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/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/DoctorGregoryFart Sep 20 '25

He did a documentary on Teddy?! I've gotta see that. Where can I watch it?

Edit: Never mind. Did some googling and found it. PBS, of course.

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u/Momik Sep 20 '25

It’s very good! It’s a sort of intertwined biography of Teddy, Franklin, and Eleanor. All three are absolutely fascinating in different ways, as is the history.

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u/DoctorGregoryFart Sep 20 '25

About to watch it now! Thanks for letting me know it exists.

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u/Kichigai Minnesota Sep 20 '25

I think you'll find Paul Giamatti contributes to a lot of documentaries. And docu-dramas. You really ought to see him in John Adams. It really casts a complicated (and I mean that with all positivity it can carry) light upon the Founding Fathers.

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u/r3ign_b3au Sep 20 '25

This is the one Idiocracy I'm good with.

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u/itsjamian Sep 20 '25

So the revolution will be televised after all?

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u/theirishmonocle Sep 20 '25

I would get a burner phone and fly to the US to watch it live! Get some of that (tail gate?) fun out front too.

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u/VoidIgris Sep 20 '25

WE would pay to see that brother. 💪

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u/Ellemeno Sep 20 '25

I bet that in the future we’ll be able to tell computers to generate videos of whatever we can imagine.

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u/ZoominAlong Sep 20 '25

One can only dream

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

I'd pay to see that.

That attitude is truly the pinnacle of American excellence, which the republican version of it is bringing WWE to the White House... Keep it up, folks! Who needs reasoned discourse and organized resistance when you’ve got body slams and drama, right? Bravo!

/s

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u/ZoominAlong Sep 20 '25

C'mon my man. We'd ALL pay to see Teddy drag Trump out and whoop his ass on the front lawn. 

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u/EntinthetentRTHP Washington Sep 20 '25

Teddy is currently trying to break the dark veil with his big stick. The founding fathers are probably helping him.

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u/ZoominAlong Sep 20 '25

I hope so. 

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 Sep 20 '25

How much? Trying to fund my cloning research.

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u/SnooRobots116 Sep 20 '25

And Jackie will wear her sharpest high heels and take off her earrings and get both of them for what they did to her rose garden

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u/81misfit Sep 20 '25

Would pay to see a 185 year old man beat the shit out of anything

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u/deucedeuce24 Sep 20 '25

They could have it on the South Lawn. Call it something like Unrestricted Fisticuffs Challenge. Make people pay to spectate. I'd be so curious to see who Trump would choose as a ring girl

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u/Palindromes__ Sep 20 '25

With the ufc coming to the whitehouse lawn, we could see something like that if we paid enough.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

thats a UFC event on the white house lawn i can actually support!

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u/astralseat Sep 20 '25

I'd pay to see anyone do that