At least then we could argue about a lie being a lie, now it's all "he never said that (literally 4 seconds ago), if he did it's fine, if you're mad that's your fault, he never said it anyway. I like that he said it."

thing about that is, clinton actually had a point. he said "there is nothing going on between [he and monica lewinsky]" when asked, and was then accused of perjury. He argued that "is" meant "is", and because at the time of asking he and lewinsky didn't have an ongoing relationship he didn't lie.

Also back then a president getting a BJ was grounds for impeachment lol it really puts things into perspective

I was listening a podcast abour history of philosophy and the guy spent like two chapters talking abouts the meaning of "is" is, because of a middle age philosophers called the grammaticals or something like that, that keep discussing the meaning of words.