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Hey China throw in one of those re-education programs and you have a deal
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/09/trump-wants-usd5-billion-from-tiktok-for-patriotic-education.html
On Saturday, President Trump said that the companies involved in the venture must pay the U.S. government $5 billion to fund his new, authoritarian-lite National Commission to Support Patriotic Education, which he announced his intention to form on Thursday. Do me a favor, could you put up $5 billion into a fund for education so we can educate people as to the real history of our country, Trump framed the deal at a rally in North Carolina on Saturday. As is common with the White Houses dealings with business interests, one of the firms involved, ByteDance, found out about the deal from press reports.
Its unclear if the president will commit to such a move: In August, he said that the U.S. Treasury should pick up a very substantial amount of money from a potential TikTok sale, though he walked back the claim after learning that the federal government does not have the authority to do so. Its also unclear if Trump will stick to his education plan, considering that he has announced only the intention to declare an executive order and considering that the federal government cannot establish a national curriculum.
The scope of the deal is coming into greater focus. In a press release on Saturday, Oracle announced that it would take a 12.5 percent stake in the apps U.S. operations and become TikToks secure cloud technology provider, with Walmart tentatively agreeing to own a 7.5 percent stake in the company, which will see its initial public offering within the year. On Saturday, Trump claimed that the new venture would most likely be incorporated in Texas and that the firm would be hiring at least 25,000 people, adding that it will have nothing to do with China. TikTok, however, has its U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles County. And on Thursday, a TikTok spokesperson did not immediately answer a question from the Washington Post on whether or not ByteDance wold maintain a stake in the company.
Any teachers who did not like NCLB or common core, just imagine trump tutoring !
Andy823
(11,495 posts)get "his cut" from that $5 billion? I am sure he already has a plan!
Freedomofspeech
(4,221 posts)than I already do.
C_U_L8R
(44,982 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)NotANeocon
(423 posts)- instead of the more appropriate Fascist Upgrading Disinformation = FUD?
Blue Owl
(50,234 posts)n/t
Cha
(296,726 posts)is NOT "patriotic".
struggle4progress
(118,204 posts)... (b)Whoever ...
(2) being a public official or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other person or entity, in return for:
(A) being influenced in the performance of any official act ...
shall be fined under this title or not more than three times the monetary equivalent of the thing of value, whichever is greater, or imprisoned for not more than fifteen years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States ...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/201
canetoad
(17,133 posts)To shut Sarah Cooper down.