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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPast time to use the word traitor
Russia is providing Iran with satellite technology to pinpoint our troops and t gives putin billions in oil profits.
How is this not treason? When will our representatives start using the word treason?
Sen. Gallego , to my knowledge is the only representative to refer to an obviously insane person as insane.
We need more than one representative to call out what is obvious to the entire world.
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Past time to use the word traitor (Original Post)
4bonhoffer
15 hrs ago
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spanone
(141,602 posts)1. K&R
Fiendish Thingy
(23,219 posts)2. It is indeed insanity, and an impeachable offence
But its not the statutory crime of treason.
Weve been over this before.
OGBuzz
(314 posts)3. removing the oil embargo on the country with which you are at war might be...
considered 'giving aid and comfort to the enemy'.
City Lights
(25,822 posts)4. K&R nt
Joinfortmill
(21,157 posts)5. Yup. We are in a HUGE mess.
Mr.Bee
(1,823 posts)6. Comon,
I've been using the word TREASON ever since he emerged from that undocumented two hour meeting with Putin in Helsinki!
Bev54
(13,431 posts)7. Yeah, many here have been using the term since 2016 or before.
Evolve Dammit
(21,774 posts)8. Why it hasn't been invoked is a cover-up, IMHO