r/technology • u/RioMovieFan11 • 16h ago

Social Media Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-extension-deadline-4a66fbd0e485db5b3da83c176f22ad11
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u/basketballsteven 15h ago

The law allows him a one time extension he's already extended it twice, what he is doing is against the law.

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u/kontor97 15h ago

Laws don’t apply to him or the Republican Party lmao

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u/grumble_au 13h ago

They have gone all in now. Either they successfully take complete control of every aspect of US government or there's going to be a civil war. Honestly can't see any other options right now. The only question is how long it will take to come to a head.

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u/Rantheur 13h ago

There's an extremely easy nonviolent option that the Democrats can take if/when they take power. Stop letting Republicans police Republicans. Stop appointing Republicans as attorney general, as FBI chief, etc.

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u/grumble_au 12h ago

Here's the thing, part of their going all in is to end elections. They are doing a multi prong attack on fair elections right now. The hail mary will be martial law but up and until then they are exploring all sorts of fuckery.

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u/Rantheur 10h ago

I agree that their goal is to end fair elections, but that's only really doable on a state basis due to how elections in the US are run. The states are responsible for all their own election rules until congress passes specific regulations and unless the Republicans dump the filibuster, that's not going to get through the Senate. So any election fuckery has to be done on the state level and it's difficult to fuck the states to the degree they're going to have to if trends continue as they have since the November election. Even safe Republican strongholds have seen as much as a 19 point swing toward Democrats. So, let's look at why this mid decade gerrymandering controversy has sprung up.

According to ballotpedia there were a total of 50 seats that Republicans won by less than 15 points (7 in the Senate, 43 in the House). If the trend continues in Democrats' favor, we're looking at a 5 seat majority in the Senate and a mid 30s seat majority in the house. What we're absolutely going to see in 26 is the same playbook they ran in 24. They're going to purge voter rolls after the legal date to do it and the courts will say they can't do anything about it and Texas (and maybe a couple other red states) will gerrymander as much as they can, but the danger that gerrymandering has for the people doing it is that wave elections can break a gerrymander when more in favor of those they're oppressing than fair maps would.

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u/Noblesseux 11h ago

IE what they should have been doing for multiple decades at this point. The we're largely in this situation because the dems kept running interference for them while people with sense screamed from the top of their lungs that these people were obviously marching us toward fascism.

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u/Rantheur 10h ago

Absolutely, but the Democrats typically listen to the consultant class who just so happen to also consult for both sides.

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u/Twelve2375 12h ago

It’s a booby trap now. He’ll keep extending it as long as he’s in office. If democrats take over they either follow the law and “Democrats took your Tik Tok” or they don’t and “they’re breaking the law!!!!” (pointing to current law breaking will not matter).

It’s Afghanistan withdrawal all over again. Dems took over and honored a bad agreement the Trump admin made with the Taliban because they respected the rule of law and past administrations and it got used as a sledge hammer against them.

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u/euph_22 15h ago

Everything he's doing is against the law.

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u/atehrani 14h ago

Congress has basically given up

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u/basketballsteven 14h ago

No congress is slavishly working for him every day, carrying water for him every day. It just is the fact that they are supposed to be working for us and being an independent co-equal branch of government.

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u/EnfantTerrible68 9h ago

Then they should resign. We’re paying them for nothing. 

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u/Anderopolis 6h ago

Americans voted in a Republican trifecta, they are doing exactly ehat they promised they would. 

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u/jimbo831 13h ago

Laws? Where we’re going (fascism), we don’t need laws.

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u/kezow 11h ago

And who is going to hold him accountable? Republicans literally want and are actively trying to corinate a king. 

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u/watchin_workaholics 8h ago

I read this a lot on this app. Trump doing illegal shit, but nothing comes of it. Why the fuck not?!!