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Shameful that the president of the US is allowed to get away with this type of behaviour. Have standards dropped so low in the US!?! This man initially wanted to ban TikTok a few years back over a matter of national security due to “China” (say that in the way that he says it, please).

But when he saw how the TikTokkers contributed to his election win, all of a sudden he now wants to keep it alive. And he’ll do whatever he can to make that happen. Just to serve his own personal agenda. Why can’t this be stopped!?! Honestly, it beggars belief!
 
Shameful that the president of the US is allowed to get away with this type of behaviour. Have standards dropped so low in the US!?! This man initially wanted to ban TikTok a few years back over a matter of national security due to “China” (say that in the way that he says it, please).

But when he saw how the TikTokkers contributed to his election win, all of a sudden he now wants to keep it alive. And he’ll do whatever he can to make that happen. Just to serve his own personal agenda. Why can’t this be stopped!?! Honestly, it beggars belief!
So this bothers you, yet turning the DoJ on your political opponents, willfully ignoring rulings by the USSC, courting wannabe-Hamas supporters in college campuses across the nation, forcing tens of millions of Americans to get an unproven "vaccine" or lose their jobs & throwing the borders wide open to illegals-criminals-gangs & terrorists you're cool with?
 
I'll take "Pvt Bone Spurs" 100 times over the senile old fool & the DEI hire we had the last 4 years.
And therein lies the US problem...

Watching that dollar plummet from afar... ;)

The next few weeks are going to be fun when the tariffs either extend, change or apply.
The sotck market seems to have almost given up hanging on his every word: they know what he says is designed to pump or dump the market and make him and his mates rich who know the timing.

So you have your "big beautiful bill" now.
Waiting for the pain to hit the poor.
Reputable news sources have analyzed the impact and of course the bottom 30% are going to be hit hard.
Many there voted for him...

You cant ramp up homeland production quickly enough to offset the higher import tariffs or the weaker dollar. :)

The midterms cant come quickly enough to see if hardship wakes people up.

But then again, a betting person might think there wont be another election at all...
 
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So this bothers you, yet turning the DoJ on your political opponents, willfully ignoring rulings by the USSC, courting wannabe-Hamas supporters in college campuses across the nation, forcing tens of millions of Americans to get an unproven "vaccine" or lose their jobs & throwing the borders wide open to illegals-criminals-gangs & terrorists you're cool with?
Stop deflecting bro. We’re talking about TikTok here / the clue’s in the title of the thread. But you go right ahead and bury your head in the sand about Trump and his misdeeds… we’ll watch from the U.K. and other places around the World and just shake our heads at the sheer lunacy of it all.
 
Stop deflecting bro. We’re talking about TikTok here / the clue’s in the title of the thread. But you go right ahead and bury your head in the sand about Trump and his misdeeds… we’ll watch from the U.K. and other places around the World and just shake our heads at the sheer lunacy of it all.
The UK....I thought so. America stopped giving a **** what "The Crown" thinks 249 years ago.
 
“We’ve got a TREMENDOUS potential buyer for TikTok — everybody’s talking about it. EVERYBODY. Some of the biggest, most successful people — you know who they are — they’re very interested. We’re looking at it very closely, very strongly. A lot of people didn’t think it could happen, but we’re making it happen. We’ll probably know more in about two weeks, maybe less. It’s moving very fast. People are saying it could be one of the greatest deals ever, maybe the greatest. We’ll see what happens but it’s going to be VERY EXCITING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.”
Obviously fake, there's no mention of a big strong man with tears in his eyes, saying "Sir".
 
Xi Jinping may be in the process of being removed from what I read in the reports from people who cover China.
Some of those people are simply posers, who do anything to position themselves as experts.

It's sort of like those people who've been shouting for years that the Chinese economy will crash horrible... and yet the PRC is still going strong.

Chinese leadership is always behind a veil, have been since even before Mao.

In reality it is unlikely to matter for Tik Tok.

I'm extremely wary of how Americans in particular portray the PRC, as some sort of "China" monolith. Given the history of anti-Chinese bigotry in the US (to which Trump explicitly played) I pretty much ignore any so-called expert on China who sells their wares to the mass media. There are plenty of experts in Academia and even the US State Department (whatever is left of it), and I'd rather trust them than some talking head on YouTube or Fox News.
 
You’re claiming to be American…

Appearing to be a Trump supporter echoing his radical right, anti-science, anti-fact, pov, which is bad enough… but using “USSC”? It’s SCOTUS, not USSC, you’re not American, and that wasn't a good faith argument.

/The Trumper arguments are still crap too, btw, no matter who’s making them
 
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“We’ve got a TREMENDOUS potential buyer for TikTok — everybody’s talking about it. EVERYBODY. Some of the biggest, most successful people — you know who they are — they’re very interested. We’re looking at it very closely, very strongly. A lot of people didn’t think it could happen, but we’re making it happen. We’ll probably know more in about two weeks, maybe less. It’s moving very fast. People are saying it could be one of the greatest deals ever, maybe the greatest. We’ll see what happens but it’s going to be VERY EXCITING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.”
FTW!
 
Let me guess: a conservative billionaire that wants to use it as a propaganda pipeline?
 
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