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First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 08:39 PM Jun 2020

It will never happen--but the entire GOP leadership *should* be put on trial for treason...

...and I am not a particular radical. I tend to be small-c conservative when it comes to our institutions. But enough is enough. These people are consciously trying to destroy our country. Our democracy. Anything worthwhile about our republic. In doing so, they have given aid and comfort to a foreign despot who is deliberately trying to kill our soldiers. And protection and cover, to the traitor in the White House who is that despot's puppet. I, personally, would be willing to see--much to my surprise--something that might almost be regarded as revolutionary justice dished out to certain individuals. I hardly have to name names. Again--this will never happen, certainly not under Biden. But if *I* feel this way, I know similar feelings must be widespread...

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It will never happen--but the entire GOP leadership *should* be put on trial for treason... (Original Post) First Speaker Jun 2020 OP
yes elleng Jun 2020 #1
Preach! Zorro Jun 2020 #2
it is something the Founding Fathers did not envision Skittles Jun 2020 #3
Go back and read the Constitution Fiendish Thingy Jun 2020 #4
Why the DISS to Biden? alittlelark Jun 2020 #5
Nonsense. I am saying only that Biden is too interested in compromise... First Speaker Jun 2020 #6
uh, yeah....... alittlelark Jun 2020 #7
I hate the repiblicans I_UndergroundPanther Jun 2020 #8
They've been doing it since Nixon pecosbob Jun 2020 #9
Treason is a strong word that should be used in extreme cases ffr Jun 2020 #10

Zorro

(15,740 posts)
2. Preach!
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 08:45 PM
Jun 2020

Amen!

And churches that engage in activities supporting a political party need to have their tax exemptions yanked!

Tax those mofos...they can afford it! Then they say whatever they want to!

Skittles

(153,159 posts)
3. it is something the Founding Fathers did not envision
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 08:48 PM
Jun 2020

an entire political party enabling and covering for a corrupt "president"

Fiendish Thingy

(15,601 posts)
4. Go back and read the Constitution
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 08:50 PM
Jun 2020

Nothing the GOP senators have done meets the definition of the crime of treason, which is the only crime defined in the Constitution. Treason cannot have been committed because the US has not declared war on any nation at the present time.

They are heinous, evil, bastards, but to misuse the word treason waters down its meaning.

alittlelark

(18,890 posts)
5. Why the DISS to Biden?
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 08:57 PM
Jun 2020

"Again--this will never happen, certainly not under Biden" .............direct cut n paste from your post.


Seriously, WHY ???

We have a Traitor in the WH and racist idiots trying to support him - and your post rants and rails and says Biden is Weak.



Why?

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
6. Nonsense. I am saying only that Biden is too interested in compromise...
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 09:03 PM
Jun 2020

...to do anything that radical. I wish it was otherwise, but you aren't going to get Joe Biden to prosecute the GOP for treason. I was giving vent to my feelings, knowing that I was asking for something that our current polity simply is incapable of. This might change, when Joe is in the White House and something approaching the real history of our times is honestly told. I suspect it is *so* shocking that calls for action that, today, would be unthinkable--becomes very thinkable...

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,463 posts)
8. I hate the repiblicans
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 11:39 PM
Jun 2020

Would like to see those fuckers die on tv.

That way I know they cannot get away with more harm.

I hope Biden does a Nuremberg on them for all our sake.

pecosbob

(7,538 posts)
9. They've been doing it since Nixon
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 12:51 AM
Jun 2020

Reagan's rogue end run around Congress showed us that the GOP cannot be trusted with authority. The Neocons used the Tea Party to monkey wrench our government and reshape the world for profit. Our failure to take the GOP to task is what led us down this road to Trump.

ffr

(22,669 posts)
10. Treason is a strong word that should be used in extreme cases
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 12:57 AM
Jun 2020

It doesn't get more extreme than a paid bounty for the deaths of Americans by our enemies while the GOP and their impeached leader do nothing about it.



Donald Trump can take all his empty words about respecting our service and shove them.

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