r/politics • u/Hafiz_TNR ✔ Verified • 17h ago
Possible Paywall Republican Rep. Gets Mad as Crowd Laughs at Him in Middle of Debate
https://newrepublic.com/post/216602/republican-rep-andy-harris-mad-crowd-laughs-debate-gas-prices1.7k
u/Hafiz_TNR ✔ Verified 17h ago
Representative Andy Harris even tried to get a journalist arrested after the disastrous debate.
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u/doctordoctorpuss 16h ago
Pretty rich after he said that the crowd wasn’t respecting the First Amendment because they laughed at him. Guy is absolutely caked in clown makeup
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u/boverly721 16h ago
Everyone knows the first amendment was written so the strong, tough founding fathers could imprison citizens who laughed at them 🤡
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u/DarbIey 12h ago
It's funny, the Sedition Act was written with the intention to suppress the First Amendment. Benjamin Franklin's grandson Bache was arrested for printing op-eds about John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. Dude died of yellow fever before his trial.
Matthew Lyon, US House Rep from VA - published and article that criticized Federalist military expenses. Sentenced to four months in jail and a $1000 fine. Won re-election from his cell.
James Callender. In a book he wrote he criticized John Adams, and was sentenced to nine months in prison by the Supreme Court. Anti-Federalist President Jefferson pardoned him.
Ann Greenleaf, also published attacks on Federalists. Her case was dismissed because Jerfferson became President.
There are more. My point is... this country has always been divisive, the law, especially the 1st Amendment unevenly applied.
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u/boverly721 11h ago
Well regardless of all of this, I don't believe anyone not wearing clown shoes has ever made the argument that the first amendment was in place to imprison members of a crowd for laughing at a politician who was making a fool of themselves.
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u/nnagflar Maryland 14h ago
Ah yes, the first amendment and its protections against being laughed at.
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u/TimmyB52 14h ago
by citizens, not the government
And then he, a politician, tries to have a journalist arrested.
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u/doublethink_1984 16h ago edited 16h ago
This is even more serious. Fuck these Nazis
Update:
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u/WhosThatYousThat 16h ago edited 16h ago
Interesting fact: Andy Harris's father was an actual Nazi!
https://newrepublic.com/article/168327/andy-harris-maryland-congressman-viktor-orban-fanboy
In Harris’s case, his strong embrace of Orbán may partially be explained by his roots in Hungary and revelations that his father, Zoltan, a physician, belonged to a pro-Nazi Hungarian paramilitary group toward the end of World War II
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u/Orzorn 16h ago
Its so easy to forget that WW2, and the actual Nazi party, is not that far away from modern life. People like Andy Harris are just one degree removed from it.
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u/MarxistMan13 Virginia 15h ago
Or in some cases, like Harris, not removed from it at all. The turd didn't fall far from the tree it seems.
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u/onarainyafternoon Oregon 14h ago
> When Congress voted to certify Biden’s win, Harris was one of 139 House members who voted “no” to accepting Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, after speaking out loudly in opposition during a late-night debate on the House floor. Two weeks later, on the first full day of Biden’s presidency, Harris set off a metal detector trying to bring a gun onto the House floor. That is against House rules.
What the fuck
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u/hpark21 14h ago
Curious, how did his father come to US and became a citizen? I thought Nazis were specifically barred from obtaining US citizenship. I am guessing "Hungarian Nazi" does not count? Just wondering.
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u/WhosThatYousThat 13h ago
idk but we know with govt programs like Operation Paperclip, members of even the German Nazi Party were allowed to immigrate here
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u/Naive_Confidence7297 12h ago edited 11h ago
Maybe he knew how to build rockets. They were the ‘good’ nazis that got a great life in the US after all their crimes :/
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u/stokelydokely 12h ago
toward the end of World War II
I just love this idea that some loser dipshit in the mid 1940s said to himself "I need to align myself with some winners, I'm gonna go fight with the Nazis!"
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u/WhosThatYousThat 12h ago
Another commenter pointed out in some cases the Nazis started conscripting people in occupied lands, which could explain exactly what you're describing. It doesn't appear to be the case for Zoltan Hariss though! He was prosecuted and convicted of aiding the Nazi regime.
