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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone remember him? He's old now but tells the truth better than today's heroes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/former-us-vice-president-al-gore-gives-fiery-speech-at-cop29/vi-AA1uad57?ocid=socialshare&t=2Al Gore was not the milquetoast the MSM presented him as. Not by a long shot.
GoreWon2000
(950 posts)who couldn't abandon Al Gore fast enough in 2000 for the nightmare our country and our planet are now facing. They've caused too many Americans to give up on democracy.
Skittles
(159,240 posts)fucking DISGUSTING
GoreWon2000
(950 posts)that the SCOTUS should never have taken the case which was way too little and way too late. That anti-democracy decision made the current nightmare that our country is now facing possible.
Skittles
(159,240 posts)that's the only thing that bothered her
UTUSN
(72,396 posts)News reports within a day or two said she was in a buffet line with her husband, and during one of the seesaw times that Al pulled ahead she said, "This is TERRIBLE!"
GoreWon2000
(950 posts)by media reports citing numerous witnesses to her very public outburst. It was certainly grounds for her recusal from the case which she thumbed her nose at.
GoreWon2000
(950 posts)Too many people see that anti-democracy garbage decision for what it is. It made possible the nightmare that our country is now facing.
Skittles
(159,240 posts)America is in real trouble now, and the Supreme Court is now a total extension of the GOP.
Hekate
(94,623 posts)Thx for the link
DFW
(56,518 posts)There would have been no invasion of Iraq, an early assault on greenhouse gasses, no Citizens United, and a country with uninterrupted democracy. Sandra Day O'Connor may well will be recorded in history as the one person who had a chance to impede a generation of evil, and chose not to. By 2004, we had devolved to this:
jaxexpat
(7,785 posts)Democrats are easy marks sometimes, often naive, you know. They can't recognize fascists while swooning over and applauding their bon mot.
malaise
(278,051 posts)He also told the truth about the assault on reason.
Sadly, ignorance is now bliss
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