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Guaranteed Human Animal Farm. The cartoon movie is so bad and so not aligned with the original novel that interestingly, it has become Orwellian in and of itself. Also, an artist was dropped from an entire tour because they endorsed the current president of the United States, which is a big no no, especially for libs. Kind of par for the course for them. The Fashion at the Met Gala. We will dive deep. I'm just kidding. There's actually just one story out of that regarding some of the fashion at the Met Gala that I think the right is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill a villain out of not really a villain. And I'd like to explain lest we fall into the trap of being mad at everything. And also, last but not least, happy Birthday, Mexicans. I think I don't Cinco de Mayo's birthday been confusing to me for a long time. All that more coming up on the show today. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. Show starts right now. I have to admit to you good folks that every single year I look up what Cinco de Mayo is. Why is it celebrated, what significance does it have? And every single year I forget what Cinco de Mayo is about. The significance, why we celebrate it or some people celebrate, I don't actually know. The only thing I do know is that it's not Mexican Independence Day, which hence the joke of Happy Birthday, Mexicans. But we're going to talk about that just a little bit, but really going to dive into the new Animal Farm movie. There's one big problem that a lot of people have glossed over, but it actually affects the entirety of the plot of the movie. Before we get into that, tptpsa.com is the email address. If you'd like to send along your thoughts, your comments, your concerns, even your criticisms all are welcome. TPTP USA.com Also, we stream on all of the different platforms, Facebook, YouTube, X Rumble, all of these significant social media platforms. If you watch there and you happen to leave a comment any of those places, it also gets compiled into our mailbag. And if your email or comment is gross, disgusting, violent, downright nasty, the chances of it being read on the show actually go up substantially because that's exactly the type of filth that we like on this show. Tptposa.com or leave a comment wherever it is that you happen to be watching. And we'll get to our mailbag segment later on in the show. I want to talk about Animal Farm in case you're not familiar. There's a new Animal Farm cartoon that's just released in theaters May 1. It's created some controversy when the trailer was released because, well, there's one big, massive problem with it that we'll get to in just a quick second. But just so you know what I'm talking about, I'm going to play this short little clip that kind of gives you the vibe of the movie. It's very much kind of the same characteristics of the characters mixed with like some Shrek, despicable Me cartoon fart humor type stuff. So. So that you understand what it is that we're talking about when we go back and forth between the movie and the novel. Watch this so you can get a little bit of an idea. Cut 15. Which is why it is imperative that we build the water mill.
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Now you're the one who sounds boring, so shut up. With the one. We thinking Benjamin has a point. Boxer. Would you like to live in a world where your dreams come true or no, you're not into that. Well, would you? Would you like a dream? A world where all of your wildest dreams and fantasies come true? Says the freaking communist. Except for the fact that he's not a communist in this. And that's kind of the main problem that I think a lot of us should have with this movie. If you remember Animal Farm, it depicts this dystopian world in which a communist dictator, Napoleon, takes over and controls by dictate everything that happens on the farm, as communists tend to do. Now, the new iteration of Animal Farm, the new retelling, does that, but also kind of and in a different way with what a lot of proponents are saying is a modern twist. But is it really? And also, is there any debate over what George Orwell meant when he was writing this? We'll get to that in just a second. But just quickly, there is a big discrepancy right at the beginning of the movie that sets the whole thing in two completely different directions from the novel to the movie. That is this. I'm reading the first sentence from the Wikipedia's plot summary. On Manor Farm, Farmer Jones, having missed his payments to the bank, is set to hand his farm over to Pilkington Industries, led by ruthless billionaire Frieda Pilkington, who intends to slaughter the livestock at the slaughterhouse. Now, the novel depicts a farmer, Farmer Jones. Jones, the farmer, who's an alcoholic and he's not good at running his farm. So the pigs. Well, the old major who's the main pig who dies off before Napoleon takes over. In the book, the animals decide, well, we should rebel. They chase Jones out of the farm and decide we are going to govern ourselves and we're going to do everything in our power to make sure that humans are no longer welcome here. Now, the allegory obviously depicts the farmer who's the lazy alcoholic, is the. The bourgeoisie, the upper class, and the animals as the. The proletariat, the lower class. And through the uprising of the animals, they can take back the farm. Now, the rest of the book goes on to show, well, what happens when they try to force, quote, unquote, equality. Uh, and it, it pans out in the way that we'll get to in just a quick second. On the other hand, in the movie, the big difference is, well, it's actually free market, the free market doing what the free market does. It's not Jones, the farmer, who, yes, is providing the bare minimum, but also is lazy and there's really no recourse that the animals have other than complete overthrow. In this particular case, it's, well, it's just business. In the novel, the struggle is over power. In