TikTok is back up. This is all such performative nonsense by the kleptocrats and hypocrites who run DC. And we look like idiots to the CCP. Bluff called and we are flaccid.
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Trump does not appear to look strong to other dictators, just the opposite.
A weak, frail man with dementia who can’t take the cold.
He belongs back in Mara-la-gross at his Nazi refuge.
Trump doesn’t want to be blacked out from TikTok on inauguration day. It’s bad enough that he’s been moved inside to hide his tiny willie, err I mean crowd. #PenisEnvy #EmperorsNewClothes #TurdInAPunchBowl #HeProbablyThinksThisSongIsAboutHim #LipstickOnAPig
I’m not going back to TikTok. This is like a shady back room deal Trump started this problem so he can look like some great guy coming in to save TikTok. When all it’s about as money powered and control don’t go back to TikTok. It’s not the same.
What we need to do is pull the plug on the whole Internet thing and start over. We build everything on the AT protocol and call it a day. Then stuff like that won't happen anymore.
It is absolutely a performance & TicTok paid the biggest bribe. I do not doubt that this was the plan back when Trump first proposed banning the AP years ago. He just had to wait. Now the under 30s love him. I'm glad they have no memory or attention span.
The CCP is playing Trump like a fiddle. No wonder Russia identified Trump decades ago as someone who would be a great Russian asset. He’s so easily fooled into doing their bidding.
It’s been removed from app stores but those who have it downloaded can access. Now it has this gross kiss-the-ring of Felon Elect message when you open the app
Still not available in the App Store. Why? Because Apple doesn’t trust that DJT can simply not enforce the law, or prevent others from trying to enforce the law. See Tom Cotton tweet.
Ultimately despite all his smoke & mirrors this only ends in one of three ways: 1) the ban remains 2) the CCP sell their magic weapon to a Western company 3) Trump lays before Congress a bill to revoke the TikTok banning law.
(2) will NEVER happen👇 (3) just might- MAGATs have no principles or guts
To be fair a lot of the really cool people on TikTok realize it’s related. They recognize the toying with and removal of a media space (that they’ve found activism and community with) is part of the fascism.
I wish Americans would realize they are one and the same. You think people are that upset about losing some silly app? I’m in my 40s and learned more from being on TikTok about the world than I ever learned in school or from legacy media. It may be back but it will not be the same platform.
Tik Tok is DANGEROUS because it is controlled by the Chinese Government! Now even worse they are using it to help Trump.
They need to be banned. No foreign government should be allowed to access US Citizens Information or as it stands now pay off the Criminal Trump!
Trump asking for 50% US ownership well blackrock and Yass and other funds own that or near that and the time of the ban conveniently is the same time it takes to migrate servers performative is the key word - you are a treasure
Thank you for doing that. I personally think Twitter is more of a threat. That app actually hurts innocent people in blue and red states with their nonsense. 💙🇺🇸
What aspect was performative? There’s a very real law on the books that would shut TikTok down due to the obvious security risk. Trump decided not to enforce it yet because TikTok made in kind contributions to his campaign. Corrupt, yes. Performative, no.
We do look like idiots to the CCP, and pretty much the rest of the world. But that has nothing to do with TikTok and everything to do with November 5th.
I’ll think you’ll find the massive purchasing of Trump’s new meme coin, especially through the Chinese stock exchange had something to do with it so it was more than just performative. That’s my guess anyway.
I'm not going back until I find out the background of this deal. If musk or zuck had anything to do with it, I'm deleting it.
I'm rewatching House, MD. instead
(great gif of Mushu, btw. I love him)
It’s amazing how he’s testing his control over how many on TikTok? 170 million?! And they’ll all flock back! Not me waiting for https://Skylight.social to drop!
They figured that the fix was in. Now, not surprisingly, Trump is proposing some hare-brained scheme that apparently puts a wad of cash in his pocket. National security concerns are seemingly no longer important.
Ok, since I deleted it from my phone years ago I can’t delete my account bc it’s no longer available through the Apple App Store. At least it’s not there now. Good for them, I hope it stays off their platform.
Just another reason in a long line of them on why no one should trust the USA government. They often go back on their word. It reminds me of an expression from Native Americans. They speak with a forked tongue.
The problem is that US democracy is broken from the bottom up, with the “bottom” being an informed citizenry that appropriately holds politicians to account. Absent that - and boy is it absent - everything else has fallen apart.
Tik Tok will allow the app to load any feed prior to the ban but nothing current. If you try to connect/message someone on Tik Tok you get a pop up message telling you that the app is not available.
“Look like idiots”? TikTok (and therefore the CCP) had to collude with DJT and the oligarchs to buy his cryptocoin that went on sale Friday and (display a pro-DJT message on TT + shut itself down—when it didn’t actually have to).
This isn’t about US oligarchs, this is about buying the US, period.
Reminder: tiktok isn't a Chinese company... the majority of it's stocks are held by an American billionaire. And 4 of the 5 board members are American. With only 1 from SINGAPORE SENATORS... He is from SINGAPORE
Yes
Big Brother is here, telling us what to believe. And surprise surprise China will no longer be the enemy once the deal is made… Trump sells our citizen’s attention and gives over influence to China.
