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Joe Bob
The Department of War appears to be gearing up for war and libs are entirely confused about that. 100,000 federal employees set to say bye bye in a great move and a win for the Trump administration. Again, libs are not stoked about it. And more celebrity beef with the president. Where do singers get off on thinking, you know, who needs to weigh into public policy? Me. Maybe that kind of factors into the way they think about themselves. All that and more coming up on this episode of Turning Point Tonight. My name is Joe Bob. Thanks so much for tuning in. Together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback through mockery of the insane ideas of the left. Remember, you can email the show anytime you want. TPT@tpusa.com we love seeing all of your emails. We read quite a bit of them and I promise, I know I keep saying this, I promise we're going to give more time to the end of the show where we actually read several of the emails online. Especially those who agree and praise what we're doing here. Really appreciate those. But you can send emails regardless of whether you agree or you're wrong. Doesn't matter. Tptposa.com Love seeing those emails. We got to get to the Department of War. All of the big generals from around the Department of War came into Washington D.C. and and were talked to by Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War and also President Trump among other people. But those are the two big ones. Now I want to start here with with Pete Hegseth. How stoked are we that the the Department of War and the Secretary of War actually prioritize war? I again, I realize that libs are very taking this very, very hard. Why would we prioritize being actually battle ready? I thought the military was just a jobs program for people who couldn't succeed elsewhere. Well, that's how the lib things here on the conservative side of the aisle we say hey, maybe we should look around the world. Things are a little bit tense and maybe we should be prepared. That is of course the message that Pete Hegseth was bringing. Here's a clip of that initial response to what he says is talking about. I believe this is clip two where he says, hey, all of the things that the prior administration and the lib administrations before that were prioritizing, those are all going bye bye. Check this out.
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Pete Hegseth
No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship. No more division distraction or gender delusions. No more debris. As I've said Before and will say again, we are done with that.
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Joe Bob
Now. I recognize that there are a lot of different things that we can say in promotion of that, and all of things have probably been said, and I'm sure you're finding them elsewhere. The only thing that I would like to point out is the ridiculous nature that we are currently in that we are praising the Department of War Secretary saying, hey, no dudes in dresses. That is a crazy thing to have to say. And while I'm glad he's saying it, I don't know, rewind like 20 years even. I mean, go back further than that. Ask what General Patton would have thought. Hold on. There are dudes in dresses in the military. What. What is going on there? But you don't even have to go back that far. You probably go back to, like, the sanity of like, the Clinton administration, where they would go, what? This is a thing that we're doing. This is a attack that we're taking in the Department of War. Why are we even in this position? Oh, there's lots of other reasons as to why I think we've devolved into a place where, yeah, you have to say it. And while I'm glad he's saying it, it is ridiculous that it has to be said continuing on in his remarks. And we could probably play the whole thing and the entire thing is important. Peg, Seth spoke for about 45 minutes, but I thought this was really interesting for a couple different reasons where he says, hey, the fitness standard that we employ for all of our soldiers are going to apply to everyone in the Department of War. Here's what he said.
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Pete Hegseth
It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the Secretary of War can do regular hard pt, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world. It's a bad look. It is bad. And it's not who we are. So whether you're an Airborne Ranger or a Chairborne Ranger, a brand new private or a four star general, you need to meet the height and weight standards and pass your PT test. And as the chairman said, yes, there is no PT test.
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Joe Bob
Yeah, pretty dang good point there. And of course, if you scroll through any of the social media platforms that libs take to heart the blue sky or threads, they. Oh my gosh, this is fat shaming. Nah, it's just military readiness. I mean, just put yourself in a situation where you're gonna get into an altercation with somebody. If that person looks insanely out of shape, well, you're gonna be more confident in your ability to hold your own. If that person was a jacked, slender, athletic person, you're starting to think, oh, man, this. This might be a problem. That is the position that we want our adversaries to be in. We want our adversaries to look at our military when we have military parades and go, huh, maybe we should rethink invading Taiwan or any of the other military conflicts that could break out around the world that the US Might get involved in. Maybe we should rethink that because, holy cow, those guys look scary. Now, there's one more clip from Heg says that we're gonna play. But I did want to play this clip from President Trump because. Because, of course, the libs are going to melt down over this. I'm sure you've heard this already, but it's too funny to not repeat. Want to. Want to play this clip from President Trump. And then also some of the reaction from the libs on the Internet on how they thought about it. Uh, watch this. Cut one.
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Interviewer / Former YouTube CEO / President Trump (clips)
I believe we can't let people throw around that word. I call it the N word. There are two N words, and you can't use either of them. Can't use either of them. And frankly, if it does get to use, we have more than anybody else. We have better. We have newer.
