I Know Republicans Hate America . . .

. . . but this is starting to get a little ridiculous (via The New Republic):

Faced with mounting scientific evidence that humans are causing climate change, Republicans are having an increasingly hard time denying the facts. Those denials became even more laughable Tuesday, when one of the party's favorite agencies, the Department of Defense, told Congress that climate change is hurting military operations.

At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, a Department of Defense representative laid out how climate change is exposing its infrastructure in coastal and Arctic regions to rising sea levels and extreme weather, and that it's even impacting decisions like which types of weapons the Pentagon buys. This is only the latest in a series of recent warnings from the military, which raised the issue as far back as George W. Bush’s second term. In March, the Pentagon warned,in its Quadrennial Defense Review, that the effects of climate change “are threat multipliers that will aggravate stressors abroad such as poverty, environmental degradation, political instability, and social tensions—conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence.” In other words, increased drought and water shortages are likely to trigger fighting over limited resources.

The GOP, however, apparently doesn't give a fuck about the security of our country: "On Tuesday, The Hill reported that Republican Senator John Barasso called the military’s efforts to combat climate change 'wasteful and irresponsible at best, especially as our friends and allies struggle with violent, deadly crises that have real implications for our security.'"

Look, I get it: Most Republicans no longer accept the fact that humans are causing global climate change, no doubt because America's first Black president actually wants to do something about it.  The New Republic piece also notes that "[w]hen the House of Representatives passed the Pentagon’s budget in June, it included an amendment, passed mostly along partly lines, barring the department from implementing its climate change initiatives."

Think about that for a second -- even if the Radicalized Right doesn't think that climate change is caused by human activity, can't these nut jobs at least accept that the climate is changing and that these changes will affect national security?  Apparently not.

According to USLegal.com, Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution declares "that adhering to the enemies of the United States, giving them aid and comfort, shall be treason," and that "any act that deliberately strengthens or tends to strengthen enemies of United States or that weakens or tends to weaken the power of United States to resist and attack such enemies is characterized as aid and comfort."

Barasso and all those other America-hating GOP motherfuckers would be screaming the word "treason" at the top of their lungs if a Democrat intentionally tried to thwart the Pentagon's ability to defend this country from a clear threat to our national security.  I think the time has come for Democrats to start pointing out the obvious, namely, that Barasso and the rest of these climate-change deniers are traitors and should be executed (after a fair trial, of course).

And I would fully support that these bastards be put to death by the most barbaric means possible, which at the present time appears to be lethal injection.