It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics,

the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history.

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die.

Abraham Lincoln. It's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

That was the quote I was thinking of the other day that I paraphrased when in a cabinet

meeting Lincoln opened it with a couple of witticisms and such, and one of your

staunch, your stodgy cabinet members.

I can't remember if it was Salomon P. Chase or one of those geeks.

I said, do you think it's appropriate?

We'd be joking at this moment, Mr. President.

And he said, with the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh,

I should die.

As a guy who's made jokes at you know

inappropriate times many times in my life I should have that at the ready for

my defense usually it's just you know coarseness and a lack of sensibility that

causes me to do it well those are fancy are fancy words. You mean stupidity.

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