Hold up, people are actually falling for this trump switcheroo on TikTok?!

[HROT]

The question is why did trump change his mind? Who are the investors in byte dance? Several big VC firms including Peter thiel’s fund and Joe lonsdale’s fund. Hmm

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/business/jeff-yass-shares-trump-media-merger.html

 

[WDSMHAWK]

Problem is: he was uncharacteristically right the first time.

Banning it was always stupid. Democrats were unfortunately dumb enough to take the bait

 

[bhawk24bob]

Between Musk's Twitter, Zuckerberg toeing the line with Meta, and China now presumably owing Trump gratitude for its continued ownership of Tik Tok.....that's a pretty powerful platform to stand on if you want to get your message out.

 

[Tom Paris]

An article from 2020? Hey, positions change, right Kamala?

Exactly. Republicans used to hate fascism yet here we are.

 

[Huey Grey]

How can Trump save it? It's banned legislatively. The Supreme Court upheld that ban. How does a simple EO negate actual US law?

 

[drew_hawk]

 

[Huey Grey]

We are sliding closer and closer to nazi Germany everyday.

 

[Chishawk1425]

We are sliding closer and closer to nazi Germany everyday.

I said this 5 years ago

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

I said this 5 years ago

 

[Gimmered]

Create a problem then fix the problem has been a political staple for centuries

We had a production manager that oversaw 2 different department supervisors. He would tell one one thing and the other the exact opposite and then go to lunch. That way he always had something to straighten out when he got back.

 

[Gimmered]

Dems should get better at politics then. Which is depressing because most of the leading Democrats behind the ban are f'ing ancient and have been in politics for decades

It's hard for the Dems to come up with a message that appeals to the subtards.

 

[mnole03]

He’s corrupt. Tech guys figured out a way to funnel money to him and he changed his position. He did the same thing with crypto.

 

[Flie]

The silly part here is that the ban only takes effect so long as the Chinese own TikTok. All Trump has to do to declare victory is persuade some of his rich friends to buy it.

Potential TikTok buyer posing with Bernie... I mean Trump.

 

[QChawks]

What a hack

 

[artradley]

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That is what happened in a nutshell. It’s so transparent, but we are living in a time of aggressive stupidity.

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

All this outrage… is exactly what Trump wants. He is creating news cycle after news cycle on stuff that doesn’t matter much (at least in the near term), but which distracts from the issues which got him elected and which he won’t solve.

As mire everyone keeps amplifying topics like Greenland, TikTok and the Gulf of America then less they focus on Trump’s inability to lower prices, reshore manufacturing, solve healthcare, etc.

 

[sober_teacher]

All this outrage… is exactly what Trump wants. He is creating news cycle after news cycle on stuff that doesn’t matter much (at least in the near term), but which distracts from the issues which got him elected and which he won’t solve.

As mire everyone keeps amplifying topics like Greenland, TikTok and the Gulf of America then less they focus on Trump’s inability to lower prices, reshore manufacturing, solve healthcare, etc.

To be fair - it's also the same as his first term, and his utter inability to stay on topic.

over/under his next "infrastructure week"?