138 points

He played the sax 🎷 on TV to get elected and then had sex in the oval office with that intern. Ahhh those were more innocent times.

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Remember the outrage! A president who didn’t tell the truth about his sex life right away was unthinkable!

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More than that, we tried to impeach him for it! Imagine that, our politicians being held accountable for their dishonesty.

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No, they tried to impeach him. They were just looking for any angle to do it with. They assigned an open ended special prosecution to find something, anything they could use and Clinton decided to perjure himself on it. It wasn’t noble

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To be clear, for anyone too young to remember, he WAS impeached for 2 reasons: lying under oath and obstruction of justice.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton#:~:text=The House adopted two articles,rejected by the House vote.

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It’s pretty funny

During the deposition, Clinton was asked “Have you ever had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, as that term is defined in Deposition Exhibit 1?” The judge ordered that Clinton be given an opportunity to review the agreed definition. Afterwards, based on the definition created by the Independent Counsel’s Office, Clinton answered, “I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.” Clinton later said, “I thought the definition included any activity by [me], where [I] was the actor and came in contact with those parts of the bodies” which had been explicitly listed (and “with an intent to gratify or arouse the sexual desire of any person”). In other words, Clinton denied that he had ever contacted Lewinsky’s “genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks”, and effectively claimed that the agreed-upon definition of “sexual relations” included giving oral sex but excluded receiving oral sex

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This is the most lawyer thing I’ve read. Hahaha. I totally forgot about that.

Yes I abused my position of power to get head from a junior intern. But… the rules are the rules, what you gonna do?

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Bro sexually assaulted an intern in the White House. Let’s not pretend it was just sex life.

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29 points

He did not sexually assault Monica Lewinsky. It was a consensual relationship. He was accused of lying about it in a deposition. That was the alleged crime.

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24 points

So you’re certain that her own account of it is a lie? How progressive

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4 points

No it was clearly an official duty as defined circa 2024

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He’s only accused of raping one woman and she wasnt under age.

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4 points

“suspected”

Not defending anything here but I don’t think he’s been formally accused

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She told her friend about it at the time in 1978. Her story has never changed. She went public in 1999. The problem seems to be that before that in 1998 she didn’t want to talk about it and denied the allegations.

https://www.npr.org/2016/10/09/497291071/a-brief-history-of-juanita-broaddrick-the-woman-accusing-bill-clinton-of-rape

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82 points

Also older than George W. Bush and Obama. And Al Gore. Not famously old Dick Cheney, but it’s close. Dan Quayle, George H. W. Bush’s VP, is younger.

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29 points

Jesus christ

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The way I look at is that Biden is the first non-Boomer president in 28 years. And that’s only because he’s too damn old to be a Boomer.

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41 points

Both are older than the state of Israel, FFS.

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If Joe Biden didn’t exist, we would have to invent him.

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5 points

Joe Biden was the old white conservative to balance out a slightly less conservative black president.

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So was every US president except Obama during their term.

It only shows how much of a construct Israel is, as opposed to a representative of the actual people living there.

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Yes, but the point is we are now in 2024. All those other presidents are either dead or retired.

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21 points

Well then there’s good news Biden just dropped out

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Holy fuck, you’re not kidding!

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You know he’s gonna wake up tomorrow and forget that he dropped out, and we’re gonna have to do this all over again.

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Also, when he served as VP, Cheney was 20 years younger than than Trump is now. Wrap your head around that.

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