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JovialJune:
But Biden put it in motion and made sure it was banned before he left office, so why put the blame on Trump that obviously changed his mind instead of lashing out on Biden and Democrats?

it was a bipartisan agreement. I’m unhappy with both sides as far as the ban is concerned.

But I won’t accept Trump acting like he’s a savior now. When we know he’s only interested in personal aggrandizement. And this wouldn’t even have happened if he didn’t start the Chinese fear mongering. Solving a problem you created doesn’t get you praise. We wouldn’t be in it if not for him.

IjeBos:
The next 4 years are going to be insane.

1) Trump says he wants to Ban Tik Tok becasue it is a China spy tool
2.) Congress bans Tik Tok and it is signed into law
3.) Trump now says he wants to save Tik Tok (which again he called a Chinese spy tool) with an Executive Order.

So many layers of insanity here. The biggest being that the incoming President of the US thinks he can overturn a law signed by Congress and the previous President and upheld by the Supreme Court with an executive order.
I think he should go back and read the Constitution. It's clear he hasn't.
The GOP are unserious people and again this next 4 years are going to be insane.

TikTok Flickers Back to Life After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban
Some users saw the social media app come back online on Sunday, following a shutdown when a federal law went into effect requiring a sale or ban.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/technology/trump-tiktok-ban-executive-order.html#commentsContainer

Now he’s coming out to act like a savior. Create a problem. “Solve” the problem 🙄. I’m sure the conditions he’s giving them for reinstatement of the app include them thanking him publicly and genuflecting at every possible opportunity. Every update they send about this whole issue includes special thanks to him and all he’s doing to bring it back to life.

What happened in the last 12 hours since it was banned? It’s no longer a threat? Or the special thanks they’re giving him now will ensure the Chinese don’t steal our data?
The drama
The narcissism
I just can’t.

I wish that was enough. But even if you don’t use it and someone on your network is, high chances are they’re already tracking your devices and collecting information about you just from that person being on your network.

The tech billionaire oligarchy has been long in the making.

descarado:
This tiktok was not monetised before.
After monetization, it became very popular.

Oh well, wetin concern me.
Facebook o, tiktok, name them, you won't see me there.

If not for official stuff,nobody will see me near WhatsApp.

If I need social media, I have youtube. For naija, nairaland and I'm OK with the two

descarado:
The tiktok you use in usa is so different from the highly censored one used in china.
Trust me, all the nonsense we see on tiktok can never be acceptable in china.
Weibo is just like X and highly censored.
Infact, social media is highly censored in china.

China is not supposed to be the USA standard though.
Don’t they have a restrictive communist govt? the opposite of what US claims to be?

We claims we don’t want to be like China but stepped right in the footpaths of China.

All the data privacy concerns they’re claiming to have, are somehow not applicable to the other social media platforms who have been mining US residents data for years and selling to the highest bidders for advertisement purposes. Facebook messenger logs into whatever WiFi network you’re on and accesses the device information of every member of that house or class or workplace even if they themselves don’t have messenger. All they need is for one person on the network to have FB messenger and everyone else’s privacy is gone.

They don’t really have privacy concerns or the other sites would’ve been censored since. The real concern is financial concerns. And also the ability of people to share information without the filter of billionaire owned news outlets. They should be upfront about their reasons for banning it.

I don’t like hypocrisy.

Yankee101:
Use web browsers as much as you can
Apps generally steal your data
Some steal more than others

I think most people know that. They Generally don’t give a fvck about their data being stolen or not. Stolen data is used to create ads targeting you. At the end of the day, people who have expendable income don’t care about that. And those who don’t have it also don’t care.

The issue is the hypocrisy about data safety

YeribanzaGoat:
When I say you're an ignoramus, I mean it because you're not just an ignoramus, but a chronic ignoramus for that matter. Bytedance owns Tiktok. Is Bytedance not a Chinese company?

Oral diarrhea. Nothing upstairs in your brain

justwise:
Many of you are missing the point cococandy was trying to make, it doesn’t matter whether Trump signed the bill or not, this banning idea was initiated by Trump and now the same Trump is acting like a nice guy who wants to sort things out.

Leave them. Let them keep being willfully obtuse.

I truly hope not

CoronaVirusPro:
Trust my peeps!

Dude will be eaten!

Procashtips:
There's no bye bye here, Trump is going to reinstate them.

Biden and the democrats still can't handle what tiktok did to their political future

Trump initiated this TikTok ban in his last year of office. All republicans voted yes to ban it. I need some of you to know what you’re talking about before talking pls

Yankee101:
It steals all the information on your phone

Facebook messenger does that. In fact Facebook messenger logs into the WiFi of whatever network you’re on and collects information of other devices on the same network.

