Preston MacDougall<p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DonaldTheDeplorable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTheDeplorable</span></a> will never be the ‘King of America’, but he *is* the undisputed King of NDAs. </p><p>Yet, when he gloated during his <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SOTU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOTU</span></a> litany of lies that he brought <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> back to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> , <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> sat in their chairs, like <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/hostages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hostages</span></a>. They should’ve shouted “<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/GulfOfMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GulfOfMexico</span></a> !” until they were escorted out.</p><p>Kudos to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AlGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlGreen</span></a> , <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AOC</span></a> , <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JasmineCrockett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JasmineCrockett</span></a> and others who refused to be <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/GasLighted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GasLighted</span></a>. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/EnoughIsEnough" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnoughIsEnough</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://time.com/7264811/trump-free-speech-joint-address-essay/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">time.com/7264811/trump-free-sp</span><span class="invisible">eech-joint-address-essay/</span></a></p>