPO at a crazy number, especially if he can bring Internet to anywhere in the world. That's crazy. But it might have buried the lead, in case you didn't know. SpaceX is looking to do an initial public offering. The numbers that are being thrown around are just astro freakin nomical and could make Elon a trillionaire. Speaking of people in tech, people who are not going to be trillionaires are the thousands of employees that were laid off by Meta to offset AI investments. You know, okay, Meta is laying off thousand employees, about a thousand of them, about 10% of its workforce workforce, to help offset the company's massive investment in artificial intelligence. There are so many things, producer Glenn, that I want to do a full big thing on, but there's so many things that happen that we can't. One of the most interesting components from a business company standpoint, that have been going on not only in Meta, but really all the tech firms is the absurd money being thrown at some of these AI aficionados. It's like sports teams. If you're not familiar with this Meta, Google, which is Alphabet, is their parent company. OpenAI Anthropic. These people are trading and paying AI technical experts like, like they're LeBron James. Seriously, they are paying them hundreds of millions of dollars for like five year contracts to work for their company specifically with no compete clauses. It's the most fascinating thing I think on a personnel standpoint in the business world that is widely ignored. But anyways, the people that kind of do the more menial jobs, not, not trying to minimize people's jobs and their, you know, work ethic, but you need to clear some of those people out in order to make way for the big investment people and the, the people that are going to garner the most investment. And because of that, yeah, you got 8,000 people laid off for I don't know, maybe depending on how much they're spending on particular individuals. Could be a couple, could be a couple hundred. But yeah, that's just the market. What you gonna do? I don't know if that AI investment's gonna pay off by the way. Didn't even get to that part. But hey, let's see. I want to leave as much time as we possibly can for the clip clean out. So tbt tbc.com if you'd like to weigh in on whether or not we should expand on any of that sort of stuff, let us know tbtbsa.com we'll be right back after the break. Hey, don't go away.
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I heart Radio. I'm going to dox myself cuz I'm moving. But I've lived near Meridian hill Park in D.C. for almost two years now and the water's never been in the pond there. This has never happened before. I was always too afraid to come here because of the homeless people. But they're all gone and it seriously looks like Paris. I mean I've never seen this many people out here. I mean look, everyone is enjoying it. Everybody. A year ago Trump said he was going to clean up D.C. and he did. It is clean, it's calm, it's quiet. Except for the Chipotle down and Navy Yard apparently this weekend. But I wasn't there for that. The homeless are out, the birds are chirping, the water is in the ponds, the fountains are working. Thank you Mr. This is the benefit of having a construction man as your president. You know, I don't want to extrapolate too much from this, but I think conservatives need to use these sorts of things to bolster their arguments in that you actually can do things. Because I think so many of the problems, especially libs one perpetuate the problems but then to run on fixing the problems that they started, but they never actually do. The problems just get worse. Like libs have been trying to eliminate homelessness in California for like, I don't know, a billion years and it just hasn't worked and they've wasted a ton of money and the homeless population has actually grown. Conservatives need to run on the idea now. Actually, actually, you can fix these problems. Actually, DC doesn't need to be a cesspool of degeneracy when it comes to the streets. And you. You can fix the problem. And evidenced by the beautification of D.C. president Trump said, hey, I'm going to do this. And then, lo and behold, he did it. Spoiler alert. It's good now. So I think. I think conservatives need to lean into that a little bit more of just like, hey, so all these problems like immigration, President Trump just kind of fixed. It's just. That's just not really an issue anymore. Fraud around the country, although not done, is in the process of getting fixed. Like, you can do things when you're in power effectively, is what I'm making, was what I'm saying. And conservatives need to be making that argument a little bit better. All right, hey, when we're. There's a bunch of clips that we haven't gotten to throughout the week. We do have to do what we like to call here a clip clean out. Cleaning out the clips we didn't use this week. It's the clip clean out. All right. I referenced this a little bit earlier in the show. Sorry, earlier in the week yesterday. I think it talked about Graham Planter Platner, I think whatever his name is, the guy with the Nazi tattoo who's running for Senate in Maine against Susan Collins. I think I referenced this clip yesterday. We didn't get to it earlier in the week, but I want to play it. This is him talking to the New York Times and his justification for why. But some of the more incendiary, to put it lightly, tweets posts, social media posts that he's put out aren't really a problem anymore. This is cut 6.
