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March 25, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew Testifies Before US Congress

Sinophobia on display.

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*Clears*
All right, my friend.
You know, yesterday was a very important day.
TikTok CEO Xiao Chu testified before the Congress.
And it was a complete and total waste of time.
Not for the reasons why you think.
He acquitted himself beautifully.
Beautifully.
But of course, don't expect anybody to see it that way.
Then you're going to have the professional testifiers who are going to be coming forward and going after TikTok, missing the point completely.
Missing the point.
It's this sense of I don't really want to change anything.
I just want to say my position, and that's it.
I don't care whether TikTok comes or goes.
It doesn't matter to me.
Are you interested in cross-examining Mr. Chu?
No, not really.
And I can't believe the number of people who...
And there is something to be said.
There's a bit of, dare I say, xenophobia, xenophobia.
People make fun of his name.
Have you heard this?
I've heard this a number of occasions.
Shao-chu?
What?
Shao-chu?
I mean, this is, excuse me, the name Larry Green may sound absurd in Mandarin.
It may sound like noise.
But people actually mock his name.
I'm hearing this.
Are you kidding me?
It was a waste of time.
He was brilliant.
But nobody sees it that way because they see it from their point of view.
They didn't score any points.
Nothing.
Nothing.
They never do.
It's a dog and pony show.
They're wasting your time.
They are so in bed with big tech and China and TikTok.
They're going to say, listen, you don't.
Come on in.
We won't bother you.
So we're going to get into this today.
And I'm going to give you a take that I promise you nobody else is doing because nobody really understands it.
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This is how I would have.
If I was a little bit of a, kind of a smart aleck, I would say, Mr. Chu, thank you so much for being with us today.
Thank you very much.
Mr. Chu, may I ask, do you have any family currently in China as we speak?
May I ask?
Is that okay?
You don't have to answer.
Always help it.
You don't have to answer.
Well, what does that mean?
Well, if you, you know, believe me, I understand your position.
What do you mean?
Well, you know, China.
Do you have family there?
Because listen, don't think for a moment that I don't know what they do to people's families over there.
In fact, China, CCP, they have police in our country.
Now think about this one.
They've got police agencies here.
They've got actual CCP police in the United States following American citizens, Chinese, And then going back and wreaking holy hell on their families.
So I understand that you've got to be very careful.
I've got to understand that.
So, believe me, if you don't want to answer a question, I understand.
You know what I mean?
Right off the bat, what does that do?
It tells people.
He's under duress.
Remember Jeremiah Denton, the POW, who was blinking torture with Morse code?
Remember that?
You're going to listen to this guy?
How's Larry Ma doing?
Anybody hear him?
Anybody hear him?
Have you ever heard of him, Mr. Chu?
Have you ever heard of Larry Ma?
Is he alright?
Remember when he was missing?
Remember Larry Ma?
Where is he?
Was that his name Ma?
Hang on.
Am I...
No, that's not his name.
Oh, yeah, it is.
What was his name from...
What is his name from the Chinese...
Oh, God.
From Baba...
Hang on a minute.
Jack Ma.
Jack, excuse me.
Pardon me.
I'm getting Larry.
Jack Ma.
That's right.
Where's Jack Ma been?
Anybody see him?
Is he alright?
Alibaba founder of Jack Ma living in Tokyo since China's tech...
Crackdown.
Remember this?
This was...
I'm looking at this.
This was Financial Times.
Oh, yeah!
This is November 26th.
So, I understand, Mr. Chu.
Believe it or not, I understand what you've got, what you're probably going through right now.
And it's pretty scary.
Because I know they do that.
And you know it, and I know it.
So, believe me, anytime you don't want to answer, and I understand...
You're not going to come here, nor do I expect you to come here and say, yes, you're right.
We collect data.
We're an espionage tool.
We're using children and dancing to get into every available phone.
Yes, I understand.
You can't say that.
But you don't really have to.
You don't have to.
Do you understand that?
You don't have to say that.
And I promise you, when I say this to you, Most people have no idea what this is about.
My favorite is the libertarian approach.
Have you heard these clowns?
Oh, these are the best.
Laissez-faire, Montpelerin, you know, Mises and Hayek.
Well, nobody's forcing you.
Nobody's forcing you to have tic-tac.
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Most people, and they love to say, well, I don't know, my daughter's got that.
I don't have TikTok.
I love that one.
I heard a guy the other day, real big shot, one of these wonky types.
Well, I don't have TikTok.
So what?
