WEBVTT - We're Big, Comfortable & Dumb 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.280 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:24.120 Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty at 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:25.880 ten o two East Coast time. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.600 We have a ruling from the US Supreme Court on 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:33.200 the popular app known as TikTok. The Supreme Court upholds 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:37.200 the law that was passed by Congress in a bipartisan manner, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.159 signed in the law by Joe Biden last April to 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.360 find a new buyer within two hundred and seventy days. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.720 The Supreme Court has now ruled that that law stands. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.839 What happens to the app, however, is. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:52.839 A wide open question. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.840 So this is just happening now, and we were planning 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.240 to talk about TikTok anyway. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:58.160 What does this mean? Joe? 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.240 Well, as always, I want to point out, it's a 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:08.959 ban on the Chinese ownership of the social media app 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.200 because they are a hostile power. That's what the law says. 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.080 Supreme Court upheld the ban quote. There's no doubt that 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.440 TikTok offers a distinctive and expansive outlet for expression, means 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.560 of engagement, and source of community. But Congress has determined 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.240 that devestiture is necessary to address it's well supported national 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.440 security concerns regarding TikTok's data collection practices and relationship with 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.600 a foreign adversary. For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:37.039 the challenge provisions do not violate petitioners First Amendment rights. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.520 Just as Soda Mayor has an opinion concurring in part 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.280 she thinks it does touch on the First Amendment, some 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.920 gorstch concurs in the judgment that is the result. 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.120 What was the ruling? M miss that. What was the number? 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.360 Do we know? Oh? 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.720 I don't have that number. There are various concurring opinions. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.560 So yeah, it's not always like six to three. Sometimes 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.640 it's four plus one plus one to three, if you 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:06.880 know what I'm saying. Because they partially agree with each 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.919 other anyway, So yeah, TikTok must divest itself from its 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.480 Chinese overlords if it wants to keep doing business in 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.000 the United States, Thank goodness. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.359 In two hundred and whatever day starting Sunday or did 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:19.560 that start a long time ago? 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.160 And the deal and the time is up on Sunday. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.079 The time is running out. I think, Yeah, it's up 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.640 on Sunday. So that was a last minute of yours. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.400 And you know what, Listen, I don't want to court 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.840 a fight with hardcore Trump supporters, and y'all are absolutely 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.560 welcome any time, and sometimes we'll agree, sometimes we'll disagree, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:39.960 and that's fine. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.640 We can still be friends. But Trump's jumping in and. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.519 Saying, yeah, maybe I can say, well, I can work 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.400 out a deal because TikTok's been good to me and 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.160 they helped me get elected. I'm sorry, no, no, not 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.400 going there. And the Supreme Court is not going to 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.239 let it happen either. So this is by fifty times 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.000 the most significant thing you will hear about out the 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.440 question of TikTok and its Chinese ownership. Peter Schweitzer as 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.720 always doing some great writing. It was published in Breitbart, 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.200 and you know, Breitbart primarily does a very very good job. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.600 It's disappointing to me that this will not be heard 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:21.440 more widely. But he has dug deep and long into 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:26.040 available documents, speeches, memos, etc. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:27.440 From the Chinese. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.560 Communists, and the title of the article is why Beijing 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.800 wants Americans to keep using TikTok, And he talks about 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.320 how everyone's talking about the potential ban and weighing in 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.160 with friends of the court, briefs and statements and the 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.520 rest of it. From Trump to Mike Pence to nearly 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.760 two dozen state attorneys general blah blah blah. But there's 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.000 none of their opinion, Schweitzer rights from a source to 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.560 the court, will not hear from the Chinese Communist Party, 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.960 what do they think? Very few are talking about what 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.240 the Communists in Beijing think of the looming TikTok decision. 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.360 China is wielding. TikTok is a weapon wage unders diricted 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.560 warfare on the US. That is why the Chinese CCP 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.240 views TikTok as a quote modern day trojan horse, that's 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.920 their quote, and classified its powerful algorithm is a top 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.400 secret quote national security asset. 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.279 I believe maybe she listens to the Armstrong and Getty 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.200 show or gets the podcast. I believe we called it 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.120 a trojan horse and talked about how it makes the 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.640 original trojan horse seem like nothing. Oh, the original wooden 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.159 trojan horse pushed in there. Okay, some warriors jumped on. 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.120 That's not like re educating your youth for the next 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.120 several generations. