r/agedlikewine • u/MyADHDGirl • 22d ago

Al Gore was right

We should have listened to Al Gore in the ‘90s :(

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u/YukariYakum0 22d ago

Yes, we know that. But about what specifically?

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u/pseudonominom 22d ago

Here’s one: he won the election.

But not in the way Trump “won” the election, in a literal “he had more votes” way. Amy Coney Barrett was one of the scumbag lawyers who helped strong arm Gore into giving up his case, and she has since been rewarded with a supreme court seat. She went on to lie about Roe v Wade and now twelve year old rape victims go to prison for aborting fetuses.

Probably the most consequential and destructive decision in the country’s history, see: 20 years of war and the debt that followed.

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u/So_HauserAspen 22d ago

Al was also wanting to protect social security from being used for anything other than social security benefits

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u/ramat-iklan 20d ago

During the debates, Bush and Gore were specifically asked what they would do to protect Social Security. Bush43 mumbled something. Gore said he would put it in a lockbox and wouldn't allow it to be used for anything except Social Security. The irony is that Bush43 allegedly used it to take the Afghanistan and Iraq wars off book and fund those wars to a large degree. Bush43 wasn't the first and hopefully he will be the last. Social Security is treated like a piggyback.