(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) China’s reported spy app TikTok is a leading promulgator of leftist talking points and narratives, which is why one Democrat lawmaker said his party embraces the device despite its potential national security implications.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., conceded to NBC last week that banning the Chinese social media app would “harm [Democrats] politically in 2024.”
Bowman claimed that many of the 150 million Americans on the CCP-linked app are young and “tend to lean Democratic,” which is why he thinks a total ban of TikTok would hurt his party’s base.
“So if the Democratic Party is a part of shutting down a platform that they have used to build community … it can harm us politically in 2024,” Bowman declared, and argued that banning the CCP app would also damage the fragile psychological and emotional balance of many users.
“But more importantly, it can harm the American people and our sense of wellbeing because people find space to be themselves on TikTok that they can’t find somewhere else,” Bowman said.
Radical activists and Squadish Democrats have aggressively used that “space” to peddle their twisted agendas and so-called progressive policies. The “sense of wellbeing” Bowman heralded and Democrats increasingly rely on for votes includes promoting everything from dangerous gender mutilation surgeries, BLM riots and Antifa-sponsored domestic terrorism to open borders, CRT indoctrination and no-limits abortions.
Nearly half of all states have banned TikTok from use on government devices and the Biden administration has demanded that ByteDance, the CCP-linked company that owns TikTok, disinvest or face a nationwide ban.
“If there’s Chinese espionage happening on TikTok, absolutely, that trumps everything else. The problem is there’s been no evidence of it,” claimed Bowman, who fell back on spreading his own patch of disinformation.
“I mean, Donald Trump used Twitter to nurture the behavior that occurred on January 6th in a violent insurrection. That’s a national security concern.” Bowman gaslighted in an attempt to divert attention from his defense of TikTok with another blatant J6 distortion and fables about the 2016 election. “Looking the other way and allowing Russia to interfere in the 2016 national election, that’s a national security concern.”
Allowing China to jeopardize national security while pushing social and political narratives to benefit Democrats, on the other hand, is understandable, Bowman argued.
“For me, it’s about having a larger conversation about the harms and befits of social media,” Bowman said of retaining a leftist hold on those platforms to benefit Democrats.
