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dalton99a

(90,243 posts)
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 11:37 AM Monday

Trump to sign executive order to classify Charlie Kirk's work



Top-secret security clearance will be required to read, print, repeat, publish or broadcast his words


Might as well make it official









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marble falls

(68,584 posts)
2. That's a court order away from being overthrown. He can't classify public speech after the fact, ...
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 11:42 AM
Monday

... it is in fact classic "prior restraint", the whole basis for free speech.

Ninga

(8,924 posts)
4. What!!!! Bullshit! Kirk was a public figure who
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 11:42 AM
Monday

spoke widely and had a podcast anyone could access. All of this becomes top-secret???
Basta! Enough!

The Roux Comes First

(1,840 posts)
5. Not Long Ago We Would All Have "Known" This to be Courtesy of the Onion
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 11:43 AM
Monday

I could see using quote marks on "work."
I suppose there is the usual exemption for the faux news network?

Botany

(75,307 posts)
7. Isn't Kirk's work part of the public record? His writings, his web presence, speeches, and media .....n
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 11:55 AM
Monday

….. appearances are all “out there” and despite Trump’s attempts to put the toothpaste back into
the tube it can’t be done besides the first amendment means Trump can’t sanitize Kirk’s past and
his hateful rhetoric can’t be hidden in his attempt to make Kirk an American Saint. In Dublin, OH
… think white, republican, and rich … they had about 1 thousand people to turn out for a candle light
vigil for Kirk yesterday. The man was a hate talker and liar for money.

jls4561

(2,706 posts)
8. And the most hateful speech will be codified and placed into the new edition of the Drumph bible.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 11:58 AM
Monday

That chapter to be called the Gospel according the Saint Chucky.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,084 posts)
9. While you clarified that this was "sarcasm," he will do something like this probably.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 12:12 PM
Monday

Soon it will be against the law and the death penalty if you criticize anyone including him or in the maga world.

That is not sarcasm or an exaggeration, that is the future the way things are going.

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