The GOP is still morally corrupt, even if Discourse breaks

[scottagibson]

Drinks are on me, fellows!

Yashar Ali 🐘

[Papageno]

The guy who kept up a witch hunt for all of the Clinton years while Gingrich, DeLay and company were laying the foundations of Trumpism, is now dead.

[Kyrios]

I don’t love dancing on graves generally, but let’s not forget Mr. Starr’s (un)successful second act covering up for sexual assault at Baylor, as well. A true GOP hero.

[MikeOberly]

Hope Newt can join him soon.

[Calelari]

Paging Armando Penblade, to the white courtesy Taco Bell trough…

[Pyperkub]

@Kyrios

I don’t love dancing on graves generally, but let’s not forget Mr. Starr’s (un)successful second act covering up for sexual assault at Baylor, as well. A true GOP hero.

Yeah, this should be the lede. The Clinton investigation was pure hypocrisy, what he did at Baylor was pure evil.

[ReptileHouse]

@Pyperkub

Yeah, this should be the lede. The Clinton investigation was pure hypocrisy, what he did at Baylor was pure evil.

+1 /subscribe

[ShivaX]

Wesley Chu

[RichVR]

So he has reached ambient temperature. Like Limbaugh. Cool. So to speak. May McConnell do the same. And of course, the Trump.

[anonymgeist]

When a man dies, it is sad. All of us will die one day. In this case, it is Ken who has done so. Ken was alive for 76 years. But no more. Now he is dead.

[ShivaX]

pschlarm

[Houngan]

@ShivaX

https://twitter.com/Pschlarm/status/1569800882253856769

Ha, Owwwwww.

[Timex]

I probably wouldn’t be that hard on Ken Star for the Clinton stuff on its own… Clinton broke the rules. Presidents should be held accountable for stuff.

But then he backed Trump in all of Trump’s total bullshit, so fuck Ken Star.

[abidingdude]

@Timex

I probably wouldn’t be that hard on Ken Star for the Clinton stuff on its own

Seriously? He (KS) was an awful person even back then. You don’t see that?

[Scuzz]

Yea, Ken Starr was not a good man. He proved that at Baylor.

[Tortilla]

@abidingdude

Seriously? He (KS) was an awful person even back then. You don’t see that?

I admit, being a teenager at the time of the Clinton impeachment, that I have no idea what Ken Starr really did back then. I mean I saw his name in the newspapers (remember those?) but beyond that I’m really not familiar with his actions. The more recent stuff like the Baylor issues I’m aware of, so I have no respect for Ken Starr, but I don’t know what he pulled back then.

[scottagibson]

@Tortilla

The more recent stuff like the Baylor issues I’m aware of, so I have no respect for Ken Starr, but I don’t know what he pulled back then.

The short version is that he used one woman wearing a wire to elicit from another woman — her putative friend — information about a legal sex act, then used that information to blackmail the second woman — including threatening the woman’s mother with criminal charges — into helping him set a perjury trap for the President, again involving legal but embarrassing acts completely unrelated to anything he was charged with investigating the President about in the first place; all because he had failed to find anything he could charge the President with despite years of trying.

Even then, he had to nearly manufacture the lie. He asked the President inartful questions about sex, got narrow and evasive answers that were nevertheless defensibly truthful if incomplete, and then used them to try to oust a President from office.

[Timex]

Ok, so there’s this guy Nick Adams.

Nick Adams makes posts that are so insanely sycophantic towards Trump, that it seems like they simply MUST be a parody. Example:

Nick Adams

Nick Adams

Nick Adams

Nick Adams

Check out his feed… I honestly cannot tell if he’s a parody account or not. He’s a check mark account, so he is in fact the real Nick Adams, but his posts are nuts.

Does anyone know if this guy is a commedian or something?

[Pyperkub]

@scottagibson

@Tortilla

The more recent stuff like the Baylor issues I’m aware of, so I have no respect for Ken Starr, but I don’t know what he pulled back then.

The short version is that he used one woman wearing a wire to elicit from another woman — her putative friend — information about a legal sex act, then used that information to blackmail the second woman — including threatening the woman’s mother with criminal charges — into helping him set a perjury trap for the President, again involving legal but embarrassing acts completely unrelated to anything he was charged with investigating the President about in the first place; all because he had failed to find anything he could charge the President with despite years of trying.

Even then, he had to nearly manufacture the lie. He asked the President inartful questions about sex, got narrow and evasive answers that were nevertheless defensibly truthful if incomplete, and then used them to try to oust a President from office.

All of which was part of a real estate deal investigation. The shift towards the lurid was purely partisan, and, while Clinton had a TON of issues WRT to Presidential nookie, so too did Gingrich and just about every other GOP person pushing the investigation, as well as multiple prior Presidents.

But, as indicated, while that made for great Fox TV reality viewing, the Baylor stuff was pure evil, tho both were huge indicators of what is now mainstream GOP policy.

[scottagibson]

Nick Adams is a pro-Trump former Trump admin guy.