Tonight's meme is a rhetorical question, of course. Obviously, Republicans reached the point where treason became acceptable to them quite a while ago. They look at their treason on the one hand and the money to be made through the additional "tax reform" they aim to pass in September on the other, and guess which hand wins! They also long to work with Traitor Don to remove what's left of the Affordable Care Act, cut Medicare and Social Security, tell women what they are allowed to do, not just with their bodies, but with every aspect of their lives, and, of course, make voting even more difficult; all things that their master wants and will gleefully sign off on.
Republicans aim to leave the 98% in the gutter. But, those things have been their goals for the last 50 years. It's just that, now that they have the most fascist president of all and they control the $enate, the Hou$e, and, soon, the $upreme Court, they see their chance to be fully who they really are and they aren't letting go. When it comes to treason, Republicans ask "Where do I sign up?"
This is why we hear nothing about impeaching of Traitor Don. Republicans wiped their asses with the constitution long ago. Their oath to uphold and protect the constitution was given with fingers crossed and a big smirk. There are no better examples of that than Traitor Don and the two complicit traitors pictured here. You can throw in the entire White House staff and administration, too. The funny thing is, they didn't even need their embrace of Putin to do all of this against the American people. They just needed the majorities. Having Putin help install a wannabe autocrat enabler in the White House could be seen just a means to an end to them, but, now, it's more obvious than ever before that Republicans see treason as icing on the cake and the more they see it the more they like it. That's why they continue to enable it. Even just a few days ago, Hou$e republicans voted against a subpoena for the Trump/Putin interpreter's translations and notes. There can be no other reason, but reason doesn't enter into it.
Republicans have always pushed the envelope because they know they can. You can bet Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan eagerly saw this day coming when Democrat Nancy Pelosi was $peaker of the Hou$e and said impeachment for the war crimes of Bush and Cheney was "off the table." Right then, he knew that it was just another step to ignoring impeachment even for treason. Traitor Don was right when he said he could shoot people on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. That's next.
Most of us define treason as an act against a nation-state. Republicans don't believe in nation-states. They believe in the corporation and the pursuit of wealth.
ReplyDeleteYou're 50 years late with this question. Nixon committed treason during the '68 campaign and the neonazi party (at THAT time, it's just Nazi now) was fine with it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the democrats were ok with it. LBJ knew and didn't do shit.
Maybe the fact that asking questions about ourselves a half century too late is part of our problem?? Maybe THE problem??
Fabulous but so frightening, Noah. This is the truth, unfortunately for the USA.
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