 This Republican from Tennessee is trying to ignite his base by pulling this one move on the Chinese embassy in Washington DC. We're going to talk about if it could work. Yeah. Well, this is going viral right now. We're talking about representative Andy Ogleander from the fine state of Tennessee. He wants to rename the street in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington DC. One Tiananmen Square Memorial Road. So this is just a bill. He's just proposed it. It has to go through this whole process. So it's very unlikely to go through. But the fact that he proposed it is causing quite a stir on the internet. And guess what, Andrew? It has 17 co-sponsors. So he's not the only one. But guys, we're going to talk about why we think he did it, why, what it's supposed to do, what his plan is, and then what the comment section says, because a lot of people are weighing in because people love talking about politics. So please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the Hop Hop Boys from Silly to Series. You know, we're talking about it. This is the top comment on the Yahoo News article. Another unnecessary and even silly provocation sought by a house representative while Blinken is desperately seeking reconciliation with China. Why do this at this moment, huh? Right, because Blinken just visited China and obviously they were to, you know, is to have what a talk about figuring things out with China, right? Right, right, right. Because it was been the last, what, three, four years, especially, you know, COVID before COVID. It's just been rocky. And Mr. Ogles' plan with, and a lot of people suspect that he wants to rename it one Tiananmen Square Memorial Road after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, right, that happened in China 30 years ago, 34 years ago, which was definitely a stain on Chinese history. It was a bad thing, terrible thing that happened. But he wants to rename it that because a lot of people are saying, yeah, because he wants to excite other Republicans and also like try to teach China a lesson or like, like remind China, like, hey, you know, when you come to our capital and in front of your Chinese embassy, we're going to have a road that reminds you of your most recent massacre that you did. Right. So some people are saying that's a publicity stunt. Some people were supporting it. Obviously, somebody said it's petty and I love it. I support this initiative. I say go for it, mate. I mean, obviously this is coming from the crowd that it's like China is undoubtedly evil in our enemy. So, you know, your enemy, you should, you know, do things to them to let them know that we're good and they're bad. But you know what's funny is like embassies, you know, like foreign embassies are usually pretty secure and kind of like off limits to mess around with, I feel like. So it's like in front of the Japanese embassy, would you have like Pearl Harbor Road or something like that? You know what I mean? Like, I guess. But then I guess in Japan, would they put Hiroshima Nagasaki in front of the US embassy in Japan? No, I don't think they would because they'd be like, listen, we don't like that you guys did that, but it's history and we're just, let's move on with good relations moving forward. Other people supported it, but they were kind of like very moderately in support of it. Somebody said, doesn't China currently ban all talk photography related to this incident? It's just a shame that it's done for political purposes rather than an actual memorial respect for the victims. Basically, this is somebody being like, yeah, I know that Ogle himself does not give a single issue about that incident. He's basically all posturing. But um, yeah, obviously that was a bad incident. Yeah, I mean, uh, listen, I'll tell you this, David, judging on his Christmas card of his family, it looks like he was at Tiananmen Square. I'm just, that's a joke, but I'm just saying like, look at this Christmas card. It looks ridiculous. I, you can have your guns legally, but it just looks crazy. Okay. It's very interesting, man. But he also, he also doesn't like China. Obviously, he has a reputation for not liking China, which I understand Republicans don't generally. Of course, he's from Tennessee. I'm not surprised, but he also introduced a defund China's allies act that he's working on right now to defund 21 countries that might be benefiting from China and America at the same time be like, no, if America's helping you out, China can't help you out. So we're about to defund you. I actually think that a lot of rich country club Republicans, Andrew, that own a lot of equity and companies love doing business with China, but these politicians, they need to excite that Tennessee base, which is not as involved in, you know, global macroeconomic trade. Yeah. And to the people who are commenting like, well, you know, I support this. It's like, uh, yeah, you can support it, but it also doesn't mean anything if you support it because it has to go through this whole entire process to get approved by legislation. Somebody said, uh, this guy Ogle just lost all infinite social credits. That's kind of funny. I still like the social credit jokes. They make, make me laugh. But David, you know why the social credit jokes are funny to people? Because in a weird way, I think some people kind of like the idea, but