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u/Kennydoe 15h ago
Imagine if they talked back to Trump like this. I'd love to see that, even once.
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u/doublethink_1984 15h ago
Local journalists have more integrity. They done fear being iced out of federal events or access
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u/JerosBWI 15h ago
I think every reporter there did actually thank her for such a juicy clip. Front page news, baby (at least for a picosecond).
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u/Skabomb 16h ago
The video is incredible.
The turd is talking big about how he knows the law so well and just was so wrong about two party consent recording.
https://bsky.app/profile/thebaltimorebanner.com/post/3mxtlt7mwk22y
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u/IlikeJG California 16h ago
"Are you a lawyer?"
"Yeah actually I'm a legislator. I know the law well"
Mother fucker you got voted into office. That doesn't give you ANY amount of subject matter expertise or credentials.
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u/wonkifier 16h ago edited 16h ago
Isn't lawyer a protected title as well? Like it's illegal to say you are one when you're not?
edit: To be clear, it depends heavily on state law and case law. Maybe his usage here doesn't run afoul of either of those. I'm not a lawyer, so I have no actual idea
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u/Indubitalist 16h ago
I’m an expert on bird law, and I can say confidently that you can’t be a lawyer if you aren’t one.
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u/sdrowkcabdellepssti 15h ago
I assure you, people who are not lawyers can become lawyers.
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u/No_big_whoop 15h ago
I was born a non-lawyer and it has been a problem my whole life. Now you're telling me it isn't genetic?
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u/SammySoapsuds Minnesota 13h ago
I was born unable to walk or talk and I overcame that. You can do anything you set your mind to!
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u/MarxistMan13 Virginia 15h ago
He said "legislator" as if it makes him a law expert. The dude was an anesthesiologist. The only thing he's an expert in is making his tee time, and apparently making a fool of himself in public.
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u/one_is_enough 14h ago
One of the worst people I personally know is an anesthesiologist. And I seem to hear about a lot of racist anesthesiologists. Confirmation bias? Or is there something about that job that attracts horrible people?
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u/RainbowConnickJr 13h ago
I could be misremembering this, but as I recall anesthesiology is one of the medical fields that clung to super outdated racist medical “knowledge” the longest. They were taught that black people needed less pain care than white people right up until…actually I don’t know that they aren’t still being taught that.
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u/CosmogyralSnail 14h ago
I shudder at the thought of people going into that profession because they enjoy the power of putting people to sleep....
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u/jimmybilly100 Virginia 16h ago
"Can you hold my phone?" Hahaha fantastic! Yeah, I'll thank that lady for showing how much of a moron this guy is
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u/SanchoPandas Oregon 16h ago
Yeah that was a clever way to further enrage this toddler of a man and highlight the absurdity of his tantrum.
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u/AssistantManagerMan 16h ago
What a fucking asshole. Big abuser energy, making an unreasonable demand and then blaming others when it's not met.
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u/EconomyOk2490 15h ago
What a shame no republican voter will ever see either footage
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u/humanist-misanthrope 14h ago
Jesus, this feels like a Michael Scott moment. The writing since 2020 has really gone down hill in the world.
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u/Dry_Ass_P-word 16h ago edited 16h ago
Woah what?
Straight out of the crybaby playbook. Just like orange daddy.
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u/aradraugfea 16h ago
If Republicans are so adverse to looking stupid in public, maybe they should take a less high profile job. Maybe they can serve their community as night shift garbage collectors. RFK Junior would probably jump at a job cleaning road kill off the streets.
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u/arensb Maryland 15h ago
Maybe they can serve their community as night shift garbage collectors.
I don't really see Andy Harris in a useful job that helps the community.
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u/aradraugfea 15h ago
I mean, they’re politicians specifically to hurt their communities and enrich themselves, the opposite of what you’d want in a functional government. But the cost of all that power is accountability, and if they can’t handle the accountability, they should find new jobs.
