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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

if you disqualified politicians who engaged in some kind of sexual assault there would not be many left to govern.

I've heard arguments to the effect that politicians who are too clean simply don't succeed, because people don't want to give you big campaign checks unless they have Compromat on you.

So you get invited to the Eyes Wide Shut party, your rich friends catalog your debauchery, and this is what keeps you loyal.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I guess it didn't work on Tim Walz or Bernie Sanders?

Seems pretty easy to avoid.

And Bernie took his goddamn honeymoon in the USSR, I imagine they could have bugged every room he entered if they wanted to.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess it didn’t work on Tim Walz or Bernie Sanders?

Both are about as loyal as any Dem foot soldiers you could name. Sanders, in particular, has been at least as zealous on Israel as Biden throughout his career.

Bernie disagrees with the Neoliberal rhetoric and wants to save capitalism from itself. But he's staunchly partisan.

If anyone could use some Compromat its Manchin