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Joe Bob
So, of course, he's talking about the word nuclear. Yeah, you can't use that word on the international scale. People start to freak out if you use the word nuclear. And then the way President Trump's brain works, he goes, yeah, he can't say another N word. And he just brings that up and it's. It's funny right? Now, would I say it if I were the president? Probably not. I'd probably try and stick to the script. But that's why we love President Trump. He doesn't always stick to the script, and he says what's in his head, and that's why we think he's a genuine person. But clearly he's making a joke. And again, I'll say, is it the right platform to make a joke? I don't know. That's not up to me. I'm not the President of the United States. He is. But he did, and it was a joke, and it was funny. Now, of course, if we were to talk in lib terms, it was not a joke, and it was Monumentally embarrassing. This is just one graphic from a tweet that was sent out by call to activism. I'm not sure who this individual is or what this group is, but they have a million followers on X, which is not nothing. It's a. It's a substantial number of people that this tweet represents. Wtf? Trump's brain is totally gone. Why? Because he accurately described two words that begin with the letter N that you can't say. That's pretty accurate. Um, then they say. They. They quote him, and then they say, this is the most embarrassing effing display of stupidity I have ever seen. Not. Maybe they missed Joe Biden wandering off the stage. Like, again, if you want to talk about actual stupidity, uh, it's not the guy that's connecting two things in his head and just saying it in real time. It's the guy that can't connect anything in his head and then wandering off to the endless abyss that is the middle of nowhere, which is what Joe Biden did not once, not twice, but frequently throughout his presidency. Okay, if you're embarrassed by that, I'm. I'm sorry that. That you feel that way, but this is the world that we live in. One, we think our president is hilarious, and two, we like the fact that the Department of War is doing this crazy thing called gearing up for war. Which brings us in to the final clip here. And I think this is the main message Hegseth was trying to promote. I agree with it wholeheartedly. But that, of course, these the obvious. Watch this, Secretary Hegseth using some Internet slang to tell the rest of the world. Watch out. Check this out.
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Pete Hegseth
To our enemies. F, A, F, O. If necessary, our troops can translate that for you. Another way to put it is peace through strength.
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Joe Bob
Peace through strength. That is something that we have all seen. What did Reagan say? Speak softly, but carry a big stick. Trust but verify. Yeah. That is the posture that the United States wants to send out to the rest of the world. Hey, uh, you can do whatever you want, but if you decide to screw around, I'll say that word. Uh, you will find out the full force of the American military. So don't go trying to do things to our citizens abroad. Don't try to do things to our military outposts around the world, because things will hurt, and we will make sure that they hurt. I think everybody who is an American, not just a conservative, but an American as a whole, needs to recognize that having a strong military and a strong defense and a strong Department of War is necessary for maintaining peace around the world, but more specifically for us. The American people loved what Pete had, Seth, and President Trump had to say regarding that fantastic event with all of the generals today. We've got a bunch of other stuff to get to. Celebrities are attacking President Trump. Will he be able to to withstand the onslaught of mean words from people who sung in Wicked among other people. YouTube actually issued a settlement with the Trump administration or with President Trump specifically. That is a fascinating the libs are saying they're capitulating, but is that what's really happening? Also, we'll talk to Stephen Gardner about the hundred thousand federal workers that are leaving their jobs today, which is going to save us an absurd amount of money. We'll check in with Monica Page, Turning Points White House correspondent, and have a lot of other things to get to. Don't go away. You can email us us tptpusa.com we will be right back after the break. See you then. Welcome back to Turning Point tonight, where together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback through mockery of bad ideas promoted by the libs. I recognize that that's getting a little bit long. We'll try and shorten it up, tighten it up, but I want to keep that mockery part in there. As I explained yesterday, that's the way that you change hearts and minds. You just make fun of bad ideas. And as Thomas Moore said, the devil can't bear to be mock. And as Charlie Kirk said, don't take libs as seriously as they take themselves. You can email the show anytime you want. Tptpusa.com Honestly, I have such a great time reading all of your emails about the different takes that you have on stories that we were covering. Some of you hip us to new stories that we should be covering and I think we'll do a couple of those actually tomorrow. But tptp USA.com is the email. Send us anything that you'd like. Whether you agree with everything we've ever said on the show or you're wrong doesn't matter. TPT@tpusa.com There is a lot of discussion about the rhetoric and the posturing of the two political sides in this country right now. Conservatives are accurately pointing out, hey, you guys are using some pretty dang heated rhetoric and well, I don't know, maybe we've seen a couple of instances where that has led to disaster. So hey, maybe stop it now. The response from libs is, well, conservatives are not being nice on the Internet either. So why, why would we Tamp down the rhetoric. The point that I'd like to bring up is that that is not the same. We are not the same when it comes to things that the other side doesn't want us to say. And there's a good example of that going around the Internet right now. I'm gonna bring up that example, but I would like to challenge you as well as myself, to not laugh at the photo that you're about to see on the screen. All right, I almost made it. As you can see, this is Senor Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero and a mustache. Now, the President of the United States tweeted this out, or truth it out. And it came with a video. Now, the libs are. Well, we'll get to what the libs are saying. Let me just play this video. It's very, very funny. You guys are gonna find it very funny. I want to play it. But then I want to get to the main crux of the idea that all. Both sides. Both sides are. Are being bad with the rhetoric. They kinda. Watch this and we'll discuss.
