Last Updated on April 24, 2024
After a turbulent six-month standoff on whether or not Ukraine would receive additional aid and how much taxpayer money would go to Israel, President Joe Biden signed the supplemental foreign aid package on Wednesday in addition to legislation forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok.
The aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, amounting to $95 billion, was passed in the House on Saturday, while it was passed just this Tuesday in the Senate. The President sounded off, saying:
The path to my desk was a difficult path. It should have been easier and it should’ve gotten there sooner. But in the end we did what America always does, we rose to the moment.
According to CNBC, Biden had announced his plans to sign the bills after the House passed them on Saturday. The Senate, then on Tuesday, remarkably passed the package with bipartisan support with a vote of 79-18, including 29 Republicans voting in the affirmative.
The grand foreign investment includes $61 billion to Ukraine, $26 billion to Israel and $8 billion to Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific. CNBC reported that the package also requires ByteDance to sell its popular social media platform, TikTok, within nine months or after Biden decides to provide a 90-day extension. If the Chinese company fails to do so, TikTok will face a nationwide ban.
TikTok Policy responded on X to the demands as “unconstitutional” and would “challenge it in court.”
The fact is, we have invested billions of dollars to keep U.S. data safe and our platform free from outside influence and manipulation. This ban would devastate seven million businesses and silence 170 million Americans.
Our Statement on Enactment of the TikTok Ban:
This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court. We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail. The fact is, we have invested billions of dollars to keep U.S.…
— TikTok Policy (@TikTokPolicy) April 24, 2024
TikTok has remained the sole platform for the proliferation of pro-Palestine content. Many Zionist commentators have remarked along that tone, pushing for the ban, while free-speech conservatives have pushed back. Jewish Zionist NGOs have had heavy footing on the other social media platforms, which is believed to be why the US government has been so stringent on TikTok.
Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) comes right out and admits it: they're about to ban TikTok because "young people are getting their news" from the app, and "pro-Palestinian" hashtags generate lots of views. He says Chinese Communists are "pushing this racist agenda" to undermine America pic.twitter.com/ahcRcnXXfU
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 23, 2024
Recall that only a few months ago, during the #BanTheADL campaign on X targeting the Anti-Defamation League’s censorship brigade, Elon Musk met with several Jewish leaders and Ben Shapiro to reevaluate the platform. Musk ended up visiting the Auschwitz Concentration Camp at the behest of the leaders, and now the platform has seen unprecedented censorship and boosting of Zionist content.
The only true free speech platform is and has been for quite sometime is Andrew Torba’s Gab, which is banned on all major provider stores, including Apple and Android. Gab has been labeled all sorts of things, ironically, by the Jewish NGOs that embrace censorship.
29 GOP Senators Vote to Approve Supplemental Foreign Aid Package
The ultimate takeaway is that America is back to being the global police with a massive and questionably justifiable payout to several foreign nations. Add to it, now Gen Z’s favored social media platform is likely to face a national ban.
