I don't know "Tik Tok" from a clock face, but I surely know, as a retired psychiatrist and patriotic American, that Our Mad (wannabe) King Donald is mentally ill and unfit to earn ANY media exposure except in medical school departments of psychiatry/neurology.
"Reagan’s Republican Party was committed to making the world safe for democracy." Really?? I was a sentient, politically savvy woman in my 30s during the Reagan administration, and I don't remember it that way. Reagan's Republican Party was committed to making the world safe for its version of capitalism. It was fine with dictators as long as they were "our" dictators, e.g., anti-communist, pro U.S. investment. Remember Iran-Contra? A couple of decades later they demonstrated just how clueless they were about what makes democracy possible: "regime change" in Iraq deposed a dictator who was pretty much all that was holding that cobbled-together country together, and surprise, surprise, Iraq fell apart -- giving Iran the opportunity to grow into the major regional player it is today. (Which reminds me of Saudi Arabia: I don't see a whole lot of democracy there.)
Reagan's Republican Party hasn't been committed to democracy at home either, but that's a subject for another time.
Thank you Susanna, came here to post something quite similar. It’s fun to cite GOP icons and pretend that the GOP cultists today are acting in ways the icon would not approve of, but to suggest that the GOP has EVER opposed authoritarians is just ludicrous.
From calling El Salvadoran death squads “Freedom Fighters” to worshipping Pinochet’s pension policies, and discovering that they loved Communist China as soon as it started destroying US unions, the GOP has always LOVED authoritarians, and today they worship grifters like Putin and Orban and Bolsonaro. For the GOP, since about five minutes after Lincoln’s body was cold, the only problem with authoritarians is the ones that don’t think the reason to gain power is to plunder the treasury for the benefit of the capitalists.
Also, typo alert: Wield, not weild — “This lie is a stark example of the political power TikTok and the Chinese Communist Party can weild: Congress has been overwhelmed with calls from TikTok users, many of them teenagers, demanding there be “no ban of TikTok.””
Teens brains are undeveloped. Male brains aren't fully developed until age 25,if that.
Tik Tok and cell phone apps take the place of social interaction, and it is made worse by soccer moms and helicopter parents needing to know every minute where the precious product of their loins might be.
I am sure glad that I missed all of this social control nonsense. I left to go to school, Mom went to work (single mother) and didn't see her until she got home, provided I was home.
I learned how to survive on the street, learned to read people by face and body language, and it served me well, except when I got drunk.
I learned that words are cheap and actions speak louder than words.
I learned that trying to impress others is a waste of time.
I learned that there are no psychics no mind readers, and that you can't believe what is coming out of someones mouth, unless they are drunk or angry.
That whatever mean or hateful thing they say, when angry,is what they really mean, and though they try to take it back, they can't because that is what they were thinking the whole time.
I learned that friends are ephemeral, friends as long as you can fulfill a need.
There are exceptions, but very rare, few and far between.
Never give in to peer pressure, peers don't have your best interest, only theirs.
Your peers want you to smoke,drink, drug, commit crimes because you are implicated and they feel safer, but peer pressure is ruinous.
Tik Tok is built around peer pressure, stupid crap like ice bucket challenges, like who really cares.
These kids have exposed themselves as morons, idiots with poor judgment and It will all come back to haunt them when they try to get jobs or placement in a university.
Or Like those morons Anthony Weiner (appropriate name) and Hunter Biden who take Dick Picks. maybe they are in love and enamoured of their penis, but I doubt that most women are.
You can correct your own posts: See the three dots (ellipsis) to the right of the LIKE REPLY SHARE line? Click that and you can edit (or delete) your post.
Today's MAGAts are the legitimate heir of Reagan, sadder still is that the Never Trumpers like the Bulwark and Lincoln Project still worship at the alter of Reagan.
There is no self realization,self awareness among these people.
Like Rachel Maddow said of Liz Cheney, with Cheney sitting in front of her, she is diametrically opposed to everything Liz stands for, except standing up for democracy.
Anyone who puts out anti Trump commercials is fine in my book. The Lincoln project and Liz Cheney at least have some good character. I'm concerned about how many GOP voters are morally bankrupt though? They don't have to vote for Biden or Trump they can just not vote for president or someone else.
