a problem and it would be as easy as lining it out with a pencil to get rid of the problematic part. Because if you just make it about TikTok you've got wide agreement. If you throw in that Trojan horse part you don't. So why won't they take it out? There's only one reason that's in there. It's either intentionally to kill the bill — in other words it's a poison pill — or if it got approved it would be a way to take out X.

Well do you know why this got bipartisan support? Let me tell you. Because the Republicans are apparently stupid, sorry. And the Democrats are trying to sneak one past the keeper. That's what it looks like to me. So the Democrats said yes because they know it's a trick. And the Republicans said yes because they don't know it's a trick. I think that's the story. Because you can see the Republicans talking about it like they don't know it's a trick. That's what it looks like. So I can't think of any other reason you can get 100% bipartisan support unless one side knew it was a trick. That's the only way you can do it.

And sure enough here's the other. So the two tells that this is not genuine is one, that they put any language in there that would apply to another American company down the road. The fact that that's in there at all tells you something, doesn't it? And then the second part is that the people talking about the bill pretend it's not in there. They just pretend it's not there. What? That's Republicans. They're pretending it's not there. So they're either in on it or they haven't read it or they're working with the intelligence people to get control of the platform. And everything the Republicans who are for it and against it are saying doesn't appear to be true or smart or typical to their own past. In other words we're seeing very clearly very smart people doing things that are either unsound, uninformed, or dumb. Way more on this topic than I've ever seen on any other topic. So yeah, everything's something dicey about this.

So I'd say that TikTok is bad but it could also be true that the bill to ban TikTok is just as bad, just in a different way. And it could be also bad that Congress is worse than TikTok and worse than the bill.

Now let me ask you a question to check your internet memories and this might blow you away a little bit. So you might want to put a cool build on your brain. To the best of your knowledge, who was the first public figure — doesn't have to be a politician but a public figure — to call for the ban on TikTok? In the comments, who's the first public figure to call for a ban on TikTok?

Well some of you are probably going to your search engines to look for it. And if you Googled it or used Grok or used Gemini or ChatGPT, do you know what it would tell you? It would tell you that the first person