Tucker Carlson & Senator Rand Paul Discuss TikTok Ban
By Sundance
Tucker Carlson gives a good preliminary outline showcasing the hypocritical argument being used against the social media platform TikTok and the auspices of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) expansion and influence in America. Carlson walks through some current aspects of Chinese ownership and influence in the USA and then asks why is TikTok the focus of concern.
Rand Paul then joins Carlson to discuss the specific details of HR7521 and the interests of Washington DC as espoused. Toward the end of their conversation, Rand Paul does a good job framing the issue around the global cleaving we have discussed at length here. Senator Paul doesn’t specifically connect the dots clearly, but his larger point about where he sees this approach going is correct. The global cleaving, which was triggered by Western sanctions against Russia, is a very real phenomenon despite denials. WATCH:
Breeauna Sagdal – “Once you realize that TikTok and its parent company Bytedance have been working WITH the Biden Administration and CFIUS for the last three years to become compliant, once you realize that On January 19, 2021, one day before President Biden assumed office, the US Department of Commerce (Commerce) published an interim final rule implementing its sweeping new authority to block, unwind, or condition “transactions” involving information and communications technology and services (ICTS), once you realize that TikTok’s servers are in Texas, and then understand that the company already has an American board, and has already turned over ALL records of shareholders to the satisfaction of our federal government – then you start to understand the REAL target isn’t TikTok – it’s YOU via “X,” Rumble, Gettr, Crypto, and so on down the line of non-compliant, divergent thought, content hubs and decentralized financial mechanisms.”
Don’t think it’s possible? I have news for you. All it takes is an Executive Order declaring a National Security threat exists and invoking IEEPA (economic sanctions), like the Biden Administration did on Feb. 28, 2024—days before H.R 7521 passed out of the House. The seizure or freezing of assets can happen WHILE an investigation is being conducted, AND all an investigation requires is mere hearsay, or a small amount of evidence such as this below, in order to begin.
And so here we are. This is how it starts, saying the quiet parts out loud and laying the foundation for what comes neXt—the truth behind “the so-called TikTok ban” (H.R 7521). Because, the ultimate and uncomfortable truth is that the Free Market is the enemy of stakeholder capitalism, and stakeholder capitalism IS Economic Fascism!!! A system that exists to financially starve out dissenters, and those who fund “them” as opposed to “us.” (SOURCE)