I totally support the Bulwark and Lincoln Project in their anti Trump efforts,just as I do liz Cheney, but it stops there. They are Reagan Republicans.
Of course he is once more bowing to power. They founded the infamous WDB, the world dictators' brotherhood, with the turkish sultan, the russian tsar, the chinese emperor, orban the magyar and few yet less known minions impatient to grow in their shadow. This international alt right organisation wants to erase democracies. Yup! No good.
Whatever happened to the Biblical principle to never trust or work with liars directly or indirectly? Liars are aligned with the father of all lies. And what happened to the main message of the Bible to not be afraid and to do not fear. This is all that Fox News does along with the right wingers hate radio.
Trump is his 2 pimps' (Putin and Xi) "Bottom Girl" * . . . Whilst the GOP contains the rest of the 2 pimps' lesser whores. America is just a chronically oblivious John in this sordid analogy, to be used and abused.
* From Urban Dictionary
A bottom girl, a bottom woman or bottom bitch, sits atop the hierarchy of prostitutes working for a particular pimp.
A bottom girl is usually the prostitute who has been with the pimp the longest and consistently makes the most money. Being the bottom girl gives the prostitute status and power over the other women working for her pimp. However, the bottom girl also bears many responsibilities.
In U.S. v. Pipkins, the Eleventh Circuit described the bottom girl’s duties as "working the track in her pimp’s stead, running interference for and collecting money from the pimp's other prostitutes, and looking after the pimp's affairs if the pimp was out of town, incarcerated, or otherwise unavailable".
Similarly, the PIP Training Manual explains the bottom girl’s obligations may include handling finances and training and recruiting other prostitutes. Bottom girls may also instruct and advise new pimps on the ways of the prostitution business.
The Pimp Game, a published instructional guide for pimps, compares the bottom girl to a coach in the NBA, i.e. a former player who "knows the ins and outs of the game", and explains that, like the NBA coach, she is "the least paid on the team, but the one who works the hardest". She also has the most interaction with her pimp's prostitutes, giving them "pep talks" and keeping them in the game.
There was an excellent example in the recent “Mayor of Kingstown”. Also this show is a great depiction “slice of life “ of the working class towns and in this case a Michigan town that probably benefited from post war industrialization but now is dependent on a prison system for jobs.
I wanted to see the Mayor of Kingstown, but it is streaming and If I forked over money for every streaming service, and every website that has a subscription, I would not be able to save anything. Others less well off must choose between cell phone, ISP, TV, streaming or food and drugs.
Only in America will you find someone complaining about being poor, from a cell phone on the internet. I guess they have learned to eat electromagnetic waves.
It’s one more piece in the strategy to get trump elected: remove registered voters, have a half crazed suburban mom give a mendacious response to the SOTU, take over the Nat’l Rep Comm to access funds. My guess is he didn’t know the Chinese govt is just as important as the Russians to get to the win.
Here's our delicious lunch box. See anything you like? Oh, you want the whole thing!?
When the price is right, Trump will sell it all. He'll make the terms easy and tell his followers nothing to see here. He'll reassure them he's making America Great Again, not letting someone eat our lunch.
Meanwhile, most of the youth and many of the grannies on TikTok have no idea what value their content has to the CCP. I've been reading about them for years and until the Trump election and Russia interference surfaced, I just had a vague idea. The experts and their statistics explained what social media manipulation did to our election. Now that investigative reporters also showed us the Chinese Social Credit System, I GET IT! By the way, that thing keeps morphing and probably only their dear leader knows exactly what he'll do with their information.
Bread and games. If the games are really good, they are not watching Trump take control of the bread and who he sells it to. People are just a resource to be bought, sold and exchanged for whatever a greedy China or Trump may want.
I hope Elon, Meta, Apple and other billionaire-owned companies are watching this… he will do what other dictators do… if you don’t pay his price he will come for you and your company. Give him power and he will f*** you over just as he does everyone else. He’s desperate now but once in power watch out.
Exactly right. If Trump is successful in establishing an authoritarian dictatorship like Putin did, he will ask successful private businesses to gift him a 50% ownership share. He would henceforth take half of their profits and income. If they refuse he will take the entire company by force and if current owners object they will be killed or mysteriously disappear.
