1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:11,919 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,039 Speaker 2: And if you want exclusive. 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: Content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my 6 00:00:16,879 --> 00:00:19,239 daily show prep with all the links, become a patron. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,559 Go to Thepete calendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit 8 00:00:22,559 --> 00:00:25,000 the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,600 your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much 10 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,359 for your support. If you've been here for the last hour, 11 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,399 thank you very much. I appreciate it. I did get 12 00:00:32,439 --> 00:00:36,560 a bunch of messages here that I will endeavor to 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,759 get to. They're all over the place. They're on Twitter, 14 00:00:40,799 --> 00:00:43,600 at Pete Calendar, they're an email Pete at the Pete 15 00:00:43,679 --> 00:00:50,200 calendarshow dot com. And I did mention TikTok, so I 16 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:55,920 will pasaki back to the TikTok. But Pambondi went before 17 00:00:56,079 --> 00:01:01,200 the Senate Judiciary Committee. They were asking questions and such 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,640 for the as part of the nomination process to be 19 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,359 Attorney General. I played a bunch of the audio in 20 00:01:08,359 --> 00:01:11,040 the last hour, so if you want to go back 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,920 and catch that, pick up the podcast at the Petecalendarshow 22 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:16,959 dot com or the petepod dot com or WBT dot com. 23 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:23,959 It's on all of your podcasting platforms. Basically, Michael is 24 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:30,120 nominating me to be secretary of grammar well in the 25 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:35,920 in the case of fentanyl versus fentanyl, right, it's a 26 00:01:36,159 --> 00:01:38,200 I think it's more of is it pronunciation? 27 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 2: I guess that falls under grammar. I don't know. 28 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 1: I'm not always so good with the grammar either. He 29 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:48,599 does agree with me, though, he says his mom would 30 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,480 say Walmart and. 31 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 2: Plask it plasket instead of plastic. 32 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, like library or supposedly not words, people not words. 33 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:08,879 He then asks, also, what would be the best cabinet position, 34 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:14,639 real or made up? For producer John Moore. I don't 35 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:20,439 know if I want to answer that, actually, Russ says. 36 00:02:21,439 --> 00:02:24,680 Quote Dick Durbin says, dot dot dot is one of 37 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,439 the best shortcuts I have ever learned for what can 38 00:02:27,439 --> 00:02:30,680 be ignored or totally discounted as partisan hackery when it 39 00:02:30,719 --> 00:02:35,360 comes to Senate news. Also, it sounds like you're saying. 40 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:40,319 Mazie Herono's pauses indicate even she suspects the words coming 41 00:02:40,319 --> 00:02:46,879 out of her mouth might not make sense. Indeed, indeed, 42 00:02:46,879 --> 00:02:49,319 that may be what that indicates she's just so bad. 43 00:02:50,599 --> 00:02:54,120 D L says that over on Blue Sky, a tweet 44 00:02:54,159 --> 00:02:56,800 is a cloud. Is that what they call them clouds 45 00:02:57,479 --> 00:03:02,879 really also produce. Steve went and looked up that Mazie 46 00:03:02,879 --> 00:03:05,919 Herono has in fact visited the border and when he 47 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,479 told me that, I said, let me guess it was 48 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,479 to see the kids in the cages, and it was. 49 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,520 That's the only time Herono's gone down there was to 50 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,800 go do the photo op against Donald Trump. Tommy wants 51 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:26,280 to know who's going to replace that idiotic Press secretary 52 00:03:26,319 --> 00:03:27,639 Caringe Jean Pierre. 53 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 2: I don't know yet. 54 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: I've not seen No, wait a minute, it's been a 55 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:38,159 couple of months, though. I feel like they did name somebody, 56 00:03:38,159 --> 00:03:43,520 but I forget who it was. I forget all right, 57 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,479 So let me get to the TikTok. Full disclosure, I 58 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,199 have never signed up for TikTok. I would prefer that 59 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:55,159 the commis over in China not have a whole bunch 60 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:03,520 of my information or access to my camera, videos, photos, whatever. 