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HobNoblin The speech/expression is free, but--like any act--can have consequences.
The consequences of the lies leading us to this point is the death of our country under the least-prepared fools ever to run the US.
Republicans refused to act to remove this person when then should have (after Jan 6, his machinations and lies were laid bare). As a result, instead of keeping him as a sidelined former Executive, the three branches are conspiring to allow him to act illegally.
The Greeks know the names of the Spartans who defended the pass at Thermopylæ against the Persians who sought to take Greece.
The French know the names of the legislators who voted to collaborate with the Nazis (to capitulate rather than fight).
We will know many of the names of those who gave power to the guy who is destroying our country from within and without; our place in the world has been dealt huge blows by this person. I am not sure we will ever recover.
The rest of the free world is looking at us with sadness, surprise, digust, derision.
If people in power had a duty to the truth, with hard consequences of violating it, we'd not be here; if we'd fixed $ in politics, we'd def not be here.
The Constitution is now meaningless.