It’s probably fair to assume that Oracle and others that facilitated a company to illegally operate in the US have opened themselves up to serious legal risk as well as the mendacious whims of a narcissist who will absolutely use this as leverage to get what he wants from them…or else?
Nope! Staying on Red Note and Bluesky, fuck TikTok. No longer can be a trusted source of information. I’ll go to YouTube for a couple of my sources but TikTok is dead as far as I’m concerned. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Let me get this straight. Trump secretly colluded and brokered a deal with TikTok to save the platform from being banned, in an effort to score points, even though he’s the one who originally wanted it banned. It’s up and running again a day before he’s in power…meaning the whole thing was a farce.
I’ve never used TikTok so I don’t really know it’s on it. But it seems to me people should be more concerned about democracy in our great constitution. Then chitchat and cat videos but never been there. Maybe it is the greatest place on earth.
I really don’t understand what they are doing. I mean, I understood them taking it down and praising Trump. But then why did they bring it back before noon tomorrow?
Don’t really care what we look like to the CCP. They are a dictatorial regime with no free speech, operating with the veneer of a free society that Americans seem to fall for because they are addicted to their product.
TikTok bows and kneels to MAGA, gets caught, deletes and rephrases messaging to users about coming back online. Supreme Court and politicians play ball, and Hitler - I mean Trump, appears as the hero to all US citizens, as the Savior of free speech as he resurrects TikTok, in exchange for control.
I’m seeing folks posting that their new posts are “under review”—this is how to censor timely communication. I only ever posted a few video plant tours, but never got a screen like this.
I'm skeptical about it all. I'm keeping my account but i deleted the app when it went dark last night. I'm keeping a watchful eye via the website. In extreme moderation. It helps I don't care much for the laptop I have; i use it once a week at best these days.
Helps that Yass donated to Trump signaling that Xi really wanted his old toyboy Donnie to keep TikTok up & laundering money. Of course to be safe the CCP has RedNote (aka The Little Red Book) pumping pro-China propaganda to the gullible.
Tik tok is a distraction anyway. It's preventing the Proletariat from reaching our full potential. We can overthrow our oppressors today, gotta doom scroll.
Tom Clancy would've had us run that whole company as a double agent going back at Beijing. Upload Jack Ryan's consciousness into an ai chatbot and attach it to the data they were stealing. Instead we pissed our pants while trying to silence 100 million American voices from the global discourse.
My husband just logged in to the app after an extended absence to see if it would work. The start page included a “thank you” to President Trump for keeping it available. 🙄 Talk about bending the knee to ALL the dictators.
Biden is the President today, not Trump; guess he and his scammy schemers did it a day too early for their choreographed “victory lap”. They are the stupidest…🤦♀️
The ban prohibits the app from future downloads or upgrades, it also forces web providers to block the browser version access. So everyone already with the app could still use it. It was a stunt, Trump did nothing. Tik Tok didn't have to shut it down.
No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.
Talking in generalities. It’s such a shitshow, it’s easy to get lost amongst all the incompetence, greed and corruption around us. Sorry. Didn’t mean to single you out. More a collective observation.
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A weak, frail man with dementia who can’t take the cold.
He belongs back in Mara-la-gross at his Nazi refuge.
Maybe a dent might expose a.crack!
Thank you.
Sounds like a law firm.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/macro-n-cheese/id1453085489?i=1000679571927
(2) will NEVER happen👇 (3) just might- MAGATs have no principles or guts
They need to be banned. No foreign government should be allowed to access US Citizens Information or as it stands now pay off the Criminal Trump!
Just a heads up here
The best corruption also goes on behind closed doors.
I've begun calling it the "Kushner Doctrine"
The really big payoffs come later for allegedly completely different reasons.
Now he makes it look like he is the savior.
This is such a Narcissist move.
I'm rewatching House, MD. instead
(great gif of Mushu, btw. I love him)
Perish the thought.
This isn’t about US oligarchs, this is about buying the US, period.
Big Brother is here, telling us what to believe. And surprise surprise China will no longer be the enemy once the deal is made… Trump sells our citizen’s attention and gives over influence to China.
Any social network going dark for an extended period of time would make it significantly less desirable to reboot, no?
I thought they would at least wait until tomorrow though. So that Donald could declare he saved it. Ha.
Anyone ? Anyone ? We have options ? But really want to know what you all think !
Also, any #American actually using it until the #XO is signed (questionable if this will be allowed) is also breaking the law.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/18/trump-meme-coin-25-billion
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24347340/tiktok-ban-app-store-google-play
#rednote #littleredbook #xiaohongshu
https://youtu.be/jjWairkG9lw?si=WS8asHjb0z_uFHR0
https://youtu.be/J3Zbm5NjOjg?si=kXSyIUoH1CHOHx0H
They can't even let us enjoy these last few hours of not living in chaotic maga hell. 🤯