61 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 2: See. 62 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: And part of the problem here is that when you're 63 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,520 a kid and you're posting what you think are just 64 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:14,439 these you know, dance videos or commentaries or something you 65 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,079 don't know how that stuff is going to get used 66 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:21,800 against you in twenty years, thirty years or something like that. 67 00:04:21,439 --> 00:04:27,439 That's part of the concern that the Chinese Communist Party 68 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,439 that controls all of the businesses, especially the big ones 69 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,800 like byte Dance, which is the parent company of TikTok, 70 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:41,000 that they scrape the data and information out of these 71 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,399 programs and nobody ever reads the terms of service agreement 72 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,639 and so what you're agreeing to, you have no idea 73 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,399 before you download and use the app, and so they 74 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,199 may very well have access to all sorts of stuff 75 00:04:57,079 --> 00:05:03,160 that they are an adversarial and that is a national 76 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:06,720 security threat. You may not agree like, you may not 77 00:05:06,879 --> 00:05:10,120 like that, you may not agree with it, but that's 78 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:16,439 the assessment that is coming from the intel community, and 79 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,399 you may not believe that. That's fine, But they did 80 00:05:19,439 --> 00:05:23,279 pass a law. It was bipartisan, It was signed into 81 00:05:23,399 --> 00:05:28,319 law by a Democrat president that told byte Edance that 82 00:05:28,399 --> 00:05:33,600 because of these national security implications, you have to divest. 83 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,639 So it's not a ban on TikTok, it is a 84 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:44,759 forcible divestment. They're saying you cannot be a foreign adversarial 85 00:05:44,879 --> 00:05:45,879 nation and. 86 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,959 Speaker 2: Trade with US. AH I'm just kidding. 87 00:05:50,959 --> 00:05:52,519 Speaker 1: We can still totally trade with you, but we just 88 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:55,319 don't like this app. Okay, we don't like this app 89 00:05:55,759 --> 00:05:59,439 because you're taking all of this information and China, I'm 90 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,959 not sure you're where this. You may be, but China 91 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,800 has a bit of a reputation for stealing a whole 92 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:10,120 bunch of stuff from people, particularly Us. They steal our technology. 93 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,560 They I mean I think they even stole their the 94 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,399 Fortune cookies from Japan. I mean, like they're just they 95 00:06:17,519 --> 00:06:21,000 just steal a bunch of stuff. They're not innovators. They 96 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,720 are thieves, and they can replicate stuff. I remember reading 97 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,959 a story years ago about how there was some sort 98 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,240 of product that was ripped off by the Chinese. But 99 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,839 the product that they stole had a flaw, and I 100 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,199 forget if it was purposefully designed that way in order 101 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:45,199 to sort of catch them or something, but they replicated 102 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,199 the flaw in the product as well as the entire 103 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,959 product there isn't And this is what happens, by the way, 104 00:06:55,079 --> 00:06:58,839 in these types of totalitarian states, is that everyone is 105 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:04,279 afraid to question anything, and so they don't ever stand 106 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,800 up and say, hey, I think I see a flaw 107 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,519 in this design because that might get you killed. Right, 108 00:07:09,759 --> 00:07:12,120 you get your bank account shut down, they ship you 109 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,879 off to some weiger gooleg where you manufacture Nike sneakers 110 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,639 and iPhones or something. Never see the light of day again. 111 00:07:22,439 --> 00:07:25,800 So the Supreme Court took this case because they got 112 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:30,639 the government is getting sued over the constitutionality of this law. 113 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:37,600 And the Supreme Court heard the case on Friday, and 114 00:07:37,839 --> 00:07:42,879 according to the Associated Press, they're already calling it. They say, 115 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,639 which I never understand why people think they know how 116 00:07:45,639 --> 00:07:47,319 these things are going to shake out. You have no 117 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,399 idea how this stuff is going to Just wait, you know, 118 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,160 just wait for the. 119 00:07:54,639 --> 00:07:55,279 Speaker 2: For the ruling. 