I don't have a uterus, but we're here to talk about uterine cancer.
Is that it?
I mean, if I don't enjoy something, I can't talk about it?
Is that it?
Is that what you're talking about?
Seriously.
Is that it?
People love to say, well, you know, I don't really know about that.
I heard somebody many, many times.
Oh, I understand this.
I understand.
Look, I'm kind of old-fashioned.
Look, if you want to have a thing with dancing on it, you know, what am I?
My daughter's got that.
My son's got that.
Seems pretty harmless.
This is what we're dealing with.
So you got this group.
You've got this poor guy who's testifying.
Please, get me off here.
My family.
He should show up just with pictures of his family and just say, please, do you expect me to testify?
Are you kidding me?
But he was great.
Because he said, look, I'll do what you want.
Now remember, I can do things that other people don't.
You understand this?
I can do things.
Because I don't have any particular affiliation with any particular ideology.
Not only that, maybe it's because I'm a trial lawyer.
I can go back and forth on this thing.
If Mr. Chuse, excuse me, Madam Congressperson, may I ask you a question, please?
Do you mind if I see your phone?
I don't want to, I don't want to, I mean, if he did this or...
He would be a star in China.
But I wish he was...
Madam, may I see?
Well, you know, it doesn't matter.
Even if you don't have your phone, I have right here a list of all of your social media.
You're on Facebook, and you're on Instagram, and you have children.
You have four or five children.
Here's your house.
Here's your this.
You're on Facebook.
You've got a private account.
Oh, and you're on Twitter, and you have your official account, and your regular account, and do this, and you...
Do you know what Twitter is doing?
Where do you think Twitter data is going?
Where do you think Instagram is going?
You know, you had Zuckerberg here.
Do you know where that's going?
No.
We have no idea, do you?
But this is, let's pick on China Day, is that it?
Oh, I know, because we're bad.
Because we sent that balloon over.
Remember the balloon?
Whatever happened to that?
I don't know.
Do they send them anymore?
Did you ever find out what happened?
Did anybody follow up with maybe any kind of a review?
Of the balloons?
No.
Were they surveillance balloons?
I don't know.
Well, what were they?
I don't know.
What do you mean you don't know?
It was such a big deal.
Everybody was talking about it.
You mean you don't know?
No.
Wait a minute.
You had big surveillance white balloons.
99!
Nina.
And you forgot all about that, yeah.
So you're going to forget about this too.
Oh yeah, next week.
Absolutely.
We don't care.
We just do this.
And I'd also like to say, Mr. Chu, please, do me a favor.
I don't know if you have any counsel, but let me just tell you something.
Mr. Chu, you probably know this, but we're the United States Congress.
We're into big talk, big talk, big noise, New York.
Remember this?
It was Jennifer Warren's, I think Walter Beckham, did Walter Beckham write that?
Big talk, New York.
No, I think Donald Fagan wrote that.
Anyway, that's what we are.
We're just big shots.
Remember when Fauci came here?
Oh, is Jimmy Jordan here?
You know him, right?
He doesn't wear the jacket.
Anybody see Jimmy Jordan?
Oh, God.
He just...
Jim Jordan just loves dates.
You ever hear Jim Jordan testify?
October 2021, in August of 1922, and in February 2021, February, March 2021, February 15, he just loves dates.
He just loves you for some reason.
And then in August 2023, well, that's not too early.
I haven't done that yet.
He just does this.
He just bombards you with dates.
Sounds great.
What does it mean?
Nothing.
What has Jim Jordan accomplished?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Ted Cruz?
Josh Hawley?
So far, the most, the one that I like, Quite a bit in terms of efficacy and not just saying stuff is Marsha Blackburn.
Very, very good regarding children's issues and the like.
She actually does something.
She's just not there.
You know what I mean?
Everybody else is.
Everybody else is there.
See, Congress is like, hey, how am I doing?
How am I doing?
Oh, by the way, Mr. Chu, don't worry about this because in 2005, how about that, Jimmy?
I can do that too.
In 2005, a number of Major League Baseball players came to this August group.
And they...
Mark McGuire was here.
Palmiro was here.
Canseco was here.
I don't know.
But they're all here talking about Major League Baseball.
Now, what Congress has to do with it, I have no idea.
They can't even handle derailments.
By the way, anything on derailment?
Nope.
Anything on East Palestine?
Nope.
Anything on that?
Nope.
But you're going to handle TikTok.
Is that it?
You're going to ban TikTok?
We'll get to that in a moment.
So they showed up and guess what they did?
