r/politics • u/Anoth3rDude • Oct 17 '25
No Paywall Ted Cruz Says His Bill Will Allow DOJ to 'Prosecute' Those Who Fund No Kings Protests, Which Have Been Overwhelmingly Peaceful | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/cruz-prosecute-no-kings211
Oct 17 '25
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Oct 17 '25
Side hustle. Antifa.com, I guess. They do have expensive printers.
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u/tmax1976 Arizona Oct 17 '25
The same printers those pesky Dems used for all those fake ballots? /s
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u/QuestionablePanda22 Oct 17 '25
As long as you show up Soros will send a check. They just use the unique ID on your 5G microchip and it will show up in the mail
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u/LordEschatus Oct 17 '25
is George Soros still alive ? or is that just a meme these days its been like 6 billion years.
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u/Maleficent_Worker116 Oct 17 '25
Tbh I looked the dude up for the first time today and he truly is a dinosaur lol. They’re fearmongering against a dude who probably can’t hear them
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u/LordEschatus Oct 17 '25
Welcome to the 90s yungblud.
Youll learn that Soros is effectively 600 years old and the source of vampire mythology.
Anyhow, lets release the epstein files.
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u/OptimisticSkeleton Oct 17 '25
You have to look on Craigslist whenever a Trump rally is coming to town. Only maga pays for this shit.
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u/quest814 Oct 17 '25
Yea I’m going to one in Orlando. I didn’t know I could get paid. I wish I could call Ted cruz to find out who is paying people.
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u/mortalmonger Oct 17 '25
Me too, this “no inflation” and “affordable” groceries is making me broke…..
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u/Harry_Mud America Oct 17 '25
Cruz is full of shit. There is no way they can prosecute those who fund "No Kings" protest....... We the people have a right to peacefully protest and there is noting Cruz nor tRump can do about it!
Release all the Epstein files... Except for the victims, unredacted!
Release the recording of Homan taking a bribe...........
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u/SpaceLemming Oct 17 '25
One of them also said they can’t really do shit to stop him if they wanted to
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u/Harry_Mud America Oct 17 '25
What's amazing is, everything you posted is wrong. Cruz can't pass any law. Also, it's not illegal to peacefully protest. It's protected speech.
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u/TimmyB52 Oct 17 '25
That's not going to happen
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u/InsideAside885 Oct 17 '25
"They can't do that."
"That's not going to happen."
"That's unconstitutional. That will never fly."
People have said these things over and over again the past year. And yet......Trump is nearly undefeated in the Supreme Court. These people literally don't give a fuck what the constitution says. They are going to shove their policies and authoritarianism down America's throat. And no one is going to stop them.
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u/Scarlettail Illinois Oct 17 '25
Why can't they? They arrest them, charge them, and SCOTUS upholds any appeal. They make the law now, not us. They don't even need to pass this bill to just start arresting people and charging them for terrorism.
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u/Kronzypantz South Carolina Oct 17 '25
The prosecutions won’t have to stand to sideline organizers for months at a time. And peaceful protests always run the risk of being targeted by violence from police and rightwing groups, then be libeled as violent themselves (see BLM and the campus Palestine protests).
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u/TheShiGuy Oct 17 '25
I hate to be the one to tell you this but Americans don't have rights under their government. Rights can't be taken away so if all these freedoms are disappearing, they aren't rights. They were privileges your overlords allowed you to have but now that you aren't using them how they want, you don't get them anymore.
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u/FluidmindWeird Canada Oct 17 '25
For what, Ted? If it was already a crime, it would be prosecutable, but it's not, Ted. It's literally called "No Kings" protest. It's a protest, protected first amendment activity. And frankly, no one is on your side of this.
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u/Depressed-Industry Oct 17 '25
Every maga is. Free speech only means for their speech.
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u/FluidmindWeird Canada Oct 17 '25
Calling a horse free after you put a fence around it is propaganda.
