The TikTok Ban

Pardon Me for Not Trusting the Uniparty

I’m sure there are plenty of people, especially in the normy world, who find me pretty darn annoying because I question most everything I hear; I don’t give my undying trust to the talking heads on TV or in DC.

When a person of authority or a person considered to be an expert says something, I don’t just accept it as the Gospel truth because they are sitting behind a news desk or wearing a white lab coat. I’m always trying to figure out if there is more to the story, more layers that need to be uncovered before coming to a conclusion.

I try to figure out if the messenger of the information has an incentive to lie or mislead.

Some may consider it paranoid, but I’m not going to go out and buy a miracle product just because some guy on a late-night infomercial said, “but wait, there’s more”, and I’m not going to give my trust to people who have proven over decades to be untrustworthy. I suppose one could say I’m not brainwashed; I’m a bit of a freethinker. I’ve broken free of the conditioning that causes one to have an overwhelming desire to fit in.

As a child, I asked a lot of questions. I was curious, I wanted to know how something worked. I didn’t take the lawn mower apart, but I usually wanted a deeper understanding of most things, not just a surface understanding. In reality, this is how one learns.

The more curious one is, the more one tends to learn in life. Over time, we are conditioned to fit in, which usually means not asking as many questions, accepting what is told to us, trusting that the government, the media and industry have our best interests in mind. We learn to reject anything that goes against our understanding that these entities desire us to be happy and healthy.

Most reading this understand that these elitists despise us, but many still don’t.

By nature, most people want to fit in; they want to be told what to believe, and through conditioning, this desire is made even stronger.

I actually believe the American school system—designed by the Stanford Research Institute by way of the Tavistock Institute—is designed to create people who don’t ask questions, who just do what they are told, and accept whatever is told to them—a system designed to make good little commies out of us.

By the way, who pushes Common Core Math … or should I call it Commie Core? That’s right, people like Barack Obama and Bill Gates.

I believe around 15% of Americans remain unbroken and clearly see through the conditioning, but that leaves around 85% who are fully controlled.

Incidentally, it takes a lot of brainwashing to be wrong about literally everything and still believe you will be right about the next thing. Without the conditioning that creates short term memory in people, forgetting everything they have been wrong about, people would have no confidence in their discernment. They would think, ‘hey, I’ve been wrong about everything so far, so I’ll wait to see how this next thing plays out before forming an opinion.’

In reality, a normy attitude is a belief system that persists even though they have been wrong about everything. It’s one thing to be overconfident, but to be a normy, one has to be delusional. It’s akin to Lizzo thinking she looks good in the costumes she wears on stage. It’s not confidence, it’s delusion.

As I mentioned, I believe around 85% of Americans are conditioned to follow the herd. They don’t want to stand out, they will go along with anything they think the majority agrees with. The game ‘whack-a-mole’ causes PTSD to them. The vast majority of Americans will even override logic to fit in with what they perceive to be the majority. An example of this would be the notion that men can menstruate. It may be the reality that no one in the room really believes it, but if one thinks other people in the room may believe it, they feel the need to go along with the group mentality. They don’t want to stand out, they don’t want to be cancelled. They have an overpowering need to fit in.

Even the majority of somewhat awake Americans will look at the TikTok ban and think it makes sense.

‘TikTok is not good for kids, and the CCP are collecting our information.’ ‘We should definitely ban TikTok in America.’ ‘It’s a no brainer; look at how many congress members agree it is dangerous.’ ‘Banning TikTok is so important that Democrats and Republicans are voting together to put an end to it.’ ‘Why would anyone oppose a ban?’

Sorry, but I just can’t go there. I just can’t accept the situation without questioning it. There has to be more to the story. At the very least, it needs to be looked at from multiple angles to determine if it is as straight forward as they want us to believe.

The biggest flashing red light that is going off for me is the fact that so many RINOs, Neocons and Democrats are on board with the ban, or the forced sale of the company. When was the last time they all agreed on anything that was good for the country?

