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The United States of Christendom (Jesusland, a seriousish take)
Presidents of the United States of America
2001-2004: George W. Bush / Richard B. Cheney (Republican)
2000: Albert A. Gore Jr. / Joseph I. Lieberman (Democratic), Ralph Nader / Winona LaDuke (Green)
2004: Richard B. Cheney / vacant (Republican) [1]
2004-2006: Richard B. Cheney / John R. Bolton (Republican)
2004: Howard B. Dean / Janet Napolitano (Democratic), David Cobb / Matt Gonzales (Green), Michael Badnarik / Aaron Russo (Libertarian)
2006-2007: John R. Bolton / vacant (Republican) [2]
2007-2010: John R. Bolton / Michael Mukasey (Republican)
2008: John F. Kerry / William B. Richardson (Democratic), Michael R. Bloomberg / Charlesg Hagel (Independent) [3], Mike Gravel / Mary Ruwart (Libertarian), Matt Gonzales / Sedinam Curry (Green)
2010-2011: Michael R. Pence / vacant (Republican) [4]
Presidents of the Christian State under G-d the Father's Sovereignty
2011-2017: Michael R. Pence / Joe Barton (National Union) [5]
2012: Mark R. Warner / Mark Parkinson (Democratic) [6], Steve Stockman / Bob Marshall (Great Awakening), Jim Justice / H. Ross Perot Jr. (Independent)
2016 (unrecognised): James G. Stavridis / Brad Ellsworth (Democratic), Steve Stockman / Michael T. Flynn (Great Awakening)
2017-2018 Michael R. Pence / vacant (National Union)
2018-2021: Michael R. Pence / Dan Patrick (New American Union)
2020-2025: Dan Patrick / vacant (New American Union) [7]
2020: Steve Stockman / Mary Fallin (Great Awakening), Jon Tester / Stephanie Sandlin (Democratic), Tom Hoefling / Scott Bradley (Constitution)
2025-2029: Roy Cooper / Jim Hood (Freedom) [8]
2024: Steve Stockman / Roy Moore (Great Awakening) [9], Karen Pence / Darryl Glenn (New American Union), Dan Patrick / scattered (Independent)
[1] - 9/11 brought America together in fear, while the weighty wars in Iraq and Afghanistan did their best to both strengthen and weaken that newfound resolve. President Bush largely succeeded in keeping up support throughout this period (with stable approvals as 2003 meandered on), but failed to do so with the international community. In early 2004, a nerve gas attack on a congressional staff meeting which featured the president shook the country whole and tore the climate asunder. The Vice President was unharmed and arose to the most important office in the land. Within a month of taking office, an environmental catastrophe would hit as superstorms occurred across the planet. Cheney used the negative opportunity (as well as an unfilled congress) to pass an expansion of the PATRIOT Act and a bomb raid upon the rogue Iran state. After winning election to a full term, Cheney's next act wouuld be to authorise interventions in Iran (which was falling under ever harsher scrutiny after border squabbles and port blockades) and Libya as the Middle East and Africa fell into further instability as a consequence of the environmental destruction. The wars inspired much nerve wracking and added ever more to the federal deficit. Riots broke out in the streets and were forcibly put down by National Guard forces. Cheney disappeared into the shadows in 2006, choosing to remain behind the scenes before his heart finally gave out as his successor picked up the pieces.
[2] - Bolton, having been dealt a poor hand ever since his controversial nomination to the position of VP in 2004, would continue full throttle with the invasion of Iran, implementing a temporary visa ban on Iranian students in the vein of Jimmy Carter after a terrorist attack on the US-Mexican border. Bolton stood in conflict with the rising Russian Federation, which largely survived the onslaught of harsh weather in 2004, the effects which were felt in Bangladesh and elsewhere. An economic crash took place on New Years Eve 2006, resulting in the most severe crunch since the 1920's as debt spiralled. 'Liberal' states that voted for Howard Dean in 2004 simply refused to fund the Iran War or Bolton's visa ban, which saw a harsh reaction from the federal government. In an effort to regain popularity, Bolton signed a repeal of DADT as well as the implementation of LGBT work protections. it was to no avail, as his administration found itself embroiled in scandal after scandal. A second catastrophe hit in 2009 as a destructive beast ravaged New York City before being bombed into the sea. The distance between the government and the Dean States grew ever larger as there were stark divides in the handling of the continuing refugee crisis. Bolton died in 2010 after a letterbomb was deposited in the press room.
[3] - Bloomberg ran on a centrist platform which failed to catch on. A wonder that he still scored 6%.
