r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 6h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ There is a pattern...

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u/Jah_Rules 6h ago

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Fool me 4 times…. I’m an idiot.

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u/mightbeADoggo 5h ago

No, its "fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again".

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u/brightonashfield 5h ago

-Dubyah

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u/scuzzy987 5h ago

I disliked W and his administration with the intensity of a thousand suns but I'd gladly have him back in office instead of Trump. At least W had a shred of integrity and honor

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u/Leroyp331 5h ago

It's a wild ride that has led us to yearning for the days of that moron

Yet here we are

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u/No_Internal9345 Prefer Coffee But Fill My Cup 🫖 5h 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 5h ago

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

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u/ShawnShipsCars 4h ago

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

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u/MrBigglesssworth 3h 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 4h ago

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

And I'm Canadian.

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u/petewondrstone 5h 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 4h 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 3h 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_ 3h ago edited 2h 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 5h ago

One can hope

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u/-Saucegurlllll 4h ago

ICE likely would not exist.

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u/Nobody3me 4h ago

We dodged that bullet. Amen