They basically lied.
And the best testimony ever.
I absolutely love it.
I love the fact that what he did was he came forward and he said, do we have to talk about this now?
What?
Do we have to talk about this now?
What?
This was in the past.
Mr. McGuire, with all due respect, all testimony is about the past.
Why would you be testifying about the future?
He can't do that.
Why would you be testifying about the present?
We can see the present.
That was one of the best things ever.
Anyway, did anybody get hit with any kind of perjury charge?
Nope.
Anybody?
Nope.
Nobody?
Nobody.
Nothing happened.
Nothing.
It was just a complete and total waste of time.
Nothing happened.
Then in 1994, seven CEOs stood before the world and Congress and said, when asked, do you think that nicotine is addictive?
And they said, no.
No?
Any perjury charges?
No.
Unless you're Alex Stone.
Roger Stone.
Then you get the 4am ninja search warrant team with CNN coverage who happens to be there and know ahead of time that the search is coming.
So this is a joke.
So Mr. Chu, if you want to get up and leave right now, believe it or not, you are completely understood.
Completely understood.
Because this is a waste of time.
Nothing's going to happen with this.
Nobody does anything.
You can say yes or no or this.
Half these people don't understand anything about it.
Now, there's two issues here regarding TikTok.
Number one is data capture.
And look, I know what you're going to say.
You're going to say, no, no, no, we're not capturing anything.
I know, I know.
And to an extent, you're right.
Everybody in Silicon Valley wants to do this.
And plus, there are kids today who are basically born in captivity.
They have no idea what's going on.
None!
Absolutely no idea.
They were born with this.
They look at you like, uh-huh.
Have you ever talked to meat eaters?
Have you ever said this?
Have you ever heard this?
You know you're eating meat blasted with all kinds of hormones and antibiotics.
You know this free-range bit.
And you think this is good?
Okay.
It's a free country, but it's like that.
It's like you have to realize there are people who just don't understand what you're saying.
And I can tell immediately there are people in my life who don't understand what I'm saying.
And I recognize this.
And you can see it in their face.
You can see it in their eyes.
See, you don't understand it.
Yesterday was a big dog and pony show.
How about Mark Zuckerberg?
What about him?
Nothing.
Anything changes up with...
Facebook?
No.
Jack Dorsey?
No.
Well, Elon came up.
We'll talk about Elon in a moment.
This is just a waste of time.
Now, if I'm true, if somebody says, wait a minute, don't you understand that there are kids who are reporting doing terrible things in themselves?
There's reports of everything from you name it to self-harm, whatever it is.
This is some very, very serious stuff.
Mr. Chu was saying, whose fault is that?
Whose fault precisely is that?
Is that my fault?
Okay, it's on here.
You're right about that.
You're right.
It's terrible.
But I'm saying, since time immemorial, whether it's music, whether it's Ozzy Osbourne, remember that?
Kids were, it was all types of terrible things.
People were supposedly hearing messages from others.
Playing Beatles music backwards.
You name it.
Movies.
The Bible.
Are we doing this again?
If I basically have something...
I didn't sponsor this.
It is a platform where others...
You're right.
You always make a concession.
You're right.
We're going to make a real serious look at this.
But do you think that the parents...
Where are they?
Where are they?
I know these people who keep wanting to pull their kids out of school because this teacher will say this, and this teacher will say this, and this teacher says this, and this is CRT here.
Do you ever talk to your kids?
Do you think you're going to just keep them, what, in bubble wrap for the rest of their life?
Why don't you tell them about the truth?
Do you have any responsibility in this?
Do you?
Do you have any say?
What if there are people who...
I've got a friend of mine, he's an evangelical Christian, 87 years old, loves TikTok.
He thinks it's the greatest.
You're going to shut his TikTok down because of what?
Now forget the data capture and espionage, that's one thing.
But because your kids are not able...
What?
Now, if I represented...
Mr. Well, I shouldn't say this, but if I were pro, which most, let's face it, most people in Washington, big tech, you want to get done with this?
You want to lobby for Google?
Or whoever it is?
Or Instagram?
Or Silicon Valley?
You want to be...
Do yourself a favor.
And a lot of this makes sense.
My question would be a very, very simple thing.
Just very, very simple.
Do you remember hearing anything?
First of all, were there any TikTok files?
Any?
Like Twitter files?
No.
And that was pre-Elon, of course.
Do you have any instances of TikTok officials meeting with FBI, CIA, NSA, members of Congress, finding out what was said, what was promoted, who said it, and then banning them?
