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Re:Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before Whit... by lsc on Saturday March 03, 2018 @01:05AM (#16508163)
I mean, on one hand, sure, there's always corruption; nobody is perfect. But there are huge differences. "Less corrupt" is a goal worth working towards; I just don't think you can compare our current president to any other president since Nixon, and I think that this attitude that everyone is corrupt so it doesn't matter is a big part of how we got our current president.

(well... maybe Reagan. Iran-contra was shocking, and I'm a little surprised that nobody seems to think it was as big a deal as Watergate. Nixon cracked a safe. Regan... well, I'm not saying that this is what he did... but it sure looked like his deals with Iran delayed the release of US hostages until after the election. (you could also argue that those releases wouldn't have happened at all without those deals... I'm just saying, it looked pretty bad.)

Re:Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before Whit... by abecedarius on Saturday March 03, 2018 @01:31AM (#16508209)
If we're comparing to Nixon, iiuc during the 1968 campaign he was equally shady with Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Accords#Claimed_sa...

But I agree with you that whataboutism is the wrong response to what's going on now.

Re:Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before Whit... by dragonwriter on Saturday March 03, 2018 @01:39AM (#16508222)
An aside, but:

> well... maybe Regan

Presumably you mean Ronald Reagan, though Donald Regan was a prominent figure in his Administration.

Re:Carl Icahn dumps $31M in steel-related stocks before Whit... by lsc on Saturday March 03, 2018 @01:43AM (#16508224)
hah. corrected.