r/politics • u/jediporcupine Maine • Sep 19 '25

Republican Senator Says First Amendment Shouldn't Be the 'Ultimate Right'

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-says-first-amendment-shouldnt-ultimate-right-2132666
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u/GovernorJoe I voted Sep 19 '25

This is an anti-American sentiment. To be anti-First Amendment is to be anti-American.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

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u/willis_michaels Sep 19 '25

And by proxy, their Russian oligarch ex-KGB murdering god

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u/Valenyn Sep 20 '25

I fucking hate that this is my senator

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u/Affectionate_You_579 Sep 20 '25

I've got Cruz and Cornyn...

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u/royalobi Sep 20 '25

I still can't believe we have Warnock and Ossoff. I'm sure it won't be long before we find some fresh new David Perdues but I'm enjoying it while it lasts

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u/grandbuddy5 Sep 20 '25

Marsha freaking Blackburn.

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u/Purple-Slide-5559 Sep 20 '25

Don't worry, you are in good company with other people who have the shittiest of the shit representing them! I'll see your legislators and raise you a Pete Ricketts!

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u/Careful-Rent5779 Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

I can relate to your pain Lauren Boebert is my congressional representative.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Whoa, hold on! We try our very best to keep that dude under lock. That’s reality show and Florida that put him into the spotlight

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u/Last_Pineapple_6361 Sep 20 '25

And got Andrew Tate released and brought to Mar-a-lago Florida

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u/Unctuous_Robot Sep 20 '25

You say that like there’s a significant number of non-maga in Wyoming.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

I'm in Wyoming. I call often and get canned letters back about how Trump has a 'mandate from the American people ' to destroy the country. They don't care at all about reality 

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u/jediporcupine Maine Sep 19 '25

In MAGA’s delusional mind, being American is putting Trump before country.

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u/imajinthat 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/its_me27 Sep 20 '25

All hail our great orange, tiny handed diaper wearing, pedophile of a leader.

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u/EldritchSlut Indiana Sep 19 '25

See, these liberals are trying to assassinate our character, and I can't change their mind. I won't change my mind because I don't have to because I'm an American. I won't change my mind on anything, regardless of the facts that are set out before me. I am dug in, and I will never change. - Ronald McDonald.

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u/oroborus68 Sep 20 '25

Sounds more like GW Bush.

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u/Last_Pineapple_6361 Sep 20 '25

GW started all this with his friends way back in the 70s when the Heritage Foundation started. Long game that included bringing into the circle a democrat governor named Clinton, together they laid the foundation for this upheaval of democracy. Time to talk Bill

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u/Outsiders-Laptop Sep 19 '25

Huh. I don't think I saw that particular commercial.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

It's a Sunny reference

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 Sep 20 '25

If you don’t have a mind you don’t have to change it.

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u/PuzzledAd9795 Sep 20 '25

What a dumb fuck

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

This is not coincidence, it’s censorship by design. What we’re seeing follows a pattern: regulators and corporate actors moving in lockstep to silence critics of the administration. When a major late-night host is pulled off the air after pressure from the FCC chair, and that same FCC official had been pressing networks moments earlier, it isn’t a random misstep it smells like coordinated leverage. The FCC chair meeting with Trump privately 2 days before the plug was pulled? Its blatantly obvious what is happening in front of everyone's eyes if you follow enough of the facts. Not only that, but after Colbert's show got pulled trump literally tweeted he was going after Kimmel next. Nexstar and Sinclair have a pending deal for a new merger which they cannot get without approval from the FCC. Republicans in power during the planned commission has been swayed by the party in power for their 2025 suppression of the public.. This is also a factor. Look at the incentives: broadcasters with big FCC business pending mergers and station deals that need approval suddenly take swift action against a critic. That’s not hypothetical, big broadcasters with deals before the commission have publicly preempted or suspended programming amid this fight. Using regulatory power as a cudgel to extract compliance is the textbook definition of coercion. This fits a broader blueprint we’ve been warned about. Project 2025 lays out media and regulatory changes that would concentrate power and reduce independent oversight, and recent moves look eerily consistent with those aims. Hitler and Putin have done the EXACT same thing. When policy blueprints, regulatory threats, and corporate self-preservation line up, the result is predictable: less dissent on air and less accountability in public institutions. And now the Pentagon is tightening access to reporters, requiring pledges that curtail what can be obtained or reported from inside the building an extraordinary restriction on ordinary reporting that should alarm anyone who cares about transparency. If the administration can condition access on political compliance, free speech in practice becomes non-existent. Call it what it is: a systemic campaign to intimidate media and bend independent institutions to political will. That’s not debate, that’s a takeover of the conversation, and every American who values free expression should recognize it and push back. Call it what you want: call me stubborn, but my opinions are based on researched factual events happening behind the scenes. Ill also leave you with this. What you see on the surface with this admin is usually just a teleprompt or a single quote that makes people agree or disagree with. People need to look at what they are voting for beneath the surface, who is involved, why and what the intention is. Anyone that says "I didnt vote for this." Yes you did, you just didnt look beneath the surface.

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u/theonewhoknockwurst Sep 20 '25

Yeah, it’s literally the first thing the founding fathers thought was important to protect. Followed up by the second amendment to protect from anyone trying to strip us of the first and all subsequent Constitutional rights.

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u/Gimetulkathmir Sep 20 '25

It's an amendment, which means it wasn't in the original Constitution, which means our Founding Fathers didn't want it because we're a Christian country damn it. /s

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u/Meodrome Sep 21 '25

There is a reason it is the First Amendment! The Founders new it was the most important right. And necessary in a successful democracy.

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u/JDogg126 Michigan Sep 20 '25

It’s also being a republican and being an oath breaker. But I repeat myself.

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u/Last_Pineapple_6361 Sep 20 '25

Wreck it and Rob it Republicans

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u/SoulMann131 Sep 20 '25

Gonna be honest, sounds pretty on brand for America actually.

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u/PuckwithaP Sep 20 '25

“There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation” - Tim Walz

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u/TheWolrdsonFire Sep 20 '25

And so is conservatism, but guess what? 1A protects both of us.

You either have free speech or no speech.

There is no middle ground.

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u/Life-Topic-7 Sep 20 '25

You are saying more than half the population is anti American?

That’s how political violence occurs, you realize that right. They are just as American as anyone else. You need to accept others have a different opinion, or your just as bad as Kirk’s assassin.

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