Updated: the NY Times (finally!) has a story hinting that maybe Tangerine took 2024 campaign contributions from larger equity holders in the ByteDance orbit, in return for doing an "about face" on TikTok needing to be divested, from Chinese state affiliated control. The story says he "backed off". More likely, he "sold off" his position. Disgusting -- end, update.
Apparently (and hilariously so!) Tangerine 2.0 DIRECTLY opposes… Tangerine 1.0’s “TikTok Banning” Executive Orders.
D A M N.
It is frustrating to me personally that none of the morning after’s stories on his brief just filed with the Supremes — not a single one I’ve seen — mentions that he personally spent almost two years trying to ban TikTok, all by himself, last time around. [His sole, and venal, motive was that the Tik-Tokers embarrassed him with a swarm, at his rally, in Tulsa.] See here:
“. . .This unfortunate timing,” his brief said, “interferes with President Trump’s ability to manage the United States’ foreign policy and to pursue a resolution to both protect national security and save a social-media platform that provides a popular vehicle for 170 million Americans to exercise their core First Amendment rights. . . .”
Well. . . that’s just silly.
If he’s right (he’s not), he can convince Congress to amend the law, after his inaugural. When he possesses actual authority. [Right now, he’s just another crooked jamook. And Chief Justice Roberts knows it.]
Even if he’s right, the Supremes are duty bound now to decide cases on appeal. The only way forward now, is for Congress to amend the law if the Supremes uphold it.
But rest assured, Trump only cares about keeping control of every megaphone he might.
What a putz. See his prior very strident 2020 views, when TikTokers pranked him, here (starting at page 8, onward).
But now he has a vested interest in keeping that 14 million Watt megaphone of his. Just. . . damn.
Out.
नमस्ते
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