120 00:07:55,839 --> 00:07:58,639 Speaker 1: But no, no, like the reporter has to let us 121 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,439 know what they think without saying, I think this is 122 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:02,160 where it's going to go. 123 00:08:02,639 --> 00:08:03,279 Speaker 2: So they say the. 124 00:08:03,279 --> 00:08:08,959 Speaker 1: Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold the law. Why because 125 00:08:08,959 --> 00:08:11,920 of the questions that the that the justices were asking. 126 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,079 Speaker 2: But you're just interpreting that. 127 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,839 Speaker 1: You're just you're you're listening to the questions that are 128 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:21,319 being asked by specific members and then you're doing like 129 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,920 a whip count based on the questions. But that does 130 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:27,319 not indicate how the ruling is going to come down. 131 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,879 So just like your reporter, just wait for the thing 132 00:08:30,959 --> 00:08:33,440 to happen and then report on the thing that happened. 133 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,399 You don't need to speculate what might happen, because you 134 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,320 know what else might happen. They could strike it down 135 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:43,000 to that might happen and you were wrong, right, Okay, 136 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,639 So most of the justices, they say, appeared to take 137 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:51,799 seriously the national security risks posed by the wildly popular 138 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:56,360 app whose parent company is based in China, which is 139 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:01,360 one way of putting it. Way of putting it that 140 00:09:01,399 --> 00:09:04,840 they're based in China, right, they are based in China, 141 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:10,480 that is true. And China is a communist country. And 142 00:09:10,519 --> 00:09:16,200 when you have a company like Byteedance and TikTok, the 143 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,360 government is all up in there. The government is part. 144 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:24,759 There is no difference between these companies and the government. Okay, 145 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,600 US government. The US government says Chinese authorities could force 146 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:33,399 the company to hand over sensitive data on its massive 147 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:40,240 American user base. No, communist Chinese would never do that. 148 00:09:40,919 --> 00:09:42,759 Commis would never try. 149 00:09:42,519 --> 00:09:44,759 Speaker 2: To owea it. Yeah, they would. They would totally do that. 150 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: Or maybe they could influence the spread of information on 151 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:58,320 the platform through its proprietary algorithm. Certainly, the COMMIS wouldn't 152 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,080 know they would do that too, They would totally do 153 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,440 that as well. Of course they probably are doing it. Now, 154 00:10:02,519 --> 00:10:04,919 why do you think all of the transgender stuff is 155 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,960 so prevalent on TikTok and the algorithm induces this stuff. 156 00:10:11,799 --> 00:10:14,960 It's like it's like there's this willful blindness that we 157 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,840 are actually in a cold war against the Chinese. But 158 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:23,039 it's like people have been lulled into this full sense 159 00:10:23,039 --> 00:10:25,679 of security because we trade with them, thanks a lot, Clinton, 160 00:10:25,759 --> 00:10:31,639 but we trade they're you know, free favored nation trading status. 161 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:37,159 So because we trade with them, it's totally different than 162 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,480 previous adversarial relationships with communist countries. 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So the US government says 192 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,759 that Chinese authorities could force the company to hand over TikTok, 193 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:31,600 could force TikTok to hand over sensitive data on American users, 194 00:12:31,759 --> 00:12:34,600 or influence the spread of information on the platform through 195 00:12:34,639 --> 00:12:39,240 its algorithm. TikTok says those concerns are overblown and the 196 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,000 law should be struck down because it violates the First Amendment, 197 00:12:43,159 --> 00:12:44,639 which of course it does not. 198 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 2: It doesn't. 199 00:12:45,879 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 1: The law just says you have to divest TikTok. It 200 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,360 doesn't say people can't say stuff on TikTok. It says 201 00:12:52,879 --> 00:12:56,679 you're a foreign power. You don't tell people how your 202 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:01,799 algorithm is disseminating this in information, and you're not giving 203 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,720 information on what you are turning over to the commis. 