Did you ever hear that?
No, that was TikTok.
That was American.
That was American.
Did you have any...
I think recently you had Mr. Taibbi.
And by the way, where's Barry Weiss?
Is she just not in the equation anymore?
Is she alright?
And by the way, listen to what I'm saying.
Where's John Fetterman?
No, no, no, no.
Where's his wife?
Stay tuned for that one, buckaroos.
Remember I'm telling you that.
Stay tuned.
Okay?
Get back to this.
So, you've got a lot of stuff.
So, you've got Twitter over here.
You've got Facebook over here.
And now, Facebook, are you reading about this internal stuff?
So, what do you want to do?
You want to shut everything down?
Is that it?
You want to ban TikTok?
You want to ban it.
You want to ban it?
Who do you think will be promoting this?
Wait a minute.
Hold it.
Wait a minute.
If you ban TikTok, then TikTok competitors are going to benefit, right?
You don't think any of these folks here are TikTok...
You don't think they're working for the other...
No.
You don't think anybody here is working for Facebook, do you?
Anybody?
Because remember, if you get rid of TikTok, everybody else benefits in this country.
And do you see any problem with this?
Do you see any problem with the United States government banning a communications platform?
Do you?
Do you?
Pay attention.
I think this might be difficult for a lot of stuff.
See, I know, and I say this to you, and I love you, and I mean it, but if what I am seeing in terms of commentary, and now, with all due respect, you don't get it.
And TikTok's got nothing to worry about.
Nothing.
Whether it's TikTok, ByteDance, some other iteration of this, Americans don't get it.
Because you've got to be able to handle two or three different ideas existing simultaneously, each of them seeming, at times, mutually exclusive.
Forget it.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
See, we live in an either-or society.
You don't see a problem with the federal government banning TikTok?
Banning it.
Saying, no, you've gone too far.
You're out of here.
Wait a minute.
Hold it.
Hold it.
Wait, do I have a say in this?
No.
Gee, nobody lets me speak.
Big tech doesn't let me talk.
They bounce me off of here.
Now the government's telling me I can't do anything else.
And we don't like that radio.
And we don't want you hearing any MC5 or Wayne Kramer or any other kind of stuff.
And we don't want you reading any Eric Weinstein or...
Wait a minute!
Hold it!
Stop!
We're book-burning.
We're banning.
No, no, no.
This is different.
Why is this different?
Well, because it's China.
Wait a minute.
We've always heard...
We heard that from HUAC.
House on American Activities.
Russia.
We've heard this before.
What's going on here?
How come Joe Biden is teaming?
How come he's siding with what?
He and Jim George.
What's going on here?
Is the fix in?
This isn't because of TikTok competitors, is it?
Now, I don't care whether you read or read.
I don't have TikTok.
So what?
Or WhatsApp or anything like that.
If you've got a kid, and you don't sit down with your kid, and you don't talk to your kid about everything under the sun, you're at fault.
Don't blame TikTok, don't blame WhatsApp, Facebook, Meta, just music, long hair, radio.
Whatever it is.
This is the oldest thing in the book.
Now granted, it's worse now.
Everything seems to be worse because it's being reported more and the like.
But if you don't sit down and take an assessment of your kid's mental health and you don't do this, are you going to have a hearing on that?
Are you going to bring parents in?
Maybe we'll ban parenting.
Maybe that's it.
Maybe if we had less kids, We wouldn't have these problems.
Maybe we should just ban phones.
Do we really need these phones?
I mean, why don't we just have phones?
Why do we have all this stuff?
You know, you can buy just a regular flip phone that just answers it.
So you can call NEM.
Why do you want to have this anyway?
Why?
Let's get rid of that.
Take care of everything.
All this surveillance.
Where does this end?
Nobody's talking.
Because they look at it like this.
And they can't see beyond.
I believe in unfettered communication.
I believe.
Oh, and one more thing.
Do you think when the United States has Twitter in other governments, in other countries, do you think maybe we're getting some of that information?
Do you think maybe our CIA, FBI, NSA, MOUSA is dealing with Elon or somebody else saying, come here.
There's a couple of, you got a couple of guys here.
You know these Paris, and this is the oldest trick in the book.
You know this Paris?
Yeah, we got a call from Macron.
And they're worried about something because France is on fire.
Of course, you're not going to hear it here because people don't know anything.
They don't care.
France is on fire.
You dig?
Okay.
Now, we need to figure out what to do with this.
And there's a couple of people here that we want to talk to.
