Cobain Continues: A Kurt Cobain Survives Collaborative Timeline

November 2000: George W Bush defeats Al Gore in the electoral college.

In a year where the liberal vote was split, George W. Bush pulled off an unlikely electoral victory. Al Gore earned approximately 1 million votes more than George W. Bush, but George W. Bush won the electoral college in a squeaker.

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December 2002: The movie "About a Boy" starring Hugh Grant premieres in London.
The Movie features 5 minutes of a secret show Nirvana played in the Spring of the same year recreating a concert from 1994 that plays a key part in the novel by Nick Hornby.

The DVD Version released in 2004 contains 20 min bonus material from the concert.

(That movie done right in TTL, just had to do it)
Is the concert in question the London concert of the European tour they never got to do in the OTL? ITTL, they completed the entire European tour without issue, so they did get to perform in London in 1994.
 
November 10th, 2000: Violent protests erupt across America in reaction to the news of Bush's victory. Many young protestors take to the streets while chanting: "NOT MY PRESIDENT!" in reference to Bush. Several protestors carry posters that depict Bush with a mustache similar to that of Adolf Hitler's, accompanied by a swastika.
 
November 11, 2000: Reports of irregularities in several states, most notably Florida, reach the news. Vice President Gore files for a nationwide recount, as well as an independent forensic analysis of mechanical votes. Governor Bush's campaign attacks the Gore recount effort as sour grapes. In addition, several different groups also push for an effort to launch a so-called revote, spearheaded by Reverend Jesse Jackson. Cobain and the MoM group contemplate how to respond to the controversy. President Clinton is also similarly befuddled, as he continually tells his wife, who won her Senate seat, and the Cabinet that nothing adds up, even factoring in the Nader supporters. On that same day, Frances is taken to the facility that her mother stays in for a pre-planned visit. Love unloads her anger on the defenseless child in a fearsome verbal tirade, and even assaults her, giving her a bloody nose and eye. Cobain rushes his daughter to the nearest hospital. Despite efforts to be private, a paparazzo takes photos of Frances' face, and they hit every newspaper and network in the world.
 
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November 12, 2000-Communications between Florida Governor Jeb Bush, brother of George W. Bush, and his secretary of state Katherine Harris are leaked to the media. In it, discussions of a purge in the voter rolls in the state are brought up. Suddenly, journalists discover that the purge either mistakenly remove people with similar names as convicted felons or deliberately remove African-American and Hispanic voters. This, in addition to the infamous "butterfly ballot" in Palm Beach County and severe irregularities in Volusia County, begin to draw massive smoke and fire on the situations in the other states, as well as whether the Bush campaign was aware of this. When Florida was initially called for Gore before being taken off the tally, Governor Bush was heard to state "No, Jeb promised me Florida."
 
November 12th, 2000: Grohl and Novoselic launch a brutal verbal tirade against Love for attacking Frances, stating: "It's bad enough you accepted a bribe from that author, but then you bring your own child into this?! No wonder why Kurt divorced your sorry ass when he had the chance!"
 
November 13, 2000-Christopher Hitchens publishes another article on Cobain, claiming that he, not Love, is the real attacker of Frances, attacks the lawsuit as frivolous, and states that the recount effort proves "what whiny crybabies the modern Democratic Party truly is." Close Clinton friend and staffer Sidney Blumenthal calls Cobain for support against Hitchens, as he had been betrayed by the controversial atheist during the Lewinsky affair by destroying the friendship and castigating Blumenthal as an "apparatchik."
 
November 14th, 2000: Novoselic once again speaks out against the assault on Frances, accusing Hitchens of being: "Courtney's little bitch! I get it if he doesn't like Kurt, but accusing him of assaulting her just crosses the line! I'd like to see you act composed if someone accused you of hitting your child!"
 
November 15th, 2000: Former Broncos football star and actor O.J Simpson speaks out in support of Love, stating: "They think I did it and I didn't do it! I know it's the case with her! That damn long-haired punk probably does shit like that all the time!"
 
November 15, 2000-The South Park episode "Trapper Keeper" is aired on Comedy Central. The subplot is a spoof of the electoral crisis, involving Kyle Broflovski's baby brother Ike standing for class president against another child. The episode has the children throw tantrums to demand recounts, and involve the "Hollywood elite" muscling in to steal the election and silence Fillmore votes, leading Mr. Garrison to declare that "you preach tolerance but think everyone else is evil or a bunch of stupid yokels that need your help," clearly stating that Gore has no right to a recount. The plot also makes fun of Frances' being assaulted, in which Governor Bush' Joker assaults Frances similar to the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin. Cobain is furious at Trey Parker and Matt Stone this time around, but chooses not to litigate.
 
