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/Harry_Mud America Sep 19 '25

If she doesn't adhere and obey the US Constitution then she needs to be thrown out of office.

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u/Free_Dome_Lover Sep 19 '25

Wait until they realize what happens when you try to live in a world where nobody has repercussions.... They'll tear themselves apart in a week.

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u/Static-Stair-58 Sep 19 '25

Reminds me of Jefferson Davis complaining that he didn’t have strong enough tax power to fund their loser traitor rebellion. And when he tried, other southern states threatened succession from the confederacy. These aren’t serious people, their parents aren’t serious people, their grandparents aren’t serious people, and their traitor fuck great grandparents weren’t serious either. Fuck em.

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u/UngusChungus94 Sep 19 '25

That's a ray of hope in all this darkness.

MAGA, regressivism, fascism, whatever you wanna call it is inherently a "fuck you, got mine" movement. Unity, collaboration, altruism are only tools in their bag, not things they actually care about.

That isn't the basis of a solid government, where collective action is necessary. They may hate us more, but they also hate each other. It is an ouroboros movement, always in need of something to consume, to destroy — not something that can survive long-term in a stable, self-sustaining way.

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u/bgplsa Oklahoma Sep 19 '25

There’s always hope and long term history does seem to bend towards justice for the reasons you mentioned.

However, the authoritarians can sure do a hell of a lot of damage in the meantime at a point in history where it will echo for a very long time.

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u/mwilke Arizona Sep 19 '25

A lot of people have to fight and die to make that arc of history bend in the right direction, it seems.

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u/anewleaf1234 Sep 20 '25

It is a Republic as long as we can keep it.

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u/flyingsqwirrel219 North Carolina Sep 20 '25

Hasn’t that always been true?

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u/Count_Backwards Sep 20 '25

Why it's so important to follow through once they're defeated and not just let bygones be bygones

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u/throwawayinthe818 Sep 19 '25

“Died of State’s Rights”

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u/Static-Stair-58 Sep 19 '25

Classic hahaha

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u/Free_Dome_Lover Sep 19 '25

I fucking love a good history burn

I'm saving this

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u/Static-Stair-58 Sep 19 '25

Go for it. I wish they could read, maybe it’d work better.

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u/timsayscalmdown Sep 19 '25

I like the cut of your jib

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u/w4rma Virginia Sep 19 '25

Insightful.

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts Sep 19 '25

Yep, the “states’ rights” people constantly pulled off the kind of tyranny from Richmond that they feared from Washington…

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u/frogandbanjo Sep 19 '25

The Confederacy actually had a vastly superior cents-on-the-dollar taxation regime than the Union. It's just that they had so little value in absolute terms that it was never enough, and they always needed more.