And we want you to help us with this.
Elon.
Because you're over there in France.
Macron asked us to check into this.
Would you do that for us?
You know that's being done.
You know that when they had...
What was it?
I always get the name wrong.
It was a GMCHQ.
The place in...
Is it GMCHQ?
GMCHQ.
Where is this?
Oh, GCHQ?
Yeah, that's it.
That's it.
Yeah, GCHQ.
Is that it?
Yes.
GCHQ.
That round, kind of, it looks like the Apple building.
GCHQ.
This is their UK's intelligence, security, and cyber agency.
Okay.
Now, you know what happens.
And I don't have to tell you this, but...
I'm sure you know this.
If we need to find somebody, and we're the CIA, we're whoever it is, and I've got to find somebody, I've got to trail somebody, I've got to listen to something, I've got to do whatever it is.
What do I do?
I pick up the phone.
Or I just go to my friends at GCHQ and say, do me a favor.
I want you to follow so-and-so.
Okay.
He's in our country.
We can't do it, but you can do it.
Because you're a foreign country.
Okay.
And then GCHQ says, by the way, we have a guy named Jean-Pierre Duvoldier.
Okay.
We got him.
Jude, can you give us a location of him?
Sure.
Absolutely.
Now, do you understand this?
Do you understand how this works?
Do you get this?
Anybody?
So for you to think all of a sudden you're going to come into Washington and you're going to just take care of this stuff.
You don't even know the beginning of this.
This apparatus.
And what Washington does is to make sure it always looks good.
Like they used to arrest Capone.
The usual suspects.
Bring people in.
Point that finger.
Boy, we told that Fauci.
Uh-huh.
Fauci's fine.
CDC is fine.
What do you think Bobby Kennedy Jr. accomplished?
Anything?
Nah.
Anything?
Nope.
Anybody?
Nope.
Looks good.
Looks good.
And they want you to think that.
They want you to think, boy, we've got this guy, this family, he's, boy, that Bobby.
Kennedy, did you hear this?
Boy, he's great.
What is he coming?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Uh-uh.
Nothing.
That's the thing.
We create this idea.
It's like me having...
Imagine if I had a restaurant and there was nobody in there.
Maybe two or three people.
But I kept piping in sounds of...
Plates and noise and conversation and you're looking and you go, where is this coming from?
There's nothing happening.
But it sounds like it.
Seems like it.
That's what's going on.
And all this rebarbative banter back and forth, back and forth.
You're doing it.
I say this.
And he makes a big point of DARPA.
Oh, boy, it's great.
Oh, that was great.
That was terrific.
And he's a Marxist!
Marxist!
I love the boy.
He slammed.
Did you see?
Oh, they love to say this.
On the New York Post.
They slammed.
Let's bring in Miranda Devine.
Come on, Miranda.
Hi, yeah, listen.
I'm booking for the Tucker show.
Yeah.
Do you have any more Hunter Biden stuff?
Yeah, I realize it's a waste of time.
Yeah, come on.
Coming up right now, Miranda Devine.
She's going to tell us more information about Hunter Biden.
Nothing's ever happened.
But it looks good.
Sounds good.
Boy, we're really getting to the bottom of that one.
No.
No.
Not really.
The Trump case?
Alvin Bragg is imploding.
Trump's lawyer is taking all kinds of credit for it.
Like, listen there, Sparky.
Hang on.
There's five more to go.
This is nothing.
They're going to forget all about this.
Alvin Bragg is a speed bump.
Doesn't matter.
We've got other cases here.
You done with that one?
You ready to handle it?
Oh, they're all crazy.
No, they're not.
I talked to a good friend of mine.
He's kind of a Trump supporter, and he knows nothing about legal cases.
Nothing.
But he swears that this Trump, he's going to, Trump's going to just, because it's all garbage.
No, it's not.
Oh, yes it is.
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
Sorry about that.
It's not.
Big cases.
Not done yet.
You see, my goal in this, my role, is very specifically to tell you the truth.
It's this thing called reality.
And people hate it.
They don't want to hear reality.
Do you understand this?
They don't want to hear reality.
Now, by the way, I put something up for you.
Another is called Lionel Legal.
And I call this persecution coverage of Trump.
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There's the link.
You should sign up for that one.
Because I can spend more time with this.
But you see, this is just a bunch of people talking.
It's almost like a...
You know, somebody was saying something the other day.
They said, this is kind of like, do you think that maybe, you know, live feeds or whatever are like 12-step programs?