YeribanzaGoat:
You're an ignoramus. When China banned American apps about a decade ago, did you say this rubbish you're saying? So you want the US to allow Chinese apps while American apps are not allowed in China?

TikTok is not a Chinese app. See who’s talking of ignorance. TikTok is even banned in China. It’s a Singaporean owned and run company. With an office in China.

Konkoja:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2E6_a1iLzys&si=Y-l-zRmNDZ2Ftgyc

Blacks are NOT Americans, even if they are citizens

This is what these MAGA Republicans, white Christian Nationalists think about blacks. They are now the mainstream of RNC and bold to spew their racism and bigotry.

Free speech yay. Let’s see what the uncles Ruckus have to say in response. Tap dancing for people who don’t see your humanity. The whole “we need freedom” of speech movement was so they can have freedom to be racist without consequences. If they really wanted freedom of speech, TikTok won’t be banned by now. Bunch of clowns

I can’t believe how democrats control the weather so much .

feedthenation:
---Why is Biden prosecuting his political opponent with the chill weather even on his last day as president---

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-likely-avoid-inaugural-crowd-size-controversy-swearing-in-moved-indoors

Prestonn:
Happy new year sweetheart. Cococandy🥰

Hope you good and the family. I don really miss people here. I know with time gonna reconnect.

Please coco if you wan reply just keep it short, my eyes Dey pain me now to read long write up 😁😁

Happy new year to you too 🎉🎉🎉
Long time no see. How are you?

@bold lol 😅

The fact that Trump is the one who set this whole nonsense in motion during his past term and is now acting like he’s about to be the savior is so sinister. There’s nothing evil that man isn’t capable of. If you’re not paying attention to the things he does, you’ll just think he’s a bumbling idiot. But no. Very nefarious man.

budaatum:
A booming American economy?

Yep. Upwards growth in 2023 and well as 2024. Predicted to keep its upward trajectory through this 2025. Unless something shocks the system (like an unreasonable Trump tariff). But watch him come in and try to take the credit for the growth of the last two years and the new year to come. Then when he inevitably fvcks it up, he’ll start blaming the “deep state”🙄

Like Biden said, democrats spend a lot of time on the policies but not the politics. These are things people either didn’t know or locked their minds to. As long as they get stick it to their enemies, all is well.

They claim they couldn’t afford milk and eggs. Yet consumer spending was at an all time high. With gas averaging $3/gallon in most states. Except California and Hawaii with gas above $4, every other state is between $2-$3.
Something that hasn’t happened in a long time.

Reuters:

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy will continue to provide most of the thrust for global growth through the balance of this year and in 2025, led by robust consumer spending that has held up through a wrenching bout of inflation and the high interest rates used to tame it, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.
In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF raised its 2024 and 2025 economic growth forecasts for the U.S. - the only developed economy to see its outlook marked up for both years - and its chief economist said the "soft landing" sought by the Federal Reserve in which inflation eases without big damage to the job market had largely been achieved.

PDPGuy:
It’s really sad

They’re really scary people. They just make up stuff and defend it with everything they have. Not a care in the world for what’s actually true.

budaatum:
Covid showed millions of Americans can die and the president gets a second term.

Pretty much like Nigeria voting APC after 8 years of APC if you ask me, and shows people can be turkeys or don't know what they vote for.

Will be fun watching them find out though.

End result of the mindfvckery that’s been going on.

Rapists and rape apologists unite

This is the kind of misinformation republicans love to spread. Imagine if the Oregon Fire Marshal didn’t debunk it? They’ll just run wild with it. Spreading it amongst their right wing propaganda sites and having gullible folks help them disseminate it. Just abhorrent behavior.

Like clockwork, Republicans are on track to ruin the lives of older Americans. Just like they are known to do.
Always ready to dismantle good measures put in place to protect vulnerable populations. Guess who’s going to benefit from hiking up the price of insulin for older people on Medicare? Definitely not the working class.

Johnson removes Turner. One of the few Republicans known to be somewhat bipartisan.

Paving the way for Trump to assist Russia against Ukraine with less friction. But we were “fear mongering”.
lol

I guess time will tell?

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy
Biden’s Alternate Reality
A farewell to the establishment
JIM STEWARTSON
JAN 15, 2025

On August 2nd, 2020, I saw a terrifying movement, a neo-Nazi online cult, referred to as QAnon by the press, metastasizing through bizarre conspiracies and game mechanics that I helped invent 20 years ago. Six months later, it attacked the Capitol. as I predicted.

