Red, you do need to get off the hook you're on politically. Anyone reading Mother Jones needs to do that to contact reality.
Look, the international ideals of globalism essentially erase the meanings of borders, and Obama can ask world leaders to support him financially both for political ends and personal needs all through his Presidency, and that is not treason, it's just "good relations". Secretary Clinton can rake in millions from foreign sources one way or another promising favors through the State Dept., and that's not reason either, because they're all globalists, you see.
It is insanity for you or anyone else to politically play the treason card when you are in fact devoted globalists who do not even believe in Americian exceptionalism, the US Constitution, or national sovereignty.
Look, you deny you're a communist, but you believe a lot of the old formal ideals of Marxism generally. Being a "progressive" fits well with thinking the US Constitution is a "living" document open to enlightened re-definition by your own political fellow travelers. But why deny it? I have had a friend, whom I believe is simply an idealistic dreamer, who is a member of the CPUSA. I haven't been able to persuade him that private property is a natural human right essential like the right to life, liberty and the vain pursuit of happiness, whatever. He put his job on the line to protest training replacement workers while the steelworkers union was preparing for wage/benefit negotiations..... works as a janitor now. . . .
It is pretty predictable that you're the first kid on the block with any new leftwing talking points. Did you know Obama is devoting his time now to "community organizing" a Resistance movement against Trump?
I don't know how wanting to protect early man sites, indian sites, whatever, in SE Utah has to do with being a progressive. I've been in the area camping myself. A govt that somehow just doesn't fund actual study of the sites under the BLM isn't going to fund study under any other designation. The object of Obama's designation is to protect Rockefeller Oil from competition, to create a stronger set of resources cartels. While not even objecting to the Russian purchase of uranium resources in the same area, with the same or similar antiquities values, across Northern Arizona, which will be developed and sold by that enemy of the US, Putin. On a deal that gave Hillary Clinton a cool $100M.
So what has Trump done to Trump that?
babe, not sure you should be lecturing anyone on how to "contact reality".
We know, all our intelligence services agreed, that Russia acted to interfere in the 2016 Presidential election in a manner that would assist Trump.
And now we know that Trump associates, including Paul Manafort and Mike Flynn were in "frequent" contact with "senior Russian intelligence", throughout a campaign in which Russia acted to help Trump. And that is not calculated to raise my curiosity?
To which we can add Trump's frequent praise of Putin?
We will see where this all leads, babe. But, I'm betting the reason Trump held that presser was to push the narrative that the act of leaking was of more pressing concern then the content of the leaks. And to push the fake news narrative as the Big Lie for his base.
And I'm also be betting that, when all is said and done, the 45th President of the United States is going to crash and burn as a result of all this.
I really don't care if I'm the first to show up on your block or not. I made two calls so far that were spot on. I said the Russian story would be the most important aspect to this election. It rose and fell in the news cycle several times, but now, here we are, exactly where I said we would be. And, I said if Trump was elected, he would continue to hold campaign style rallies as part of his governing style. And now, today, here we are, with a 2020 campaign rally in Florida. I'm no slouch, I have confidence that I've been on the right track all along, and I'm not paying much attention to your talking points because, frankly, I think you are the one who is divorced a bit from reality.
And, for heaven's sake, I'm not a communist. I don't pay any attention to political philosophy at all, to be honest. I'm me, that's all. Stop telling me how to think. Do I tell you how to think, babe?
We will see, will we not?
Oh yeah, one more thing. How 'bout he releases his tax returns now?