204 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,240 It's amazing that this even has to be said, right, 205 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,480 And look, I'm a free market guy. I am because 206 00:13:14,519 --> 00:13:17,799 the free market is our natural state. The free market 207 00:13:17,879 --> 00:13:22,200 is you, the free market is me, and so I 208 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:26,360 would prefer that companies be free to do what they 209 00:13:26,879 --> 00:13:33,399 generally speaking want to do. Except I am a realist 210 00:13:33,879 --> 00:13:36,879 and I recognize that there are other nations on this 211 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,759 planet that wish us harm, that would very much like 212 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:44,080 to murder all of us, to kill all of us. 213 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 2: That is true. 214 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,840 Speaker 1: That is absolutely and we may want to deceive ourselves 215 00:13:49,879 --> 00:13:54,799 into thinking it's not true, but it most certainly is true. 216 00:13:54,919 --> 00:13:58,399 There are people, there are regimes, there are leaders, there 217 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,840 are regular joes that are all over this planet that 218 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:05,159 would like nothing more than to see every American wiped 219 00:14:05,159 --> 00:14:08,000 off the face of the earth and this country destroyed. Okay, 220 00:14:08,879 --> 00:14:13,720 that's literally the reason why the US federal government exists. 221 00:14:14,519 --> 00:14:17,799 It is a recognition that we are to provide for 222 00:14:17,879 --> 00:14:22,840 the common defense against other countries. Because what did Rush 223 00:14:22,919 --> 00:14:23,879 Limball always say? 224 00:14:23,919 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 2: The world is governed by the aggressive use of force. 225 00:14:28,919 --> 00:14:31,919 Speaker 1: So we band together, we create a government so we 226 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,240 can repel that force and maybe use it to. 227 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:36,679 Speaker 2: Our own advantage every now and again. 228 00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: Now, but seriously, that's why, I mean, this is all 229 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,480 fundamental stuff. These are first order like when you're setting 230 00:14:43,519 --> 00:14:47,440 up a government, this is why you do it. The 231 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,159 Oh and also, sorry I forgot to point out rule 232 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:52,879 number one about communists. 233 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,039 Speaker 2: They lie. Commies lie. 234 00:14:56,399 --> 00:15:01,639 Speaker 1: So when TikTok says that the his concerns are overblown, 235 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:07,039 not that they are completely false, but just overblown. According 236 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,919 to the AP, I don't believe them. Why rule number one, 237 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:16,279 they lie. Communists lie. And here's a good indication that 238 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,399 they are lying. That they're not actually interested in running 239 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,159 a business per se, but that they are more interested 240 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:27,879 in running a foreign intel gathering operation against American citizens 241 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,759 and global citizens. Here's the giveaway. When presented with the 242 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:36,440 option as the law does, the law says, you can 243 00:15:36,559 --> 00:15:43,440 divest this TikTok product from communist Chinese ownership under Byte 244 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:49,360 Dance parent company. You can divest or it's going to 245 00:15:49,399 --> 00:15:53,080 be banned. And the company says, we would rather it 246 00:15:53,279 --> 00:15:56,120 be we would rather it be closed down. We will 247 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:01,039 shut down this company rather than sell it off and 248 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,799 make billions of dollars for shareholders. That is not something 249 00:16:06,519 --> 00:16:11,720 that an actual free market would do, right, a company 250 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:16,039 that's operating outside of the tentacles of a communist regime, 251 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,360 that's not something they would do. They would say, okay, well, 252 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:20,519 I mean they would have done a lot of things 253 00:16:20,559 --> 00:16:22,919 differently up until this point, but here we are, and 254 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,720 when presented with that option, they would say, well, of course, 255 00:16:25,799 --> 00:16:29,159 then we'll sell the company off. When the government says, hey, 256 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,759 you're a monopoly. You got to spin off that company. 257 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:35,000 What do American companies do? They spin off the company 258 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:41,240 rather than go out of business. But in communists China, no, 259 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,919 they would rather shut it all down. All right, I 260 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,559 hope you had a happy holiday season, But tell me 261 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,360 if something like this happened at your house. 