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AI Meme of Hakeem Jeffries
There's no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bull. Not even black people want to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So we need. And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us. They can't even speak English, so they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke pieces of, you know, at least for a while until they. They learn English and they realize they hate us too.
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Joe Bob
So the President of the United States posted that video. Now, we'll just say this. And we said this at the first segment. If I were the President of the United States, I'm not entirely sure I would post that again. I think it's hilarious and I think it's very, very funny. And I'm glad that I watched it. But I don't know, maybe leaving it up to some of the more comedic folks on the Internet might. Might be the best idea. I'm not even saying that it is. I'm just, you know, maybe. But here's the thing. Libs take this sort of thing that is clearly a joke. I mean, obviously it's his AI added a sombrero, and, uh, Senator Schumer is saying things that he didn't say. But obviously we're couching what libs do actually say in a satirical meme type fashion. Obviously, this is all made up. Obviously, this is a joke, and we all know that it's a joke. The libs are, though, saying, well, look at how bad the rhetoric is on the conservative side of the aisle. The President of the United States is doing this thing, and that's terrible. Okay, fine. Whether or not you think President Trump should be posting this sort of stuff, this is not the same as when they call us fascists and Nazis, because if you extrapolate those terms into what you should do if somebody actually is a fascist or Nazi, the outcome is entirely different. We look at this sort of thing and go, yeah, let's put this into the context in voting and maybe not elect these two people that we fervently disagree with, and they don't think very differently than this. Mocking AI meme says, on the other side, if you call somebody a Nazi or a fascist, as libs continue to do, despite the terrible tragedies that they have inflicted on conservatives in the past couple weeks, well, guess what? More of that is going to happen. I don't want it to happen. Nobody is condoning it. Nobody. Nobody wants the political violence to get any worse. But there is a difference between making fun of somebody in. In maybe a way that is not necessarily the best way, but it. It is. It's different if you're going to use the terminology that the libs have been using to denigrate the other side. There is a difference between making fun of somebody and calling somebody something that has actual meeting words like fascist and Nazi. Now, to get back to a little bit of the humor of it, Senor Hakim did issue a statement, but he also went to the Capitol steps to give a speech on how he felt about this objectively hilarious meme. Watch this. And also, the Internet user who put this together was kind enough to put the video underneath what Senor Hakeem was saying. Check this out. And, Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me, don't cop out through a racist and fake AI video When I'm back in the Oval Office. Say it to my face. Say it to my face. And the best part about that is, I guarantee President Trump will, when Hakeem Jeffries is back in the Oval Office, he'll probably go, how funny was that? Beep, dude. And if the cameras are in there, Hakeem Jeffries will probably be like, have to. I. I completely disavow your objectively hilarious Senor Hakeem Jeffries meme. But we all know President Trump has no problem saying things to people's face. He just also annotates it with hilarious memes, which, you know, who can blame him? It's hilarious. But to reiterate the point here, there is a difference. And I don't know if this is the best metaphor to use, but imagine, I don't know, you're at a, at a dinner party with your wife. Uh, and I guess I'm specifically talking to husbands, but I feel like wives can also relate to this. Uh, your wife says something about you and says, ah, you know, he's such a goofball. Okay, goofball, fine, playful, light hearted term, but you don't really like that. Yo, yeah, this is a goofball. It's. That's not. I don't want to be called a goofball. And then you call your wife fat. Both are insults. Both are probably not appropriate to be made, but one is clearly going to be worse and have bigger and more impactful ramifications. I don't know if that's the best metaphor to use, but that's the thing. I can't. That, that's, that's what I'm thinking about in my head. Yeah, there is a difference in insults, there is a difference in speech, there is a difference in rhetoric. And yeah, sure, we're going to keep making fun of people, but that is different than calling them fascists and Nazis. There is a difference between calling your wife a goofball or she calling you a goofball and calling your wife fat. Uh, one of them, it's probably fine, maybe you shouldn't say it. The other one is a nuclear bomb in your relationship. And that's, that's where the problem lies. Let's make sure we stick to, you know, poking fun at people. But when you call people things that actually have meanings, that's where problems are. Start to happen. And I realize we're kind of running out of time here, but I do want to make sure we get to this. Speaking of people calling each other names, Ariana Grande, the singer from Wicked, who, by the way, I think is actually very talented. That has nothing to do with her political leanings because those are obviously