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to drop the app because it's sending data to China. Now TikTok had assured us it's not going to do that, but apparently it's confirmed that some of the data was available in China. And I think at this point if we were fooled about what data is going back to China and TikTok was involved in fooling us, you have to take it out of the app store. Now I don't know if these two things are true, so let…
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All right. Some of you are wondering what happened with the special live stream I started last night. I already explained this to the people on Locals, but if there's anybody on YouTube who saw me tweet about it, I started one that I had to bail on because something came up. So that's all you need to know. So it doesn't exist. If you're looking for it, it was never completed, and I may or may not complete it today or later.
I would like to read for you some of the best, most important words ever written. Can you? Do you want to hang for that for a minute? Now I want you to listen to this not only for the meaning of the words but for how well it's written. Because remember, one of the things that we've learned is you want short, clean sentences. But in the old days they didn't write these short, clean sentences. They wrote these amazingly big, long, complicated ones. It's really hard to write a really amazingly long, complicated sentence and then have people read it and be inspired and understand it. Like you've got to really be a good writer to do that.
So I'm going to read you some of the best writing I've ever seen in my life, which violates a lot of rules of writing. And I want you to see if it has a historical meaning that is still relevant today. So see if there's any relevance to this today. You might recognize this.
"When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
My favorite sentence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent o
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f the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence,
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