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Despite Banning TikTok Biden’s 2024 Election Campaign Keeps Using Platform

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President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign says it would continue to use its TikTok account even after he signed legislation requiring its parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., to sell its interest or face a ban from US app stores.

The measure was part of a foreign aid package that released long-stalled aid to Ukraine and Israel. Even before it was linked to the package, Biden expressed support for the divest-or-ban campaign, citing worries about Americans’ data security and privacy.

The Biden re-election team says it will use “every tool we have to reach young voters where they are” and promises to continue doing so with “enhanced security measures.”

The statements came after Mr. Biden signed the so-called “TikTok ban,” which landed at his desk buried inside a large international aid package on Wednesday. Despite his campaign’s comments on the subject, Mr. Biden avoided questions about TikTok at a press conference on Wednesday after signing the legislation.

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TikTok’s ownership by ByteDance: File Image

The law requires ByteDance, the parent firm of the video-sharing app, to sell the bill within the next nine months. If not, TikTok will be withdrawn from App Stores in the United States. This means that the prohibition may go into effect as early as next January, after the 2024 election season has concluded.

However, his campaign’s decision to use the Chinese-owned social media platform contrasts sharply with what the White House has said about the app.

Earlier this month, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby told reporters, “TikTok’s ownership by ByteDance gives us pause and reason to be concerned about the security of data on that application and the use of that data by a company that has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”

The Biden team first debated whether to use TikTok as part of its campaign strategy, but joined the platform in February and has already amassed over 306,000 followers. (Donald Trump is not on TikTok, but has capitalized on the topic, writing on his Truth Social account Monday that Biden would be “responsible for banning TikTok,” adding, “He is the one pushing it to close, and doing it to help his friends over at Facebook become richer and more dominant.”

Biden didn’t mention TikTok when he signed the law on Wednesday. Instead, he focused on the aid package for Ukraine, stating that shipments would begin within the “next few hours.” During a call with China’s Xi Jinping earlier this month, he reportedly raised alarm over the app’s Chinese ownership.

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TikTok Users Slam Biden: File Image

As expected, the bill’s passing sparked a deluge of angry comments on Biden’s recent TikTok videos.

The most popular remark on Biden’s most recent tweet said, “You just guaranteed [sic] Trump’s victory with the TikTok ban.”

“Keep TikTok, and I’ll vote for you,” another said. (“Keep TikTok” was the prevailing sentiment among users, with the majority using that phrase.)

“You using TikTok but you wanna ban it 😂,” pointed out another user.

According to the new rule, TikTok owner ByteDance has nine months to sell the app before it is outlawed in the United States.

If a sale is in the works but cannot close within 90 days, the president has the authority to request a 90-day extension. However, legal challenges will result in a real-time prolongation.

The firm is anticipated to oppose the decision of Congress vigorously.

“Rest assured, we aren’t going anywhere,” TikTok CEO Shou Chew said in a video.

TikTok, a social media app, has taken the world by storm. It enables users to produce and share short movies, which frequently include dances, comedic skits, and viral trends.

The app’s algorithm generates an infinite stream of content based on each user’s preferences, making it immensely addictive.

While once derided as a fad, TikTok has grown into a cultural phenomenon, influencing music, fashion, and even politics. Brands flock to the app, hoping to engage with its enormous teenage audience.

However, concerns about data privacy, content filtering, and Chinese ownership persist. Nonetheless, TikTok’s rapid rise continues, altering how we consume and create information.

Source: Bloomberg

 

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Democrats Now Leaderless After Trump Presidential Win

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Democrats spent billions of dollars with the legacy media to try and create fear among American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy; in the end, voters didn’t care. They chose to believe their own eyes and not the rhetoric.

Following Kamala Harris’ decisive loss, the Democrats are now entering a second Trump presidency without a clear leader, a clear plan, or an accord on the reasons for their significant miscalculations in the 2024 election.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and former Democratic primary candidate, had warned Harris before Election Day that she was focusing too much on flipping Republican votes and not enough on pocketbook issues. He issued a statement excoriating party leadership.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he said. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

Trump’s promises to impose tariffs on both allies and foes and his threats to American businesses contemplating the relocation of jobs offshore were alluring to union workers.

Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of the far-left Justice Democrats, told AP that the party’s leadership must “accept responsibility for that a second”Donald Trump presidency was once again feasible under their supervision.”