insane. I think she's actually a very talented singer. Whenever she goes on snl, they do this thing where she, like, mimics the voices of other popular singers. And she's very, very good at. She's very, very talented in that realm. Um, not entirely sure. She's super talented in the art of political discourse. She posted to her Instagram story the other day and I. There this is a relatively long. So I'll just kind of characterize the majority of it. Uh, I want to check in with the Trump owners. I have one very genuine, genuine question. And she goes on to list a bunch of different things, but basically, has she says, has your life improved? Has it really? The response that she was expecting from a bunch of us is to introspectively take a look and go, you know what? No, it's actually been way worse. The problem with the problem that she's going to have is actually has a. My. My life has actually gotten substantially better. And I would say genuinely that the only reason that things have possibly gotten worse is the libs response to things when ICE is going around Los Angeles and getting criminal illegals out of the country. Yes, that made my life better. I want to see that happen. I feel safer in my community if criminal illegals aren't around. I think the job market is better. We're doing better economically if those criminal illegals are out of the country. The only thing that actually may have made it worse is the lib response. I don't want to see cars burning in the streets. Oh, people just getting together to watch the cars burn. A throwback. If you've been watching the show and we talked about that when it happened, the only thing that's made anything worse is the response that libs have had to things that are in a positive direction coming from the administration. So, yeah, Ariana, the only thing that has actually made anything worse is the horrible response from the libs, obviously spanning from riots in the streets to. To the horrible assassination of my friend. The only things that have made things worse is the way that libs react to making the country objectively better. Now, the White House, of course, not to be outdone, responded. They did the communications people at the White House, and I know a couple of them are so good at what they do. Save your tears, Ariana. The White House said, which is a reference to a very popular song from the weekend, because President Trump's action just ended Biden's inflation crisis, bringing in trillions in new investments. He even signed an executive order like Magic that paid. Paved the way to the FTC to crack down on Ticketmaster ripping off Ariana Grande. Ticket goers get well soon, Ariana. The White House is so good at responding to these sorts of things. And I think in part, actually in large part comes from President Trump being very, very well versed in the media scope. Remember, this guy climbed to the top, the pinnacle of New York real estate, which is the toughest real estate market. Then he decided, hey, I'm gonna go become the number one show on network tv, which is also an incredibly difficult thing. Then he said, I'm gonna run for president, United States. I'm also married to a supermodel. The guy's clearly talented in everything that he does, but I think his media background gives him great insight into how to handle this sort of stuff. Coming up next, we'll discuss how Sia, another singer, views climate policy or something. I don't know. Not entirely sure why we're paying a ton of attention, but this got a lot of media attention from pretty much everybody. The fact that Ariana Grande is dissing the Trump administration and I love the fact that the Trump administration responded eloquently, accurately, and also playfully in quoting some of the songs that they did. Coming up, we're going to talk to Turning Points White House correspondent Monica Page about Pfizer of all of all things. Also, she wants to weigh in on the big meeting with all the generals and the secretary of war and the president, United States. We'll also talk to Stephen GARDNER about the 100,000 federal workers leaving their jobs as a part of President Trump's hey, go ahead and resign. You can resign and get, get some benefits from that. How much money are we actually going to save? Well, spoiler alert. It's a lot. You can email the show anytime you want. TPT@tpusa.com Love seeing all of your thoughts, love seeing where your head is at. That kind of helps keep guide the direction of the show. Taking after Charlie as he did that famously with all of his emails. Tptpusa.com we will be right back after the break. Don't go away. Welcome back to Turning Point tonight, where together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback through the mockery of terrible ideas. And I recognize I switch between terrible and horrible and bad. It's all the same thing. Libs have terrible ideas and we need to mock them endlessly so they stop promoting those ideas. Let's check in with Turning Points White House correspondent Monica Page at the White House. Monica, you know, some blistering, just crazy things coming out of the Department of War, like, hey, we should be ready for war. I maybe I'm missing that, but I don't know why that seems to be controversial with the libs. We talked about it quite a bit. What Hegseth said, kind of the main message that he was trying to push. Obviously Trump came up there and kind of reiterated that message of Being ready. What's it like in the White House right now? What are the, what are the kind of the staffers saying? What are the other media outlets saying about the speeches this morning at. At the Quantico over there with the President and the entire Department of War? Yeah.
