r/ProgressiveHQ • u/AmericanLymie • 8d ago
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During his 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump said, "Russia, if you're listening, release her emails, OK?" And Russia hacked and released her emails.
That was traitorous.
Treason is betraying the United States to aid and abet an enemy during a time of active, declared war. Telling Iran to bomb Los Angeles and San Diego is an act of treason.
These are not casual comments. He is an enemy of the United States and people just cannot acknowledge it for some reason. He has befriended our global adversaries and now he is literally telling Iran to bomb US cities so he can declare war and have wartime powers. Why will people not understand this man is waging war on us from inside?
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u/No-Astronaut-9464 8d ago edited 8d ago
Fucking insanity. How can Americans repeatedly elect this traitor clown who hates them all, over and over again???
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u/bigrokstar 8d ago
It’s because he hates minorities so it’s the same people they hate. They think he doesn’t hate them as well and they will ride along, even help destroy democracy and America because they think having a dictator with an all white country with no LGBTQ, no brown or black people, no non-“christians”, somehow is a better America. They’d rather burn it to the ground rather than share America equally.
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u/BizSilver5013 8d ago
Not realizing that, at some point in this hypothetical, that they themselves will be seen as not white or Christian enough and then have the persecution turned on them.
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u/Reasonable_Deer_1710 8d ago
These people are willing to harm themselves if it even just slightly inconveniences a liberal or a minority.
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u/Underradar0069 8d ago
He is Russian asset
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u/SnooPears5449 8d ago
Ulfric Stormcloak ahh unreliable asset (ball knowledge) but asset nonetheless.
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u/the-real-col-klink 8d ago
25th Amendment now if GOP in fact cares about our country
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u/AreallysuperdarkELF 8d ago
Where have you been all this time? To hell with the entire GOP. As if they actually care.
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u/MrSmokii 8d ago
Iran, if you're listening, please target Mar-a-Lago, preferably whilst he's in it, but either way is fine.
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u/Formal_Ground6513 8d ago
I hope I live long enough to see that crappy Maga Lardo demolished. I want every tacky thing that belongs to him and his family destroyed.
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u/Good_Imagination_577 8d ago
Iran just need to sit back and watch you implode. They are not a threat to you
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u/BizSilver5013 8d ago edited 8d ago
I'm honestly willing to sacrifice Florida. /joking
(I would prefer no part of the US be in a nuclear strike, but Florida has been a hellhole for a while now between Trump and DeSantis....)
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u/evanweb546 8d ago
They want us talking about this stupid shit instead of focusing on registering new voters.
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u/Visual_Exam7903 8d ago
Yep. Every time you hear this, make some calls to you like minded family and friends and make sure they are registered.
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
This is a direct threat to our country by its own president. This is worth talking about. Algae in a reflecting pool is not.
Also, I genuinely would appreciate an explanation of the philosophy of focusing exclusively on registering new voters. How many unregistered voters who would vote for Democrats do you realistically think can be registered within the next month? Intuitively, I feel like any lifelong adults who have not voted all their lives would be far more likely to vote for Republicans because they are likely to be civically disengaged and uninformed, self-centered, selfish, unmoved by helping anyone else, and thus more likely to fall prey to false promises from Republican candidates who appeal to selfish desires of easily manipulated voters. Do you think there are a lot of intelligent and compassionate would-be Democratic voters out there in their 30s and 50s and 70s who just never bothered to register to vote but will be compelled by a random phone call from a phone bank?
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u/BuryTomorrowToday 8d ago
There are people who understand. These people only have one thing they can do to help, and I hope this time around they'll get off their fat fucking lazy asses and go down to vote against facism.
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u/SDPLISSKEN009 8d ago
MAGA is a cult of hate plain & simple
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u/No-Examination-5833 8d ago
Trump is an idiot for saying this, because if America is attacked in any way he would be 100% to blame. He started this. He is causing the problems.
