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#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-24 08:23 PM
Pres Trump likely has that view because now it appears that mega-MAGA donor, Oracle, now controls the almighty TikTok algorithm that determines what videos are presented to users.

No, Larry / Oracle doesn't control the TikTok algorithm - TT's "secret sauce" stayed with ByteDance, which now owns 19.9% of TikTok USA, but has been "retraining" for months on US-users data - that's why it took this long to forge a "shaky" semi-legal agreement, which could be subject to Congressional scrutiny.

nypost.com - Trump-backed deal to 'save' TikTok faces lingering security questions for Congress: 'It's a smokescreen' - NYP, 2026-01-23

In any case, the importance of TikTok has never really been its ownership ("China, China, China!") or that the user data could've been exploited by CCP (again, "China, China, China!") because all their servers and pipes have been either in the US or under US datacenter companies control for years.

That panic was artificial, mostly part of Putin/Trump-generated zeitgeist, in their campaign to deflect and misdirect from what Trump unsurprisingly calls the "Russiagate hoax."

The real reason Trump wanted to "save" TikTok in the US is that Trump's 2024 campaign realized its importance and value, as they used the ability to have TT's "influencers" spread Trump campaign ads in "info-news" format and misinformation amid very important category of young, first-time voters who were/are getting their "news" from the platform.

This can be - and was successful for Trump - on mostly unfiltered, unmoderated, algorithmically viral platforms, regardless of the ownership.

This is something Biden/Harris campaign completely missed, as they completely mis-read the economy and people's mood, in their zeal to recruit media and entertainment celebrities (whose followers couldn't care less about politics even if eligible to vote) and run a mostly conventional campaign.

Here's how it was done in 2024 and likely for at least few election cycles - Dems better figure this out and adapt to it fast:

www.wired.com - The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics | New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics " especially those who don't normally share political content. - 2025-12-17

www.wired.com - A Visual Guide to the Influencers Shaping the 2024 Election | From Hasan Piker to Logan Paul, this interactive display maps how online personalities on the right and the left are using their massive followings to influence the US election - 2024-08-15

www.wired.com - This Was the Year of the Influencer Political Takeover | Politicians fully embraced the creator economy in 2024, blurring the lines between punditry and journalism. By 2028, the lawmakers could become creators themselves. - 2024-12-27

Here is why TT's is so addictive, and why so many "creators" want to be "influencers" on that platform:

www.theverge.com - Stop, Shop, and Scroll - TV, 2025-12-08
Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced, many adrift in debt and mass-produced clutter. The platforms need influencers and influencers need audiences " but what the influenced need is not so simple.
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And, of course, the coward boaz celebrates Alex Pretti's murder at the hands of ICE...

...along with all the rest of the the Retort liars and cowards.

FTA:

"Things feel so hopeless that at a recent Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation meeting, a group representing farmers, participants floated the idea of a government program that would pay producers to destroy the harvested rice sitting in their bins. A similar program was put in place during the 1980s farm crisis, when the Agriculture Department paid farmers to idle land and reduce huge surpluses of crops.

"We are making a lot of good crops, and losing money," said Gwin Smith, the longtime owner of Rutledge Investment Company, a Mississippi agricultural land broker.

The Mississippi Delta is a 200-mile-long pocket of fertile soil between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. But farming costs are high. Most crops must be planted in a short window between spring rains and summer heat, and it is always a race in the fall to harvest and prepare fields before winter rains render them muddy and unworkable. This forces up labor costs during those periods.
And unlike Midwest summers, when rains provide most of the water for crops, drier Mississippi summers mean crops must be irrigated, requiring equipment and expensive fuel to power pumping.

Mississippi's biggest advantage, besides good soil, is the diversity of things that can be grown. While most of the Midwest grows only corn, soybeans and wheat, Mississippi farmers can grow those crops as well as cotton and rice. Whenever one crop is selling at a premium, farmers will shift to growing more of it."


One farmer has more than 200,000 bushels of rice, or around nine million pounds, sitting in his bins, and had losses of around $600,000 in 2025. It is disconcerting even for somebody comfortable with agriculture's boom-and-bust cycles.
"There have been plenty of years in there where we have had a $100,000 to $300,000 loss in a year," he said. Usually, you make that up in the next year or two. "But we are basically on Year 4 of things being tight," he said.

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Between Dummkopf Trumpf's idiotic tariffs, ICE raids against migrant workers, and the inter-galactically stupid idea of dismantling USAID which could have bought these crops to feed vulnerable people in the Third World, today's American farmers may be writing their own sequel to The Grapes of Wrath.

Good job, American farmers. Betcha y'all will vote Republican again in 2026 and 2028.

Excerpt from US Senate report on the DVA: "Cuts, Cover-Ups, & Chaos: Harm of the Trumpf Junta's Ongoing Assault on Veterans."

"Under the diabolical Trumpf junta, VA lost more than 40,000 employees in FY 2025, with 88% of those employees coming from the Veterans Health Administration. The net loss of employees, however, is closer to Secretary Doug Collins' inhuman goal of shedding 30,000 employees for the year. VA lost 3,000 registered nurses and 1,000 physicians. The department has shed 1,100 custodians, 700 social workers, and nearly 2,000 claims processors."

"As of 6 Jan 2026, the national mean for wait times for new patients for individual mental health appointments was more than 35 days, significantly exceeding the 20-day wait time threshold for veterans to be eligible for care. Some states are reporting more than double the wait time threshold, with 40 to 60 day wait times, including Maine (61 days) and Maryland (54 days)."

"VA mental health clinicians are leaving at alarming rates. Veterans in some regions have been limited to eight therapy sessions due to staffing shortages, regardless of medical need. At one VA outpatient clinic in California, seven of twelve mental health providers left the DVA, citing return-to-office mandates. The wait time for new patients seeking mental health services at this facility is currently 134 days."

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On average, about 17.6 US veterans die by suicide every day (Source: www.mentalhealth.va.gov ). Another report suggests the number could be as high as 23, nearly one an hour. The nefarious Trumpf junta also recently slashed $2bn from substance abuse and mental health clinics.

In 2025, ICE deported approximately 10,000 immigrants who served in the US military and in Minneapolis their agents recently executed DVA ICU RN Alex Pretti. The Trumpf junta war on American Veterans, "suckers and losers" as he calls them, continues.


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