The 1^st Amendment to the Constitution protects the freedom of Americans to express any opinion in the public space. Or does it?

J.Q. Pubic was trying to place a bet on a football game with “Spuds” the bookie. Spuds was refusing the bet because he hadn’t had time to figure the odds. “Wotsamattayou?” fumed J.Q. “You knows the shoe size of every man on both teams, including the water boy. How come you don’t bet?” Spuds replied, “I don’t know who the refs are.”

The refs for the games played in the Supreme Court wear black robes, not striped shirts. But six of them are as bent as a dog’s hind leg. I don’t have time or space to go into all the ways these con’s have distorted what used to be called justice, but here’s one that you might not have noticed.

Recently, Elon Musk has become the new Henry Ford in America. History Buffs will remember that Ford was one of the biggest fans of Adolph Hitler. Musk has become one of the biggest fans of Donald Trump. A few big companies who have banded together under the name, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (Garm) have taken the view that X (formerly Twitter) has become a poisonous sewer under Musk’s ownership and have pulled their advertising from X. So, in perfect capitalist form, Musk has done what all people with obscene piles of money do. He sued them. In Texas. (Where else?)

Now, keep in mind that the supremely corrupt court has ruled that corporations are people. Except that corporations can’t die and can’t be thrown in jail. (They’re a lot like Dracula that way!) The reason (written in the opinion) is so corporations can leverage the law, like the 1^st Amendment, in their favor. So corporations have free speech rights just like actual people do.

Musk’s money bin has claimed (using its free speech rights) that GARM “collectively and maliciously withheld ‘billions of dollars in advertising revenue’ from X”. The Supremes have also ruled that advertising is speech so it’s protected by the 1^st Amendment too. So why is’t the speech of GARM protected? Inquiring minds want to know.

There’s no doubt about what Musk is doing. Musk himself said it in a tweet. (I’m still allowed to say “tweet”, right?) “ In defense of an antisemitic tweet, Musk wrote, “If someone’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself.”

The reason has less to do with law and justice than it does with the raw power of money. Musk has a lot more money to throw around than the GARM cooperative. It will cost GARM millions in legal fees. Chicken feed to Musk. He lost billions buying Twitter so he could control speech. And the supremely corrupt court might rule in his favor when it eventually gets to them.

But here’s the thing. The 1^st Amendment to the Constitution doesn’t actually say anything about this. It states that CONGRESS shall make no law. It doesn’t say anything about the behavior of people (like those undead people, “corporations”). So, if Congress passes a law (like the antitrust law that Musk is trying to use) that “people” are trying to use to fight Musk, isn’t that use of the law unconstitutional?