Remember the "brooks brothers riots" of 2000?

[magicguido]

Fake outrage bused in by rethuglicans

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. The all-time best fuckwit picture ever.

[jmbar2]

2. Some notable participants still around

- Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of global public policy

- Roger Stone

- Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and a Fox News political contributor. Married to Mercedes Schlapp, who was President Donald Trump's Director of Strategic Communications.

- Garry D. Malphrus, Board Member with the Board of Immigration Appeals in the USA.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot

[enough]

3. And now we have three sitting SCOTUS justices who were involved in that.

Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/10/17/politics/bush-v-gore-barrett-kavanaugh-roberts-supreme-court/index.html

[Gothmog]

4. I reember this stunt

[tiptonic]

5. Maybe

Maybe Karl Rove, has crawled out from under his rock. Seems like most of these people, ended up with some type of job, working for W Bush. Seems about right.

[peacebuzzard]

6. Yes do I ever remember.

The 2000 election depressed me to no end. Gore would have been a great president.
This was truly a low point.

And that was before we had reliable internet connections available.
and before portable laptops. I think DU started up within a year or two after this on super slow internet speeds. dial-ups.

[maxsolomon]

7. I remember, yes. I will never forget or forgive.

One "riot" that gave SCOTUS the chance to destroy Democracy.

The Result: the Iraq War.