I only watched the first season; would you say this was a mistake?The Last Ship: POTUS pt 1
I only watched the first season; would you say this was a mistake?The Last Ship: POTUS pt 1
I only watched the first season; would you say this was a mistake?
I watched the first season of The Last Ship, and then decided it wasn't worth watching additional seasons.I'm afraid I don't quite follow you. There are going to b a couple more posts but just one per President.
I watched the first season of The Last Ship, and then decided it wasn't worth watching additional seasons.
I was asking if you think this was an incorrect decision.
Heck yeah! TLS's verse was just begging for infoboxes!The Last Ship: POTUS pt 1
A fusion of Prague and Dubai actually sounds much cooler to visit than the show Canterlot, tbh.Q: Can I visit?
A: If you just wanna see the places from the show, then even if it was possbile, no. Basically, half the places youv'e seen in the show don't even exist, and the other half only has the name in common with its real-life equivalent. The most accurate deciption of anywhere is Ponyville, which still got the name, building materials, and color palettes wrong. Canterlot is not very Minas Tirithesque - it actually reassembles (very vaguely) a fusion of Prague and Dubai. Still wanna visit? I've made a handy tourism guide, which you can check out here.
This series is great!
Snipta Muerte
Of particular note is how worship of Santa Muerte has taken hold in the militaries of various Adelaide-signatory countries and the Alliance military itself. By the end of the 21st century, Santa Muerte had a minor following in the combat arms of the USMC, US Army, and Mexican military, venerated as a sort of goddess of death and protector, and syncretized with the already extant “Valhalla cult” present in the US military.
Thanks for the compliment! I'll explain the Valhalla cult below.This is wonderful. How does she syncretize with the (I assume vaguely Asatru-ish) Valhalla cult?
Thanks for the interest Mike!Valhalla cult you say?
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Governor Bailey
Mary Bailey was an American politician, teacher and author who served as the Governor of Oregon from 1995 to 2003. Before that, Bailey served as the Mayor of Springfield, Oregon, from 1979 to 1987, and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995. A tax-and-spend moderate Democrat, Bailey was the second woman elected Governor of that state, after her predecessor, Barbara Roberts.
Janie Mary Bailey was born and raised in 1935, in upstate New York, the first daughter of Mary Hatch Bailey, a homemaker, and George Bailey, a banker. After graduating from college in New York, Bailey moved to Oregon, settling in the city of Springfield, and began teaching History and Social Studies at Springfield High School. Upon long-time incumbent Mayor Hans Moleman’s retirement, Bailey was narrowly elected to be his successor in a very crowded field. Bailey ran on a platform supporting higher-quality education and safety reform, using the slogan “Think of the Children!” According to the autobiography of President Lisa Simpson, this slogan was later used often by the local reverend’s wife for numerous local issues and controversies.
After eight successful years as Mayor, Bailey successfully ran for Congress, defeating long-time incumbent Horace Wilcox in a massive upset. Bipartisan outreach and a moderate voting record marked Bailey’s time in the House of Representatives.
In 1994, Bailey declined running for re-election to Congress to instead run for Governor of her home state, and won by a comfortable margin. Thanks in part to her smooth handling of economic matters, Bailey was a very popular governor, known for her calm demeanor and unwavering optimism in the decision-making skills of the average Oregon voter [1]. However, Bailey did pass some rather unorthodox rulings and executive orders. For example, she declared to a group of displaced convicts that “since there’s no room in the prisons you came from, I’m releasing you all to a garbage barge, where you will bare-knuckle box until one of you emerges as king of your floating hell;” the inmates, though, approved of this proclamation [2]. Furthermore, her incessant need to unfurl flags in a very specific manner was often overlooked by her constituents [3].
In 1998, Bailey called for an investigation of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant after a three-eyed fish was discovered in the water near said plant. The government inspection discovered 342 violations, which cost the plant’s owner and manager, controversial billionaire businessman C. Montgomery Burns, $56 million dollars to repair in lieu of Bailey shutting the plant down for said violations. Shortly after this incident, Burns decided to challenge the immensely popular Governor Bailey for re-election that year. At first, Bailey’s re-election was considered inevitable – Burns, the sole Republican candidate in the race, began his campaign with an approval rating of only 0%. However, Burns ran an active populist campaign calling for lower taxes and less government regulations of and interference with major corporations and businesses. Burns’ poll numbers gradually increased until they reached 50-50 on the night of the election. However, a major political gaffe at the last minute lead to Burns losing momentum drastically, and incumbent Governor Bailey won re-election in a massive landslide [4]. She declined to run for President in 2000.
Bailey left office after being term-limited and retired from politics after considering running for President in 2004 and 2008, opting instead to write her memoirs and several novels. However, she did endorse activist Lisa Simpson for US Congress in 2022. Bailey passed away from natural causes in 2023. President Lisa Simpson, a mentor and protégé of Mary Bailey, posthumously gave Bailey the Presidential Medal of Freedom shortly after entering office, citing Bailey’s work concerning education, safety, environmentalism/Earth Protectionism.
Sources:
[1] Season 2, Episode 4: Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish (1990) – Bailey expresses this at the 12:48 mark.
[2] Season 16, Episode 14: The Seven-Beer Snitch (2005) – said from 20:37 to 20:45.
[3] Season 14, Episode 3: Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade (2002) – Bailey expresses her self-disappointment at a poor unfurling at the 14:46 mark
[4] Season 2, Episode 4: Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish (1990) – The plot of this episode.
This is the scariest thing I've seen in a while. Don't really see the morally grey bit, this just seems like another communist revolution gone horribly sideways and committing crimes against humanity.I recently had the idea of taking everything I believed in fervently and combining it into something profoundly morally grey. A universe bloomed from the question; the telling of a story of revolution returning to the despondent age of Hauntologie began to resonate in my heart. The dream of calling up from cynicism the spectre of the ideal, bound with the revolutionary method and applied to the circumstance of the generation, my vision beheld a collage of half-repetitions array itself across the future, and my seeking may have been fruitful.
The idea of an "aggressively woke" (as a friend of mine put it) revolutionary movement catching the wave of real discontent in the last days of the old republic is something that seems entirely plausible to me. As White Rule comes to an end, the social justice state will rise in its place to bring about into stolidity the ideals of equality, dignity, and socialism in bringing about a Dictatorship of the Oppressed. As the revolution unfolds and the organization of a new kind of state takes hold, revolutionary tactics of ideological violence and totalism convect to the surface of the discussion the most radical and sweeping voices willing to use the most extreme and heavy handed methods in the action of social change. To bring about the rule of empathy to end oppression forever, the people of the former United States, the Old Republic whose bureaucracy ceased to function and choked on its own cynical, post-modern hate, required the assistance of thought reform in their eyes to see through their incorrect concepts which shroud humanity in pathology. The Central Council won the Civil War with those tactics, and the dreams of the mysterious and secretive Hypnopomp Club to cover all the world in thought cleansing hallucinogenic ideological eschatology defined the first political crisis the new regime was forced to face within itself...
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The ongoing scenario being fleshed out is further elucidated by the second post in this thread:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/dorozhands-detritus-depository.414469/#post-15245817
I love Pat Brown, but he's not LBJ, he's not a southerner. I think he would lose a tad more of the South. Maybe Florida and Virginia.
Pat Brown didn't pass the Civil Rights Act, where as LBJ signed it himself, so if he could carry the south, couldn't Pat Brown? Florida and Virginia wasn't a strong segregationist state like the other five.I love Pat Brown, but he's not LBJ, he's not a southerner. I think he would lose a tad more of the South. Maybe Florida and Virginia.