Blackmail, Bluster and Batshit Bonkers - Trump Thread #153

[Spandauer]

Enough already.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5472639-who-are-they-kidding-its-oil-oil-oil-baby-trump-thread-152

Thats why I looked at GB news. I was reading that thread and thought, " wonder what GB news is saying?"

:-)

I need to scrub my eyes now.

Yes I assumed the same. 😂

I see Trump has "SAVED" TikTok for Americans.

I have been following the story, and now he has potentially powerful propaganda app.

The odd thing about TikTok is that it is completely and totally banned in China. And I mean totally banned. It's blocked at SIM card level on phones, and will not work with a VPN.

And colour me fecking surprised, Trump and his grifting spawn are linked to most of the new US 'owners'.

Who Owns TikTok in the U.S. Now?
Several big companies and investment firms are part of the new American TikTok. Many have ties to one another and President Trump.
(NYT gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/business/media/tiktok-investors-oracle-mgx-silver-lake-bytedance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlA.laDo.A1X01bzyCsBM&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Exclusive, Norway’s response to Trump’s letter about the Nobel Prize.

😂

Yup. And note how PRC State Media reports it: ByteDance is still the biggest shareholder.

TikTok announces formation of new US joint venture, with ByteDance remaining the largest single shareholder - Global Times

And note this bit from that :

"Regarding the algorithm security, the company said that the new joint venture will retrain, test, and update the content recommendation algorithm on US user data, and the content recommendation algorithm will be secured in Oracle's US cloud environment."

Ahh yes. One can guess what recommended content it will push now.

now he has yet another potentially powerful propaganda app

And in other this White House is super professional at all times news

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image

Any one of these powerful entities could expose an awful lot by actually pressing forward with these lawsuits. I'm guessing they'll fold, but I hope they don't. The fact that all these tech people/titans of industry are, so far anyway, standing with him despite his behaviour in Davos I think shows that they'll hang on at all costs. JP Morgan is also pretty interested in not having their dealings with Epstein probed further.

According to Google as the Chinese version of this (Douyin) is still there. There have been experiments where blank phones were set up using a 13 yr old profile, and Douyin sends it stuff on doing well at school and science etc whereas the UK US tiktok stuff is user generated and has tips on self harm or sex etc

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.instagram.com/reel/DG6EsfeI94r/%3Fhl%3Den&ved=2ahUKEwiNjsLKz6GSAxXLU0EAHTrpB7kQtwJ6BAgdEAE&usg=AOvVaw2lP8moa-b8SyJf5G-FsRD

I mean, that’s a travesty in terms of DILF attributes, if nothing else.

Yup, Douyin is totally different content. And there is no crossover at all. Anything not to Party standards is removed, and the poster banned./punished.

And all users need to use their ID to access and create.

😂 But very true

And all users need to use their ID to access and create.

And ?

That'll be in place in the UK soon enough.

Ha ha. UK miles away.

But Trumps America ? Hmmm. Even China does not want visitors social media. Then again, western social media is blocked in China.

Think of it this way. In the West, internet law is majority to protect the individual from the Government. In China, the law is fully to protect Government from the individual.

I will say though, Chinese propaganda can be clever. And they have massive soft power methods. especially on green stuff and tech, to project out to the world what the Party wants the world to think.

But the current Whitehouse ? Atrocious compared to the PRC. That photo editing mentioned above is just plain bad.

Think of it this way. In the West, internet law is majority to protect the individual from the Government.

You say "The West" as if it is a homologous entity.

As suggested, the UK is developing a philosophy that the young need to be protected from the majority.

I TAKE THE BIG ASPRIN.

Yup, When explaining the bruise on his hand, Trump said:

"I take the big aspirin, and when you take the big aspirin, they tell you, you bruise. The doctor said, 'You don't have to take that, sir, you're very healthy.' I said, 'I'm not taking any chances.'"

Everything bigger and better for the orange fella.

Donald Trump claims he caused large bruise on hand by 'clipping it' on table | US News | Sky News

Let me put it this way: the last time I bruised anything like that, it was because I screwed up my draw and release and hit my inside elbow with my bow string, which was travelling at about 100 mph. I doubt the Orange was doing archery.

I'm in awe of Trumpy. How amazing he knows better than the medical profession, bigly genius!

Ambassador Newt Gingrich

nuff said

Will this do?

Who's up for the Carney cup ?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r89f8-G5dfg

If he did he'd be better than you, though. You'd be forced to go to him, and say (with tears in your eyes), Sir, your draw is the bigliest, and your bruise is the bestest in all of creation. I'm honoured to have seen it.

Weeeellll. Here's a thing from his battle of the bulldog clip on Tuesday.

“Whoo!” he exclaimed. “I’m glad my finger wasn’t in that sucker. That could’ve dome some damage, but you know what? I wouldn’t have shown the pain. I would’ve gone back. Boy, did you hear that? That was nasty. But I would not have shown the pain. I would’ve acted like nothing happened as my finger fell off.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/trump-press-conference-nato-greenland

A bizarre ramble amid other bizarre rambles. But actually he tells us which bit is important to him by saying it twice: "wouldn't have shown the pain".

Why was that idea bobbing near the top of his tiny, sewage-choked brain?

Suggests to me he's undergoing a lot events at the moment during which he aspires not to show the pain and to act like nothing happened. You could even add, that he has to keep going back despite the pain.

Frequent minor medical procedures would fit the bill nicely. A cannula in the back of the hand, for example...