Are we even sure that Sammy was alive in 2000?GrowlTowel said:Bush called for a recount of heavily leftist counties? Fraud is fraud. Own it.Sam Lowry said:Hilarious. Bush and Gore were both parties to the dispute and both acting in their own interests. It wasn't their job to be impartial judges or pursue evidence for the other side.GrowlTowel said:Yes, Highly fraudulent.Sam Lowry said:That is absurd. There's nothing fraudulent about requesting a recount where you think it would benefit you.GrowlTowel said:Bull***** Algore's fraud was the fact that he cherry picked only a couple of counties for the recount. Had he been honest and recounted the whole state, maybe your opinion would be valid. He went looking only for his votes and did not care about the validity of the election.Sam Lowry said:I think you're saying "fraud" when you really just mean something that's incorrect or that you disagree with. Gore didn't intentionally deceive the courts or the public. Your assertion about lack of standing is an example of Trumpian disinformation, by the way. It's been debunked repeatedly.Wangchung said:A riot to attack the democratic process and peaceful transition of power is still a riot attacking the democratic process and peaceful transition of power. Hillary's actions damned sure were inflammatory. Gore's claims were fraudulent and that was proven in court. Trump's claims never saw an actual day in court in the majority of cases, and not based on a lack of evidence but lack of standing even to bring a case forward at the time. Trump didn't have a complicit media to do his talking for him, he had to make his case directly to the American people, just as he was forced to do his entire presidency.Sam Lowry said:You can disagree with Gore's argument, but his intention was to win in the courts. When that failed, he conceded in a timely manner. Trump's team knew they weren't going to win in court. They used the litigation to create hysteria and pressure the legislatures to deliver a result that wasn't supported by the evidence. That's fundamentally different from what Gore attempted. And if Democrats rioted at Trump's inauguration, it wasn't because Hillary convinced them she could still win or because she was under any such illusions herself. Again, very different from Trump.Wangchung said: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.Sam Lowry said: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.Wangchung said: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.Sam Lowry said: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.Wangchung said: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.Sam Lowry said: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.Wangchung said: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.Sam Lowry said: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.Wangchung said: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.Sam Lowry said: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.Wangchung said: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.Sam Lowry said:It's true. They conceded.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.