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I would support an investigation into Bono. That South Park episode pretty well summed up why I dislike him. I'm sure he's a decent guy, but yeah, pretty smug. (I don't really, shut up.)
We already know Oprah is terrible for platforming a bunch of terrible people (Doc Oz, Doc Phil, that rapey guy in South America). Behind the Bastards podcast has that info.
Bruce Springsteen and Beyoncé are totally awesome. Let your bullshit investigations reveal how cool they are. We're ready.
If Clownstick starts sending famous people to private prisons, that might actually piss off more Americans than a change in their own lives would.
The old playbook. I guess step one would be to see their papers.
Oh he finally figured out that Born In The USA is not the song he thought it is?
Number of entertainers prosecuted by McCarthy is staggering…just saying.
I don’t think anyone knows who that is anymore.
Well they should. His BS was the gravest violation of freedom since, well since slavery ended. If people want a quick story they can read about Lilly Hellman and the Children’s Hour.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Hour_(play)
That cancer took the wrong president...
Ashley furniture needs to investigate Vance asap!
It's JD... I'm sure he went for white Swedish IKEA first
And Vance the fucking babyfaced moron had the gall to come to Munich and talk about how concerned he was for freedom of speech in Europe 😂
Come on, pay attention. “Freedom of speech” means, and has ALWAYS meant “receiving no criticism but maybe receiving praise for saying slurs.” Everyone knows this.
It's always, always projection.
Because they all have more money than him? Maybe not Bono but Oprah and Beyonce have tens of billions. He might as well add Taylor Swift and Marshall Mathers while he's at it.
He was tweeting shit about her too right?
He'll add Taylor Swift and the red M&M.
He's just using the government as his personal squad of goons to intimidate anyone that has slighted him at some point. And he's very easy to slight.
This isn't the derangement of one orange madman
This is the derangement of an entire government
A whole country if you really think about how that government got there in the first place!
I want investigations into Oprah but not because I'm a snowflake racist who can't handle criticism.
I'd like someone official to pull at this thread
You're not kidding. There are no words to describe. Just the set of circumstances that made this possible leaves me speechless.
She's too powerful. I've said for years I bet she has nukes.
Would be weird if she turns out to be the one who saves us all.
Worse
Can someone tell the orange moron that criticizing him is a First Amendment right of every American?
No, 1st Amendment is only for him. Fuck the rest of you.
For how long is it gonna stay like that?
Also for how much people are touting the First Amendment it seems pretty useless if you're a regular Joe and the government can just pick you off the street for talking shit about them and ship you off to God knows where. Even if you eventually get out, can you afford to not work for a few months while imprisoned? Can you afford to pay the lawyers that will fight to have you freed?
"You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride." This has been a police intimidation and harassment tool for a long time, now being openly deployed by the US president against his political opponents.
This is what courts and congress needs to work proactively and not retroactively.
They are working proactively… for this.