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Boeing safety is a political issue:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/boeing-...

If a company tries (temporarily successfully) to use political connections to respond to safety issues, it's fair to bring that up in light of related safety issues.

Which of course has nothing to do with the actual political message in the original comment to which vondur was responding. Had that comment made any reference to a relationship between Boeing and a particular politician, or political group, it would indeed be fair to bring that to light.

It's relevant as it illustrates lying has become normalized and unpunished at the highest levels.

That statement wasn't political, and it has everything to do with the topic being discussed.

It wasn't political because Trump's "style" is a fact recognized by partisans on both sides; they just judge it differently. I can't even tell if OP is for or against.

It has to do with the topic because it's an observation of the same underlying trend: that lying is becoming a standard and accepted behavior in America. People are no longer punished for lying, so they are doing it more and more.