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He was in his confirmation hearing today 283 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,480 as well and related to this topic of TikTok and 284 00:18:03,039 --> 00:18:07,880 the forced divestment. Thanks to the passage of a law 285 00:18:08,279 --> 00:18:13,079 that was bipartisan. Biden signed it into law. That's forcing 286 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:18,160 Byte Dance, the parent company, communist Chinese company, to sell 287 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:25,359 off TikTok or else it loses access to the American market. 288 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,599 Rubio had some comments today that I think are on 289 00:18:29,759 --> 00:18:32,119 point for this particular topic. 290 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 2: Take a listen. 291 00:18:33,039 --> 00:18:34,759 Speaker 3: If we stay on the road we're on right now, 292 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,599 in less than ten years, virtually everything that matters to 293 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,680 us in life will depend on whether China will allow 294 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,079 us to have it or not. Everything from the blood 295 00:18:43,079 --> 00:18:46,400 pressure medicine we take, to what movies we get to watch, 296 00:18:46,599 --> 00:18:49,359 and everything in between, we will depend on China for it. 297 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,680 They have come to dominate the critical mineral industry supplies 298 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,279 throughout the world. Everywhere in the world. They've now established 299 00:18:56,279 --> 00:18:58,799 critical mineral rights. Even those who want to see more 300 00:18:58,799 --> 00:19:01,279 electric cars, no matter where you make them, those batteries 301 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,160 are almost entirely dependent on the ability of the Chinese 302 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,079 and the willingness of the Chinese Communist Party to produce 303 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,359 it and export it to you. So if we don't 304 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,400 change course, we are going to live in a world 305 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:14,039 where much of what matters to us on a daily basis, 306 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,480 from our security to our health, will be dependent on 307 00:19:17,519 --> 00:19:19,319 whether the Chinese allows us to have it or not. 308 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,480 That's an unacceptable outcome. 309 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 2: That's an unacceptable outcome. 310 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,279 Speaker 1: I agree with him, recognize the threat that China is, 311 00:19:27,599 --> 00:19:28,960 and there are a lot of people I think that 312 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,400 have their heads in the sand on this. 313 00:19:30,799 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 2: For whatever reason. 314 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:38,839 Speaker 1: The measure the law that bans TikTok, although it doesn't 315 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,039 the law doesn't actually ban TikTok. 316 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,839 Speaker 2: It says you have to divest it. 317 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: So if people still want TikTok, then they need to 318 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:54,640 direct their correspondence to byte dance, which good luck with that. 319 00:19:54,839 --> 00:19:59,359 The Communists are not exactly well known for suffering public 320 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:04,920 redress of grievances from the citizens. You know, the measures 321 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,559 set to take effect January nineteenth, the day before a 322 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,839 new term begins for President elect Donald Trump, who, by 323 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:16,079 the way, has just under fifteen million followers on TikTok 324 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,359 and he says he wants to save TikTok now. Congress 325 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,319 passed the measure, according to the Associated Press, as I mentioned, 326 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:27,079 with bipartisan support. This was back in April, so almost 327 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:31,640 a year ago. TikTok's lawyers challenged the law in court. 328 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,519 They have been joined by users and content creators who 329 00:20:35,599 --> 00:20:39,400 say a band a band would upend their livelihoods. 330 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 2: And I get that. 331 00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: I totally understand that TikTok came out and people were like, whoa, 332 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,240 this is a Chinese communist app. They're taking all this 333 00:20:49,319 --> 00:20:52,480 information and people were like, I don't care. I'm making money. 334 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,359 And so now they have built a livelihood, They built brands, 335 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,240 they have these followings, which I'm sure are all totally 336 00:20:59,319 --> 00:21:04,799 really people, not at all partisan algorithm that the Chinese 337 00:21:04,839 --> 00:21:07,599 are using to boost your reach or anything like that. 338 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,799 But they say they're going to lose their livelihood, which 339 00:21:12,319 --> 00:21:14,799 I don't know if that's necessarily true. I think if 340 00:21:14,839 --> 00:21:17,799 you migrate over to a different platform, you probably would 341 00:21:19,319 --> 00:21:22,720 enjoy the same kind of success, But I get the scariness. 