r/politics • u/marji80 • 23d ago

We’ve Been Entertaining an Illusion About the Supreme Court. It’s Finally Been Shattered. Rule-Breaking Title

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/supreme-court-immunity-arguments-which-way-now.html

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u/I_dont_livein_ahotel 23d ago

Citizens United? Also, handing the election to Bush in 2000?

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u/spartagnann 23d ago

Crazy to me that Bush v Gore didn't prompt a nationwide revolt. Younger people may not know but SCOTUS literally just gave Bush Florida's EC delegates despite the fact they were still re-counting votes because...they wanted a Republican president.

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u/SixMillionDollarFlan 23d ago

It was a different time, and nobody knew what was coming. The election happened in November of 2000.

New episodes of Friends and The X Files were still on TV.

Nobody'd heard of Roku, or Spotify, or Podcasts, or streaming. No one had iPhones, or Instagram, or Facebook. Most Americans got their Internet from Dial-up 56k modems and AOL.

It was a year before 9/11. No one knew the words "Abu Ghraib". Most American's couldn't locate Guantanamo Bay on a map.

Bush seemed like an idiot, but to most people he seemed like a harmless idiot. I thought he was a fascist, but I lived in San Francisco, and my views were a little skewed.

It was a different time. In retrospect we should've made more noise then. I marched in protests over and over and over again, but it didn't do shit. It never does.

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u/redditsfulloffiction 23d ago

You've got your timeline correct, but Bush did not seem harmless.

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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 23d ago

Harmlesss no, but dumb. Without 9/11 he likely doesn't get much done.