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[–] [email protected] 114 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason

18 USC §2381

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You missed the next part "unless it's election season, or they held office at the time, because then it might be official treason, and that's okay."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Unless they are a Republican and hold office.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those laws only apply to poor people who whistleblow about the oligarchies crimes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No, this law was last used to prosecute Cold War spies.

Snowden was prosecuted for leaking national secrets, not treason. To be fair, he is technically guilty, but it would be a travesty of justice for him to be punished for it. I'm glad the Justice Department decided to let him off.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

And all of his supporters too.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

Yes but irrelevant here

He’s just making fun of Biden

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I find it weird how he supports our biggest adversary like this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You do? This is pretty much expected if you've been paying attention to him. Putin's cock is deep in his mouth.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Well yeah, I mean.. since when isn't it expected for Trump to be weird?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don't think it's his or anyones specific surprise by this behavior. For me, it's surprising that people seem to just let him do it and seem like it's normal, which only normalizes it further.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I bet putin has sex tapes of donnie the connie commie.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They've got video of the time Trump paid sex workers to urinate on pictures of the Obamas in a hotel room they once stayed in.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

I don’t think releasing that would even hurt him that much. His supporters would either call it fake news or celebrate it as „owning the libs“. Or both.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Oh lordy, I hope there's tapes.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

For people who didn't read the article, it's sarcastic because they think attacking Biden will weaken Harris.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's not what sarcastic means

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Trump is the Alanis of sarcasm

[–] ArbitraryValue 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The article name is inappropriately deceptive.

[–] Impound4017 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Idk, my first reading on the title’s quote was as being a backhanded compliment directed at Biden, but that might just be because I always expect Trump to be a spiteful fuck

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Jesus fucking Christ. I can’t believe this is the best the Republican Party has to offer.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Nobody loves communism more than Trump.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He loves the hexbearian/.ml flavor, where its still an authoritarian imperialist shit-hole run by a despot.

But the flags say we're unified or whatevs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not much of a flavor change if communism is vanilla, socialism is chocolate and state capitalism is cyanide

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Russia hasn't been communist since I was a small child.

I'm old.

[–] kwomp2 5 points 3 months ago

Can't tell if you're joking or ate the anti-communism-propaganda a donald trump would feed you with

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

/s?

Nobody loves an authoritarian dictatorship more than trump.

Nobody’s done actual communism, even the USSR’s lip service to it was mostly just running a dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

What a fucking little quisling.