342 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:28,720 Trust me, I have personal experience with this. I understand 343 00:21:29,039 --> 00:21:33,759 the scariness of making that kind of a move. TikTok says, 344 00:21:33,799 --> 00:21:38,680 the national security concerns are based on inaccurate and hypothetical information. 345 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 2: Right, it's hypothetical. Uh, you're just playing a what if game? 346 00:21:45,799 --> 00:21:48,920 Like what if the communists want us all to perish? 347 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:49,720 I mean, what if? 348 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 1: But a unanimous appeals court panel made up of judges 349 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,200 appointed by both Republicans and Democrats. 350 00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 2: Has upheld the law. 351 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: The governments are humens where that the danger is real 352 00:22:03,079 --> 00:22:05,720 and the law's biggest effect is on the parent company 353 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:10,640 of parent company called byte Dance, a foreign corporation, which, 354 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:14,680 by the way, as a foreign corporation, does not have 355 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:22,319 First Amendment guarantees. It's a foreign corporation. Trump took the 356 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,599 unusual step of filing court documents asking the Supreme Court 357 00:22:25,599 --> 00:22:28,279 to put the law on hold so he could negotiate 358 00:22:28,319 --> 00:22:31,559 a deal for the sale of TikTok after he takes office. 359 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,559 His position marked the latest example of him inserting himself 360 00:22:35,599 --> 00:22:39,160 into national issues before he takes office. Well, honestly, though, 361 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,039 aren't we all kind of operating under the impression here 362 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:49,960 that Trump is the leader, right, It would be different 363 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,559 if Joe Biden we're still you know, young and full 364 00:22:53,559 --> 00:22:56,839 of vim and vigor. But he's not, and he has 365 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,200 him in for a long time, and so the rest 366 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,519 of the world recognizes, like, okay, Trump's coming in, Joe 367 00:23:03,519 --> 00:23:06,759 Biden's already out to lunch, and so might as well 368 00:23:06,799 --> 00:23:08,799 just start dealing with him. I don't know about Trump 369 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,599 inserting himself, but then again, they're claiming credit for this 370 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,559 hostage release deal that Israel and Hamas just agreed to. 371 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,599 And by the way, why did Hamas just agree to that? 372 00:23:18,279 --> 00:23:22,079 Because Joe Biden is out. He's leaving, And that was 373 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:25,559 the impediment because as long as Joe Biden was in office, 374 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,960 then they could just the Palestinian or the Hamas leadership 375 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:34,799 could just hold out, knowing that Joe Biden wouldn't lean 376 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:40,480 on them to get a deal done, whereas Trump would. 377 00:23:41,799 --> 00:23:45,359 So the parent company by Dance, has previously said that 378 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,680 it has no plans to sell to divest TikTok, though 379 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,480 some investors are actually interested in buying it. One of 380 00:23:51,519 --> 00:23:57,720 the names I heard floated Elon Musk that Elon they 381 00:23:57,839 --> 00:24:00,880 like he apparently this is a real thing he could 382 00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:04,680 very well go by like his seventeen thousandth company. 383 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:04,880 Speaker 2: Here. 384 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,599 Speaker 1: Trump met with TikTok CEO last month. Now, what are 385 00:24:10,599 --> 00:24:13,559 people doing? What are the TikTokers doing? Well, they'll show 386 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:18,759 us right, they will not be impeded in their desire 387 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,559 to have the communist Chinese have all of the information 388 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,200 about them and from them. So they are now migrating 389 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,480 over to Red Note is what it's called. This is 390 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:34,400 an app from China called Red Note, and it has 391 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,960 seen a surge of between five hundred to seven hundred 392 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:43,920 thousand new users that joined over the last forty eight hours. 