We’ve known for years that the CCP can access our information through TikTok. Why all of a sudden is there a motivated effort by Congress to ban it or force a sale now?

By the way, the CCP—the Deep State—they all can access or buy our information from a lot of sites and apps, so why no outrage over these other sites and apps?

The Chinese company Temu came out of nowhere last Fall and is being used by many Americans today. Temu—an Amazon-like online store that allows you to buy crappy stuff really cheaply—has been connected to the CCP as well. Is it a coincidence that TikTok is now being demonized at the same time Temu is becoming so popular? Is one data collecting operation replacing another? Has the CCP lost control of TikTok?

I remember when TikTok first came out. My kids told me everyone was on it. I downloaded it onto my phone and started watching a few videos to get a feel for it. All I saw were Fortnite dance routines by people and characters, or women shaking their butts, and teenagers doing stupid and dangerous pranks. After about a week, I decided TikTok wasn’t created for me, and I deleted the app.

Later, I discovered TikTok was somehow connected to the CCP, and that they could possibly collect our data through it—yet another reason I was glad to delete the app. After this, I heard TikTok was designed by the CCP to make the American youth dumber. The algorithms up-rank stupid videos, like the Tide Pod eating trend, and they down-rank intelligent videos—videos that would educate people.

Basically, TikTok was created to make America more like the future America in the Mike Judge movie Idiocracy.

From an NPR article on 8/6/20:

Trump Signs Executive Order That Will Effectively Ban Use of TikTok in the U.S.

President Trump on Thursday invoked his emergency economic powers to impose broad sanctions against TikTok, a move that steps up pressure on the Chinese-owned app to sell its U.S. assets to an American company.

In the order, which takes effect in 45 days, any transactions between TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, and U.S. citizens will be outlawed for national security reasons.

In practice, experts told NPR the order likely will mean the viral video service could no longer receive advertising from American companies and the app could be removed from Apple and Google's app stores.

For the more than 100 million Americans who have downloaded TikTok, experts say the app may no longer be sent software updates, rendering TikTok unmanageable, and eventually nonfunctional, with time.

Honestly, I don’t even know what ever became of that Executive Order, but recently, Trump had an about-face and stated that he thought a ban of TikTok would make Mark Zuckerberg twice as powerful, and that it would give him more Zuckerbucks to use in the stealing of the 2024 Election, the way he gave millions to steal the 2020 Election.

Food for thought: Meta (Facebook) stock is up 56% since Biden took office. In comparison, Tesla is down -40% since Biden moved into the White House.

Why such a change of opinion on TikTok by Trump less than four years later?

The obvious answer is that he now knows Zuckerberg was funding the election steal in 2020.

Does Trump still view TikTok as a threat, but considers the strengthening of Zuckerberg through an expanded use of Facebook and Instagram an even bigger threat? Kind of the way he viewed the Covid lockdowns as a bigger threat to America than Covid itself.

This makes sense to me, as Trump has shown us time and time again that sometimes you need to take one step back to avoid having to take five steps back. Some people get fixated on the one step back that we take, not understanding it meant we avoided taking four additional steps back.

Let’s face it—as a nation, we aren’t exactly the sharpest tools in the shed.

Some people are currently taking a pill to lose weight refusing to question whether or not it has long term negative effects on them. Some believe Big Pharma is trying to kill us with vaccines, but that Big Pharma also came out with a miracle pill that will help them lose weight. Some people think the government is trying to kill us with chemtrails, but they have no problem buying pot from a government-run pot store.

If one believes Trump is being truthful about not wanting to ban TikTok, why would one then support the banning of TikTok?

Trump opposes the ban. End of story.

