It was a got damn stunt, offc

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    7 hours ago

    This is more like, yet another PR flattery stunt, that Trump enjoyed in his first term too. Unclear that it means Tik Tok is going to help him get a 3rd term, or censor criticism of him.

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      6 hours ago

      Can you walk me through that? You think that Trump’s team coordinated with Biden to make him sign the ban for Trump’s benefit?

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        6 hours ago

        Do you not remember Trump being the driving force of banning it on his first term?

        It the fact he is requiring them to give over a 50% stake of the company for unnamed us owners?

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          6 hours ago

          Yes, I remember that. The Israeli lobby has been pushing both parties to do it.

          But how is the Trump team responsible for the Biden team following through and actually doing it?

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            Pre-election, it was a concern for all lawmakers that IDF soldiers showing off their genocide, or Palestinian sympathizers angry about genocide should not be able to embarass the US to young people. Congress voted to “force sale” of TikTok, and Biden signed law many months ago. Minuchin/Zionist groups offered to buy Tik Tok without the algorithm just so they could fully complete the zionist monopoly of news/media through censorship power. After the election, zionist supremacism media exposure doesn’t matter anymore. US/Israel gets to do what they want to do, and explicit Trump/GOP supporters do not hand wring over Islamophobia.

            Biden did say after SCC ruling, that he would not enforce anything, and Apple/Google could have avoided removing from app stores. But Tik Tok went dark anyway, with specific message, imploring glorious new leader’s “progressiveness” on not hating Americans for the complete BS that was the ban fiasco. Even if bipartisan zionist congress voted for ban, with explicit justification that Israel needs to be given a better image to young people, it is flattery to Trump to make this all balmed on dark Brandon.

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                4 hours ago

                Tik Tok is just flattering Trump by saying he will save the US from Biden. The SCC case decided just last Friday, with Biden promissing not to enforce it, were events that unfolded by their own inertia. Tik Tok users by definition not wanting the ban, is the political probletunity that Tik Tok can deliver to Trump as a win for him, through flattery. It’s only an error, with no political gains, after election is decided to zionist glee.

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                  2 hours ago

                  All Trump’s order does is protect TikTok from the fines and liability. If Biden didn’t intend to enforce, he could’ve done the same. He didn’t.

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                    2 hours ago

                    ok. He just said “it will be on a Sunday, with Monday holiday. Just let Trump decide everything.” I did not really know about the “fines provision”, but a mix of PR stunt, and clarity on being scot free, can still have some political basis. There will now be politics about Trump being pro Chinese disinformation, while social media users are grateful to not be banned, and even if that is slam dunk politics in congress, it doesn’t actually play for the “fascist side” on this issue.

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        6 hours ago

        I understanding is that Biden didn’t actually sign the binding to law.