Hey Keith, I’m an American citizen who was peacefully protesting my federal government when I was tackled to the ground after a Park Ranger offered to fire a chemical weapon in my car which I was living out of before they put me in a psych unit this month! Waiting for the FOIA request.
I have found a sub on Reddit. I hope everyone in Colorado who has expired tags is aware how trigger happy the Rangers at Rocky Mountain National Park truly are. There is another funds round up by the Colorado slave catchers. I think the lawsuit I filed on Monday will help.
Well, I have my tunes. I do cardio and I run my mouth. I educated the Ranger who offered to fire the chemical weapon in my car with some foreign policy facts about why Isnotreal was granted sovereignty and how it has come home to roost. On my Dad’s birthday. https://youtu.be/GLG_THm0ieA
Not interested in your type of politics. I don't believe in eating my own, or dividing the party. Grow the base not subtract is who I'll follow. You aren't the future, at least I hope not.
So no one has mentioned TN, so far! Please, there are so many horrible representatives in TN, and Marsha Blackburn is horrible, Bill Hagerty just as bad if not quite a vocal.
Are you using pre-Trump methods to get people elected because those don’t work!
I hope you listened to Sarah McBride’s interview on Pod Save America. She had good advice on getting people elected like make sure people know you care & show people you do care. That’s more important than hating Trump
And he won!!! Our Sun Sentinel newspaper here in Fort Lauderdale paid 1 Mio for a full count of all votes one year later - I believe he won here in FL with over 20.000 votes. Can you believe that? What a different world that would be!
It was the late Sandra Day O'Conner, apointed by Pappy Bush that stole the election, Rethuglicans lyin and cheating like they always do, it was later learned that if she hadn't stop the recount Gore would have won. The naivete of the Dems also played a part, they never challenged or put up a fight
A trio of young lawyers named Roberts, Barrett and Kavanagh worked hard to steer the Supreme Court toward blocking a full vote recount ordered by the State of Florida - a decision that literally HANDED the election to Bush. Four years later, Roberts was named Chief Justice.
Cunningham was great and pretty close to winning too😞 how the hell people think that twatwaddle McMaster handled covid well is fucking beyond me but it is SC. God I hope that bitch Nancy mace doesn’t run for gov.
He should’ve been president all those years ago — just think all that’s happened since and where we’d be today if things went just a little bit differently.
Wish he had this energy in 2000 but if recent elections have taught us anything it’s that an 80 year old white man has a better chance to be president than anyone else… so maybe he “lost” in 2000 to run in 2028? He’s pretty GD convincing here and I would vote for him again.
It must have been so challenging for him not have been eaten away by anger over the years. “An Inconvenient Truth” was sublime — and more important than ever
Yes. Bush v. Gore was an antidemocratic inflection point proving that SCOTUS had gone to the dark side. Three members of the current SCOTUS--Roberts, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett--were cogs in Bush's legal apparatus, a fact serving as an alarming harbinger to the current unpleasantness.
Kompromat. Assets. Bribed or blackmailed. Old soviet strategy and the way Khruschev predicted Russia would destroy the USA. Its never been abt immigration, eggs or crime. Its about a decades long objective our adversaries have been working on while we watch footyball.
A prediction more than sixty years old. Then a more recent one foreseeing the balkanization of America. It’s all happening, without any shots being fired.
Yes! McConnell doesn’t get nearly the blame he deserves. He engineered all of this, AND made it possible for trump to run again. He is as treasonous as any of the J-6ers who tried to physically overthrow the government.
I’m convinced that 9/11 would have been prevented if Gore had been President. Not because of any conspiracy but because the Bush admin was so incompetent they missed all the signals that something big was coming.
Gore would have been far a better president than Bush. Too bad we’re not a sane country that amends its laws over time. The EC gave us two presidents in 16 years that the majority didn’t want.