I suspect the Russian assets now held in banks throughout the world will be used as collateral for bonds to help Trump. The money was earmarked for absconding and given to Ukraine. The Russian money was likely lost anyway, so why not use it for Trump support is likely to be the thought process.
Thanks I've seen that do a google search Evan Greenberg and Trump.
The two go way back.
Pertinent Quote: Greenberg’s father—and longtime boss at AIG—Maurice Greenberg, is a Vladimir Putin business associate who has also associated, as discussed in detail below, with Russian spies, other Kremlin agents, and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
I’m kind of wondering if they’re not already using TikTok for political purposes. So many young kids are getting news from the site. And interestingly they are hearing the Palestinian voice but it seems not much about Hamas. Why is that?
Islam is a world wide community (the Ummah), and demands loyalty to the Ummah above all else, even the country that has hosted them, nurtured and protected them.. push comes to shove it is Islam uber alles.
Considering that the right thinks there is a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, and sadly aided and abetted by the likes of Evan Greenberg, Stephen Miller, Michael Cohen, Weisselberg Weiss and the Kushners, it is strange that a man like Zuckerberg would be facilitating antisemitism.
Musk is a famous bigot.
But maybe not, money "trumps" all, and who has unlimited financial means to corrupt anyone?
Without the damned ‘Citizens United’ opinion by the damned Supine Court, would we even be talking about billionaires trying to buy elections? Never mind foreign controlled corporations paying to buy elections . . . ? — b.rad
If tRump supports anything, it is only because there is a profit for him. As one NYC contractor said in a Village Voice interview:
“Trump won’t do a deal unless there’s something extra — a kind of moral larceny — in it. He’s not satisfied with a profit. He has to take something more. Otherwise, there’s no thrill.”
Von trump is a damn TRAITOR. Vote blue massively please.
I don't know "Tik Tok" from a clock face, but I surely know, as a retired psychiatrist and patriotic American, that Our Mad (wannabe) King Donald is mentally ill and unfit to earn ANY media exposure except in medical school departments of psychiatry/neurology.
"Reagan’s Republican Party was committed to making the world safe for democracy." Really?? I was a sentient, politically savvy woman in my 30s during the Reagan administration, and I don't remember it that way. Reagan's Republican Party was committed to making the world safe for its version of capitalism. It was fine with dictators as long as they were "our" dictators, e.g., anti-communist, pro U.S. investment. Remember Iran-Contra? A couple of decades later they demonstrated just how clueless they were about what makes democracy possible: "regime change" in Iraq deposed a dictator who was pretty much all that was holding that cobbled-together country together, and surprise, surprise, Iraq fell apart -- giving Iran the opportunity to grow into the major regional player it is today. (Which reminds me of Saudi Arabia: I don't see a whole lot of democracy there.)
Reagan's Republican Party hasn't been committed to democracy at home either, but that's a subject for another time.
Thank you Susanna, came here to post something quite similar. It’s fun to cite GOP icons and pretend that the GOP cultists today are acting in ways the icon would not approve of, but to suggest that the GOP has EVER opposed authoritarians is just ludicrous.
From calling El Salvadoran death squads “Freedom Fighters” to worshipping Pinochet’s pension policies, and discovering that they loved Communist China as soon as it started destroying US unions, the GOP has always LOVED authoritarians, and today they worship grifters like Putin and Orban and Bolsonaro. For the GOP, since about five minutes after Lincoln’s body was cold, the only problem with authoritarians is the ones that don’t think the reason to gain power is to plunder the treasury for the benefit of the capitalists.
We discussed Iran/Contra only yesterday. Not mentioned was the October Surprise, the international coup against Jimmy Carter.
Also, typo alert: Wield, not weild — “This lie is a stark example of the political power TikTok and the Chinese Communist Party can weild: Congress has been overwhelmed with calls from TikTok users, many of them teenagers, demanding there be “no ban of TikTok.””
Teens brains are undeveloped. Male brains aren't fully developed until age 25,if that.
Tik Tok and cell phone apps take the place of social interaction, and it is made worse by soccer moms and helicopter parents needing to know every minute where the precious product of their loins might be.
I am sure glad that I missed all of this social control nonsense. I left to go to school, Mom went to work (single mother) and didn't see her until she got home, provided I was home.
I learned how to survive on the street, learned to read people by face and body language, and it served me well, except when I got drunk.
