Wangchung said:
Sam Lowry said:
Wangchung said:
Sam Lowry said:
Wangchung said:
Sam Lowry said:
Wangchung said:
Sam Lowry said:
Wangchung said:
Sam Lowry said:
Wangchung said:
Sam Lowry said:
Wangchung said:
Oh good, I'm glad you realize that your statement of "2000 and 2004 aren't even in the same ballpark. Gore and Kerry conceded, and that was it. " was false.
It's true. They conceded.
After Gore demanded recounts. So "and that was it" is false. "After a lot of noise and recount interference attempts by democrats... Gore eventually conceded." is an accurate statement.
Gore conceded, and that was the end of it. He didn't spend the whole Bush presidency trying to convince everyone he'd actually won.
Sure, AFTER he demanded a recount and almost sued for a second recount, along with all the noise from the media and democrats trying to cheat DURING the recount, he conceded. He didn't need to keep trying to persuade people that he had won anyway, he had the media and the rest of the democrat party to do that for him.
I don't know where you got the idea that there's something wrong with recounts. Trump had a right to his recounts; it was what he did afterwards that was the problem.
Your claim that Gore just conceded and that was it was false. Your claim that after Gore eventually conceded the narrative of a stolen election wasn't pushed for years is also false. Sorry, man, I was alive for all of it. You won't be able to convince me that what I personally witnessed never happened.
I'm not interested in hurt feelings or media conspiracies. I'm interested in what Gore actually did. What he did was concede gracefully in order to avoid permanent damage to the republic. Trump did very much the opposite.
He didn't concede gracefully. That's a lie. He demanded recounts and cast all kinds of aspersions before seeing he had NO WAY of winning, weeks after the election. Your fantasy that Gore conceded gracefully is just that; a fantasy. It took a SCOTUS ruling to stop him.
Again (and again, and again), there's nothing wrong with demanding a recount or having your day in court. If that's all Trump had done, I wouldn't be criticizing him.
Taking his claims all the way to the Supreme Court while the media and democrats do all the attacking for him is the opposite of conceding gracefully. Your narrative is false. I will address your attempted point here and say if Gore had lost in the manner that Trump lost, with last second, overnight vote dumps from mail in voters amid unprecedented changes to local voting systems going on using the Kung Flu as cover, I doubt Gore would have settled for media blitzes and lawsuits.
Under those facts, Gore would have conceded sooner than he did. This is the key difference and the real point of my original post. Gore at least had a good faith argument. The problem with Trump is not just that he pressed the issue all the way to January, it's that his claims were fraudulent to begin with. His lawyers were making claims they knew they could never back up in court.
I disagree with your assertion Gore had a good faith argument after the first recount was completed. I also disagree that the reaction of Gore and democrats would have been more subdued than Trump's, as evidenced by every election they have lost beginning with Gore. Democrats rioted at Trumps inauguration. Democrat politicians called for violence against their political opponents and do so to this day. It all got rolling with Gore and his lawsuits stemming from his fraudulent claims.
Samuel's "good faith argument" is utter horse***** I remember watching, on TV, a Gore lackey explaining the different chads. "This is a hanging chat, this is a pregnant, this is an indented chad, etc..."
He told the news guy that they were only trying to get the hanging chads counted for Gore and not the other ones. When the count came up short, the they tried suing to count the other chads.
There was zero good faith anything from Gore and the left during that election