Generation Z Fears Losing Their Political Voice With Biden's TikTok Ban

Young Americans are becoming more politically active than ever, but President Biden is ready to silence their voices by signing the ban on TikTok a few weeks ago. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Young Americans are becoming more politically active than ever, but President Biden is ready to silence their voices by signing a ban on TikTok a few weeks ago. You know, the irony to me is the people advising Biden, they're saying, go to TikTok. He's all over TikTok. It might be the only place that he has a way to connect to a certain generation, by the way, which I think is remarkable, I just can't even get my arms around this. Biden is loading up on TikTok, and Carville is out there saying, the people he's trying to appeal to are stupid and lazy and won't go to the polls. Right. Those two stories don't seem, but that's what Carville did. He said, the young people in this country are so freaking stupid. They're so lazy that they're gonna, the destruction of Earth is gonna be on their shoulders. At the same time, Biden is loading up on TikTok with these people that he says, are stupid and lazy. Right?
Well, yeah. And not just putting their own content out there. They have had White House meetings with these TikTok influencers. We understand how valuable it is, how vital it is. Also, my name is on the legislation that's gonna kill it. And look, even my children who are in their very early teens have come home and said, ah, so mad that Biden did this. So they know and they know that, hey, he's the guy who signed it and yes, that is going to be held against him. But the most important thing is we've talked about multiple times, it's all based on BS. There are no known security threats from TikTok, according to the Homeland Security.
The NSA.
Yeah. But what we do have is a generation that has become insanely politically active through TikTok, all kinds of new influencers on both the left and the right. They're out there putting news and information out for people every day. And that could come to an end.
Part of the backstory is Biden knows that Trump is going to double, triple down on TikTok. I mean, that's what he's afraid of. And the point being, these kids don't have any other source. They're not watching television media pablum. You think they're gonna tune into MSNBC or Fox News? Hell no. They're not watching the nightly news. These are kids, some of them have not even had the benefit of going through a civics class, because the big cuts in education are we just want to teach kids how to read and write. We don't care about anything else. So they didn't even have the benefit of that, which is disturbing to me in and of itself. So kids have to figure this out themselves. And the way they're doing it, apparently, is on TikTok. And the very age group that's doing it is, there's so many ironies here, the very age group that's doing it is the very age group that the big mouth, the loudest voice for the Democrats, James Carville, is saying, they're remarkably stupid. They're remarkably lazy. You aren't even gonna show up for the election and you're gonna destroy this country. There's so many ironies mixed up in there, I can't even begin to talk about it.
Well, what gets me about this story too, is that a lot of people will say, okay, well, if you're not on TikTok, you can go to Instagram, you can go to Facebook. And actually.
No, you can't.
A very important thing is that Meta recently, just a couple months ago, they instituted a new policy where they no longer recommend social or political issues on their platforms. We saw our engagement personally at Ring of Fire.
Oh, it disappeared.
It dropped by about 95% overnight because they changed this policy.
Instagram. Instagram, think about it.
Yeah.
Your stories will do 120,000 likes or visits or whatever, you put it through Instagram.