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GranTurismo
05/13/24 4:12:49 PM
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which one
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Full_Pokedex
05/13/24 4:15:41 PM
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No. Purgury is bad but no where near the crimes of Johnson, Trump, and Nixen.

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ForsakenHermit
05/13/24 4:16:31 PM
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When I was 12 I was pretty apolitical but I wanted to see him removed for the sake of watching history. Now I don't think that way and see Newt's hypocritical witch hunt for what it was.

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DarthAragorn
05/13/24 4:16:56 PM
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I was I believe 5 so no

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BlueAnnihilator
05/13/24 4:17:16 PM
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Too young to care

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ironman2009
05/13/24 4:17:23 PM
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I wasn't old enough to know or care about what was going on

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RetuenOfDevsman
05/13/24 4:17:43 PM
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I was in elementary school.

That kind of boring shit was for grownups to talk about.

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HOON
05/13/24 4:19:56 PM
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Better to have blowjobs than no jobs!
Thats really all that I can remember talking about at the time I still didnt know anything about politics until much later.

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Vicious_Dios
05/13/24 4:20:02 PM
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Impeached? Nah. Removed from office? Also nah.

And this is coming from a guy who never supported the Democratic party.

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Strider102
05/13/24 4:20:17 PM
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I was 13

I had my own personal shit going on that was leading me down a dark path. I gave 0 fucks about the president and whatever he was doing or happening.

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bigblu89
05/13/24 4:20:17 PM
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At the time, I knew it wouldn't stand, and the Senate was going to acquit him, so him initially getting impeached didn't bother me.

I wouldn't say I did or didn't support it.

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Sheiky-Baby
05/13/24 4:20:47 PM
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I was a little kid doing little kid things to care.

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EndOfDiscOne
05/13/24 4:21:32 PM
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My dad's a Republican and I remember even he didn't want him to be impeached. I think he just wanted the story to go away.

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myusernameislame
05/13/24 4:22:22 PM
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BlueAnnihilator posted...
Too young to care

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LightningThief
05/13/24 4:22:34 PM
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I was definitely too young to care. (Less than 10.)
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masterpug53
05/13/24 4:23:35 PM
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I was a young teenager still living in a staunchly conservative household who thoughtlessly parroted my parents' political opinions, yet even I thought it was stupid and pointless as hell.

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Bugmeat
05/13/24 4:26:15 PM
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I thought it was all a ridiculous waste of time and money.


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pretzelcoatl
05/13/24 5:13:59 PM
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I was 2
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RetuenOfDevsman
05/13/24 5:31:53 PM
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
I was in elementary school.

That kind of boring shit was for grownups to talk about.
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Come to think of it, that kind of boring shit is still for grownups to talk about.

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Gobstoppers12
05/13/24 5:32:16 PM
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It's hard to argue against the fact that he committed the crime he was accused of, but I wouldn't personally think that was bad enough to get him thrown out of office.

I guess it depends on whether one small crime should be enough to overthrow the will of the American people based on a political grudge match. I'm glad removal from office takes a supermajority to succeed, otherwise that kind of thing would happen a lot more often.

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MC_BatCommander
05/13/24 5:33:04 PM
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I was a kid I didn't even know what a blow job was

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Relient_K
05/13/24 6:00:32 PM
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I was 10 and didn't care.

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kingdrake2
05/13/24 6:01:51 PM
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
'm glad removal from office takes a supermajority to succeed, otherwise that kind of thing would happen a lot more often.


not so much when one side refuses to do whats right.

if only orange man was impeached. he commit no problems in GOP eyes.

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Enclave
05/13/24 6:04:31 PM
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I profoundly didn't care that he did that. I figured that it wasn't our business but rather the business of Bill, Monica and Hillary.

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Turbam
05/13/24 6:05:50 PM
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I was a child

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kingdrake2
05/13/24 6:08:24 PM
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Enclave posted...
I figured that it wasn't our business but rather the business of Bill, Monica and Hillary.


hillary should've called bill a dirty rat, then divorce him if he didn't change his ways and dump his mistress.

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firedoom666
05/13/24 6:17:54 PM
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I was less than 10 years old at the time, so even if I heard about it, I had idea what it would mean. Once I learned about it I relozed how it was nothing more than political BS

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Tyranthraxus
05/13/24 6:20:03 PM
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In hindsight, he should have been removed. He essentially raped Monica Lewinsky and Al Gore would have been a better president.

They tried to frame it as having an affair when he was really the most powerful man in the country coercing the hot young intern fresh out of high school to give him oral.

But no at the time I didn't support it. I had a lot of different opinions back then.

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TheShadowViper
05/13/24 6:24:56 PM
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His actual crime was perjury, which he was absolutely guilty of.

I definitely think setting a standard for presidents starting with him that such behavior was unacceptable in the modern age would have been a good thing. I'm not sure impeachment was the penalty he deserved, but he definitely should have been penalized.

People constantly refer to the crimes of Presidents like Nixon as if that should be a get out of jail free card for modern presidents. At some point you have to say "we got to be better, these are the new standards".
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lolife67
05/13/24 6:32:06 PM
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Back when it happened, I don't see the big deal and thought Republicans were just reaching for anything to get a Democratic President. He got some in the Oval Office, so what? As long as it didn't affect the country, I didn't see it their business.

However over the years, as I learned more about it and matured, I definitely see the issue and he should've been impeached. He did lie/perjure himself and it was completely unethical to sleep with an intern.
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EPR-radar
05/13/24 6:35:49 PM
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TheShadowViper posted...
His actual crime was perjury, which he was absolutely guilty of.

