{"id":27930,"date":"2018-02-06T16:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27930"},"modified":"2018-02-06T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:38:02","slug":"treason-serious-four-letter-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27930","title":{"rendered":"Treason: a serious four-letter word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Treason.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27931\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Treason-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Treason-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Treason.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One more comment on &#8220;treason,&#8221; and then I&#8217;m out &#8230; maybe, perhaps, hopefully.<\/p>\n<p>When the president of the United States accuses fellow Americans of committing a treasonous act, he is accusing them of aiding and abetting enemies of the state. He is saying that those who commit such acts should be punished accordingly; the law allows traitors to be, um, executed.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, when Donald John &#8220;Stable Genius&#8221; Trump tosses the t-word at congressional Democrats whose &#8220;crime against the state&#8221; is to sit on their hands during the president&#8217;s State of the Union speech, he&#8217;s being politically vulgar in the worst way possible.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did that while speaking to an Ohio crowd this week. He called Democrats&#8217; actions &#8220;un-American&#8221;; someone in the crowd yelled &#8220;treasonous,&#8221; which Trump heard and took it to the next step.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not?&#8221; he asked about the word, getting guffaws and hoots from the adoring crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the loyal opposition often are impolite, or rude, or sometimes insulting during these speeches. However, hanging the ultimate four-letter word around them &#8212; calling their actions &#8220;treasonous&#8221; &#8212; betrays an utter ignorance of the very principle on which the Founding Fathers created the greatest nation on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, I am inclined to think that a more treasonous act would be to collude with a foreign power to corrupt our electoral process &#8230; <em>if that happened, of course.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sickening.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more comment on &#8220;treason,&#8221; and then I&#8217;m out &#8230; maybe, perhaps, hopefully. When the president of the United States accuses fellow Americans of committing a treasonous act, he is accusing them of aiding and abetting enemies of the state. He is saying that those who commit such acts should be punished accordingly; the law &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27930\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Treason: a serious four-letter word<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[74,1116,1424,7017,4314,4899],"class_list":["post-27930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-congressional-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-russian-collusion","tag-sotu","tag-treason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27933,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27930\/revisions\/27933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}