to yourself hey but Trump liked TikTok so he won't like it if it goes away, I remind you he's not going to be running again. And I would be really surprised if the Republicans ever field another candidate who can rule TikTok. You know that being able to control and even dominate the messaging on TikTok, that's purely a Trump thing. You all know that, right? So anything you say about well you know Trump did well on TikTok so why would you ban it, that's just Trump. Do you think DeSantis is going to light up TikTok if TikTok still existed? No, no he's not. That's purely Trump. So the Republicans aren't going to care if it goes away.

Some of you may remember, how many of you remember that back in 2018, 2019 I announced to you that I was going to try to put TikTok out of business? Do you remember that? And you said to yourself, well I mean that's not a thing. And then I kept saying it's a thing. Do you know what the first part of persuasion is? The first part of persuasion is you have to think it's a thing. If you don't think it's a thing everything else you say after that doesn't matter. You're like blah blah blah blah blah. But as soon as you think it's a thing then you can start looking at the pros and the cons. So I decided a few years ago I'm going to make sure everyone knows it's a thing. And I got to senators. I got to a lot of senators, a lot of people in the House just because they're natural viewers. Some of them I contacted personally, you know ones that I could DM. And in some cases I know for sure they heard the message, got it completely, and even responded. So I certainly was not pushing it for the last year or so because it looked like it was just becoming an Israel issue. So I think Israel killed it because they didn't like that it was persuading against them. Now I don't know if that'll ever be official or I don't know if history will record that Israel killed TikTok in America, but I'm pretty sure that's the case. Now normally I would have said hey Israel, another country even our ally, you can't turn off a free speech platform in our country. Stop that. But since I'm completely on the same page I just sort of step back.

Now do you remember when Trump first mentioned buying Greenland and your first reaction was come on? You know why? Because you did not believe it could be a thing. That was step one. Trump first told you it's a thing and then you would argue whether it's dumb or he's kidding or it's a joke. But when you were done you would think it's a thing and therefore you can talk about the pros and the cons. And it turns out there were a lot of pros. A lot of pros and the cons, none, you know depending on the nature of the deal maybe none. They won't necessarily be voting. Could be a territory. There might be a price that makes sense. It might work for Denmark. It might work for Greenland. But nothing would have happened, nothing, until Trump told us it's a thing. So when I said banning TikTok is a thing I got no traction on day one. I think I had zero people agreeing with me on day one. Eventually I hammered it and hammered it until you might disagree, you might agree, but you definitely knew it was a thing. And on Sunday we might find out if it's the thing.

All right. The SEC is suing Elon Musk because they have nothing else better to do. But I don't know if this one is legit. It might be. This one might be legit and it's just a money thing. So you know if you had to pay some money I could see that happening. But he's being sued because when he first bought the first shares of Twitter it was above I guess it was above some number where you're supposed to announce your purchase and it was late I guess late in registering that he'd done it. And there's some argument that because he didn't say it then he said just because he didn't say it that somehow other people lost money because they didn't know he did it. Maybe. You know I could see that argument. I just wonder if this would have been pressed against everybody because it seems like it would be easy to demonstrate. This is the day you bought the stock. This is the rule. This is when he admitted he bought it. It's after the rule. Yeah, $175 million, write us a check. So it might be valid. You know you might say to yourself yeah that would have happened to anybody. I don't know.

I watched the segment with Michael Shellenberger on Tucker's show, Tucker Carlson, and there was a little discussion on UAPs. I did notice that Tucker sort of took over that conversation and I never really got to hear what Michael Shellenberger thought was happening. So Shellenberger brought up a few of the hypotheses but I don't think he landed on what his opinion was. And part of it is because when Tucker started talking about it I think that just took the conversation in such a direction that I don't know if Michael thought that was the right time to give his own opinion on it because I'm sure he has one. But here's what Tucker said about the UAPs, quote, they're not from Mars. They're not from another planet. They're from here. They've always been here. These are spiritual entities. It's clear that these things reside deep in the earth, under the water and in the atmosphere. And then he pointed out that Elon Musk, and he'd had personal conversations with Musk, Tucker had, didn't think that there was anything coming from space. Now Tucker said, and I don't know if this is just Tucker or Elon said this as well and I'm not sure it's true, he said that we'd pick up on satellites anything entering the atmosphere. Do you think that's true? I don't. If you look at the quality of any of these systems in the United States that you thought were good, none of them are good. If you would have asked me a month ago, Scott, what do you think is one of the best fire departments in the world, I would have said well you know obviously LA because they would need it and they would have the money and enough of a population to get whatever they needed. So yeah the best fire department in the world probably LA. Well not so much. So when I hear things like well our advanced satellites would pick up any UFOs coming through our completely impenetrable digital network of surveillance, I say to myself or not. Yeah or not maybe.

So I don't know if that's a good reason. But Trump said about the UAPs, I'm going to give you a report on drones. At least we don't know if the drones are really the same as the UAPs but the drones over New Jersey I think he's talking about. We'll give it in one day into the administration. He told the governor somewhere because I think it's ridiculous that they're not telling you about what is going on with the drones. I'm going to make a prediction. He's not going to tell us what's going on with the drones. And if he does you're going to feel that it's incomplete. Like really, does that explain all the drones or did that explain some of the drones or maybe a lot of the drones? So if you think that Trump's going to get in there and then answer that question to your satisfaction, I don't think there's any chance of that. I do think he means it. I do think he is telling the truth that he's going to try to do that. I do think he will try. But no matter what he says you're going to say how do we know he wasn't told he has to leave something out? How do we know that when he hears the real reason he says oh man I really wasn't expecting that so yeah I guess I'll just say they're hobbyists and I'll leave out the rest maybe. So I'm betting you will not be satisfied with whatever comes out of that.

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