DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Americans might want to think twice about forgetting government antics even if we choose to forgive

The TikTok ban lasted about 12 hours. It went dark at roughly 10 p.m. CST Saturday night, Jan. 18 and woke up again in the early afternoon, Jan. 19.

I’m not going to get into the whodunnits this and that and the merits or lack thereof involving the TikTok app – we know the entire government TikTok maneuver caused chaos.

If you know you know, and if you don’t there’ll be something else shiny and shocking to distract America’s attention soon.
I can live with or without the app, however in my opinion taking away any form of freedom of speech from the American people goes against the Constitution.

Sidenote, if you still think China owns the app – read my last week’s column.

I’m sure China is somehow involved, of course – however they’re also involved in buying up thousands of acres of land in the United States – and the government doesn’t seem to care about that.

Even more to the point regarding freedom of speech in American is the fact over 150 million Americans (i.e. the voters, the boss) told 100 Senators in DC they didn’t want their freedom of speech taken away. 

Some of those senators basically said, “We don’t care what you want” so pipe down little one and go take a time out.

And the Tiktockers were forced to take that nap Saturday night.

For a little more explanation, Meta is involved in this mess too. 

Zucky Boy has been all up in the red’s business lately stating he took away free speech on his platforms during the jab because he was forced. 

He said he had no choice because the Biden people were bullies.

No one is really buying Zucky’s tears anyway, and people are so annoyed with his antics Meta shares tumbled to the tune of 19% last week – wiping out more than $200 billion in market cap.

Either way, 12 hours after the oligarchs threw their tantrum the TikTok ban was over. 

Many users are now saying something is noticeably different. 

One techy man who reads code said during the hours TikTok went dark, the code source switched from where it had been located in the US to a Facebook data center in Forest City, NC and to a Meta data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah.

So suddenly voila, Sunday afternoon and TikTok is now exclusively running out of “Meta” data centers. Just like magic.

If you can read source code you can see this for yourself – where the data is coming from and where it is going as well as where the servers are located.

And even more surprising – users can now link their TikTok account to their Meta account.

Do they seriously think people are that dumb?

What a lovely little political stunt and definite distraction because everyone knows a data switch like that would have taken months to plan – you can’t do it overnight.

For my next comment, let me preface by saying I am not a Trump hater or lover, nor do I hate (or feel great love for anyone) in politics these days.

So, enter Trump, the hero saving TikTok. 

It landed in his lap, and he had no choice really – but remember he is the one who began the idea of the TikTok ban during his first term.

He’s seen the TikTok light yes, he said it himself and I have also been told just today at least 20 times “he has seen the light.” 

My take on all this – Americans, it is not time to go back to sleep.

Let’s talk about the bloody trail the senate left in the wake of the ban. 

Let’s begin with the Red’s Tom Cotton from Arkansas. He spouted all sorts of uniformed TikTok “mess” – so much so it inspired me to see who his campaign donors were (and I encourage everyone to look for yourself). 

In fact, go look at the donors for all the senators who thought banning free speech was a clever idea.

Then, do your research on all the politicians who bought Meta stock in the last few weeks leading up to this faux ban. 

Apparently, Texas’ Michael McCaul supposedly invested $1.1 million in Meta stock – and he was the one who wrote the ban bill.

Meta has its hands all over TikTok now – and the dollars are rolling in.

One person posted the possibility many of those who voted for the ban were actually voting on something else in the bill that was unrelated, that they wanted to see pass.

Humanitarian aid was said to be in that bill – relating to the military industrial complex. 

I’m sure because if you scale it back to “humanitarian aid” it likely refers to yet another skirmish the US is involved in overseas. 

So if you sum it up, “Foreign war dollars were more important than allowing Americans their freedom of speech.”

Isn’t it remarkable how fast the government crippled a social media platform but still cannot manage to release the Epstein and PDiddy lists.

And, what about the psyop in Las Vegas on New Years and have we forgotten the man who killed 15 people in New Orleans and the house tour the New York Post supposedly led inside of this man’s trailer in Houston.

Does anyone remember the drones all over the country that the government still has not acknowledged other than “they are not a problem.” 

How exactly does the government know it’s not a problem if they’re unable to identify what these drones are doing in US airspace?

What about Luigi and the United Health Care CEO?

And let’s remember the people in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee are still not okay and still living in freezing temperatures in tents.

And the fires in Southern California are still burning and people are still being evacuated.

And, did you hear about the lithium plant fire in Northern California?

Lithium sure comes up a lot these days.

But the TikTok ban took precedence over all of it – funny how fast you can move when $$$$ is involved.

Trump made a threat about the hostages in Palestine being released.

And sure enough Sunday morning on my Live Universal Awareness Map App, I heard out of Jerusalem one-hour after it happened Israel had announced a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, three Israeli ministers had resigned due to the ceasefire, the Red Cross was retrieving three female hostages from Hamas in Gaza, and aid was ready to enter the Gaza Strip.

Americans are tired of all the gaslighting. I laughed when I heard Americans had fled to China’s version of TikTok called Red Note saying they would take their chances with the Chinese government having their data. 

And as for the alien sightings or “whatever”, Americans are not looking to the sky in fear – except a fear the aliens will leave them behind on Planet Earth when they are ready to leave.

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.