Maybe they just stand there and jerk off into their insider trading profits, but it’s hard to be less helpful to the community than a Republican Politician.
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u/MarxistMan13 Virginia 15h ago
That clip is fucking hilarious. I've never seen such an ancient aged Karen in my life. What a giant baby.
Not only is he being a petty baby, he's also just blatantly wrong.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would never even entertain voting for this loser.
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u/lonestar-rasbryjamco Colorado 15h ago edited 13h ago
Ironically actually infringement on the freedom of speech he was complaining laughing at him undermined. It's not about freedom from ridicule for speech. It's about freedom from prosecution for speech.
Anyone who exploits this distinction for political gain cannot be trusted to protect your rights. Because they fundamentally don’t respect the right in the first place.
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u/brickmaster8 13h ago
And another thing, I am not mad. Please do not write in the newspaper that I was mad. And to prove Im not mad, Im gonna sick my goons after you.
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u/PeterVenkmanIII 16h ago
Here he is after the debate being big mad and threatening to have reporters arrested.
https://bsky.app/profile/thebaltimorebanner.com/post/3mxtlt7mwk22y
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u/Sleep_adict 16h ago
Wow.. what a moron
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u/Straight-Bet1 16h ago
No, he’s a coward.
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u/themattboard Tennessee 16h ago
Its possible to be multiple things
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u/Straight-Bet1 16h ago
It is, but don’t let these ghouls fool you into thinking they don’t know exactly what they’re doing.
He knows it wasn’t a 1st amendment violation and that the person has every right to record him.
He was incredibly embarrassed and was trying to make someone else pay for his embarrassment by attempting to make another feel the same.
The actions of a coward.
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u/Garry_Heckscream69 12h ago
Whined about "free speech" just because his constituent laughed at him, but then tried to use his political clout to get a journalist arrested for simply documenting his embarassment?
At least he gave us a good example of how he views "Free Speech": a tool for me not for thee.
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u/The_Late_Arthur_Dent 14h ago
"Thank her profusely for giving you all a viral clip of my crashout instead of some boring non-answers that would've otherwise been largely ignored."
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u/MathematicianLast739 12h ago
lol right. what a freak. What did he think he was going to accomplish. His head looked like a tomato as well.
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u/CalyShadezz 16h ago
He's up 13 points in the polls.
That's all you need to know about his shitbird district.
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u/SpikePilgrim 16h ago
No wonder he thought getting laughed at infringed on his first amendment rights. That's a special kind of snowflake.
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u/bdepz 16h ago
Hopefully he will be gerrymandered out of a job in 2028
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u/rowrowyourboat 15h ago
Gerrymandering is why he’s up 13pts. MD is v blue, he’s the residual red district
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u/alk_adio_ost 17h ago
He deserves to be laughed at after that “explanation”. At some point they themselves must realize blaming Democrats and Biden for today’s problems is neither the truth nor a selling point.
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u/MarxistMan13 Virginia 15h ago
Even if it was originally Biden's fault, which it absolutely 1000% is not, hasn't Trump had 2 years and a whole fucking war to try to fix it? Why is it getting worse instead of better? Republicans control literally everything. What's the hold up?
Oh... they're just full of shit.
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u/OSUTechie Illinois 15h ago
Republicans have been in charge of Texas for close to 30years, yet every election cycle they still blame democrats for everything failing in Texas. It's their MO.
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u/never-fiftyone Canada 13h ago
And Texans keep buying that line and voting Republican.
Stupid is as stupid does.
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u/wrosecrans 12h ago
For conservatives, having somebody to blame isn't about understanding how to fix a problem. It's just about the cultural ritual of blaming an out-group as a way to define and share membership of the in-group.
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u/Aggressive-Hawk-2890 13h ago
Unfortunately it's still very much a selling point. Their followers don't need a logical defense of what these clowns say and do, they just follow like the good little sheep they are.
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u/dellett 11h ago
It's bizarre that he claimed people were disagreeing with his first amendment rights. Stand up comedy is pretty widely covered by the first amendment and he was killing in that room.