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There are controversial statements also on social media. You posted over 1800 comments under the
Joe Bob
username P. Hustle from 2009 to November 2021. And some of them are objectively concerning. You said Roll Mainers are racist and stupid. You said that sexual assault victims should
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take responsibility for themselves. This all came out in the national press.
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Why didn't you disclose this stuff first?
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I mean, we did. We. We released all of the comments when people came to us. They're like, oh, we've got these very. We've got a couple little ones. And we were like, there's a lot more than a couple. So we just put everything out there
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before the campaign launched.
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I deleted them a while ago.
Joe Bob
Oh, shoot. Okay, well. And it's Fine. Yeah. People in Maine are dumb idiots who suck. But I deleted the. I deleted it. I wonder if, Is that, Does that work? Like, if I say something just out of pocket, like, totally. And then like the next day say, never mind. Does that work? Does that work on people? I guess we'll see. It's fun because there actually is a test to see if it works called elections, and he'll either be a senator or he won't. But interesting that that that's what the tack that lives can take on. I deleted it. Yeah, I said these horrible things about these people that I'm trying to represent, but it's deleted. So it's fine now. All right, cool. Speaking of wanting to delete things, Mayor Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, would like to delete. Not people take things the wrong way. She'd like to delete her opponent, meaning get him out of the race. Not, you know, delete, delete. I don't, I don't want to say. I don't want people to extrapolate that from what I said, because it's clearly not. But she'd like her opponent to go away and is mad about it. This is cut 7.
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There also are people in LA that seems drawn to him, including some Democrats
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that are drawn to him. What do you think that's about? I think that we are going through a moment which is not unfamiliar. We go through moments where across the
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board, voters are just upset.
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They're upset over everything. They were obviously disappointed in Democrats in 2024. The cost of living, the fact that
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we're in a war that has raised
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gas prices, you know, extremely high, eggs and basic food and grocery stores is high.
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The instability out of Washington, are we
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having tariffs or aren't we having tariffs? And so I think that when society
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goes through these changes where they just
Joe Bob
are mad at government. Hmm. Yeah. I wonder, I wonder why they might be mad at the government. I just, I. If you have any thoughts, let us know tbt tpc.com It's. Yeah, it's a mystery to all of us. There's. Nobody can tell why anybody would be mad at all at anybody in the Los Angeles government, you know, despite being on a different continent when their houses are burning down. But I. Guys, I don't know. I. I don't know. Speaking, being mad at government. This isn't necessarily mad. This is just a more mocking. We should mock this person until we can't mock them anymore. This is New Mexico Lib. Melanie Stansbury, you exclaiming something hilarious. Cut eight. Good Afternoon, Montgomery. I am Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, New Mexico's first Congressional District. And I am here in Montgomery and in Alabama today because as was said this morning when we had the honor of joining our faith leaders in Selma for a church service this morning, we may have been not down, but we are not knocked out. And so we are here in the birthplace of the civil rights movement on, as one of the preachers said, sacred ground soaked in prayer, tears and blood to make it clear to the American people that we are not going back. Who is wearing Melanie. She's a representative of New Mexico, a state which President Trump won 46% of and yet conservatives are gerrymandered out of having even a single seat of representation. She's in Montgomery, Alabama talking about racism as a middle aged white lady saying we. Who's we? Okay, I want to leave enough time for more of these. We can get to as many as we possibly can. This is, I believe, a compilation of some clips of the communist mayor in Seattle. And I say that not as a derogatory term and even, even though it, it is not to disparage the mayor, but that that's actually what she calls herself as effectively a communist. I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are like super overblown. And if you know the ones that leave like bye. I mean it's really great that Amazon's invested $3.5 million in this project. What do you think it means in terms of relationship with your office and big business knowing we all saw the video from a couple of weeks ago on stage at clu. So again I'm really excited about this partnership and I mean just to give an another example, right today we, we announced a second large new shelter site, Tiny House Village, that, that we're working on and that is with a philanthropic partnership from Challenge Seattle. So that includes money from Starbucks, from T Mobile, from Microsoft, from John Stanton and Terry Gillespie and so really grateful for their partnership. There's so much going on there. Okay, so the first one, millionaires won't be leaving and if they are, buh bye. Howard Schultz, founder. Well, CEO of Starbucks did he found it the Tower Schultz start Starbucks big player in Seattle politics actually did say bye bye. And she effectively said don't let the door hit you. And then being interviewed, hey, so Amazon's coming in kind of owned by a billionaire. That good? Uh, yes. So get out of here millionaires, we don't care about you. But also please don't leave. Thank you for staying. I don't know, square those two arguments with me. You can't but par for the course. Also, the answer there, too, is not like, yeah, so again, actually, let me transition to tiny houses for homeless people sponsored by these other random people that you don't know philanthropically like, such as. All right, last one. We cleaned out all of the clips. These were all the clips we didn't get to. Here is Senator Chuck Schumer. Can I ask you, do you feel that the Democrats chances of winning in Texas got better today? Look, Texas is a huge mess for the Republicans. And I believe that we're in much better shape taking back Texas than we
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And I think we're going to win Texas. Texas. But you know how expensive Texas is.
