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Herb Klinker (FL and Umbria)'s avatar

Let's not forget the Brooks Brothers riot of 2000.

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JDinTX's avatar

Repubs actually stole that election, led by James Baker, and Cheney

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Seth's avatar

Bullied the hapless Gore.

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Sterling Leese's avatar

And 3 members of SCOTUS who got payback from Repubs for working on that Bush theft of the 2000 election. They play the long game. BTW NC produced 2 people central to Nixon and Trump's coup attempts: Sam Ervin and Mark Meadows. One an intellectual giant. The other one, not so much.

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Loree Byers's avatar

But Meadows provided tons of evidence in his book. The criminals all wrote books before it was over. That has been turned against them. I think the first book was Bolton's; published before the 2020 election. They can't stop self incriminating. The dirty rich who paid for all this will never be held accountable.

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MaryPat's avatar

Yup.

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Martha Woods's avatar

Roger Stone was also involved in creating that 2000 chaos. You have to wonder, maybe they were proud boys in suits? Roger wanted to stop the count both times so it would go to the court and they would say, unfortunately we are out of time.

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Carol C's avatar

I have never understood how тАЬwe are out of timeтАЭ was so widely accepted. James Baker knew psychology. You know if a hurricane had interrupted proceedings, they would have extended deadlines. Heck, some election deadlines were extended a little because of COVID.

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Martha Woods's avatar

It is Trump's go to ... Run out the clock.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

CanтАЩt тЭдя╕П but thatтАЩs definitely something to think about. Good way to put it!

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Elisabeth Iler's avatar

Herb, remind me what that was? Just for laughsтАж.

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Herb Klinker (FL and Umbria)'s avatar

It stopped the recount of the votes in Florida, giving the Supreme Court time to issue the Bush v. Gore ruling. At the time, only 532 votes separated Bush and Gore, and what we now call the "Blue Wave" was shrinking Bush's lead by the hour.

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