I know.. sometimes it’s just too hard to go back and reflect on Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.. we are still grieving the loss of Kamala and I am sure we will be saying these same things years from now about her. What an amazing country we could have had. 😓
We'd be leading the world in new innovations and well into a Green Economy. We also would not have had the war in Afghanistan because Gore would have used the world's reaction to our September 11 tragedy to strengthen ties and build coalitions. The war was just a way to make money for Cheney.
If only he'd gotten this pissed in 2000, maybe we wouldn't have had the corrupt and self-dealing Bush and #traitortrump administrations in the first place!!!
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THIS is the passion and leadership I am talking' about. Age doesn't matter if your voice is strong and passionate and your moral compass is based on facts and good. YASSS AL GORE!!!
He might have been robbed, but it was by the Supreme Court and their own one time only ruling. He followed the law, and while I still believe we messed up by not burning Florida to the ground, I’m not going to plan Al Gore. Better human then me.
They've said something but obliquely as far as I've seen. They haven't addressed the breaches of the Constitution by the Trump administration in a direct manner. But feel free to post examples of their strong public statements.
For the short term..Are we are Democracy Zero or Authoritarian Light? We’ve lost our role as leaders of democracy bc of Trump, Project 2025 and the fallen GOP and SCOTUS. We’re on par now with Hungary, Romania, Turkey. Crushing to experience the loss of our democracy to Competitive Authoritarianism
Let's face it though, whatever was intended, the result now is that an authoritarian President, with the help of 1/3rd of the Senate, is virtually immune from any significant consequence, especially if they also control SCOTUS.
SCOTUS has gone further, and immunized them from future accountability
When you factor in the pardon power, the only thing preventing a dictatorship is cultural and political norms, which Republicans have chosen to set aside in a bid for absolute power.
Regardless of how the Trump administration plays out, this is completely unsustainable.
It is already likely that our best chance of countering Trump will be to set aside constitutional restrictions on the power of blue states so we can construct an effective check to federal power.
That will also provide us with an opportunity to force deep constitutional reform.
Blue states represent a huge fraction of U.S. GDP and wealth. It should be possible to construct a coalition that is substantially more powerful than the states that align with Trump.
Operating outside of constitutional constraints, a whole range of economic and political coercion becomes possible.
The goal should not be a civil war. The goal should be to create a situation where a stronger coalition of states can successfully deter a war, while using a range of diplomatic tools we normally reserve for international relations.
We need so much more of this and from every of them and us. I wonder what world we’d live in if he’d won the presidency. I wonder if a lot of this mess gained momentum at that time.
Maybe not according to the Originalists on the captured Supreme Court who use that framework as an excuse to make shit up about what our founding fathers were thinking.
Were any of you around for the presidential election of 2000, Bush vs Gore?
National elections haven’t been the same since.
#CheatingGOP
#SCOTUSInterference
#CitizensUnited
Yes, I was young but remember it well. Totally devastating and made me realize how corrupt & unfair the Supreme Court could be. Gore should’ve been President & we would be living in a very different world right now.
I was 5 at the time so I only remember pieces of it, but I do know what it was like to grow up under a Bush administration. When Obama was elected I was so hopeful for my future. I’ll keep fighting so ppl younger than me can feel hope about theirs. I also learned about climate change bc of Gore.
People laughed at Gore's promising to keep SS and Medicare in a locked box and to veto any plan to take money from SS for any other purpose. Bush's plan was to take $1.3 trillion from SS and invest it personal retirement investments aka stock market. We're headed back to Bush's plan.
The Bush plan would be a massive improvement compared with our current criminal administration's plans - they want to loot it, line their own pockets, and leave the rest of us with NOTHING.
Been voting since Reagan v mondale… my mom was lecturing my 6 year old about voting for Gore - he kept saying he’d vote for bush - later in life he admitted that was because he understood what a bush was, but had no clue about voting or gore, so went with what he knew.
Yes it was. By SCOTUS.
And BTW we missed a perfect opportunity to CHALLENGE the outcome of 11-5. But the Dems have been too busy clutching their pearls to do anything about an obviously Musk hacked election.