The fact that Trump opposes the banning of TikTok and the Uniparty is unified in the banning of it, or forcing the sale of the company should at least give one caution. Again, TikTok has been around for quite a while now, and all its alleged threats towards America have been known about for quite some time. Why is Congress all of a sudden uniting on this one issue? They can’t agree on the border or funding Ukraine, but they can all universally agree TikTok is now the biggest threat to America?

If we take the Uniparty at their word—that they believe TikTok should be banned in America, or the company should be sold because they think it is dangerous to America—where were they when the Chinese spy balloon was flying over the US? Why are they allowing military-age Chinese men to cross the Southern Border? Why are we being preoccupied with the Southern Border in the first place? Is it so we don’t see what’s happening at the Canadian Border? And finally, why is the Uniparty allowing China to buy up American farmland?

It doesn’t add up.

If one takes a different angle in looking at the TikTok ban, and thinks there may be something more sinister at play, what could that be?

Could the banning of TikTok set a precedent for other media and social media sites? If TikTok is banned or forced to be sold, could they also do the same with Elon Musk? Could they ban Twitter (X,) or force Musk to sell it?

They could easily say that Musk has too many ties to the government through contracts with Space X, Starlink and Tesla to be running a social media site. He has too many political ties, therefore, he shouldn’t be allowed to own X. They can say whatever they want to justify banning X in the US, or force Musk to sell it.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think X is a totally free speech site where everyone’s voice is equally heard with no algorithms that distort conservative views. I believe there are saboteurs within X working against Musk, free speech, conservatives and Trump, specifically. These are algorithms that will take years to unwind.

I’m not sure how concerned the Deep State is with Truth Social or forcing Trump to sell his interest in it.

Truth Social isn’t currently changing minds, as the non-bots on TS are already Trump supporters. While no one is currently having their minds completely flipped by being on Truth Social, it is a great place for people to get the truth. While Democrats aren’t becoming MAGA on TS, some people on TS are learning who the RINOs and Neocons are and who is really America First, but it wouldn’t appear anyone is going from voting for Biden to voting for Trump because of Truth Social.

Still, this could change if other sites are shut down, as people may be forced onto Truth Social to get real news, and if that is the case, I could see a push for Trump being forced to distance himself from it.

In my opinion, Twitter (X) is valuable high ground that the Deep State needs to take back; it’s a place where Trump supporters, Trump haters and everyone in-between exists together. X is a place where minds are being changed. X is a place where having access to truth may be the difference between someone voting for Biden or voting for Trump. The Deep State can’t afford for X to be allowing free speech come election time. They can’t afford to have Elon Musk running it.

The only chance the Deep State has in keeping Trump out of the White House is to create a complete information blackout. By controlling the media and social media, they believe they would have a chance at winning in November and maintaining control of America.

As I’m sure most reading this understand, polls are fake. They aren’t used to show how voters are likely to vote, they are manipulated to influence people to vote a certain way, as well as to cover for election fraud. If a fake poll says Biden is leading Trump by 2 points, it’s easy to rig the election, as people will accept the fraudulent results. But if a Twitter poll that the Deep State doesn’t control says Trump is leading Biden by 50 points, it becomes much harder to steal the election and have people believe it.

On 3/22, terrorists allegedly attacked and killed dozens of Russians at a concert hall in Moscow. 3/22—or 322—is Skull and Bones Day. Skull and Bones is a CIA fraternity at Yale.

The terrorists were reported to be ISIS, who the CIA created using CIA assets Barack Obama and John “no name” McCain. Ukraine may be involved as well, who the CIA took control of in 2014.

Do you see a common theme here involving the CIA?

Additionally, reports said the terrorists got their orders on Telegram, a social media site owned by a Russian.

As I mentioned, I believe the American Uniparty is trying to shut down or force the sale of TikTok, and I think this will be a precedent that is being set to shut down or force the sale of other social media sites as well. Telegram was named in the Moscow terror attack. Will TikTok, Telegram, X and Truth Social all be shut down, or forced to be sold? Will there be an information blackout heading into the 2024 Elections?