not in that dystopian authoritarian way. Right. Like people kind of like judging people. That's what I'm saying. That's what I mean. I'm not saying. I will agree with you. People feel very torn. They hate these things that they see from China, but part of them, they like, obviously they like to dabble in it, at least in IG comments. Come on. You like to judge people, America don't lie. Maybe it's not the social credit score that they have in China. You don't want them just saying you like something. Somebody said, uh, that is because America prior to 1970s was made up primarily of rich Hillbilly whites who happened to get rich, but they never left the Hillbilly mentality behind. I am not dissing on the South because there are a lot of sweet people in the South, but it does seem like when you go to certain cities and we have been to the South, by the way, I've been to the South. I've been to South Carolina. I've been to Georgia. Okay. Been to Louisiana, but it does feel like that some of them have and not to their fault, but they've kind of stuck like they're, they, it changed. Society changes a little slower out there. It seems like for sure. At least the most modern they're thinking is about 1987. Um, somebody said, what's that term again? Pot meat kettle. And somebody said, yeah, this is a perfect time for the Spider-Man meme. And somebody said, Oh dude, every big government superpower he has committed atrocities and messed up things. What countries has China bombed recently? Oh, here's a list of all the countries that America has bombed. But Oh, let me guess it was okay because America was the good guys and all the countries they bombed had different looking skin and different looking faces, right? Yeah. I mean, listen, think of, I get it that the Republicans are trying to take a jab at China, but how goofy is it? That's something that happened inside of China. Chinese on Chinese. Right. Chinese killing Chinese going to get recognized in Washington DC. That actually makes zero sense. Well, you know, uh, those fine Chinese people that I remember knowing, you know, that happened. That was a horrible thing. Chinese on Chinese. So guess what? We need to remember it here in America. And I'm like, guys, you're just doing this just to, just to troll. Well, what if you were like, name one person who died in Tiananmen? What happened in Tiananmen? Well, you know, I just know that it was what happened in Xiaoping came up on Leo and Leo and one was there too. Somebody said, can we rename Elm Street, Dallas to the mother of all war Psyops road then? This is getting into the Psyops thing. This is like a whole military industrial complex funnel you guys can get into. Somebody said this was clearly just for votes in Tennessee while domestically America crumbles because they know the average voter is emotional and knocks facts based. Somebody said, of course, it's a bill from a Republican. They have no clue how to foster foreign relationships with other countries. And somebody said, yep, all somebody needs to do on the right is just say something anti LGBT or anti Chinese right now. And that will excite his base immediately, give him a little booster shot. I mean, you guys let me know, man, I'm not that into politics, but you know, I'm sure on the left, they have their tactics of buttons. They can press to excite everybody too. I mean, everybody's just playing emotional games with feelings and probably not facts right now. Dude, this is such a goofy bill. Do you think there's like a quota for like senators and representatives to like submit bills? Like they have to be like, he's like, Oh man, I need a bill to submit. I'm hitting the deadline. Be like, Hey, Andy, what bill you're going to submit? Rename the road one Tiananmen square. Meanwhile, Tennessee falls apart. Somebody said, don't we need to be focused focusing on ourselves and out competing China rather than just hating on it for being successful? I mean, to be fair, Andrew, I hear this a lot from Chinese people in the Chinese music industry. When you look at how much further advance the Japanese or South Korean music industry is, they tend to like point fingers at other people. We're like, Oh, well, at least we are better than this other person that is worse. Or like, Oh, China and Japan, they are copying a lot of loan words from Chinese culture. And you're kind of like, dude, that doesn't even matter. Like what are you talking about? It's just we're talking about who makes better music right now. Yeah, you know what? The always interesting thing to me is like how like Republicans will say stuff like, Yeah, you know, I really like how China is really hard on crime. I also really like how China is able to instill nationalism. I like how China is training their kids with guns and in the military pursuit right now. I'm seeing those videos. I like what China is doing, but I hate China. And I'm just like, Yeah, I don't know. It's complicated guys. What do you, what are you talking about? Somebody said again, another useless bill that doesn't affect the life of the regular American. This was a really interesting commentator. This is from a Chinese person that said for me, yeah, I was actually in Tiananmen Square in 1989. And we thought we needed Gorbachev to bring democracy like Russia had. But then China stabilized and Gorbachev sort of ruined Russia. So we