Authoritarians need to claim things are broken so they can put forth the messaging and imagery that they’re in control, and they alone can fix it. Trump is not the TikTok savior you think he is. - it’s a grift banters.substack.com/p/from-insur... - ThreadSky

out5p0ken.bsky.social • 49 days ago

Authoritarians need to claim things are broken so they can put forth the messaging and imagery that they’re in control, and they alone can fix it.

Trump is not the TikTok savior you think he is. - it’s a grift

https://banters.substack.com/p/from-insurrection-to-inauguration

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jacklyons.bsky.social•49 days ago

Let me get this straight......He's advocating for Public ownership of Tik Tok. Scratches head??? Isn't that called Socialism?

blkhks07.bsky.social•49 days ago

With Trump, EVERYTHING is grift.

femel.bsky.social•49 days ago

Absolutely agree, but it is going to be like the COVID cheques the Dems passed but went out with Trump’s signature.

cranberryhorn.bsky.social•49 days ago

They are also valuing public lands at zero so they can be given away for free to the Billionaire Bros and other Corporations.

mikeylikey13.bsky.social•49 days ago

This is an old fashioned gangster shake down. I’m hope China gives him the middle finger

alacritysshadow.bsky.social•49 days ago

I see it more as an attempt to entice that demographic- he recognizes the number of users angry that tik tok was shut down and blissfully ignorant he's responsible for leading to it.

bonzothemac.bsky.social•49 days ago

Of course it’s a grift. He’s already figured out how he’s going to cash in

starkredmam.bsky.social•49 days ago

💯 I’d like to see trump’s commission on this transaction…

wagmore.bsky.social•49 days ago

Everything thing he does is a grift, or is to cover another grift

kimby55.bsky.social•49 days ago

In 2020 President Donald Trump proposed a ban of the app as he viewed it as a security threat. He signed an executive order instructing that ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok, divest from the app, though the order was reversed by the Biden administration in 2021.

jewels1961.bsky.social•49 days ago

In my humble opinion, people should boycott TikTok. Don’t give Trump what he wants.

mollymalone808.bsky.social•49 days ago

Everything Trump does is a grift.

shorroldcurvers.bsky.social•49 days ago

Everything with Trump is a grift.
Grifters gotta grift.

shirlsurely.bsky.social•49 days ago

Proving once & for all & for ALL to see the CHAOS with Tik Tok was NEVER about Nat'l Security but rather how Trump et al could secure a piece of the pie. Either way MILLIONS of people will have their data owned by some entity to use it however they see fit. Humans are shallow & willfully ignorant.

galswguitars.bsky.social•49 days ago

bruuklin.bsky.social•49 days ago

"Americans deserve to see our exciting inauguration..."

Carnival barker.

richstaa.bsky.social•49 days ago

He’s this guy

dinozo69.bsky.social•49 days ago

Everything he does is a grift.

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