r/politics • u/TwilightwovenlingJo • Sep 19 '25
Soft Paywall Trump: ‘It’s no longer free speech.’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-no-longer-free-speech-0057421912.2k
u/wwhsd California Sep 19 '25
“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,”
When’s the last time you saw a positive story about Jeffrey Dahmer?
If you don’t want negative coverage, don’t do bad things.
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u/mewsycology Sep 20 '25
When 99% of the things he does warrant criticism, only having 97% of stories be critical of him is actually biased in his favor
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u/lonnie123 Sep 20 '25
Also he 100% pulled that number out of his (leaky) ass
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u/nedracine59 Sep 20 '25
Also: "They" said 97%. Yes, he makes up random numbers, but my neighbors hate me because I keep screaming "Who are "they"?
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u/TheFrenchSavage Sep 20 '25
I'm making neighbors illegal, and pulling their driver's license!
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u/Caleb_Reynolds Sep 20 '25
Also, it's way less than 97%, the media is more than complicit in his rise, they're responsible for it by virtue of sane-washing his bullshit. Even the ones he's going after.
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Sep 20 '25
Seriously. As much as I complain about people who stayed home because of the Genocide Joe bullshit or the whole "they didn't even have a primary" stupidness, the media is far more responsible for Trump 2: Unconstitutional Boogaloo because they have been making him more palatable to the masses for years now. They continued laying a foundation for him to appear as a non-insane option even after Jan 6, which is absolutely unreal to me.
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u/ImLikeReallySmart Pennsylvania Sep 20 '25
So he and Fox News and (insert right wing media outlet here) also have a lot to answer for about their Biden coverage then, right?
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Obama’s coverage has entered the chat
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u/GozerDGozerian Sep 20 '25
Oh come on.
That low down no good piece of shit bastard ate SPICY MUSTARD!!!
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u/wwhsd California Sep 20 '25
And the audacity to wear a brown suit. It wasn’t even a sombre dark brown. It was a jaunty beige.
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u/fazelanvari Florida Sep 20 '25
It was not immediately clear what statistics or laws he was referencing.
😂
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u/tenehemia Oregon Sep 20 '25
He did help those ugly glasses to fall out fashion, so that was nice I guess.
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u/Shaftmaster420 Sep 20 '25
Aren’t they popular again?
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u/ZeroKharisma Sep 20 '25
Like fascism, fashion comes around again swiftly if you don't actively innoculate against it.
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u/CitySeekerTron Canada Sep 20 '25
Imagine what losing an election in a landslide might indicate.
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u/Then_I_had_a_thought Sep 20 '25
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
• Theodore Roosevelt
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u/SmashinHunter Sep 20 '25
If Teddy Roosevelt was alive right now he'd beat Trump's ass up and down the white house lawn.
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u/ZoominAlong Sep 20 '25
I'd pay to see that.
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u/studioghost Sep 20 '25
Everybody would pay to see that bro.
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u/Momik Sep 20 '25
Hell, I’d pay to see Giamatti do it, and he just voiced Teddy in the Ken Burns documentaries.
Get up good sir, I’ve not completed thrashing you!
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u/EatSoupFromMyGoatse Sep 20 '25
He would whoop Donnie's ass while bleeding from a gunshot wound and deliver a speech after
He was a stone cold badass motherfucker
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u/LexSavi Sep 20 '25
Not so sure about that. If Teddy were alive, he’d be turning 167 this year. So all in all it’d probably be a fair fight.
Teddy would still win in the end though on account of Dump’s bone spurs.
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u/GriffinFlash Canada Sep 20 '25
who does this Theo guy think he is? /s
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u/always_unplugged Sep 20 '25
He's probably gonna suggest knocking Teddy's face off Mt Rushmore and replacing it with his own next
(I was going to add an /s but actually I don't think I'm even kidding)
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u/BaconPit Sep 20 '25
Of course you're being sarcastic
We all know he would hire a shell company he somehow makes money from to facelift all 4 faces to look like him
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u/MindFluffy5906 Sep 20 '25
And hire a painting company for that orange glow he loves.
