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Republicans care more about consensual blow jobs than insurrections. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2022 OP
Spot on. What good is a subpoena if it isn't enforced? KPN Jan 2022 #1
Can we just not go here again? Lunabell Jan 2022 #2
Oh spare me Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2022 #3
I'm not. Lunabell Jan 2022 #4
Not candy coating anything Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2022 #6
Of course it wasn't an impeachable offense. Lunabell Jan 2022 #7
Susan McDougal had a lot better reasons for not wanting to testify. StevieM Jan 2022 #5
We no longer live in a country governed by the rule of law. SoonerPride Jan 2022 #8

KPN

(15,587 posts)
1. Spot on. What good is a subpoena if it isn't enforced?
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 03:02 PM
Jan 2022

Are we trying too hard to look reasonable, circumspect, and mindful of long-term consequences? Of course we are — in light of a GQP party that has been at war with Dems covertly for decades and quite openly the last 12 or 13 years. WTF?

Lunabell

(5,920 posts)
2. Can we just not go here again?
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 03:45 PM
Jan 2022

If you're referring to Clinton, it wasn't exactly "consensual". He was her boss. Yes, she was an adult, but he shouldn't have used his position of power for a sexual relationship.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,112 posts)
3. Oh spare me
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 03:50 PM
Jan 2022

She initiated it not him. Should he have refused? Yes. But it was still consensual.

Don't infantilize women.

Lunabell

(5,920 posts)
4. I'm not.
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 04:00 PM
Jan 2022

It was a workplace situation. Candy coat it if you will, but he was in a position of power and he abused it.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,112 posts)
6. Not candy coating anything
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 04:09 PM
Jan 2022

I said he shouldn't have. Can you read?

She bragged to a friend before beginning her internship she wanted to have sex with him. She knew what she was doing.

The point I was making it was not an impeachable offense.

Lunabell

(5,920 posts)
7. Of course it wasn't an impeachable offense.
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 06:51 PM
Jan 2022

I never even came close to saying that. If he were a ceo of a corporation, HR would have become involved, regardless of her consent to the relationship. The ceo probably would get a slap on the wrist, but a sexual harassment case would have paid out for it. Clinton was wrong.

On edit: no need to throw shade at me. Yes, I can read. That was not neccessary and you really owe me an apology.

StevieM

(10,499 posts)
5. Susan McDougal had a lot better reasons for not wanting to testify.
Thu Jan 13, 2022, 04:03 PM
Jan 2022

Ken Starr made it clear that when someone would not commit perjury in the Whitewater investigation, and falsely implicate the Clintons, he would find a reason to claim that they committed perjury and obstructed justice and indict them.

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