And I would say, no.
Because I think 12-step programs have been more successful.
There are more people alive today.
They always talk about, you know, AA is only 5% effective compared to not doing something?
No, no, no.
I have nothing but respect.
For people who go to meetings and talk to others, and they talk, and that talking keeps them alive, and something is accomplished, that's meaningful.
This is meaningless.
This is just banter.
See, everybody I'm talking to today, nobody's going to do anything.
They're not going to pick up the phone, ever call anybody in office, nobody.
We've told you a million times.
When you call up an office, or you email, or you send a letter, they go crazy.
They have a woman, or a man, young man, kind of an aide or something, who sits and says, I got four calls on TikTok.
Four calls is like four million.
Did you ever have somebody come to your house when you think you have bedbugs?
Remember when we had bedbugs years ago?
Remember that, honey?
Bedbugs.
Everybody had bedbugs.
We got them, everybody got them.
And then they're just gone.
Cymex lectularius.
Hematophagic.
I love the bedbugs.
Hematophagic.
They eat blood.
They go dormant for a year.
Oh, I love them.
And everywhere in New York, they had, they had, Oye, Roscoe.
There was Roscoe.
They had these beagles that come.
I wouldn't be surprised if the bug people were throwing the bedbugs.
Let me tell you something.
You get a couple of bedbugs, you put them into a vent system, and they're gone.
But when they would come to your house, the guy who would go, oh, I found one.
I found one.
He didn't say, I found 10,000.
He'd go, I found one.
If you find one, there's a million there.
Well, that's the way they work in Congress.
If one calls, that's 4,000.
People who are involved in this, they don't do this.
They just...
That's all.
And they watch Fox News.
Back and forth.
Oh, I watch Jesse Waters.
That was great.
Oh, I watch CNN.
I watch whatever his name is.
Whoever these people are.
That was great.
Oh, hey.
Oh, I love this Miranda Devine.
She's going to talk about what?
About what?
About Hunter again?
Okay, great.
No prosecution, but there's Miranda Devine.
She talks about that.
It's like if somebody were to say to you, I'm here to talk about nutrition.
Do you follow it?
No.
But I'm here to tell you about it.
I'm a gym trainer.
You're 100 pounds overweight.
Yeah, I know.
But that doesn't make my information invalid just because I don't follow it.
You wouldn't listen to a trainer who is 100 pounds overweight.
But you listen to this...
Endless cacophony of people who just sit around and...
Oh my God!
And then you go through these...
So the bottom line comes down to simply this.
First, you're going to have to understand what the issue is.
Is the issue TikTok?
No.
It's a manifestation.
It's a manifestation of something.
You can cover it up all you want.
Did you ever see these ads for toenail fungus?
Remember that?
All of a sudden it came out of nowhere.
Everybody had toenail fungus.
I mean, it was, it was, it just was everywhere.
Do you have this?
And they always show you this cartoon rendition of it.
And the reason why you know it works is because the cartoon shows these Fungs underneath the nail quick and everything.
They have like helmets and you know.
Anyway.
I told somebody one time, jokingly, a woman, I said, why don't you just paint them?
It's the discoloration that bothers you, right?
It's this kind of a gnarly, fungated look.
Okay, just paint over them.
Nobody will see it.
What's wrong with that?
That doesn't fix the problem, does it?
Correct.
But it takes care of the symptom.
That's what we do.
We just deal with symptoms.
And then we get bored, and we go on to something else.
We're going to talk about Trump for a while.
And then we're going to talk maybe about, oh, I don't know, something...
Some things hit, some things don't.
Depending upon your country.
But Americans in particular, and those who involve themselves in social media, want the simplest issues.
Available.
TikTok bad.
Yeah, but let's go through this a little bit.
TikTok bad.
Sugar bad.
Is sugar bad?
Answer that question.
Is sugar bad?
No.
Can sugar be added to your life?
Reasonably?
Yeah.
No fat energy.
So you can't say sugar.
So is TikTok bad?
Somebody right now is 12 years old to say, they have my banking information?
I'm 12 years old.
What are they going to do?
Here, look at my stuff.
Here's a dance thing.
I've noticed on, I don't know about you, but I get on these kicks sometimes.
I don't know where.
I'm a YouTuber.
And I find, all of a sudden, I'm into this thing now where people going to chiropractors, getting dinged, crunching backs, snapping necks.
Have you seen these?
2 million followers, 3 million.
Hi, we're going to go like this.
And they put these microphones back here and you hear the crunch.