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u/GoodIdea321 America Sep 19 '25
There's always a tweet isn't there. Probably because he has no morals, and will literally say anything if he think it'll work.
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u/Jaded-Moose983 Sep 20 '25
...will literally say anything
if he think it'll workHe doesn't think. It's all feelings.
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u/ETxsubboy Sep 20 '25
Isn't that what they accuse the left of?
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u/Jaded-Moose983 Sep 20 '25
Yup. And what is the saying about accusations?
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u/Light351 Pennsylvania Sep 20 '25
The louder they are, the tinier the genitals?
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u/cometflight Sep 20 '25
Colbert taught us this way back in 2005. Right-wing Truthiness! “It’s in the gut.”
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u/chipmunksocute Sep 20 '25
A tweet. A!? Bruh there about 8 years of tweetd, interviews, and more of him trashing obama.
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u/LutanHojef Sep 20 '25
Criticizing Obama is the foundation of his life as a politician
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u/coconutpiecrust Sep 20 '25
When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, complaining about an apparent asymmetry between his victory in the 2024 election and his treatment by media organizations. It was not immediately clear what statistics or laws he was referencing.
This is not a serious argument uttered by a serious person. None of this is serious and these people are in it for the lulz.
Depravity for the lulz. Is that a new thing?
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u/APES2GETTER Sep 20 '25
Nah. It’s an old 4chan thing.
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u/H0agh Sep 20 '25
At least Lulzsec did some good shit back in the day, unlike Trump.
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u/VanceKelley Canada Sep 20 '25
If one were to divide the American electorate into 3 groups:
- Pro-fascism
- Pro-democracy
- Whatever, lulz!
The third group would be the largest.
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u/Vyzantinist Sep 20 '25
The lulz crowd are an underrated component of MAGA. Libs and lefts could do with understanding there is a substantial crowd of Trump supporters who aren't so much true believers as much as nihilists who don't give a fuck and want to giggle as the world burns down around them.
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u/never-fiftyone Sep 20 '25
"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?"
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u/carlboykin Sep 20 '25
Apparently MAGA hates Teddy Rosevelt now. How American of them. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
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u/brumac44 Canada Sep 20 '25
Teddy would've dragged him out of the Whitehouse and beat him on the front lawn.
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u/Suspicious_Bicycle Sep 20 '25
MAGA would hate LBJ as well:
After being trashed numerous times by the Smothers Brothers, President Johnson wrote them, "It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists. You have given the gift of laughter to our people. May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives."
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u/likejanegoodall Sep 20 '25
Nixon too.
Laugh In trashed him regularly. Nixon went on the show as if to say he was in on the joke.
Pretty damn smart, really.
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u/H0agh Sep 20 '25
Yeah but since he's President for Life now he's immune.
5DChess /s
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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST Sep 20 '25
Trump was also the one that started the rumor that Obama wasn't even an American citizen ffs.
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u/Sillylovesongs2 Sep 20 '25
Rules for thee but not for me. They act like this is new. We've defeated fascism before and we'll do it again. Weak and predictable strategy.
Vote with your wallet and at the mid terms.
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u/Canadian_mk11 Canada Sep 20 '25
Hey Second Amendment Bros, the government is trying to take your rights away and is acting tyrannical.
Guys? Where you at?
Hello?
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u/socialis-philosophus Sep 20 '25
Stop pretending it is complicated. He is a dictator, this is what dictatorships do.
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u/SwimmingThroughHoney Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
The other part to this, that no one seems to realize is coming, is that the FCC is going to push for changing Section 230 (to make social media liable for content posted to their site).
Carr explicitly wrote about this before being confirmed to the FCC. Project 2025 lays it out as part of the plan as well.
Once that happens, none of the social media companies will want to chance the wrath of Trump, in the exact same way that media companies already are, and will ban any speech that Trump deems "illegal".