I have spent every day since trying to warn about it — through the entire Biden administration — 1627 days, 20,000 hours, 107,000 tweets, 10,000 videos, 1,600 articles, hundreds of podcasts, two frivolous lawsuits.

When Musk started to show his true colors three years ago, I warned what he is. As he weaponized Twitter to brainwash people into his techno-Nazi worldview, and Mike Flynn traveled the country on a QAnon tour, I yelled into the void that we were missing the point. Over and over and over.

It all came to nought of course. The Department of Justice and FBI were fatally compromised, and the President made a decision that protecting “norms and institutions” was more important than protecting American citizens from being brainwashed — or holding people accountable for J6.

Despite what seemed like a valiant effort to torpedo Trump by Jack Smith, it all went out with a whimper. Smith’s final report on J6 is a relic, the retelling of an attempt to work in a system that was never going to let him succeed.

Tonight, Joe Biden will give a speech touting his successes, and it’s true that he set the economy back on track, and passed meaningful legislation, just like all Democratic presidents do. But, like all Democrats, he didn’t fix, or even acknowledge, the real problem.


Joe Biden says “we braved through it. We emerged stronger, more prosperous, and more secure.” I beg to differ. Joe Biden never left the alternate reality of the establishment. He surrounded himself with milquetoast aides who fed him the positive outcomes he was looking for, but never gave him the truth.

The “America” Joe Biden fixed the economy for is dead. The establishment alternate reality he will talk about tonight is dead. None of what he did matters because the other alternate reality, the fascist conspiracy movement created by Flynn and his co-conspirators, now replicated at monstrous scale by Musk, is more powerful and more organized, with infinite financial resources. This is not Trump 2.0, it’s a takeover by the PayPal Mafia, a group of Nazi immigrants who saw us as a soft target.

The reality is that like every Republican president since Nixon, the Republicans had to cheat to win the White House. And like most, they had to collude with our foreign enemies to succeed. But this time is fundamentally different.

At the inauguration on Monday will be the American oligarchy, a group of psychopaths competing to be the world’s first trillionaire, conspiring about how best to create “hardship” and “austerity” to suck the last remaining money out of the Treasury so they can create a feudalist eugenicist slave state. Trump will issue 100+ executive orders decimating everything Biden did and plunging the nation into terror, on Day One.

Musk now has office space in the White House, as will numerous other billionaires in the Cabinet and other top positions in the government. Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, who pretended to be in favor of democracy, and control a massive swath of the digital and physical economy, have completely capitulated. Tim Cook and numerous other tech billionaires donated to Trump’s Inauguration slush fund.

The Russians are quite pleased about it.

All of this was preventable. All of it was foreseeable. But for four years, nothing was done to stop it. Joe Biden allowed himself to be lulled into complacency, into thinking that if we just did the right thing, it will all work out. Sadly, those days are over because people have been lied to for so long, they think the “right thing” is to destroy their own country.

I respect the President, and his 50 years of service. In many ways, he did an admirable job, but in the most important job he had, the oath to protect and defend the Constitution and the American people, he turned out to be another old man living in an alternate reality created for him by others.

The truth of the matter is that we are at war and the President was never honest about it. His administration presided over the the end of the American Experiment as we knew it. He will be seen in history as our Paul von Hindenburg — who handed over power in a “peaceful transition” to Hitler.

That said, I have not, and will never give up on my country. Perhaps, in the end, the kleptocratic kakistocracy being installed and the horrors this regime will execute are the only thing that will snap us out of it. Perhaps what will emerge from the wreckage will be better. But that will not happen on its own.

We must protest, resist, and sabotage every attempt at seizing more power. We must stop being afraid to get in their face as they try to defraud us out of our rights, labor and resources. We must stop being afraid to call Russia the enemy, a terrorist state that must be defeated, not a legitimate nation.

Unfortunately neither “history” or “power” will be “in our hands” after Monday. The power of our military, our economic might and the labor of the people will be handed over to a transnational crime syndicate who wants to remake the planet.


The way forward is opaque but I am convinced it exists. I do not think America, per se, is finished. But unfortunately “we braved through it” is a line absurdly premature.

I did make it. Thanks for the inspiration

radautoworks:
you are the soup queen. You get no contest from here.

AmazonTopaz:
@bold, they are idiots.

IjeBos:
Exactly.
But it'd be worse. No Democrat Nominee would put up any black person as unqualified as this.
But the black parrotts on this site would still find a way to call them a DEI hire because they're are black and of course black people can never be qualified.

