In other words: “I hate TikTok and China, but young people hate me, and maybe I can shave off a quarter of a percent in a tight race if I give them TikTok”

Of course he does - his mental capacity does not allow him to conceptualize the future or plan for it, or to remember the past, so he just says whatever he considers to be most advantageous to him at that very moment…

He can’t even save his own social media company. He’s lost $5 billion in less than a month. Even for a guy who bankrupted multiple casinos, that’s an achievement.

Tik Tok, Ukraine, and Palistine. Day one

Oh no, the guy who will say anything to get elected is saying something different than he used to. How dare he, the scoundrel.

I guess I’m more interested in who the target demo for this piece is. Like everyone who’s going to care already has an opinion about him (for good or ill) is this a last straw effort to wear down his base? They live in an entirely different reality, if felony indictments, sex scandals, and the rest haven’t been enough him suddenly supporting a popular and controversial app actually might help him with the base.

Is it red meat for the outrage masochists among Trump’s opposition? If so, why not go for the juicer Russian psyop story that broke a few days ago about former trump staffers and alt right podcasters being paid by the kremlin to sow misinformation? That’s much more outrageous if you’re looking to get your rocks off about what Trump has done this time.

I am looking forward to the day the only thing people write about Trump is that he’s still alive in Argentina or a look at how the Trump era changed us all.

Related: anyone been on TikTok lately? I know misinformation is all over social media in general, but holy fuck is it bad on TikTok. Even after using custom filters to try and avoid election stuff altogether, it seems like every other post is some ridiculous MAGA BS without sources making some outrageous claim about Democrats.

Case in point: according to multiple posts I saw earlier today, both Kamala and Tim Walz have dropped out of the race (false, obviously, and yet filled with happy MAGA commenters who seemed to actually believe it?).

“I promise if you reelect me I’ll fix all the bad things that I did! I will also pardon myself so I can keep on fixing things, for myself”

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