I think it was in 2016. The Cubs won the World Series a week before Trump won the election. I blame a Cubs fan with a monkey’s paw or time machine.
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TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 month ago
That’s probably when the timeline split, and we got stuck in this one.
guitarfosec@infosec.pub 1 month ago
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
8 days after that was when Bush Jr won the presidency over Al Gore due to a bullshit call by the state his brother was the governor of.
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Can you imagine how extraordinary different our lives would be today if Al Gore was the President on 9/11 so Dubya couldn’t use it as an excuse to reboot his Daddy’s war? Fuck every single irredeemable fucktard involved in that deliberate choice.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If less than one percent of Nader voters (not all Florida voters, just Nader voters) had voted for Gore instead, the margin in Florida would have been wide enough for Gore to unquestionably take the state, and he’d have become president.
rmuk@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Can I tell you a funny joke? Regardless of the Nader voters, Gore actually won in Florida and by a margin of a few thousand votes - still close, but an order of magnitude greater than the few hundred by which Dubya quote-won-unquote - but because of batshit ballot designs, unfair winner-takes-all methodology for awarding electoral college votes, endless bad-faith legal fights and a complete refusal/inability to shift the date of the inauguration, this was only agreed upon after it was too late to do anything about it.
In 2000, the people of Florida and the United States as a whole voted for Al Gore for President, but their intent was stolen from them and the power to decide upon the direction and tone of the following twenty years was given to Bush instead.
Oh, sorry, did I say “funny joke”? I meant something else.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
every single time I look at the news