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.359 Though in the Comi zone, words TikTok's constant stream of 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.440 short and over stimulating videos make for a powerfully addictive 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:45.280 source of propaganda. In a restricted Chinese academic journal, Colonel Deju, 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.159 a professor at China's top military academy, wrote that the 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.159 real battle between the US and China is quote information 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:58.200 driven mental warfare. A separate journal, he said, Younger People's 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.400 Liberation Army propagandists and increasingly realize the popularity of short 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.720 videos online, and TikTok is the best example of this 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:11.360 so far. He's talking about Red Army propagandists and how 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.120 valuable they think TikTok is leading the Chinese People's Liberation 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.520 Army in the future, will refer to it as the 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:22.520 PLA strategist Zeng Hufeng argues that the CCP must use 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.760 quote information and popular spiritual and cultural products as weapons 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:32.080 to influence people's psychology, will attitude, behavior, and even change 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:37.119 the ideology, values, cultural traditions, and social systems. According to Zeng, 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.760 these cultural tools, including apps, video games, et cetera, should 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.840 be used quote to target individuals, groups, countries, and even 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.880 people around the world. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.400 They are obviously, have been, and we're planning to continue 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.760 using our freedom against us the one hundred percent the 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:59.839 battle between democracies and authoritarian regimes. Sometimes you hear it 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.839 argued as to like, which is better for the people? 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.120 You people are crazy. I mean, it's not even a 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.320 close call. Democracies are better for human beings. Then I 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.600 don't care if they can build bridges more efficiently and 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.160 quickly or whatever. But in terms of which system is 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.320 going to win, which is going which is better in 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.360 terms of dominating the world, I'm not certain in the 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:27.799 modern techno era, where you can reach across borders, that 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:32.080 the free countries can survive ahead of the. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:34.839 Mean countries. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.440 I want to get back to the text of this 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.200 because it's so great. But that is a great topic. 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.840 And if you look at the history, we'll just save 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:47.400 the United States during certain times of extreme strife, trouble, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.440 world wars, civil wars, that sort of thing, measures have 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:58.080 been taken that in retrospect, during peace times when all 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.520 the danger is passed, very easy to say that measure 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:06.080 was unfair, it was mean, it was too much. But 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:14.120 that happens in history because if you lose the great 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:18.080 battle with communism, and are you know, feeling the whip 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.559 of your Chinese overlords, but are saying to yourself, well, 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.040 at least we didn't do anything that could be seen 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.600 as races. At least we didn't suspend habeas corpus. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:32.040 that sort of thing. Well, congratulations, that's just groovy. Good 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:38.280 for you. But anyway, so where was I? According to 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.679 Chinese military strategist, Beijing can win this in this way, 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.520 I'm sorry, Ken. In this way win quote mind superiority 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:52.760 by cutting off historical memory, deconstructing cultural symbols and perception 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.600 manipulation via propaganda spread on digital platforms like TikTok. All 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.200 of these are quotes from the Chinese themselves. TikTok is 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.160 a means of quote subconscious messaging in which Chinese strategists 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.280 say is more effective than overtly political propaganda and I quote. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.600 The ultimate goal is to manipulate the country's values and 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:16.360 achieve strategic goals without an actual overt military battle. In 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:22.280 an obscure CCP report titled Analysis of Modern Network Media 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.960 Warfare in the Perspective of Intelligent Technology, Beijing's military strategists 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.320 revealed that the best formats and forms of propaganda work 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:36.160 on young, impressionable people through amusement and I quote and 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.400 you know people say it's dance videos, Take it easy. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.120 Entertainment is the main motivation for Generation Z content consumption, 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:49.160 said Pang xing Gang, the deputy director of the Propaganda Department, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:54.239 in another strategy paper entitled Research on International Communication Strategies 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.360 and Practice Paths of Generation Z. Entertainment is the main 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:03.320 motivation for Gen Z con consumption. By better understanding those 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:07.240 we mean to propagandize, the CCP can explore effective communication 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:11.199 strategies and paths and improve the ability to set agendas. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.480 There are a litany of these quotes about how content 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.560 control is becoming more and more important Digital propaganda and 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.360 opinion manipulation and social media platforms quote and found that 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.040 emotional content can easily lead the audience to have the 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.000 illusion of independent thinking and attribute irrational emotions to righteous 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.599 indignation or empathy, which intensifies. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.800 The value of delusion. In other words, to boil it down. 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:42.160 They've realized that if you can give impressionable young people 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:48.960 pleasure or righteous indignation through entertainment vehicles, and then direct 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.920 that entertainment in subtle ways towards shaping their beliefs, it 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.760 will be extremely effective, And they're right, of course, I 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:03.040 remember talking about the contrast between like Twitter and Facebook 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:09.080 and Instagram and TikTok attitudes towards the Chinese Communist Party 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.200 beliefs about the wigers in China huge golf in the 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:19.080 numbers of the users of those various social media platforms. 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.040 So I've I've. 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.560 Kind of assumed this whole time that the way out 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.360 of this not very satisfying, but the way out of 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.040 this was somebody else is going to come up with 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.560 something more entertaining or as entertaining or TikTok in the 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:38.839 way that Facebook obliterated MySpace, that it'll get taken care 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:39.240 of that way. 