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mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. If I was going to hazard a guess, IQ45 wants to kill the Microsoft deal because one of his
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:47 PM
Aug 2020

cronies wants to buy the US arm of TikTok.

He bans it, MS backs out, and the price for the business drops precipitously.

Nothing he does is for anything other than the benefit of Trump and friends of Trump.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
10. sound plausible
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:48 PM
Aug 2020

and just about right considering the con artist and his grifter family squatting in 1600 on their golden toilets thinking it is what it is.

Midnight Writer

(21,546 posts)
3. I'll be interested in seeing the participation rate of young voters in this election.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:48 PM
Aug 2020

The last time I saw young folk so woke, taking to the streets demanding peace, justice, and equality, we ended up with Richard Nixon.

robbob

(3,514 posts)
5. Would that be 1968, when Chicago police thugs attacked young protesters
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:26 PM
Aug 2020

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outside the convention and savagely beat them? Would that be 1968 when the Democratic Party PTB manipulated the convention to ensure the anti war candidate would not get the nomination so they could shoehorn the establishment pick Hubert Humphrey to be the nominee?

Gee, I wonder why young people didn’t turn out in droves to vote for a candidate who sought to increase the American presence in Vietnam?

llashram

(6,265 posts)
7. Well whether some people
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:43 PM
Aug 2020

want to create the idea that young people won't show up this election, I have faith that there are enough AWAKE AND AWARE young people sick of the bullshit, as the murder of George Floyd so vividly showed, that young people will make an overwhelming difference in getting that disaster calling himself POTUS put out on Pennsylvania Ave. Jan 20.

robbob

(3,514 posts)
12. No offence, but you're moving the goalposts...
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 09:52 PM
Aug 2020

Your original observation was “the last time people were this woke...” and how we ended up with Nixon. As to your follow up observation, yes, we need to get young people out to vote. Let’s hope a nation on the verge of collapse might provide sufficient motivation!

dmr

(28,321 posts)
14. Thanks, I hadn't seen that one.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 10:00 PM
Aug 2020

"We are looking at a lot of alternatives with respect to TicToc".

Yea, sure you are ...

tblue37

(64,979 posts)
13. According to Trump, TikTok is a national emergency, but Covid is no big deal, because it's
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 09:55 PM
Aug 2020

just going to go away, or it's just a hoax in the first place.

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