Progressive debates conservatives in Jubilee video. The conservatives do so badly that other conservatives think they're leftists.

[u/Desecr8or]

[u/Porkamiso]

you mean the supreme court gave him the election

[u/Bozee3 → u/Porkamiso]

I was so angry at that. My circle of acquaintances thought I was a madman ranting about the slippery slope of judicial overreach and blatant favoritism of the supreme court. Obviously I was overreacting, America turned out fine. /S

[u/fer_sure → u/Bozee3]

Plus the whole 'hanging chad' Florida recount happened in a state where one of the Presidential candidates was the Governor's brother. I can't believe that wasn't a bigger deal at the time.

[u/Capitaine_Spock → u/fer_sure]

And every so often, they find another bag of votes from that election stuffed in some corner of Florida. There were literal bags upon bags of votes that were discarded. You can't convince me that the election wasn't rigged, at least in Florida. I was a kid living there at the time of the election and recount.

[u/AttitudeAndEffort2 → u/Capitaine_Spock]

That's true but scientists also recounted all the votes they had (as Florida law dictated) and Gore had more.

If SCOTUS didn't illegally interfere and stop them from counting, Gore would have been president.

[u/pobopny → u/Capitaine_Spock]

Source?

[u/Letterhead_North → u/pobopny]

I don't have a source except that I witnessed it, but when the Florida election was called for Gore one of the talking heads (Chris Matthews) was watching the live feed of Bush and Bush, Jr. sitting at a table and described the ensuing action "And there go the Bushes, working the phones!"

Why were they working the phones when FL had just been called?

And then FL SoS Katherine Harris on a hot mic got heckled by someone yelling that her party had fixed the FL election and she had helped and Harris replied "we don't care what you know, we got away with it!"

Hubby saw other things when reporters managed to get footage of what was going on, like pick up trucks full of good ol' boys armed with baseball bats and shotguns, driving around the "democrat" polling places, an election worker who had taken notes of the current vote count as she locked up for the night and when she returned to open, first one in that morning the counts had changed. There was more, so much more.

And then I was caught in a huge layoff - but they sent us to school if we wanted. There we had a textbook that stated 2000 was the first year ever that the exit polls were wrong.

And there's more. It was worse then watching Reagan kick off the storm of breaking unions.