Remember that time the Supreme Court decided our 2000 presidential election? I do. OP must be old...
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Or the 30 years of Rehnquist that helped set the tone for the fiasco we've got with the police today.
First election I voted in and my parents were still suprised pikachu about the whole electral college shit even though I kept saying this is bullshit when I learned about it a few years before in HS...
Tbf before that the last time it had become an issue was the late 1800s
Before 2000 there had actually been a significant push by Nixon to get it abolished because until 2000 conservatives agreed that an outcome where the EC and Popular vote were out of sync was bad and should be avoided, and IIRC the effort lost steam because the shock of realizing it was "possible" was outpaced by everyone dismissing that "well that hasn't happened in decades! It won't ever happen again!"
Goddamn dimples and chads…
Remind me when they held a president accountable for crimes
I can only think of Nixon, but maybe there was someone else more recently. If not, 50+ years is a long time for pepperidge farm to be remembering; at that point we should just be assuming the government has been irredeemable for our entire lives.
Nope. He was pardoned by Ford.
I think President Tyler got arrested for running a woman over once
This was so long ago that "running her over" was literal, the horse he was riding was speeding and ran over her after knocking her down.
After events such as the repeal of Roe Vs Wade, any imbecile that still insists that bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe as an excuse to not vote (or vote third party) is damaged beyond repair, either through stubborn ignorance or bad faith. These imbeciles and their so-called "purity" have taken millions of women and their wombs hostage, just like evangelical fundamentalists have wanted all along.
No no no no, they were always dogshit formalists who consistently pandered to the rich, law enforcement, etc. The last hallway decent court ended a half a century ago. Only people who weren't paying attention thought they were anything but fighters for their ingroups.
Wouldn't it be nice if the President and the Supreme Court acted like they gave a shit about our country?