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It could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Joe Bob
Is the DFCC and S& P willing to spend as much as it takes to win in Texas to say Talarico is talking to people about their real needs. Paxton and Cornyn, both of those people are talking about things that. That Texans don't care about. And so we are going to win Texas and we are going to win Texas, whether it's Cornyn or Paxton. All right, I like this. I'm a big fan. Big fan of New York Lib Tuck. Chuck Schumer pretending like he knows Texans. I hope I said this the other day. I hope they flood millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars into that state to support the definitely not gay, definitely guy who has a real girlfriend who's not imaginary. Jaime Talrico. I hope they do that. Why? Because historically, this has been kind of a recurring theme in Texas. Ooh, Alfred, whatever his name is. The guy that went up against Ted Cruz. Oh, he's. He might win. He might flip Texas blue. Eh, nah. Kind of a dominant performance by the conservatives, as per usual. Ooh, ooh. Beto o', Rourke. He might flip Texas blue. Ah, nah. He's also kind of just a crazy person who. What is he even doing nowadays outside of stuff spouting his mouth on PMS now, bottom line is it. It hasn't. This is. This is just over every single election. Ooh, Texas might. Jasmine Crockett, Beto o', Rourke, all the. I don't know why I'm doing like an Oompa Loompa dance. Sorry about that. I'm just. I'm animated about this because I hope that libs throw a ton of money at the definitely not gay Christian boyfriend of a girl who definitely isn't imaginary. I hope they do it because that means it'll they'll waste a bunch of money which can't then be spent in other races and it'll be better. It'll be better outcome for us all. TBT tpc.com is the email address. We'll do a very quick weekly wisdom. What is it? Wiser by the week ah tbt tbsa.com we'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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I heart radio. Capitalism is bad. I don't like it. Yeah, really easy for someone to say that. Grew up in a really nice house in one of the best school districts in Texas, who has the rent paid for that is able to go to Europe and on a whim with their sister, who's able to do girl math, who's able to be fun employed. Yeah, it's easy to say that the system's bad when you're doing that because you've never had to work for it. You never got to actually see what happens when you put in the work and get benefits and actually have a little bit of responsibility and actually build something or do anything. You've grew up in privilege beyond privilege, beyond privilege, beyond privilege. It's only the people who speak like you that grew up in a world where you've never had to do in a single thing in your life. So I don't want to hear about that. What a joke. I'm sorry. I just wish everybody had like, I wish a lot of things. Wishing doesn't get people places. You tried to create the best systems possible. This is matter. Oh my. So that's Caleb Hammer. I think he's got. What is it? Financial audit on YouTube. Hilarious, by the way. And I have it on good authority that all these people are like, are genuinely on his show. It's not like these are, it's not like this is an act or anything to which I then have to say, who are these people just subjecting themselves to be berated with common sense? Like this girl's just sitting there like, oh, I think capitalism is bad and thinks that she's gonna be like get away with that with a finance guy. Like, no, he's gonna light her up. Deservedly so. And the fact that she didn't know that that was gonna, that was gonna just hit her in the face is hilarious, of course. All right, okay, let's see. It's, it's, it's Friday, so we're wrapping it up. I'm gonna play the, Play the thing. Play the thing because it's funny. Alright, so we try to get wiser each and every week and have some thoughts that are a little bit less news of the day, more kind of 30,000 foot view. I actually would love to solicit some help with this. TPTPUSA.com is the email address or shoot me a message on any of your Social media accounts. Earlier this week, somebody sent me a video. It might have been last week. I got the video this week. It could have been from last week's episode of Matt Walsh, who was talking about at the beginning of whatever this thing that he was doing about the malaise or the just kind of boringness of conservative political media right now. And I knew it wasn't just me. I knew that it couldn't just be me. He. He flat out said he did this whole thing. He's like, conservative is just kind of boring now. Like, it's hard because you, you. There's. Once you've solidified what the truth is, making the argument is not difficult. And everybody kind of has the same understanding of this. On the conservative