House Republicans committed treason by working with enemy spies to try and take down POTUS

[RAB910]

Treason refers to the betrayal of one’s own country by attempting to overthrow the government through waging war against the state or materially aiding its enemies.

[chicoescuela]

1. The answer to the question is obvious, yes

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Dan Goldman always hits it out of the park!

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Now we're cooking with gasoline!

That goes straight to the heart of the matter. Recall how Russia had operatives at the NRA, Maria Butina? was her name.

[magicarpet]

6. Remember too,...

US Senators and House Representatives travel to Moscow to celebrate the Fourth Of July - the birth date of AmeriKKKKa.

Sparkle Pony Princess even sat in the chair of Putie's office desk at the Kremlin with much fanfare and excitement.

[Attilatheblond]

16. Sparkle Pony Princess was let into Putin's office by Rupert Murdoch's former wife, who allegedly became Putin girl friend

Amazing all the circles one finds that are parts of Venn Diagrams.

[SergeStorms]

24. As long as there's beaucoup money around....

you'll find republiCAN'TS neck deep in whatever greasy, vile situation they're near. Their god is money, no matter how much they pretend otherwise.

[Harker]

13. For a lot of republicants, all it takes is a smile and a few admiring words

from a pretty woman for them to go all in, and I'd bet plenty were getting more than that.

[Historic NY]

39. Russian swallow

[Harker]

40. And a flock of Ravens, too.

I figure they have it all covered, and they're good at it.

[erronis]

47. That's what the (r)epuglicons do when it's shoved down their throats.

[CrispyQ]

58. I think you mean we're cooking with gas,

as in natural gas, not gasoline! 🔥

[kentuck]

4. It's the same ones that were involved with the insurrection.

They hate America.

[PatSeg]

14. More like

They love power more. Plus Putin is probably blackmailing them. They have no principles except protecting their hides and/or enriching themselves.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Echoes of Alger Hiss in the sense of did they, or didn't they?

[dalton99a]

7. Republicans are hell bent on delivering America and Europe to Putin.

[Owens]

9. The question is why?

What's in it for the Republicans and Trump?

[Harker]

11. Power. Money. Prestige. Money. Power.

What else do they really care about?

[Attilatheblond]

18. They care about their comfort NOW

and totally disregard the future, their own and ours collectively. Doesn't sound very 'Christian', does it?

[Harker]

20. As Christian as "two Corinthians."

You could even throw in a third Corinthian, and it wouldn't help.

[MyOwnPeace]

30. I see what you did there!

Good one!

[Harker]

35. Sometimes my posts practically write themselves.

[MyOwnPeace]

36. You've got to wonder.....

how many of his "Fundi-followers" even got it?

[Harker]

41. They must want to be lied to.

This brief clip shows Trumpsky's depth of biblical scholarship.

?si=WICIWaw_cleWg-As

[CrispyQ]

70. I hate that fake orange fuck. I hope he croaks today. -nt

[Harker]

71. Today would be nice. Tomorrow would be okay.

Yesterday would've been great.

[raging moderate]

23. White supremacy.

They think "white" people are the only true human beings. And the only true Americans. These delusions are understandable in people who treasure the ridiculous fantasy that they truly have white skin.

[Harker]

34. Yes, those believing in their own superiority can only convince themselves of it because of their

weak minds.

[Cherokee100]

12. Simple

It's either for the power and money or he has the usual blackmail (money, sex, drugs, etc fodder on them.

[magicarpet]

44. Kompromat,...

As defined by Wikipedia....

The term kompromat is a borrowing of the Russian NKVD slang term компромат from the Stalin era, which is short for "compromising material" (Russian: компрометирующий материал, romanized: komprometiruyushchy material).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat#:~:text=The%20term%20kompromat%20is%20a,%2C%20romanized%3A%20komprometiruyushchy%20material).

[Ponietz]

25. Nixon turned to domestic enemies after Beijing, Moscow, and the Paris Peace Accords

Then, Watergate, and for 50 years the Democratic Party has been their #1 bogeyman. It’s been a zero sum game for them since, at least, Grinch, er, Gingrich.

[NCDem47]

38. I guess they figure if we're headed toward an autocracy...

They want to be in the good graces of the the autocrat.

Not end up dead or in a penal colony in remote Alaska in the future United States of Russia.

[jmowreader]

63. It depends on who you are

You either want to live in a nation where everyone's required to attend the church you do, you don't want to pay taxes, you want everyone to follow a lifestyle you approve of, you want every gun control law abolished, or you want absolutely no laws that keep you from doing anything you want.

