Wake up!

Btw we sorted out that climate stuff while you were sleeping. You looked like you needed it, so we just let you rest.
- And social security is in a lockbox
  
  And we have universal basic income, paid by the productivity gains due to automation. Why don't we just spend the day at the beach?
  
  It's not all great ..
  Let's not forget the oil crisis. We have way too much oil, since all cars were mandated to run on trash.
  And the glaciars are now on the attack.
  
  We overcame capitalism, too...
- if we had taken him seriously, we would be jocking about it like we joke about Y2k.
  all that fear mongering for nothing... only because that real fear mongering was used to avoid that disaster.

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?
- 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.
- 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.
  
  “She only said all that to get famous” was something I heard a lot of during Lewinsky. Violent barf.
- 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.
- ginny helped the Heritage Foundation in 2000, the brook bro's riot.
  kavanaugh was involved in the shit show as well. funny stuff that.
  
  Ginny is the worst human on Earth. But not even the worst person in her marriage.

what the fuck
why would you do this to me
why would you make me cry on a perfectly fine day

We are in the worst timeline and that’s an inconvenient truth.

😭 Why can’t I live in this timeline?! 😭
- I just wish 2024 went different. It's weird being converted into what is essentially a Russia level fascist state in less than a year. Dump constantly speaks about being the president that's done more than any in the last 100 years, and I don't see why people aren't believing him. We're not getting out of this hole in our lifetime. It's over. The highest office has legitimized double think, propaganda, lying, criminal rape, etc. We're cooked as far as bringing respect or honor to government goes.
  
  Well, we certainly aren't getting out of it in trump's lifetime.
- Make your own timeline.
  Join a local mutual AID ASAP, and/or a local chapter of a grassroots led political action group (if there are non, look into how to start one).
  Forget doomscrolling, forget touching grass, let's fix this fucking world together!

Trump makes you wish you had Bush back
- Boiling frogs
- 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.
  
  So far maybe. Trumps gonna kill lots with the aid cuts. Here and abroad.

Many horrible things that were preventable, happened.
But you know why what happened?
It was the very same mediocre electoral stupidity we see today, the precious, lazy assholes, easily-manipulable into inaction, who latched onto the murdoch/limbaugh/drudge report propaganda of the time.
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe
- 9/11 was early in the Bush presidency, it probably would have happened if Al Gore was president.
  There's a chance the US response would have been different, but I won't hold my breath, although it would be likely we'd have much better climate policies
  
  We 100% would have invaded.
  Would we have stayed so long? Probably, TBH. Obama stayed, and pendulum would've swung back to McCain anyway.

Oh and Nader got 5% of the vote so we actually have a real populist party

I so want to be in the Al Gore timeline. Bush picked up 3 electoral votes by lying to Nevada about yucca mountain, Ralph Nader siphoned off Dem votes, and one of the 'stop the count' rioters is now on the supreme court. Fuck the nazi bastard Rush Limbaugh who went from 1 station to 50 with no advertisers. Fuck Rupert Murdoch who got US citizenship just to by more media outlets. Fuck Scalito. Fuck the 'both sides' mainstream media. Fuck the washington post, its credibility died when KMG did. Fuck the repubs who pretended to care so much about little Elian. I swear to god I'm still in one of the matrix battery pods. Get me out of here Morpheus.
- Fun fact: if 1% of the Florida Nader voters had instead voted for Al Gore instead, Bush wouldn't have been President.
  This is why it's important not to protest vote 3rd party in the General election.
- I can feel your justified rage from here, but...
  I swear to god I’m still in one of the matrix battery pods. Get me out of here Morpheus.
  I'm in stitches. Didn't see that one coming. And yes, I too am willing to ascend into a greater world of Gnostic horror; it might not be so bad.

You son of a removed

"And who is chad and why does he keep hanging around??"

Oh my god, I've gone back in time! I have to do something to avert the coming disaster!
Anybody know where I can find a bulletproof vest to fit a gorilla?! And a birthday cake?
- The time machine makes you younger, you come out of it a child.
  when you enter the enclosure to give Harambee the bulletproof suit, the zookeepers see you in the Gorilla enclosure, they shoot Harambe to protect you.

I think the 9/11 attacks would've happened regardless.
- Let's go back and find out.
- Maybe if the administration wasn't staffed with incompetent ghouls, they would've taken Ahmad Shah Massoud's warnings more seriously.
- The president was briefed and didn't take it seriously. It's 50/50.
- 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.
  https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-muppets-caused-911
- 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.
  
  I know which one I would have rather had.
  The one that would have actually set up the much needed protections against global warming instead of the milquetoast middle of the road guy?
  (contrarian for the sake of it, not quite my exact view)
  
  Gore?
  Don't get me wrong, Obama spoke to my generation. The zeitgeist of the late 2000s. But uh, if you're asking me if I want "Guy in 2008 who tries not to step on toes but is obstructed throughout his entire administration by conservative intransigence and an inability to bypass it" or "Guy in 2000 who WON'T start an unjustified war which led to the deaths of thousands of Iraqis and Americans, crater the national budget, and inflame fascist and racist sentiment in the US", I, uh, I'm gonna go with the latter. Penny of preventing Bush is worth a pound of cure, and all that.
  
  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.
  
  Same. Sure would be nice to have climate change actually solved. Not to mention abundant green energy.

It's the guy who invented the internet!
- Internet? Didn't know what you mean. But so much great content on the information superhighway.
  
  Where do you think the term "al gore rhythm" comes from?

Haha yeah for sure! There's a timeline where Obama won in 2008 and the democrats saved us...
Wait a second...

Harambe? 🥺 It's so good to hear your voice 😭

Climate change? What's that?

triple-head. thirty-inch. cinema displays.

Al gore is on Epsteins list.

Is that Al Gore?
- Indeed.
- Have you met his cousin? AI Slop?
  
  Sir I need you to keep your shitty modern dystopia separate from the nostalgiac imaginary past, ty.

different policies - no gwot for example - may have left nasa enough funding & mission flexibility to scramble a rescue shuttle for Columbia in 2003.

mr President, why are you on this list?
https://lemmy.nz/post/25669086

This timeline might just lead right back to Trump. Too many variables that far back.
- The only way is to take away that sports almanac while he's still young.
  
  Well, not the only way. Jamaica Hospital, 8900 Van Wyck Expressway, New York, New York, 6/14/1946. Maybe stop off there after visiting Industriezeile 24, Braunau am Inn 5280 in Austria on 4/20/1889.