Michael Cohen plea

[Belsnickel]

(08-22-2018, 08:54 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: The problem for the Administration that I am seeing here is not so much that they were trying to cover up the affairs. Lord knows, the American people have an exceedingly high tolerance for that from a male politician (cough, cough, Clinton). Rather, the problem is that campaign funds were used for this purpose. That is proven fact. And I am seeing reports which say that Cohen claims he was instructed to do this by "the candidate".

In America, we pat our male politicians on the back for their hetero-sexual sexploits while condemning them for misappropriation of campaign funds. That is America 2018.

In my personal opinion, if you are still fuming over the Clinton sexploits of the '90's (like me), you should be consistent and be angry over the current exploits.

BTW - Isn't soliciting prostitutes illegal in this country outside of some backwoods place in Nevada?

We have a society that wants to pretend out political leaders are moral authorities. I don't know why, to be honest, as that is something that comes with the divine right to rule territory. We put founding fathers on pedestals, thinking them to be of the highest moral character, but they were men and they were fallible, just as the political leaders are today.

If anything, what the Trump presidency shows is that there are a number of unwritten norms that have existed in Washington that act as the glue that holds the institutions together. Slowly, but surely, these norms have been facing an erosion. Trump is merely the product of this, not the cause. This isn't to say that Trump has not done anything wrong or criminal, just that decades of bullshit have brought us to this place. What befuddles us about Trump is that his wrongdoings are public, not in secret. We're not used to that. We're used to digging to find some secret wrongdoing but Trump's activity is all out in the open and we can't handle this very well. He has no shame.