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.200 But maybe not. 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They tell us. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:09.240 It's not like they keep it a secret. 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.079 Our goal is to uh to to take over the 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.520 world and supplant you as the world's only hyperpower. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.440 That's that's our plan, not hiding it. Boy, we're dumb. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:23.040 We're big and we're comfortable and we're dumb. Is a superpower? 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.560 Interesting? Well, everyone knows that those you were used TikTok. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.719 I can't wait till Monday you start talking about Is 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:29.800 it any different then? 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.640 Or not? A lot? More on the way? Stay with us? 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:38.240 Armstrong Vice president Kamala Harris is and what are they 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.640 planning to write a book after leaving office? 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.559 Look for it in your bookstores. How not to section. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:49.000 I missed? 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.920 This is like based on events. 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.440 I missed the setup who wrote Abamala Harris's new book? 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.959 Gotcha? Yeah that makes sense. Yeah. The NFL this weekend? 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.640 Are you very exciting? And there are four games four 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:03.800 the two. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:09.640 Teams with home field throughout the playoffs. Pretty big betting 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.200 odds on there. The Lions are expected to win by 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.240 nine and a half points. The Chiefs are expected to 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.880 win by eight. That's what the betting odds are currently. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.320 Eagles over the lo Rams by six and a half 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.320 the exciting game that's been going back and forth by 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.960 a point tomorrow, Bill's Ravens up in Buffalo, one point 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.760 this way or that way. I'm really looking forward to 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.080 that game. I'm plan to watch it. But you might 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.800 know if you follow this sort of thing, that the 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.760 halftime show at the super Bowl, that's why they're doing 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:40.480 these playoffs is to figure out what teams are going 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.720 to play in the super Bowl. The halftime show this 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.560 time around is Kendrick Lamar, which I don't know. I 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.280 don't know Kendrick Lamar that well. I know he's a 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.200 really big deal. My son is super into Kendrick Lamar. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:56.480 That's his kind of music. Yeah, very well thought. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.120 Of creatively, even among people who are not like hardcore 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.800 hip hop people. He's an artist, definitely, a lot of 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:03.880 people are just half talented. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.720 Warblers are called artists. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.200 So when we go driving around, me and the kids, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.240 like we are going out to eat and we take 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:14.960 turns on who has ox, which is a term teenagers use. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.040 That's that's who has access to the music. I get ox. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.960 It comes from auxiliary a the auxiliary plot, even though 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.280 nobody uses that anymore. It's all bluetooth, but I get 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.040 OX now you had OX last time? Is the way 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.400 he and his high school friends talk if you want 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.480 to sound him. But anyway, my oldest son had Ox 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:37.840 on the way back from the restaurant, and so he 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.880 plays his stuff. I say, okay, here we go with 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.440 the cop killer rap, and then he was giving him 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:49.160 crap where's the melody with his various songs. But Kendrick 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.920 Lamar Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe we were listening to 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:57.280 on the way home featuring Good Kid and m AA 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.560 D City Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe Bykenrick Lamore. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.880 I just my question was going to be to you. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.400 Have you ever read anything or do you have any 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:10.680 theories on how musical taste develops, why some people like 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.080 certain stuff and other people like different stuff. I got 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:17.360 two kids grow up in exactly the same household. The 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.040 younger one basically likes the same music as me. He 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.600 wants to he likes classic rock. He wants to listen 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.560 to the Eagles and Leonard Skinnard and Bachman Turner Overdrive 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:26.280 and that sort of stuff. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:26.880 He's thirteen. 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.960 His older brother is all Kendrick Lamar and Ken Carson 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:35.960 and Cardi Cardi b or cart no different Cardi, Playboy Cardi, 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.560 Playboy Carti and that sort of stuff. 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.880 And do you have any do you know why you'd 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:42.880 made up all of those names? I would still be 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.960 sitting here with the same look on my face. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.680 I know. Do you have any idea how people come 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.000 to their tastes? No? 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.800 No, But like with food, don't you kind of assume 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.840 to a certain extent they perceive it differently, like. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.600 Yes, the flavor us upbringing. 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.399 I mean, it can't be a coincidence that billions of 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:12.320 Indian kids like Indian food, right, But. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.760 Okay, well that on My two kids grew up in 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.359 the same house with the same exposure. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.080 So I don't know. I don't even know how I 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.720 found this stuff in me. Yeah, I don't have any idea. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.440 That reminds me I came across the woman who has 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.600 my dream job. I mean, it makes this job look 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.480 like digging ditches, which I've also done. Talk about that 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:32.520 a little bit later on. