Republicans continuing their quest to dilute the impact and meaning of the word treason.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
495 points (98.8% liked)
politics
29610 readers
2781 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I would think would be wrong to go against the constitution and first amendment… no freedom of speech anymore?
Not only "not winning", actually losing. In fact Iran not losing, means they are the ones winning.
It's treasonous to say that all of my sharts are not liquid gold!!!
You can't prove they are not winning as long as they refuse to define any goals. 🤷
Coming from a genocidal rapist pedophile piece of shit that would be a compliment
The US is not winning
The reat of the sentence is left as an exercise for the reader.
The US is not winning
The US isn't winning the war in Iran.
Come at me, bro!
Trump keeps pointing to “their navy is gone their air force is gone” as proof the US is winning.
Years ago Iran evaluated what kind of a war they might face, and determined that their best shot was through massive amounts of ballistic missiles, drones, and small watercraft. This meant significantly de-prioritizing a traditional air force and navy. So yeah, they don’t have really any capital ships or fighter jets, but they never had much of those in the first place and haven’t been prioritizing that part of their military. But their missile and drone stocks - to say nothing of actual soldiers in their army btw - are all still doing pretty great actually. Destroyers and interceptor jets aren’t going to win the war for Iran and that was never their plan anyway.
The US is absolutely NOT winning this war, and they will not be able win this war.
Trump keeps pointing to “their navy is gone their air force is gone” as proof the US is winning.
There navy is gone, except for the armada of speed boats running mid-range recon and planting sea mines and launching drones.
Their air force is gone except for all the planes we haven't shot down yet and their UAWs and etc etc.
Their leadership is all assassinated, except for the people currently in command.
We're winning! We're winning! We're just a little behind as time is running out.
The US is absolutely NOT winning this war
We've spent a quarter trillion dollars to destroy over a trillion dollars in Iranian infrastructure and massacre an innumerable count of their civilian population. If this is a war of genocide, we're winning. At least in so far as they're dying in far higher volumes than us.
Why are Americans so weak and ineffective? why are they ok being led by a demented, racist, old pervert?
I think there is a real, deep seated conditioned response in a lot of Americans to just assume things will work out and it will be OK in the long run. Basically a form of privilege to not worry about the problems of the world because somebody else will definitely fix it.
I'm a white male american born into conservative culture who grew up in the 80s and 90s , and I definitely had that feeling instilled in my head along the way. For gen x and boomers who spent more of their early years in more of the post-ww2 US dominance, it's probably worse.
Also probably help that actually removing him is extremely hard at best. The political method is basically dead on arrival since the courts are captured, the Republicans are in favor of him, and the Democrats don't have enough will to actually do anything outside of maybe a hundred people across Congress. Seriously there should be Congress criters killing each other with canes at this point but no that's uncivil, hell at minimum Dems should be spitting in the face of pissbags like Johnson and McConnell.
As for the violent methods, basically all of them are scatter shot at best. You could summon up a militia and march right up to the Whitehouse to lynch him and the end result would probably be somewhere between the Bonus Army and the Tiananmen Square massacre.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Oh fuck off, you sundowning piece of shit.
I've recently read that Iran has around 25 million potential "warfighters" between standing army & militia, if there was ever a land invasion. You can't gaslight your way out of this, traitor.
The most divisive man in history. Trying to win fake supporters by bullying them.
Is that so? Well in that case the US is not winning the war with Iran
But not storming the capital
How far is your capital from your home?
I'll just gather up my posse of 5 close friends to make the 14 hour drive to Washington while maintaining opsec from the largest surveillance network in the world. Maybe driving isn't a good idea, we'll just take the train, that will only take 28 hours.
Can you even drive in a straight line for 14 hours and not leave your country?
Logistics matter. Distances matter. Having the money to eat while you've abandoned your job matters.
It's easy telling us what to do from the comfort of your keyboard.
I mean, if chuds can do it...
A lot of the chuds took planes actually. Fucken yuppies.
I think they're saying that Trump and the GOP don't consider January 6th treason.
load more comments
(1 replies)
When facts are treason, it's time to 86 the government.
And for those who don't (or pretend not to) understand American English common usage, that means "remove," not "kill."
When facts are treason
Keep in mind this orange kid-diddler threatened to pull broadcasting license after his ginormous debate failure against Harris...because he was fact-checked.
And vance's biggest rebuttal during his debate with Walz was "I was told there would be no fact-checking"
view more: next ›