[4] - President Pence would be truly transformative in his capability in the Oval Office. The Social Accountability and Freedom from Extremism Act turned the country into ever more of a police state, and made deregulation the word of the week in response to the economic depression's after effects. In early 2011 Pence, radicalised after years of Cheney and Bolton in addition to the acts of god that were littered throughout the decade, issued an executive order banning Muslims from entering the US and shutting down the vast majority of mosques. TThis was the final straw, and the Dean States refused to allow any of Pence's orders to be enforced. Pence sent troops into California where they engaged in skirmishes with local guards. In reaction to the 'Massacre at Bakersfield', 15 states (including Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware) declared their secession, forming the Free Federated States of America. They would soon petition for annexation from Canada, and join as provinces. Pence screamed bloody murder but was unable to commission much action as the economy was in even more of a shambles as the debt ceiling collapsed. He would be shot by a Chinese communist double agent. Pence would survive, but the effect on his brain would be magnificent. He was suddenly rash and impatient, radicalised to an extent thought impossible. He used the depopulated congress to make a 'Christian proclamation', ending the Republic and establishing a new 'Christian State' inspired by the examples from millennia prior. Immediately, a 'Pact of the Crucifix' was formed with Russia, which was in the process of occupying the weakened Eastern Europe, and the new remilitarised Japan, which suffered a coup after a weak response to a destructive earthquake.
[5] - The Christian States had become most turbulent in their first few years, with a litany of ordinances against sodomy, public indecency, abortion, and pornographic materials. Fears that America was turning into a World Police were confirmed as Pence thought of himself as a modern day crusader, sending money to the Christian Soldiers of Uganda and tactically nuking rebel strongholds in Mosul and Benghazi. Pence formed an alliance with Assad's Syria, seeing it as a decent counterweight against the Turkish Caliphate, which was by now finding its way through the Russian dominated Balkans. 2012 was an infamous year as another environmental disaster hit, this time by way of neutrinos mutating and heating up the planet, rupturing plate tectonics and causing a massive refugee crisis. Oil became the CS' main export as Pence was forced to dramatically cut spending in order to fund expansion of industrial output. Outbreaks of bird flu and swine flu largely avoided the CS but still claimed the lives of thousands in the 'Texas Quarantine'. The Korean War of 2017 passed the CS by as the South fought to another bitter draw as their allies brawled in the background. Many tactical nukes were used, turning Pyongyang and Seoul into proverbial wastelands. The sudden sinking of Southern Florida in 2019 was yet another humanitarian disaster for Pence to deal with as calls for his removal grew. Even with this, the entire country revolved around him in some manner - it was a personality cult, in essence. This made the dirty bombings of Las Vegas, Houston, and Richmond by agents of the Turkish Caliphate all the worse, as Pence was caught up the latter.
[6] - The Democrats, in a fit of self-pity, brutally crushed the insurgent campaign of John Cougar Mellencamp and instead nominated noted concessionist Mark Warner, who had to evade agents of the National Union throughout the campaign. There would be no such chance in 2016 as instability caused the results of that election (which saw the Democratic nominee James Stavridis win the popular vote) to be ignored.
[7] - Pence's bombastic VP took the reins with gusto. Constantly threatening war with the United States of Canada (the country underwent a rebrand after the government of Elliot Spitzer won a referendum on the abolition of the monarchy), Patrick instead chose to deepen the shutdown on immigration and built more border camps. Patrick also packed the Senate with his own cronies so as to push for harsher voting restrictions and an embargo on the United Pan-Arabic Caliphate, which controlled most of the Middle-East bar Syria, the hardline Israeli state, and Oman. Patrick strengthened the alliance with the collapsing Japanese state, which was outpaced by the Chinese Communist Empire by a hundredfold. Patrick, who carefully welcomed the enroachment of the Eurasian Union into Western Europe with the adminssion of the Danes and the Dutch in 2021 (they saw it as the only defence against the Turkish Caliphate's forces). The coasts of Texas had receded back many miles, and islands were forming close to the new border with the sea. Patrick endorsed the construction of huge battleships, especially as the Chavezian Latin American Commune expanded into Cuba with China's assistance. To Patrick's credit, he willingly surrendered power to the rebranded Democratic party after inadvertently causing their victory by splitting the vote with the Penceist establishment during the election.
[8] - Cooper took advantage of extra-judicial powers to roll back restrictions on social norms,a s well as to cancel many of the costly programs ordered under Pence and Patrick. What a shame for him, as China crossed into Mexico to wage war upon the CS. News is also spreading of the Chavez dynasty's attempted genetic engineering in the Amazon Sea.
[9] - Steve Stockman, the self declared prophet of the West, ran several times over on a platform even more hardline than Pence's. He failed, but in 2024 he came extremely close duo to the split in the NAU.
