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Amid Third TikTok Ban Extension, Trump Claims to Have Potential Buyer

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Trump this week said that he identified a buyer to purchase TikTok from ByteDance, and according to Bloomberg, Trump's pick is an investor consortium that includes Oracle, Blackstone, and Andreessen Horowitz. The consortium was previously the top choice to buy TikTok back in April, but negotiations stalled due to trade tensions.
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Not only this will not happen but it will probably lead to China retaliating against US companies for just attempting to sell TikTok.

Orange guy should just give it up and ban the app. It was HIS idea anyway in first place during the first term, and even the previous administration supported this. You can’t flip flop on that.
 
c47v3770 said:
“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.”
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Fun thing is, you can read this in both Trump’s and Cook’s voice.
 
Naraxus said:
The UK....I thought so. America stopped giving a **** what "The Crown" thinks 249 years ago.
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And look how it eventually unfolded. If that independency thing happened rather recently, you probably wouldn’t have one of the worst healthcare systems in the world and a Florida man wouldn’t be in the news every day.

(sarcasm)
 
c47v3770 said:
“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.”
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As funny as that is, I honestly believe that could actually be a real quote from Trump.
 
According to asymmetric research, designated buyers are a Miami-based shop consortium named La Tiendita de Tacos.
 
We're still waiting for things like the 'proof' Trump claimed to have found in Hawaii about Obama, the "beautiful" health care plan, the infrastructure bill (that Biden finally came out with), the end of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and All Those Trade Deals. We're waiting for the prosperity he promised in 2016. About the only thing he delivered on was "Warp Speed" for the COVID vaccine - and others did the work and Trump promptly got his minions, apostles and cultists to turn against it.

So why would I believe him now?
 
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ByteDance has repeatedly stated that TikTok is not for sale. If they refuse to sell Trump's only option would be to continue delaying enforcement of the law. Right? The only reason this is goin on is because of the 170 million users in the U.S., right?
 
lkrupp said:
ByteDance has repeatedly stated that TikTok is not for sale. If they refuse to sell Trump's only option would be to continue delaying enforcement of the law. Right? The only reason this is goin on is because of the 170 million users in the U.S., right?
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the only reason this is still going on is that MAGA influencers on TikTok make Trump money and help him politically
 
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If Florida can block ******* then the Federal Government should block TikTok.

Both products are cancerous to the minds & souls of our youths.

Adults... use a VPN or spend your time on something better. Oh, and you disgust me.
 
Naraxus said:
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?
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… and you’re cool with going after universities, Nah-tsee/mob-boss-style, deporting legal citizens without due process and suspending Habeas Corpus, I’m guessing…? 🙄🤦‍♂️
 
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picpicmac said:
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.
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I follow China Update on YouTube. He only quotes from PRC sources and he does speculate a bit, but his conclusions are based on what he is seeing from PRC official sources and government approved journalists. YMMV.
 
MacLawyer said:
China Update on YouTube. Only quotes PRC sources and government approved journalists. I believe he is based in HK.
Check him out.
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Without watching any of these yet, I have to say .. I do not care for the "OMG!" clickbait thumbnails and titles.

These all feel awfully hyperbolic.

There seems to be quite a cottage industry of "China is doomed" channels on YouTube.
This has been a theme on YT for years now.

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turbineseaplane said:
Without watching any of these yet, I have to say .. I do not care for the "OMG!" clickbait thumbnails and titles.

These all feel awfully hyperbolic.

There seems to be quite a cottage industry of "China is doomed" channels on YouTube.
This has been a theme on YT for years now.

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Yeah the clickbait titles diminish what is otherwise reliable content. I invite you to listen to an episode or two. Peace out.
 
I think I may have the reason for the ban extensions. Apparently it appears his grandchildren use it and other members of his family use it (a grandchild posts video's on youtube and in passing mentioned about posting stuff on tiktok).

Well, it could be a reason.
 
He's just full of crap, like always. You can tell when he's lying: his lips are moving. Or his thumbs are
"Truth Sociaing." there's no buyer, and he uses two weeks for everything when he has nothing.
 
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