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A still image from an Aeroloft tourist video showing the Soviet Parliament Building, formerly known as the Palace of the Soviets from 1952 until 1991. Opinion on the removal of the Lenin Statue has been heavily divided ever since the late 1980s. It was the tallest building in the world from 1953 until 1971 with the completion of the World Trade Center in New York City. It is currently both the tallest building in the Northern Hemisphere and in the Soviet Union. The Parliament Building also features an multi-leveled observation deck near the top of the building that has been closed to the public since the September 11th attacks,
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Celebration in the streets of New York City following the approval of statehood for Puerto Rico in 1975. Many historians would point towards the statehood of Puerto Rico as being a key factor in George McGovern winning the 1976 election.
An image taken of the Statue of Liberty after statehood was announced. Funnily enough this would go on to become a tradition every time the anniversary came by.
Nova Washington around 150 years after the reunification wars of the 2075-2100, during the fall of the Old Republic their would be many wars a civil conflicts which saw rebels try to break away or take over the republic who would try their best to hold the nation together only to break in to after the election and attempted coup of 2090 that saw the country break and two lead by then at the time rebel leader Minus Draco Caesar the first while originally being a rapper before entering politics his family did have some deep military ties and his polices had many of the generals side with him. The Caesar would cross the Mississippi in 2095 and take what remain of DC that same years the rest of the war saw him leading the charge into Canada and Mexico before establishing the Imperium Technate of America....
First Emperor Minus shortly before the sacking of Mexico City where he would reportedly quote Genghis Khan when asked why he had took the city for the empire “I am the punishment of God, If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
The fall of Ontario 2099 November 5,2099.
Imperium troops clearing out rebel cells in the Yukon 2101 there would still be still some garden rebels cells up to ten years after the war.
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Dick Tracy (1959)
L to R: Abel Fernandez as Sam Catches, Nicholas Georgiade as Enrico Rossi*, Robert Stack as Dick Tracy, Paul Picerni as Pat Patton (*Original Character)
Neville Brand as Big Boy Caprice
L to R: Abel Fernandez as Sam Catches, Nicholas Georgiade as Enrico Rossi*, Robert Stack as Dick Tracy, Paul Picerni as Pat Patton (*Original Character)
Neville Brand as Big Boy Caprice
Robin Williams in an early prototype of the Rorschach mask during a screen test for Terry Gilliam's critically acclaimed television miniseries Watchmen (1990).
Williams portrayal of the character of Rorschach would award the actor an Emmy nomination (Among many awarded to the show) and more "Serious" roles.
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The Trion War
(1914-1917)
American infantry gathering in a rally before deployment against the alien forces, April 1914. The US Army was fairly effective in dealing with the invaders, although not as efficient as the European armies. America's armed forces are fairly small at this time, and is several times weaker compared to the military powerhouse it is today. During the war, the US suffered around 5,000 dead and another 10,000 wounded or missing. This conflict inspired many of its anti war population, and a surge of patriotism and comradeship arose within the nation. This would lead to Washington DC to take the armed forces more seriously.
Russian soldiers retreat from the advancing tripod walkers employed by the aliens near Warsaw, May 1914. In the background is an armored car exploding after being hit by a laser beam. Russian forces were ill equipped and unprepared when the surprise alien invasion occured, and would go on to suffer the most casualties in the struggle, losing 2,400,000 men in the struggle, currently the largest lost of life in a war ever recorded. The Tsar's impractical leadership and corruption ultimately led to Kerensky and his Provisional Government deposing the Tsar after the war.
German soldier pictured here in the Ardennes Region, circa December 1914 Germany would become one of the first nations to successfully combat the Trionians in battle and the first to reverse engineer their technology. In a mere 3 years, the Germans had mastered the alien forces' tactics and technology, and would become the most advanced nation on Earth. They managed to stop the giant tripods by inventing a brand new type of landmine, big enough to shatter the legs on contact.
Trion, the Trionian homeworld. The Trionian civilization is believed to have emerged around 3,000,000 years before humans evolved into Homo Sapiens, as according to artifacts and technology captured from the alien forces. It is located in the "Titan Solar System", in the Orion Constellation. It is the third of 6 planets orbiting a main sequence star, around 10 times larger than our Sun.
