• Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    You mean Clarence Thomas didn’t put his criminal thumb on the scale to tip the five-justice majority in Bush v. Gore, which halted the manual recount of disputed ballots in Florida, effectively awarding the presidency to George W. Bush?

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      Either that or Roger Stone, Joel Kaplan, and a host of other deplorable people failed to stop the recount with their riot.

      I love to imagine the police actually doing their job and breaking it up the second that Republican Congressman gave the order to riot.

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      I have a clear memory in high school in 1991 of seeing a newspaper clipping posted about the Anita Hill testimony. I had no idea how bad Republican corruption was going to get.

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        “She only said all that to get famous” was something I heard a lot of during Lewinsky. Violent barf.

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      ginny helped the Heritage Foundation in 2000, the brook bro’s riot.

      kavanaugh was involved in the shit show as well. funny stuff that.

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        Ginny is the worst human on Earth. But not even the worst person in her marriage.

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          yeah they’re in some sick twisted contest to see who can be more despicable. it’s a match made in the 9th plane of hades.

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      It’s wild that whole a full state recount would have been a Gore victory and we know what, but the requested specific recounts would actually have been insufficient to change the outcome.

      RCV would have been easily a Gore win.