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Dole Kemp 96 Web Site
- Rooster61 8mo agoLooks like it's hugged to death
- 1970-01-01 8mo agoNot on my end. Truthfully, this is the fastest, most responsive site I've visited in years.
- scalemaxx 8mo agoWonder how well their motto aged: "More opportunities. Smaller government. Stronger and safer families"
- dfxm12 8mo agoWell, they didn't win, but the economy boomed under Clinton (from the Bush recession through the dotcom bubble) and violent crime plummeted in the same time frame as well.
- bediger4000 8mo agoBeg pardon, but I can't quite make out what your point is. Dole/Kemp lost, but they get credit for the Clinton-era economic boom, which is well known to have been stronger and lasted longer than the more famous Reagan-era boom?
- dfxm12 8mo agoMy point was, in response to the OP, to explain to the commenter what had subsequently happened in the context of that motto, pointing out that democrats deliver even what republican strategists think voters want. I can't imagine a reading of my comment that suggests I am giving Dole/Kemp credit for any of this though.
- hnal943 8mo agoI think the point was you can't evaluate their campaign promises because they never governed. Here's what happened instead....
- tsunamifury 8mo agoThis broadly attributed to the infrastructure spend of the internet and greenspans new “unlimited productivity in the digital age” realization — which Clinton did agree to, but at the price of the promises he made
- anonym29 8mo agoViolent crime plummeted throughout the 90s because abortions was legalized in 1973, 17-27 years before 1990 and 2000, respectively, roughly coinciding with the early adulthood period where a vast majority of criminal offenses are committed, the offender having the freedom of an adult without the fully formed prefrontal cortex of one yet. The fetuses that were aborted were overwhelmingly from socioeconomic demographics (e.g. poverty, single mother households) where they would've been statistically far more likely to become criminals, so by allowing that generation to be aborted, we effectively aborted (for the first time) a large chunk of an entire generation of people that would've been statistically overrepresented among criminals, entering their peak criminal years right when Bill Clinton was president.
- actionfromafar 8mo agoThat's very bad for the Prison Economy. :-/
- anonym29 8mo agoDon't worry, we tripled incarceration rates between 1980 and 2000, particularly of nonviolent drug offenders, to make up for the difference. This is America, after all, we can't just let the businesses fail!
- dingnuts 8mo ago[dead]
- HWR_14 8mo agoFreakanomics made that argument, but there is very little statistical evidence abortions were the cause. For one thing, abortions were legal in states like California and New York, which also saw crime drops.
- rsynnott 8mo agoThis is likely a myth; crime dropped all across the developed world in a similar timeframe, but dates of legalisation of abortion likely don't line up. One popular speculation is the phasing out of leaded petrol, but really this one seems to remain a case of "shrug, dunno".
- rgreeko42 8mo agoClinton Gore 96 https://www.livingroomcandidate.org/websites/cg96/ https://www.livingroomcandidate.org/websites/cg96/
- scalemaxx 8mo agoA rotary phone and blinking modem lights, a nod to the past and then present? Or just blinken lights.
- netsharc 8mo agoClicking on the modem opens a page with an email or two from Clinton.. and audio files of him talking. RealAudio files, hah! I'm old enough to remember "Buffering...".
- phendrenad2 8mo ago> Increasing the number of Border Patrol agents along the southwestern border by 50% to stem the flow of illegal aliens into the United States If they only knew...
- arthurcolle 8mo agoI can't seem to play the audio on iOS 26 Is this a regression?
- m_herrlich 8mo agoRole Hemp! I miss those days.
- rwmj 8mo agoSomeone had to keep renewing that .org registration. Not a lot of money, but also not free.
- 1970-01-01 8mo agoIt's also HTTPS, which was the opposite of easy in 1996, so someone added the feature.
- bombcar 8mo agoIt says it's maintained by "4president.org" at the bottom of the cookie page, at least. But their blog.4president.org goes to a broken Network Solutions page so ... probably unmaintained now?
- eschulz 8mo agoHere's the page you were looking for: https://www.dolekemp96.org/about/cookies/cookies.html https://www.dolekemp96.org/about/cookies/cookies.html
- theli0nheart 8mo agoSomeone please make these.
- SunshineTheCat 8mo ago100% and please post pictures too.
- deskamess 8mo agoThis makes 50 cookies. I think they are too small (tsp scoop on baking sheet). That's the only mod I would make.
- nticompass 8mo agoIf I don't forget, maybe I'll make them this weekend! I should have all the ingredients already.
- assimpleaspossi 8mo agoAnd use butter, not margarine. Companies claim their margarine tastes just like butter but butter would never claim to taste just like margarine.