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Monica Page
Well, the White House, they're very enthusiastic. They're very much behind this message. It feels good to have maybe, you know, a military Defense Department, War Department that's actually excited to do their jobs, that's excited to protect our country and protect us Americans. Because the last year for, excuse me, four years, we've had a Department of Defense and a Secretary of Defense who decided to leave his post and do some kind of surgery and didn't tell anybody. We had a lot of woke mindset, ideology instilled in our military. So the White House is very excited to get back to work when it comes to our defense, when it comes to our military, military members and our generals, and really just like, reinstill American patriotism, reinstill warrior ethos. Because this, this message that we heard today just doubled down on the President's message of peace through strength. Now, however, on the other end, you have the media here at the White House that may not be too happy about some of the rhetoric this morning, maybe trying to. They say that this White House is trying to instill some fear in the American people about going to war. And we need to be ready to go to war. And of course they're going to take that and run with it. And, you know, this United States military is our bloodthirsty, and that's just not the case at all. You need to escalate to de. Escalate. And that's exactly what we've seen consistent with this White House. And peace through strength has also been a consistent message. But of course, you just can't trust these reporters on the ground here because they'll just immediately take it personal. They'll immediately try to think of the worst possible case scenario and just run with it. But everyone in the White House, they're cool, calm, collected. They are ready to. To do what needs to be done to protect our country, because finally we have a president that actually cares about us and our safety.
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Joe Bob
Yeah, I guess I don't quite understand the reaction to it other than like, yeah, we should be ready to go to war with countries that are willing to go to war with us. The idea of, like, oh, you're going to scare the American people that they, they don't want war. Yeah, no, nobody wants war, but it's a necessary component to being the global, global dominant superpower. I, I can't quite understand that. In other news, Pfizer. There's some big news in the medical community. Tell us what President Trump is doing about Pfizer, which I recognize several people watching this show are probably not stoked with that company, and that's putting it lightly. But what's going on on that front?
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Monica Page
Well, essentially, the President is completely reinventing the pharmaceutical industry because Pfizer just announced that it's investing about 70 billion. That's billion the B dollars to completely reassure pharmaceutical manufacturing right here in the United States and efforts to lower these crazy drug costs for Americans who need their medication, who need their drugs here in the United States. Some of them are very reliant on these pharmaceuticals. And the fact that this announcement today is coming during this time, during the Make America Healthy Again movement is perfect timing. It's definitely what Americans need. And this could slice drug costs by maybe, you know, 100 to 300%. I mean, some of these other countries were kind of paying pennies compared to what we are paying here in America. And on top of that, the President also announced a new government website called Trump Rx, which I think is fantastic. It essentially allows consumers to get their medications through this specific website without having to go through a middleman like you probably previously had to do. So the President is trying to make this more accessible, make it a lot easier and make it faster for Americans just get the medications that they need without having to pay exorbitant amounts of money.
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Joe Bob
My favorite thing on this has been seeing in the span of a week the libs going, we need to guzzle as much Tylenol as possible because President Trump says no. And now they're going to be like, medication is terrible because President Trump is trying to make it cheaper. I just, I love that. I think the President jerking around all the lives is hilarious. Monica, thanks so much for joining us. Really appreciate you taking this time.
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Monica Page
I also like the self branding on a lot of things. Absolutely hysterical.
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Joe Bob
And I don't really care specifically. Like, would I do that? Probably not. But also, does it really hurt anybody who, who actually cares? Just making up another controversy.
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Monica Page
Joe, Bob, thank you so much for having me.
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Joe Bob
Appreciate you taking the time. Speaking of President Trump and the White House, YouTube finalized a settlement of a lot of money that they are going to have to pay for censoring people. Now, again, this probably comes as a shock to many of you, but YouTube was censoring individuals specifically around Covid, but then also took President Trump's YouTube channel down after January 6th. Uh, the YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump, who sued the video sharing platform I'm reading here from CBS News and its chief executive for temporarily suspending Mr. Trump's account in 2021 after the riot at the Capitol. The court ports. The court papers filed Mondays say. Now there's a lot of stuff to get into here. We don't have a ton of time to break down all of it, but I do want to play some clips from the former YouTube CEO Susan. I don't even want to try and pronounce her last name. Waja Chicki, I think. I'm not sure. Doesn't matter. In her response to censorship on YouTube. Let's play this clip and then we'll discuss kind of the ramifications and what the libs are saying. Well, this is big tech capitulating to President Trump, which is nonsense, but we'll go over that. Watch this clip.
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Interviewer / Former YouTube CEO / President Trump (clips)
5.
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Podcast Host
So, first of all, we want to make sure that if there's information that violates our policies, we came up with 10 different policies around Covid. Then if that's a violation of policies, then that's something that we'll remove. We removed over a million videos associated with COVID Yeah.
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Joe Bob
Now, this lawsuit, again, wasn't necessarily around Covid. It was specifically in President Trump. But it kind of shows and outlines the broad strokes that YouTube was willing to take to ban a bunch of people. Now, the next clip I'm going to play is from the same interview in which I thought the interviewer asked a pretty good question of the former YouTube CEO and said, hey, can you learn anything from all of the people that were posting videos that turned out to be right? Can you, can you actually learn from that? Here's what she says and here's what YouTube People think when prove that when. When it's proven that they are wrong. Watch this. I wonder if there's anything that you.