the movie, the struggle is over money. Now, where the allegory breaks down is in the communist system. In the novel, the original 1945, 11 million copies sold in every single high school in America book. Because of how important it is, the struggle is over power. Who has power? How can you get power? And what do people do when they inevitably get that power? They, they inevitably come corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's a saying that everybody knows and everybody should be aware of. Now, on the other side, in the movie standpoint, the allegory breaks down because in free market societies, you can't just slaughter animals. In the communist. And by animals, I mean people, right? The allegory is replacing animals, farm animals, with people in the communist system. Yeah, for whatever the greater good of the system, we can do whatever we please. Which includes all letting people starve to death, putting people in gulags, sending people off into an abysmal fate in order to better the community. In the free market side, well, I don't get a loan from a different bank, right? The, the, the allegory breaks down when the billionaire capitalist money grown hungry bank says, well, we're gonna slaughter the animals, which instigates their uprising. You can't do that. Is, Is that a thing? Is that how libs view the world? That the elitist billionaires can just eliminate entire swaths of the population. Well, apparently because that's what this one minor twist at the beginning of the movie that a lot of people overlook will think about that. Because in reality in free market society you have agency, you have the ability to go and do different things, you can engage with different business partners. In the novel it is a struggle over power and there's a very big difference between money and financial incentive and ultimate power over individuals. And that is where the movie swings and misses. Nicholas Claremont in the Free Press writes this. I'm going to read him verbatim for a little bit because the writing is so brilliant. The film feels, to put it plainly, like a bad joke about Orwell that a right wing X account would dream up just to get mad at the fake X post would be, hey guys, what if those crazy woke social socialists in Holly Weird actually went back and rewrote Animal Farm to be the exact opposite of what the author intended? Yeah, that is what this movie is. They've replaced the catalyst for the quote unquote rebellion and eliminated or, or tried to equate the idea of, well, you know, communism is just the same thing as capitalism, when in reality in a communist system you don't have any choice and in a free market financial system, well, you just take your dollar somewhere else. That's what competition is. And by the way, the billionaires can't just eliminate the population when they don't like them. That's again where the allegory breaks down. Napoleon the pig ends up aligning with the bank in the movie. Now in the book, Napoleon ends up aligning with some of the other farms, but again, it's only to maintain power on his farm, which he rules with an iron fist. In the movie, you know, again, the animals, if they were people acting as people do, any free market society would have agency and can move around. They're not just relegated to the farm, which again, the whole capitalism is bad thing that this movie starts off with just breaks down because in this sort of allegory the human, the, the, the, the animals aren't what humans are in real life anyways. I want to get down to whether or not it's being misinterpreted because there, there's the biggest thing, the biggest critique of the critiquers. So the biggest defense that libs have is well no, no, this is just, this is just a retelling of an age old story that depicts a system that has just morphed over time. Right in the 40s or when Orwell was looking at the world, it was communism Socialism. Nowadays we just have to adjust because the real oppressors are the capitalists. The problem is Orwell himself didn't think that Orwell himself wrote this book specifically to criticize communism and specifically the communism that existed in Soviet Russia. There was a preface written to Animal Farm when George Orwell wrote the book, but was never actually published. The preface was found in 1971among after George Orwell had passed among the. The actual manuscript from Animal Farm. It was put out in 1972. And in that preface George Orwell quoted one of the publishers that refused to publish the book. So George Orwell has this book bunch of publishers turn him down. Four specifically that he mentions in the preface and then in a letter he includes what the publisher who denied him said in the preface to the book. So this is effectively George Orwell quoting somebody that he included in the preface to Animal Farm. The publisher who denied publishing said this. If the fable were addressed generally to dictators and dictatorships at large, which again are entirely deviated from the free market system that the new movie is now criticizing, then the publication would be alright. But the fable does follow, as I see it now, so completely, the progress of the Russian Soviets and their two dictators, Stalin and Trotsky, are the two depicted in this movie. It follows so closely to the progress of the Russian Soviets that it can only be applied to Russia to the exclusion of all other dictatorships. And then he goes on to talk about and also you used pigs. And the Russians are going to be super offended by that. The bottom line here is in the preface, by quoting this publisher's reasons for not publishing, Orwell himself basically said, no, no, it's, it's, it's about Soviet Russian communism. That's what it is. It isn't like, oh well, what if we morph it into like this free market capitalist system and we take the system that the most powerful, most prosperous country on planet Earth and pretend they're like the Russian. No, it doesn't, it doesn't work like that. It's not what the original novel intended and that