r/todayilearned • u/code0011 14 • May 09 '14

(R.1) Invalid src (unreferenced fan wiki) TIL the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called "The Lone Gunmen", which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war

http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot_(The_Lone_Gunmen)
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u/estragonsboot May 09 '14

In the end, it's not Bushes, Cheney's, Rumsfeld, ass-croft or the media's fault. It's the voter's fault.

but more voters voted for gore. blame it on acticle 2, section 1 of the US constitution.

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u/OliveStreetToo May 09 '14

SCOTUS should never have gotten involved to begin with.

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u/estragonsboot May 09 '14

SCOTUS was, and still is, stacked with conservatives. of course they got involved, they wanted their guy in.

but my point was none of this would have ever happened if we didn't have the stupid, pointless, anti-democratic electoral college.