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Stephen Gardner
See in, you know, the way that.
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Joe Bob
Anti vaxxers behave on the platform, if there are any data or insights there.
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Monica Page
That could be helpful to people understanding.
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Joe Bob
Where they're coming from.
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Podcast Host
I mean, we try to. We try to understand what are the different ways that we can break through. So we talked about, in this campaign that we did about getting back to the things that you love. So we, what we really tried to do was get not just from the experts, but also people that were not experts, but who were explaining like, why did they take the vaccine, why was that relevant for them? And what was their thought process?
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Joe Bob
That's amazing. So the answer that she gave was no, like, hey, can you learn from these people? Can you see where they're coming from? And her answer was, well, actually, yeah, we're trying to continue pushing people in one particular direction. She even then said at the end of it, I don't know if you caught it. Yeah, we're using non experts too, to push their opinion, which is our opinion, which is the only opinion that's acceptable on our platform. That is the mindset of libs when it comes to what the tech platforms should have on their platforms and what they shouldn't. It can only be on if we a hundred percent agree with that. And even when the interviewer says, well, do you think you can learn anything from differing opinions? They effectively said, nah, actually, what we're gonna do is double down and we're gonna use people that definitely aren't health experts, specifically in this health situation. Now, again, I recognize that this was not this specific case being brought with President Trump, but it's all effectively the same thing. They took down a President's account because of a riot at the Capitol. And what the libs are saying about it is this. They're saying, well, this is just another big platform capitulating to the President. My question to them is, why can't it ever be the case that this is just true, this is just accurate? Why does everything need to be couched in the idea that it's President Trump getting somebody to do something against their will, but they want to be in the good graces of the President? Why can't it be the fact that YouTube did censor people? They did take down the President's account, and the reason they did it is unclear to all the rest of us, and therefore they have to pay the fine for doing what they admitted to have done? Why can't it be that? Why can't it be they're just paying a penalty for something that they have done and not while they're just bending the knee to President Trump? Same thing applies to Jimmy Kimmel. We'll talk about his ratings tomorrow. There's actually some really interesting statistics, but I do want one more day of writings to come in before we dive head first into that. But the whole Kimmel situation, while ABC is capitulating to President Trump, why can't it be that ABC also recognizes the humanity of. Of their viewers and them not wanting to platform a guy that said something indefensible? Not everything is about President Trump. Some things are about right and wrong and doing what is in the best interest of the people and not to bend the knee to the president. And yet libs continued to say that the only reason anyone does anything is to be in the good graces of a guy that they also say has no good graces. Make that make sense, Libs? Doesn't make sense to me. And I honest to God, don't think it really even makes sense to you. Speaking of libs that don't make sense, we're going to talk about many more of them coming up in our final segment. But next we're going to talk to Stephen Gardner, host, the Stephen Gardner Podcast, which is a massive on YouTube, about the hundred thousand federal workers that are no longer employed by the federal government, I. E. No longer being paid for by me and you. Uh, it is a great development in the Doge initiative of the Trump administration. We'll discuss right after the break. Don't go away. Welcome back to Turning Point tonight, where together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback through the mockery of terrible ideas. Obviously all coming from the libs. One of the most terrible ideas is that we should employ just an endless amount of people, constantly paying them great salaries with great pensions, to do freaking nothing. That is the biggest point that I think conservatives have been trying to make, not only recently, but for the last several decades. What the heck is the government doing? Why is it always getting bigger? And what are we, the taxpayers, seeing in return? Well, about a hundred thousand federal employees today are set to resign as a part of Trump's initiative to get a bunch of federal workers to resign. Now, there's some nuance in there, which is why we want to discuss this with the host of the Steven Gardner podcast, Stephen Gardner, the Stephen Gardner Gardner Show. Stephen, thanks for coming on. Really appreciate you taking the time.
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Stephen Gardner
Happy to be here. Thank you.
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Joe Bob
So I want to first start off with kind of an explanation of what's going on. I think the best way to do that is watch this short clip from the Economic Times. They are kind of outlining what's happening. And then we'll kind of get into the minutiae of who's mad about it and why, in fact, they are mad about it. And whether or not those. Those cries of anger are make any sense. Check this out and we'll Discuss.
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Economic Times Reporter
More than 100,000 federal workers will formally quit on September 30 as part of the latest wave of the Trump administration's deferred resignation program. The departures represent the largest single year decline in civilian federal employment since the Second World War.
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Stephen Gardner
War.
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Economic Times Reporter
The resignation program will cost $14.8 billion, with 200,000 workers receiving full salary and benefits while on administrative leave for up to eight months, according to a Senate Democrats report issued in July.
