People, before you REACT to the headline, hear me out!
US government is getting $10billion FEE for brokering the sale of TikTok US from the Chinese to a bunch of billionaires. It's NOT Trump receiving the fee. It's the government! And the idiots (Wall Street Journal) are calling for impeachment because he's TAXING billionaires??? And who's the idiot? It's Wall Street Journal. Owned by Murdoch. Of the Fox News. The Capitalist Paper. The apologist for the Billionaires.
READ FIRST!!! This might be the first right thing this orange idiot has done.
18 Comments
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 174d
Where's my $66 check?
obvs@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 174d
The U.S. Government's motivations in forcing the sale of TikTok were not for the benefit of the citizens of the United States. And frankly, I don’t care how much the U.S. Govenment collects or earns in money, because its income or debt benefits citizens in no way. It could have a gagillion dollars in debt or a googleplex in surplus, and the lives of the American people would be better or worse in no way.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 173d
Of course it wasn't, it was so the US government could control the propaganda instead of China.
pubquiz@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 174d
aramis87@fedia.io · 22 pts · 174d
I'd rather the Chinese still owned TikTok than a bunch of corrupt Techbro billionaires who have already admitted they want America entirely owned by themselves and their friends and the rest of us as slaves - if that. All the forced sale of TikTok stuff was to give them another tool to pacify and brainwash the masses while they consolidate their control.
Paragone@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 174d
IF ANYBODY impeaches him, for any reason, THEN he invokes the Insurrection Act, & "goes nuclear" on all the ones he's committed to destroying.
That option was rendered useless by allowing his ever-accelerating-escalation to progress this-far.
It's too late for that to work.
Prep.
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troglodytis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 173d
Do it
AmbientDread@piefed.social · 16 pts · 174d
You know Pump and Dump Rump and his crime family got their beak wet on the guzinta and the gozouta of the transaction. That's the only thing he gets right until another bankruptcy of his leaves US holding the full diaper he leaves behind.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 173d
What the fuck am I supposed to do with this "but hitler made the autobahn" argument ?
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 174d
If you're still using TikTok Your an idiot
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 174d
How did you get "you're" correct the first time you used it, and then whiff the second?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 173d
Guess they're still using TikTok every other day 🤷🏻
BoosBeau@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 174d
*Your a idiot ftfy
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 173d
I mean, sure, he's 💯 right, but HOW exactly is his expertise in insects and visual depiction relevant enough to mention in this context? 🤔
qqq@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 173d
Trump is basically a cockroach ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe that's unfair to cockroaches though
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 174d
This is crazy as they have been fine for money going directly to him.
TehWorld@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 173d
Fuck RawStory.
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 174d
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 173d
The deal was basically, "Sell off your business or we shut it down." That ain't worth $10 billion.
fizzle@quokk.au · 2 pts · 173d
LOL. As if anything will happen about this.