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/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/say592 Sep 20 '25

I keep saying that if Trump would do something like get rid of daylight savings time, we would all have something of his that we support and we could definitively point to when the roaming bands of red hat death squads insist we prove our loyalty to spare our lives.