sure as hell what not what the current movie depicts. I want to end this screed by taking another quote from Nicholas Claremont in the Free Press where he talks about the ending of the movie. And again, I'm going to read him verbatim because his writing is so good. He says the biggest problem, however, is the movie's ending. The bleak novel ends when the oppressed animals betray their utopian vision so completely that they are indistinguishable. From their, their former oppressors. In other words, the pigs have taken such control in the book that well, they might as well have just been Jones. We would have benefited ourselves to not go through this whole period because with all of this struggle we just ended up with the same thing, oppression, which is what communism yields. He goes on in the free press to say in Animal Farm the movie Lucky, who's not a character in the book, they inserted like this cute cuddly little pig who's the protagonist, I guess instead has a change of heart disguised with what he and his fellow pigs have become yet. Sorry, disguised with what he and his fellow pigs have become after they have sold the farm to the conglomerate to build, I kid you not, a hydroelectric dam. So in the movie, of course the irony here is, or at least the woke pushing their green ideology on us is just super apparent. The reason that the big conglomerate, the Pilkingtons want the farmland is to build a dam because green energy. And he makes that poison. Yeah, because that's what big corporations do. The big evil corporations says the libs also want to build renewable energy sources. Sundays those are two conflicting ideas. Anyways, back to the free press. Lucky goes back to the other animals and apologizes that the revolution has gone wrong. Quote, I want us to remember that feeling that we had the first day when we chased the slaughterhouse truck off the farm. He said, says Boxer, voiced by Woody Harrelson. Again star powered movie. The kindly and hard working horse who represents the ordinary proletariat delivers this howler. This is coming from the mouth of Boxer in the movie. And if you remember Boxer the horse in the novel, he's. He's the guy who actually bought into the system and works until he dies having been promised retirement that he never gets it because communists lie. The Boxer in the movie says this to work hard for our friends, not because we have to, but because we choose to. That is freedom. Holy crap. The distortion of the original intent of the novel by this movie is unbelievable. Yeah. Now a lot of the characters act similarly to the characters in the novel. But at the same time the shift of who the villain is instead of the communist oligarchs it has now become the free market bankers is a huge discrepancy in what Orwell originally meant when he wrote the novel. That is where this movie utterly and completely falls apart and interestingly enough becomes so ironic that it effectively is Orwellian, which again the irony is a little bit too rich. Just a couple quotes from Orwell. I think These are all 1984. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Nothing exists except an endless present, which the party is always right. In other words, we can just go ahead and change things to, to make it fit the narrative that we want, which is exactly what this movie appeared to do, which is what Orwell warned us about throughout his literary career. There's some more quotes from his preface that we could get to that I probably don't have time to get to. But I think we'll skip down to this. There is a glimmer of hope when it comes to how America has accepted this distortion of a great novel. There's a glimmer of hope because the American people think it sucked. John Nolte in Breitbart writes this. The director took an anti communist classic, Animal Farm, and turned it into an anti capitalist children's movie with complete with fart jokes. The result? Well, God bless America. It was humiliated at the box office with a catastrophic $3.4 million debut weekend, even though it opened on 2600 screens. That is against, I think, like a $40 million budget. In other words, the movie tanked 24% on Rotten Tomatoes, 2.6 out of 10 on IMDb, 28% on Metacritic. Probably because they ruined the sentiment of the movie. Now, the one thing that I do think is interesting here. You know what, actually email us about this because some of you, I'm sure, have been clutching your keyboards this entire time waiting to get into this part. Maybe we'll have this discussion in the mailbag segment either tomorrow or, I don't know, maybe a little bit later because there's so much going on here. Because I do think this is super important to the culture. The movie was distributed by Angel Studios, ace, a organization, a studio that we generally love. And my question is what went on there and actually do have some answers. But can we don't have time to get to it. Maybe we'll get to it later on in the show if you feel compelled to send your thoughts about this. Tptp USA.com but yeah, the idea, I guess, that we talked about at the beginning of conservatives trying to grasp to somewhat nostalgic representations of what we stand for that have been bastardized in the modern day. It doesn't mean you need to still hold on to them, Animal Farm included, especially this cartoon movie. TBT. TPC.com is the email address. Got a lot to get to. There's a lot there too. There's just a lot of. There's a lot of nuance to discuss here. Well, we will break down all of the fashion faux pas at the Met Gala. Last night I was wearing Frederick du Chalet, which is the name that I made up, but also would be indistinguishable from what the people were saying on the Met Gala red carpet. I promise you we're not going to bore you with that entirely, but there is some stuff interesting to get to on that front. Also the voting record of somebody who doesn't live in California. But that never happens. We'll get to all of it and get to the Point coming up after the break. Don't go away. We'll be right back.