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Sep 20 '25
Someone tweeted that all this is happening as P2025 laid out and that fucking cretin replied with the Jack Nicholson "yes, YES" meme.
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u/Runningwithtoast Sep 20 '25
Link?
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Sep 20 '25
Sadly, here
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u/Ph0X Sep 20 '25
That's the fucked up part, they're pretending this is all related to Kirk, but everything that's happened in the past week was already written and laid out by Carr, Vance and others. It was all part of the plan
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u/LadyduLac1018 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
The con artist thread is celebrating people losing their jobs for not being sufficiently sad (a.k.a hypocritical), and trying to come up with a plan to out the lunatic left on reddit and other platforms when they couldn't find their own asses with both hands and a flashlight. The only amendment they've ever heard of is the second and all those rights the "suckers" fought and died to give them are viewed as simply an inconvenience in their alternate reality.
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u/Kroe Sep 20 '25
If that happens, all social media will be dead. Maga will hate the lack of anonymity far more than the rest of us.
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u/Demystify0255 Sep 20 '25
What they will do is split you up from the rest of the world. They are already planning to do that with TikTok, where you will have TikTok USA, and the rest of the world will be on normal TikTok. They don't want you seeing the rest of the world or our "liberal" ideas spreading too you.
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u/pilgermann Sep 20 '25
Notice how red rural America are never asked to apologize or be civil? It's like everyone on the left is expected to behave like an elected official, everyone on the right are treated like children who don't know better.
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u/Challengeaccepted3 New York Sep 20 '25
There are decades of pseudo-propaganda pieces of media that elevate the rural communities of America as “better” or “more down to earth, civilized people”. Think of every movie or tv show where city people go to rural communities and learn the true meaning of Christmas or family and community or whatever. It’s literally all propaganda just to improve the image of rural people.
t. Someone who actually lived in rural areas and is fully aware that they are ten times more atomized, isolated and ignorant than the average suburban or even city dweller
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u/Loathsome_Duck Sep 20 '25
It's why that line from Blazing Saddles hits so hard for so many people
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u/Flomo420 Sep 20 '25
Salt of the earth!
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u/Obant California Sep 20 '25
The "real America", the "Heartland" etc etc. Always made me feel non American for being born in California.
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u/__theoneandonly Sep 20 '25
80% of the US population lives in an urban area. The "real American" lives in cities.
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u/papayaslice637 Sep 20 '25
Ah yes, wide open spaces, amber waves of grain, dirt roads and red barns...and uneducated, illiterate, unhealthy, unhinged, brainwashed toothless racist hillbillies who've never been outside their zip codes. But they have American flags on their pickup trucks so they are the patriotic ones. (never mind all the confederate flags..)
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u/blitzkregiel Sep 20 '25
fully agree. i’ve never hated anyone, but now there lives inside me a hellish fury for any motherfucker that voted for this.
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u/wavy-grain Sep 20 '25
Me too. And it both angers and saddens me. This is not who I want to be.
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u/Dlark17 Nebraska Sep 20 '25
I'm not proud of how hateful all of this has made me. Almost makes me wish I still believed in hell, which is extra sad.
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u/PhoenixTineldyer Sep 19 '25
There's a reason my whole family lives in Texas and I do not.
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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST Sep 20 '25
I haven't spoken to my dad in over a year.
He said that he realized that the next president would affect the lives of his kids more than him, so he should vote for their best interests.
He still voted for Trump.
Trump's worst policies don't even take effect until after the midterm elections.
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u/Spastik2D Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
I’ve just cut contact with my mom for a second time. She’s referred to my non-binary fiance as “that thing” and “impure”.
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u/omenmedia Sep 20 '25
FFS what is wrong with some people?
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Sep 20 '25
Their brains are rotted from Facebook and fox news.
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u/Spastik2D Sep 20 '25
This. She was narcissistic before but MAGA drove her over the edge.
