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GoreWon2000

(950 posts)
1. Thank 5 anti democracy repug SCOTUS judges and compliant dems in Congress
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 05:24 PM
Saturday

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.

GoreWon2000

(950 posts)
3. I agree with you. O'Connor finally admitted the truth in 2013
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 05:36 PM
Saturday

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.

UTUSN

(72,396 posts)
8. I distinctly remember she exposed herself on Election night 2000 or the day after:
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:10 AM
Monday

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)
9. That incident has been well documented
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:07 PM
Monday

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)
6. O'Connor failed miserably
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 11:51 PM
Sunday

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)
7. absolutely correct
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 11:59 PM
Sunday

America is in real trouble now, and the Supreme Court is now a total extension of the GOP.

Hekate

(94,623 posts)
4. I well remember Al Gore & the rest of the fiasco that started us on the slide to where we are now
Sat Nov 16, 2024, 06:03 PM
Saturday

Thx for the link

DFW

(56,518 posts)
10. If Al Gore had been allowed to take office
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 12:41 PM
Monday

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)
11. He's doing pretty well for a guy Maureen Down accused of lactating in the NYT 2000.
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:44 PM
Monday

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)
12. Yes indeed
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 02:55 PM
Monday

He also told the truth about the assault on reason.
Sadly, ignorance is now bliss

Rec rec. rec

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