Comments on: Hate Speech http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/16/hate-speech/ Reality-based political commentary Sat, 02 May 2026 07:43:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/16/hate-speech/#comment-221036 nypoet22 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:14:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26804#comment-221036 getting fired from your job for not doing it is a normal and appropriate private consequence. prosecution for saying something, unless there's direct causality involving a crime, is unconstitutional. not that Donald ever knew or cared what the Constitution says. getting fired from your job for not doing it is a normal and appropriate private consequence. prosecution for saying something, unless there's direct causality involving a crime, is unconstitutional. not that Donald ever knew or cared what the Constitution says.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/16/hate-speech/#comment-221034 Kick Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:18:20 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26804#comment-221034 <blockquote>We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It's hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart. ~ Donald Trump </blockquote> Poor Donald is treated "so unfairly." This is the 34-time convicted felon who was proven in a court of law to have conspired directly with a rag mag to smear multiple of his political opponents (Republicans and Democrats) with outright lies in print who is whining hysterically about his negative press coverage. Hysterical.

We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It's hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.

~ Donald Trump

Poor Donald is treated "so unfairly." This is the 34-time convicted felon who was proven in a court of law to have conspired directly with a rag mag to smear multiple of his political opponents (Republicans and Democrats) with outright lies in print who is whining hysterically about his negative press coverage. Hysterical.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/09/16/hate-speech/#comment-221033 Kick Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:04:32 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26804#comment-221033 <i>Republicans, led by Donald Trump, now apparently want to rewrite the First Amendment's guarantee of the freedom of speech. Their interpretation of it seems to be that conservatives should be allowed to say whatever they want -- no matter how vile or vicious or hateful -- about whomever they want, while liberals should be locked up if they ever say anything negative about conservatives. </i> Sound familiar? <i>That's how they want to define "free speech" these days: free speech for me, but not for thee. </i> That's how they've always wanted to define "free speech." #SSDD Republicans, led by Donald Trump, now apparently want to rewrite the First Amendment's guarantee of the freedom of speech. Their interpretation of it seems to be that conservatives should be allowed to say whatever they want -- no matter how vile or vicious or hateful -- about whomever they want, while liberals should be locked up if they ever say anything negative about conservatives.

Sound familiar?

That's how they want to define "free speech" these days: free speech for me, but not for thee.

That's how they've always wanted to define "free speech." #SSDD

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