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Me on Rednote looking at TT users like

It's just so exhausting.

Article 1 powers? Anyone?

That does not surprise me in the least.

it's right three in the first line of the NYT story.

"But Karl," I say confidentially in cocksure reply on Bluesky, "both the NYT and WSJ clearly say the money wound it's way to treasury! They would never say that without obtaining independently verifiable confirmation from lying fascists!"

$10B "brokerage fee" to allow Ellisons to take over TikTok. Cool, cool, cool. Just $1B of that could refund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and bring back weekend Newshour and funding for local NPR stations. What say ye, Brendan Carr? www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...

Also, MAGA keeps the U.S. fossil fuel dependent--so that the U.S. can't compete w China in sustainable energy output. And the T admin is now giving China justification for invading Taiwan--as it wd now be simply following the current U.S. role model. The list of benefits for China goes on & on.

Far worse, i would posit. He won't face any legal pressure from this admin about illegal surveillance or data gathering or censorship as long as he has the "right targets", and they will likely work to quash any state action.

Has MSNOW covered it? Probably not.

The real problem was Those Meddling K-Pop Kids using TikTok to spread how to scarf up free tickets to Trump's rallies so real MAGAs couldn't get them, but Trump's team later figured out how to use TikTok to do better campaigning and he got less mad. By then the Dems had bought in to his xenophobia.

What!!! $10 billion to Trump!!! The grift is endless.

The WSJ couldn't be bothered

It no healthcare for you

Let's ask DOGE!

vibes

Boycott TikTok.

Would add if that was Glasgow it would have a traffic cone on ‘its’ head

When billionaires control every media outlet, we are well and truly cooked.

Even the Mafia, in their pomp, could not have managed this level of illegal activity. Grifting, and guilty, in plain sight.

Most of them know this but did so out of love for Israel. Mark Warner and Romney explained this out loud multiple times.

An almost infantile understanding of the software and internet Space

That’s ok. We shall have Letitia James get it all back soon! With interest in kind!

The Democrats should get some of that money. They played their part.

Until when will the American people accept this ?

Wonder if there are people he has to pay to keep sweet on his alleged abuses and murders

Imagine a finder fee being $10B. What does that make the transaction actually worth? There is no way a fair market evaluation matches any of those numbers.

Man, there is a lot of money just flying around with zero oversight. Record setting ICE funding, but agents are not properly supplied and they're renting vehicles and facilities. Building onto the White House with no clear plan or progress. Just so many scams going at once. America is being mugged.

Taking money for this is super illegal.

This seems bad, but is it Hunter Biden’s laptop bad?

The current powers in the USA are all for money

The economy now is just billionaire grifters exchanging cash, goods and services amongst themselves.

Consequences of a post-truth era, nobody cares to believe that shit matters anymore

!0 billion additional for basically being a franchisee of TikTok? This makes less sense than the Paramout-WBD deal that Larry is making for his kid.

No tik tok for me! Never have, never will!!

This shit has to be clawed back in the future

“Brokering” 🤬

Wait did we not know that from the start? It’s not like he’s known for being charitable and I’m fairly certain it was obvious why tik tok was sold.

If the "Trump Administration" did it, then the US taxpayers had better be getting that $10 billion.

Theft