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Every time there is news somehow connected to Gore, I can't help but think somewhere in a parallel universe, the supreme court stayed out of election politics,
by ck2 11y ago
Every time there is news somehow connected to Gore, I can't help but think somewhere in a parallel universe, the supreme court stayed out of election politics, didn't hand the election to Bush instead of Gore
then 9/11 never happened the following year because he actually paid attention to the memo about "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" - then Iraq was never invaded - then the TSA was never created - Gitmo wasn't created - the NSA didn't abuse its power - then credit default swaps were stopped in their tracks before they destroyed the economy.
Imagine how incredibly different the US would be today if that series of events was alternated.
- ConceptJunkie 11y agoIt would be a lot different, but in that same universe, the entire population of the Earth was killed by a virus spread by unicorn poop, so be glad it didn't happen.
- ck2 11y agoYou consider a couple votes by the supreme court changing everything to fairy tales? It really, seriously, could have been in favor of Gore. Not far fetched at all. In fact they could have declined to hear the case entirely, which they probably should have done.
- stvswn 11y agoI know. Really makes you think, right? Think of all the bad things that have happened in the past 16 years. Now imagine they didn't happen. Wow. Just one vote.
- stvswn 11y agoThey'd have evacuated New Orleans before Katrina hit. They wouldn't have canceled Firefly. Steven Avery wouldn't have been convicted. Imagine.
- finance-geek 11y agoI find it really amusing that you noted "then credit default swaps were stopped in their tracks before they destroyed the economy" as one of the critical junctures in the US economy. It was, and most people dont realize that. CDS allowed large parts of the CDOs to become AAA and enabled all manners of craziness in 2002-2007. Sadly, it often gets blamed on Clinton/Gore given the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 signed weeks before their term ended. The reality was all about how it was implemented/regulated/enforced, which was all during Bush's term. You note correctly, things would have been very different under Gore. For one thing, courageous individuals like Brooksley Born would have been allowed into the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Born#Born_and_the_OTC_derivatives_market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooksley_Born#Born_and_the_OT...