Hmmm. I'm sure if you pumped a bunch of truth serum into a lot of folks here they'd swear up and down that we should have had President Al Gore in 2001.

No need for actual truth serum. I do think that the count was stopped prematurely and the USSC, in effect, declared that BUSH WON.

But notice what happened next:
Gore conceded rather than treading the same path that Trump walked in 2020 and seems laying the groundwork to walk again in 2024.

Stay with me dope, because this is important…..

Gore gave a masterful concession speech. He was there at Bush’s inauguration. He pledged his support for the new administration, and I don’t know about you, but after the USSC ISSUED ITS RULING, I never heard him say once that he was robbed of the presidency. Now…. I may have thought he got robbed.Millions of people thought he got robbed. But you know what? We followed Gore’s example and made our peace with his defeat. To do otherwise would to throw out our Constitutional order for the sake of our feelings.

Every single election (2016, 2020, 2024 and the 2016 Texas Republican primary) Trump has leveled the charge of fraud- accusing Ted Cruz of fraud, Hillary of fraud, Joe Biden of fraud, and I’m sure he will accuse Kamala of fraud as well. And a growing number of Republican politicians as well as Republican voters have succumbed to that nonsense.

In December/January, if Trump calls on his MAGA followers to “fight like hell” for their country, you might remember this conversation and wonder why Trump’s strategy remains as it always was- win at any cost, whether that cost be the truth, the lives of his followers, the rule of law, or the country itself.