the government out of X. To me this is on a level with the Boston Tea Party. You know it's right up there with the most important things that have ever happened in the Republic. So thank you. Thank you Elon Musk.

He had an interesting explanation of why Twitter became a toilet. And he says this geographically that San Francisco has always been sort of an oddball culture but usually it was geographically constrained. You could go to San Francisco and there would be some weird people there and then you would go home and it didn't bother anybody. They could be weird in San Francisco and you could go to your house and not have any of it. But once Twitter started hiring locally, which everybody does, they turned this niche philosophy into a worldwide phenomenon through their control of the algorithm. And that's where it all went to hell. So in the old days they would have just stayed localized and nobody would have known the difference. It's a fascinating way to explain it. You know all these things could have 10 different explanations depending on you know what frame you decide to look at but that's a really interesting frame. That technology allowed pockets of craziness in this weird way just because the company was centered there to become worldwide. It's a good explanation.

Let's see. Here's news about TikTok. Apparently Republicans are renewing calls for a TikTok ban because it turns out that, oh didn't see this coming. Oh total surprise. Who could have ever seen this coming? That as soon as something's really important, let's say the Gaza situation, that TikTok was, I guess a study showed that the pro-Israel messages were about one tenth of the scale of the anti-Israel messages. It was enormously balanced against Israel which is against the United States in this particular case. Enormously, enormously.

Now let me ask you, do you think that happened on its own? Do you think the TikTok owning Chinese people said you know let's just let this one play out? Oh wow surprise. Lots of different people like the Palestinian side. No ladies and gentlemen it's exactly what I've been warning Congress about for five years. For five years I've been saying stop talking about the data security problem. That is a diversion. It might also be a problem but it's a diversion. The real problem is the heat button that China or TikTok owned by China can push. One button that is literally labeled heat which they admit they have that can boost any message. You don't think they push that button do you? Do you think that China sat there and thought to themselves you know if we did push this button it would be really really bad for America and they probably wouldn't do anything about it and it would be perfect crime because nobody knows you push the but