Is that a easter egg to Clinton being the first "black president"?
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Is that a easter egg to Clinton being the first "black president"?
Star Eater: District of Panama
If only...
You know, for a non-American it's very odd what an American expansionist I am.
The idea about it that I find interesting is a possible alliance between Iran and Turkey. Maybe such an alliance would try to spread the Revolution throughout the Middle East while Saudi Arabia would try to contain it?Islamic Revolution in Turkey?
That's a pretty unique concept. I wouldn't mind seeing someone write a TL on that.
InfernoMole: MTTA-E1 Oranje
MTTA-E1 Oranje is a command-operated Multifunctional Transportation and Armaments Mech with a distinctly elephant-like build, developed in the Ivory Coast by Yves Mamadou Sarpong and Maximilian Aislinn O'Moran. It is the originating weapon of the Elephant family, differing from other members of the series by its predominantly orange color scheme.
Although the idea of war elephants is as old as time, and arming animals with top-notch weaponry has been frequently discussed among military experts, the decline of the species in the 21st century and the enforcement of notoriously strict African Union animal protection laws by bleeding-heart bureaucrats from Gaborone has forced the Houphouëtist Society of Armaments, Transportation, Energy and Mechanisms (Société Houphouëtiste des Armements, des Transports, de l'Énergie et des Mécanismes), better known as SHATEM, to bedrudgingly reject this idea. However, Côte d'Ivoire has received enormous investments from abroad, and SHATEM, being the "vanguard of Ivoirian society", benefited from it. In 2076, SHATEM commissioned the creation of an animal-based robotic mech, specifically one large enough to overwhelm humanoid mechs, but small-enough to be inexpensive. The design was taken up by two young engineers, Yves Sarpong and Maxime O'Moran.
Sarpong and O'Moran were best friends, despite their radically different backgrounds; Sarpong, though Akan by ethnicity, was a third-generation Ghanaian immigrant, historically working as a taxi driver, while O'Moran was an Irish-French comics writer, born to Protestant minister Rory O'Moran and Bedelia Corne, a revolutionary chemist in both senses of the word. According to their coworker, Seydou Niangoran, Sarpong and O'Moran originally wanted to give the mech a different name, as both men were huge Babar enthusiasts, but their employer and supervisor, South African businessman and future mayor of Orania Franklin Botha persuaded them to name the mech Oranje.
Oranje has seen a lot of use in Africa and beyond. Hundreds of Oranjes were deployed to put down dissent in Mauritania, and the march of the robotic elephants was an integral part of the Fourth Azawad War, the Ugandan Civil War and the Mauritanian-Malian War. Since then, however, Oranjes have been used primarily in general transportation, with countless loxodontine mechs walking across Sahara and the Silk Path, though certain Oranjes are still used in battle, scouring the Australian outback and fighting the Elysian bloodrunners on Mars. Sarpong and O'Moran's creation has been applauded by countless people around the world, with Sarpong in particular being awarded the highest state order of knighthood in the Ivory Coast; O'Moran would settle down in Bismarck with his beloved Winona Harris, though he would be assassinated by an unidentified killer in 2097.
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Trying to do an infobox on a species of vermin shapeshifters that look like trendy human bar-patrons, are nourished by alcohol and pay with counterfeit money secreted from their pocket-mouths, but good god is it hard to find a picture for that.
Well, if they look like human bar-patrons, just look for a picture of someone being arrested in a bar.
The mini-TL's working title is actually You'll Find Them In Every Bar...
Hulkster'01: United States presidential election of 1928
The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928. Democratic nominee Al Smith, Governor of New York defeated the Republican nominee Herbert Hoover
Wonder how long Reagan is president?
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935-) is an American singer, musician, actor, 44th Governor of Tennessee, and was the 40th President of The United States. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". He served as the 40th President of The United States from 1981 to 1989, he also served as the 45th Governor of Tennessee from 1975 to 1979.
Ulysses Orbis: Alan Keyes, Savior of the Union
Alan Keyes, Savior of the Union
2008 and 2012 as 1860 and 1864 presidential election analogues. John Kerry won in 2004 but was so unpopular he chose not to run for reelection. Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination; but supporters of Vice President John Edwards walked out of the convention and formed their own party. In order to contrast with Senator Obama, the Republicans nominate Alan Keyes, Barack Obama's opponent in the 2004 Illinois senate election. If a failed senate candidate from Illinois suddenly being elected to the presidency seems ASB, its' happened before.
2008 and 2012 as 1860 and 1864 presidential election analogues. John Kerry won in 2004 but was so unpopular he chose not to run for reelection. Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination; but supporters of Vice President John Edwards walked out of the convention and formed their own party. In order to contrast with Senator Obama, the Republicans nominate Alan Keyes, Barack Obama's opponent in the 2004 Illinois senate election. If a failed senate candidate from Illinois suddenly being elected to the presidency seems ASB, its' happened before.
This is current politics enough. We're talking about a PoD from around 2004, not 1984. It is a nice concept though.
InfernoMole: Danforth disease
The Danforth disease is a viral feralizing disease of humans caused by danfortiviruses. Signs and symptoms include headaches and rash, followed by fever, blisters, nausea and hallucinations and culminating in pallor and necrosis of several body parts. On average, the disease kills about 60 percent of its victims, but the functions of the brain deteriorate so much during the evoluition of the disease that the infected become mindless, cannibalistic beasts, hunting down and infecting other humans over a span of two-three weeks before dying. The disease and the virus that causes it takes its name from Danforth, a fictional character from H.P. Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness, courtesy of Argentine scientist Adelio Rusakoff, who first studied a sample of the disease.
The disease was first identified in 2055 during an outbreak in Argentine Antarctica, where it prevailed due to the cold climate of the region preventing the feralized infectees from completely decomposing. The 2055 outbreak of the virus, although limited to the sparsely populated region of Antarctica, has been detrimental to the Argentine Antarctican population, which did not really grow until the 2070s. Although the Danforth disease has not breached Antarctica aside from a few cases of the disease on the Falklands and in continental Tierra del Fuego, the government of Argentina was quick to react, and Argentine Antarctica was quickly quarantined. AFOE units were sent in, and the groups of lurching "ferals" were successfully dealt with; the subject of the epidemic, however, was taken up by tabloids, with every news channel in Argentina discussing the sudden outbreak of the "winter's kiss" in Antarctica. It has been speculated, primarily by nationalists, that the danfortiviruses are actually biological agents created in the 2040s by the intelligence servces of Great Britain, which was ruled at the time by the infamously dictatorial Prime Minister, Henry "the Guillotine" Armisen, who may have ordered the creation of the agent to decimate Argentina following their shocking victory in the Second Falklands War. Since then, however, the Danforth virus has been successfully stopped by the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council, though the Argentine leadership's growing paranoia over biological warfare has led to a disastrous confrontation with Paraguay in 2070-2073.
It's also an analogue of a mid-19th century situation which doesnt seem particularly 'current politics'.
Hulkster'01: United States presidential election of 1932
The United States presidential election of 1932 was the thirty-seventh quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Incumbent Democratic President Al Smith defeated Republican nominee John J. Blaine in a landslide.
Hulkster'01: United States presidential election of 1952
The United States presidential election of 1952 was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. Incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman won a landslide victory over Republican Senator Harold Stassen from Minnesota.
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