The slightly strange saga of Tiktok being banned in the US took a curious twist today… the story is kind of long and that Wiki piece sums it up; it boils down to the US government being wary of it collecting users’ data to misuse and being Chinese-owned and so do espionage (despite the fact that even the CIA found they hadn’t actually done so), which American companies would never do now, would they… And a certain Lord Dampnut was the prime mover in insisting it be banned when it all started, but now he’s… all for it?
Tiktok were given until the 19th to divest or shut down in the US. They did the latter yesterday, i.e. the 18th in US time. Then they came back today with the above message thanking tne guy who… wasn’t actually president yet. Now, Mushroom Cock did promise to do something to save Tiktok once he actually was—some have said it was because he belatedly realised a lot of his cultists used the thing and he wouldn’t want them to not be able to praise him in every possible way, would he—but he won’t be for a few more hours, whereupon it appears he’ll be more excited about rounding up foreign muck to expel it back to Mexico. I wonder what deal has been done here, and what the felon-elect expects from it. Cos you don’t do things out of the goodness of your heart when you have none.
Anyway, senator Ed Markey is happy:
Not sure why he’s so pleased, given that he apparently actually voted in favour of the ban despite having a Tiktok account himself… And how are the right reacting? Well, this is Charlie Kirk in 2020:
Versus Charlie Kirk in 2025:
Got to love a freethinker who’s clearly not at all swayed by the whims of his cult leader and happily agrees with everything the latter says and does of his own free will and rational thought, and the 180 degree shift in position is something we don’t need to bring up because it doesn’t really exist (except when Ed Markey does it, probably). We have always been at war with Oceania, or something. Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see how many people will be glad that Drumpf saved Tiktok and for how long, especially with his nibs having already expressed an interest in the US government being the 50% joint owner… on the other hand, there’s rumours that Apartheid Clyde has also been approached, and frankly I don’t know which alternative is worse. Fuck all of these people.
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