Recent content by Ulysses Orbis

  1. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VII (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    I wrote Gabriel Over the White House fan fiction explaining why an angel would become a fascist dictator. The short answer is that the Gabriel in the title is actually the Trickster from Supernatural. The Republic Shudders: An Alternate 1932 (part of A Fictional History of the United States)...
  2. Map Thread XXII

    Map released by A24 showing the lines in their upcoming Second American Civil War movie. California and Texas are apparently allies (???) It seems like they don't want to reference current political divides, but the resulting factions are nonsensical. I personally preferred my speculative...
  3. Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War

    The Sidney Hillman conspiracy theory is a rather obscure but real talking point from the 1944 Presidential Election claiming that Moscow influenced the 1944 DNC through Hillman and the CIO-Pac. Since Truman was more anti-Communist than Wallace the theory didn't make any sense and seems to have...
  4. Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War
    Threadmarks: The Two Hoovers

    The Two Hoovers The two most prominent Americans named Hoover took divergent approaches towards the White scandal after the President was publicly accused of espionage. Following the publication of the Chambers allegations, J. Edgar Hoover mounted a public relations campaign intended to...
  5. Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War
    Threadmarks: International Reaction to the White Scandal

    An Interview with John Maynard Keynes “Mr. Dahl, I assure you that these fairy tales in the American newspapers are entirely impossible,” said John Maynard Keynes, sitting in his living room chair with a glass of champagne. Keynes was in poor health and was housebound- he would die a few...
  6. Map Thread XXI

    The Third American Civil War (part of A Fictional History of the United States) The long awaited Phineas and Ferb/Blood Meridian crossover. Description of factions below the map. 1. Gilead- After Republican presidential nominee Nehemiah Scudder claimed that electoral fraud by the...
  7. Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War

    Truman was defeated for re-election in 1946 by James Kern. Kern won the seat OTL so there are no bearings on the size of the GOP's Senate majority or the larger setting. Truman's political career is over though.
  8. Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War
    Threadmarks: October Surprise

    Henry Wallace meets the President “Yes, Henry, please do come in.” Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace walked into the Oval Office and shook hands with Harry White. “Good afternoon, Mr. President.” “Henry, I’ll get straight to the point. If you have looked at the opinion polling lately, you...
  9. Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War

    The Haganah and the Irgun are still trying to establish a Jewish state in British Palestine, regardless of any support they may or may not receive from foreign powers. I don't think there's a reason for them to be relevant here. They seemed to have no connection with the Ware/Perlo Groups (with...
  10. Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War
    Threadmarks: The Death of Gil Winant

    THE DEATH OF GIL WINANT “My conversation with Sarah Churchill,” said Ian Fleming to Roald Dahl, “clarifies the timeline of events before Winant’s suicide. The official explanation of the American government is that Gil Winant killed himself out of grief following the execution of his son. Those...
  11. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    What If Bugs Bunny cut Florida off the United States? This infobox is inspired by the Bugs Bunny cartoon Rebel Rabbit, which is the origin of the Bugs Bunny Florida gif.
  12. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    What If Tony Stark died in the Battle of New York? (Hail Hydra: The Pierce Presidency and an alternate MCU) My pitch for What If? Season 2. Alternatively it's my Halloween infobox. In 2012, Tony Stark is killed redirecting a nuclear missile launched by the World Security Council at New York...
  13. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    I think Lethbridge-Stewart retired from UNIT by the 1990s., if you want to stick close to Canon.
  14. Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War

    Sadly, I confused Robert Eichelsburger with Lawrence Eagleburger, but this post makes me wish there was a real-life General Eagleburger to be made the main character of a military thriller.
  15. Red Spies in the White House: An Alternate Cold War
    Threadmarks: The Korean Uprising

    APPLETON PUBLIC LIBRARY, WISCONSIN Judge Joseph McCarthy, a Republican candidate for the U.S Senate, stood inside a meeting room. Although the crowd he was addressing was not large, the meeting room was so small the crowd was overflowing, and numerous attendees at the event could not find...
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