Presidents of the United States of America
2001-2004: George W. Bush / Richard B. Cheney (Republican)
2000: Albert A. Gore Jr. / Joseph I. Lieberman (Democratic), Ralph Nader / Winona LaDuke (Green)
2004: Richard B. Cheney / vacant (Republican) [1]
2004-2006: Richard B. Cheney / John R. Bolton (Republican)
2004: Howard B. Dean / Janet Napolitano (Democratic), David Cobb / Matt Gonzales (Green), Michael Badnarik / Aaron Russo (Libertarian)
2006-2007: John R. Bolton / vacant (Republican) [2]
2007-2010: John R. Bolton / Michael Mukasey (Republican)
2008: John F. Kerry / William B. Richardson (Democratic), Michael R. Bloomberg / Charlesg Hagel (Independent) [3], Mike Gravel / Mary Ruwart (Libertarian), Matt Gonzales / Sedinam Curry (Green)
2010-2011: Michael R. Pence / vacant (Republican) [4]
Presidents of the Christian State under G-d the Father's Sovereignty
2011-2017: Michael R. Pence / Joe Barton (National Union) [5]
2012: Mark R. Warner / Mark Parkinson (Democratic) [6], Steve Stockman / Bob Marshall (Great Awakening), Jim Justice / H. Ross Perot Jr. (Independent)
2016 (unrecognised): James G. Stavridis / Brad Ellsworth (Democratic), Steve Stockman / Michael T. Flynn (Great Awakening)
2017-2018 Michael R. Pence / vacant (National Union)
2018-2021: Michael R. Pence / Dan Patrick (New American Union)
2020-2025: Dan Patrick / vacant (New American Union) [7]
2020: Steve Stockman / Mary Fallin (Great Awakening), Jon Tester / Stephanie Sandlin (Democratic), Tom Hoefling / Scott Bradley (Constitution)
2025-2029: Roy Cooper / Jim Hood (Freedom) [8]
2024: Steve Stockman / Roy Moore (Great Awakening) [9], Karen Pence / Darryl Glenn (New American Union), Dan Patrick / scattered (Independent)
[1] - 9/11 brought America together in fear, while the weighty wars in Iraq and Afghanistan did their best to both strengthen and weaken that newfound resolve. President Bush largely succeeded in keeping up support throughout this period (with stable approvals as 2003 meandered on), but failed to do so with the international community. In early 2004, a nerve gas attack on a congressional staff meeting which featured the president shook the country whole and tore the climate asunder. The Vice President was unharmed and arose to the most important office in the land. Within a month of taking office, an environmental catastrophe would hit as superstorms occurred across the planet. Cheney used the negative opportunity (as well as an unfilled congress) to pass an expansion of the PATRIOT Act and a bomb raid upon the rogue Iran state. After winning election to a full term, Cheney's next act wouuld be to authorise interventions in Iran (which was falling under ever harsher scrutiny after border squabbles and port blockades) and Libya as the Middle East and Africa fell into further instability as a consequence of the environmental destruction. The wars inspired much nerve wracking and added ever more to the federal deficit. Riots broke out in the streets and were forcibly put down by National Guard forces. Cheney disappeared into the shadows in 2006, choosing to remain behind the scenes before his heart finally gave out as his successor picked up the pieces.
[2] - Bolton, having been dealt a poor hand ever since his controversial nomination to the position of VP in 2004, would continue full throttle with the invasion of Iran, implementing a temporary visa ban on Iranian students in the vein of Jimmy Carter after a terrorist attack on the US-Mexican border. Bolton stood in conflict with the rising Russian Federation, which largely survived the onslaught of harsh weather in 2004, the effects which were felt in Bangladesh and elsewhere. An economic crash took place on New Years Eve 2006, resulting in the most severe crunch since the 1920's as debt spiralled. 'Liberal' states that voted for Howard Dean in 2004 simply refused to fund the Iran War or Bolton's visa ban, which saw a harsh reaction from the federal government. In an effort to regain popularity, Bolton signed a repeal of DADT as well as the implementation of LGBT work protections. it was to no avail, as his administration found itself embroiled in scandal after scandal. A second catastrophe hit in 2009 as a destructive beast ravaged New York City before being bombed into the sea. The distance between the government and the Dean States grew ever larger as there were stark divides in the handling of the continuing refugee crisis. Bolton died in 2010 after a letterbomb was deposited in the press room.
[3] - Bloomberg ran on a centrist platform which failed to catch on. A wonder that he still scored 6%.