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I've read a lot of constitutions of other countries. I've always gotten a thrill out of saying to these young people that all those other constitutions and our own, there is one little difference between them, looks little, but it is so great it explains the total success of our nation. All those other constitutions are based on privileges that governments give to their people. And ours says we the people will allow the government the following rights. And as long as it stays that way, we're on solid ground.
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That's a pretty. I mean, that's, I mean obviously the Constitution is reflective of the Declaration of Independence, but the Declaration of Independence says we hold these truths to be self evident. In other words, these are just true. And the American people have these rights and the government only exists not to give you the rights, but to protect the rights that you already have. It's a great compare and contrast from the Gipper there. Love that tbt tbsa.com is the email address. If you like, send along your thoughts on Animal Farm, on the Constitution, on Reagan, whatever you'd like to send your thoughts on. But when we have a lot of points to get to, we do have to do this thing that we do each and every day called get to the Point. Get to the Point, get to the Point. Now, voter fraud doesn't happen. So you know, it just. It doesn't happen. And if it does happen, it's exceedingly rare. We don't look for it, so that's part of the reason why we can't find it. But it, it also just does. It just doesn't happen. Now this is. Well, this is up to you. TBT.com Is this voter fraud? Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow defends California voting after move says moving takes time. So Michigan Senate candidate and state senator defended her decision to vote in the California 2016 primary after she announced she's moving to Michigan. And her whole thing was, well, moving takes time. Yeah, it does. But do you get to participate in multiple elections? Because I guarantee you. Well, not guarantee, I don't know this for a fact, but I, I would assume that she also voted in the Michigan primaries or in any Michigan elections in the same year. She said in moving takes time, describing it as a two year process for her family. Uh, she also was the Senate candidate that deleted like 6,000 old tweets because, you know, she doesn't want to have to run on any of her records or past statements. She just wants to be. Is this the person that marched into the, the producer, Glenn, Is it. Do you, do you happen to know off the top of your head, is she the one that marched in with a marching band into the, into the convention over there in Michigan trying to get the nomination? She is millennial cringe to say the least. Maybe we'll pull that clip and put it in a comeback clip in the coming days. Is just, it hurts to watch this lady like was dancing. You know how like lib politicians try and like dance like, like they're not as white as they are and it just looks as white as they are. Like Tom Steyer in California's another one who's like in a rap video, just like being as weird as weird gets. Be yourself. Talk about authenticity. That's the biggest problem. We talked about this yesterday. Biggest problem on the left is authenticity. Don't try and like march into a convention and get the nomination with like an all black marching band because that's just not who you are. Just, just chill, bro. Anyways, I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot from her. God forbid if she wins, but during the campaign, I think she's going to be one of, one of the fun ones to poke fun at. Here's one. You know, this is actually interesting, especially in light of all the poll numbers. If you're not keeping up with this, the poll numbers are not good for Mr. Trump right now. It doesn't mean I regret my vote. Doesn't mean that Anybody regrets their vote. Just what it is. Like, you know, you have swings of doing well in the polls. You have swings of not doing well in the polls. But I think, especially in the context of the polls, reflecting gas prices, which are higher, the Iran war and stuff that people claim the president is not doing well at, and, you know, the. The polls reflect that. I think it's worth highlighting some of the great things that he's been doing. Right. Because, I mean, you. You can argue all day about the necessity of Iran. I tend to think, like, yeah, if you have to fight a dragon, best to go to its cave before he comes to your village. I. I happen to be there. But again, I understand reasonable minds can disagree on that front. But also, we shouldn't neglect the incredible things President Trump's done. The border is done, that problem is solved. Like, yes, there's a backlog of cases that have to go through the courts. It's gonna be a toll on. But, like, who's coming over the border relative to the last. Nobody. We don't. We shouldn't forget