Looks like somebody still has his knickers in a twist over the Tulsa fiasco….
The Trump administration said it is banning China’s TikTok and WeChat from mobile app stores beginning this Sunday, Sept. 20, in a move that will sharply raise tensions with Beijing.
The White House will take other action to curb WeChat’s use beginning Sunday, and will give TikTok until Nov. 12 until further bans kick in….
Besides the obvious legal issues and the eleventy-zillionth confirmation that il Doofus is a swaggering*, overbearing**, tin-plated*** dictator with delusions of godhood, what jumps out at me is the post-election deadline for the TikTok ban. Did one of the remaining adolescents in the room (the adults are long gone) realize that Tweetolini was likely to actually get eighteen-year-olds to show up for the election, and slip this in so as to mitigate the damage as best they could? Or does somebody in the Cheeto Crime Cabal think that setting a fairly long deadline increase the chance that TikTok will make some kind of deal to give them a piece of the action?
Developing story in progress, stay tuned….
*more like “waddling”, actually
**more like “overleaning”, actually
***Fun fact: Apparently tin can turn orange when it tarnishes