“It’s So Unconstitutional!”

Good morning from my office stashed between two of the three stadiums in Seattle. It is a chilly Sunday morning, and there ain’t nothing going on around here today. Even the homeless are nowhere to be seen.

I wasn’t going to post anything today, and then I saw the beginning of the national freak-out over TikTok being shut down — by TikTok.

Currently, the law banning TikTok is not being enforced by the US. Neither Google nor Apple has shut down access to the app. But a hundred million TikTok subscribers woke up this morning to the following message on their smartphones:

This is a message put up by TikTok, not either of the app stores. Outgoing cadaver, Joe Biden, has already come out to say that he has NO intention of enforcing the law, and his Justice Department is all but closed forever as of Friday. The Trump Justice Department will open its doors for business at 12:01 PM tomorrow afternoon, and it is expected that future presidential cadaver, Donald J. Trump, will issue a 90-day reprieve while he tries to negotiate a ‘deal’ with ByteDance, the owners of the platform to sell.

Meanwhile, there are roughly 170 million TikTok users who are freaking out this morning, and are in various stages of withdrawal and anger.

A lot of these people are skipping Instagram Reels and moving onto another Chinese-owned platform called RedNote. It is named after Chairman Mao’s “Little Red Book”, which should cause a few of your eyebrows to arch.

The reactions to this ban are kind of stupid.

This didn’t just happen overnight. The fucknozzles in the US government have been belching out their displeasure over the idea of China owning the seventh most popular social media platform in the world, and how it has captured the minds and souls of America’s younger people. These government clowns couldn’t just shut down the platform because that would have violated the First Amendment Rights of the people who use the platform to earn a living. No, instead they had to create a national security issue out of the idea of a foreign government owning this platform — China specifically — and that it could potentially collect and maintain private data on American citizens as the EXCUSE to ban the platform.

So anyone who is freaking out over this ban right now — is either stupid, or just hasn’t been paying attention.

Or Both. It’s not exclusive.

Here are some of the reactions this morning:

It’s been 15 minutes and I’m already going through TikTok withdrawal. THIS IS A CRIME pic.twitter.com/k6g1t8l9MB

— iJustine (@ijustine) January 19, 2025

Jesus fucking Christ. It’s not a crime, you idiot. The Supreme Court has determined that it is completely legal. It was a unanimous decision, and while you don’t have to agree with it, it has become the law of the land.

Them’s the rules, like it or not. You voted for this shit, regardless of how you voted.

Mikayla Nogueira, a makeup influencer with 16 million TikTok followers, said she keeps clicking to open the app out of habit forgetting it doesn’t work.

“Mentally I am totally dissociating right now I’m crashing out BAD LOL,” she wrote in an Instagram story. “This can’t be f—g real.”

Unconstitutional?

TikTok was just removed from the App Store.

The US Government has unconstitutionally silenced millions of voices. pic.twitter.com/IDl871koKn

— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) January 19, 2025

Again, nothing “unconstitutional” about it. Misguided? Yes, definitely misguided and knee-jerk, but it is all perfectly legal.

Trying to wrap my mind around this one though…

ITS GONE TIKTOK IS GONE pic.twitter.com/USTFbIA1Yi

— ?La ? (@Ayah2156) January 19, 2025

I’m sure this person will somehow ‘bounce back’..

Trump to the Rescue?

Maybe Elon Musk will buy it. He’s already made noises towards that idea. I know there are a couple of other Trumpy Billionaires who have been making similar noises.

MY TAKE:

I’m just starting to enter the realm of podcasting myself. My plans do not include posting to TikTok, although it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t. It’s just that currently, I have three separate YouTube channels I am developing and if I were to use TikTok, it would only be to promote the YouTube programming.

Yesterday I just laid out $9500 on three cameras. I’ve invested another $5000 in video switching equipment and a soundboard. I’ve been converting my old sound studio into a broadcast studio that has now been painted in Chroma key green so I can green screen a background.

I already have clients lined up wanting to rent studio time for their podcasting projects. Had I known that there is this HUGE market for podcasting studio leasing, I would have done this a LONG time ago.

If you don’t think there is BIG BIG BIG money in podcasting and influencing through TikTok, then you just haven’t been paying attention. I mean, look at these two freaks:

Yeah, I know these are an exception to the rule, but these two freaks are worth a couple of million bucks thanks to TikTok.

But the point is, people DO make money posting shit on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and elsewhere. Some can make a LOT of money, while others get by on a bit less. There is an audience for just about anything, so there’s money to be made.

I completely disagree with the excuse being used to ban TikTok

The excuse being made is a national security issue: China is collecting data information TikTok users that could possibly be used against them at a later date.

HORSEPUSSY.

Sure, China could collect data on people using the TikTok platform, but WHY? It would be so much easier for them to literally go out and BUY this data and much more from data collection companies such as LexisNexis.

I used to do skip tracing back before computers was a big thing. Back then there was a lot of pavement pounding and phone calling. Today, a skip tracer can jump on their computer an locate just about anyone in less than ten minutes, and work up a complete dossier on someone in less than thirty minutes without ever leaving the desk.

If you don’t think that China can’t do that also, then you aren’t paying close enough attention.

Banning TikTok is probably the one of the more blatant political moves lately. The first fucknozzle that made noises about banning TikTok was Donald J. Trump himself, when a bunch of young people got on TikTok and ridiculed The Donald over something. Of course The Donald’s thin skin couldn’t take the ridicule so he was the first to make noises about banning the platform.

It’s all bullshit. Trump will magically bring back TikTok by tomorrow afternoon and he will become the hero of the influencer class.