393 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:49,720 Slight issue. It's all in Mandarin, so there are people 394 00:24:50,079 --> 00:24:53,279 they don't know what they're doing. Also, the users there, 395 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:59,359 these Chinese users have apparently been demanding a cat tax 396 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,880 on Americans that have migrated from TikTok. What's a cat tax? 397 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,920 Pete glad you asked? All right, if you're listening to 398 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,480 this show, you know I try to keep up with 399 00:25:09,519 --> 00:25:11,640 all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, 400 00:25:11,799 --> 00:25:14,240 And you've probably heard me say get your news from 401 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,960 multiple sources. Why, well, because it's how you detect media bias, 402 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,559 which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 403 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,359 It's an app, and it's a website, and it combines 404 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,440 news from around the world in one place, so you 405 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,880 can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it 406 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,440 out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I 407 00:25:35,519 --> 00:25:38,359 put the link in the podcast description too. I started 408 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,119 using ground News a few months ago and more recently 409 00:25:41,319 --> 00:25:43,319 chose to work with them as an affiliate because it 410 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,240 lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. 411 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 2: The blind spot. 412 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,079 Speaker 1: Feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left 413 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:51,799 and the right. 414 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:52,880 Speaker 2: See for yourself. 415 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 1: Check dot ground, dot news slash pete. Subscribe through that 416 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,640 link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I 417 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:04,079 use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. 418 00:26:04,279 --> 00:26:07,039 Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 419 00:26:07,079 --> 00:26:10,240 also supports ground News as they make the media landscape 420 00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:15,079 more transparent. The cat tax when people sign up for 421 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:19,119 this new or it's not new when people migrate from 422 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,759 TikTok over to another Chinese app called red Note. The 423 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:28,480 users of the red Note app based in China, which 424 00:26:28,559 --> 00:26:31,960 is like a Chinese what I love this. It's called 425 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:37,200 by Reuter's a localized adaptation of Instagram, which means it 426 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,000 was ripped off. 427 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 2: They stole Instagram. 428 00:26:40,319 --> 00:26:43,319 Speaker 1: And they made and they just called it Chaoong Jong 429 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,079 and that is the name of it. I think Chaoong 430 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:51,440 Chong and translates to Red Note, which actually, yeah, really, 431 00:26:52,079 --> 00:26:57,480 it actually translates more to Little Red Book, which was 432 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:04,400 Mao's book, right, the Little Red Books of the Chinese 433 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,720 communist leader. Right, he had all his little sayings in 434 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:09,359 it because he was oh so smart. 435 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:09,599 Speaker 2: You know. 436 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:15,799 Speaker 1: The cat tax is now being used against these TikTok 437 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,799 refugees they're calling themselves and they're putting that hashtag in 438 00:27:18,839 --> 00:27:21,319 their bio. And so when they arrive on this Red 439 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,119 Note app, which is a Chinese ripoff of Instagram that's 440 00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:28,759 located in China. Okay, this isn't even like a fake 441 00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:33,839 American company kind of a thing. Users are demanding their 442 00:27:33,839 --> 00:27:37,319 fellow users that migrate over when they find out they're American. 443 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,799 They're like, show us pictures of your cat. People are 444 00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:45,799 they're being pressured into sharing photos of their cats. They're 445 00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:50,759 calling it a cat tax on this app. Look, I 446 00:27:50,839 --> 00:27:53,400 may post all sorts of pictures of a cat if 447 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,160 I had one I don't have any more, but. 448 00:27:56,599 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 2: I would do that on my own. 449 00:27:58,039 --> 00:27:59,799 Speaker 1: But if you're going to tell me to do it, 450 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,680 Pound sand Commie, I'm not giving you anything. I do 451 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,039 acknowledge I have a bit of an anti authority streaking me. 452 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,160 Speaker 2: All right. Here's Marco Rubio today. 