I'm old enough to remember...

[kpete]

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. +100. nt

[marble falls]

2. Exactomundo!

[JHB]

3. I'm NOT old enough to remember when people who stole nuclear secrets were executed.

But it's how it was done in the country the MAGAts want "back."

[2naSalit]

5. +1

[yardwork]

6. This simple fact needs to be repeated and repeated.

I'm not suggesting that Trump should be executed. I'm agreeing with your point that stealing nuclear and military secret documents used to be considered Bad, in the country these people say they want back.

[dchill]

7. It sure as hell ought to be fatal for his political life.

But, you know, it's not. Not yet.

[yardwork]

11. Right now, I don't think he could win the presidency.

He lost in 2020 and I can't imagine he would get MORE votes now. Assuming the election is fair, I don't think he can win.

I hope he wins the GOP nomination. Or, I hope he causes so much trouble that whoever they nominate can't win.

I hope he keeps running his mouth. He's driving people away from the Republican Party. Now it's up to us to win them over to the Democrats.

[dchill]

12. I fail to see how his continuation is good for anyone but him.*

"Assuming the election is fair..." I'm old enough to remember when that would be a safe assumption.

*And the "news" media, of course.

[yardwork]

13. I see this as the GOP being destroyed by their own creation.

If Trump fades away, they'll find somebody worse next time.

Burn it down. The Republican Party is a threat to democracy. I want them to be destroyed by the monster they created

[dchill]

14. I take your point. But you have to factor in the new...

... legislation in many red states that practically guarantee a Republican victory in an election! Apparently there is no reason they should play by the rules.

[JHB]

22. In 2020, did you imagine he could get more votes than in 2016?

Because he did.

Republicans are not trying to undermine and oust him. They're relying on us to do all the heavy lifting on that while they try to keep their heads down and not draw the ire of the Ahabs that run their party (i.e., the ideological big funders and the voting base).

[yardwork]

23. I agree that we have to get out our vote.

However, in answer to your question - yes, I was not surprised by Trump's level of support in 2020. Sitting presidents have a big advantage. First term presidents are usually re-elected.* He got more votes than before, but not enough. At this point, I doubt Trump would get as many votes again, but we're a long way off from Nov 2024.

* George HW Bush wasn't re-elected, for reasons that included his appearance to have broken his "no new taxes" pledge, and Ross Perot's candidacy.

* Jimmy Carter wasn't re-elected, partly because of poor media coverage, notably the Iran hostage crisis, which was televised literally every day.

[Meadowoak]

10. Fry him

[Beachnutt]

18. If the shoe was on the other foot

President Biden would be in jail right now.

[thomski64]

30. ..why rule that out?, good enough for Rosenbergs.m

[Meadowoak]

9. +1

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. K&R

[Upthevibe]

8. kpete

Me too....

[Enoki33]

15. Think the despotic Putin wannabe may

have opened a whole new category. Spies did, and do operate in the dark. This bigot betrays his country openly, and worst, he uses it blatantly as propaganda. He is possibly the single most dangerous person on earth.

[Dave Bowman]

28. "Spies did, and do operate in the dark."

Ironic that his unhinged followers see the "Deep State" 's doings everywhere except when it's right in their faces.

[GreenWave]

16. And if one put millions of lives at risk

that person was thought of as a mass murderer (COVID lies). So why would he care about the lives of informants around the world?

[dawn5651]

17. one of those spies went to visit old harry in the netherworld last week.

[FoxNewsSucks]

19. especially when they sold it to our enemies

[usaf-vet]

20. That label fits Trump. Hopefully the outcome will be he is treated like a spy.

Look at his relationship with Putin and Saudi Arabia.

His motive is simply MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!

He is likely selling our security and our allies' security.

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/aldrich-ames

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/robert-hanssen

Hopefully, Trump eventually receives the same outcome.

[Warpy]

21. I was a dumb teenager with a fairly high security clearance

dealing with research documents at NASA and even I wasn't stupid enough to think about running off an extra copy and pocketing it.

If they don't want to throw a former president into the pokey, they need strict house arrest at the golf palace of his choice with electronic jamming and a visiting list restricted to his family. I don't care if his prison is lined with gilt and fake marble, as long as it's a prison.

[crickets]

24. +1000000

[republianmushroom]

25. So do I.

And were jailed when caught.

28 months and counting

[NowISeetheLight]

26. Hassen & Ames

The good old days when they were locked up forever.

[FakeNoose]

27. Chump remembers the old days, even if we don't

Ummm, OK?

[czarjak]

29. Weren't you going to make it great again?

[DENVERPOPS]

31. I remember seeing the pictures

of the Rosenberg's on the Denver Post newspaper, front page.....

[Cha]

32. They still are.. We Just have

a different "media" now that tiptoes around the truth about trump.

Corporate Masters and shit.. imagine how Edward R Murrow & Walter Cronkite would treat this Putin Stooge.