TikTok took itself down and then took itself online again. It wasn’t Biden; it wasn’t Trump; and it wasn’t the Easter Bunny. It’s just a scheme by TikTok to enable Trump to take credit for something on Inauguration day.
We are so f’cked America! The 🟧🤡 and his rich thugs will begin THE BIGGEST HEIST IN HISTORY AND WE WILL ALL PAY FOR IT SOME WITH THEIR LIVES! #plutocracy #oligarchy #kleptocracy
Zero accountability - the guy can do whatever he wants. SCOTUS said so. And he doesn't have to worry about re-election either because 1) He'll croak before then 2) He's term limited 3) The republicans will disband elections. We're fucked.
How many billion U.S. dollars will flow to China in any U.S. purchase? What quid pro quo will be expected? Who will control the TikTok algorithms in the end?
This is my understanding as well. I'm going to need to learn all these, but if an executive order could overturn a SCOTUS decision, Biden would have done that throughout his term. But he might push a retraction through Congress?
I think he took a page out of Reagan’s book and had this cooking for months…not just these last weeks. He’s a professional at playing people and the people are too emotionally invested in their app to pay attention. Just my two cents as someone who watched it happen in 1980
I hate to say it, but this moron is playing chess while Biden is playing checkers. It should give children hope to see how dumb these people are that you can be much better than them.
Trump proposal translated for dummies : thank you for your 20B well received yesterday on $TRUMP. Now we are partners but I want more. I will invest your 20B back in TikTok shares and I get 20% of TikTok USA which is worth maybe 100B in 4 years.
Well, Mark Cuban offered to be the foundational investor if bluesky wanted to get into the short form video/streaming game.
I tried REDnote. Got 2 views on my post. I worked my ass off to get my 5K followers. At least I'm in Canada so if I stay with TT for now it's not the end of my world.
Despot Trump now has even #TikTok under his thumb to control them, just as he has our megacorp- and oligarch-controlled media, requiring them to protect the Second Trump Reich from any transparency about its destruction of American democracy. Trump crushes FREEDOM OF THE PRESS by threatening wealth.
It’s different anyway. Russian propaganda and videos showing cures for tape worm with caster oil are making it seem more like a Meta owned product for some reason.
What If… Xi Jinping, “The Algorithm Alchemist,” used CCP control over TikTok’s addictive code to manipulate global minds?
Even Trump, unwittingly or not—syphilitic brain smackdown or not—was just another pawn in Xi’s sinister game of distraction, data theft, and cultural domination.
When I worked in Information Tech (IT) we had this older engineer whose skills where out of date, he oversaw a group of ancient servers that no one was allowed to touch. They often go down during major events only to have this engineer swoop in and “save the day”
We are all living the Truman show. They are writing a reality TV show. Don't believe anything you see or hear without other sources. I believe the shootings were staged. I believe the "shock and awe" is coming. Everything is geared to making trump look good while they loot the Treasury.
Trump started the ban in his first administration
Then republicans during the Biden Admin MADE sure it was included with aid for Ukraine
NOW the owner of #TikTok is attending the inauguration
NOW the ban is "started" before the deadline and the owner GIVES Trump the credit for saving it.
Hate that phrase with a white hot passion. Imagine it being said to Jews entering Auschwitz. It's meant to mitigate horror. It's said to parents whose children will never be the same - like it's any other day of the week. There is NOTHING NORMAL about losing our country to thieves.
Not to disregard the story being posted, but every photograph of this man is so ugly. The hateful, vile, interior life of this man is so evident on his
unbelievably angry, ugly face. It’s disgraceful that this is representing this nation right now. Absolutely repugnant on every level.
Everyone out there worried about China’s 1% golden share, and I’m MUCH more concerned about the 60% of ByteDance owned by global (including US) investors. Like Blackrock… who was conveniently unnamed in this article.
Where is the coverage on reactions from Jeff Yass's Susquehanna Capital and and other non-Chinese Bytedance investors as it relates to Trump’s "heroic" stunt? Talking about this stunt in the context of big money (vs. Chinese people) helps us focus a little clearer on mapping the global oligarchy.
Maybe, but GWB did convince a generation of young people to join the military and die in a decades long war that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in a completely unrelated country and encouraged rampant Islamophobia based on a complete lie. For starters.
The rumor at the time was that Trump was angered by TikTokers fraudulently reserving spaces to his 2020 Oklahoma rally, inflating the attendance estimates. That may have been the genesis of his attack on TikTok, rather than any high-minded strategic concern about national security.
One question, can you really be certain Trump ordered TikTok to be taken down?
The fact pattern makes sense even if you assume he didn’t: TikTok played it safe, and took themselves down before the unpredictable madman took office, so he couldn’t fine them into oblivion or seize the platform
The Sexual Assaulter Convicted Felon will gather his rich tech bro brats and gee T will own 51% and the rich brats will pay for his share. Make no mistake, the same group is conniving a way T buy Greenland-not4 US but for them so they will destroy it by selling all minerals and valuables-SACF won’t
Rest until he is thought to be wealthier than Putin who is thought to actually be richest in world from stealing Russia’s assets from the gov and the ppl.
Every woman (regardless of skin or language) should have respected those that fought before us. It was a spit in their faces. And their daughters and granddaughters will pay the price. So fucking stupid and weak.
