Trump calls TikTok a hot brand,demands a chunk of its sales price
Source: techcrunch
I did say that if you buy it, whatever the price is, that goes to whoever owns it, because I guess its China, essentially, but more than anything else, I said a very substantial portion of that price is going to have to come into the Treasury of the United States. Because were making it possible for this deal to happen. Right now they dont have any rights, unless we give it to em. So if were going to give them the rights, then it has to come into, it has to come into this country.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/03/trump-calls-tiktok-a-hot-brand-demands-a-chunk-of-its-sale-price/
how is this not socialism.
i expect all the good little conservative to come out and condem trump
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,308 posts)agingdem
(7,859 posts)and yes a shakedown...
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)A Trump Fantasy-World tariff, where China is paying them (which of course they are not IRL).
RainCaster
(10,921 posts)Everything Trump touches turns to shit.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)to the Treasury if IQ45 decides he's going to 'allow' MS to buy this business from a company that's in China.
He's trying to maintain his ridiculous facade that China is paying tariffs to the Treasury.
*I THINK* ... but it's hard to be sure because, well ... it's IQ45.
DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 4, 2020, 08:56 AM - Edit history (1)
aka "wet my beak"
#newrostrong
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)comparing it to mob boss type of stuff. Gotta get a cut of the action.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
jmowreader
(50,563 posts)...like the Karen that jumped all over a Starbucks barista, then demanded half the money the GoFundMe set up for him brought in.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)I missed that one! Unbelievable.
jmowreader
(50,563 posts)Barista Lenin Guiterrez refused Amber Lynn Gilles service in Starbucks for not wearing a mask. She made a Facebook post claiming "next time I will bring a medical exemption and wait for the police." Someone set up a GFM account for Guiterrez. It hit $100,000, which the barista plans to use to study kinesiology. Now Gilles wants half the money, in part because she didn't consent to being called a Karen.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)This particular percentage of the population, a minority though it may be, is composed of nothing but selfish fucking assholes, male and female alike. Their arrogant, aggressive attacks on others who are doing nothing to them piss me off the most. I have zero sympathy for any of them because they have none for others, and they deserve whatever happens to them.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)impeachable?
jmowreader
(50,563 posts)Scruffy1
(3,257 posts)ashredux
(2,609 posts)bluewater
(5,376 posts)usaf-vet
(6,212 posts)Greedy SOB
KPN
(15,662 posts)how genuinely fascists governments work. Quid pro quo.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,233 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,933 posts)Can the treasury get a cut of his graft/emoluments that he gets from our own gov't and other gov'ts and special interests?
PSPS
(13,616 posts)SunSeeker
(51,726 posts)Except with our power, our extortion is much more effective.
Blue Owl
(50,511 posts)n/t