TikTok unbanning: Accolade and Overreach To recap: The law banning TikTok went into effect yesterday. Just a few hours later, the service was restored, with a gushing message praising our glorious leader-to-be shown to all upon logging in. This is unnerving for two reasons. For one, this law was passed by the Congress, and then upheld by the Supreme Court.… Read More
Snoop Dogg Screws the Pooch on Bended Knee Not contented to hang out with just one white felon, Snoop Dogg has now joined the ranks of the Trump acolytes by performing Nuthin’ but a G Thang at a Trump pre-inaugural party, upsetting many fans. From The Independent: After previously mocking the president-elect, Snoop switched allegiances last year to praise Trump and claim he… Read More
Crypto Firms Pour Millions into Trump Inauguration Fund As the scramble for big business to shower Trump shower Trump with money to curry favor with his incoming administration, crypto companies including Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood and Circle have made seven-figure donations to Trump’s inaugural committee since Election Day. The crypto-currency industry is no stranger to lobbying. It has already heavily funded a Super… Read More
The Last Weekend Under the Republic As we relish these two days free of toil, those of us at Obeying in Advance wanted to take a moment to reflect upon the long roller coaster we’ve been on since June 16, 2015. And to remind Americans of one thing: This is still not normal. An America divided like never before. George Washington’s… Read More
Bill Gates Says He Was ‘Frankly Impressed’ by Donald Trump During 3-Hour Dinner After having donated $50 million to Kamala Harris’s campaign, former Microsoft CEO, and head of the Gates Foundation quickly turned tail and kneeled before our great-leader-to-be. After an “intriguing” dinner with the despot president-elect, he said he was “impressed” by Trump’s interests. “I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive… Read More
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew Tries to Keep Pace with Trump As we’ve noted, Trump picks his stances by the direction green pieces of paper are blowing in the wind. As a law banning TikTok is coming to fruition, we should reiterate he was critical of the social media app as a first-term president. He even attempted an executive order to shutdown the platform. But come… Read More
Have a Coke and Get in Single File Coca-Cola has presented a special-edition bottle of Coke to the returning president. While it’s been an on-going tradition of theirs present incoming presidents with a commemorative bottle of Coca-Cola, this instance still indicates appeasement for two reasons: Apparently Coca-Cola sees fit to put that little bit of unsettled history into a bottle and set it… Read More
It Takes a Village Yo, man! WTF? Republicans have often naively used music at their campaign rallies that have lyrics or meaning that is in direct contradiction to conservative principles. Often, this has been to the ire of the respective musicians, in many cases resulting in demands to cease and desist. Despite presenting as a crusader against ‘woke culture’,… Read More
Jeff Bezos nixes cartoon depicting his pre-emptive obedience Jeff Bezos is not laughing after a cartoon slated for print in his own newspaper depicted him pre-emptively kowtowing to Donald Trump. Bezos owns the Washington Post, so he didn’t take kindly when his own editorial cartoonist depicted him being owned by Donald Trump. The cartoon, by long-time Washington Post editorial cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, shows… Read More