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by Bowtied Robin on Twitter talking about how TikTok presents different content to Americans than it does Chinese youth. Do you see any problems? So TikTok, a Chinese company, we I guess we know this this is not a guess, presents very different information to youth in China than it does to Americans. What do you think it gives to Chinese youth that's different from Americans? What would you guess?…
← Previous segment →ve you, how many of you have heard the argument that TikTok should be banned? Go. You watch the news. Have you ever heard the argument that it should? Mostly yeses right? Yes yes yes.
All right now I'm going to open up the mechanism again like we did before about who packed the boxes. I'm going to open, you're going to see the mechanism again. Who's arguing to keep TikTok legal? Name their names. Who is arguing to keep TikTok legal? No not big tech not big tech in the United States. Mitch? No no. The answer is no one.
Now process that for a moment. There's a strong, very strong argument for banning it. Very strong. There's nobody on the other side. Am I wrong? Show me a major politician who is in favor of keeping TikTok legal in the United States. Name one. Give me a name of any congressperson, senator, anybody. Did you know that? Did you know that we have an issue in which there's no disagreement by anybody who's willing to show their face? Nobody who's willing to say my name is X I'm a senator and I think TikTok should stay just the way it is. Nobody. Think of another topic where there's nobody on the other side. There are people who maybe haven't thought about it but there's nobody on the other side.
So you're saying Swalwell but that's a joke right? You're saying Biden that's a joke. McConnell that's not true. All right Concentra no that's not true. There's literally nobody who's made the argument. No you see that? See if you hadn't noticed that that was missing you wouldn't know what's going on. There's something going on that's protecting TikTok that our news has never looked into. Think about that. Have you seen the news look into it on the right? Nope I haven't. How about the left? Nope I haven't.
So the fact that the single most important question about social media in my opinion, you know you should the low-hanging fruit is TikTok because it's a Chinese company. If you're talking about Facebook or Twitter or Instagram those things those are American companies so you have to treat the whole situation differently. But a Chinese company that's addicting our youth that's easy. That one's not a challenge. If we're treating that like that's a hard question there's something else going on. And there's something else going on could only be one thing. Which is what's the one thing? It could only be Chinese influence. What else could it be? You know if somebody wants to come forward and say oh it's not Chinese influence I have a good argument for it has to do with like freedom or something.
By the way I just realized what is Thomas Massie's opinion on TikTok? So let's ask him that question because he would be interesting because I think he's more keep the government out of a guy but would he be willing to keep the government out of a Chinese cyber weapon? That's what TikTok is. It's a Chinese cyber weapon. So would he be in favor of it because of your freedom letting them employ a digital weapon on American soil? So let's redefine TikTok as a Chinese cyber weapon because it's a Chinese cyber weapon and I think it should be regulated by the military. It should be a military regulation not it should be a homeland security thing. Well give me an interview with the head of homeland security and have that person explain why TikTok is still allowed in the United States.
All right if we had anything like a real news business either on the right or the left, right Fox News I'm coming at you on this right? Fox News is not even close to giving me the news that I want. Not even close right? So here's what I want Fox News to do. Give me an interview with the head of homeland security about one topic. Just one topic. TikTok. And tell me why that's not a cyber weapon and tell me why homeland security should not be banning that on security issues. It's an attack on the homeland.
So I don't even know the name of the homeland security person. Do you? Can anybody name who's in charge of homeland security? I'm not sure I ever could but who is it? I mean Biden but Mayorkas. Oh you're a smart group. Mayorkas. Okay so let's get Mayorkas on an interview and say defend TikTok being legal. I would make him defend it right? I wouldn't say give us your opinion. I'd say defend it. Defend why we should allow a Chinese cyber weapon to continue to target our youth. Go. Now what do you think Mayorkas is going to say? You know freedom? Is that going to be a defense? Yeah they're targeting our youth and we see it and we know it but you know freedom. Freedom. Do you think he'll say that? I don't know. I don't know what Mayorkas would say but wouldn't you like to see an interview?
Now does it seem to you that the topic of my live stream today is that the news isn't even close to giving us anything we need? Didn't give us anything on the Charlottesville thing. They're not giving us anything on who packed the boxes. Just obvious questions. And they're not asking the head of homeland security if TikTok should be allowed or banned. People these are the most obvious questions in the country. How about this one? What are we going to do in the United States about a fertilizer shortage? That's a pretty big question right? Who's asking that?
So I feel like there needs to be some kind of new entity where the public can register the questions it wants to ask and you could compare what the public wants to ask, let's say they get voted up to the top, with what the entities are actually asking. Because there's a real difference between what the news is asking and what the public wants them to ask. And that's left and right. And I don't know why. I mean I can speculate and make the worst assumptions in the world you know that they're either incompetent or China owns them or some damn thing but I'd rather have a real answer. You think that behind the curtain everybody's colluding? Maybe we'll just use hydroponics. They're still fertilized aren't they? Hydroponics are fertilized.
All right. Tractors burying baby formula and I didn't say that. Apple and Google profit from the app. Yeah but let's get people on record defending that. Takes a lot of fertilizer to create cattle feed. Oh that's interesting. Is somebody arguing that if we went vegetarian, not that that's practical but if we went vegetarian we'd have enough fertilizer? I don't know if that's true. I feel like we would have to replace the beef with growing more vegetables. I don't buy that. I'm not buying that. You think the US will fight the CCP? No I don't think so. Not directly.
So it seems to be that there's one, well nitrogen is not the only fertilizer so if nitrogen was the only thing we needed we'd be in good shape. That's not the problem. Yeah manure is fertilizer. Are you for banning the porn industry? That's interesting. I've never talked about that. How many of you would be in favor of banning porn? Let me give you answers. I'm saying no no no yes yes no yes no no yes yes no. See the problem with banning porn? People are mixed. Looks like you're pretty mixed on this. Should be paid access. I don't know. I'm not sure you could ever stop it from being freely available to children. Should be banned. I'm a little.
See here my problem with the porn is my problem with guns. It goes like this with guns. There it is unambiguously true that some people are less safe when there are more guns around but it is also unambiguously true that some people are more safe if they have access to guns. So the problem with gun ownership is that we have people who are operating from self-interest doing this sort of theater where they pretend they're arguing from some social or constitutional right. It's never that. If you think you need a gun or you might would need one to protect yourself you want the right to own one. If you think you'll never want a gun because you're afraid of them and your only risk is other people ha
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ving them then probably you're against it. And then we act as though the theater of the high level oh my constitution that's really why you're doing it. That's not why you're doing it. You're doing it because you want a gun or you don't want a gun. That's it right? Now you might want a gun to protect yourself against your government but it's still just wanting a gun to feel that you're safer. So…
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