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I had no idea about this before, thanks for sharing. Here’s a link to where he says this

This reminds me of the time I met this old-school Maryland Democratic Party official and he fondly remembered the first campaign he worked on (which was helping his mom put Adlai Stevenson 1956 leaflets in people's mailboxes). His heart warmed so much when I called Adlai the Eggman.

Is this actually true?

How is this man so prolific…the best guy in the business right now

Also: the post-communist period was not a fun time for East Germany economically! While we are getting caught up in the debate over the quality of life under the Eastern Bloc, the OTL path of shock therapy was not inevitable. The revolutions of 1989 were true revolutions, with the ability to...

This is actually a very interesting scenario that could have easily happened IOTL. There's a very good article in Le Monde diplomatique about reunification with some interesting data points. For one, in a poll conducted for Der Spiegel as late as 17 December 1989, 71% of East Germans expressed a...

If anything, Carter's re-election would make the chances of a Falklands War happening *at all* far less likely.

Did either of you bother to look up what Carter's actual response was to the Falklands War? Indeed, far from offering "full support to the UK" as you mention, Reagan three times asked Thatcher to consider an Anglo-Argentine powersharing agreement with a joint American-Brazilian peacekeeping...

You guys have created the perfect conditions for a Shmuley Boteach-led Republican Party 🤔

taking back this remark 👆 Now that Kennedy has heightened the contradictions of America we can rebuild again Oh my lord...

I hate every president in this timeline…I can already imagine the alt-Chomsky rants about them

@TheInnerMoon oh shit good point…I’ll retcon that

40. Tom Kahn (D-MD) January 20th, 1989 - January 20th, 1993 Like his predecessor, Tom Kahn was born in New York, though this is where the similarities end. Born Thomas John Marcel, the future president was adopted by Adele and David Kahn, two Jewish left-wing union leaders. While attending...

Everyone talking about Benn but just wait until one of us makes Bryan Ferry the Prime Minister... 🤷‍♂️

Lol ITTL Guns and Roses name their album Indian Democracy hehehe Love Sorvino…he was a perfect Kissinger in Nixon Who would you foresee directing the Briscoe film…and no you can’t say Oliver Stone