Rojas charged that the Democratic Party is los”ng legitimacy among the everyday people and marginalized communities, who are continuously used as stepping stones to win elections. She also acknowledged that “there are no easy answers for where we as a coun”ry and movement go from here.”

The data indicates that Democrats have” substantial work to do.

Faiz Shakir, the Democratic strategist who oversaw Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, is concerned that Sanders’s Democratic Party will fail to engage in the necessary introspection after this catastrophic defeat.

He asserted that “a healthy party is challenging itself to conduct”that type of autopsy and hear what we did wrong.” “I am not even aware that such a process will occur. He asks, “Will the Democratic Party’s well-paid consultant and big-money interParty learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?”

“Will they comprehend the political alienation and pain that tens of millions of Americans are currently experiencing?” Do they have any suggestions for how we can confront the Oligarchy, which is gaining economic and political influence at an accelerated pace? It is unlikely, he said.

Source: AP

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Kamala Concession Speech Trends on Google

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One day after former President Donald Trump’s historic re-election, Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the presidential race and vowed to maintain unity. Her concession speech trended on Google with over 5 million searches.

“I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign, but I do concede this election.” She stated, “In our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States.”

Kamala Harris acknowledged that there was no viable strategy for obtaining the presidency even though her speech was not what she intended.

In the center of Washington, DC, Harris delivered a speech at her alma mater, Howard University. Harris expressed her gratitude to the hundreds of campaign workers and volunteers who worked assiduously on her campaign and to the tens of millions of voters who cast their votes for her.

Kamala Harris also stated that the country should unite for a peaceful power transfer despite the agony of losing.

She said, “We must acknowledge the outcomes of this election.” “I conversed with President-elect Trump earlier today and congratulated him on his victory.”

I also informed him that we would assist him and his team during his transition and participate in a peaceful transfer of power.

In the interim, Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a caustic statement regarding the presidential election results, accusing the Democratic Party of having “abandoned” working-class voters. It’s unsurprising that “a Democratic Party that has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

Sanders, who secured re-election last night, stated that the party’s white working-class voters were the first to quit and that it now appears that Latino and Black workers are following suit. “The American people are enraged and desire change despite the Democratic leadership’s defense of the status quo,” he stated. “And they’re right.”

Trump and Vance were also congratulated on their electoral victory by former President Obama, who ardently campaigned for Harris in the final stretch before Election Day. This was announced in a statement published today.

“This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues,” according to him. “But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won’t always win out, and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.”

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Despite All the Odds Donald Trump Elected 47th President

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Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, a remarkable turnaround for a former president who refused to concede defeat four years ago.

Trump achieved the 270 electoral votes required to secure the presidency with a victory in Wisconsin. On Wednesday afternoon, he emerged victorious in Michigan, conquering the “blue wall” with Pennsylvania.

On Wednesday afternoon, Vice President Kamala Harris contacted President-Elect Trump to congratulate her and acknowledge his victory in the election. Shortly thereafter, Vice President Biden conversed with Trump to extend his congratulations and invitation to the White House.

Foreign leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also phoned Trump.

“I would like to express my gratitude to the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected as your 47th and 45th president,” Trump addressed a crowd of enthusiastic supporters in Florida before officially confirming their victory.

“Today, you demonstrated unprecedented attendance to secure a victory, and we have endured an immense amount of hardship together,” Trump said. This was truly exceptional, and we will repay you,” he added.

Upon his return to office, Trump will collaborate with a Senate that is now under Republican control, while the House’s governance remains uncertain.

Elon Musk’s Tesla, banks, cryptocurrencies, and the U.S. stock market all surged Wednesday as investors anticipated a smooth election and Trump’s return to the White House.

Trump has pledged to implement an agenda that prioritizes the substantial revamping of the federal government during his second term.

When Trump assumes office on January 20, he will face various challenges, such as global crises testing America’s influence abroad and heightened political polarization.

Trump has pledged to revolutionize nearly every facet of the American government. This encompasses the intention to initiate the most extensive deportation operation in the nation’s history, once more pursue a zero-sum approach to foreign policy, and increase the use of tariffs.

Upon his arrival in Washington in 2017, Trump was unfamiliar with the mechanisms of federal authority. Congress, the judiciary, and senior staff members who acted as guardrails impeded his agenda.

This time, Trump has declared that he will surround himself with allies who will execute his agenda without question and arrive with hundreds of proposed executive orders, legislative proposals, and in-depth policy papers.

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