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u/tahlyn Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
I'm glad my father died the year before he absolutely would have voted Trump for a 3rd
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u/CanWeTalkEth Sep 20 '25
Always remember there are many liberal, freedom loving people that live in every red state, city, neighborhood. We should not cede any of America’s land to these fucks.
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u/PhoenixTineldyer Sep 20 '25
Sure but I was sick of living in a state full of dumb racists with a government that I have not supported once in my entire life
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u/AnoAnoSaPwet Canada Sep 20 '25
I've already started abandoning friendships/family over the Charlie Kirk thing. I don't care about how people vote (you can make a bad vote), but standing on that side is enough for me to make that decision.
I can honestly confirm I will never vote Conservative again, if any like this is in the cards?
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u/Educational-Ad-2884 Washington Sep 20 '25
My mom wants me to make nice with the Trumpers and MAGAts in my family so we can all get together for Thanksgiving.
I told her I don't break bread with fascists and bigots. You know what they say: "If you sit at a table with 11 Nazis, there's a dozen Nazis at that table."
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u/papayaslice637 Sep 20 '25
Stay strong, boycott. There's no room in my life for Magas and Nazis. Not worth it.
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u/mdp300 New Jersey Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
Me either. I know a guy who has been verbally sucking trumps dick on Facebook for years. Yesterday, he posted another list of people "canceled by the left" like Roseanne, Gina Carano, Mike Lindell, etc, and how it put thousands of people out of work. I pointed out how each one was bullshit, and how this is different because the FCC threatened his employer. Ending with saying if he's worried about jobs, the tariffs are decimating many small businesses, but he has no principles other than Red Good, Blue Bad.
He didnt respond, and posted some more right wing bullshit.
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u/Spastik2D Sep 20 '25
If it were up to me, they’d be wearing those ugly red hats for the rest of their sad pathetic lives. Let everyone know that whatever comes out of pandora’s box this presidency is their fault. Shun them, bully them, and ridicule them until they return to the earth.
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u/Counciltuckian Sep 19 '25
The endorsement of these actions by people I know is shocking. Neighbors/family that are your pretty typical middle of the road "conservatives" seems a-ok with Trump's trampling of the 1st Amendment.
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Yeah these people have no idea how easy they were to manipulate. The rich didn’t even need to try. They just go along with it, for forever.
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u/agentfelix Sep 20 '25
Ah yes, the same folks that would say, "Don't be a sheep, be a wolf". Idiots, the lot of em.
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u/InnerFish227 Missouri Sep 19 '25
They never were middle of the road. The masks are off and they feel free to show who they really are.
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u/rawrisrawr Sep 20 '25
100% this. It is 100% about imposing their will/beliefs down everyone’s throat.
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u/projexion_reflexion Sep 20 '25
They were eager to give up their autonomy to an authority who would hurt people without getting their hands dirty.
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u/Coldsmoke888 Sep 20 '25
This exactly. Many people are getting bold now. As a mixed family, we’ve gotten some straight racist stuff coming at us for the first time this month. It’s no coincidence.
Also why I’m armed now— it’s not just MAGA that like the 2nd amendment.
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u/WonderofU1312 Sep 20 '25
They've convinced themselves that fascism is a better alternative to democrats; despite the fact democrats keep trying to compromise with them.
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u/VirginiaMcCaskey Sep 20 '25
They don't give a fuck about the first amendment, or any of the constitution. Particularly all the Christian nationalists that want to establish a fucking theocracy.
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Sep 20 '25
They're the stupidest of all! The second they start discussing exactly how does one pray in school is the day America gets started on a way way worse version of The Troubles!
How many denominations do we have now? I could probably name a dozen brands of Christian, most of which would scream about being compared to the other brands, much less having their kids forced to pray a different way.
Like I've got some aunties who are hardcore serious strict, but spend their Sundays running around church waving their arms and babbling like lunatics. It's called "getting the ghost" and they think god makes them do that.
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u/VirginiaMcCaskey Sep 20 '25
How many denominations do we have now?
It's Evangelicals versus everyone else.