that in tumultuous times that the administration will inevitably have, because every administration has tumultuous times. We shouldn't forget the fact that, like this from the Washington Examiner, Trump says 300,000 illegals kicked off of Social Security and a hundred thousand off of Medicare. Freaking. Yeah. Awesome. Way to go, Trump. Yeah, I. The politics currently are hard. They're tough. Defending some of the administration's stance on the is. It's tough. It's just. It's just what it is. And also, there's a lot of great things that he's doing that we shouldn't overlook, because at the end of the day, it's a. It's a culmination of things. It's a culmination of variables whether or not a president is good or bad. And outside of some of the difficult political. Navigating the difficult political headwinds at the moment, there are still incredible things going on on this front, like kicking off illegals from healthcare. Um, so I think we on the right need to remember that in difficult political times that, you know, it. It could have been way, way worse had it gone the other direction in the election. Uh, speaking of things that we need to do on the right, I actually thought this was really interesting. I saw this on social media, and I felt like. I felt like this was one of those, like, conservative rage baits. Uh, Dwayne Johnson, the Rock at the Met Gala. This is the. The title of the article. Dwayne Johnson at the Met Gala, quote, the most masculine men wear skirts. Now if that is not right wing conservative rage bait, I don't know what is. Had it like I, you know, in any other. If Bad Bunny said it, I would be like, yeah, dude, that's gay. Well, I don't know if Harry Styles, like, name your lefty crazy person saying that in a Fox News or Outkit or outkick article. I would be on the like, that's dumb. We should know. Masculinity is not dressing feminine. That's just not. That's not what it is in this particular case. We shouldn't take the bait on this one. I get it, I get, I get that the headline is very conservative rage baity. But that's the Rock is Samoan. I also happen to be Samoan. He's talking about like the traditional island attire. They're called lava lavas or is whatever you, you know, talk about it, but it's basically just cloth wrapped around. And I. If you know anything about Samoans, generally speaking, very kind, friendly people. But when the aggression needs to get turned on, who do you want, who do you want to face off within a dark alley night? I guarantee you it's not the Samoan dude wearing a skirt. Yeah, the term. We're talking about semantics here. Same thing with the Scottish guy. Uh, who's the, the WWE wrestler, McIntyre. That guy says, oh yeah, masculine men wear skirts. He could be talking about kilts, traditional Scottish garb. Uh, yeah, I'm still intimidated by that guy. Bottom line here is context matters quite a bit. And I am all for a good. Let's get mad at the Libs doing dumb things. And had this instead of Dwayne Johnson been like, I don't know, Bad Bunny or Harry Styles, I would have been, I would have been the first one on the dog pile. Yeah, dude, that's lame. Wear a. Wear some pants, you girly man. But in this particular case, I think we're taking something outta context and trying to be mad about it because we love being mad. Let's save the anger for things that actually deserve it. I think is that's my plea to us on the right is let's save it for the deserve the things that deserve anger. Like this Kid Cudi. This from NBC. Kid Cudi's a rapper that you probably never heard of, removed Mia, who's also a rapper that you probably never heard of from his tour over offensive rants at his shows. Now that's a nicer headline than a lot of the other headlines. Were. But basically Mia is a British music artist. Was the opener for his Rebel Ragers tour. After, well after a couple shows I guess we tried to pull this clip. The audio was so bad that it wasn't worth pulling. She went on, she went on a couple of like pro Trump rants which is I think kind of cool. Uh, and he said eh, not having it, firing you from the show. Here's a little bit of a contrarian take. Uh, I don't mind him doing that. I, you know it's it. You have every right to be mad about that. You know, someone expressing their opinion for, you know, in. For, for President Trump advocation for a conservative viewpoint. But at the same time, you know, I would love to see it that just leave politics out of it. How about, how about we, how about we ascribe that to both sides of the political spectrum? How about the Bruce Springsteen tour that he's currently on playing sold out stadiums and arenas. He also doesn't get to go on his anti Trump rants then I think that would be totally fine and justified. Let's, yeah, let's just leave the whole politics out of it. But now the problem is of course this is a one way street. It's only conservatives that generally get hit for having conservative ideology. So for that, yeah, totally, you have every right to be upset. That