Yet, crickets on this unqualified mess of a person in one of the most important jobs.

They know the truth . I refuse to chalk it up to ignorance.

As with all their politicians that they go gaga about, it’s almost always about something else than the job or the ability of the nominee to do the job.

Pete said he wants to restore “warrior culture ” to the military (whatever that truly means) without women in combat positions. That’s the reason they support him. It’s usually some emotional nonsense like this that fuels their political stances.

But it’s pathetically funny coming from a blubbering alcoholic who smells like whiskey at work. Pretty sure a female soldier can mop the floor with him without breaking a sweat. He doesn’t need senate confirmation. He needs to go to rehab. But one can only hope.

AmazonTopaz:
Americans are fools.
Anyway, look at this.

Duckworth: How many nations are in ASEAN?

Hegseth: We have allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia

Duckworth: None of those countries are in ASEAN pic.twitter.com/ZlbjthS4wQ

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 14, 2025

If it were a Black person conservative fools and the Black people who parrot these right wing racist talking points would call the person a DEI hire. Pete Hegseth is as unqualified as they come.

Cc. .

This absolute piece of garbage of a man said he’ll sober up if he’s given the job. Not before. Can anyone else even keep a low tier job with this kind of label hanging over them?
Regularly gets drunk at work. Been fired multiple times at different jobs for misconduct. His behavior and record alone make him susceptible to blackmail. Not a position for a secretary of defense. The whole thing is a joke. White supremacy at its finest.

That’s why I look at black people who parrot the right wing anti DEI narrative with disdain. No critical thinking skills.

Right. You won’t believe it until you hear it from daddy Trump himself.

And the church sings 🎶 MAGA brain rot.🎶

Nothing is true unless you’re hearing it from the dear infallible leader who can do no wrong. Amen

basilico:
So they increased the budget.
I really doubt, noone ever admits to their mistakes and I will not believe that until I get proof elsewhere.

budaatum:
You always lie deliberately. Lying deliberately is all you do here to the point we don't bother reading past the first line of your lies anymore if we read them at all.

Your lying would be sad if it weren't deliberate, but it’s deliberate so it’s evil.

Glad I’m not the only one who skips past his lengthy amalgamation of lies pulled from right wing propaganda sites.

budaatum:
You are underestimating that liar by not recognising he intentional regurgitates the lies for a reason.

Think Alex Jones perhaps, and you might understand his motive somewhat, though Jones does it for the money and no one will pay basililoco.

He said he doesn’t regurgitate lies intentionally 🤣. The jokes write themselves

basilico:
Name one instance where I lied deliberately .
I am known to retract.

if lack of awareness was a person 🤣

I ended the year on a high personally in life also and here on nairaland too

Good for you bro. We all ended the year on a high in our individual lives.
If you ask my opinion, I doubt anyone on this thread has any real serious personal complaints in their lives. What does that have to do with the fact that you don’t know what you’re talking about? Such a weird statement to make.


Oh It’s your time to gloat. About what? That your favorite football team AKA the Republican Party won the match/election? Doesn’t that prove what people like us have been saying? That y’all side liners lack any lived experiences to contribute meaningfully to this conversation. it’s just a gloating opportunity that means nothing to you personally at the end of the day. Because it’s not your business after all. You just like to hear yourself talk. That’s all.

beyep:
pele ohh aunty wen know, cause without 770dollars they can't get by, poverty don squeeze ur head u know no say no be every thing ur leader do dey make sense

In an emergency where credit/debit cards might have burned up, papers or documents lost.
$770 is absolutely a great help for a few days to even a couple of week depending on where you shop. It’s enough to get cheap food, water, simple baby and pet supplies. Until you can sort issue with your bank.

That’s not the only help they’ll be receiving BTW. This is the emergency help for the time being. Shush

basilico:
I'm really shocked by many here. Would they not want to know the truth? Who really killed JFK, who are Epstein clients , is Joe Biden corrupt, who is behind Trump's assassination attempts, how many did FBI pay to cause trouble on Jan 6 , did Clinton server get hacked by Chinese, etc?
Democrats since 2016 have committed many crimes yet end up accusing the republicans of committing the same crimes.

Because even a blind person can touch the screen, land at your specific posts and without even reading it, recognize that it’s full of horseshit. The truth according to people who don’t care about the truth? The irony.

Because he’s just another yapper.

Never had anything meaningful to say any day in his life.

feedthenation:
---Elon Musk says DOGE probably won't find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts---as another campaign promise busted---

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/doge-finding-2-trillion-in-cuts-best-case-outcome-elon-musk-says-department-of-government-efficiency-congress-budget