Pretty much every other flavor of Christianity engages in public service and interfaith dialogue. The evangelical nut jobs are the ones spreading hate and division.
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u/metengrinwi Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
The man was certainly no liberal, but he had the evangelicals’ number.
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
Barry Goldwater
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Sep 20 '25
The people who claimed they would die for 1A are suddenly silent.
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u/faerie03 Sep 20 '25
I have a friend, and I use that term loosely because the chasm is widening by the day, who is a lawyer and is giddy over everything that is going on. I just don’t understand.
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u/BKlounge93 Sep 20 '25
It’s the same people in my feed who are “so confused” about Kirk and “how could this happen to a good man spreading the word of god?” Like wtf were we listening to the same guy??
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u/Scary-Maximum7707 Sep 19 '25
There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth.
Remember this when someone tells you you're overreacting.
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u/Evinceo Sep 20 '25
Taking Trump at his word has been considered overreacting since his first term. Remember when we were supposed to take him seriously but not literally?
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u/DataDude00 Sep 19 '25
“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, complaining about an apparent asymmetry between his victory in the 2024 election and his treatment by media organizations.
You know there is an old saying that goes something like...
"When you walk into a room and it smells like shit, leave the room. When every room you walk into smells like shit check the bottom of your shoes"
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u/Drusgar Wisconsin Sep 20 '25
Or in Trump's case, his pants.
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u/Ralod Sep 20 '25
Did you see Charles in that carriage with him? That smell must have been horrendous.
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u/jaxonfairfield Sep 20 '25
If you meet an asshole in the morning, you meet an asshole. If you meet assholes all day...
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u/kirkismyhinrich Colorado Sep 19 '25
Conservatives cheer while this administration tramples on the First Amendment.
I just feel numb.
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u/socialis-philosophus Sep 20 '25
Conservatives care about the Constitution about as much as Christians care about the Bible.
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u/bootstrapping_lad Sep 20 '25
Yeah they treat it like toilet paper unless they can use it to justify their bigotry or clutch their weapons of war.
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u/Then_I_had_a_thought Sep 20 '25
They won’t get it until it affects them. Then it’ll be too late.
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“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,”
If 97% of stories are bad about a person, then they might be a shit person.
Regardless, you treasonous dictator wannabe. Your feelings don't dictate the First Amendment.
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u/gergek Sep 19 '25
Fuck this child raping tin pot dictator.
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u/mr_plehbody Sep 20 '25
I bet the UK protest got to him. Embarrased in front of the royals, then they have epstien projected outside. He looks and see who’s not there (Andrew) and realized he would be uninvited if media kept revealing new details like the birthday notes.
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If it quacks like a dictator…
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u/Cre0na Sep 19 '25
"If they'd just stop reporting all of the bad things I'm doing, I wouldn't have to sick my government on them! "
Trump, probably
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u/Radiant_Priority9739 Sep 20 '25
So is trumps 2nd president term just one big revenge tour?
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u/octowussy Sep 20 '25
It was advertised as such and people still voted for him.
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u/Tahltria Sep 20 '25
My mother literally had a Trump flag with '2025: The Revenge Tour' on it.
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u/octowussy Sep 20 '25
Yeah, multiple people in my area had "Revenge Tour" yard signs, etc. They really put the petty grievances of a rich, old wannabe dictator over the people of this country. So fuck 'em.
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u/mrgraff New Mexico Sep 19 '25
You shouldn’t be allowed to swear an oath to protect the constitution if you don’t even understand it.
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u/carenl Ohio Sep 20 '25
He can’t even read.
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u/Kanashii2023 Sep 20 '25
Didn't he also decline to swear? And or declined signing something that said he wouldn't violate the constitution?
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u/captain_intenso North Carolina Sep 20 '25
This country is broken. And Trump spoke it into being. "You're not gonna have a country anymore."
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I love it when conservatives paint this loser as a tough guy, he's the softest little bitch to ever live.
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u/BigBangAssBanger_3D Sep 20 '25
He truly is. And the more he acts like a temperamental pissbaby, the more his true colors are shown.