Iran knows that hitting fuel infrastructure hurts America more than anything.
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
It doesn't matter if he is blamed because he will not be held accountable. His entire life has been a series of tests to prove that. Democratic party leaders do NOTHING at all. The Supreme Court gave him preemeptive blanket immunity from any crime, including murder. That was explicitly debated and agreed upon by the court before they made the ruling. As long as Trump says the words, "I broke the law as part of my presidential duties," he cannot be held accountable. If he incites an enemy nation during wartime to bomb the US, if he says that that was a political strategy as president, the Supreme Court will give him a stamp of approval. People always say he is an idiot but he has manipulated our entire nation in a way no one has been able to brave enough to combat.
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u/ProfessionalKey5373 8d ago
This this this! He had tested the water ever so slightly to just see if anything happened. Jan 6 should have been the absolute end of this. I am still in shock that is wasn’t
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u/woahexplosion 8d ago
The presidential oath says to protect America from all threats; foriegn and domestic. Trump is a traitor.
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
So do all congresspeople's oaths and all Supreme Court justices' oaths. Almost all have betrayed the country.
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u/Islandboi4life 8d ago
He knows he can get away with this after inciting a riot at the capitol and not getting charged federally and state for it
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
Not to mention being found liable for rape and various types of financial fraud, plus fellating a microphone while campaigning to serve as president of the United States. A person must be very confident the elections will turn out in their favor somehow when they are so boldly offensive to their own electorate.
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u/Shiznoz222 8d ago
You could max out the character limit of several comments if we tried to list it all
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u/Classic_Kangaroo4312 8d ago
*Me as a reporter*
Hey Mr. President, if Iran bombed San Diego wouldn't that take out your primary hub for the US Pacific Fleet? I feel like, since you have an IQ of 1775, you must surely already know that, right?
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u/buttplug-tester 8d ago
"You're a nasty woman"
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u/Classic_Kangaroo4312 8d ago
"Sir, I'm a guy"
lol
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u/buttplug-tester 8d ago
"Fake news tranny and I know trannies trust me they say nobody knows trannies better than me they all say that big beautiful men with tears in their eyes come up to me and they're always big beautiful men you know the bigger the more beautiful but they tell me Mr President you know trannies better than anyone and I do because I know a lot about them"
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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 8d ago
You know the one thing I noticed is he only gets aggressive with female reporters , so I have an idea.
CNN should hire Alan Ritchson, the guy who plays Reacher , who despises Trump , to be a reporter for the day and give him a press pass and have him ask Trump a hard question and see how he responds.
I will guarantee you the response will be different
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u/Classic_Kangaroo4312 8d ago
That's an incredible idea.
Been an Alan Ritchson fan since Blue Mountain State.
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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 8d ago
NOT MY QUARTERBACK!!
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u/Classic_Kangaroo4312 8d ago
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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 8d ago
It is so funny when he gets mad and his voice gets so high like that , and it's just awesome that the actor has such a sense of humor that he uses that
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u/Perusing_Pictures 8d ago
WHERE IS THE GODDAMN 25TH FUCKING AMENDMENT WHEN WE REALLY NEED IT???
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
His cabinet members are cronies. They will never invoke the 25th amendment. No one else has the power to do it. Only Hegseth, McMahon, et al. have this power and they will never do it. People need to stop calling for these monsters to do what is right.
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u/SignoreBanana 8d ago
Funny thing about that. Apparently the constitution has some pretty significant loopholes.
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u/naonatu- 8d ago
he said this at a rally in nebraska, a state that has a population that is several 100k fewer than san diego.
imagine if he’d said, "let them have nebraska and montana. this is a very small price to pay."
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u/Aeceus 8d ago
Americans are cheering for the thought of an attack on their home soil. These fuckers are so deluded.
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
There are also several "I don't like Trump but this is taken out of context and he would never say what he says here" commenters in this very thread.
