Benjy (Benji Weiss?)

They had the House Un-American Activities Committee back in the day.

They had Hollywood Blacklist to prevent people who they said were communists from being in the industry.

There has long been a cancel culture on the right as well.

And

it's okay if it's coming from everyday people.

When it's coming from the federal government and they are silencing citizens, they are threatening corporations, and you have this corrupt corporate system, this corrupt crony capitalism where you have these companies seeking these mergers, seeking to please their masters in order to get their mergers or acquisitions through, you have a very dangerous situation, and that's the one we find ourselves in today.

Well said, Bea.

Really well said.

I just want to take a second here, too, because the attack on Jimmy Kimmel from the Trump regime, this isn't their first attack.

Let's just recap really quickly.

Let's remember where this all started this time around with Trump 2.0.

And where was that?

Remember Ann Selzer from the Iowa pollster?

Trump filed and then eventually dropped a federal lawsuit against the Iowa pollster, Ann Selzer, and the Des Moines Register over her poll that had Kamala winning

uh the state in the 2024 election oh he filed a federal lawsuit over a poll then what we've seen we've seen lawsuits against the new york times 60 minutes and the wall street journal the trump regime's also blocked the associated press's access to the white house canceling of stephen colbert and now the canceling of jimmy kimmel like full stop this administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the first amendment in american history

For the party that pretends to champion free speech, they are quite literally the party of restricting free speech.

It's this motto of free speech for me, but not for thee.

That's the Republican Party right now.

And it's fucking chilling the direction that this is all headed in.

And by the way, real quick, shout out to Ann Seltzer.