- actionfromafar 8mo agoNow that is a cookie policy I can get behind.
- cmurf 8mo agoDie Eier Von Satan (also 1996)
- johnwheeler 8mo agoWasn't Bob Dole a technology investor? That would make sense.
- adastra22 8mo agoFirst and foremost a pineapple investor.
- SirFatty 8mo agoWhich reminds me of Treehouse of Horror VII. "The politics of failure have failed. We need to make them work again! Tomorrow, when you are sealed in the voting cubicle, vote for me, Senator Ka... ... Bob Dole!"
- EvanAnderson 8mo ago"It's a two party system. You have to vote for one of us." I think about this episode so much. It has lived rent-free in my head for decades. I pronounce Clinton and Dole's names in the Kodos and Kang voices. >sigh<
- DamnInteresting 8mo ago> I think about this episode so much Same. "Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate." "Go ahead, throw your vote away! Hahahahahaha!" (Ross Perot punches his hat)
- DamnInteresting 8mo agoSee also: "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"
- ChrisArchitect 8mo ago..we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom. Classic.
- unicorn_cowboy 8mo agoI wish they would simulate the extremely slow load times to make it feel time-period accurate. You were waiting multiple seconds for images to appear before you even had any idea what you were looking at.
- geoffeg 8mo agoIf you want to experience this, Firefox and Chrome support throttling network connections, check the "Network" tab of the Developer Tools.
- actionfromafar 8mo agoHey, Dole is progressive! (GIF)
- yesitcan 8mo ago> You were waiting multiple seconds So like SPAs with the JS bundle today?
- furyofantares 8mo agoClicking Dole Interactive > Computer leads to some very small "wallpapers"
- ChrisArchitect 8mo ago> Bill Clinton Wants to Put "Big Brother" in Your Computer ahh yes, the "Clipper Chip"
- 0xdeadbeeb 8mo agoFaster than 99% of websites today. 2.18 html, 86Kb total. Perfect lighthouse performance: https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-dolekemp96-org-main-htm/t7jnywr2p7?form_factor=mobile https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-www-dolekemp96-org-...
- SunshineTheCat 8mo agoI'm bookmarking this to send to clients that have WordPress sites with 87 "performance" plugins installed.
- SunshineTheCat 8mo agoSeeing the phrase "Smaller government" in a main tagline is so weird to see. Don't think that's an idea really any politician would even pay lip service to anymore.
- fogzen 8mo agoAre you from the US? It’s been a centerpiece of Republican propaganda for 50 years. It’s a total lie though.
- SunshineTheCat 8mo agoSounds like you would be served well reading a book or two: https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967556 https://www.amazon.com/Coolidge-Amity-Shlaes/dp/0061967556
- fogzen 8mo agoIt goes further back than 50 years for sure. Was small-government rhetoric embraced by the whole party that far back though? Seems to me it wasn't embraced by the whole party until after Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. I think it really got going after the New Deal as Republicans started framing their opposition to helping the working class in terms of small government and states rights.
- Eric_WVGG 8mo agoIt’s not as central to the GOP platform as it used to be, though. Really ever since the “War on Terror,” their messaging has mostly been around whatever the enemy du jour is. Small gov’t was a paleocon thing and McCain, maybe Rand Paul, are pretty much the last of them. Bob Dole was the first and last Republican I ever voted for. I still think he was kind of a fun guy, although it’s good that his candidacy failed.
- cosmicgadget 8mo agoDOGE?
- m000 8mo agoImagine being paid consultant-level fees to build a website with Notepad and MS-Paint. Those were the times...
- cosmicgadget 8mo agoAnd you could be a kid in high school.
- don-code 8mo agoHas the site actually been running all this time? I notice that the generator tag says "FrontPage 12" (post-2003), and site has a TLS certificate, which in 1996 it most certainly would not have had.
- plorg 8mo agoThe current domain registration also dates to 2003 and as someone lower in the thread notes the current owner is connected to "4president.org". I'm having trouble accessing old snapshots, though. The Internet Archive has one as far back as April 1, 2000, but the snapshot viewer has been giving 503 errors all morning.
- plorg 8mo agoI got the snapshot to load and it appears that at that point it was being sat on by scammy domain parkers, complete with promises of scandalous celebrity photos and dick pills.
- kalleboo 8mo agoThe bottom of the page says "This Web Site is Presented for Educational Purposes by 4President.org"
- threeio 8mo agoI used to host at a facility in DC that hosted Pat Robertson's presidential campaign's server.. they had surrounded his server with all of their adult hosting clients as a... show of support.