[4] - President Pence would be truly transformative in his capability in the Oval Office. The Social Accountability and Freedom from Extremism Act turned the country into ever more of a police state, and made deregulation the word of the week in response to the economic depression's after effects. In early 2011 Pence, radicalised after years of Cheney and Bolton in addition to the acts of god that were littered throughout the decade, issued an executive order banning Muslims from entering the US and shutting down the vast majority of mosques. TThis was the final straw, and the Dean States refused to allow any of Pence's orders to be enforced. Pence sent troops into California where they engaged in skirmishes with local guards. In reaction to the 'Massacre at Bakersfield', 15 states (including Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware) declared their secession, forming the Free Federated States of America. They would soon petition for annexation from Canada, and join as provinces. Pence screamed bloody murder but was unable to commission much action as the economy was in even more of a shambles as the debt ceiling collapsed. He would be shot by a Chinese communist double agent. Pence would survive, but the effect on his brain would be magnificent. He was suddenly rash and impatient, radicalised to an extent thought impossible. He used the depopulated congress to make a 'Christian proclamation', ending the Republic and establishing a new 'Christian State' inspired by the examples from millennia prior. Immediately, a 'Pact of the Crucifix' was formed with Russia, which was in the process of occupying the weakened Eastern Europe, and the new remilitarised Japan, which suffered a coup after a weak response to a destructive earthquake.
[5] - The Christian States had become most turbulent in their first few years, with a litany of ordinances against sodomy, public indecency, abortion, and pornographic materials. Fears that America was turning into a World Police were confirmed as Pence thought of himself as a modern day crusader, sending money to the Christian Soldiers of Uganda and tactically nuking rebel strongholds in Mosul and Benghazi. Pence formed an alliance with Assad's Syria, seeing it as a decent counterweight against the Turkish Caliphate, which was by now finding its way through the Russian dominated Balkans. 2012 was an infamous year as another environmental disaster hit, this time by way of neutrinos mutating and heating up the planet, rupturing plate tectonics and causing a massive refugee crisis. Oil became the CS' main export as Pence was forced to dramatically cut spending in order to fund expansion of industrial output. Outbreaks of bird flu and swine flu largely avoided the CS but still claimed the lives of thousands in the 'Texas Quarantine'. The Korean War of 2017 passed the CS by as the South fought to another bitter draw as their allies brawled in the background. Many tactical nukes were used, turning Pyongyang and Seoul into proverbial wastelands. The sudden sinking of Southern Florida in 2019 was yet another humanitarian disaster for Pence to deal with as calls for his removal grew. Even with this, the entire country revolved around him in some manner - it was a personality cult, in essence. This made the dirty bombings of Las Vegas, Houston, and Richmond by agents of the Turkish Caliphate all the worse, as Pence was caught up the latter.
[6] - The Democrats, in a fit of self-pity, brutally crushed the insurgent campaign of John Cougar Mellencamp and instead nominated noted concessionist Mark Warner, who had to evade agents of the National Union throughout the campaign. There would be no such chance in 2016 as instability caused the results of that election (which saw the Democratic nominee James Stavridis win the popular vote) to be ignored.
[7] - Pence's bombastic VP took the reins with gusto. Constantly threatening war with the United States of Canada (the country underwent a rebrand after the government of Elliot Spitzer won a referendum on the abolition of the monarchy), Patrick instead chose to deepen the shutdown on immigration and built more border camps. Patrick also packed the Senate with his own cronies so as to push for harsher voting restrictions and an embargo on the United Pan-Arabic Caliphate, which controlled most of the Middle-East bar Syria, the hardline Israeli state, and Oman. Patrick strengthened the alliance with the collapsing Japanese state, which was outpaced by the Chinese Communist Empire by a hundredfold. Patrick, who carefully welcomed the enroachment of the Eurasian Union into Western Europe with the adminssion of the Danes and the Dutch in 2021 (they saw it as the only defence against the Turkish Caliphate's forces). The coasts of Texas had receded back many miles, and islands were forming close to the new border with the sea. Patrick endorsed the construction of huge battleships, especially as the Chavezian Latin American Commune expanded into Cuba with China's assistance. To Patrick's credit, he willingly surrendered power to the rebranded Democratic party after inadvertently causing their victory by splitting the vote with the Penceist establishment during the election.
[8] - Cooper took advantage of extra-judicial powers to roll back restrictions on social norms,a s well as to cancel many of the costly programs ordered under Pence and Patrick. What a shame for him, as China crossed into Mexico to wage war upon the CS. News is also spreading of the Chavez dynasty's attempted genetic engineering in the Amazon Sea.
[9] - Steve Stockman, the self declared prophet of the West, ran several times over on a platform even more hardline than Pence's. He failed, but in 2024 he came extremely close duo to the split in the NAU.
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