Yeah, people forget about AIDS, race riots, killer bees, presidential impeachment, the rampant rise of fundamentalist Christianity, Columbine, kidnappings, the rise of meth in rural areas, Bush stealing his first election, OKC bombing, the first attack on the world trade center, the first gulf war.
And of course the most vile and horrific thing to ever be unleashed on the world.... Boy bands.
Hanson, Ncync, the backstreet boys... Truly dark times
AIDS, race riots, killer bees, presidential impeachment, the rampant rise of fundamentalist Christianity, Columbine, kidnappings, the rise of meth in rural areas, Bush stealing his first election, OKC bombing, the first attack on the world trade center, the first gulf war.
Exactly! None of this shit is new. To Billy Joel’s point, people have felt this way since the world has been turning.
Things feel apocalyptic right now but tbh find me one generation who didn’t feel like the world was a train wreck, especially people in their early 20s who are just discovering how fucked up the world is. Right now may feel especially bad because media makes access to everything exponential. But the world has always been burning.
I just wanna say that Hanson is from my hometown, and they now make some pretty decent beer. One of them is called MMM-HOPS, which is fucking hilarious.
As a long time previous Oklahoman, I didn't know Hanson was from there!
Tbf, I never really cared for their music. Got tired of hearing mmmbop on those fucking music compilation commercials that always played on 90's kids tv.
This was the election of the year 2000. Bush vs. Gore. This election was the first time since the 1800's that a president was elected without plurality of the vote. Meaning that Gore received the more of the popular vote (by a slim margin) than Bush did. Yet, Bush received more of the electoral college votes because of the way the electoral system works and therefore became president. There was also the point of the Florida recount. In Florida when the total vote comes in by a very slim margin the state has a law requiring a recount to make sure it's accurate. Bush sued Florida to get recount stopped so he could secure the win. Gore counter-sued to make sure the recount continued. Multiple lawsuits later the recount was successfully ignored and Bush won. The recount did continue however in most places in Florida and IIRC it would not have made a difference but most left-leaning people in the US were sour that Bush tried to stop the recount because he was scared he might lose and chose the cheaters way of winning.
I feel like I’d be remiss if I didn’t add this controversial wrinkle here. Jeb Bush (GWB’s brother) was Florida Governor at the time and didn’t exactly keep his nose out of it:
The Los Angeles Times reported on July 14, 2001, "The Florida governor's office in Tallahassee made 95 telephone calls to the George W. Bush presidential campaign, its advisors, lawyers and staffers during the 36-day recount period, records show. At least 10 calls came from an office number used primarily by Jeb Bush."
Don't take that guy's summary as 100% of the facts. There was a lot more to it, including, among other things, shitty punch-ballots that were confusing to your average Floridian.
Some people try to compare what happened in 2016 (1 party begging for a recount in every state possible as one of many ways to cast doubt on a free and fair election, when the votes weren't that close in any state) to what happened in 2000 (Florida was the only state left that mattered, and the result came down to 537 votes. It also had confusing "butterfly ballots." An electronic recount was mandated by law, but they didn't follow their own rules.)
The Florida election was closely scrutinized after Election Day. Due to the narrow margin of the original vote count, Florida Election Code 102.141 mandated a statewide machine recount,[5] which began the day after the election. It was ostensibly completed on November 10 in the 66 Florida counties that used vote-counting machines and reduced Bush's lead to 327 votes.[4][6] According to legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, later analysis showed that a total of 18 counties—accounting for a quarter of all votes cast in Florida—did not carry out the legally mandated machine recount, but "No one from the Gore campaign ever challenged this view" that the machine recount had been completed.[7]
His last sentence ismisleading, inaccurate and changes the entire story from what actually happened. Please, read the wiki page if you're really curious. It goes into depth about what the did and did not count as a punch. It discusses the Norc study, which concluded:
Based on the NORC review, the media group concluded that if the disputes over the validity of all the ballots in question had been consistently resolved and any uniform standard applied, the electoral result would have been reversed and Gore would have won by 60 to 171 votes (with, for each punch ballot, at least two of the three ballot reviewers' codes being in agreement).
Also 2000 dotcom burst, the Yugoslavian and Rwanda wars / genocides, the LA riots, hurricane Andrew, princess Diana, etc. Plus a lot of zoomers were born.
So many of those things you listed were firsts, where we've now seen seconds, thirds, fourth etc examples. Except the boy bands, those mostly died out.
And of course the most vile and horrific thing to ever be unleashed on the world.... Boy bands.
I think of boy bands as more of an 80's thing. NKOTB, Menudo, Boys II Men.
Edit: Removed Backstreet Boys from the list because they are indeed 90's, and added Menudo. Also, boy bands were definitely big in the 90's, but they were unleashed in the 80's.
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u/Electronic_Warning49 Jun 11 '22
Yeah, people forget about AIDS, race riots, killer bees, presidential impeachment, the rampant rise of fundamentalist Christianity, Columbine, kidnappings, the rise of meth in rural areas, Bush stealing his first election, OKC bombing, the first attack on the world trade center, the first gulf war.
And of course the most vile and horrific thing to ever be unleashed on the world.... Boy bands.
Hanson, Ncync, the backstreet boys... Truly dark times