I definitely think setting a standard for presidents starting with him that such behavior was unacceptable in the modern age would have been a good thing. I'm not sure impeachment was the penalty he deserved, but he definitely should have been penalized.

People constantly refer to the crimes of Presidents like Nixon as if that should be a get out of jail free card for modern presidents. At some point you have to say "we got to be better, these are the new standards".
I find it impossible to take perjury seriously in the context of a Republican fishing expedition where questions were asked that never should have been asked, and that was my feeling back then as well.

The most I will concede is that "fuck off" would have been a better response by Bill Clinton to the fishing expedition than lying.

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Beveren_Rabbit
05/13/24 6:38:30 PM
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even when I was a kid I thought it was dumb to impeach someone for something personal as an affair. My teacher brought up the point that "if our president can't even be faithful to their wife how can we trust them to be faithful to our country?"

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EPR-radar
05/13/24 6:42:23 PM
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Beveren_Rabbit posted...
even when I was a kid I thought it was dumb to impeach someone for something personal as an affair. My teacher brought up the point that "if our president can't even be faithful to their wife how can we trust them to be faithful to our country?"
Well, the Republican pigfuckers that impeached Clinton had their own affairs (or worse), as everyone should have suspected even back then.

But Newt's excuse for his affair (I forget which one, there have been many) remains an all-time favorite -- "I love the US so much and work so hard as a public servant that I just has to cheat on my wife" (paraphrased).

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BDSMKane
05/13/24 6:49:42 PM
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At the time, yeah, I remember I did. It was new to me, and I thought it mattered that the right thing happened. But that was before I realized its all fairly run of the mill, and these days it seems like a minor offense comparatively.

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nocturnal_traveler
05/13/24 6:50:35 PM
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I was a teenager at the time, and even then I thought getting impeached and/or removed for infidelity was stupid.

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Guide
05/13/24 6:51:04 PM
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Other: I was a kid and thought he was a cool guy who played the sax.

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PMarth2002
05/13/24 7:17:50 PM
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I was in my early teens, I didn't care.

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Hayame_Zero
05/13/24 7:29:51 PM
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No. Even at 11-years-old, I hated Ken Starr.

Sure enough, he ended up being so much worse than Clinton.

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ScazarMeltex
05/13/24 8:13:50 PM
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EPR-radar posted...
I find it impossible to take perjury seriously in the context of a Republican fishing expedition where questions were asked that never should have been asked, and that was my feeling back then as well.

The most I will concede is that "fuck off" would have been a better response by Bill Clinton to the fishing expedition than lying.
This. The investigation was originally meant to be into shady real estate dealings. The GOP had such a hate boner for Clinton though that Starr's position allowed him to basically investigate whatever he wanted.

Which also why the GOP hamstrung Mueller and limited his powe and scope. If he had the power Starr had, Trump would absolutely have been hit with a dozen or so obstruction charges.

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BewmHedshot
05/13/24 8:17:00 PM
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I was too young to even understand what the fuck was happening.

Today it would be transparently political and go nowhere, such as the "impeachments" of Biden's Cabinet Secretaries.
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SpawnShadow
05/13/24 8:29:04 PM
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I was too young to care, and I'm pretty sure I was too hooked on my new PlayStation to even catch a glimpse of the impeachment on TV.
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Whiterun_Guard_
05/13/24 8:36:16 PM
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I was a kid, but I just assumed there was a good reason if it was happening.

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ForsakenHermit
05/13/24 8:40:36 PM
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Hayame_Zero posted...
No. Even at 11-years-old, I hated Ken Starr.

Sure enough, he ended up being so much worse than Clinton.
Like Newt!

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omega9999
05/13/24 8:46:03 PM
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I was too young to really understand, but when I found out everything, I didn't really care.

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Metal_Gear_Raxis
05/14/24 10:39:30 AM
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I was too young to understand.

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Westernwolf4
05/14/24 10:55:04 AM
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I was in my late teens when this happened, and I did not want him to be impeached. This was the 90s and the groundwork for MAGA was being laid, and everything from the GOP was a lie and/or completely partisan. To this day, I will not take the perjury seriously, as the whole thing was absolutely a partisan fishing expedition, no matter what you think of Clinton otherwise.

But.what I did not grasp as a teen was the problem with the huge power imbalance between an intern and the most powerful person in the world. At the time I just thought they were consenting adults and really didnt think about it much further. But now I have grown (I hope) and times are different (I hope) and I recognize that Clinton should have been removed for that conduct alone. What he did with an intern with him in that position is unacceptable.

I think Clinton was a great President. I was really involved with Dem. politics at that time and I met and talked with him a few times (he would not remember me of course), and he really is just the most personable individual you have ever seen. But he is a complete creep, looking back on things. The GOP was being completely awful and ridiculous too, which made it hard for me to see.

Again, dont care about the perjury in the face of a completely biased and unfair proceeding. Do care about the power imbalance between a WH intern and the President of the US. I wish I had been mature enough to figure that out at the time.

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
05/14/24 11:42:46 AM
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Like a lot of the others have said I was too young to really care. Today though I think I am okay with the way it came out.

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texanfan27
05/14/24 11:46:00 AM
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Too young to care about or understand it. Kinda bad when my first view of politics was 9/11 and the responses

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Solar_Crimson
05/14/24 11:53:21 AM
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BlueAnnihilator posted...
Too young to care
This. When that happened, I was in 5th Grade and only cared about getting home to play Pokemon.

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