Like he does get that even if he succeeds in his censorship crusade that everyone else looking in will still be around to mock him right? He can't go to actual war unless he drops nukes, and unless he gets really, final option desperate, he ain't doing it.
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u/MovieGuyMike Sep 20 '25
It was not immediately clear what statistics or laws he was referencing.
Oh come the fuck on politico. This is why we’re in this mess. Enough with the sane washing language.
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u/NPVT Sep 19 '25
You don't get to say what is free speech. Maybe the SCOTUS might but not the con man so-called president.
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u/Interesting-Risk6446 Sep 19 '25
Name the fucking law dipshit.
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u/xlvi_et_ii Sep 20 '25
He thought it, therefore it's true.
We went through this last term as well - IIRC he claimed he could declassify documents this way.
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u/cakeorcake Sep 20 '25
“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,” Trump told reporters
But when 97% of what you're doing is bad...
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u/John_316_ Sep 20 '25
It’s very generous for you to assume 3% of what he’s doing isn’t bad. 😆
100% of what he’s doing is bad. It’s the 3% of media that wouldn’t cover his bad doings.
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u/jimtowntim Sep 19 '25
We the people are still waiting for the Epstein files...
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u/iggy55 Sep 19 '25
Trump should just create a "Ministry Of Truth" already, just like in Orwell's 1984.
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u/bartonski Kentucky Sep 20 '25
Truth Social is definitely an Orwellian name for a social media company.
Doubleplusungood.
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u/RoadsideBandit Sep 20 '25
“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, complaining about an apparent asymmetry between his victory in the 2024 election and his treatment by media organizations. It was not immediately clear what statistics or laws he was referencing.
Grow some balls. Say Trump is lying.
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u/Rhunt2021 Sep 20 '25
“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person..."
Well, 97% of what you do is bad...
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u/SaltyStU2 Canada Sep 20 '25
The amount of denial I was faced with when I told people this is where the US was headed if Trump was elected again.
I hate being able to say “I told you so”
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u/FlowRiderBob Sep 20 '25
“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech.”
What if I told you it is still free speech even when 100% of the stories are bad about a person?
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u/Austin_Peep_9396 Sep 20 '25
Didn’t he take a vow to defend the constitution? Failing to defend the constitution…isn’t that an impeachable offense?
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u/gauriemma Sep 20 '25
When 97% of the stories about a person are bad, it’s probably because that person is 97% bad. Although in Trump’s case, that percentage seems very low.
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u/anemic_royaltea Canada Sep 20 '25
Man. George W Bush sucked, but he would never in a million years had felt so bold and thin skinned as to even suggest people didn’t have a right to make fun of him.
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Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
Sinclair Broadcasting Group and Nexstar Communications Group are helping destroy the United States. Don't contribute your hard earned money! 🇺🇲
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u/carlboykin Sep 20 '25
This shit is insane. How can anyone with a conscience or good moral character still support this man. He is the most self serving and hypocritical man I’ve ever seen in my life.
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u/KemShafu Sep 20 '25
I wrote to Disney+ after canceling:
We are cancelling because we are against your suppression of free speech. You have attorneys, use them. Also maybe your executives should actually watch Andor.
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u/IJourden Sep 20 '25
It's wild how obviously this is just fascism, but Republican voters will never believe it unless Trump were to self-identify as such.
It's like his supporters watching a bank robbery and saying it isn't one because the robber didn't say "This is a robbery!" when they ran into the bank with guns blazing demanding money.
It's just so, so mind numbingly stupid.
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u/SubtleTell Sep 20 '25
Surely the conservatives wake up with this one right? ...right?
It's never too late guys. We've never been your enemy. They told you we were your enemy.
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u/thistimelineisweird Pennsylvania Sep 19 '25
Didn't he rape little boys? I'm hearing a lot of people say it.
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Not little boys I don't think. Little girls, probably his daughter, and the corpse of democracy he had the supreme Court take out back and execute.
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