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The Death of TikTok and the Demise of Democracy
For now at least, but this thing isn’t cooked yet
Sunday was a big news day. Three hostages were released by Hamas in Israel and hopefully they are the beginning of the end to the horrors there. Washington was awash in Inauguration parties, if you had the millions required for tickets. But these events were eclipsed by a national tragedy of epic proportions.
170 million Americans are mourning the loss of TikTok, a meaningless app that has mesmerized a majority of the country while sharing everything they know and do with China, our greatest enemy. That entire sentence might be the most absurd and surrealistic thing I have ever written and it is the truth.
Today Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, surrounded by billionaires celebrating their political takeover of the world’s most sustained democracy and the greatest military power ever seen. Or so we are told, though China is moving up fast as they risk their entire economy to build a massive, highly advanced military.
But TikTok? Really? Are we really that stupid and self-absorbed? Of course we are. I watched a grown man, if twenty-something is grown, crying on national television over the loss of endless tiny videos of people acting like idiots while a dictator and…