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Ive also read that GTA III was also planned for the Dreamcast
I heard about that a while back as well. I wonder why the the Dreamcast and Gamecube versions of GTA III and Vice City were cancelled.
Well for a few years there was an exclusivity agreement so the games were only on PS2 (and PC). By the time this relented and the Xbox versions came out they were a bit of an afterthought (due to 360 being close to release) and the GC was on its last legs as well. Combined with its odd disc type they probably simply decided it wasn't worth it for the limited money it would make.
Dreamcast is easier as it was near death during GTA 3's development so again little gain by releasing it (and much effort to make it compatible with the DC hardware).
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A one off because I've been listening to Nubian music all day and wanted to do something with the area
The 1994 American federal election was held on Thursday 5 May 1994, to elect 730 members to the House of Representatives of America. The incumbent governing Liberal Party led by Prime Minister Joe Biden was defeated in a landslide by the Conservative Party led by Newt Gingrich. The 104-seat swing in membership from the Liberal Party to the Conservative Party was also largest seat gain for the Conservatives since 1946, and the largest ever seat loss for the Liberals, and characterised a political realignment in American politics. The election saw the end of the Fourth Party System.
The political backdrop of campaigning focused on public opinion towards a change in government. The Conservative Party ran against Prime Minister Joe Biden's proposed healthcare reform and benefited from impressions of corruption created by the Whitewater investigation. The Conservatives campaigned on the Contract with America, a legislative agenda written by Gingrich and Shadow Finance Minister Richard Armey.
Former Prime Minister Sir Richard Nixon, the Conservative candidate in the electoral district of Northwest California, died on 22 April. Both major parties suspended their campaigns until after Nixon's funeral on 27 April.
The final result of the election on 8 May 1994 revealed that the Conservatives had won a landslide majority, making a net gain of 104 seats and winning 50,7% of the vote. The Liberals, meanwhile, suffered defeat with a net loss of 104 seats, and winning 44.3% of the vote.
The overall result of the election ended nearly 8 years of Liberal government, in their worst ever defeat. Immediately following the election Biden resigned as party leader, The Conservative victory, the largest achieved in their history and by any political party in American politics since 1946, led to the party's first of three consecutive terms in power lasting 12 years, with Gingrich as the newly appointed Prime Minister.
The Liberals lost many ministers such as Leslie Aspin, Tom Foley, John Turner, Al Gore and Paul Martin as well as Speaker Charles Rose.
Dang these Assassins guys sound like bad news. Why would anyone support them?
Oh boy, here we go. Another timeline where FDR gets shot by Giuseppe Zangara before taking office and leaves the presidency to ol' Cactus Jack. You know what that means: misery and doom, a worse Great Depression, maybe even an Axis victory in World War II if you really want to stretch it. It's all downhill from he-wait, hold on I'm being handed a note.
What? What?!? What do you mean John Nance Garner is considered one of America's greatest presidents? He was a conservative Texan! What do you mean he passed most of the New Deal and what he didn't pass was stuff that the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional anyway? And didn't try to pack the Supreme Court? And the Depression actually alleviated for good sooner than in OTL? That makes no sense!
And now you're saying Garner paved the way for LBJ to become President in 1957? And Johnson ended up making even more Great Society stuff including universal healthcare? Wow, that...that's odd. Surely this can't last.
Oh, OK then.
So....yeah, President Garner: not as dystopian as one might expect. Not totally rosy (he's not exactly racially enlightened for instance), but he's solid. Who would've thought?
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Interesting TL. I agree that Jack was not would be way more progressive than most people assume. Jack supported deposit insurance (arguably the single most important New Deal program). Among other things, he co-sponsored the Garner-Wagner relief bill in 1932, so there would be large scale public works spending from President Garner as well. Not every Southern Democrat is necessarily a conservative Democrat. For example, Jack was a Wilsonian progressive.
However, Jack's relations with labor will be bad. He would probably crack down on many strikes. This will probably lead to significant labor militancy in Garner's second term. Combined with the recession of 1937–1938 and President Garner's lack of popular charisma, the 1938 midterms will likely be a disaster for the Democrats. I doubt that Jack will be remembered as one of America's greatest presidents after his bad second term.
A Little infobox set in the universe most of my past infoboxes on this thread have been set in
POD: The Adams administration wields the Sedition Act more ruthlessly, and does for scandalmongers like Callender. Jefferson and Madison are unmasked as writing the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, and probably go to chokey too. Adams wins in 1800 and the Federalists cement their position. In the 21st Century Jeffersonian republicanism is the thing of cranks. Who needs abstract notions of freedom or liberty when there is the warm comforting embrace of the General Government? That freedom only means the freedom to be poor or to be hungry, or the freedom to spread subversive ideas; pretty poor freedoms, right?
EDIT: Companion piece.
EDIT: Companion piece.
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