(1914-1917)
American infantry gathering in a rally before deployment against the alien forces, April 1914. The US Army was fairly effective in dealing with the invaders, although not as efficient as the European armies. America's armed forces are fairly small at this time, and is several times weaker compared to the military powerhouse it is today. During the war, the US suffered around 5,000 dead and another 10,000 wounded or missing. This conflict inspired many of its anti war population, and a surge of patriotism and comradeship arose within the nation. This would lead to Washington DC to take the armed forces more seriously.
Russian soldiers retreat from the advancing tripod walkers employed by the aliens near Warsaw, May 1914. In the background is an armored car exploding after being hit by a laser beam. Russian forces were ill equipped and unprepared when the surprise alien invasion occured, and would go on to suffer the most casualties in the struggle, losing 2,400,000 men in the struggle, currently the largest lost of life in a war ever recorded. The Tsar's impractical leadership and corruption ultimately led to Kerensky and his Provisional Government deposing the Tsar after the war.
German soldier pictured here in the Ardennes Region, circa December 1914 Germany would become one of the first nations to successfully combat the Trionians in battle and the first to reverse engineer their technology. In a mere 3 years, the Germans had mastered the alien forces' tactics and technology, and would become the most advanced nation on Earth. They managed to stop the giant tripods by inventing a brand new type of landmine, big enough to shatter the legs on contact.
Trion, the Trionian homeworld. The Trionian civilization is believed to have emerged around 3,000,000 years before humans evolved into Homo Sapiens, as according to artifacts and technology captured from the alien forces. It is located in the "Titan Solar System", in the Orion Constellation. It is the third of 6 planets orbiting a main sequence star, around 10 times larger than our Sun.
A photograph from the 1980 assassination of presidential candidate Ronald Reagan by Henry Lawrence Garfield. In the foreground, arms outstretched, is Washington D.C. police officer Thomas Delahanty, who attempted and failed to push candidate and former California governor Reagan out of the way; Delahanty suffered a spinal injury that has permanently inhibited the use of his left arm. Secret service agents attempt to cover candidate Reagan, who by the taking of this photo is already deceased - on the ground behind Delahanty - and who will be pronounced as such on the scene.
Photograph of Garfield taken by a friend in 1980, only a few short months before his assassination of Ronald Reagan.
Headshot of Garfield for a 2020 interview with Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes, taken at his current center of incarceration, ADX Florence.
Excerpts from the Pelley-Garfield interview are included below:
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Scott Pelley: Forty years after your assassination of former California governor and then-presidential candidate Reagan, some are calling for your release, Mister Garfield, claiming that new evidence shows that your actions were completely justified. What do you say to that?
Henry Lawrence Garfield: No. I killed a man. I know what I did, and I knew what I was doing back then, too. I illegally took a life. I committed a very serious crime. Do I think what I did was wrong? No, of course not. But I was and still am ready to accept the consequences for my action. That, at least, makes me a better man than Reagan could have ever managed to be.
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SP: Many scholars - and historical experts we've found in online comments-
*Brief laughter from both.*
SP: -claim that your assassination of Reagan was what allowed George Bush to win the election, providing a sort of "sympathy" vote for the Republican party, thus making you at least partially responsible for the events of the Bush presidency. How do you feel about that?
HLG: It's a fair point, but I would argue that the Iranian hostage crisis doomed Carter's re-election campaign from the start. The man only managed to carry his home state of Georgia and D.C. in that election, for crying out loud. If I hadn't shot Reagan, we would have seen four years - or, God forbid, eight years - of that reactionary maniac in the Oval Office. Even if my actions were the reason that Bush was elected, one term of a socially moderate Republican hawk sits better on my conscience than potentially two terms of a far-right loon like Reagan.
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SP: How do you feel about the fact that black bloc and anarchist movements both in the United States and elsewhere in the world treat you like some sort of hero, or martyr, or even some kind of saint?
HLG: It annoys me, to be honest. I'm just a guy. I'm not a hero, or a martyr, or a saint, or anything like that. I'm a guy who stood by my convictions and did what I felt I should do. Even when I was hanging out with those types in the late 70s, their hero complexes disturbed me. Politics shouldn't be about wanting to be a hero or whatever else. They should be about wanting to make the world a better place. I shot Reagan because I wanted to make the world a better place, or at least keep the world from becoming a worse place. If that does indeed make me a hero, then so be it, but that was never the point, and will never be the point.
