Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson stated Sunday that the U.S. will enforce the TikTok ban unless ByteDance sells the app to a U.S.-based owner, countering Trump’s suggestion of a 90-day extension.
Johnson emphasized TikTok’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its harmful influence on American users. GOP Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts also opposed an extension.
The law does not allow the president to grant an extension without guarantees that ByteDance is actively pursuing a sale.
Johnson added there is no evidence of progress toward such progress.
Burn it to the fucking ground. They only want it to make it into another GOP propaganda tool.
Nobody believes that this will be the issue that the GOP breaks from Dear Leader. Trump will extort both sides for the best deal for him personally, and Johnson will let him.
Ah, but if Johnson rallies votes behind him, he can negotiate the return of Tik Tok for personal gain, which is why everyone is there in the first place.
It will be funny as hell if out of all possible things it’s TikTok that starts this round of GOP infighting.
This is the guy that uses an app to monitor his son’s masturbation habits, so if he is against an app, you can be darn sure he’s serious
What happened with Biden’s promise to not enforce it? Is that not something the POTUS can do or is this just the legislative branch posturing?
It would probably be up to the DoJ to sue any app store that didn’t remove it, so yeah it’s posturing.
Regardless, as I mentioned, the ban was to remove it from the app stores, not actually shut off functionality. Tiktok’s messaging this weekend was a stunt.
For anyone who wonders what the stunt was about, just look at this fuckin shit
