{"id":50917,"date":"2021-10-10T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50917"},"modified":"2021-10-11T01:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T08:39:12","slug":"trump-whines-that-we-dont-have-free-speech-as-he-literally-calls-for-banning-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50917","title":{"rendered":"Trump Whines that ‘We Don’t Have Free Speech’ as He Literally Calls for Banning Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday night in Des Moines, Iowa, there was yet another coronavirus super-spreader cult rally featuring the twice impeached, former reality TV game show host, and America’s Biggest Loser<\/a><\/strong>, Donald Trump. The event lived down to its hype as a couple of ear-bleeding hours of a malignant narcissist complaining that the election he fairly and decisively lost was “stolen”<\/em> from him.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

Among the innumerable absurd laments that excreted from the oral orifice of the blockhead who brags that he is the most fabulous whiner<\/a><\/strong>, were some commentaries on the sanctity of the First Amendment. Trump’s yammering (video below) addressed, in particular, free speech, which he claimed there isn’t any more of:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no free speech, we don\u2019t have free speech anymore. You know, it used to be automatic, free speech. We don’t have free speech. We have the opposite of free speech. And this is the beginning of communism when you hear that. This is the beginning of communism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In that brief rant Trump uttered the phrase “free speech”<\/em> five times. Psychiatric professionals say<\/a><\/strong> that in some cases “this is because of problems with short-term memory caused by dementia.”<\/em> Whatever the cause in Trump’s case, it is also a significant departure from reality. First of all, he is asserting that there is no free speech while he is freely speaking to an audience of his cult followers at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n

Trump has never been an especially ardent defender of First Amendment rights. He has relentlessly lambasted the free press as “the enemy of the people.”<\/em> He has expressed regrets that he didn’t ban Facebook and Twitter<\/a><\/strong> when he had the chance. He has threatened that “Something has to be done”<\/em> about CNN<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

However, what makes this latest assault on free speech so preposterous is what he said immediately afterward. In another repetitive rant, Trump vilified critical race theory, a field of study that he has displayed his pitiful ignorance of before<\/a><\/strong>. At this rally he harangued that…<\/p>\n

“We will ban critical race theory in our classrooms. We will ban that horrible, crazy critical race theory in our military. We will ban it from our workplaces. We will ban it from our federal, state, and local government. It will be banned. Permanently banned. And will never be allowed to come back again.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently Trump doesn’t like critical race theory. He does not like it in a house. He does not like it with a mouse. He does not like it in a box. He does not like it with a fox (News?).<\/p>\n

What Trump does like is the notion of banning free speech with respect to teaching the history of race on America and the impact of systemic racism. And he explicitly expresses his intention, should he have the opportunity, to ban it permanently from every public forum that he could think of.<\/p>\n

This should be of concern to every American who values the Constitution and the liberties it protects. If Trump would so openly admit that he would “cancel”<\/em> the First Amendment, it goes without saying that the would do the same to any other part of the document that he regarded as obstructing his authoritarian aspirations. He’s already trying to subvert the democratic process, with the help of his Republican Party confederates. But he – and they – must never get the chance to carry out their defiling of America’s constitutional republic.<\/p>\n

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Trump's rally in Iowa winds down with a bonkers rant about critical race theory pic.twitter.com\/yBRsKiMKOx<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n