At some point this will implode, Trump will be chased out of Washington, he will be impeached or forced to quit. We need to be ready as he will leave one hell of a mess in his wake.
THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON SHOULD SOUND LIKE. There should be NO question Trump, etal will be judged, jailed for life and punished to the full extent of the law. All their policies destroyed. All their efforts erased.
If he had fought Bush v Gore election results harder and won, we might not be here right now. Could you imagine if we had him instead of Bush? We’d be way better off, and millions might still be alive. He should have never conceded. Just my opinion. 🤷🏻♂️
I was about to write the same thing. Democrats like him have let things slide for far too long and only now want to mouth off, when they should've been this angry literally decades ago.
He should have done what? Declared himself the winner as VP on Jan 6 like Trump wanted Pence to do for him? Congress was not going to go for that even if he was that crazy. Your whole things is blaming Democrats but they didn't have the votes on the Court in Congress in the Florida legislature.
I’m a Democrat, so your assumption is just wrong. In fact I do criticize both parties, because both make mistakes, but I do believe the Nazi party are the worst. That isn’t what should have happened at all, but Gore could have fought that more. I would have. Try not to assume thinks about people.
He could have insisted on waiting for full recounts. There were options at the time. He chose to avoid any more controversy and uncertainty for the nation. There was a great documentary about it.
He was / is a gentleman and a statesman. Different times now- the gloves need to come off and the Dems need to get down and dirty. No more ‘they go low we go high’. They are always the lowest - we need to pummel the fucking rocks they hide under!
Harder than the SCOTUS? He “lost” because Bush and Roger Stone, et al, stopped the recount with a fake “riot” of staffers like Matt Schlapp. Allowing Bush’s “equal protection” suit to go to SCOTUS. Bush claimed that he believed he had won, and would be harmed if the count made Gore President.
No argument, but the fact that it happened under his brother's watch wasn't a good look and likely kept Jeb Bush - by FAR the smarter and more competent of the brothers - from gaining the Republican nomination.
Um. What? JEB!!! failed because by the time it was his turn to run the Bush brand was horribly tarnished by W's unpopularity and the fact that Tea Party lunacy was taking over the party, eventually becoming Trumpist authoritarianism.
SCOTUS said Florida could shut down the recount, leaving Bush in the lead. I'm not sure how Gore continuing to fight does anything good. All it does is make Democrats look like bad losers in front of median voters. Hell, Gore took flack for fighting as long as he did.
If only. We just have to fight in the now. We can’t keep folding. At this point we have to stand strong and fight back. We can’t go high anymore, sorry Michelle, I adore you, but it’s time for fighting fire with fire. 🔥
oh i have been. at the time of gore v bush, i was working in an elections department in washington state, and hearing what was going on in florida just blew my mind.
W. stole the election away from Al Gore and ended his "presidency" with 7,000 KIA, thousands more maimed for life, secret torture prisons, and 2008 stock market crash.
He came so close to winning that his "loss," if it really was one, was basically nonexistent. If you think his CAMPAIGNING was the problem in 2000, you have another think coming.
At the time, before bush was appointed president, I felt that Gore could have done more, brought more. And then maybe it wouldn’t have come down to Florida
"Maybe" lots of things. Maybe you've forgotten how evenly US voters have been divided & for how long, especially with the treachery of a winner-takes-all Electoral College that favors Repugs.
I won't be surprised if you also blame HRC for winning by *only* 3 million votes. I'm just not here for it.
This administration is CORRUPT CORRUPT CORRUPT! There's a reason it's known as Trump Crime Family. I wish more Dems would be out there shouting as loudly as Gore.
You go Al Gore!!!! You are a man of integrity... in 2000 you chose class of crass - (thank you for nothing Florida!) thank you for continuing to be a voice for our America and to do what you can to take this vile man in the Oval down from his Cult man made pedestal!
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Back in the day
1910
or so
they
Used to
Tar and Feather
The Flim Flam Man
Tie him on
a
railroad tie
and
run the fucker
out of town.
