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Helios

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I just wanted to say that every fucking day and night for the last several weeks I have been forced to watch those shitty goddamn ads on youtube for our state's congressman campaigns. Those lousy goddamn ads would play at the beginning and in the middle somewhere of every video I was trying to watch.

I did not vote for the democrat or the republican candidate for no other reason than spite and payback for having to watch their asshole ads over and over.

The entire Mid term Circus cost upwards of 5 Billion Dollars total, let that sink in for a moment.
 

ChooChooCharlie

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Random first visual impression of this mural:

Leni Riefenstahl got hired by PETA in an alternate universe

"Triumph of the Wool"

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His_Highness

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
A & E channel recently did a mini-series-documentary called the 'Clinton Affair".

I was struck by how much those times have in common with what's going on these days. It's fucking eerie how much in common there is as far as what led up to the impeachment.
 

Summer

Long Island, NY
I don't see any parallel. Clinton had an affair with a staffer WHILE he was office. Trump has not. And the only reason Clinton was impeached was because he perjured himself by lying about. Had he not lied, nothing would have happened. And if Congress was supportive of him, which they were not because he was considered an outsider (like how could a nobody Arkansas
governor become president), he never would have even been impeached despite the perjury. The reason he was acquitted was because at that time we had sensible congressman who understood the gravity of removing a president from office.
 
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His_Highness

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
I don't see any parallel. Clinton had an affair with a staffer WHILE he was office. Trump has not. And the only reason Clinton was impeached was because he perjured himself by lying about. Had he not lied, nothing would have happened. And if Congress was supportive of him, which they were not because he was considered an outsider (like how could a nobody Arizona governor become president), he never would have even been impeached despite the perjury.

My reference to commonality was regarding the sequences, parties and players that led to impeachment. How each party on the offensive leveraged whatever they could, how the investigation proceeded, how each president defended themselves, expressed themselves, the press and how they felt about it. How both parties reacted along the way and the feeling behind it. There were times during the lead up in that documentary where I felt like I could substitute the party and the win at all costs mentality.

Please don't misunderstand....I'm not taking sides....just commenting on how, as that documentary proceeded there were so many times where I said "That's the same thing, feeling, etc. as what's happening these days" but the parties are reversed.

I was not referring to any commonality in the validity of the cases then, the ones folks think are possible today, character of the accused, etc.
 
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GetLeft

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Arizona?

Haven't watched the show but if it's relatively recent I wouldn't be surprised if those commonalities were drawn out for a reason.
 
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Summer

Long Island, NY
Arizona?

Haven't watched the show but if it's relatively recent I wouldn't be surprised if those commonalities were drawn out for a reason.

Fixed! No, just a documentary on what transpired -- no underlining hidden agenda attributable to current affairs.
 
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