captainlezbian,

Can people stop making light of a president sexually assaulting an intern? Ms. Lewinsky has been through enough

Gingerlegs,

I remember saving the newspaper “Clinton Impeached” as a kid, thinking it was a once in a lifetime event.

Boy was I wrong

LemmyKnowsBest, (edited )

My childlike mind visuaized two things about that:

  1. something about a literal peach
  2. that impeached meant he was in so much trouble that he’s being removed from presidential offfice, and VP Al Gore would step in as president.

🍑

CaptPretentious,

Remember when we used to think once in a lifetime events was actually a once-in-a-lifetime…

BarrelAgedBoredom,

The 90s are alive and well on lemmy

spudwart,
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Zehzin,
@Zehzin@lemmy.world avatar

BAH

Lemjukes,

Booooooooooooo

CaptnKarisma,

Multiple Personality Disorder thanks for spreading awareness

MayvisDelacour,

Monica has come a long way, hate to see all the grief she still gets. I mean it takes two to cheat you know but does anyone give Bill shit? Not really.

Kecessa,

“It takes two to cheat” but in most cases only one of the two is cheating

holycrap,

With the power dynamic is more likely he just took advantage of her

Lemjukes,

Most powerful person in the world and a 20 something intern. Yep it was totally all her fault and we’re in the right for making fun of her 25+ years later.

LemmyKnowsBest,

She has composed herself with such dignity and grace All these years and she articulates the whole debacle so well including all the political and social implications involved, and so relatably and so intelligently. How can we not respect her

captainlezbian,

Seriously, she deserved our sympathy from day 1, but since then she’s earned my respect.

ForgetPrimacy,

(source for what I’m about to say: I vaguely remember basically a couple headlines)

I remember reading a statement from Lewinsky regarding that allegation. Something along the lines of her agreeing that, while she had for many years defended him and declared to anyone asking that their involvement was purely consensual, she didn’t really have the power to consent. I believe it was referenced how the enlightenment of the recent Me Too revelations had influenced her evolving understanding.

yesman,

Many of us who were alive at the time owe Ms. Lewinsky an apology. None more so than Bill Clinton.

QuinceDaPence,

I'd argue they are giving him shit. She might be the punch line but he's the butt of the joke.

captainlezbian,

Yeah but she’s a person whose entire adult life has been in the shadow of being mocked for this. She deserves more than to even be a punch line

TigrisMorte,

He got a blow job, his wife didn't care. Why do you?

TALL421,
@TALL421@lemmy.one avatar

Because someone as powerful as the potus should be held to the highest possible moral standards.

CaptPretentious,

They should. But that went out the window before Bill showed up.

GiveMemes,

Yeah if it’s something your manager would get fired for it should take a president out of office almost immediately tbh. There’s a chain of command for a reason and it would actually make the role of VP mildly substantial lol.

LastYearsPumpkin,

He used his power and position to take advantage of an intern. Maybe you should care.

Most people that make it to the level of a president have done really shitty things, while this one wasn’t at the top of the list, it’s still pretty bad. Sucks that most of the hate and jokes were pushed towards the victim instead of the perpetrator.

tubbadu,

You know what else sucks? ^\s

retrieval4558,

Because the power dynamic between a 20 year old intern and THE FUCKING PRESIDENT is such that it was essentially rape.

FartsWithAnAccent,
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

I miss the days where the biggest scandal was the president being a ho

tryptaminev,

Well Nixon was an antisemitic genocidal mass murderer. And his antisemitic genocidal mass murderer secretary of state Kissinger is now praised as “great diplomat” in many western countries.

FlickOfTheBean,

History is written by the victors, and that is what a win looks like… Not saying it’s deserved, just why that happened that way.

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