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The First Amendment protects the TV station from any consequences from running this ad, specifically from any issued by the government. The text of the 1st states, 'Congress shall make no law'. The Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment extended the protections of the Bill of Rights to the states in a process known as incorporation.

Political speech, especially, is protected by the 1st Amendment. DeSatan hasn't got a leg to stand on. He and his Lady MacBeth cos-playing wife can just have a seat. Several, in fact.

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People might get back alley abortions, says government trying to make sure that those are the only abortions available.

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Fuck Ron DeSantis.

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deSantis is a sick man who gets re-elected. Florida is sinking before climate change floods it 💩

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Ta, Robyn. DeathSentence is on a par with Abbottoir. I loathe and detest both.

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I wonder if deSantis has streasand-ed this ad by trying to ban it.

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That guy....holy crap what a horrible person. These so-called men astound me with their hatred of women.

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When Fred Sanford said, "Beauty's only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way through," he could have been thinking of Ron DeSantis.

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I feel like this is a man who KNOWS his mother didn't want his sorry ass.

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Florida....a police state.

Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer! Mit DeSantis vor dem Sieg oder Bolschevismus! Wir Bleibt im Der Fuehrer! Wir Bleibt in den Sieg!

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Something something fourteen words.

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But I thought it was the Liberals that wanted to ban speech, you know, so that people will get vaccinated or stuff like that instead of being told lies.

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I love Wonkette, but can you please, please, please, provide links to something, anything other that Elon Musk's rated X cite? Pretty fucking please. I mean WTF are you still doing providing clicks to that mother fucker and forcing people like me to access them.

For the love of fucking God, please just get off the Xshitter.

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I do not click the x links, or I use xcancel (copy/paste the URL and replace x with xcancel before hitting enter), but it would be just WONDERFUL if our dear Wonket writers would provide xcancel links, or especially links to other platforms, so that we can help those on other platforms to build their audiences!

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I guess ol’ Ronny Whiteboots isn’t familiar with the First Amendment. He must think the Bill of Rights starts with the Second.

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The Chump Bible Constitution apparently left off Amendments 11-27.

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He's Il Duce of FL. He thinks what he says goes.

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That didn't end well for the original Il Duce...

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First Amendment only applies to religious and government officials in Rethug states.

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Hey, when your unreconstructed party keeps a state unreconstructed, you can feel free to wild out! Governor Pudding Boots is well aware of the power he wields.

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More like Gov. Pud in Boots, amirite?

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Tell me this is his last term and he gets sucked up in the next hurricane.

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This is his last term, and Florida doesn't have a Senate race in '26, and no one knows what the political landscape will be like in '28 (other than Wonkette will be bringing up every little stupid, inept, clumsy thing he did on the '24 campaign trail).

Probably too offputting for Fox, but who knows?

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$peech that goes to Democrats is a crime.

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