WTH: Tik Tok, Osama bin Laden, and Hamas. Rep. Mike Gallagher Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Since the events of October 7, the Chinese Communist Party has been spreading virulent antisemitic memes in the U.S. via its favorite information warfare tool: Tik Tok. We have had episodes on Tik Tok before, but the urgency of this issue has reached a fever pitch, culminating with the celebration of Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” on the app last week. Tik Tok is pervasive – around a third of young adults use it for news – and it is incredibly effective. It is not just the propaganda that is convincing young Americans to hate America and ally themselves with bin Laden, Iran, and antisemites everywhere. And it is not even the losses on Xi Jinping’s “smokeless battlefield.” It is the question of the easy control of young American hearts and minds – which apparently march to the TikTok algorithm’s orders – and the consequent control the Chinese Communist Party has over American opinions and American politics. Bonus: There are also transgenic mice.
Congressman Mike Gallagher has represented Wisconsin’s 8th District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017. In the 118th Congress, Representative Gallagher serves as Chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, as Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation, and on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:28.9 | Hi, I'm Daniel Plegne. |
| 0:30.5 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:31.8 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.4 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.6 | It's always damn something, though. What the hell is going on now, Mark? Well, what the hell is going on? It's always damn something, though. |
| 0:38.1 | What the hell is going on now, Mark? |
| 0:40.1 | Well, what the hell is going on is TikTok has struck again. |
| 0:44.9 | So since October 7th, TikTok has been spreading all this anti-Semitic propaganda, |
| 0:52.1 | like a needle into the veins of younger Americans, you've |
| 0:55.3 | got this phenomenon now where all of these young TikTok influencers suddenly discovered |
| 1:01.0 | Osama bin Laden's letter to America, written 21 years ago. And they found this brilliant |
| 1:08.5 | sage, this shake from the Middle East, |
| 1:15.3 | who is exposed to them, all the flaws in America about how the Jews run everything and how we've been interfering in their affairs. |
| 1:18.7 | Let's let them say it for themselves. |
| 1:20.6 | Here's just a little short compilation of some of the brilliance that TikTok is feeding your children. |
| 1:26.0 | Girl, what? |
| 1:28.5 | They found the letter. What letter?. Girl. What? They found the letter. |
| 1:29.5 | What letter? |
| 1:30.7 | The letter. |
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