453 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,079 Speaker 3: Another clip out of the triumphalism of the end of 454 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,839 the long Cold War emerged the Bipartisan Consensus. And this 455 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,079 consensus what that we had reached the end of history, 456 00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:22,200 that all of the nations of the world would now 457 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,640 become members of the democratic, Western led community, that a 458 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,160 foreign policy that served the national interest could now be 459 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,920 replaced by one that served the liberal world order, and 460 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,240 that all mankind was now destined to abandon national sovereignty 461 00:28:35,599 --> 00:28:39,079 and national identity and would instead become one human family 462 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,519 and citizens of the world. This wasn't just a fantasy, 463 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,640 we now know. It was a dangerous delusion. Here in 464 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,400 America and in many of the advanced economies across the world. 465 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,880 An almost religious commitment to free and unfettered trade at 466 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,119 the expense of our national economy trunk the middle class 467 00:28:58,799 --> 00:29:03,240 left the working class and isis collapsed our industrial capacity 468 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,240 and has pushed critical supply chains into the hands of 469 00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:10,839 adversaries and of rivals. An irrational zeal for a maximum 470 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,480 freedom of movement of people has resulted in a historic 471 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,519 mass migration crisis here in America, but also around the world. 472 00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:23,920 It's one that threatens the stability of societies and of governments. 473 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,559 Across the West, governments now censor and even prosecute domestic 474 00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:32,519 political opponents. Meanwhile, radical jihadists openly march in the streets 475 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,799 and sadly drive vehicles into our people. While America far 476 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,680 too often continued to prioritize the global order above our 477 00:29:41,759 --> 00:29:45,440 core national interests, other nations continue to act the way 478 00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:48,640 countries have always acted and always will, in what they 479 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,119 perceive to be their best interest, and instead of folding 480 00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:55,759 into the post Cold War global order, they have manipulated 481 00:29:55,759 --> 00:29:59,119 it to serve their interests at the expense of hours. 482 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:04,400 The post war global order is not just obsolete, it 483 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,720 is now a weapon being used against us. And all 484 00:30:08,759 --> 00:30:10,359 this has led to a moment in which we must 485 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,680 now confront the single greatest risk of geopolitical instability and 486 00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:19,160 of generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive. 487 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,720 And in this room today, all. 488 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: Right I completely agree. Oh my goodness, how unprofessional. I 489 00:30:27,279 --> 00:30:28,559 forgot to mute my phone. 490 00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:29,319 Speaker 2: Here's the other thing. 491 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:34,480 Speaker 1: When you use the little Red book app MOUs Modern incarnation, 492 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:41,839 people have reported immediately getting spammed with phone calls as 493 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,200 soon as they sign up and start posting on this 494 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:51,519 Chinese red note app, which should tell you something that 495 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,839 your information and you've given access to your phone, your microphone, 496 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,839 your photos, your camera, all of it. 497 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,119 Speaker 2: What are you people doing? Are used? Stupid or something? Yes, 498 00:31:02,359 --> 00:31:03,039 that's the answering. 499 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,359 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. 500 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,599 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the. 501 00:31:07,559 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 1: Show without your support and the support of the businesses 502 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,119 that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please 503 00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:14,960 support them too and tell them you heard it here. 504 00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:17,599 You can also become a patron at my Patreon page 505 00:31:17,759 --> 00:31:21,319 or go to dpetecalnarshow dot com. Again, thank you so 506 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:28,400 much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.