I learned that words are cheap and actions speak louder than words.
I learned that trying to impress others is a waste of time.
I learned that there are no psychics no mind readers, and that you can't believe what is coming out of someones mouth, unless they are drunk or angry.
That whatever mean or hateful thing they say, when angry,is what they really mean, and though they try to take it back, they can't because that is what they were thinking the whole time.
I learned that friends are ephemeral, friends as long as you can fulfill a need.
There are exceptions, but very rare, few and far between.
Never give in to peer pressure, peers don't have your best interest, only theirs.
Your peers want you to smoke,drink, drug, commit crimes because you are implicated and they feel safer, but peer pressure is ruinous.
Tik Tok is built around peer pressure, stupid crap like ice bucket challenges, like who really cares.
These kids have exposed themselves as morons, idiots with poor judgment and It will all come back to haunt them when they try to get jobs or placement in a university.
Or Like those morons Anthony Weiner (appropriate name) and Hunter Biden who take Dick Picks. maybe they are in love and enamoured of their penis, but I doubt that most women are.
You can correct your own posts: See the three dots (ellipsis) to the right of the LIKE REPLY SHARE line? Click that and you can edit (or delete) your post.
Today's MAGAts are the legitimate heir of Reagan, sadder still is that the Never Trumpers like the Bulwark and Lincoln Project still worship at the alter of Reagan.
There is no self realization,self awareness among these people.
Like Rachel Maddow said of Liz Cheney, with Cheney sitting in front of her, she is diametrically opposed to everything Liz stands for, except standing up for democracy.
Anyone who puts out anti Trump commercials is fine in my book. The Lincoln project and Liz Cheney at least have some good character. I'm concerned about how many GOP voters are morally bankrupt though? They don't have to vote for Biden or Trump they can just not vote for president or someone else.
I totally support the Bulwark and Lincoln Project in their anti Trump efforts,just as I do liz Cheney, but it stops there. They are Reagan Republicans.
What's behind Trump's flip flop on TikTok? Follow The Money with this interactive map that shows the PAY-TO-PLAY Republican politics.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/03/11/trump-flip-flops-on-tiktok-follow-the-money-pay-to-play-politics/
Of course he is once more bowing to power. They founded the infamous WDB, the world dictators' brotherhood, with the turkish sultan, the russian tsar, the chinese emperor, orban the magyar and few yet less known minions impatient to grow in their shadow. This international alt right organisation wants to erase democracies. Yup! No good.
Whatever happened to the Biblical principle to never trust or work with liars directly or indirectly? Liars are aligned with the father of all lies. And what happened to the main message of the Bible to not be afraid and to do not fear. This is all that Fox News does along with the right wingers hate radio.
Sorta bizarre that social media is where global conflicts present there faces. Right next to the new dance craze.
Are you watching Hur? Feeling my blood pressure going up!
Trump is his 2 pimps' (Putin and Xi) "Bottom Girl" * . . . Whilst the GOP contains the rest of the 2 pimps' lesser whores. America is just a chronically oblivious John in this sordid analogy, to be used and abused.
* From Urban Dictionary
A bottom girl, a bottom woman or bottom bitch, sits atop the hierarchy of prostitutes working for a particular pimp.
A bottom girl is usually the prostitute who has been with the pimp the longest and consistently makes the most money. Being the bottom girl gives the prostitute status and power over the other women working for her pimp. However, the bottom girl also bears many responsibilities.
In U.S. v. Pipkins, the Eleventh Circuit described the bottom girl’s duties as "working the track in her pimp’s stead, running interference for and collecting money from the pimp's other prostitutes, and looking after the pimp's affairs if the pimp was out of town, incarcerated, or otherwise unavailable".
Similarly, the PIP Training Manual explains the bottom girl’s obligations may include handling finances and training and recruiting other prostitutes. Bottom girls may also instruct and advise new pimps on the ways of the prostitution business.
The Pimp Game, a published instructional guide for pimps, compares the bottom girl to a coach in the NBA, i.e. a former player who "knows the ins and outs of the game", and explains that, like the NBA coach, she is "the least paid on the team, but the one who works the hardest". She also has the most interaction with her pimp's prostitutes, giving them "pep talks" and keeping them in the game.
