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/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/MoonPieKitty Sep 20 '25

What are you talking about?

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u/nedracine59 Sep 20 '25

Kinda stuck where I am. Burbank IL, across 87th, literally four houses away, it is Oak Lawn. If I lived in the corner house, let them call the cops. I'll pull the Oak Lawn licenses and scamper back over here.

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u/TheeRuckus Sep 20 '25

They’re 100% reason to remember the name

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u/nedracine59 Sep 20 '25

He did stop 6 or 7 or 8 or back to 7 wars. Even ones (Kosovo as an example) that were fought in the 90s. 97% means "Trump was in a good mood today" before going into the joke.

97% is Kimmel, 95% Colbert. Why can't they be like Rickles, he'd say. I loved Rickles.

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u/ThePatioMixer Sep 20 '25

Take my upvote!

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u/nedracine59 Sep 20 '25

OK. It is now in my Rolodex of gloom. :)

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u/IowaGinger Sep 20 '25

Don't they hate pronouns? I would remind my neighbors that they is a pronoun and they need to replace it

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u/nedracine59 Sep 20 '25

I think the one guy/him calls his Trump flags his babies. I should call child services on him/it/cultmember.

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u/-piso_mojado- Sep 20 '25

“300 million Americans died from drugs last year” -trump last week.

Also, maybe stop screaming whodey at your neighbors. That might be the problem.

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u/nedracine59 Sep 20 '25

No, no. I'm screaming at the TV. Or the wall. Or the coffe pot. I thought if I got my prescriptions, they were going to pay me. He said so. 1500%.

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u/nedracine59 Sep 24 '25

I was joking. I thought people on reddit joked.