Political Quotes

“Madam President, reserving the right to object, we are here once again faced with the proposal to ban TikTok and to forbid millions of Americans from expressing their opinion. This is not a subject that we should entertain lightly. If there is a better national strategy to permanently lose elections for a generation, I have not heard of it. Banning TikTok, a social media app used by 150 million Americans, primarily young Americans, is a recipe for electoral disaster for Republicans. This GOP strategy comes just after an election year in which a national survey indicated that 71 percent of young women and 53 percent of young men voted for the Democrat candidate for Congress. Now, admittedly, many Democrats have also joined Republicans in calling for this ban, but like most issues, the blame tends to stick to Republicans more. The banning TikTok strategy also comes while the GOP simultaneously complains of liberal U.S. social media companies canceling and censoring conservatives. So without a hint of irony, many of these same ``conservatives'' now agitate to censor viewpoints they don't like. So on the one hand, Republicans complain about censorship, while with the other hand, these same Republicans advocate to censor social media apps that they worry are influenced by the Chinese. The concern over TikTok seems to be over what the social media app might do.…”