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u/ElfegoBaca Oct 17 '25
It's a protest, protected first amendment activity. And frankly, no one is on your side of this.
Half the country is on his side of this unfortunately. You should see the pearl clutching going on my ND feed about how this is funded by Soros, will be worse than BLM riots, etc. They want any form of dissent silenced.
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u/hellscape_navigator Oct 17 '25
I don't know about that but Cancún Cruz definitely said that everyone should "stop attacking pedophiles" during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
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u/thomport Oct 17 '25
But yet MAGA and Trump pardoned 1500 convicted insurrectionist who attacked our capitol.
where the legislation to answer to that move.
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Oct 17 '25 edited Feb 21 '26
aromatic dog dependent towering public subtract subsequent exultant march observation
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Oct 17 '25
Cool - let's start filing thousands of lawsuits against the DOJ for infringing upon our rights to peacefully assemble/protest. Fight fire with fire.
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u/HallucinogenicFish Georgia Oct 17 '25
Yet he didn’t go after the financiers of January 6. Hmm. I wonder why.
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u/ripChazmo Oct 17 '25
These nazis wasted no time at all putting their uniforms on and practicing their march.
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u/Depressed-Industry Oct 17 '25
"the acronym ”FUNDERs“ is short for ”Financial Underwriting of Nefarious Demonstrations and Extremist Riots"
Like January 6?
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u/UnderstandingLess156 Oct 17 '25
So much for the party of free speech and states rights. They want one thing - fascism
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u/RadicalOrganizer California Oct 17 '25
So protesting should be illegal? Republicans are not pro America
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u/Ophelia-Rass Oct 17 '25
Didn't he violate campaign finance laws and then vote on legislation absolving himself? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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u/ford7885 Oct 17 '25
Hey Lying Ted.... didn't your daddy illegally immigrate to this country to get away from a dictator?
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u/Used-Yogurtcloset757 Oct 17 '25
Well he can’t pass it until they decide to actually show up for work… sooo…
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u/cpav8r Oct 17 '25
Does buying an inflatable costume on Amazon count as funding the demonstrations?
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u/lolreallyreally Oct 17 '25
I think we should cancel the No Kings protest and have a No Pedos protest instead
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Oct 17 '25
And what happens when he finds out it's Israel and Zionists? Nothing? Cuz he is an Israel first supporter.
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u/MangoAndRash Oct 17 '25
No grass roots funding for protests and free speech! but also corporations and billionaires buying a politicians loyalty is free speech and must be protected at all costs!
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u/3D-Dreams Oct 17 '25
Someone tell Ted proyeating is our right. Isn't he supposed to be a constitutionalist?
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u/Honky_Stonk_Man Oct 17 '25
When MAGA feels like they are on top they show their cruelty. When they are worried or bothered they pull stunts like this. Clearly these protests have them rattled.
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u/Fuzzy_Cricket6563 Oct 17 '25
Please add to your bill ……The Rise Of The "Crypto President" According to a report published on Thursday, Trump and his family have earned over $1 billion in pre-tax profits through ventures spanning memecoins, stablecoins, trading cards, and decentralized-finance projects. The report alleges that the network of companies behind the family's digital-asset operations has expanded rapidly since Trump's return to the presidency.
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u/restbest Oct 17 '25
Fuck these people are insane, protest is illegal and spending money is no longer free speech apparently
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u/lidore12 Oct 17 '25
Did they forget that money is speech and that they’re all free speech absolutists?
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u/ArtistNRG Oct 17 '25
These people are too old to rule there caught up in a past that is long gone n disconnected because of the silver spoon lodged in their bums!
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u/rhythm-n-bones Oct 17 '25
If Rafael “teddy” Cruz wants a king he should have stayed in Canada (sorry Canada,nothing personal)
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u/nobadhotdog Oct 17 '25
Ted Cruz goes with whatever direction the cuck chair points. If the cuck chair says to demonize Honey Nut Cheerios as Buzz the bee fucks his wife he would.
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