I sure as hell didn’t. Trump just admitted that Musk helped him steal the election, but nothing will be done, so. The oligarchs did it. Starting with Putin.
Trump cannot even work these apps without an assistant. He is simply not smart enough to have arranged any of this
Can we please start assigning these political manoeuvres to "His Team" or "The Group Guiding Him," because crediting him with more than a basic intellect contributes to the propaganda
To deflect from the latest #PoliticalScam that #CriminalTrump has just pulled!
#Since its launch on Friday, the $TRUMP cryptocurrency-in which #Trump’s FAMILY BUSINESS OWNS a direct stake-has soared from $6 to $67,making the coins in circulation worth about $13.2BILLION! https://www.ft.com/content/1acbe335-3e5c-46c8-b7d9-b6a505285dab
wasn't it trump's people that put ticktoc in "danger" of being closed to begin with? it's like setting a fire and putting it out before it gets out of control and deeming yourself a "hero" isn't it?
I’m sorry, but I believe it’s the other way around.
TT REALLY REALLY REALLY doesn’t want to sell. They forced DT’s hand by making him seem like their savior, so DT will have to keep them online. Or else he looks bad.
And I think it’s possible they may get to stay under control of the CCP somehow.
(d) will come back but only under an owner Trump has handpicked—he says he’s demanded 50% U.S. ownership of TikTok—in which case the platform might be quickly MAGA-fied and “enshittified” as Musk did to Twitter.
WELL ISN'T THIS THE BIGGEST BUNCH OF BULLSHIT FROM THE TIK TOK CEO. BIDEN SAID HE WAS NOT GOING TO ENFORCE THE BAN. WHICH MEANS THE CEO IS IN CAHOOTS WITH TRUMP AND AFTER THE INAUGURATION TRUMP WILL LIFT THE BAN AND HE WILL BE HAILED A HERO. THE TECH OLIGARCHY IS IN FULL CONTROL OF THIS COUNTRY. SAD
Epic scam and the security concerns are based on false equivalence.
Any business operating a private network (whether it gateways to internet or not) is bound by telecommunications laws compelling them to open up and let the security agencies take a peak. This is standard international practice /2
2/ It starts off as xenophobia and powerful foreign enemies, gets a popular following, and ends in a company ownership transfer the income from which alleviates any of the previous security concerns,
But it IS probably clandestine code used for profiling foreign nationals - a trojan
It goes beyond that. In the coming months, Tiktok CEO will be taking bids from Amazon, X and Meta. Then, another platform will be monetized and controlled by the oligarchy, stifling free speech even further. Americans fall for the con... again and again...
I'm not taking the high road....Trump and Elon rigged the election via the voting machines. Vance and his wife know this but are too scared to speak out.
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Simple intimidation. His specialty.
Oops. They fucked up the time change.
I tried REDnote. Got 2 views on my post. I worked my ass off to get my 5K followers. At least I'm in Canada so if I stay with TT for now it's not the end of my world.
Something’s up. .
Even Trump, unwittingly or not—syphilitic brain smackdown or not—was just another pawn in Xi’s sinister game of distraction, data theft, and cultural domination.
And here it is again.
From Seth's explainer:
Cause trouble.
Have rallies about all the terrible troubles, that only he can solve this problem.
Once in authority, call off the trouble, claim victory.
Then republicans during the Biden Admin MADE sure it was included with aid for Ukraine
NOW the owner of #TikTok is attending the inauguration
NOW the ban is "started" before the deadline and the owner GIVES Trump the credit for saving it.
unbelievably angry, ugly face. It’s disgraceful that this is representing this nation right now. Absolutely repugnant on every level.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/tech/tiktok-bytedance-china-ownership-intl-hnk/index.html
We saw what happened when Obama joked about him at the White House correspondents dinner.
The fact pattern makes sense even if you assume he didn’t: TikTok played it safe, and took themselves down before the unpredictable madman took office, so he couldn’t fine them into oblivion or seize the platform
He didn't change his mind on the ban.. he is revisiting the idea of upholding the ban.
Also, more relevant, I can't articulate aright bow how it ties to this event, but I'm feeling a new sense of urgency to turn back "Citizens United."
Can we please start assigning these political manoeuvres to "His Team" or "The Group Guiding Him," because crediting him with more than a basic intellect contributes to the propaganda
#Since its launch on Friday, the $TRUMP cryptocurrency-in which #Trump’s FAMILY BUSINESS OWNS a direct stake-has soared from $6 to $67,making the coins in circulation worth about $13.2BILLION!
https://www.ft.com/content/1acbe335-3e5c-46c8-b7d9-b6a505285dab
TT REALLY REALLY REALLY doesn’t want to sell. They forced DT’s hand by making him seem like their savior, so DT will have to keep them online. Or else he looks bad.
And I think it’s possible they may get to stay under control of the CCP somehow.
Or 3D chess
His brain don't function
For that finesse
He's just knee jerkin'
To please the fans
A man whore workin'
Ain't no plan
It's Musk
It's Bannon
It's Oil and Gas
It's billionaire scumbags
Slappin' that ass
It may seem hopeless
You may be right
But don't sit this out
FIGHT
Any business operating a private network (whether it gateways to internet or not) is bound by telecommunications laws compelling them to open up and let the security agencies take a peak. This is standard international practice /2
But it IS probably clandestine code used for profiling foreign nationals - a trojan
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CRPT-116hrpt535/CRPT-116hrpt535