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about you know I mean maybe Congress has some immunity but there's still enough people as part of the operation who would, yeah that's a problem. RICO is just politics. State actors have immunity. Well what is a state actor? If you're an elected official you have immunity or probably an appointed official, right? But what if you're just working for a paycheck or you're a political pundit on TV or…

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can company should be treated the same as an adversarial country. China acts like there's no difference between our own country and an adversary country. What is that? Now I can't even tell if that's stupid or just bought off. I mean nobody would be that stupid right? Except that there are a number of politicians who are acting exactly that stupid and I really can't tell if they think the data security problem is the big problem and they just don't know the other one is there or are they lying? Are they lying?

So here's my take on TikTok. A hundred percent of the people who can explain the risk want to ban it. A hundred percent of the people who can explain the risk want to ban it. In other words if you see somebody say well there are two risks. One is they get our private data, correct. And the other is that they can influence our opinions through the algorithm, correct. There's nobody, here's my claim, nobody who can even explain the risks is in favor of keeping TikTok. Nobody. You won't see it. Everybody who is in favor of keeping TikTok will be unable to explain the situation and they'll say stuff like well Facebook has your data too. If you say Facebook has your data too you are either stupid, you know so uninformed that I think I'd have to call you stupid, or you're lying. You're lying because you think it's good for your politics or something. Yeah or both. Yeah she could be stupid and lying that's true.

Are you really saying that Facebook has your data too? I can't tell if that's a joke. Oh my God there are people on YouTube saying what's the difference between Facebook having your data and China. I want to see you say that out loud. Say it in the comments. I want to see how stupid you are. Ask me what's the difference between an American company having your data and a Chinese adversarial company. Ask it again. Well I want to see you put that in writing. Go ahead. There it is. Facebook is as bad as China. There's somebody willing to say that out loud in public that Facebook is as bad as China. Are you a Chinese troll? I mean nobody with a brain could think that.

All right so here's a question for you. Has AOC ever been in favor of a policy that wasn't good for China? Now I don't know the answer to this but I'll say so. AOC is big for climate change which is mostly good for China bad for the United States. Did she oppose tariffs? Did AOC oppose tariffs on China? Because Trump's the first one who brought it up so I feel like she probably did. Is she in favor of ESG which is terrible for America? Yes. Yep. Yeah I don't think there's anything that she's in favor of that isn't good for China and bad for America. Has anybody not noticed that? Am I the only one who's noticed that all of her policies are pro-China and anti-American? It's a little bit hard to miss the pattern at this point. That's a preview pattern.

Well Professor Scott Galloway was on Real Time with Bill Maher and TikTok came up and I like to call Scott Galloway one of the better Scotts. I keep track of all the people named Scott you know in case one's a murderer. Yes it was a Scott Peterson. Was it Scott Peterson who killed his wife? That's a bad Scott. So you have some bad Scotts. You got some good ones. So Scott Galloway he's right in the, he's at least in the top five of Scotts. He might even be in the top three. He's an excellent Scott. He does a very good Scott and I'm happy to have him on board.

But when he was asked about TikTok he accurately described the risk. He accurately said would you want something jacked into your brain where your adversary could push a button and change your opinion? Because that's what you have. That's what TikTok is. It means effectively jacked into your brain and China can push one button and change your opinion. They can do that. Now the way he put it was even better than I put it which is they can make sure that every day their app makes Americans feel a little bit shittier about their life. What's that do to your country? Every day you feel a little bit shittier about yourself and your country. Yeah that's what it

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's doing right now. Now given that that Scott Galloway, one of the better Scotts, could accurately describe the risk, what side do you think he was on? Well I think I've broadcast that everybody who can accurately describe the risk is on the same side. Everybody who's either lying to you about the risk or leaving it out, they could be on the other side. It's that simple. And you could actually do…

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