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In reply to the discussion: OK, Old Timers, I gotta say this: [View all]ancianita
(36,055 posts)as evidence for impeachment, too.
Losing their fucking minds over that shows the trifling politics that Republicans have made of impeachment. Republicans, loud and clear, tout their double standard of presidential behavior by holding that a semen stain is not lawful or honorable, while colluding with foreign hostile powers IS.
It's really about the difference in sold out politicians who, today, do not honor their oaths of office; rather, who today enrich themselves and allow corporations to capture this government (see Sheldon Whitehouse's Captured (2017). Under today's scofflaw corporate market values, ANYTHING goes, law be damned.
I lived through Watergate and semengate in my 20's, as well.
The way I see then and now, Watergate actually was as serious as now, though election tampering has now gone global and is much harder to investigate. Semengate was an abuse of congressional power. This impeachment is more serious than both put together.
Thanks for your post.