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Al Gore talks 'Climate Reality,' regrets and hopes for the grandkids. (www.usatoday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

when the bones of our long dead species are excavated by some interstellar archeological suvey, I hope there is a monument somewhere on earth memorialising the fact that the US supreme court handed bush the lesser the presidency and helped to fuck us all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the bush era politics are a footnote to the evil Reagan inflicted on the states. Man killed the unions, and it was all downhill from there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

oh, without a doubt.

could certainly point back further than reagan, but yeah... thats when the shit stated pouring from the skies with the "trickle down economics" garbage.

with relation to global climate, a gore presidency could have made a tangible, positive difference instead of another war for oil entanglement in the middle east with bush the lesser and his cronies. thats what I was alluding to.