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And I'm going to start with a story that percolated for some months now and then suddenly exploded out of nowhere.

And that's how the House has voted to effectively ban TikTok, which has tens of millions of users in this country.

And what struck me is you rarely get overwhelming

votes. Almost everything is my side, your side. Republicans here, Democrats there, right?

Irrational. It's not reasonable. That's, that's what happens.

So when things are lopsided in a vote, I take notice. And this vote to banned TikTok was 352 to 65 in the House of

Representatives.

It would require bite dance.

That's the parent company of TikTok to either sell the social media app or have it banned on all U.S. devices.

Now, there is no selling TikTok because the Chinese Communist Party is behind it, and they're never going to sell.

And TikTok has said, we're never going to sell.

So that means it would be a complete ban.

Now, the Senate is more split on this, but let's just go with the House.

352 to 65. And if you're, you're probably wondering, well, what is the danger? Now, many legislators say

that TikTok is actually spyware. What are they spying on? What are they collecting?

Now, mostly, I do not have a TikTok account. I have zero interest. The few times I've glimpsed at it,

it seems to be a lot of young people just doing stupid stuff. But their brains have been hacked and many are terribly, terribly addicted.

And to me, that is, that is just as bad as the spyware, is that so many people can't function unless they're

constantly scrolling and staring at the screen.

And I now see these zombies walk around.

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