It has been 24 years, give it up harpie! Some amusing exchanges below:
malaise (269,456 posts)
Sat May 18, 2024, 05:01 PM
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In hindsight Al Gore should have fought the Supremes
Just my two cents.
Accepting that Florida theft was a bad idea which has emboldened ReTHUGs
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218960214Irish_Dem (48,482 posts)
2. He didn't want to put the country through that kind of chaos and turmoil.
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 05:08 PM
And undermine the rule of law and our institutions.
Yes in hindsight it looks quaint and overly polite.
SoFlaBro (2,043 posts)
42. Waaaay too ****ing polite. ******* polite gets you MAGA and other assorted shit-eating fascist ****stains.
Irish_Dem (48,482 posts)
54. Yes the GOP wages a brutal war against the US and Americans.
Reply to SoFlaBro (Reply #42)
Sun May 19, 2024, 05:34 AM
At some point we are going to have to fight back, and fight back hard.
BootinUp (47,259 posts)
4. There should probably be rule against this stupid thread. nt
no_hypocrisy (46,364 posts)
6. NYC had at least two liberal radio stations in 2000.
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 05:21 PM
To my dismay, a majority of hosts maintained that the election was over and it was time to move on. Callers would flood the lines, begging them to change their minds. The hosts supported the concept that it was more important to perpetuate American democracy rather than pursue a controversial venture such as challenging the US Supreme Court.
In hindsight, MAYBE if enough listeners had gone on to fight the results of the election, both radio stations would have remained on the air. I feel that everyone felt so deflated that we reluctantly moved on.
Grins (7,286 posts)
8. Fought who and how?
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 05:28 PM
Supremes ruled. It was over.
MOMFUDSKI (5,848 posts)
9. Rethugs have always counted on Dems to be
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 05:48 PM
civil. Still do. We must bring a bazooka to any fight here out.
I thought Comatose Joe said the 2nd Amendment didn't allow bazookas or cannons.
onenote (42,905 posts)
39. So you think Gore should have orchestrated an insurrection.
Reply to MOMFUDSKI (Reply #9)
Sat May 18, 2024, 10:40 PM
Okee-dokee
enough (13,277 posts)
11. I felt that way at the time. The media was playing it as business as usual
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 06:49 PM
when it was obviously a full blown constitutional crisis. And he was being pressured by many Democrats to capitulate.
GoreWon2000 (117 posts)
50. Corporate media was totally in Bushthief's corrupt pocket
Reply to enough (Reply #11)
Sun May 19, 2024, 01:37 AM
The corporate media made it totally clear in 2000 that they don't support democracy while most of the dems hid in their cushy, ivory Washington towers. None other than then DNC chair Ed Rendell urged Gore to abandon his fight to have the uncounted votes counted. I'll remember what Rendell did forever. Only the Congressional Black Caucus understood what was going on and it's why they filed the challenge to the fraudulent Florida vote count that not 1 dem in the U.S. Senate would co-sponsor.
onenote (42,905 posts)
16. How? By challenging members of the Court to a duel?
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 07:15 PM
Waiting for anyone who agrees with the OP to explain how Gore should have fought the Supreme Courts decision
LeftInTX (25,876 posts)
18. He did and he lost...
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 07:17 PM
After losing at the SC was he supposed to organize a militia type coup to physically overthrow them. Throw them in prison, replace them, and then get his way??
How on earth was this supposed to happen???
He did fight. To assume he didn't is not accurate.
Evolve Dammit (16,848 posts)
22. No doubt. And those mf'ers bussed down from DC to stop the recount
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 07:47 PM
Including Stone and Bolton, should have been charged with disrupting an election, which they effectively did.
LiberaBlueDem (954 posts)
25. We coulda had a great country
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 07:57 PM
Had Gore fought harder for his election
Baitball Blogger (46,804 posts)
38. I suspect that 9/11 is the reason that everything stopped in its tracks.
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sat May 18, 2024, 10:29 PM
I'm referring to the vote count that was being performed by the papers, trying to confirm that the vote would have gone to GWB. I suspect that when we got hit by 9/11, the hidden hand decided that we needed to galvanize the country and I never trusted the result count that resulted in a win for GWB II, by something like 537 votes. Especially when there was suspicious behavior in the Seminole County elections office.
Um, 9/11 happened over nine months after the 2000 election was litigated.
0rganism (24,002 posts)
51. That was definitely a major turning point for the nation
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sun May 19, 2024, 01:39 AM
A lot of things play out so different if President Gore: 9-11 terror attack likely foiled, no invasions of Afghanistan or Iraq, national priorities focused on solving global crises and preserving the future of the biosphere as we know it, a totally different set of SCOTUS and circuit court judicial appointments, just for starters. And who can say what else might have been achieved? I'm fairly certain a lot of the "sane" timelines for our planet branched away from ours with Gore's concession.
Revisionist history.
Mike Niendorff (3,468 posts)
58. At this point, there WAS a real dispute.
Reply to Patton French (Reply #56)
Sun May 19, 2024, 07:23 AM
For starters, any Democratic Senator could have joined in the objection to Florida's electors. ANY OF THEM.
Secondly, investigations into corruption on the SCOTUS could have started THE NEXT DAY. Followed by impeachment and prosecution of five Justices for conspiracy to commit election fraud.
If you think that sounds extreme, remember everything that was enabled by allowing that corruption of the Court to stand.
The Iraq War, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, the unleashing of floods of dark money to further corrupt our elections, massive Republican gerrymandering to rig elections even further, the FURTHER packing of the SCOTUS, the end of Roe v Wade, thousands of migrant kids ripped from their parents and then "lost", an organized fascist mob attacking our Capitol on 1/6/21 as part of a full-blown attempted fascist coup, fraudulent electors, mafia-state deals for Trump's children and associates ...
This is what happens when you don't stop a cancer early. It metastasizes and grows. Eventually, it WILL kill you.
MDN
Hmm, haven't you lefties been pissing and moaning about President Trump proposing the exact same thing with alternate slates of electors in 2020?
AnrothElf (719 posts)
63. BARF. It is pelucidly clear...
Reply to malaise (Original post)
Sun May 19, 2024, 10:02 AM
That this is more empty sloganeering and divisive blatherskite from the usual extremely-online suspects.