*Garfield turns toward the camera, and points directly at it. His guards visibly shift in discomfort as he makes the sudden motion.*
HLG: And if any of you kids try and emulate me just to try and be a hero, you can **** off. Don't follow fame. Follow your convictions. Go read a book or play your video games or whatever they are if you just want to feel like a hero, got it?
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SP: Thank you for your time, Mister Garfield.
HLG: Seriously, just call me Henry. And this has been a great change of pace from my day to day life here, so trust me, I should be the one thanking you guys.
*No shaking of hands is allowed. Garfield is accosted by his guards, and led back into the secure area of ADX Florence.*
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SP, in studio: In spite of all reports pointing to good behavior during his detention and with decades having passed since his crime, Mister Garfield continues to be incarcerated at a supermax prison facility. Attempts at getting his security downgraded to a lower level have repeatedly failed. The most recent attempt in 2017 was denied by President John Kasich, who claimed that "anarchist terrorists" would attempt a breakout of Garfield if he was moved to a lower security facility. Activists have stated that if Democratic nominee Rocky De La Fuente defeats Kasich in November, that they will once again attempt to have Garfield's security level downgraded by De La Fuente once he takes office. Only time will tell if they will be successful or not.
Until then, this is Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes, signing off.
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POD: Henry Lawrence Garfield - better known in OTL as Henry Rollins, lead singer of the band Black Flag - assassinates Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential election, resulting in the nomination being passed to George H.W. Bush, who wins in an even greater landslide than OTL against Jimmy Carter without John B. Anderson splitting the Republican vote in protest to the then-radically right-wing stances of Ronald Reagan. What happened after that, I can't be sure, but I threw up a couple of what I hope are reasonably realistic names for a Republican winner of the 2016 election and a Democratic nominee to contend against him in the 2020 election.
Apologies to Henry Rollins, if he somehow manages to find this post and read it.
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Imperium Technate Of (at the time) America troopers (a three of a ten person Contubernium) on ports shortly after the fall of the Union Of Columbia to the Technate in 2115. The Technate would have to deal with rebels in the jungles of the Old Union for around a hundred years, but the occupation and absorption of the U.O.C laid out the blue print for the coming occupations over seas.
The city of New Cisco one of the most famous cities in the world known for its arts and fashions it would be the central point of all style from within the nation even passing New New York in fashion influence.
Mexico City after being rebuilt in the Imperium image the photo were taken during the yearly “People’s Games” similar to the old world Olympics, but adopted to fit Imperium recognized sports only.
Some fashion from within the Imperium during it early rise into power. It is still not uncommon to see noble wear all white or grey to ceremonial occasions, but the majority of the people have moved to favor more color designs and styles.
William Charles "Bill" Ayers, the Socialist Party governor of Illinois and former mayor of Chicago, being interviewed on the Today Show in 2013 as part of his re-election campaign for the 2014 Illinois gubernatorial, which he would later win.
Excerpts from the Today Show interview are included below:
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Savannah Guthrie: You've mentioned before, governor, that you "chose a path" in the late 60s, that you once considered joining, well, joining a terrorist organization, correct?
Bill Ayers: That's correct. The Students for a Democratic Society. The whole group wasn't exactly a terrorist organization, but they had some factions that were definitely engaging in very violent, very extreme activity, like the Revolutionary Youth Movement. It was all very appealing to both me and Bernadrine back then, just because, well, just because we were angry. Everyone was angry back then, of course, at the height of the Vietnam War and everything else, and groups like those offered us outlets for our anger.
SG: What made you choose the path you did take, governor? That of peaceful, electoral politics over violent, extreme terrorism.
BA: I read Gandhi, and about him. And I don't mean that in the way that most people immediately think. Most people think of Gandhi as this peace-loving hippie who followed pacifism and non-violent civil disobedience out of a sense of morals or ethics, but that's not exactly true. Gandhi wrote and spoke about how he knew that violent resistance against the British Empire was a futile endeavor; there was no way for India to win in a conventional conflict against the British Army, and the most that would end up happening would be that the Indian populace would suffer significantly in the ensuing violence. Non-violent civil disobedience wasn't a moral issue to Gandhi, but rather a practical one. It was the only way he could see to win against the British Empire. When I read that, I understood that no violence on my part could possibly manage to bring down something as massive as the behemoth of the imperialistic American military-industrial complex. So I chose a different path.
