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Arkansas Granny

(31,517 posts)
1. You know, I've been thinking about that statement a lot lately.
Thu Oct 4, 2018, 05:29 AM
Oct 2018

And the Republican party seems to be willing partners in doing just that.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)
2. treason
Thu Oct 4, 2018, 05:30 AM
Oct 2018

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii


Traitor Mitch adhered to our enemies, giving them aid and comfort, when he refused to issue a bipartisan warning about Russian interference in the 2016 national election, and threatened to issue a partisan warning against those who discovered the interference.

kag

(4,079 posts)
3. Treasonous bastard!
Thu Oct 4, 2018, 05:50 AM
Oct 2018

I can't listen to his voice without remembering that his "number ONE legislative priority" in 2008 was to make Obama a one-term president. Every time I hear Cheetohlini or any repube accuse the Dems of being obstructionists I just want to scream and kick Mitch's teeth in.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
5. "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
Thu Oct 4, 2018, 06:25 AM
Oct 2018

Last edited Thu Oct 4, 2018, 07:08 AM - Edit history (1)

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” — Ariel Durant, Russian-born American researcher and writer; coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her husband, Will Durant.

Pretty much how so many big powers throughout world history have given way — they eventually soften in the center, and finally collapse inward from their own greed and corruption. That includes every culture from Egyptian to Mayan to Greek to Roman, to colonial European nations and the old Soviet Union.

On edit: Given the present circumstances, such an internal, slow meltdown could easily happen here.

usaf-vet

(6,186 posts)
7. Back then as a young kid I never would have guessed that the take over would actually happen.......
Thu Oct 4, 2018, 08:29 AM
Oct 2018

...... with the help of the GOP party and their leaders. With McConnell running point. And some mentality challenged con man in the white house.

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