different policies - no gwot for example - may have left nasa enough funding & mission flexibility to scramble a rescue shuttle for Columbia in 2003.
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Trump makes you wish you had Bush back
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No he doesn’t that’s the point of this meme in fact.
For Americans maybe.
Rest of the world over, Bush killed far more people.
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I think the 9/11 attacks would've happened regardless.
Maybe, but keep in mind the USS Cole bombing happened right before the election. The stories from the transition were that the Clinton people tried to stress that Al Qaeda was a high priority, but the incoming Bush people ignored them because they cared more about finding an excuse to invade Iraq.
It would always happen unless we do something about whatever Kermit did or didn't do.
Seriously. It was a failure of Intel sharing that would have always happened. Plus, the first WTC attack took place in 1993 while Clinton was in office. Gore just being there wouldn't have stopped that.
If anything, Gore winning would have 100% prevented any chance of a President Obama happening. I know which one I would have rather had.
If anything, Gore winning would have 100% prevented any chance of a President Obama happening.
President Obama not happening means him not roasting Trump at the 2011 correspondents dinner and Trump not deciding to run for president out of sheer humiliation, narcissism, spite, and stupidity, though.
Without that he'd been happy staying with his bankrupt casinos and TV gigs.
Between that and Gore actually doing something against climate change it'd probably have been a net positive.
He's always had an interest, and had run before. And Putin would still want him as a puppet.
It's more likely than not that he would have run anyway. Maybe not. He is too fucking old.
Same. Sure would be nice to have climate change actually solved. Not to mention abundant green energy.
Lol, as if the inevitable 9/11 wouldn't have derailed that anyway.
Good chance 9/11 wouldn't happen. And if it did, I doubt Gore would drop his baby of climate change.
Saw a fair argument that 911 might not have happened if Florida has been settled sooner, even if it were still a bush victory.
Evidently party of the dysfunction and delay with intelligence agencies was due to a somewhat botched transition due to the uncertainty. Maybe they still would have missed it, but there's at least a reasonable chance it would have been caught.
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You son of a bitch
triple-head. thirty-inch. cinema displays.
Oh and Nader got 5% of the vote so we actually have a real populist party
Haha yeah for sure! There's a timeline where Obama won in 2008 and the democrats saved us...
Wait a second...
This timeline might just lead right back to Trump. Too many variables that far back.
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