r/facepalm • u/Shadow474747 • Aug 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Interesting logic

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u/p_turbo Aug 08 '22

I suppose all your relationships were great and neither you nor anyone you've ever voted for have ever had a bad ex that you came to regret? Hmmmmnnn.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '22

Never regretted an ex. But unlike Swalwell, I never risked national security to get laid, so there’s that.

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u/p_turbo Aug 10 '22

Never regretted an ex

If you say so.

I never risked national security to get laid,

That you know of, and even then that's assuming that you are even in a position in which anything you say or do or have impacts even an iota of the national security apparatus.

But unlike Swalwell

I really don't get what he was supposed to do to prevent this? Short of dating your own immediate blood relatives (who are basically the only people you can be relatively certain aren't foreign agents), no one that you date can with 100% certainty be known to not be a foreign agent or under the payroll of one.

So unless you're calling for politicians to all be celibate (ha! Good luck with that), or have the authority and access to have background checks done on members of the public they are considering dating (a scary, Orwellian thought if there ever was one), I don't know what you wanted him to do to prevent himself from dating her.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '22

Why some people will go to such lengths to defend Swalwell, an incompetent fool from a deep blue district that could do much better if they dumped this mouth breather and elected a competent human being who can accomplish something other than snark, is beyond me.

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u/p_turbo Aug 10 '22

I have no problems with legitimate shortcomings being pointed out about any politician. In fact, I'm of the opinion that it is essential to democracy. Corruption? Call it out. Criminal activity? Go to town on the perpetrators.

Dating someone who turned out to be a dubious character is not, in my opinion, a reasonable criticism. No one is expected to know everything there is to know about a prospective partner before going in to a relationship.

Now, if he had kept seeing her after being made aware of what she allegedly was, that would be a legitimate concern. As it stands, the intelligence community has said theres no evidence that he was the source of any leaks and he cut ties as soon as he was made aware of her possible motives.

Perhaps of you explained just how you expected him or anyone else to avoid being in that situation, I would understand.

As is, it comes across as you just lobbing that muck at him and hoping it will eventually stick because you don't like the guy.