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[–] Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 90 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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?

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

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.