movement, yeah, we made debate, you know, specific directions on specific things. But more broadly, we all kind of have a good understanding of where our foundation is and why it is that we believe what we believe. And so at a certain point, it gets pretty repetitive. It gets it. How often do you want me to make fun of aoc? I'll do it. I have no problem making fun of AOC on a routine basis and we're not going to stop. But at the same time, I think the point that he was getting to and the point that the feeling that I've had and so many of my other friends in this space have had is we need new ways to engage. We need new approaches to how to engage. Kind of the lay person, the voter that doesn't really pay too much attention and isn't going to sit here and listen to a talk show or a podcast of kind of just, hey, here's what it is here. How things laid out. Here's my good reasoning. All of that is good. None of that's bad necessarily, but we need to come up with better, new and innovative ways to communicate things to folks who wouldn't otherwise be brought into the conservative media fold. Does that make sense? And I would love. I would love to solicit responses, help suggestions with what is it that, like, I don't want to say changes your mind on things, but maybe that is what I'm saying. Is it a movie? Is it a book? Is it a novel? Is it a TV series? Is it a YouTube channel that isn't necessarily political but has some themes in it? We're all looking for new ways to engage an audience that I think is a little bit tired of this. This kind of continued going back, back to the. Well, trying to reiterate a point that we all have a pretty good understanding of now. And I think now the goal and the objective is to be reaching out to those who aren't in our fold at the moment and how to bring them in. What innovative ways can we do to bring those people into the circle? That isn't your standard. I started a podcast. Cool. Great. So. So is every conservative man like it's just okay. I think you understand what I'm saying. That's us trying to get a little bit wiser. TBT. TBSA.com is the email address. We'll wrap it up. Close out the week with some mailbag right after the break. Don't go away.
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Producer Glenn and I are going to have a talk after the show. He obviously thinks that's funny and it is kind of. But also I think my temperature just raised by at least 3 degrees. I'm currently sweating with the anger and rage that is inside of me after having watched that. I understand if you're, if you live in a normal part of the country that doesn't, you know, you go to like the. My cousin lives in Montana, was trying to get a building permit and he went into the office at like 4:45 into a government office at 4:45 kind of thinking, ah, this is probably not gonna work. They took him right back, helped him out. They were there a little bit past their allotted time and ended up getting, getting everything sort out. So if you don't live in California, you might not understand this, but holy cow, that makes me all right be before I just go into a fit of rage over that. Let's just get to mailbag in the minute and a half that we have left on the topic of my controversial statements made, I believe on Wednesday, John says this regarding people buying homes. Wait till you're married to buy a home, which could mean get married faster. John said this effectively tells a story about his wife as a widow and had children, owned her home they lived in for about a year and then he says they sold that home and bought a home together. Started their life together. Next. That's great. That's great. I did say that there's probably like a cutoff of like, you know, age wise, like at a certain point you should just buy your own home. But like, you know, people fighting to buy homes at 25, 30 years old who are unmarried get married first and then two even in that circumstance. John, great family story. There says, you know, we became a family by kind of starting in these new beginnings. And that's great too. Wonderful. Um, let's see. Dave, on the topic of libs having a deep bench, which they don't, and I think we're making fun of that, but Dave obviously is making fun of it too, says, yes, the libs have a deep bench, but they've all gone off the deep end. Correct, Dave? Fact check. True. Carolyn. On the topic of starving to death in the United States, I think I made a case for the fact that it would be impossible to starve to death. She said, yes, absolutely. If that were the case and people were actually starving, would be picking up dead bodies off of all the homeless encampments. Encampments. And not. Not happening. So where do they get their food from? Great point, Carolyn. That's gonna do it for us this week. Have a great weekend. Try to unplug a little bit. We will see you Monday, same time, same place. God bless America.
