• cultsuperstar@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      I absolutely blame Jenny McCarthy for this, and maybe Oprah (I think Oprah gave her the platform to speak), but Jenny never came out and said “I was wrong about this and the doctor totally lied about his results and this has all been debunked” and now the US is in shambles because she’s a fucking idiot.

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      19 days ago

      Hanging chads were a tiny blip on the radar in the general story of the 2000 election. Trump’s had 100 scandals more noteworthy than hanging chads.

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        19 days ago

        SCOTUS gave the election away because of them and the entire recount situation was manufactured to make it seem like there could be no consensus.

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        18 days ago

        And yet in terms of lives lost, the 2000 election going to Bush killed pretty much 8 billion people plus most megafauna. Climate change had the last laugh after all.