So, naturally, they're trying to hand over the country to a guy whose nation is nothing like that.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. Looks, walks, acts, smells, talks like a bunch of traitors to me.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. si.

and in the 50s they called us communist pinko pigs , a badge i wear proudly.

[SergeStorms]

26. They still do at this very moment.

Just read any of their posts on social media.

At any given moment we're; communists, Marxists, fascists, socialists etc., which lets us know they have absolutely no idea what any of those ideologies mean. They think they're all interchangeable insults. 🙄

[et tu]

15. o danny boy!

go get them- they are traitors, it's that simple~

[onetexan]

17. It's an open secret. They're not even hiding the fact they're agents of russia

[Midnight Writer]

19. This is worse, more dangerous, than Watergate. Our media should give this story at least as much attention.

To those too young to remember, Watergate was the lead story of every news broadcast and newspaper headline for two years.

Let's hope that our modern media rises to the occasion and restores their credibility.

So far, they have too often served as stenographers for GOP/Russian disinformation, lies, and propaganda.

[Abigail_Adams]

57. I fear that today's major newspapers only care about money.

Whatever sells the most papers. They're failing in their duty. Their position gives them a bully pulpit and if they fail to use it to protect the nation, they either don't care or are owned/influenced by Russian operatives as well. To this day the Boston Globe has not mentioned Trump's ravings, crimes, legal judgments, etc. on the front page. It should be like you described Watergate--the coverage of Russia "taking America without firing a shot" in the words of Kruschev--should be everywhere.

[CrispyQ]

72. Allowing stations like Fox/Newsmax/OANN to call themselves news is wrong, I don't care if they are cable not braodcast.

The definition of news should be the same on all formats & if you lie, you're not news. When you lose a $787.5 million defamation suit you don't get to call yourself news.

The media is only as liberal as the conservative corporations that own it.
~bumper sticker

[I_UndergroundPanther]

64. Our media is owned by right wing

Oligarchs and there is no fairness doctrine anymore forcing the media to show both sides of viewpoints.

The right planned to control the media for a long,long time and make it republican propaganda. Certain anti trust laws not reinforced,politicians greasing palms and looking the other way excusing what the oligarchy was doing.

Even msnbc has 25 stories about republican bullshit to 1 questionable Biden story maybe 1 pro Biden story every 75 republican stories,right wing oligarchy owns msnbc too.

Not a coincidence. Republicans wanting to destroy public television ... An owned media is an owned media and it is not free to tell the news as it is anymore.

[CrispyQ]

74. +1 --MSNBC only exists cuz there's a market for it.

Mehdi Hasan's too truthful to get more than an hour a week & isn't Joy Reid on her way out, too? Someone on DU used this analogy for how all stations report right-wing news.

>> Fox reports that Obama cheats at golf.

>> CNN reports that it's inconclusive if Obama cheats at golf.

>> MSNBC reports that it's not true that Obama cheats at golf.

All three are discussing Obama cheating at golf.

They will help reelect the authoritarian who will shut them down for ratings today.

[surfered]

21. They hate liberals so much...

…they would align themselves and work with our enemies . Shows how far the GOP has sunk. John McCain once said about Democrats, “They are my political opponents, not my enemy.”

[SergeStorms]

33. Because we have empathy...

and sympathy for others. That makes us weaklings in their eyes. But THEY'RE true christians.

[Wednesdays]

49. "They are my political opponents, not my enemy."

Which makes McCain weak, in the eyes of Smellvis and his MAGAt crowd.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

65. They hate liberals

Because we are the ones that tell them no you are not above the law.

[CrispyQ]

73. They think their white skin makes them special &

then they go to tanning booths & lay out in the sun to gets as dark a tan as they can in the summer.

[calimary]

76. Well, I wear my liberal identity with pride!

And fuck the GOP if they don’t like it.

And while they’re at it, they can GET OUT of America’s BEDROOMS!!!!!

[SlimJimmy]

22. Was he lying then, or is he lying now?

Are we to believe anything he has to say at this point?

[SarahD]

27. Maybe the whole story will come out.

Let him plead guilty and spend a year in some nice Club Fed prison. Otherwise, send him to Russia.

[dlk]

28. Traitors, every single one of them

Now, the question is what do we do about it? Our government seems to be inundated with dirty, Putin bootlickers. This can't go unaddressed or Republicans will only be emboldened to commit more crimes.

These days the Republican platform seems to consist solely of Russian psy ops, when they aren't abusing women.

[getagrip_already]

29. Remember the GOP rep who recently said the russians

Had compromised gop politicians with honey trap agents in DC?