Just for selling them
a
Bottle of Snake Oil.
25/47
DEFUND ELON FIRST
TELL PUTIN TO GO TO HELL
ITS TIME FOLKS
STAND OR PERISH!
WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER💙👍😍☮️💪
DON'T GIVE IN TO THE LIES....HOLD ONTO THE TRUTH
I STAND WITH UKRAINE !🇺🇦
always remember to be kind❤️
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
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It doesn't every happen often but respect manbearbig, oh crap I mean, Al Gore, for his wise words. 👍🏻 He would have been a great president compared to that evil, weird orange looking thing that is in the White House at the moment.
Unfortunately the GOP does not believe in democracy as it allows the views of non white, Christian nationalists to have equal weight as theirs. And this cannot be allowed.
This man should have been president not George W. Once again the Democrats were outmaneuvered by their Republican counterparts.
Can you say “hanging chad?”
537 votes and Gore was winning when the Florida Federal Appeals Court enacted a state recount. It was stopped by the Supreme Court once the count switch to Gore. Another Shpreme Court interference with democracyz
Completely agree. It's all different. No overreaction to 9/11, hundreds of thousands still alive, sustainable energy subsidies turn US into leader in green energy, common sense technology, communication, and monopoly legislation contain the oligarchs. No great recession. What could have been.
Tell that to SCOTUS. The Constitution needs protection from their crazy rulings. No kings, corporations aren't humans, women should control their own bodies and ethics. Trump didn't just get here. He had lots of wealthy help. Staggering corruption on so many fronts.
Nope! Too old! We would be living in a completely different world if he wasn’t cheated out of the office or fought to have it. Now we need much younger people to take over. ( I’m a Boomer we need to step
aside. We made a mess)
This is the energy we need from past presidents, our military leaders, governors, AGs, senators & reps!!!
Plz take a few minutes to google the contact info & call/email ur governor, AG, Senators, & reps to demand that they stand up against DT & his admin. Demand that they fight for our democracy!!!
So what are the Dems going to do? A few loud words won't stop the fascist takeover. As far as I'm concerned if the executive branch has gone rogue and the other two branches have become completely useless then the union is null and void and blue states should secede.
Never understood it, bc you'd think folks wld WANT smart ppl incharge, but I think Al was the beginning of "hate smart people," & here we are. I guess some prefer leaders w/below average grades & words like "strategery," & letting SCOTUS decide our elections. Oh, & bombs. LOTS of bombs.
Sadly, today’s Progressives and the far left who want to take over the Democratic Party would call Al Gore “Centrist Democrat” because Al Gore *gasp* worked with Republicans when he was VP. 😱🙄
Indignation, fire and brimstone beats the hell out of beating police, terrorizing lawmakers, destroying public property and smearing feces on the walls.
This is good to see some fire from Dems. But we need them to start showing up for the protests consistently too. Not to lead necessarily, but to make their points about what they will do.
This is what I love about him. I remember him being ridiculed but he was absolutely right. I must read his book which is approximately one foot away from me right now.
Him, JB Pritzker, Chris Murphy...it's been wonderful to see who does truly care and are thus willing to come out of their shell for democracy and humanity
I was just thinking, he looks pretty damn good for 77.
But people would screech their asses off. (And some of the same people would be THRILLED if Bernie Sanders, at 88 in 2028 if he's still around, would run.)
He is a thousand times the man that Bush was and he should have been the president! It's about time someone gave a true vocalization about Trump. It's impossible to even compare Trump to Gore.
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That's why I'll be tuned into I dunno, HBO Friday night to watched somebody on some show.
I hope you listened to Sarah McBride’s interview on Pod Save America. She had good advice on getting people elected like make sure people know you care & show people you do care. That’s more important than hating Trump
A completely different world than the hellscape we have now.
I’m good with that, thanks.
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If only he'd gotten this pissed in 2000, maybe we wouldn't have had the corrupt and self-dealing Bush and #traitortrump administrations in the first place!!!
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I’ve been preaching this since he ran for president.
