. The Chinese government owns ByteDance. ByteDance owns TikTok. TikTok has a button called heat that they can literally push to make something trend which they've admitted. I'm not making this up. TikTok says this. So the government can control the companies in China. That's normal business. They have an actual physical mechanism for making some things more viral than others. And now we know the rest of the picture. Viral things on TikTok become the news and then it becomes our consciousness. It's still legal and Congress still says yeah but you know free speech. There's no question whatsoever the Congress is bought off or corrupt because they couldn't be that stupid. Here I'm being kind. I cannot imagine that Congress is so stupid that they don't know how much of a risk this is. They can't be that stupid. So what's left? It's not a mistake because everybody's telling them. You know that they've engaged in the conversation so it's not a mistake. What could it be? There's only one thing left. Corruption. There's literally only one explanation. Corruption.

So anybody who's voting to keep TikTok legal, you know I will allow that for the Thomas Massie types who are absolutist about free speech. If you're an absolutist I'm going to give you a half a pass. Half a pass because I do appreciate consistency. That's worth something. But this is a national threat. This is not like a normal communication thing.

All right there's a new story about a quote missing binder. A 10-inch binder that disappeared at some time around the transition from Trump to Biden. This binder contains classified information related to the Russian collusion claims and apparently there was some thought that the real reason for the raid on Mar-a-Lago is to get that binder back. Now some say the binder might have too much information in it about sources and methods and that's why it's so critical to get it back. And they're thinking that maybe the information isn't terribly important but the sources and methods might be. Other people say that's exactly why Trump has it if he has it. There's no evidence that he has it but if he has it because apparently there was an effort to make it public information but there was a process, you know a lengthy process of redacting stuff that hadn't been completed.

So is there somewhere, does somebody have a binder that could be really really damaging to maybe some leadership of the FBI? Maybe not just sources and methods but maybe something embarrassing. Maybe. So we're only speculating because we don't know what's in it but maybe it had something to do with Mar-a-Lago raids. That's certainly not, I don't have any direct evidence of that. And maybe Trump had it specifically because they gave him some blackmail control over them. Maybe. But I don't have any evidence of that. So we don't have any evidence of who has it or what's in it or why we care but it's one of the big stories today. It's a big story. We literally don't know anything that's true. Just nothing. I don't know. Maybe it doesn't even exist.

All right here's an evergreen story that I keep going back to. As you know there appear to be continuing excess deaths well after the pandemic is over but the excess deaths weirdly seem to