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Joe Bob
So, Stephen, first of all, the 100,000 people leaving your thoughts on this, and maybe kind of, I don't know if people aren't aware the explanation as to why this is a necessary thing, given the. The bloat of the federal government.
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Stephen Gardner
President Trump is a businessman. You know, if he looked at his Miami golf course and suddenly realized that we have three times as many bellmen, three times as many caddy, three times as many servers in the restaurant, he would say, wait a minute, I love these people. It's nothing personal, but why am I, as a business owner, paying triplets, you know, triplicate? I need to get this off. Because for every business, overhead is almost always the single expense that makes a business sink or fail. Right. And so, in order to be wise with taxpayer money, he's just fulfilling a campaign promise. He promised us that he would cut government, that he would reduce the federal workforce. I mean, I remember him courageously standing in front of the Libertarian Party saying, vote for me. Give me your vote. You guys have been demanding small government for decades. You're never going to win. I will win, and I will give you a smaller government. So here he is handing a smaller government back to the American people, and, you know, they're going to sit and complain, oh, this is going to cost $14 billion. Well, the congressional Budget Office already came out and said it's actually going to save $28 billion every year going forward. So you go out 10 years, and that is saving so much money. You know, 28 billion times 10, that's $280 billion. That's almost a quarter of a trillion dollars from one move. And it's because we don't need all of those workers.
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Joe Bob
Steve, what I'm hearing is that you don't have employees on your staff that sit around and twiddle their thumbs all day. That's a. That's an interesting business strategy. I might take that up myself. But you. You. You did bring up a good point. And that's what I think a bunch of the. The libs are making this case on. Well, this is gonna cost $14.8 billion over the course of eight months, which is the deal that they made with the administration. Do you think that that argument is gonna hold any water in the mainstream media, or do you think the American people are smart enough to know, yeah, they don't actually care about the budget, which is how we got into this mess to begin with. So that argument doesn't hold water. And I wonder, you know, your thoughts more broadly of, okay, well, this is not like they're. They're just firing people. Like, these are all people that are willingly deciding to take this sort of deal. Do any of those arguments hold water? And do you think there's going to be any sort of backlash? Or you think this is just going to come and go and be a win for the, for the administration on.
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Stephen Gardner
Our side of the voting ticket? It's not going to matter. It doesn't matter what CNN or MSNBC or ABC or CBS says. No one's going to convince MAGA or Republican conservatives that having a big government is good for the American people. Now, it does give the Democrats some ammunition because they literally ran on, the government will solve your problems. The government is what makes your life better. We will raise your taxes. Why? So that we have more money to be a better government. But that's not what MAGA wants. That's not what conservatives want. We want to keep our own money because we have jobs. So I don't, I'm not interested in giving more tax money to a government that spends terribly. So, no, I don't think it's going to hold water. But you better believe CNN is going to be beating the drum all day long about Donald Trump shutting down the government. Donald Trump being the, the single biggest reason that the government shrank and can't do its job. If there's a fire, if there's an earthquake, whatever it is, they will all blame Donald Trump.
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Joe Bob
You know, you brought up a good point at the beginning there of, yeah, the live media is going to run with this and be like, this is the worst thing that's happened. But also, none of us are watching any of those channels to begin with. So it's. I don't know, it feels like a moot point there. And I think that they're probably not going to get the benefit that they think. So just. Okay, zoom out with me. 30,000ft. What do you think is next? What do you think is coming down the pike of cutting government spending? You know, as a whole, obviously, 100,000 federal workers leaving their jobs is great news, but what comes after that? Because that, you know, even though it's saving a quarter of a trillion dollars, like you mentioned at the beginning, it's really nowhere near the Deficit, what else do you think has to at least be looked at to be on the chopping block in order to get us on a more fiscally responsible path, especially with how the entire world is looking nowadays.
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Stephen Gardner
They've got to put mechanisms in place to not just willy nilly increase government based on pet projects, poison pills, things that they try to inject. I mean, if you, if you go back and you look at data from when Trump was at his highest, when people had the most confidence, when people were really excited, it went back to Elon Musk and Doge. The American people put Donald Trump in office to be a chainsaw, to be a blunt force instrument against a bloated government. I'm going to tell you that three things happened under the Biden administration. Trump's being blamed for them now. But these squarely fall on Joseph Robinette Biden. The first one is most jobs under Joe Biden went to illegal immigrants. That has absolutely been proven. The next biggest area where jobs went under Joe Biden were to government jobs. He is the one that bloated, he is the one that hired why they needed the job numbers to be good. And number three that we know with certainty is a fact is that a large portion of those jobs were actually fabricated. They were fake. They had to go in and unwind them. And then what did Democrats do? They said, look at the jobs report, we're not growing under Donald Trump. But really they were minusing all of the fake jobs. So if you look into the data now, you've got American born citizens, they're the ones getting jobs, illegals are losing their jobs and the government jobs that Joe Biden added, boom, they're gone. So I think Donald Trump is doing a great job and I think the American people know that.
