of things, but they're staying ahead of us. Which we don't believe. We think they're allowing it to happen or at least they're not trying hard enough to stop it.

Here's what I think. I don't think we should throw this in the category of just one more thing we're talking to China about. It's not trade policy. It's not even military stuff. It's not UN stuff. We should close the embassy until they fix this. But we should tell them it's temporary and just say we're not comfortable having any communication with you officially while you're poisoning our citizens. If you stop this, we'll reopen the embassy. So we're not intending to close it totally. And the embassy would do services for American entities in China, so you need some of it. But there might be something where you could close it so that China doesn't have access to it and just don't have any meetings with anybody in China.

And the reason to do it is not that they would care that much. It's that it would embarrass them. The purpose would be to embarrass them. And apparently killing people with fentanyl shipments doesn't embarrass them because it kind of just looks like they're getting revenge for the Opium Wars long ago. So I don't think they're embarrassed by it because they're doing it intentionally and they're probably enjoying the benefit of it, you know.

But if we said, you know, we can't even deal with you like adults because you're murdering our children. So if you stop murdering our children, we'll open an embassy and treat you like you would like to be treated. But we cannot — we can't have a summit with you. We can't. We just can't have a normal relationship while you're killing our children. And I think you could still be professional about everything else. We do still trade with them, you know, even while we're trying to reshore stuff. But I think we need to embarrass them. And I think we have to say, look, we're going to temporarily shut down our embassy. And it's not going to last long because it wouldn't take you long to clean up this fentanyl stuff. But take as long as you want. You just can't have an embassy from the United States. Or we kick them out of our embassy. Maybe you do the reverse. Just say you can't have an embassy in the United States while you're sending us fentanyl. And you just keep it to that one topic. And you just say, I'm sorry, you can't be in the nation of good countries. We just can't deal with you on that basis. We don't have respect for you. Let's say it this way: we don't have respect for you, and you can't have an embassy in our country under these conditions.

Well, anyway. Apparently the Supreme Court is going to hear TikTok's appeal to try to stay in business and intact. Zero Hedge is reporting. And so here's the deal. I guess Trump has offered that he could facilitate a sale of TikTok to an American entity, which would satisfy the court order. So then TikTok could remain, but it would be owned and managed and the data would be in the United States. Do you like that idea? Do you think it should be banned, or would you prefer that an American buy it?

Well, here's the answer to the question. It really depends which American buys it. And something very interesting is about to happen. If Elon Musk bought TikTok — and that's not going to happen, but if he did — the Democrats would be completely toasted because then the two biggest sources of knowledge, X and TikTok, would both be pro-Trump, pro-common sense. And that would be bad for Democrats.

But also the other way. If Reid Hoffman and let's say some team of investors bought TikTok, well, at least TikTok would be an American company. But then you would worry that they've got their finger on the scale and they're basically causing the outcome in the elections. So if TikTok leaned left, which it does, but it was very pro-Trump this election, weirdly. And X, people think it leans right, but I don't think it leans right as much as people think. That would be sort of a good competition, wouldn't it?

But what happens if Trump puts together the sale? If Trump puts together the sale, presumably he's going to make sure that some people who like him are the ones who buy it. So here's what TikTok might be missing in this story. They have an opportunity for a bidding war like yo