I guess there is no legal basis anyway for banning video upload app, just because it is Chinese. Trump is an idiot. And

How is he being blackmailed by TWO superpowers? China and Russia both have his balls.

What a loser.

Is anyone going to stop him? No? Then he can extend it as many times as he wants.

Maybe he likes cbt.

PatrickStar.meme - "Is Money a legal basis?"

The legal basis is someone with standing would have to sue him over it. Tiktokm certainly isn't going to and Congress... Well.

Tiny Taco Hands makes up the rules as he goes along. He can extend as many times as he wants, who is going to stop him?

The far right is using TikTok to reach young demographics. Banning it directly contradicts his interests.

The legal basis is "Trump gets to do whatever the fuck he wants because none of the checks and balances have any balls to check and balance this motherfucker."

TACO deadlines are highly flexible.

There is a legal basis: congress passed a law, the president at the time signed it, TikTok sued, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against TikTok. That's a legal basis by definition.

Perhaps you mean that there is no rational basis. That's a reasonable position you can argue for.

In this case, someone would have to sue or otherwise intervene. But that action is radically unpopular. Nobody wants to be that guy.

How is he being blackmailed by TWO superpowers?

It's hardly blackmail. He's benefited immensely from the right wing turn on TikTok. They've got a Sword of Damacles over their heads that can drop any time the site turns against him.

He's extorting them.

There is a legal basis. US can ban Russian Times paper, too.

none of the checks and balances have any balls

Trump took full control of the DHS and the FBI, staffed it with loyal goons, and is actively arresting/assaulting anyone who stands in his way.

This isn't a matter of "no balls", its a matter of Biden handing Trump's biggest supporters a bunch of money and guns back in 2021 and Trump telling these guys "Arrest all the Bidencrats" the moment he took office.

Dafuq is any judge or legislator supposed to do in a country when ICE can kick down your door?

They fucked up thinking they'd never lose power. Now its too late to politics their way out of the mess.

The thing is the statute of limitations extends beyond Trump's presidency and the penalties are levied against the hosting and distributing companies (Oracle, Google, Apple) wouldn't it be lovely if the next president assuming we get a next president enforced the law and collected the fines from these companies.

Not to promote violence, but there's a particular constitutional amendment that applies in this very specific situation

I mean, sort of, yes, but also no? It's another tool of power for a tyrannical government to wield, even if it is against companies I dislike.

We've been busting through constitutional amendments with abandon. I don't think you could point to one that this administration would honor or respect.