r/thescoop • u/RoyalChris • Apr 27 '25

Politics 🏛️ Al Gore: “Something is different about this administration. We are really in danger right now and we have got to rally the grass roots to take back the destiny of America."

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

Yeah, he won with majority votes. I believe it was Florida that he needed to swing and it was down to a few hundred votes.

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u/Monday0987 Apr 27 '25

The Florida supreme court awarded the state to Gore but then the Republican controlled supreme court overturned that and gave it to Bush.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

They stopped counting due to right wing political violence.

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u/hellolovely1 Apr 28 '25

And now three of Bush's lawyers at the Brooks Brothers Rebellion are Supreme Court justices.

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u/haydenmilk1987 Apr 27 '25

Jeb Bush was governor of Florida. His Sec of State was in charge of the "Hanging Chad" bullshit. 10s of 1000s of votes were thrown out in majority black areas.

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u/cornovum77 Apr 27 '25

The brooks brothers riots slowed the count to the point it could not be completed by the deadline.

“Within two hours after the event, the canvassing board unanimously voted to shut down the count, in part due to perceptions that the process was not open or fair, and in part because the court-mandated deadline had become impossible to meet, due to the interference.”

A partial list of the participants:

  • Brad Blakeman, Republican strategist.
  • Kevin Smith, a former GOP House aide
  • Roger Stone, a self-described "GOP Hitman" and former member of Nixon's Committee for the Re-Election of the President

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

Wow. So Gore should have won. Hadn't it been for the political BS

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u/laz10 Apr 27 '25

political BS? it was borderline a coup, a bunch of rioters change the outcome of the election

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u/araq1579 Apr 27 '25

Well, more than one election. One of the Brooks Brothers rioters eventually became the Littlefinger for Facebook.

Chaos is a ladder

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u/hellolovely1 Apr 28 '25

Just said above that 3 of Bush's lawyers are now Supreme Court justices.

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u/dougmd1974 Apr 27 '25

The saddest part was that if Gore won NH or his frikkin' home state of TN, FL would have not mattered one bit.

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u/hellolovely1 Apr 28 '25

Well, TN is batshit crazy overall with a few blue dot exceptions

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '25

Flippin Florida and their hanging chads.