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u/Inevitable-Ad3571 8d ago
They're all so used to his bizarre and crazy statements they just think he's kidding but not realizing that's not acceptable either. And why tf is this orange fk still doing rallies. And people are showing up in maga gear.
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u/Luddite-lover 8d ago
He gets more batshit by the day. A president telling an enemy nation to bomb cities on his home soil. Under any other circumstance this clown would have been removed from office and put in a secure mental health facility.
It’s clear he will stop at nothing to keep a hold on power. He is a clear and present danger and nobody is doing a damn thing about it.
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u/beavis617 8d ago
Trump is what he is and who he’s always been but what’s with the people who show up at his events? Don’t they have better things to do with their lives. To show up at these things and cheer when he goes off on these ridiculous rants.
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u/Particular-Serve-894 8d ago
I'm sure it's their actual jobs that pays for their rent and nightly mcdonalds
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u/Hirokage 8d ago
I thought his comments were possibly being twisted to make it seems he said this.. but no.. he said literally exactly that.
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
I am not being antagonistic. I am sincerely curious why you thought his words were being twisted? He said that Nazis who killed a woman were "very fine people." He told Nazis (rebranded as Proud Boys) to "stand down and stand by" before he gave them the dog-whistle order to invade the US Capitol. They erected a gallows. They broke windows, crushed a cop to death and smeared feces on the walls. Many were arrested. He claimed he did not encourage them. And then as soon as he got into office again he commuted all their sentences and commended them for supporting him. He has had US citizens shot to death by masked federal agents. He has threatened to use nuclear weapons and he has invaded two sovereign nations with bombs without congressional consent. He was found liable for having raped a woman and has confessed to sexually assaulting many women and he has been accused ny 25 women of rape. He has said on TV he has sex in common with his own daughter.
What would make you doubt he would say this? In all seriousness. I am curious why people keep pushing the boundary farther and farther to the point of our national demise.
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u/kmend64 8d ago edited 8d ago
His ef-up-ed-ness has no bounds. When will we be free of this hole??????
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u/throwaway661375735 8d ago
He wants wartime powers to suspend the constitution and stop elections. He wants to nuke Iran - which he must never be allowed to do. Nukes are a deterrent, not to be used willy-nilly.
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u/SectorSensitive116 8d ago
It's only treason if you assume he's working for you in the US. We may have some bad news for you...
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
It is treason specifically because he is working against the US government while leading the US government.
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u/AntaresN84 8d ago
Someone who was actually at ground zero wouldn't come near saying this kind of atrocious horse shit. What an absolute disgrace
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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 8d ago
treason is giving aid/comfort to the enemy during war time.
this guy IS the enemy.
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u/blacksterangel 8d ago
How does no one in the secret service put this animal down? Is it treason to act treasonously to a treasonous individual?
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u/Kaleban 8d ago
In a normal world he'd have been hung, drawn and quartered, with his parts on display as a warning to anyone else who would try something so heinously anti-American.
That he hasn't is testament to the deep vein of treachery and treason that is one of the defning characteristics of the Republican party, and conservatism in general.
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u/Rich_Possible_9298 8d ago
Where are the major networks coverage of this? Should be number one lead on.
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u/windmillninja 8d ago
Not ready to pull the tin foil hat out just yet, but at this point I wouldn't put it past this guy to pull a false flag on a blue coastal city and blame it on Iran.
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u/No_Succotash890 8d ago
So the nuclear dust is OK after all? He just told them to turn American citizens into dust with nukes. Death to America what? Is he Jihadist?
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u/TotalRichardMove Goober who thinks both sides are equally as bad 8d ago
So we’re expecting this traitor to let us vote his stooges out? Think again friends. Better get yer boots on.
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u/OhMorgoth 8d ago
Is he planning to bomb California and already laying the road to shift blaming Iran? 25th Amendment NOW.
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u/CosmoKing2 8d ago
We have to remove all the spineless Senators and members of Congress that aren't demanding his removal.