There was an excellent example in the recent “Mayor of Kingstown”. Also this show is a great depiction “slice of life “ of the working class towns and in this case a Michigan town that probably benefited from post war industrialization but now is dependent on a prison system for jobs.
I wanted to see the Mayor of Kingstown, but it is streaming and If I forked over money for every streaming service, and every website that has a subscription, I would not be able to save anything. Others less well off must choose between cell phone, ISP, TV, streaming or food and drugs.
Only in America will you find someone complaining about being poor, from a cell phone on the internet. I guess they have learned to eat electromagnetic waves.
It’s one more piece in the strategy to get trump elected: remove registered voters, have a half crazed suburban mom give a mendacious response to the SOTU, take over the Nat’l Rep Comm to access funds. My guess is he didn’t know the Chinese govt is just as important as the Russians to get to the win.
Here's our delicious lunch box. See anything you like? Oh, you want the whole thing!?
When the price is right, Trump will sell it all. He'll make the terms easy and tell his followers nothing to see here. He'll reassure them he's making America Great Again, not letting someone eat our lunch.
Meanwhile, most of the youth and many of the grannies on TikTok have no idea what value their content has to the CCP. I've been reading about them for years and until the Trump election and Russia interference surfaced, I just had a vague idea. The experts and their statistics explained what social media manipulation did to our election. Now that investigative reporters also showed us the Chinese Social Credit System, I GET IT! By the way, that thing keeps morphing and probably only their dear leader knows exactly what he'll do with their information.
Bread and games. If the games are really good, they are not watching Trump take control of the bread and who he sells it to. People are just a resource to be bought, sold and exchanged for whatever a greedy China or Trump may want.
I hope Elon, Meta, Apple and other billionaire-owned companies are watching this… he will do what other dictators do… if you don’t pay his price he will come for you and your company. Give him power and he will f*** you over just as he does everyone else. He’s desperate now but once in power watch out.
Exactly right. If Trump is successful in establishing an authoritarian dictatorship like Putin did, he will ask successful private businesses to gift him a 50% ownership share. He would henceforth take half of their profits and income. If they refuse he will take the entire company by force and if current owners object they will be killed or mysteriously disappear.
The young voters will think Trump is great!!! He has already proven that he will sell Americans out to become a dictator, so this is not surprising.
I've noticed a few cracks in the GOP lately. Some of his supporters are starting to doubt him? Oooh no!
These cracks should c rack you up!
https://rvat.org/
I suspect the Russian assets now held in banks throughout the world will be used as collateral for bonds to help Trump. The money was earmarked for absconding and given to Ukraine. The Russian money was likely lost anyway, so why not use it for Trump support is likely to be the thought process.
According to Seth Abramson, Putin may be subsidizing Chubb Insurance and Trump.
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/experts-said-for-weeks-that-trump
Thanks I've seen that do a google search Evan Greenberg and Trump.
The two go way back.
Pertinent Quote: Greenberg’s father—and longtime boss at AIG—Maurice Greenberg, is a Vladimir Putin business associate who has also associated, as discussed in detail below, with Russian spies, other Kremlin agents, and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.
I’m kind of wondering if they’re not already using TikTok for political purposes. So many young kids are getting news from the site. And interestingly they are hearing the Palestinian voice but it seems not much about Hamas. Why is that?
Islam is a world wide community (the Ummah), and demands loyalty to the Ummah above all else, even the country that has hosted them, nurtured and protected them.. push comes to shove it is Islam uber alles.
Considering that the right thinks there is a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, and sadly aided and abetted by the likes of Evan Greenberg, Stephen Miller, Michael Cohen, Weisselberg Weiss and the Kushners, it is strange that a man like Zuckerberg would be facilitating antisemitism.
Musk is a famous bigot.
But maybe not, money "trumps" all, and who has unlimited financial means to corrupt anyone?
The petroleum states. and that includes Russia.
Without the damned ‘Citizens United’ opinion by the damned Supine Court, would we even be talking about billionaires trying to buy elections? Never mind foreign controlled corporations paying to buy elections . . . ? — b.rad
If tRump supports anything, it is only because there is a profit for him. As one NYC contractor said in a Village Voice interview:
“Trump won’t do a deal unless there’s something extra — a kind of moral larceny — in it. He’s not satisfied with a profit. He has to take something more. Otherwise, there’s no thrill.”