Yeah, that needs to be revisited and the fbi brought in.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

37. Who watches the watchers?

Too lazy to look up the Latin this morning

[magicarpet]

56. That was Maria Butiana's assignment at the NRA,...

.... to be a seductive honey pot and open the doors for the free entry of Russian propaganda. So then trDUMP could be installed as Putie's dumb as a rock internal agent of treason - specifically placed in the Oval Office to neuter and dismantle American and Western Democracies and replace with Fascist Oligarchic Kleptocracies.

[KPN]

31. Love that question. I agree 100%; it's really the only meaningful question remaining

as to whether Rs were/are Russian agents. My sense? Witting. Not that it really matters. Either way, they worked intentionally to undermine the long standing political order that we and the free world fought and worked so hard for so long to achieve. That is clearly betrayal of our own country by materially aiding a nation that seeks to undermine and upend our democratic system of government and the established world order. I don't care about the Constitution's definition of treason, when coupled with an attempt to overthrow the elected government, colluding with a foreign enemy is treason in my book.

[ShazzieB]

42. All of this definitely looks treasonous, as most of us "layfolk" understand the concept.

In a court of law, the definition in the Constitution is the one that would determine whether they could be tried for that specific offense; but If necessary, I'm sure there is something else in the lawbooks that would apply.

Leaving all that aside, an investigation is definitely in order. Of that, there is no question.

[2naSalit]

32. There is no question...

They openly admit it.

[Emile]

43. Garland going to do something about it?

[JoseBalow]

46. This made me laugh out loud

Thank you!

[live love laugh]

45. They definitely provided aid and comfort to the enemy.

[lindysalsagal]

48. WHich americans knew his info was from Russia?

Indict them. Now.

[Bluethroughu]

50. 1st time was 1/6 for pootin.

2nd time was the ongoing do nothing Republicans even after they get what they asked for, but JOHNSON HAD TO ASK TRUMP/ POOTIN AND THEY SAID NO DEAL.

3rd is FAKE INFORMATION FROM RUSSIAN ASSETS TO REMOVE CRITICAL SECURITY PERSONNEL.

MERRICK, DOJ ??????

[ripcord]

51. Despite the histrionics it isnt treason

[TwilightZone]

54. Good luck.

It's one of the most misused words on DU and fellow leftie sites.

And by right-wingers re: Biden, Obama, Clinton, et al.

Everyone gets it wrong. Even people who should know better, but I think some of them do it intentionally for clicks.

[ripcord]

55. I don't expect facts out of right wingers

I'm surprised when people here ignore facts.

[triron]

59. Based on something that is obsolete. Who's going to declare war

On a nuke armed country? Annihilation would happen before the declaration was made. Seems absurd to me. Let's use the term 'treason ' in a sensible way.

[ripcord]

61. Or we could be responsible and use the definition in the Constitution?

[northern light]

52. it is time

It's past time for a surgical enema of the DOJ and the FBI. You could even throw in the secret service. All of these organizations have in some way been compromised. If not by the Russians but by their political leanings towards MAGA or religion. Even the Israelis have been known to delve into the inner workings of our government. I don't believe in all these conspiracy theory's but there seem to be a lot of coincidences.

[CrispyQ]

75. A surgical enema, lol. That's quite an image!

I would include all of law enforcement & the armed forces too.

[Sessuch]

53. Republicans will claim "complete immunity" doing their jobs as "officers of the Government"

[Shoonra]

60. Smirnov was doing this for the Putin government

I was shocked - shocked I tell you - to find out that the Russians would try to deceive the US government.
Especially after that nice Mr. Putin said, to Americans, that he preferred Biden to Trump.

What we have are Republicans carrying the water for the Russians. And the result has included Russian violations of NATO countries, and a serious blow to the Ukrainian War of Independence.

We need to vote the Republicans who are giving aid and comfort to Putin out of office.

[AKwannabe]

62. Kickin

[Kablooie]

66. I'm sure They knew but didn't care.

The only thing they care about is raw power and they will do anything to gain and maintain power.

[OAITW r.2.0]

77. It helps when you have a voting base that considers politics a sport.

Who really don't care what is happening in DC, as long as their "team" wins.

[Wicked Blue]

67. Russian intelligence plus republican stupidity nt

[malaise]

68. Sure looks so

Rec

[FalloutShelter]

69. So my question is this...

Why are we not organizing to rout them out?
If this were flipped and it was the Democrats who did this… there would be torches and pitchforks.

We have very little time. The Russians are dividing Democrats even now, over Palestine.

Divide and conquer is as old as history.

Time to focus on what’s happening HERE, to our government.