November 16, 2000-Cobain holds a press conference to defend himself and the recount effort. He takes many questions and appears drawn and tired, but still polite and wanting to reassure many people. The questions are hard-hitting, but Cobain answers every single one. He also throws the gauntlet down. "I want to debate Christopher Hitchens one to one, since he does that all the time with different religious leaders. I'm not afraid of him." He also takes massive umbrage at the South Park episode, and states, "why does anyone think this is funny? If this was Mommie Dearest and we were laughing at the ridiculous overacting, I'd get it, but this isn't that. Matt, Trey, I ask this to you now, what did I ever do to you?"
 
November 17th, 2000: Frances Cobain speaks out against her assault in her first ever interview, stating: "My dad tells me my mom is totally crazy and come to think of it, he's right. The doctors said I'm going to be fine, but I definitely WON'T forget about this!"
 
November 18, 2000-Christopher Hitchens agrees to Cobain's challenge for a one-on-one to be held at the KeyArena in Seattle. Matt Stone and Trey Parker give a public response to the episode controversy. "We were just doing a reference to the issue of Batman where the Joker kills Jason Todd, whom the fans voted to be killed off. The idea that we'd advocate for child abuse is ridiculous and nonsensical. We were, if anything, attacking the attackers who did this to her." Meanwhile, Governor Bush's campaign continues to speak out against the recount effort, and emphatically denies collusion with the voter roll purge in Florida.
 
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November 19, 2000-Protesters circle the homes of prominent Nader supporters such as Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon for stumping for the Green Party. Death threats are also mailed to them, and bricks are thrown through their windows. Karl Rove states this only proves that "the Left is a bunch of irrational fools who can't accept that Governor Bush won fair and square." Rush Limbaugh and Fox News personalities Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity state similar remarks.
 
November 20, 2000-Recount efforts begin to prove out signs of voter suppression, illogical punch card ballots, and faulty machines, some of which look deliberately sabotaged. Governor Bush's campaign urges a halt to the recount, while Vice President Gore urges the opposite. The case is made to move before the Supreme Court prior the December gathering of the electors.
 
November 22, 2000-The Cobain-Hitchens debate is held. Hitchens reiterates many of his same points in the articles, not just on Cobain, but on his views of President Clinton and Vice President Gore. When Hitchens refers to Clinton as a sexual predator and calls Monica Lewinsky "a victim", Cobain reiterates that the affair was consensual, Lewinsky was 22, and that elements like the "cigar incident" could not be verified as true. He also states "I don't see you going after Ted Nugent for adopting a girl just so he could marry and then fuck her." Hitchens states that "well, Mr. Nugent isn't running for office now, is he?" Cobain vehemently denies attacking Frances, and points out all the things that he has done for her, especially after Love was committed. Frances ends up even talking on her father's behalf, to which Hitchens simply asserts that she's under her father's spell. Cobain responds "Just because she's an 8-year-old girl means she can't make up her own mind?" Hitchens tries to win points in going back to his attacks on Mother Teresa and the problems with the Abrahamic God. Cobain asserts, "You're switching the topic, we didn't come to talk about this." Lastly, Cobain mentions the Sidney Blumenthal incident, and how Hitchens betrayed their friendship. "For a man who talks about reason and conscience, you don't seem to have either."
 
November 23, 2000-President Clinton, after a lengthy period of reflection, gives a blistering public statement about the recount effort. He charges the Republican Party of "conspiring to create the biggest act of electoral fraud in American history. This country is on the verge of rewarding a brazen theft. A theft that occurred not just November 7, but back in February, when Senator McCain was knocked out by a vengeful rumor mill spearheaded by Karl Rove. I implore the Supreme Court to make the right decision and correct this injustice." Conservative pundits make hay out of Clinton's statement.
 
December 12, 2000 -- In a stunning decision, the court votes 5-4 to continue the recount. The state of Florida now only has a few days before the Electoral College meets to vote.
 
December 14, 2000-The recounts in all 50 states are finished with hours to spare. In the end, the totals only reach a draw. The vote will go to the House of Representatives in January.
 
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