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Starbeach

(374 posts)
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:16 PM Sep 2025

Today is Constitution Day

So are we really going to wave goodbye to what it gave us - in the First Amendment - free speech and free press?

No. Today is not the day to watch Trump crush dissent, satire and ridicule. No other president has been as fearful and desperate as this one. No other president was so damn scared.

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kimbutgar

(27,558 posts)
1. Our country died the day the orange pedo felon took office and started the destruction of our constitution
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:17 PM
Sep 2025

Civility and truth!

AMERICA RIP.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
4. Keep denying we have a Constitution and we will not have one.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:28 PM
Sep 2025

People who want to keep the Constitution do not deny having one.

Keep asserting and using the Constitution and it will live.

Mysterian

(6,624 posts)
5. The flag-waving maga fools who call themselves patriots can celebrate the end of our constitution
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:35 PM
Sep 2025

and the beginning of one-party rule in republikkkan amerikkka. They think they will be better off as long as they are the correct religion, the correct party and the correct race. They will be shocked to learn they have the same zero rights as any slave in the Confederacy.

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