Recently, I wrote an article where I theorized the CIA is currently being thrown under the bus and Deep State power may be in the process of being moved from the CIA to the UN, NATO and the EU due to Trump likely taking back the White House in 2025. Are the alleged terror attacks in Moscow more Actuals signaling that the CIA is being thrown under the bus?

Some may not agree with me, but I believe Trump, Musk, Putin and Xi are all working together to free the world from the Satanic Cabal’s control. This doesn’t mean I don’t believe there are still Deep State components in Russia and China, just that Putin and Xi are now working with Trump. I don’t think Musk, Putin or Xi have always been on Team Trump, but I believe they are now—an enemy of my enemy situation.

I’m being honest here and am opening myself up to ridicule, but I’m not convinced the Moscow terror attack, or the Baltimore Bridge collapse happened the way we are being told.

Yes, I think a terrorist attack was planned on the concert hall in Moscow, but I’m open to the idea that it was stopped ahead of time, and that a fake attack was played out. I believe a cyber attack on a cargo ship may have been in place to take out the Baltimore Bridge, but I’m open to the idea that the White Hats caused it to happen at a time when almost no cars were on the bridge. Who even knows if actual people were in the cars that went in the river? The Deep State could have planned the collapse to occur the next morning during rush hour traffic, while the White Hats forced it to happen at 1:30am, stopping traffic from going onto the bridge before the collapse.

I understand that last paragraph is pure and utter speculation, but the only way we will come to the truth in a time where everything in the media is a lie or manipulation of the truth is to think outside of the box.

Who even knows what the container ship was carrying—children, weapons, nukes. How do we know the ship wasn’t crashed into the bridge to stop it from leaving the harbor?

Has the Deep State lost control of the narrative, and need to get it back before the 2024 Election?

TikTok is owned by the Chinese, and Xi is the leader of China. Telegram is owned by a Russian, and Putin is the leader of Russia. X is owned by Elon Musk.

Do you see a pattern here?

Putin and Xi appear to be working together now, and Musk is an enemy of the American media and the Biden Administration.

Is the CIA responsible for the alleged attack in Moscow, or are they being thrown further under the bus?

Is the Deep State trying to shut down TikTok, Telegram, X and possibly Truth Social?

Will the UN, NATO and the EU start to step in to the peacekeeper role in the Middle East and throughout the world, appearing to calm the chaos?

Is Deep State power shifting to NATO, the UN and the EU where it will be insulated from the outside world, as I hypothesized a month ago?

Will the Biden Administration continue to indirectly launder money to the UN, NATO and the EU, or will they start to do it more directly?

Will terror attacks start to happen in America, and if so, who will orchestrate them and whom will they be blamed on?

If we are aware of what might be happening or at least hypothesize what is possible, if and when it does happen, our reactions to the situations should be less panicked and more matter-of-fact.

For example, I understood back in November of 2019 that the Deep State was going to eventually unleash the Covid narrative on the US at some point in early 2020. When the lockdowns and fear porn finally came to the US, my fear stayed at a level zero. My frustration level went through the roof—an 8 or a 9—but my fear level never exceeded zero.

Understand that the Deep State will not go down without a fight. They will flail and kick and scream like a soy boy in a bar fight, but all this energy will not result in them maintaining control. If we have a better understanding of what could possibly be in store for us in the next several months, if we can see it for what it is, before it happens, we should be able to hear of it with frustration, but not panic or fear.

Fear is what the Cabal uses to control the world. Without fear, they have no control. We can’t give them control through our fear. Don’t allow future events to cause you fear. If we experience future false flag events with the understanding that they stem from the Deep State’s desperation, understand that they wouldn’t be desperate unless they are afraid.

With this understanding, these events shouldn’t elicit fear in us. If we can predict what is coming around the next corner, fear should not have a place in our reactions.

Be brave, be patient, and focus on what awaits us on the other side of this nightmare we are living through. The best is yet to come.

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