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Joe Bob
I, that's, that is a great point because I've mentioned a couple of times I don't have the specific numbers in front of me, but California is being touted as the fourth largest economy. They moved up from the fifth. But the overall job increase has been like, almost like 90% have been new government jobs where like 10% is the private sector. Do you think that the administration, after this huge jobs cut to save taxpayer dollars might look at states like California and go, hey, you can't be hiring all these people just to increase your jobs numbers. We're going to actually take a look at the any money coming to your state and see if that's worth continuing to send.
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Stephen Gardner
I think every state in the union needs to doge their own government. California being One of the biggest. New York, also one of the biggest. I mean, look, think, think back to those horrible Palisade fires outside of Los Angeles. They literally had a woman who makes $700,000 a year. She has one job, make sure there's water in the fire hydrants. And there wasn't. And it was one of the biggest disasters and embarrassments in our country's history. So all of these government jobs, they don't necessarily go to highly qualified people and they're not necessarily jobs that we even need. So I think every state in the union should be doged. But yes, California is probably one of the worst.
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Joe Bob
I think you might have missed the point there, Stephen. I think she was a transgender lesbian, so she was qualified for the job because that's the standard of qualification in the state of California. Hey, great points. Really appreciate you taking the time. Stephen Gardner hosted the Stephen Gardner show. You can find him on YouTube. Really appreciate you taking the time, Stephen.
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Stephen Gardner
Thank you.
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Joe Bob
Thanks so much. Coming up next here on Turning Point tonight, we got some fantastic clips from, well, by fantastic I mean awful. But they're actually really interesting to watch from some of your favorite or least favorite libs. You can email the show anytime you want. TPTP USA.com don't go away. I'll be right back after the the break. Welcome back to Turning Point tonight, where together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback by ridiculing and mocking bad ideas from the libs. Again, we're shortening that. We'll get to it, send suggestions. How should we finalize the language of the new and updated slogan for the show? Tptpusa.com youm can send all of your emails there. And you know what, we've got a limited amount of time so we're just going to, we're just going to read some emails, read some emails from you, the fine folks of the American public that emails. TPTP USA.com we really appreciate each and every one of those emails. Let's start off with this. Sheldon, frequent correspondent is talking about Pete Hex as we didn't play this clip but he said, hey, we're going to shave our beards. We're not such a Nordic pagan warriors. We're going to be clean cut, no more long hair. Unless you, of course, you, you, you want to be in special forces. So maybe the Nordic warriors are going to make up the special forces, which is effectively what Sheldon say. Thanks for that email. Mary from Portland, I believe for the Oregon area says thanks for pointing out Maxine Dexter, the congresswoman who took a picture of the park yesterday. Look at this. Look at this nice park. Nothing, nothing is wrong in Portland. Everything is nice. Look at this nice park. When of course behind her it very well could have been that antifa bums were burning down the city. And on that topic, Austin emails. I'm from Portland and it's hell and it's like Walking Dead, the walking Dead when those antifa bums aren't rioting and stealing. And he talks about needing to arm himself if he has to go downtown Austin. I just assume that that is something that you're doing legally. Of course, of course. Everything and anybody sends in is they're doing it legally. Either that or making up a story for entertainment purposes. But yeah, another further example that the Portland area is overrun with bums, junkies and antifa, which is a massive problem. Lincoln asks a question that it's kind of, it's just a set oriented question. I think you've, you've probably seen this. If you're just listening to the podcast, you're not going to see this, but there's a guitar to my. My left side on the screen. What is that? Your right side asks, hey, do you ever play that acoustic guitar? Is it just for decoration? Good question. I do play the guitar, but not that guitar. That was one from a thrift store and it's a nylon. And I'm not really a flamenco player and guitar players will understand that I'm not a big fan of the nylon strings. I'm a much more of a. A standard acoustic guitar. But I do play the guitar, just not, not that one. So thanks for the question, Lincoln. And on the topic of the name for the new segment that will debut tomorrow, you need to subscribe to our YouTube channel or rumble channel or my Facebook page because there will be an extra segment of this show that airs. Kind of just musing on my thoughts of the day of things that probably aren't good for TV but are fascinating and interesting for the Internet. Some thoughts for that segment. The names the thing is. Or the thing about it is. And I wonder if Jeff here is remarking on my. Here's the thing. I say that a lot. Kent said something said sent a bunch of words in French. I love you, Kent. I appreciate you for emailing and I thank you. And I thank you for watching. It's not going to be in French. We're not going to use French terms. And Shirley says the final point, all those things will be considered. We will start that tomorrow go subscribe to our YouTube channel. We will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. Until then, God bless America.
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Podcast Host
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