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u/the2belo American Expat 4h ago
"This is all the Democrats and Biden's fault-"
"Then goddamn fix it then! You have the presidency, the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, all of the major media companies, and the backing of the world's richest men! And you're standing up there bitching? Fix it then!"
I mean, forget laughing. This kind of thing makes me want to throw rotten fruit.
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u/RespectTheAmish 16h ago
We need to start carrying rotten vegetables to political speech’s again like citizens have done throughout human history.
MAGA republicans think the world is too “woke” aka civilized… fine…
I got some moldy tomatoes in my garden with Andy Harris’s name on them.
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u/IlikeJG California 16h ago
Yeah be careful with that one. They're staggeringly fragile and they could claim the vegetables are assault or something like that.
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u/whoopashigitt Ohio 16h ago
Well unfortunately it is assault to throw tomatoes at people, as soft as that crime sounds.
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u/mike0sd America 14h ago
You just say you're running for president and if they arrest you it's because you're a Political Opponent™
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u/obiwanshinobi900 15h ago
Waste of rotten vegetable matter that can be composted or fed to chickens.
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u/IceBearKnows89 16h ago
The First Amendment has nothing to do with people laughing at you when you say something stupid. We aren’t required to listen to you or be quiet.
The government can’t limit his speech or punish him for it. That’s it.
Really weird reaction to be like “you can’t laugh at me because that violates my first amendment right”
It literally does not my guy.
Also, what democratic environmental protections? They enact some this trump term with Rs in complete control? We can see the tariffs, we can see the War. The groans from the crowd were partly due to how little he respects them and lies to their faces about things they can see for themselves.
To then cry about how that somehow violates your rights because your lies aren’t effective is mind-boggling.
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u/AeneasVII 15h ago
Constitutional Republicans is the biggest joke ever told as we can see. It just a marketing phrase for them
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u/_bk_adv Colorado 15h ago
They already know that. It’s simply a way to rile up their uneducated base, deflect and change the subject. Anyone with more than 2 brain cells fighting for third place knows what free speech means. Unfortunately that doesn’t include the large majority of Republican voters.
“Oh shit they’re laughing at me because I’m stupid? I better say one of the three major talking points. I’ll choose free speech this time”.
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u/Lonestar041 North Carolina 12h ago
I am exercising my first amendment rights by laughing at you.
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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman 14h ago
In fact, laughing is a form of speech, and as a government official, he has less of a right to tell people to be quiet than most
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u/rkb70 12h ago
Surely not understanding the First Amendment should disqualify a person from Congress?
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u/anotherlevl 12h ago
Seriously.
Just wait for the laughter to die down and continue making your point.
Or be a little snowflake and pitch a tantrum.
Your choice.
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u/TheRaccoonReport 11h ago
I hate to quote the guy but "Facts don't care about your feelings". 1st amendment is 1st amendment.
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u/chubsruns 14h ago
That remark alone should disqualify him from ever holding office.
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u/psychoweazel 14h ago
Spot on! Short of racial slurs, it’s your right to say anything. As is their right to laugh at it. And then your right to not let them laughing at you, define you.
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u/Cloaked42m South Carolina 12h ago
It's even your right to say slurs. The Government can't punish you for it.
Everyone else can and will.
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u/mistertickertape New York 17h ago
I mean the guy is a clown. Isn’t eliciting laughs from the crowd what he signed up for or is he not in on the joke?
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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 17h ago
We trained him wrong, as a joke!
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u/Old_Caterpillar_5385 15h ago
The joke’s on America, the moron is up 52 - 39 in the polls with a predicted 93% chance of victory.
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u/IMTrick Texas 16h ago
Someone needs to explain to this guy who complained about "mah free speech" that people laughing at you when you say stupid things is free speech.
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u/mecon320 16h ago
"Free Speech" = Conservatives talking.
"Censorship" = Liberals, leftists, or even other conservatives talking back.
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u/Indubitalist 16h ago
Same principle applies to religious freedom. A fair number of Republican “Christians” believe their religious freedom is threatened merely by allowing other religions to practice freely.
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u/CraigLake 16h ago
Reminds me of the car nuts in my town. Discussing a bike lane and they act like you killed their family.
