Can americans speak freely about their president?

[Anonymous]

In russia, we can't speak about our president, we got banned in internet for that, and get arrested if we talk about him badly on public... How is it in USA? U can freely speak (on public and in the internet) about ur president?

[NamerOfStars]

We can indeed. The first Amendment to our Constitution guarantees freedom of expression (speech, the press, religion, assembly, and to petition the government for redress of grievances, to be specific). Of late there's been some concern over private companies taking a very hardnosed stance on censoring content they find politically objectionable; it's still ongoing. But even that is nothing like what you'd see elsewhere; no secret police squads knocking on your door for criticizing leaders over here.

[cloud9vortex1234]

Yes, thats a good thing we have. They say good things and horrible things and he has has to take it. Anybody who becomes U. S. President understands thats part of his job. Of course, you can't threaten to do Physical Harm to him without the Secret Service knocking on your door, but thats Fair Enough.

[BlacklightShade]

Americans are free to talk shit about their president. We did have a close call where the previous one tried to shut that down by using the US Justice Department to track down journalists critical of the former leader, one of his many preludes to a dictatorship.

[Avicenna]

You're delusional

[BlacklightShade]

@Avicenna

Trump's DOJ planted spyware on American journalists phones
www.axios.com/...-d975-46a4-9136-f28b29aaf84d.html

Many times
www.npr.org/.../private-spyware-was-used-to-hack-cellphones-of-journalists-activists-worldwide

[Avicenna]

You are indeed delusional. Your sources in no way confirm what you're claiming. Where is your proof that Trump ordered what you're claiming he did? In addition, you do know that most of the DOJ does not consist of political appointees and most of that majority hate Trump?

The Axios article is about the DOJ using the courts to obtain information related to an investigation of illegal leaks by some people in the federal government. Regardless of what one thinks if that, it's not as you claim "tracking down journalists critical of Trump". Journalists critical of Trump definitely weren't hiding!

The NPR article also doesn't say anything about the DOJ or Trump. If you're going to make claims, you need evidence to back it up, and I see none so far that backs up your accusations, which are claiming specific actions and intent by Trump.

Your claims of "preludes to a dictatorship" aren't accurate with regards to Trump, and you've provided no evidence to support that claim. Dictators don't allow faux Congressional investigations and don't get impeached, for starters.

But since you're worried about spying, maybe you'll find some umbrage about the Obama Administration's illegal domestic spying, including on the 2016 Trump campaign as well as its abuse of the NSA database.

[BlacklightShade]

@Avicenna You know that William Barr ran the DOJ at the time, right?

[Avicenna]

William Barr was the AG at the time. He's the person that the Senate Majority Leader told Trump he would get confirmed.

So are you alleging Trump told Barr to do that? If that's your claim, you need evidence, also that Barr had the career DOJ staff do that and also that the career DOJ staff actually did it. You've shown no evidence that even hints in that direction. You've simply made false premises and drawn a false conclusion from those false premises.

[Anonymous]

Not anymore. Big tech and the government censors a lot of opposition now. Big tech companies are Democrat and have taken off a majority of conservative platforms. We don't have much freedom anymore.

[BCA6010]

There's no law against it, but depending on what exactly you say and where you say it, you could get censored or banned for it. Some sites have very heavy-handed biases regarding what you can or can't say. Really though, you can say just about anything short of a death threat without any real fear of punishment.

[TrueConfection]

Unless you're a celebrity. Then death threats are considered heroic and looked over.

[crmoore]

^True, lmao

[Anonymous]

no we can't. the media lies which is obvious all liberal hell and sjw shit and politically correct shit. if a conservative even has anything to say they get castrated and ostricized to no end. same thing on twitter facebook instagram snapchat and the social media hell. google is very liberal bias same with hollywood. twitter and google are the worst of the bunch when it comes to extreme liberalism. anything conservative and republic and you get banned. same with youtube extremely biased against conservatives always in favor of liberals. the only place you might be able to express your opinion is on reddit. but that's a hard maybe.

