• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    if you disqualified politicians who engaged in some kind of sexual assault there would not be many left to govern.

    I’ve heard arguments to the effect that politicians who are too clean simply don’t succeed, because people don’t want to give you big campaign checks unless they have Compromat on you.

    So you get invited to the Eyes Wide Shut party, your rich friends catalog your debauchery, and this is what keeps you loyal.

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      6 days ago

      I guess it didn’t work on Tim Walz or Bernie Sanders?

      Seems pretty easy to avoid.

      And Bernie took his goddamn honeymoon in the USSR, I imagine they could have bugged every room he entered if they wanted to.