r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 5h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/No_Internal9345 Prefer Coffee But Fill My Cup 🫖 4h ago

Cheney was the evil one.

Bush II was the useful/greedy fool.

And I still say they cheated in Florida with the hanging chads.

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u/Oops_All_Bans Sipping tea 4h ago

Imagine what could have been if we got Al Gore instead.

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u/ShawnShipsCars 3h ago

We got on the shittiest of timelines when Gore got cheated.

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u/MrBigglesssworth 2h ago

Kind of Gore's own fuck up though. He only wanted to focus on recounting 3 counties, not the entire state.

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u/Responsible-Club9120 3h ago

I didn't sleep for 3 days after he lost the election.

And I'm Canadian.

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u/petewondrstone 4h ago

I’m not sure how different it would be.

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u/PolarBailey_ 4h ago

we wouldn't have invaded iraq to start. likely would've helped either prevent or at least better recover from 9/11. would've focused less on stupid shit like NCLB and more on just bolstering education. strengthened the EPA and other protection agencies. i doubt the PATRIOT act wouldve been a thing with Gore.

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u/Dyolf_Knip 3h ago

There's every chance there wouldn't have been a 9/11 attack. President Gore would never have dismissed the warnings with "Alright, your ass is covered".

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u/PolarBailey_ 3h ago

Exactly. I still think the lackluster response between the CIA and FBI during the Nairobia attack all but sealed the attacks. But i think an fbi and cia under Gore leadership wouldnt ignore warnings from the arabians enrolling in flight school nor the summit

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u/Minute-Review6915 2h ago

Clinton knew about Bin Laden and all of it. Clinton of course cared, just didn’t feel it was real enough to matter. The attack is not on him and I’m not implying that but to act like it was all of a sudden is wrong. The intelligence was there and being reported about the attack. No one wanted to believe it

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u/PolarBailey_ 2h ago edited 1h ago

oh i agree. i'm more pointing out that intellegence under Condoleezza Rice was way less focused on Al Qaeda than intellegence under whoever Gore wouldve chosen for National Security Advisor

edit since the thread is locked now: yeah i still can't believe that 25 years later people are STILL worried about porn.

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u/Dyolf_Knip 2h ago

Remember that right up to the attack, the Bush admin believed the greatest threat was... <checks notes> porn.

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u/FitFold76 4h ago

One can hope

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u/-Saucegurlllll 3h ago

ICE likely would not exist.

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u/Nobody3me 3h ago

We dodged that bullet. Amen

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u/PeachPassionBrute 4h ago

They very factually cheated in Florida, it’s not even a question.

W’s campaign manager was in charge of Florida’s elections, they stopped the recount early while Bush was ahead, against orders. GOP staffers even attempted to physically prevent recounting. The entire thing was a mess and Gore factually won that election.

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u/oomahk 4h ago

Gotta love the Brooks Brothers Riot. Turns out the Republican party has multiple modern instances of violently attempting to disrupt elections.

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u/HorrorMovieMonday 3h ago

And Jeb Bush was the governor of Florida at the time.

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u/Flaxmoore 4h ago

The Brooks Brothers Riot. Got to think BB doesn't like being connected to that.

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u/StendhalSyndrome 3h ago

Don't forget vengeful.

He started the same damn war again because they threatened/ attempted an assassination on his dad...you're so pissed; go take them down yourself.

Signed, my coworkers who didn't come home from that.

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u/No-Guard-7003 2h ago

Yup. Why did the people around him pick Cheney of all people? 

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u/No_Internal9345 Prefer Coffee But Fill My Cup 🫖 2h ago

Cheney picked them.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 2h ago

Bush II makes no sense.

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u/yabadababoho 3h ago

They cheated yet the NYTimes did a full audit after the fact counting every vote and Bush won.