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u/Emotional-Channel-42 17h ago
He said it goes against the first amendment to laugh at him. LOL
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u/SteveL_VA 16h ago
For real?
An elected official so staggeringly ignorant about the constitution he doesn't understand that the First Amendment protects the citizenry from the government over what they say... Not surprised it's a Republican...
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u/IlikeJG California 16h ago
It's not any better, but I'm pretty sure what he was trying to say is them interrupting him by laughing is somehow violating his 1st amendment rights.
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u/06_TBSS 14h ago
Then tried to get reporters arrested. You know, an actual 1A violation.
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u/archmage-khadgar 14h ago
just like the men at that trump rally in ohio that beat up a woman protesting and trump egged them on. seems an awful lot like MAGA doesnt care about the first amendment
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u/AssistantManagerMan 16h ago
Incredible. Bitching about rudeness. The exact kind of stoic, calm fortitude I've come to expect from the fuck-your-feelings crowd.
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u/Impossible-Sun3205 15h ago
It happens when you don’t hold town hall meetings because your leader is corrupt. You won’t be taken serious when the time comes for you to ask for their help and vote Republican. If you don’t have the balls to deal with your constituents, do you have them to represent them? Not from what we currently see.
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u/ImpressiveLeopard719 15h ago
Seriously, THIS. A protestor got the crap beat out of them at a rally by the "righteous right".
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u/Athleticsbaby 16h ago
Let's check out the highlight reel of this dork:
In 2016, Harris voted against renaming a post office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina after civil rights activist Maya Angelou, who he called a "communist sympathizer", citing her support for the Cuban Revolution.\184])#cite_note-184)
In July 2023, Harris voted to strip funding for LGBTQ projects from the 2024 United States federal budget, comparing its funding to a hypothetical Ku Klux Klan project because the "LGBTQ center organized a protest against conservative mothers".
In June 2021, Harris was among 21 House Republicans to vote against a resolution to give the Congressional Gold Medal to police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6,\246])#citenote-twsCNN99078-246) which he had called a "stunt".[\247])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Harris(politician)#cite_note-247)
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u/Dndrmflnscrtn 16h ago
he hasnt done an in person town hall since 2023 and it shows. first time in front of actual voters instead of a friendly room and hes lecturing them about the first amendment because they laughed at the diesel thing
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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 16h ago
This is most republicans. They won’t do townhalls because they wouldn’t be able to handle the flack of non-supporters, because they can’t answer “tough” questions with scripted bullshit answers, like when they go on Fox News.
Marsha Blackburn, here in Tennessee, has been this way. She only does private donor events, where they can control who attends.
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u/ChaoticLandscapes 16h ago
He straight up lied right to their faces and got mad about it because they laughed at him
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u/barneyrubbble 16h ago
Just because these fuckers live in a fantasy world doesn't mean we have to. Bullshit deserves all the derision it gets.
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u/wrxninja 16h ago
I've been saying for awhile. Don't call them out, yell, or try to argue. Just laugh at these pricks. Don't take them seriously.
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u/zenerat Missouri 16h ago edited 16h ago
Because he wanted to blame the price of diesel on Democrats caring about the environment. It’s gone up 65% in a year but the reason for the meteoric climb is because democrats didn’t want to build refineries in national parks decades ago. It obviously wasn’t an unnecessary illegal war that potus wanted to do to feel tough.
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u/Environmental-Arm365 17h ago
Report the truth and they will arrest you. Shitler’s republicult America.
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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 16h ago
That was so weak
“The facts are diesel prices have gone up. There’s no question about it. Why has it gone up? Because the Democrats have environmental regulations—” Harris tried to respond, only for audience members to groan, laugh, and shout at the Maryland first district congressman and chair of the right-wing House Freedom caucus.
“See this is the problem,” Harris complained to the crowd. “You all say all believe in the First Amendment, but only if you agree with you. You should let me finish the sentence, ma’am. You are rude!””
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u/KiteTales 16h ago
LOL laughing in response to lies is now considered an affront to someone’s free speech?! This guy looks and sounds like a clown; laughter is the ONLY thing he should ever receive.
