Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 530964)

I think it actually all comes down to hanging chads. The count was close enough so how one interpretted a number of thousands of challenged votes would determine the outcome. Unlike this time, I think most of those were good challenges - there was something about the ballots that rendered them potentially ambiguous. It ended in a very bad way, with an explicitly partisan Supreme Court decision. But it did end.

Gore was a grown up, and there would have been significant continuity on almost all fronts. We all know the discontinuity on the national security front may have played a role in the government missing signals about 9-11, we all know the excesses of Bushes tax and economic policies and the laxness of his regulatory policies (and possibly also the laxness of Clinton's regulatory policies) contributed to the recession at the end of his term. And that's not even getting into Iraq II, which had a lot to do with Bush's Daddy Issues and little to do with sound foreign policy. Of course Gore would have made some mistakes, too, but Bush made some pretty big ones.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 530969)

My firm’s Arthrex win at the Federal Circuit is set for argument at the Supreme Court March 1. Understand, the shop I run appears at the Supremes. Listen to me when I try to educate?
Have any of the libs Justices EVER not voted lockstep? No. Yet libs talk about the partisan Conservatives, who often drift. Silly silly argument.

Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 530970)

Again Buddy Brett issued my side (plaintiffs) the best decision in the history of Torts. It made Palsgraff look like Sharia law.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 530968)

I watched on TV while Fla. libs were trying to steal the election, change the count. You are not stupid, but you are blinded by your bias. Trust me on this.

I mean, it’s normal given your abnormality, but it is ��

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 530969)

Have any of the libs Justices EVER not voted lockstep? No. Yet libs talk about the partisan Conservatives, who often drift. Silly silly argument.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 530971)

Cool, and against the narrative that Ty and his Qanon fellow travelers painted of the b. But my son blocked a guard’s shot in a Hs game, and the kid made the NBA, for a minute, but still.

Still, my son blocked a shot before the kid was in the NBA, not after. Something to brag about, but......

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 530950)

A hyper-sensitive narcissistic...

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 530963)

Just as an FYI, I'm not going to let him post here.

We will not be the last refuge.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 530959)

Well, those nuts could have captured/killed some congresspeople, yes? And then could the vote be counted? Rudy suspended an election on 9/11 (he had to, I'm not dogging on him for that), Do you think space fuck couldn't have tried that? And I still don't know, am not sure there even is an answer, what if Trump ordered the military to do X?

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 530969)

Have any of the libs Justices EVER not voted lockstep? No.

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 530979)

The odds of success were long, but these people were not "not a threat."

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 530980)

doesn't seem to open

Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 530954)

Nah but we are probably talking double digit dead bodies.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 530967)

I'm not interested in relitigating the substantive issues that the US Supreme Court decided when it halted ongoing state-court proceedings. The point, which seems pretty obvious, is that having the election decided in that fashion was bad for democracy. There is a direct line between the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore decision and the theory concocted by Republicans twenty years later that they can disregard a state's votes if they have the votes in Congress. Twenty years ago, their anti-democratic theories involved the federal courts. This year, when they lost in the federal courts, that didn't stop them. Democracy doesn't die all at once, but in steps.

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Which is not to say that the damage he's done is fatal. It's up to us, now.