Prickly City by Scott Stantis for January 23, 2018

You can bet that if Drumpf does this, which I’m sure he’ll try to do sometime in the near future as Mueller draws near him, the Dems will have this to run on this year (they just won’t celebrate).

♪ All aboard! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ♪

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Heil – Heil – Heil Heil – Heil – Heil

Crazy, but that’s how we goes

Millions of people living as foes

Maybe it’s not too late

To learn how to love

And forget how to hate

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Mental case not healing

Trump’s a total shame

We’re going off the rails on a crazy train

We’re going off the rails on a crazy train

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Let’s go!

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We’ve listened to Kluxers

We’ve listened to fools We’ve watched the White House

Make their own rules

One person conditioned to rule and control

The media smells it and we live the role

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Founder’s words still screaming

Driving us to vote

We’re going off the rails on a crazy train

We’re going off the rails on a crazy train

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We know that things are going wrong for US

You gotta resist His lies

Yeah

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Heirs of a cold war

That’s what we’ve become

Inheriting troubles, we’re mentally numb

Crazy, we just sit and stare

We’re living with something made by the Bear

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Mental case not healing

Who and what’s to blame

We’re going off the rails on a crazy train

We’re going off the rails on a crazy train

Just another component of Making America Great Again.

The Supremes already decided that money is speech, so if you don’t have sufficient money, you don’t have speech.

Leftists are the only one opposed to free speech. Citizens United was about a movie about Hillary, made by a bunch of people who put their dimes together to fund it. Conservative speakers are the only ones attacked on campuses. Suspect the Trumpian language intends only to give leftists a mirror to their actions.

Leftists are in favor of free speech, as long as you share their viewpoint.

The funny thing is that if Pres. Trump got his way, he could be, or have been sued, in regards to the birther stupidity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/22/this-new-trump-book-could-do-even-more-damage-than-michael-wolffs-heres-why/?utm_term=.c32953c3ddda

Trump has a tendency to do whatever his advisers most strongly advise him against, and they even have a term for such behavior: his “defiance disorder.”

He, out of nowhere, tweeted his decision to ban transgender people from the military before a scheduled meeting with then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to discuss his options on the matter. “Oh my God, he just tweeted this,” Priebus reportedly said.

His aides were similarly blindsided by his accusation, also via Twitter, that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump during the presidential campaign.

Trump was strongly advised not to dispatch then-press secretary Sean Spicer to dispute stories about Trump’s inaugural crowd size and later admitted, “I shouldn’t have done that.”

“And that’s a good thing, Anthony!”

So many people miss the point. So many others deliberately twist the issue.

Long before Trump hit the scene I stated that we need to have the press chopped back down to the same level of 1st Amendment protection the rest of us enjoy.

They can publish things with impunity that would result in defamation convictions for the rest of us. Call yourself a “journalist” and you gain a level of protection that makes you virtually immune to the repercussions the average citizen is subject to.

I said this about Klein’s Clinton books years ago, and I say it about Wolff as well. I am reasonably certain that the founders did not intend for free speech to be a selective right, more equal from some than others.

The worst leaders are those who can’t take criticism of any kind.

The price to be paid for free speech is listening to the president’s defenders say paying off porn stars is morally upstanding.

@Andylit

All you say is factually accurate and simply confirms what I am trying to tell you in the first place. Public vs private is the variable you seem to be missing – or deliberately ignoring.

Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America’s free press — Richard Kluger (2016)