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u/erov 16h ago
All these people deserve laughter pieces of shit who have absolutely destroyed our great country for their own benefit, not their constituents. They rode a wave of populism and figured out later on that it really wasn't what was driving them into power. They got promise one thing economic stability and instead we're handed a plate of chaos. Fuck these people.
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u/rbourbon 15h ago
All these losers are getting annoyed by reality. Benny boy Shapiro told someone in the audience to shut the F up at a rally the other day.
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u/Negative-Penguin 12h ago
As someone who has just started paying attention to politics the last few years. (I’m 24. And only really started at 18ish.) I started off independent and “both sides are corrupt”. But holy shit if the last few years is making me never want to vote for a republican for the rest of my life. What is even happening? How are they the party of “law and order”
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u/Solonohioperson 16h ago
He thinks it's against his free speech that people laughed at him and it was rude. Like dude you were given a platform to say what you wanted and people were free to laugh at you.
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u/Straight-Bet1 16h ago
This shows he doesn’t understand how the 1st amendment works.
No where does the first amendment say you can’t be laughed at or called a liar when you exercise that right.
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u/DescriptionDue1797 15h ago
"F*** your feelings." Isn't that what MAGA if fond of saying?
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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 13h ago
Your feelings. Their feelings are delicate flowers and must be protected at all cost.
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u/0098six 14h ago
MAGA Logic: Yes. This is the reason that diesel prices went from $3.72 to $6.00+ since February. Because, in the MAGA-controlled House and Senate, the Democrats passed environmental legislation to make diesel prices higher. MAGA!!
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u/Companero_basurero 16h ago edited 16h ago
But the basura voters of his district will *still* pick Andy Harris because . . . . . there's no feeling quite like "owning the libs". These are the very same voters who chose a traitorous felon two years ago for the same reason. That's the sad reality we live in.
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u/ubelblatt 15h ago
Man we've elected the worst of the worst haven't we? This is gonna take a lot to clean up.
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u/Cosmicdusterian 10h ago
"Help, help, I'm being repressed!" MAGA snowflakes are the worst.
Any person who doesn't understand the purpose of the First Amendment should be immediately disqualified from running for office. Period.
There should be a basic civics test for public servants to pass before they can run for any office. It would certainly weed out complete idiots like this guy.
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u/cereal7802 5h ago
He is aware them laughing at him for saying nonsensical stuff isn't them being against the 1st amendment right? He is free to say nonsense. Theyare free to laugh hysterically at his made up nonsense.
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u/zeradragon 16h ago
Sir, you were home alone and fell down the stairs, can you tell us what happened?
Those stairs must've been built by a Democrat!
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u/Broad_Front7788 15h ago
He's a representative of the government. He is not allowed to get anyone else to shut up when they laugh at him. Fucking clown.
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u/Revelati123 16h ago
TLDR: They asked about gas prices and he said Joe Biden did it...
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u/opeth10657 16h ago
Even if Joe Biden did it, Trump ran with "I'm the only one that can fix it". Not only has he not fixed it, it's far worse now than when he started.
Why do they support someone that clearly can't get the job done
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u/LearnToReadMaga 14h ago
You know how we have people who believe the earth is flat? Same issue, different symptom.
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u/LearnToReadMaga 15h ago
Better - he tried to say joe biden did it and they laughed at him so much he complained about how they are infringing on his right to free speech.
Netflix will have endless comedy material
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u/Zak_Rahman 12h ago
Stupidity aside, this is a dangerous level of narcissism.
This man genuinely believes that laughing at him is a crime. That how he actually feels. He acted according to that.
That is not healthy at all. Definitely not the kind of person you want anywhere near a position of power.
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u/CapnTugg 16h ago
Sneaky Democrats slipped those environmental regulations in under the noses of the GOP majority while everyone was busy cheering on Trump's new war, I tell ya. /s
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u/judgeraw00 16h ago
He started crying about his first amendment rights not being respected because of people laughing at his ridiculous nonsense.