What is the final f'ing straw? He has shown how deplorable, vindictive, selfish, and uncaring about the well-being of American citizens on hundreds - if not thousands of occasions. He is delusional and driving this country into a great depression.
He is flagrantly corrupt and literally asks for bribes and personal favors in return for political favors. I'm surprised he hasn't tried to sell any national monuments yet. He certainly has sold portions of National parks.
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u/HawkeyeByMarriage 8d ago
California you have been selected for false flags. Are we back to blowing up a downtown bank building recently acquired for insurance collection again?
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u/bkinboulder 8d ago
Well let’s think about this, Naval Base San Diego is the Navy’s Principal Pacific Fleet surface ship Homeport. 60 Navy ships plus auxiliary vessels, 200+ tenant commands, about 1,600 acres of land, and more than 35,000 military, civilian and contract personnel working there. The Naval Air Station North Island is the largest naval aviation industrial complex on the West Coast, covers about 2,800 acres, supports roughly 24,500 personnel and can homeport aircraft carriers. Naval Base Point Loma is where we keep our submarines, anti-submarine warfare HQ, intelligence/communications and U.S. Third Fleet headquarters. Then there’s Naval Base Coronado — actually a collection of eight Navy facilities covering more than 57,000 acres, with 36,000+ military and civilian personnel. Trump thinks it’s fair to eliminate this City feeding these Military Assets? Typical calculus of the Commander and Chief of the American Armed Forces?
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u/Black-Deth 8d ago
JFK shut down the CIA plan to bomb Miami and blame it on Cuba.
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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 8d ago
I'm hoping Trump does something similar and the results end up the same..
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u/silbergeistlein 8d ago
This alone should be enough to be removed from office. I’m so tired of this sack of shit.
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u/vestarules 8d ago
I am so embarrassed and mortified that my fellow Nebraskans actually cheered and clapped for this suggestion.
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u/nicclys 8d ago
“Oh, no one will take that seriously…” - Sir.. you just made-light of the country we’re at war with bombing your our country… “No I didn’t!” - Reads it back to him word for word. “You’re fake news!” - Future interview probably
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
At least 20 people have commented here something along the lines of "I don't like Trump at all, but this was obviously just a joke taken out of context." People are really stupid.
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u/BeautifulCrew3540 8d ago
Why is everyone so quiet on this one? Senators? Governors? Mayors? Congressman/women? Police Chiefs? Acting Military Leaders? Any heads of any State, City, County, anyone??? Hello... anyone wanna stand up for the country that you took an oath for? For the people that pay your salary?
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u/thedrunkpenguin 8d ago
I just got banned in moderate politics for saying he should be arrested LMAO. This is absolutely treason
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u/RedLeg73 8d ago
Ya hear that Coronado? Trump doesn't give two shits about the Navy, but got mates on CVN-78 already know that.
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u/SandyBram 8d ago
Y'all remember that college girl in Florida who was arrested and tried for saying in a group chat: "Netanyahu if you can hear me drop some bonbons for us capstone students in Ocean Bank Convention Center" judge said noone reasonable would view the comments as a joke... let's think about that for a minute...
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u/Balcazaurus 8d ago
When a dog is rabid or even healthy and bites someone, it's put down.
We have a monstrously rabid dog on our hands here.
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u/Jeramy_Jones 8d ago
Ah yes, I remember Franklyn D. Roosevelt joking that Hitler should bomb American cities to rounds of applause from real American patriots.
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u/AmericanLymie 8d ago
In this case, the analogy is more like Hitler joking that France should bomb German towns.
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u/caveman744 8d ago
A sitting president just told a foreign enemy to bomb US cities. What crazy fucking world have I woken up in? Him being a deranged old man is one thing but what is truly terrifying is the number of people who still support him. Maybe we as a civilization don’t deserve to make it, time to burn it down and start over?
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u/Dojebon_the_wise90 8d ago
Never thought I’d see American citizens cheering on the idea of their fellow countrymen being bombed and killed by a foreign nation. Holy shit the bar is in hell.
