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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone still watching this? This week's episode was the big Hillary episode, where Bill finally tells her that he had the affair and he testifies before the Grand Jury and the Clintons (with Chelsea) go on the worst vacation every to Martha's Vinyard to "celebrate" Bill's birthday.

We watched it last night and I can't stop thinking about it. It made me really angry, surprisingly so since this is all old news at this point. And through most of this series so far, I've been mostly focused on Monica (as the series intends) and how she was used and manipulated by so many powerful people for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with her as a person. But this episode's focus on Hillary just brought home for me how absolutely enraging Bill's behavior was, and the degree to which he screwed over all the women in his life (his wife, Monica, his daughter, the many women in his cabinet and administration, feminist allies, etc.) by doing this stuff, lying about it, and then needing ALL of their help to get out of it. And I've thought for a while now that these women shouldn't have helped him. I think he should have resigned. He was and is a sexual predator.

Anyway, midway through the episode my DH made some comment about "This is so bad but it just reminds me of Trump and how much worse he was." And listen, I hate Donald Trump with the fire of a thousand suns, but even this comment pissed me off. Bill Clinton was a gross asshole and you can't just compare gross assholes to Donald Trump as a get out of jail free card because everyone is going to look okay when lined up against Trump. It's like using Hitler as your baseline for a bad leader -- lots of room to be terrible without being Hitler, let's leave him out of it.

/rant over[/quote]
I like your rant.  In the previous weeks, I was just thinking about Betty Curry and her helping Bill with his affairs. It's a tough spot to be in, you (Betty) have this huge job, and especially back then, one would feel "well, it's none of my business" but by not making even an informal protest, you are enabling it all.  But if you protest, he will probably fire/reassign you, and get someone else.  So the entourage stays in place. ugh[/quote]

I feel like we need a watch party for this show. I was finishing college when this happened and my viewpoint of it in real time was so different. I am now shocked at how nasty everything around this was towards the women involved and we all acted like it was a huge joke. [/quote]

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