He really does just say anything
He’s the proverbial infinite monkeys at a typewriter. Wait long enough and he’ll say literally anything about anything.
In other words: “I hate TikTok and China, but young people hate me, and maybe I can shave off a quarter of a percent in a tight race if I give them TikTok”
The weird orange felon/rapist is flailing and grasping at ANYTHING to be relevant, including lying out of both sides of his mouth.
He can’t even save his own social media company. He’s lost $5 billion in less than a month. Even for a guy who bankrupted multiple casinos, that’s an achievement.
Someone here pointed out that these losses are money laundering wins. I now have a different view on the “failed” casinos.
Banning it was his administration’s idea. Not saying I’m for or against banning TikTok, I don’t really have any skin in the game because I don’t even use the service so it makes no difference to me, but ffs hold this dude accountable for one fucking thing for a change. Why do so many people let him get away with saying whatever convenient lie that pops into his mind?
I’d start by assuming that he’s either being paid somehow for suddenly supporting TikTok or if there’s something else in it for him. With trump, usually “it’s grift” is the likely explanation for many things.
He’s simple, but it’s not just the grift.
What he wants is anything that strokes his ego. Anything that makes him feel more important, gets him attention, etc.
It COULD be as simple as someone sucking up to him. Or someone has told him this will get him votes or make him popular.
OR there could be money in it. Or a.combination of things. But he’s absolutely not just - or maybe even usually - about the grift.
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That’s just basic political instincts. Dems implement an unpopular policy? Say you’ll reverse it.
I can’t understand how the democrats thought it was a good idea to ban Tiktok on an election year.
You think voters care? I’m not so sure, haven’t heard it brought up in a political context until now. Can you imagine TikTok coming up in the debates?
Are there single-issue tiktok voters? Probably not. But democrats doing a thing that we all agreed was dumb under Trump does contribute to the sense that the democrats do not represent them, which decreases voter turnout.
Similar to Biden escalating the trade war against China; there’s probably not “buy a chinese EV” single-issue voters, but making EVs unaffordable to the vast majority of Americans decreases voter turnout among people who didn’t want a trade war with China.
Every time the democrats try to out-flank the republicans from the right, they’re effectively campaigning for the republicans.
