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AMEN.

If money = speech then speech has been quantified. Since we all have varying amounts of money, some of us have more speech than others.

This is not free speech.

"Free" implies equal, but our contemporary corporate riddle-writers have truly shipped their souls smithing the notion that somehow, someway our freedom of speech is measured in dollars.

I guess they were right all these years - freedom really isn't free.

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My Medicare Advantage plan with Kaiser Permanente has extremely cheap pharmaceuticals'. Thom needs to invite guests from Kaiser Permanente on his show!

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Oh but justice (a title proving irony has no bounds) "Clarence Thomas insists supreme court justices do not rule based on politics." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/17/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-justices-politics

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Meanwhile, way down at the bottom of the Republican sewer where the turds land is their base of voters, paranoid lunatics, our neighbors (excerpts from the article below):

"Too many white men suffer from irrational fears and deep-seated insecurity — and the social consequences are dire [...] But there should be a social price for bad behavior, and mockery is a fitting response. [...] They're a public menace, so approach with caution."

https://www.salon.com/2021/09/19/cry-macho-why-scared-guys-are-so/

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