kid Cudi, who again is a rapper that you probably never heard of, fired another rapper from his tour because this sort of thing seems to only happen to conservatives and I would love it just generally speaking if, well, nobody preached from their political stance or from their, from their stage, their political stance. How about that? Uh, all right, last but not least, as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, Happy birthday Mexicans. I think again, I forget every single year what Cinco de Mayo is. Um, actually it was a battle in which it took place in the city of Puebla, Mexico on May 5th, 1862. A group of poorly equipped Mexican soldiers estimated to number somewhere around 2 to 3,000. Some estimate around 5,000, but I think the common accepted number is like 2 to 3. Those Mexican mil. Well militia ill equipped soldiers. Not, not like soldier soldiers is like a more, more like you know, American revolutionary type stuff. Obviously in Mexico though, ragtag bunch of guys defeated a French army of roughly 6,000 sent by Napoleon III to establish a French presence in Mexico. Interestingly enough, and somewhat ironic, it. It brought to mind a quote from Napoleon himself says in war the moral is to the physical as 3 is to 1. Effectively meaning if you're fighting for your Homeland against a foreign invader, really, of any kind of. You can probably account for 3 to 1 when it comes to the will to fight. Like a, like a. In it. Exactly. 2000 Mexican soldiers ill equipped versus a 6000 person French army. French army doesn't exactly know what they're doing there. The Mexicans are defending their homeland. It, it's, it's just, it's just kind of interesting and ironic that Napoleon III is the one that sends those troops in there to lose that battle. And Napoleon, OG Napoleon, who was this? Napoleon's uncle. OG Napoleon nephew is. Napoleon III was the one who warned, hey, gotta be careful, people. People who have a lot of morale around defending what's theirs are gonna fight harder than the troops who are just there on the prerogative of some emperor of France. So that's what Cinco de Mayo is, interestingly enough, not Mexican Independence Day. Not even really close. Also interesting, it's not a. It's neither country, the United States or Mexico recognizes Cinco de Mayo as a federal holiday. So there's that. All right, TPT is the email address. We got official business coming up next. My favorite part of the day where we get to mock some libs saying some dumb things. TPT tbc.com don't go away. We'll be right back after the break.
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So when I want to listen to music on the go, I'm able to use this headphone. It's one of the greatest headphones I've ever made. Because it has an integrated CD player, it's very simple. You just remove the compact disc from the holder, you open it up, and then you conveniently insert it into the player. And before you know it, you have the sweet sounds of whatever sounds you want to listen to on the go.
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All right. How can I extrapolate political meaning from this otherwise ridiculous video? Well, it seems to be emblematic of a society that is so comfortable, you invent problems to fix, which I think embodies the entire left of the American political wings. Like, hey, our life is too comfortable and our jobs are just. Everything is is too great here in America. I'm not. I'm just talking about the last several decades. Things have been so easy and the world has been so stable that we just have to make up problems and then fight against those problems and solve them. How's that for taking that out of that odd headphone video? I don't know. What problem is this guy trying to solve? But again, the question can be asked to a bunch of the lives that are protesting on campuses, hey, what problem are you actually solving? Are you just, like, mad for the sake of being mad because you're not a third world country and you didn't have to, like, think about where your next meal was coming from? All right. Hey. When officials talk about business in their official capacity, we call it a thing around here called official business Foreign. I think I'm officially resolved to the idea that John Fetterman actually believes what he's saying. It's been. We've been on the fence for this for what, five years, three years, four years, however long Fetterman has been on the national scene. But the question has always been, is he just trying to position himself for another electoral win, or does he actually thinks the things he believed? Now, given the polling that has come out, given the fact that zero people of his own party, in his own state in the House have supported his reelection bid, uh, I'm thinking he actually thinks this stuff, which isn't bad. Not the worst thing. Could I have had that on my bingo card when he was running for office? Absolutely not. But I'm happy he's here. Hope you'll stick around a little while. This is cut six now.