[Opinion Owner]

the united states is a complete hellhole worse than any slave ridden country that exists or existed. we're not free to speak our minds regardless of what that joke of a constitution and declaration of independence and bill of rights says.

[Celtero]

Joe Biden is a senile pedophile bastard with a worthless failure of a crackhead son and Kamala Harris' most important duty is changing his rancid leaky diapers.

I'll let you know if anything happens to me.

[rcljr]

are you talking about that brainless child molesting racist piece of shit biden? Yeah we can trash talk that cocksucker every day, twice on Sunday, he really is a useless tit head piece of shit.

[Asker]

if i wrote it about putin on a russian sites, i would immediately get banned

[rcljr]

Hell, I like Uncle Vlad, I trust him a hell of a lot more than I trust biden.

[BlacklightShade]

I didn't realize Biden was buddies with Epstein.

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[Asker]

vlad steals a lot, thats why russians have to live on small salary and survive. The minimum salary here is 150$ and a lot of people live on this salary.

[rcljr]

@BlacklightShade , biden likes his little girls about 7 years old. DJT likes his in their 20’s from Slavic countries.

[BlacklightShade]

Stop boring me with how your parents met.

[White_Boy_506]

@BlacklightShade But wasn’t it Bill Clinton who kept going to the man’s private estate?

[rcljr]

@BlacklightShade , maybe you wouldn’t be such a moody liberal bitch if you pulled that cactus out of your ass.

[rcljr]

@White_Boy_506 yes, the clintons, BOTH Clinton’s went to Lolita island multiple times, the secret service spilled the beans on Hillary’s lust for young girls too, that should make mis lite rite midnight the liberal skank happy.

[BeenThereLovedIt]

In the USA, if you badmouth a right-wing politician, you get verbally and sometimes physically attacked.

If you badmouth a left-wing politician, you get high-fived by people with an IQ of 45 and beer.

[exitseven]

They can but in some places you could lose your job if you dare mention that we have a president that is way past mentally compromised.

[BeMuse]

Of course we can. The only real restrictions are that you can’t actively plot to assassinate the President without the Secret Service taking you for a ride...

[andreasderjuengere]

You don't mess with the Zohan.
You don't mess with Putin.

In Russia you may perhaps not be able to express everything you think - but at least you are not a part of a clown show.

[crmoore]

Yes, as of now, we can. But in recent years, one side has been inching further and further into authoritarianism and censorship.

[joeldalton]

We can. "Joe Biden is a dementia-addled piece of shit who is a puppet of the CCP"

[worldscolide]

One of the advantages of having freedom of speech here, we can say what ever we like about our president, and nothing will happen.

[rcljr]

Oh something will happen, all the widdle wefties on here will get theiw widdle feews hurt and start crying about it.

[worldscolide]

Yeah pretty much.

[rcljr]

There’s one now, blacklightshade, crying because her lord and master biden didn’t feel her up.

[BlacklightShade]

@rcljr Yet here you are whining like a little bitch for losing an election.

[worldscolide]

If you're going to argue, stay the f off of my thread

[rcljr]

@BlacklightShade , not at all honey, I’m laughing because you idiots put a brainless retard in office and y’all are regretting it.

[rcljr]

I can fix that, easy peasey Lemon squeezy.

[Anonymous]

You can say what you like in the UK, but dont make the mistake of thinking that its different, its just another style of control.

[OddBeMe]

Have you seen Fox News? If not, don’t. Just take my word that yes you can speak ill of the president here.

[Peuples_Francs]

вы действительно русский? из какого города?

[rcljr]

Not me, I’m from Amerikastan, the newest communist country.

[Wise4myage]

Yes we can and it happens every day.

[anylolone]

Nope, they can't. Not anymore.

[Sabretooth]

Putin is a beta cuck.

[Anonymous]

our president is a transvestitie cock sucker