news 2024 US Election Megathread 🇺🇸🏛️

[Vermillion]

ByteDance is not giving up U.S. ownership of TikTok. I don't know how many times I have to repeat that but it's not happening.

 

Trump did a 180 on this topic solely because one of his closest friends for decades became a TikTok lobbyist. He doesn't give a crap one way or the other.

 

The TikTok CEO is trying to figure out legally how Trump's executive order can stop the congressional ban that's happening the day before his inauguration.

 

This means this case is likely going to SCOTUS again, who, based on the arguments presented already before them, will likely agree with Congress again, valuing national security over the first amendment arguments that were already made.

 

 

[ClashAndBurn]

13 hours ago, GhostBox said:

A year from now when shits hitting the fan people will be wishing old Joe was back in charge. That was good farewell address  👏🏼

 

America deserves the mess it's gonna get. 

Did Trump's administration manhandle reporters who asked "wrongthink questions"?

 

Seems the Biden administration has shown more authoritarian tendencies overall in order to protect war criminals like Biden, Blinken and Netanyahu from accountability 

 

 

[Fleahive]

Biden is going down as GOAT with these last minute moves! #Biden2028

 

[anti-bitch]

2 minutes ago, Vermillion said:

ByteDance is not giving up U.S. ownership of TikTok. I don't know how many times I have to repeat that but it's not happening.

 

Trump did a 180 on this topic solely because one of his closest friends for decades became a TikTok lobbyist. He doesn't give a crap one way or the other.

 

The TikTok CEO is trying to figure out legally how Trump's executive order can stop the congressional ban that's happening the day before which means this case is likely going to SCOTUS again, who, based on the arguments presented already before them, will likely agree with Congress again, valuing national security over the first amendment arguments that were already made.

 

 

But the irony is that now people are downloading RedNote app instead which is completely Chinese. Lol. I guess the Congress will go after that next. It's like cat and mouse.

[Vermillion]

Just now, anti-***** said:

But the irony is that now people are downloading RedNote app instead which is completely Chinese. Lol. I guess the Congress will go after that next. It's like cat and mouse.

I'm not disputing that and that's exactly what's going to happen.

[GhostBox]

😂

[FameFatale]

17 minutes ago, GhostBox said:

😂

Those caravans must've gotten flats. 

[FameFatale]

 

[FameFatale]

 

[Vermillion]

 

 

 

[Bloo]

2 hours ago, Fleahive said:

Biden is going down as GOAT with these last minute moves! #Biden2028

 

I am still floored the losers in DC decided to ban TikTok—without checking on how Americans felt about this idea—only to panic when Americans decide to download an actual Chinese-owned social media platform instead.

[FameFatale]

 

[GhostBox]

12 minutes ago, FameFatale said:

 

It's pretty simple. Men hate all the talk about women's rights, gay rights, not being able to say bad things to people, ect. They hate it. It makes them feel less than. Boo hoo 💀

Edited Thursday at 07:38 PM by GhostBox

[Katamari]

1 hour ago, FameFatale said:

 

He's just putting his friends on his payroll 

 

crazy  clowns all of them

[wastedpotential]

8 hours ago, Chemist said:

 

Honestly, it doesn't make a ton of sense for them to play this card unless Trump is amassing forces on the border. Canada literally does not have the export pipeline capacity to ship the majority of their oil anywhere but the US, so instead of selling it to the global market it will just... sit in tanks until this dispute is resolved. There are no pipeline projects in the works, and the one they just completed (from Edmonton to Vancouver) brings their total non-US export capacity to approximately 25% of their total daily production. To that end, almost all of the oil "imported" by the US from Canada (the remaining ~75%) is refined on the Gulf and then immediately exported to the EU or Japan or Mexico or... back to Canada. Albertan oil is notoriously hard to refine, and some of the only places on earth capable of doing it at any scale are down in Lake Charles or Beaumont (and if Canada shuts off the taps, they can just go back to surreptitiously importing from Venezuela or they can just petition Trump to re-open the taps in Alaska. Most of the gasoline Americans put in their cars or planes or tanks comes from domestic production because it has the lowest costs. 

 

At the same time, oil is like 30% of all Canadian exports to the US (and while that's almost half of all US oil imports, it's under 10% of daily US consumption, and again, most of it isn't even staying in the US), and is their only major trade bargaining chip. They can threaten automotive sanctions, but there are hundreds of thousands of Canadians who work for US car companies in the symbiotic Michigan <-> Ontario manufacturing chain, and they'd all be out of work (and considering that Doug Ford specifically was elected by a significant majority of these people, I have to think he'd be hesitant to make that threat). Other than that, most trade is in easily transferrable services (Google in Toronto can do the same things as Google in Mountain View) or niche products that the US also makes - so we might see the price of maple syrup go up (but again, the US is the largest importer of Canadian maple syrup by several orders of magnitude, so this would be a lot more impactful on the country where these producers live). 

 

Trump is a really shitty neighbor for them to have to deal with, and I don't envy the incoming PM in the slightest, but a Canadian sanction that hurts the US more than Canada basically does not exist at a scale to be impactful. Again, if Trump is amassing troops at Fort Drum and is stockpiling AGMs at Minot and Grand Forks AFBs, then this might be the only chip they have to get him to back down, but it doesn't make sense to use it before that point. 

[on the line]

14 minutes ago, FameFatale said:

 

And not a single mention of Israel, Gaza, or Palestine. 

[wastedpotential]

1 hour ago, FameFatale said:

 

I have to kii 

 

If it wasn't so serious it would be a literal comedy plot line 

[Gottasadae]

1 hour ago, FameFatale said:

 

Ok, but what about Harvey Weinstein? It's time to clear "poor sis" from all "fake charges" and put him back on payroll  Gosh, another 4 years of complete disgusting clownery  

 

 

Not #MakeHollywoodGreatAgain! is trending already 

 

Edited Thursday at 07:57 PM by Gottasadae

[Princess Aurora]

14 hours ago, GhostBox said:

Um ew 

 

In this picture, he looks like a horror movie character. Is this the beginning of something more sinister? 

Edited Thursday at 07:58 PM by Princess Aurora

[Princess Aurora]

1 hour ago, FameFatale said:

 

Oh great. We're gonna get a new wave of poor quality movies but without LGBTQ+ characters 

[FameFatale]

 

[jadeabove]

21 minutes ago, wastedpotential said:

I have to kii 

 

If it wasn't so serious it would be a literal comedy plot line 

Angelina must be BOILING. 

[wastedpotential]

7 minutes ago, FameFatale said:

 

Oh what could've been. There'd need to have been some major policy changes we didn't see, but still... what could've been 

 

[FameFatale]

Ironic he's pro Ukraine and calls out the GOP Russia propaganda and days later he's removed from a high ranking role he's had forever with zero issues before…. 
 

 

[FameFatale]

1 minute ago, wastedpotential said:

Oh what could've been. There'd need to have been some major policy changes we didn't see, but still... what could've been 

 

Honestly now reflecting and looking at everything and how it played out Kamala was going to lose regardless of the VP choice, but I still stand by Walz. I think he was a great choice, but was sadly hidden. People just wanted cheap eggs and gas and that's all they remembered from Trump so that's what they voted for. Too bad they're not getting that.