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Why do you think that I'm going to defend Biden? Politics are not sports, and I don't have a "favorite team". Your silly gotcha questions won't work on me because I don't reflexively defend people just because they are supported by corrupt political organizations.

Two wrongs don't make a right, and one person's crimes do not excuse another's. Arrest them all.

We need fundamental changes in our political system, and we're not going to be able to achieve anything if you keep pretending like these whataboutisms are worth anyone's time. Wake up.



Great. If you see Bidens defenders as ‘feckless traitors’ as well as Trumps, then I see no fault in your judgement of what’s criminal and what’s not.

I just couldn’t pick that up from what you’d written. I thought you were calling one side traitors and not the other.


Rick, do you feel like there's an extreme asymmetry in scope, scale, intent, and result between the two sides?


I think there is a rising slope.

Obama was a bit dirty with things like Solyandra, but this was not huge.

Trump 1 was not as openly money grubbing, but I would guess more corrupt than Obama. Nothing specific comes to mind, though.

Biden was worse than Trump 1. The Ukrainian gas job, the business introductions, Hunters anonymous art sales, etc were next level stuff.

Trump 2 seems pretty much off the leash. He seems unrestrained on many fronts.

Looking back at history, we had scandals like the Teapot dome scandal, then things got better again. So maybe it’s cyclical.




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