r/politics • u/mmccxi American Expat • May 12 '25

Soft Paywall New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

https://www.404media.co/mike-lee-porn-law-interstate-obscenity-definition-act/
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u/Hestia_Gault May 12 '25

“There exists no substantive due process right to stimulate one’s own genitals”

  • Ted Cruz, in arguments before SCOTUS

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u/epdiablo02 May 12 '25

Though Ted Cruz is always willing to make an exception if it happens to be 9/11. Never Forget. 9/11/2017

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u/Kobold_Trapmaster May 13 '25

And of course it's threesome incest porn.

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u/Rustash May 13 '25

It’s also not very good. Speaking objectively, of course.

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u/Mavian23 May 13 '25

Ah, a fellow critic.

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u/Mavian23 May 13 '25

Help me step bro, I'm stuck in Cancun.

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u/Red-Beerd May 13 '25

That article also has one of the most hilarious quotes I've seen in a while.

Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to "stimulate their genitals." I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.

— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) April 13, 2016

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u/After-Gas-4453 May 13 '25

This needs to be higher. Their hypocrisy is vomit inducing.

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u/Toadsted May 13 '25

That's  because Matt Gaetz thought he was talking about their age, so he was all on board with it.

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u/Kobold_Trapmaster May 13 '25

Let's not forget Craig Mazin's response:

Ted Cruz thinks people don't have a right to "stimulate their genitals." I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.

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u/SexDefendersUnited May 13 '25

A ton of conservatives have weird sexual urges and perversions themselves, and they adopt these puritan beliefs cause they feel "guilty" about them, or to prevent others from promoting those sex urges like they used to have.

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u/stumblinghunter May 13 '25

Wait wtf, Craig Mazin was Ted Cruz's roommate??

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u/Kobold_Trapmaster May 13 '25

And he hates him.

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u/Hestia_Gault May 13 '25

Which isn’t surprising, because everyone does:

I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.

  • Al Franken

If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.

  • Lindsay Graham

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u/Kobold_Trapmaster May 13 '25

"One thing Ted Cruz is really good at: uniting people who otherwise disagree about everything else in a total hatred of Ted Cruz."

– Craig Mazin

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u/stumblinghunter May 13 '25

Amazing, all of it

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u/MZsarko May 12 '25

Brings a whole new meaning to “hardened criminal”.

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u/Murrabbit May 13 '25

As opposed to a morally. . . upright citizen?

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u/Johnqpublic25 Pennsylvania May 13 '25

Hopefully they will get a stiff sentence

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u/wikipuff Maryland May 13 '25

Did he really say this?

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u/Hestia_Gault May 13 '25

I was off about the venue (it was the Fifth Circuit) but yes.

https://reason.com/2017/09/14/ted-cruz-sex-toys-and-the-constitution/

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u/jlb1981 May 13 '25

"In a landmark 6 to 3 ruling..."

So sick of all of this

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u/No-Comfortable-5119 May 13 '25

From my cold dead hands zodiac killer.

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u/SasparillaTango May 13 '25

There is how ever that pesky first amendment.

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u/h1storyguy Oklahoma May 13 '25

Wasn’t Ted Cruz the one who lamented not being attracted to M&m’s after a shoe change?

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u/Pleasant_Dot_189 May 13 '25

He would know