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Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Joe Bob
Release Date: May 23, 2026
This episode of "Turning Point Tonight with JoeBob" centers on dissecting semantics and strategies within American political discourse, current events, and the evolving definitions of core concepts like “America First.” Joe Bob discusses intraparty divisions on the right, relevant national news, higher education trends, economic developments, and the effectiveness of both political messaging and policy execution. The show’s signature tone is candid, humorous, occasionally sardonic, and keenly self-aware.
Segment: [03:21] – [17:15]
Deconstructing 'America First':
Joe Bob explores how the phrase “America First,” while inherently correct, is being wielded argumentatively in ways that lack nuance, especially within conservative circles. He introduces an analogy using “family first” parenting styles (isolationist vs. community-engaged) to illustrate that different approaches can exist under the same principle.
“Both dads are family first. They just have a different way and a different approach. Which is exactly what this idea of America first is.” [10:16]
Isolationism vs. Engagement:
Critiques conservatives who argue that “America First” only means domestic focus, arguing that foreign engagement (e.g., FBI shutting down foreign scam centers targeting Americans) can also fit under America First.
“Saying, well, America first means domestic policy only is silly. It’s just not practical, it’s just not pragmatic given America’s standing on the world stage.” [15:11]
Nuanced Conservative Dialogue:
Joe Bob urges the right to embrace more nuance, call out poor arguments even when they use “true” phrases, and avoid bludgeoning fellow conservatives with simplistic rhetoric.
Segment: [04:31] – [06:50]
Segment: [21:28] – [24:53]
New Grading Policy:
Harvard plans to cap A grades at 20% of students per class starting Fall 2027. Joe Bob sees the intention as positive but critiques the method: capping A’s risks creating political gamesmanship and could reduce meritocratic recognition.
“If everybody gets an A at Harvard, then effectively nobody got an A at Harvard…but capping it off, that involves some sort of political finagling within the classroom.” [23:51]
Wider Application:
Suggests colleges need firmer standards and more students should "fail out"—echoed via a personal anecdote about his wife's grad school peers.
Segment: [24:53] – [32:45]
“They are paying them hundreds of millions of dollars for like five year contracts to work for their company specifically with no compete clauses. It’s the most fascinating thing I think on a personnel standpoint in the business world that is widely ignored.” [30:55]
Segment: [37:17] – [48:15]
A witty roundup of noteworthy media clips that didn’t make earlier episodes, with Joe Bob adding commentary:
a. D.C. Beautification & Homelessness
“The homeless are out, the birds are chirping…Thank you Mr. This is the benefit of having a construction man as your president…Conservatives need to run on the idea that actually, you can fix these problems.” [37:17]
b. Graham Platner, Maine Senate Candidate
“Yeah, I said these horrible things about these people that I’m trying to represent, but it’s deleted. So it’s fine now.” [41:21]
c. Karen Bass on Voter Discontent in Los Angeles
“Yeah, it’s a mystery to all of us. There’s nobody who can tell why anybody would be mad at all at anybody in the Los Angeles government…” [43:09]
d. Rep. Melanie Stansbury’s Selma Speech
e. Seattle's Socialist Leadership & Business Relationship
f. Chuck Schumer on Texas Election Prospects
Segment: [52:27] – [58:19]
“We all kind of have a good understanding of where our foundation is…now the goal and the objective is to be reaching out to those who aren’t in our fold…What innovative ways can we do to bring those people into the circle?” [53:40]
Segment: [61:00] – [63:52]
The episode underscores the importance of nuance in political conversation, skepticism toward convenient catchphrases, a watchful eye on policy effectiveness vs. rhetoric, and a call for fresh, compelling conservative communication strategies in a crowded media space. Joe Bob leavens policy talk with humor and an unsparing look at hypocrisy across the spectrum.
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