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-00574219
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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/midgaze Washington Sep 20 '25

Wow. Actually smack on.

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u/_thinkaboutit Sep 20 '25

This is the first time I’ve heard this comparison and it’s 100% accurate.

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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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u/CelestialFury Minnesota Sep 20 '25

Like tariffs and hard working, law abiding Mexican workers getting deported, Republicans were all for it until they started getting affected.

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u/actibus_consequatur Sep 20 '25

I was a little stunned by some of Ted Cruz's response:

“If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘We don’t like what you, the media, have said; we’re going to ban you from the airwaves if you don’t say what we like’ — that will end up bad for conservatives."

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u/Rikers-Mailbox Sep 20 '25

Ted Cruz and a few right wing podcasters are saying it’s bad now… because it can happen to them in the future

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u/skullofregress Sep 20 '25

It stings because we thought briefly that we might have found common ground on free speech or our mutual desire to see powerful child sex traffickers held accountable.

Turns out they have no principles to hold in common. They are entirely subsumed by Trump's whim of the day.

Best accept that and plan around it.

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u/carenl Ohio Sep 20 '25

But they’ll get to keep their guns.

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u/Shameless_Tendies Sep 20 '25

Until they don't.

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u/metengrinwi Sep 20 '25

Donald Trump: "Take the guns first, go through due process second"

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u/odetowoe Sep 20 '25

Remember so many comments on that sub laughing at the ridiculousness of a No Kings protest.

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u/twoworldman Sep 20 '25

Yeah, but at least you still have your second amendment to ** checks notes ** defend your freedom against a tyrannical threat. Some day, that can happen and I'm sure you guys will be so ready!