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SG: How do you feel about the fact that you and your wife are still two of only a handful of Socialist Party politicians in major positions? You've been campaigning for socialist causes for decades now, but most of the power in the country is still in the hands of the Democrats and the Republicans. Surely that has to be frustrating?
BA: Oh, it's absolutely frustrating. If I had my way, every political office in the country would be held by a socialist of some form or another.
*Brief laughter from both.*
BA: But my wife and I have both learned to focus on what we can do, rather than spending too much energy fretting over what we can't. I can work to improve things in Illinois, and I have improved things in Illinois, and that's something that I do my best to hold onto. While the rest of the Steel Belt has fallen into poverty and economic disrepair, I've managed to keep Illinois employed, and managed to keep Chicago from becoming like Detroit or other nearby cities - no offense to the good citizens of Detroit, of course. Bern [Ayer's diminutive name for his wife, Bernadrine] is able to work with our party colleague Senator Sanders [of Vermont] and the progressive Democrats to get legislation like her work on cannabis legalization and expanding abortion rights. Maybe we can never get a Socialist in the Oval Office, or get the Socialist Party in control of Congress, but there's still stuff that we can do, even so.
A mugshot from 1970 of Ayers' wife and the now senior senator from Illinois, Bernardrine Dohrn, also of the Socialist Party. At the time, Dohrn had been arrested on possession of marijuana, a charge that both her Democratic and Republican opponents attempted to use against her during the 1990 Illinois Senatorial election in which she was running for the seat for the third time in her political career. Dohrn weathered that storm, won the election, became the first member of the Socialist Party elected to United States Congress, and later became instrumental to the legalization of the drug she was once arrested for: medical cannabis usage was legalized federally in legislation authored by Dohrn in 2000, and recreational cannabis usage was legalized federally in legislation a decade later to the date in 2010, also authored by her. The legalization of cannabis in America opened the door to both world-wide legalization of cannabis - with cannabis and cannabis analogues being legal throughout most of the Americas and Europe today - and research into the medicinal benefits of cannabis, including as a replacement for opioid pain relievers in patients with mild to moderate pain as opposed to severe pain, and as a cancer treatment option..
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POD: Bill Ayers - who OTL was a leader of the Weather Underground communist terrorist group in the late 1960s and 1970s along with his wife, Bernadrine Dohrn - opts to work for reform rather than revolution, and convinces Dohrn to do so along with him. Investing the passion and energy that he devoted to terrorism in OTL instead into electoral politics, Ayers manages to be elected mayor of Chicago in 1984 - running on a platform of supporting unemployed manufacturing employees and other working class people through the city's economic decline that had been underway to the "rusting" of the Steel Belt - and later governor of Illinois in 1998 - running on a similar platform, putting forward the idea that Illinois was still very much a victim of the Rust Belt phenomena and that his experience in Chicago could be expanded to the rest of the state - a position that he still holds leading up to the 2020 gubernatorial election in that state; he is perennially challenged by both Democrats and Republicans, but - barring a few elections such as the 2008 gubernatorial election at the start of the still-extant Great Recession - manages to win by comfortable margins each election year.
Dohrn manages to be elected to the Illinois State House of Representatives in 1976 in an upset against the local Democratic state representative - with assistance from Ayers as her campaign manager - elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1982, and - as mentioned above - elected as the then-junior United States Senator from Illinois in 1990. Her career in the Senate has primarily focused on women's rights along with criminal and justice reform, including drug decriminalization and legalization.
While Ayers and Dohrn are the Socialist golden children of American politics, their influence ITTL hasn't been enough to completely shatter the landscape of American politics. Aside from Bernie Sanders officially declaring himself for the Socialist Party USA, the Democrats and Republicans still possess a near stranglehold on political offices across the country, with Socialist politicians typically only holding isolated offices in state legislatures and a few members of the United States House of Representatives occasionally being from the SPUSA.
Back from the Rubble
The rebuilt Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in its glory pictured here in 2016.
Following the September 11th attacks, there was debate whether to rebuild the towers or replace it with a new one. Ultimately, New Yorkers pushed for a rebuilding effort since the Twin Towers were an iconic symbol of the Big Apple. Ground breaking began in 2006. The tower was finished by 2013 and fully opened to the public by 2014.
The rebuilt Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in its glory pictured here in 2016.