Have you seen that Y-strap?
Have you seen this thing?
Now let me tell you something right now.
I am no expert.
In chiropractic, I don't know anything about this, but if you go and you allow somebody to put a strap around your neck and pull it, what does that remind you of?
Let's see.
What wild west...
I can see it right now.
Hello, have you been injured?
Have you done one of these...
Or your head becomes just...
Now, it's the biggest thing.
It's the biggest thing on YouTube.
The biggest!
The biggest!
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, and I know nothing about this, I think chiropractic does wonders for people, where orthopods have said, I can only give you drugs or operate, you know.
Again, I'm no expert in this.
But let's assume that people are crippled from some...
Just assume.
You're going to ban YouTube?
Because people are following?
Wait, wait, wait.
What?
Excuse me.
I'm listening to the Brian Lamb lecture on James K. Polk.
Why are you taking my YouTube away?
Because some kid is paralyzed in Sheboygan or whatever.
I don't understand this.
Do you know how many people watch YouTube and they say, I like the music.
I don't know what this is.
What are you talking about?
Why are you taking this away from me?
I didn't do anything.
Okay, put the limitations of the filters.
Okay, fine.
Don't take this away from me.
I haven't hurt anybody.
I haven't taken any challenges.
I've got Christians.
Have you seen the Christian, the religious messages?
And they say, but in China, they don't allow...
YouTube over...
How many hours a day?
Four hours?
YouTube?
I'm sorry.
TikTok.
TikTok is...
It's TikTok, not YouTube.
All right.
40 minutes a day?
Yeah.
In China, children, 40 minutes a day.
And that 40 minutes is about pro-CCP.
Okay.
What does all this mean?
I'll let you figure this out.
But you want to shut something down?
This is America.
May I remind you of something?
There is this thing here called, that's right, the Constitution of the United States.
And throughout history, there have been people who've been wanting to shut things down and shut people up for a variety of reasons.
Music, messages, drugs, sex, name it.
Since the beginning of our country.
You're going to allow that?
You're going to sit back and say anything?
No.
You know why?
You're busy.
You don't care.
You just want to go on and make your smart aleck.
You really don't want to be bothered.
I mean, you come across.
Let's face it.
Come on.
Seriously.
You're a great person, but you come across like you're engaged, but you're not engaged.
You don't care.
Shut it down.
You don't understand the big picture.
You've never protested anything.
You never understand anything.
You don't care about that.
And that's why yesterday was such a dog and pony show.
It was ridiculous.
It was a waste of time.
Nothing's going to happen with this.
Ask Fauci.
Ask Zuckerberg.
Ask Mark McGuire.
Ask the seven CEOs in 1994 who appeared before Congress and said, we don't believe that nicotine is addictive.
If there was no nicotine in the cigarettes, they would fire the people because they want nicotine.
And why do you want nicotine?
Because of the what?
What?
Come on.
Stop playing games.
Stop playing games.
And I'm going to also tell some of my dear friends, you're going to have to grow up.
You're going to have to grow up.
And you're going to have to stop acting like children.
Because a lot of people today, people that I know, are infantilized.
They don't understand anything.
They're children.
They have no interest in anything.
They know nothing.
You have no idea.
Mrs. Ellen and I tried to figure out, who was our most stupid friend?
We had a lot of friends.
A lot of people are good people.
Or you have to be associated with them.
We have so many people who are just profoundly stupid.
I mean, really stupid.
Really stupid.
Really, really stupid.
And I don't even know how to express this anymore in terms of how stupid they are.
But it's true.
And I'm sorry to say, but, you know, whatever.
But the bottom line is simply this.
We're going to get done today.
And you're going to move on with your life.
And you're going to go maybe someplace else.
Some other show.
And you're going to sit back and be mildly amused.
And somebody will say something.
Maybe, oh, I like him.
I like her.
And they'll say something.
Oh, that's interesting.
And I do the same thing.
I go through different things.
My latest...
I love to watch...
The Dole...
Let me tell you a great one.
There's a fellow by the name of Richard Norton Smith.
Richard Norton Smith.
He does oral history.
And there's the Bob Dole, the Dole Archive, the Dole Center.
Bob Dole.
It's one of the best things ever.
Great lectures.
Incredible lectures.
Wonderful lectures.
Eric Weinstein.
Weinstein, excuse me.
Great.
Going after Brian Greene and the string theorists.
I love this.
I love him.
He is just wonderful.
Have you ever seen Lex Fridman?