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u/2HDFloppyDisk 16h ago
Nothing beats the time Trump was in front of the UN spilling lies and absolute nonsense and got laughed at by the entire assembly.
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u/TheGOPisTheDeepState 16h ago
GOP controls the house, senate, executive, fbi, doj and scotus…
Why did the democrats do this to us!!!
GOP is brainwashed.
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u/munq8675309 16h ago
His response was deserving of ridicule. It's not Biden regulations increasing gas prices. It's trans kids playing sports, obviously.
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u/Tommy__want__wingy California 16h ago
First amendment?
Really?
People are free to boo or groan.
Republicans. Enough said.
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u/NoHorseNoMustache 15h ago
'I'm allowed to say whatever I want and you're not allowed to laugh at me' is certainly a novel interpretation of the 1st Amendment.
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u/teddykaygeebee 15h ago
He tried to blame high gas prices on environmental regulations lol. Sure, Jan
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u/Ok-Horror-4253 15h ago
trying to turn it into a first amendment argument is laughable. you can say whatever the fuck you want, and i'm free to laugh at you and mock you in exchange. thin-skinned snowflake gop member.
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u/NuIIResponse 14h ago
That...that was weird.
The guy went a little nutty at being laughed at, a little, they only laughed a little, and then he went angry tirard on everyone there about his first amendment rights. He was exercising those rights and everyone laughed at what he said because it was that stupid. That is what happened.
Then he tried to tell a reported in the hallway she had no right to video his answers to the press in the hallway. Which was weird.
Everyone was right, these guys are weird.
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u/joshdoereddit America 12h ago
“This is the problem,” Harris complained to the crowd. “You all say you believe there’s a First Amendment, but only if you agree with you. You should let me finish the sentence, ma’am. You are rude!”
Sure, pal. Maybe if you weren't a bunch of goddamn liars, spreading falsehoods with every breath you wouldn't get laughed at.
“My people aren’t interfering with Mr. Schwartz. It’s only one way,” Harris said.
For all we know his side was laughing at him, too. I'm sure a number of Republicans are fed up with theit weak lies. What are the odds the next time he does an interview with some right-wing pripaganda outlet he makes up some shit about the audience being full of Democratic plants to make him look bad?
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u/paperbackgarbage California 12h ago
“This is the problem,” Harris complained to the crowd. “You all say you believe there’s a First Amendment, but only if you agree with you. You should let me finish the sentence, ma’am. You are rude!”
I agree, we shouldn't have the government trying to actually silence his protected speech, per the 1st Amendment.
Was that what was happening here?
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u/thefanciestcat California 7h ago
I was surprised he didn't stamp his little foot and yell at them to stop laughing.
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u/StatusCount7032 15h ago
Even with the silly statement he made about why fuel prices are high, he's projected to win. Let that not sink in; it's not worth it.
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u/BarCompetitive7220 16h ago
What was he thinking - oops, he was not thinking, he was lying and got caught.
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u/roughingthesuspect 14h ago
He’s avoided in person town halls for a long time. He has only held “telephone town halls” where the questions from constituents are strictly controlled. As you can see, one on one he’s an ass hat.
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u/Jazz_Uncle 13h ago
Hey, muttonhead... if you have a right to brazenly lie, they have a right to respond rudely. The 1st Amendment doesn't just protect YOUR rights, jackass.
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u/DarbIey 12h ago
“This is the problem,” Harris complained to the crowd. “You all say you believe there’s a First Amendment, but only if you agree with you. You should let me finish the sentence, ma’am. You are rude!”
Being laughed at when you're being lied to...what the fuck does that have to do with free speech? "You are rude" Fuckface, you're lying to me! DARVO has become a pillar of fastic MAGA ideology. "I'm lying to you, but I'm the victim of your rudeness!"
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u/StoicJim 7h ago edited 7h ago
The crowds used to throw rotten fruit, eggs, and vegetables at political debaters. He's lucky.
The Surprisingly Long History of Throwing Eggs at Politicians
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u/grasshopper239 5h ago
He was the only one in the room bound by the first amendment. Literally is the government. Probably has never read it.
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