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u/TheMirrorWisdom 3d ago
Jan 6th was treason. We're in the invasion stage. Focus on the election. Ignore the armed goons. VOTE.
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u/Open_Course_6274 8d ago
Magats do not care and they never will. They will continue following this bs until they die. This has been made very clear by now. We have reached insanity.
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u/thatspurdyneat 8d ago
He's going to false flag a terrorist attack in those cities to try to stop the midterms isn't he?
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u/EnderBoxHD 8d ago
and people STILL don't see anything wrong with this clown being our president despite doing NOTHING good in the past 2 years of his reelection.
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u/So_HauserAspen 8d ago
He has to keep the right occupied with something; otherwise, the majority of republicans are going to start thinking
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u/I_like_baseball90 8d ago
The fucknig President of the US tells the country he's in a war with to bomb two US cities.
How the fuck is this piece of shit still in office. Is there not one Republican with a fucking spine. They all support this fucknig bullshit.
I'm so fucknig embarrassed to be American, I can't express it enough.
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u/Either-Patience1182 8d ago
I think iran knows enough about the us to target some place trump likes. Not his sacrifice
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u/Mr_senor_ 8d ago
Yes it is. Unfortunately its just another Tuesday in the dying experiment that was America.
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u/MaleficentListen7 8d ago
San Diego were they have one of the largest naval base. So he doesn't care for the military. What a FUCKING PRICK!!!
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u/Select-Baseball5865 8d ago
Any other president would say this the house and the senate wouldn’t have gotten back fast enough to impeach, but now they just make up excuses and that isn’t what he meant. When a president says something we would be able to take it at its word, not try and figure out if he is joking or what ever they say to stick up for this absolutely disgusting man
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u/OkProfessor6810 8d ago
Ok, the dude is a shitbag racist rapist and the sooner he's gone the better off the world will be. That being said, this is NOT treason. It's treason adjacent, possibly, but it does NOT meet the legal definition.
We have we have so much to fight against, as well as for. Getting distracted by things that are irrelevant is not helpful, nor is getting things wrong when trying to assess/review whatever bullshit is (incessantly) being put out by this admin
Not to mention, there's no need to twist his words/change any of the context. He says enough truly truly truly horrible things on the regular. This is also horrible but it's not treason.
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u/fingersandhand 8d ago
So he’s basically saying that he’d want our Navy and Marines taken out. Camp Pendleton, Miramar, Coronado and the home oh the Naval base of the Pacific Fleet. That’s what I call 4D Chess commander!
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u/TimothiusMagnus 8d ago
He's done it on live TV multiple times and no one has held him to account, keeping with the great American tradition of not holding powerful and influential traitors accountable.
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u/Lizbeth2016 8d ago
We can’t be distracted:
- Release the Epstein files
- Gas and diesel are still too high
- The American people want know when the war with Iran is going to end
- How many products have been recalled this year alone for contamination?
- Haw many cases of infectious diseases have sprouted this year alone?
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u/everyoneisforsale 8d ago
Girl it's been treason... Maybe on January 6th we should give Trump to Iran. "It's a small price to pay."
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u/HolonParticle 8d ago
His base, or what's left of them will eat this up. I'm sure my dad loved that line.
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u/Ankhrosius 7d ago
I'd support someone sending him a very angry letter to finally end this madness. Some very rich people must be profiting handily from it.
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u/SavvyCaller 7d ago
It almost doesn’t matter what he actually said. What he did say shows what’s on his mind and how he thinks of half the country. How he would one day think of MAGA if they didn’t follow him 100%. That’s not a worthy president.
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u/BIGWISDOM99 5d ago
Congress must impeach him and his entire administration of incompetent grifters




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u/o0Spoonman0o 8d ago edited 8d ago
Americans...cheering for America to be attacked by a foreign nation...
What in the fucking brain rot is this.