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.679 You have a theory there, Katie, I'm just wondering if 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:41.280 it has to do with his friends, your friend group. Yeah. Sure, 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.560 maybe that's formative years. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.040 Of forming musical taste, which is probably typically between eight 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:49.080 and fifteen. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.000 Maybe that's ninety percent of your friend group. What is 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:54.919 going to make you more popular with the people you 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:55.800 want to be popular with? 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.240 Pushes you that direction. I could be part of it. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.080 Like I don't even know why my musical tastes are 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:01.439 what they are. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.400 I couldn't tell you more analysis from smart people about 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.520 the Supreme Court ruling over TikTok and a bunch of. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:12.000 Other stuff Armstrong and Getty Well. 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.159 Brand new CNN poll gives us some insight into how 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.960 Americans are feeling about his return to the White House. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.800 Look at his favorability. It's at its highest in four years. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.040 It's at forty six percent, still underwater, but better than 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.000 it's been. When you ask Americans the question will the 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.360 United States be better off in four years from now? 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:34.280 Well more than half of those polled say yes. Uh 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:35.640 that's in that poll. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.160 In many polls, Trump has got the highest favorability he's 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.160 ever had in his political career, which is something heading 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.640 into a new term. I thought this on the back 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.639 of it was pretty damned interesting. Gallop out with their 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.960 political party identification, Are you a Republican or Democrat? 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.160 Those continue to go down, down down downtown. There are few. Yeah, 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:55.640 both of them. They're tied at twenty eight. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.879 Fewer and fewer people want to call themselves either a 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.600 Republican or a Democrat. I mean it's been going down 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.479 my entire adult life. Actually, it's pretty much a straight 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.720 line down since I started voting in the eighties. Fewer 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.879 and fewer people want to be a Republican, our Democrat. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.960 The number of people who call themselves an independent has 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.120 been going up, up, up, and is now forty three percent. 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.000 You need not be a mathematician to understand we're headn't 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.240 toward below half of people identify with either of the 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.280 quote unquote major parties. I wonder if it's because they're inept, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:28.480 corrupt and embarrassing. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:30.879 Yeah, because it's mostly an emotional thing, right. 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.879 It doesn't make any difference really, because people are going 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.040 out and voting Republican, our Democrat. We just had a 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.760 presidential election, but then I want to call themselves a 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.879 Republican or a Democrat. Yeah, that's interesting. 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:43.280 It is. 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.560 It speaks to a need for something different. You would 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:48.760 think in that environment a third party would emerge, but 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.480 so far it has not. Big ruling from the Supreme Court, 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.679 Trump was wanting the whole TikTok ban to not happen 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:00.000 the day before he becomes president, because his argument was, 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:01.679 I'm going to be president, I'm going to be dealing 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:05.560 with this. Put it off until you know I'm in charge, 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.240 and we'll take a look at it then. But the 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.679 Supreme Court said, nah, it's dan Well. Trump considers himself 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:12.760 the greatest deal maker in the history of that certainly 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:14.280 thought he could work out a deal, which you know 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.399 he may have been able to. But the Supreme Court 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.240 has spoken rather loudly. As Shannon Breem will inform us here. 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.359 They say this, there's no doubt that for more than 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.680 one hundred and seventy million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.200 and expansive outlet for expression, means of engagement, and source 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:36.240 of community. But Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:40.200 to address its well supported national security concerns regarding TikTok's 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:45.040 data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary. They say, listen, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.800 this doesn't violate First Amendment rights. And there's a big 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.760 conversation when the hearing was held last week. Vite Edance 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.120 is a foreign entity. It does not have First Amendment rights? 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:54.679 Why would it? 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.880 Why does every conversation about TikTok have to begin with 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.320 many millions of people enjoy the cat videos and college 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:03.040 girls twerking. 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.480 We know that's got nothing to do with anything, does it? 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.320 Can I choose one or the other? Yes. 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:14.879 The headline, which I'm afraid we have buried, is that 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:19.600 the Supreme Court has ruled this unanimously. They were unanimous 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:24.000 in their conclusion that Congress could ban the hostile foreign 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:25.920 ownership of TikTok. 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.320 That's what we're talking about here now. 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.800 How they got to that conclusion varied a bit among 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:36.640 the justices, so they have concurring opinions that are agreeing 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:40.120 while subtly disagreeing. But it was unanimous that yes, Congress 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:45.040 can do this. It is proper to ban tikety talk unanimous. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.200 I just get it to ban the hostile foreign ownership 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.479 of TikTok. One more note from a learned observer than 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:55.120 I have a thought or to turly in twenty nine 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:56.080 B please Michael. 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:59.760