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There is kind of a small communist takeover in Maine. You know, Platner. Platner, he's already announced that he's an avowed communist. He's made that statement and he put that online. Now he's going to be the Democratic nominee. So. So there is a resurgence about the socialism, and that's becoming more and more part of it.
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Like who during the election campaign of John Fetterman would have thought this guy actually is going to be on Fox News advocating against communism. What? What? Tpt. Com, if you're as confused as I am, back to some. Back to some normalcy, but not normal in the sense of what this guy's about to say, but normal in the sense of. Of course. They're crazy people. This is Governor Pizza. Sorry. Pritzker out of Chicago, who does dabble in the occasional pizza gluttony. Elliot, I think, uh, here's here's here's another library victim blaming conservatives for their own violence. In this particular case, President Trump got
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seven because of the political violence. I think that the anti Semites out there and the people who are racist, because they know that I stand up for communities of color have come out of the woodwork and, you know, and I receive threats. I'm sure that politicians across the country are receiving more threats than they have before. But I hear about it, and in particular, sometimes I hear the mention of my Judaism. Right. Of my religion that has spiked in
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the last couple of years. Yeah.
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Like threats against you and your family.
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Yeah. I mean, I don't want to overstate it, but it's true. And, and it's more than it was in years before.
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What's the driver of that, do you think?
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I think the environment. Look, our leaders set the tone in this country, and I think that the President of the United States has set a tone where political violence is. Okay. He's advocated it himself before. It's a terrible thing. I mean, he's experienced. That's what I'm saying. He, he, he's experienced the, the other side of that. We gotta stand up against this. We, we need to be speaking out against political violence. I'm a big believer in it's okay to disagree but not be disagreeable.
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If I were to zoom out 30,000ft and explain what's going on here, this is why, personally, and I think we all should agree that language is one of the most important fundamental bedrocks that undergirds our society, that allows us to exist in a functional society. The reason I say that is because the left in so many ways has labeled rhetoric, speech, words, violence, literally violence. Libs around college campuses around the country have said, no, no, that speech is violence. And if you equate those two things, what Pizza said there makes sense. Now it doesn't. I'm not, I'm not saying it does make sense. I'm saying that if you put that in the context of, well, words can be violence, what is the last thing a couple months ago, Policy violence. I think Rashida Tlaib was talking about policy violence, which is not, it's not a thing. You are just taking something that you don't like and calling it violence. The problem with that, if we don't stand up to it immediately, is that if they twist the language to include things that are not violence in violence, they then in their own minds get to rationalize and justify saying that, well, look at. It's violence on both sides. Yes, you Know, the lib side is, you know, physical violence that ends up with people murdered. And their violence is, you know, policy violence, which, you know, taxes people more equally. Whatever it is, whatever the policy violence is, then they get to rationalize in their own head. Yeah, well, it's violence on both sides. It's not. And we shouldn't allow them to manipulate the language to, to include things that are not violence in the context of violence, because that's the actual problem. Yes. We can roll our eyes at what Pizza keeps saying about, well, it's the president and this. No, no, no. It's the left's manipulation of language to include things that don't generally fall under the definition of any given word. Then they wield that to say, no, no, it's. It's happening everywhere. Yeah. The really strong slant one direction, and it's really, really difficult to recognize that if you actually believe that words and arguments and legislation on paper can be violence. Wasn't expecting that. Little bit of a rant there. That'll conclude the time we have for official business. All right, well, that is what it is. It is. Ooh, I believe it's. It's. Take that Tuesday. Coming up next, tptpc.com is the email address. Your thoughts on the language manipulation of the Left, greatly appreciated. Tptpc.com, we'll be right back after the break. Don't go away.
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Sandra, how far has this family come?
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We came from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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When you think about the journey that you've been on together, what does tonight mean to you?
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It means the world. It's amazing.
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I'm so grateful to God. So happy for him. We are so proud of him. I, I.
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Okay,
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all right. How far have you come? About two to three hours.
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All right.
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You know, can you, can you blame a person for, like, the problem is, I think she was, the problem was she was serious. If that was like, that would be a hilarious meme joke. But I. That poor woman was she, she thought that's what. Okay. All right.
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Geez.
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On Tuesday, we do a big take that. We'll see if this video clip leads into that, but it is. Take that Tuesday. Take that Tuesday. All right. It's probably better just to play this clip one for time constraints but two to it explains itself. This is out of Los Angeles cut 11.
