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* Watergate

* Iran Contra (does history repeat itself, or do we just like making the same mistakes?)

* 5 million emails "deleted" under the Bush administration

* The Iraq War

* DNC Hacking Scandal

* Use of executive emergency powers to bypass legislation based policy purely to inflame racial sentiments and dog whistles.

* Transferring nuclear secrets to a foreign government illegally <--- You are here

Just a short timeline of events under Republican/conservative U.S. administrations. There's definitely not a pattern or anything though.

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As someone who's spent a lot of time around Republicans, their driving mantra is that any means justifies the ends. The most principled still believe in something resembling admirable ends behind all the actions they take, but even those are a dying species.

As a prime example, take the Punisher emblem (and the mentality behind it). These days you see it on trucks and land rovers all over the place (at least here in Texas).

The character, for those who don't know, was created as an antihero who circumvents the judicial system and commits extreme violence against those he judges to be criminals. He was designed to be a commentary. From the guy that created him: “I was an anti-war person. I argued against it and certainly wrote against it...In my mind he’s not a good guy.”

From Chris Kyle, the "American Sniper": “He righted wrongs. He killed bad guys. He made wrongdoers fear him...We spray-painted it on our Hummers and body armor, and our helmets and all our guns. We spray-painted it on every building or wall we could, We wanted people to know, We’re here and we want to fk with you.”

http://time.com/3819227/punisher-iraq-isis/

This isn't really a party issue. This is a systemic issue.

I agree there is a pattern, but you really didn't try very hard to show both sides.

Top of my head was Operation Fast and Furious which was an Obama era scandal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scan...

Can you please make a similar list for the Democratic party?

This is a fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scan...

Edit: looks like somebody already posted it while I got distracted reading it.

That's just a list of scandals under the timeline of then-present administrations. It is not actions taken by the administration that they are categorized under.

You claim it's a fun read, but I think you can only claim that if you decided to actually read it. And the evidence points to the fact that you very obviously didn't.

Bill Clinton... cheated on his wife that one time

With that very young intern in his employ. Traditionally known as sexual harassment. Of course that was just one of the many cases of impropriety with women and allegations of assault.

From my understanding it was consensual, which is not harassment. Not quite the same as "grabbing her by the p*y".

Many will argue that there is no way to know if there was true consent when there is such a power differential between the two parties and especially when the act is taking place in the workplace between boss and subordinate.

Which is why most workplaces require any kind of relations like this to be declared in writing to HR or in some cases forbidden all together.

I actually can't. I have tried.

In your "trying", you list the Bush emails but not the Clinton emails? You aren't trying very hard...

One thing doesn't make a list.

Clinton did hand over emails, and the deletions were vetted by lawyers and government officials. She did this back in 2014, two years before the election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...

Oh, and the Clinton email controversy only had 0.6% of the emails involved in the Bush email controversy.

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