are glad that we did not get democracy. Oh man. What a comment, right? Does it really come down to more of like the execution of a system than it does the actual system? I mean, I mean, I'm shirtless democracy is great, but it also maybe works differently, obviously, depending on who the leadership and also what part of the world you're in? Is there a history of democracy? Is this something that's even realistically something that's like has the capacity to be implemented on any sort of real level? I think ultimately for me, and this is my general perspective, Andrew, is like, you would never teach a kid to shoot their jumper like Tyrese Halliburton. But I'll tell you this, Andrew, Tyrese Halliburton, he has like one of the ugliest forms in the NBA, Andrew. That is a good three point shooter. It's effective. It's effective, man. Listen, guys. And I'm not saying there's not regrettable stuff. I think every superpower does a lot of stuff to a lot of people. Some of it's good. Some of it's in the middle. Some of it's bad. Some of it depends on which side of the history you were on. Everybody. I mean, everybody does a lot of messed up stuff, man. I mean, I would be honest that I think when you're counting the amount of times that China has went overseas to another country and hurt their country, it's very, very low. And it has happened. For sure. China has hurt probably its own people the most. Oh, for sure. Overwhelmingly in terms of percentage wise. So it's like if from America, it's like China has actually really, you know, unless COVID, right? You would say COVID. But then like, aside from that, it's like, China does not go out that much to wreak havoc as much as it wreaks havoc to its own people, if anything. Somebody said Republicans are clearly angling for war. What a such weird war mongering. And somebody said they don't actually want war, but they want to keep the threat of war high enough that the military industrial complex is always pumping ready for war, because just the threat of war keeps that whole industry with trillions and trillions of dollars of funding. Yeah. And it's super funny because like super deep MAGA people are like the conspiracy theorists are like, yeah, the military industrial complex and the Republicans are like, yeah, we like war. And then Republicans like, yeah, war against China. But the conspiracy is that we're just making money off what I'm like, what is going on? I don't even know. Dude, there's so much contradictions, man. COVID came from China. They're playing China. But COVID's also not real. Man, listen, man, what's your overall takeaway here? Oh, I got this one last comment. Somebody said, well, I would personally like it to be renamed no tiki, no laundry Boulevard, or me, me, no change, no dinky, or me love you, long time Boulevard, huh? How about that? You know, why don't we call it soup dumpling Boulevard, man? Why can't we just name it something? You know, I had a friend named Matt Fielson in high school, Andrew, and his dad was from Montana. And that totally is a joke that he used to make about Asians. Yeah. But he was always nice to me, though. Like you said, man, people are complicated, man. He said racist stuff about being Chinese. But he was a good dad. He was nice to the individual. Yeah, shout out to Matt Fielson, man. Of course, Andrew, even within Asians, there was some arguing somebody was like, man, I hate that America has problems with China, and it affects all of us because they can't tell us apart. And then of course, Chinese and Taiwanese people, they kind of got into it in a little bit of the comment section, because somebody called Andy Ogle racist. And then the Taiwanese guy was like racist to who commies that he wasn't being racist. And of course, Andrew, like we said, the internal Asian battles of forever. Pretty much, man. I mean, I think that people need to increase their understanding of how other people are going to be using China for their for their benefit for their own benefit. This guy, this guy from Tennessee, I don't know if he's a bad guy or not, whatever. Like I'm not saying people from Tennessee are bad people in the South are great. But I'm just saying he gives his kids good same gun he got. He teaches his kid gun safety. That's good. I'm just saying I know he doesn't care about Tiananmen Square. He doesn't care. He does not care about what happened there. He does not care. So of course, he's just like, yeah, but you know, I needed to submit a bill and it was late at night. I had some drinks. I'm sorry. The chinky winky bill was my option one. They told me that one wasn't good. I went with option two. I mean, listen, guys, I would say this man, all these things, I don't know. It's just an interesting place to be. Should we just more focus on domestic politics? I don't know. I just hope we kind of get past this era, but maybe we will. Maybe we won't. Let me know what you think in the comment section below. Like I said, of course, everybody's going to have their own opinion on this. A lot of it is like your political affiliations, whether you're born into that family or not born in the family. I feel like sometimes political affiliations Andrew are a little bit like religion. Statistically, they are at least anyway, let us know what you think in the comment section below. Until next time, we're the hop hop boys. We out. Peace.