SCOTUS has gone further, and immunized them from future accountability
Regardless of how the Trump administration plays out, this is completely unsustainable.
That will also provide us with an opportunity to force deep constitutional reform.
Operating outside of constitutional constraints, a whole range of economic and political coercion becomes possible.
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#impeach47 #impeachtrump #stopfacism #lockuptrump
PS - gotta love manbearpig 😆
South Park rules. 😎
And my point stands. Fuck them for downplaying shit like climate change.
They are equal opportunity offenders. That's what makes the show great. 😎
National elections haven’t been the same since.
#CheatingGOP
#SCOTUSInterference
#CitizensUnited
Then they saddled us with their premeditated Homeland Security bullshit, and here we are.
The land of the formerly free.
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His presidency was a monumental embarrassment, and l vainly hoped that he'd easily go down as our worst ever.
I didn't realize that the Republican party had gone full traitor until they installed the twice-impeached (so far) imbecilic petulant toddler.
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He has got every reason to be pissed off.
He is NOT alone in that !
And BTW we missed a perfect opportunity to CHALLENGE the outcome of 11-5. But the Dems have been too busy clutching their pearls to do anything about an obviously Musk hacked election.
Shame on the Nader voters who wanted to give us Bush instead.
Fuck you for bending the knee!
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The problem is that Americans were too dumb to tell the difference between the guy who wrote "Earth in the Balance" and a Texas Oil nepo-baby.
The post-election recounts showed that Gore won.
Bush won by a single vote in the Florida Supreme Court.
The Electoral College gave us our two worst, least qualified presidents in under twenty years.
Even a lot of Republicans were pissed about 2000.
It's not because Republicans hated Gore losing.
Florida certified for Bush because Bush had more counted votes.
We knew the EC sucked before, but nearly 100,000 dipshits voted for Nader in Florida anyway.
But, like 2024, they should have requested a FORENSIC recount, which was not done.
Fight for every inch of the field, yield nothing.
We must #FightBack NOW!
planned chaos
I won't be surprised if you also blame HRC for winning by *only* 3 million votes. I'm just not here for it.
Back in the day
1910
or so
they
Used to
Tar and Feather
The Flim Flam Man
Tie him on
a
railroad tie
and
run the fucker
out of town.
Just for selling them
a
Bottle of Snake Oil.
25/47
DEFUND ELON FIRST
TELL PUTIN TO GO TO HELL
ITS TIME FOLKS
STAND OR PERISH!
DON'T GIVE IN TO THE LIES....HOLD ONTO THE TRUTH
I STAND WITH UKRAINE !🇺🇦
always remember to be kind❤️
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Sine Caesaribus a World Without Caesars
Can you say “hanging chad?”
Enough of the milk toast decorum. GET LOUD make it STICK! #RESIST #FIGHTFOROURCONSTITUTION !!!
aside. We made a mess)
Tell your Rep. and Senators this:
1. Call for impeachment. Loudly. Daily.
2. Visit the concentration camps in El Salvador and demand to see your constituents.
Or don’t ask for money…
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Damn, if he had talked like that in 2000, the war crimes era would not have happened.
Except Booker, Sanders,
Murphy, Warner, Van Hollon
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Better? We'll never know. But I'd be willing to gamble it all to find out.
Get it right the first time or wait your next turn.
Plz take a few minutes to google the contact info & call/email ur governor, AG, Senators, & reps to demand that they stand up against DT & his admin. Demand that they fight for our democracy!!!
make a spectacle. Be creative.
Dems need to send out daily talking points & have reps out on podcasts & cable shows ALL speaking same tune.
DONT let corporate media find one dissenting voice to say ‘Dems in Disarray.’
But people would screech their asses off. (And some of the same people would be THRILLED if Bernie Sanders, at 88 in 2028 if he's still around, would run.)
NOW
Al,
YOU won your election but gave up the fight too soon. You know it and we know it. The world would be SO DIFFERENT now.
PLEASE take this energy and fight for an END to the Electoral college.