From Wikipedia:

The Watergate scandal resulted in 69 indictments and 48 convictions, involving several high-ranking officials from the Nixon administration.^[12] The term “Watergate” has since become synonymous with various clandestine and illicit activities conducted by Nixon’s aides, including the bugging of political opponents’ offices, unauthorized investigations, and the misuse of government agencies for political purposes.^[13] The addition of “-gate” to a term has since been used to denote public scandals,^[14][15][16] particularly in politics.

I was alive then. Every night the news (because there was only really one news back then, on three different stations) was about fekkin Watergate. As a nation, the United States was partially destroyed by Watergate – the revelation that political officials engaged in unscrupulous behavior was apparently never heard of prior to this.

Really? I mean, there had been unpricipled politicians before that, right? For some reason – maybe it was the 60s – I had a mistrust of any/all politicians. I think my parents did not.

But I have to say now – what was the big deal? The Republicans spied on the Democrats before an election? Wow. That’s kind of boring, isn’t it? But isn’t this just dirty politics between political parties – which are not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, lest we forget. I mean, was the President impeached for his role in the illicit collection of data from the opposing party? That’s imeachable?

Just trying to put things in perspective.

Let’s consider “the misuse of government agencies for political purposes.”. Hilary Clinton’s campaign launched something called “Russiagate”, which led to a lenghty investigation of the President, but was later completely refurted, and Clinton was fined a whole $175,000 for perptrating an unfounded investigation – against a standing President. I know some of you are behind, but this is the truth. Pick your source. Here’s the WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-russia-collusion-hillary-clinton-2016-e341cd7d

I’d like to suggest that the Republicans and the Democrats have been at this for decades. By “this” I mean dragging the whole country, and the government, into generally childish squabbles, which are entirely politically motivated. Now the problem these days is that Trump said the words “politically motivated”, making thie phrase an instant disclaimer for ANY investigation that might actually be politically motivated.

Lookey here – in an election year, Children, everything is politically motivated. Do you need someone to tell you that? It’s always been about winning, and there have been the same two contestants, who behave in exaclty the same way – like liars, cheats, and babies. Or do you want this to be a conspiracy theory, too? Or is it just common sense.

The trouble is never with the investigation itself – the problem is with the freedoms that every American has to give up, unwittingly, which is party of the “freedoms grab” that is a fringe benefit of any of these political squabbles.

Back to Watergate (and Wikipedia):

Subsequent investigations and revelations during trials prompted the U.S. House of Representatives to grant the House Judiciary Committee expanded investigative authority.^[3][4]

Think this through – the House Judiciary Committee, which belongs to you and me, is involved in an investigation of Republicans spying on Democrats, to gain an election advantage. But because at the time they could not get those famous Nixon tapes, they changed the law, so that they could get those tapes. Now, that law never went away. It’s still there, even though Nixon is long gone.

What about bimbos? We know that Trump is now accused of felonies, associated with the hush money for a porn star. Boy do we know it. Now maybe you didn’t know that, even though the actual trial featured a lot of sex talk, bribing a bimbo is not a felony. Instead, it was a legal technicality – do you like those as much as I do? – about the reporting of a hush money payment as a campaign expense, during the election campaign. It was couched in an improper reporting case. Because bimbos in the White House is not so new – let’s think about my hero JFK, and your hero, William Jefferson Cllinton, for two.

During Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential election campaign, Flowers came forward to say that she had had a 12-year extramarital relationship with Clinton, and that he had assisted her in securing a job as an administrative assistant with the Arkansas Appeal Tribunal. – Wiki

Again, is this impeachable? Well, he was a governor then, and he traded her a job for a job. Anyway, he got off. – because he didn’t pay her off his campaign books – of something. It was definitely politically motivated – no concidence that the investigation, and her coming out, happened during the election cycle.

I’m just stirring the pot here – the one that called the kettle black. I don’t care about inter-Party chacanery – until it starts to strip away my rights, allows me to be surveilled, etc. But it does piss me off to have to listen to people say that all this is not politically motivated. Just a personal gripe, I won’t go to the Supreme Court (or the Playground Teacher) to get my point proven.