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Well, Christine, there's more than 450 of these signs now posted across the city. Just take a look at this one. Some people like them, while the feds call them politics. Signs going up declaring city property off limits for ice.
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The signs have no leg, legal weight, force or effect on anything the federal government does.
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Federal authorities firing back, saying the words are just that.
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Federal agents will go anywhere they need to go to enforce federal law. City property included.
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The message from la. No immigration enforcement. No staging, processing or operations at parks. More than 450 of these signs now posted at parking lots, libraries, the LA Zoo getting ready to leave, and notably MacArthur park, where last summer Mayor Karen Bass asked Border Patrol agents to leave during an operation. We asked the city how much these signs cost taxpayers and never heard back. But based on industry estimates, one sign and installation could run about $500, bringing the total to around 250,000 bucks. Just to be clear, from a federal perspective, do these signs stop ice?
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No, not at all. They're null and void. They mean nothing to us. And, and I look forward to her trying to enforce them.
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First things first, I'm in the wrong business. $500 to install one of those stupid signs. I gotta get in the sign installing business. Specifically in la. I feel like being brown might actually benefit me when it comes to winning contracts. This might be my last day here. I might be, I might go install some signs. But also too, I think too what wasn't mentioned there is patently a campaign ploy paid for by the taxpayers. Mayor Karen Bass, who's running for reelection as mayor, decided I'm gonna put up signs that show all of the things that I'm against. And interestingly and conveniently enough, I'm go ahead and put my name on it because I'm the mayor. It basically, she. She basically spent $200,000 at 500 bucks a pop per sign to put up campaign signs around the city. What it is, people running for office while in office is a problem because you can do stuff like that. And she's effectively campaigning for her reelection by putting up signs. How is that different than a regular campaign sign? It's not. It's just her, hey, here's my name, here's all the things that I stand for. ICE out other dumb comments that have no actual legal bearing. This is what I stand for. Here you go. By the way, taxpayers, here's the bill. Corruptifornia, to say the least. Hey, mailbag. Coming up after the break tptpsa.com we'll be right back. Don't go away. Foreign. Let's get right to it. Susan had a bad experience with Spirit Airlines. We solicited emails regarding Spirit Airlines yesterday and Susan says last year she made arrangements to fly Spirit with her son two weeks in advance for a short vacation to Florida. They arrived three hours early from their flight. Now, do people still do that? How, how early do you guys arrive to the airport for air flights? I, I recognize I am in like the fringes of this, but if my flight leaves at 6am the chances that I'm still in bed at 5am are high. I, I, I real, I get it. I'm very like, I, I am hauling it into the airport and through security. I've got TSA Precheck. It's the best $80 you'll ever spend in your entire life. Five years. I should be a spokesperson for TSA Precheck, but I, I realize that I'm on, I'm very, very fringe minority here. But what, three hours seems early. Anyways, their flight got canceled. This is several years ago, but that, this is just kind of, this is probably why Spirit had so few passengers because the experience was, well, you know, it was cheap, but at least it was awful. So there's that. Let's see Hillary, on the topic of saving money on the vacuum. She says her mama, I'm, I'm assuming that's like a grandma mother. Hey, feel free to correct me, Hillary, where that is, who that is. In your emails, tbt com said would have loved the idea of saving money on the vacuum cleaner. Yeah, you didn't save 20%. You spent 80% of what it you, yes, you have a product, but you still spent money. Did you need the product in the first place? Let's see, on the topic of Star wars versus Star Trek, Dave weighs in. Jay, Jay weighs in, talks about, oh, Jay says, I would like Star Star wars way too much to be a conservative. I don't know how to take that. Jay. I think conservatives like Star Wars. I think Dave says he's both a Star wars fan and a Star Trek fan. You got to pick one or the other. That's like saying you're, you know, you're Yankees fan and a Red Sox fan. You can't do the same. You can't be both. Let's see, from Sheldon. Star Trek is a soap opera. Star wars is an epic tale between good and evil. Star wars wins hands down. But since Disney bought it, it sucks. I agree with that. Sentiment since Disney has bought it. It does in fact suck. And a lot of email on the pineapples on pizzas. We have to retire that. The definitive, the definitive conclusion is that pineapple no on pizza. Anyways, tbt.tbsa.com is the email address. Thanks so much for tuning in. We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. God bless America.