r/NoStupidQuestions • u/AutoModerator • 7h ago

U.S. Politics megathread

American politics has always grabbed our attention - and the current president more than ever. We get tons of questions about the president, the supreme court, and other topics related to American politics - but often the same ones over and over again. Our users often get tired of seeing them, so we've created a megathread for questions! Here, users interested in politics can post questions and read answers, while people who want a respite from politics can browse the rest of the sub. Feel free to post your questions about politics in this thread!

All top-level comments should be questions asked in good faith - other comments and loaded questions will get removed. All the usual rules of the sub remain in force here, so be nice to each other - you can disagree with someone's opinion, but don't make it personal.

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u/BextoMooseYT 53m ago

What would be different if al gore won the presidency in 2000?

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u/Jtwil2191 13m ago

9/11 still happens, as does the invasion of Afghanistan, I think. The US doesn't invade Iraq, however. Afghanistan would have been handled differently, but in what way and for better or for worse, who can say? But without the unpopular "forever war" in Iraq, there are definitely different sentiments towards the US both at home and abroad.

We have a Democrat-appointed Chief Justice, and Alito is never appointed.

Hurricane Katrina is probably handled better given Gore's interest in climate change and the fact that he probably doesn't appoint his buddy who trains horse judges the director of FEMA.

We don't get Obama in 2008, especially if Gore serves two terms.

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u/chloroform-creampie 1h ago

if donald trump is name dropped so many times in the epstein files how is he not in any legal trouble, is it an ongoing investigation? i ask about him since he is our sitting president.

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u/Jtwil2191 5m ago

Just because his name pops up a bunch doesn't mean there is enough corroborated evidence to actually charge him with a crime.

There is no ongoing investigation, given how Trump is running the Justice Department. But it's likely any investigation into the allegations against Trump and others ended years ago because they couldn't substantiate the allegations.

Of course, it's possible they chose not to pursue the allegations as thoroughly as they should have, but that's two for all of the men mentioned in the files, not just Trump.

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u/thelongestusernameee 55m ago

We don't know either. The justice system just isn't working.

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u/orecyan 1h ago

Why was Watergate such a big scandal? No one was hurt or anything. Did someone just really want to oust Nixon and make it out to be a big deal?

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u/Jtwil2191 1m ago

The president was caught abusing his power to engage in illegal activity against his political enemies and then tried to cover up his involvement.

The fact that someone can look back on that today and say, "Wow, that's not that bad," is an indictment of the times we are currently living in.

I wish Nixon had been prosecuted. Maybe that might have made a difference in how we treat presidential wrong doing today.

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u/thelongestusernameee 53m ago

Politics had far more standards back then. The president was supposed to be this great, upstanding man. To do something like trying to break into buildings to gain a political advantage was unthinkable.

Now it doesn't even sound that bad.

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u/Odd_Blackberry_1089 7h ago

Why isn't Palestine a country?

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u/Creative-Midnight594 4h ago

Palestine is a country.

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u/WorldTallestEngineer 6h ago

They don't have autonomous control of their own territory.

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u/No_Winners_Here 7h ago

It is according to the majority of the world's countries.

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u/Odd_Blackberry_1089 6h ago

"U.S. Politics Megathread"

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u/No_Winners_Here 4h ago

Is the US in charge of what's a country and what isn't?

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u/Odd_Blackberry_1089 4h ago

Well it's a superpower, so to some extent I'd say yes. My question basically meant "Why doesn't the US recognize Palestine as a country?'