It's a very popular show, but Lex Fridman might be the most boring person I think Who's alive today?
Lex Fridman?
I don't know.
F-R-I-D Fridman?
He could single-handedly reverse the teenage pregnancy rate by explaining the sex act, and nobody would want to do it.
I mean, he just, I don't know what it is.
Today, while I'm here, and during coitus, or intromission, Tumesin starts, and the corpus cavernosa, okay, that's it.
Not interested.
Nope.
But, he has some of the most incredibly important people around.
And Alex Weinstein is fantastic.
Uncommon Knowledge is wonderful.
He is, oh God, Peter Robinson.
Uncommon Knowledge.
There's a couple of...
Oh, I love it.
He's so terrific.
There's this one in particular.
Oh, oh!
David Berlinski.
Have you seen him?
David Berlinski is an animal.
Is an animal.
He is...
He just...
I love this guy.
He's a contrarian.
He blasts the...
Atheists and he disputes Darwin.
I mean, this is heretical.
I mean, I love it.
It's beautiful.
Don't take that away from me just because some idiot does something on YouTube or whatever it is.
YouTube is the most fantastic.
How many times have you figured something out with YouTube?
We have a coffee machine and it's very nice and every, oh, I don't know, three hours it says descale.
I'm exaggerating.
De-scale.
De-scale.
And I'm reading the thing.
I say, how do you de-scale?
It seems simple.
I'm not an idiot.
There is a video of a man showing how to de-scale this particular model.
And it works.
And I get it out every time.
And it works.
Young people have learned how to cook thanks to TikTok and YouTube.
Cooking is cool now.
Then we said, we should have home ec.
There's no home ec anymore.
But there are folks through a lot of these rather boring, dare I say, these food blogs.
Kids are learning everything about, oh, air fryers and how to make things at home and how to eat better and it's wonderful.
People always talk about, I'm sorry to say, tragedies, tragedies.
Kids, Harming themselves.
Terrible.
Terrible.
And people who are sidelined.
Terrible.
But please.
Please.
I want you to be able to have this thing where every time you use the word ban in your work, you feel this electric shock.
Like, oh, oh.
You can say it, but you're going to get shocked.
We're Americans.
Our first instinct should be against banning anything.
You want to correct it?
You want to limit it.
You want to make it useful.
Did anybody ban cigarettes?
No.
You know, cigarette use in this country is just plummeting.
I shouldn't say you never do.
You see it less and less and less.
Vaping has really cratered.
Nobody banned it.
Now, here in New York, they want to ban menthol and flavored cigarettes.
I don't know why.
Banning is...
Antithetical.
You ban things like DDT, Agent Orange, you know, asbestos in schools.
Okay.
You ban through products liability DES, diethylsilberstrol, and Vioxx, and thalidomide, which is sometimes.
But stop with this nonsense.
And there is Sinophobia.
There is Russophobia.
There is Xenophobia.
Absolutely.
Since James Bond.
Why are all the great James Bond characters foreign?
I know not all of them, but there's something about people who are different.
You know it and I know it.
And I'm sorry, but it's true.
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I know it.
But vitamin C, zinc, D3, which is incredible.
It's really a hormone and not even a vitamin.
And then, of course, quercetin, which is a flavonoid, which is a bioavailable phytonutrient that's an anti-inflammatory.
It's just perfect.
And it's something that you should have begun in your life 20 years ago.
But it's not too late ever.
So that's it, Z-Stack.
It makes sense.
It makes complete and total sense.
And the one that people, I swear to you, they don't want to think about this.
Because when you talk about an EMP attack, electromagnetic pulse, they say, I don't even know if I want to think about this.
And that's kind of what we do.
We just don't think about things.
Well, you know.
I'm the opposite.
I'm not paranoid, but I'm not Dismissive of reality.
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Do you have to use big words?
Yes, Sparky.
Yes.
Okay.
I'm not much of a reader.
We'll start.
Actually, get this.
People have said, I'm not much of a reader.
Oh, dear God.
And proud of that.
They're proud of it.
Okay.
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Alright, my friends.
Have a great, great, great, great, great...
Look at this.
Hairway to Steven.
Is that funny?
I live in Silicon Valley.
All flavored tobacco products are banned.
Why?
I don't understand this.
I do not understand this.
Banning?
Why?
And I'm not giving you this libertarian stuff.
I'm just saying I don't understand it.
But that's different.
All right, my friends.
Have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
See you tomorrow.
Same bad time.
Same bad channel.
9 a.m. Eastern Time.
Until then, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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