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TikTok — Counting the Days Until Trump’s Fully Vegetative State

The TikTok presidency will not look like the media says it does

Charles Bastille
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3 min readJan 17, 2025

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Trigger warning: This article is mostly conjecture and wild accusation. But that’s okay. We live in Trump’s world now.

Susie Wiles, the predator-elect’s incoming chief of staff, was chosen, according to the subservient corporate media machine, because her expertise at running things is so astounding she can even run the Orange Puffalo Show.

Circus background, Susie Wiles in a circus top hat, picture of trump in straight jacket; in the background of the circus tent : “Welcome to the TikTok Circus”
Circus image licensed from Adobe Stock; Susie Wiles image by YouTube, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; image of Trump by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; image smashup by author, no AI

She’s tough as nails, the corporate media machine says. Everyone is afraid of her, it adds a sentence later.

I’ve never met her, but I’m guessing that she is like the Keri Russell character in the streamer, “The Diplomat,” without the charm.

Everything about her is daunting, corporate media says.

I have my doubts, but one thing is sure. She’s managed to shut down, for now, any possibility that the corporate media will portray her clownish boss as a…

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Charles Bastille
Charles Bastille

Written by Charles Bastille

Author of MagicLand & Psalm of Vampires. Join me on my Substack at https://www.ruminato.com/. All stories © 2020-24 by Charles Bastille

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