the country because they're the ones holding it together against all odds.

Well, Elliot Page — you know Elliot Page, actor Elliot Page, who was once an actress but I think I'm deadnaming her old job or something by saying actress — is now an actor named Elliot Page. And NBC News reports that Elliot is taking aim at the notion that queer films only have a small audience, saying that 30% of young people identify as LGBTQ. So Elliot says, so I'm sorry but this is not a niche. 30% of young people identify as LGBTQ.

What do you think caused that? What do you think caused that? Was it the chemicals in the water that are making the frogs gay? Was it that? Was it, oh I don't know, watching too many Disney movies? Was it TikTok? Probably TikTok. Probably TikTok more than anything else. You want to make a bet? I'll make you a bet that the percentage of this 30% who claim to be part of LGBTQ — I'll bet you nearly 100% of them use TikTok. And I'll bet you that in the group that has more baseline traditional percentage, that they don't use TikTok as much. You want a bet? Anybody want to put a bet on that? Easy to test. I think you'd find a strong correlation between how much TikTok you watch and, you know, maybe it has more to do with what content you're consuming. But yeah, TikTok is probably changing 20% of young people, changing their sexual preference.

Now if you had never studied persuasion or hypnosis you'd say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott, you can't use persuasion to turn somebody gay or you can't use persuasion to change somebody's complete gender identity, can you? Yeah you can. It's pretty easy. In fact the younger you go down in age the easier it is. By the time you got to kindergarten you could change all of them. You could change every one of them. Give me a kindergarten class. Well this sounds terrible so don't make this me. Let's take some good persuader, give them a kindergarten class, and in one year it could change all the genders of the kindergarteners in their minds. They would all think they're with a different gender. Does anybody think that that couldn't be done to change 100% of the genders in a kindergarten class if you had a year to work on it? Yes, yes you could actually do 100%.

Now you move it up to high school. Move it up to high school. How many of their genders and sexual preferences could you change with just persuasion? Well it's harder but 30%. At least 30%. So that's just about right. How about when you get to become a senior citizen? How many senior citizens have changed their genders even if there's a lot of persuasion? Almost none. Almost none, right? It'd be 1%. So yeah, TikTok and teenagers is a really, really bad combination. And I would say there's probably a direct line between TikTok and the increase.

Now have you noticed nobody studied that? Isn't that like a really obvious thing to do a study on? Hey, the percentage of LGBTQ is going through the roof and TikTok seems to be where they get most of their news. It seems pretty obvious, right? Now I would also say it could be in the food. It absolutely could be in the food supply. You know there could be some damn thing that we don't know like microplastics and glyphosate and who knows what that is actually changing people's chemistry. And that might actually change your opinion of your sexuality. So it could be something like that. But I would certainly be studying TikTok because it's the most obvious.

All right, here's how you know that the TikTok banning bill is a fake Trojan horse. First of all it is a TikTok-specific ban. And when the representatives say but you don't understand it's TikTok specific, it's not going to apply to other places — it does say TikTok by name. But there is a place where it says that it could apply to some other unnamed platform in the future if it was also influenced by an adversary. But anybody with IQ over 80 can see that that's really opening the door for the government to say, oh Elon, it looks like because you sell a lot of electric cars and you depend on Chinese manufacturing for your batteries or whatnot, it looks like they're influencing you. No they're not. There's no evidence that they're influencing me. Well yes there is. Let's do a survey of your outcomes on X. Oh look there's a whole bunch of accounts that seem to be pushing Chinese propaganda and I'll bet you knew about it and you could have done more to stop them.

Now it doesn't mean he knew about them. Doesn't mean he could have stopped them. Doesn't even mean the data is real. But do you see how easy it would be for the government to put X on a list if this becomes law? Just trivially easy.

Now I know what you're going to say. But the lawyers and smart people have looked at that language and they've said no, that language couldn't be abused. Take it out. Just take it out. There's your tell. The fact that that language is