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SimulationCommander's avatar

I could watch this all day. Amazing speech and a great delivery! I assume you already have Walter's speech and are just doing the editing, but if you need the actual file let me know!

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Biff's avatar

Awesome Matt. Just awesome. Thank you. I shared the below paragraph with many today, as well as the entire speech. Because you really hit on something here that I had not considered before, something that highlights the extreme arrogance of these people, who they are, and more importantly who they are not.

“Let me pause to say something about America’s current intellectual class, from which the “anti-disinformation” complex comes. By the way: there are no working-class censors, poor censors, hungry censors. The dirty secret of “content moderation” everywhere is that it’s a tiny sliver of the educated rich correcting everyone else. It’s telling people what fork to use, but you can get a degree in it.”

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Liz's avatar

I was cheering in my living room at this part!

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Randy Wayne's avatar

A Speech that every American should listen to.

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Jordan The Average's avatar

Also please make a Racket shirt that says “MOTHERFUCKER IM AN AMERICAN—

that shit doesn’t work on us”

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dg's avatar

And on the inside bottom hem: you suck. So you can flip up the hem and show people

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Melissa Kelly's avatar

I would buy that.

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dg's avatar

I also desperately want a shirt of the clockwork orange JOY graphic from a previous post

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Cary Dicristina's avatar

So motherfucking spot-on!

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Gabriella's avatar

I was coming here to write just that. I would buy that shirt!

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mell's avatar

great idea.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

Queens in the house represent represent

New York City in the house represent represent

As a native Queenser (like a certain orange someone), I bestow a virtual key to the borough and honorary eternal Queens citizenship to my man Matt Taibbi, because this guy has some set of BAWLLLZZZZ.

Just don't wear that Red Sox hat round here....

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Loafergirl's avatar

F you John Kerry, Mr Ketchup wannabe. Thank God the writers of the Constitution and Amendments were real men, men who put their country first. Kerry, Cheney and the others are for control and enriching themselves- they suck.

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ERIN REESE's avatar

Historical. Legendary. Beautiful joining of critical wakeup philosophy alongside pure Taibbi-Gonzo. Bravo.

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Karen's avatar

Hi Matt!

I was there! Your speech rocked us rabid free speech patriots!

Thank you for telling us about our nation’s past great freedom fighters and for calling out by name those who seek to deprive us of freedom of speech.

I was delighted to introduce myself to Walter. I told him my husband’s and my “date nights” are spent listening to “America This Week”. We sit in amazement listening and watching your brilliant, questioning brains engage.

I’m so sorry to have missed Walter’s speech but will do so now!

Take good care.

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EM's avatar

Every student should study this speech.

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Curling Iron's avatar

They’re too busy exercising their free speech, right to assembly and getting arrested, expelled and deported.

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CKV's avatar

Matt - you were brilliant, but more than that, you were TRUE to the spirit of what free speech means. The founding fathers would have stood in admiration! Thank you 🙏🏻

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Carrie C's avatar

Tears in my eyes!!! Thank you Matt! We are AMERICANS and are proud of it, damn it!!! Now back off, you arrogant assholes!

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Emily's avatar

Loved every minute of this - I was about one step away from clapping and cheering alone in my living room. I sent it to a bunch of friends today and they all had the same reaction.

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ambrosia's avatar

Fantastic! Was waiting for this to drop

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Shelley Murphy's avatar

This was the best speech of the day. It was so good I pulled quotes from the transcript that I don't want to forget. I was clapping and cheering and nodding through the whole thing.

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Mary Orlowski McFerson's avatar

My neighbors must’ve thought I was going crazy yesterday because I was clapping and cheering and shouting from my kitchen with all the windows open!

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Susan M's avatar

You stole the show, Matt.

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AHNC_Hat's avatar

Matt, bubula! I'm gonna make you a *star!* Call me!

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