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Great peek into the electorate, there. One thought: a spark of anti-Popery (dammit autocorrect, nobody’s anti-Popeye) were to catch fire, that could really chop the tail off the would-be Reagan coalition. And another one...You know, I haven’t brought him up on this thread, since I was gonna...

No exaggeration, the most thrilling legal drama all year. I’ve got the TiVo already programmed for part 2. So the ruling on parody...how does that track with OTL? It has me wondering how the ruling might correlate if some...oh, some media magnate, say, were to set up a kind of network...

One of the first TLs to get me sucked in on the board answered exactly this question: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-fitter-italian-military.68257/ Sadly there is no part 2, but what’s there explains exactly how the military could be practically reformed.

:hushedface::(:'( I am forming the Save Rinka Committee, who is with me!

The Namibian coast is pretty desolate, and this Namibia is lacking a lot of the interior and north where pre-colonial settlement was thickest. It wouldn’t take much German settlement to overwhelm local populations when mining got started. Look at those vote totals for a clue. Though that...

resist...resist...reIS THAT WHY THEY CALL IT THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT!?!?

Wouldn't that be nice? How early do you (or anyone) think we can get a national info policy prefiguring the concerns of the net neutrality movement? Fold in more open access, create a different future for IP. (I realize that balloons the scope of this little premise immeasurably.)

Watching The War Room, the documentary following the Clinton campaign in '92. George Stephanopoulos just praised James Carville's phrase, "It's the economy, stupid," by stating, "I bet if you Nexis it you'd get about a thousand results." Priceless. So just for laughs, how do we get LexisNexis...

Why not go backwards and fill in some time periods? Maybe even with just one-off specials. Take each sketch from that New Years special and make it a TV movie. Just got an image of Blackadder playing off Olivia Coleman’s Queen Anne and all I can say is: it’s not too late!

His charisma was largely a function of public reaction to W’s presidency, which doesn’t play nearly as well in the context of a waning Clinton presidency. Now, a situation where Gore runs again in 2004, Dean could definitely be a strong contender for VP.

I asked a similar question once. Link if you want to see other people’s thoughts https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-a-century-of-bearded-presidents.296586/

I have few strong opinions myself. There’s plenty of commentary online (Lindsay Ellis on YouTube is probably the most coherent voice on the subject). But they’re definitely attempts to meld Disney-cute with more serious, award-worthy themes, and I do think that particular aspect of them...

Certainly a round of panicked articles from the weeklies along the lines of, “Is this the end of live acting?” Which they will all answer 35 paragraphs in with a pretty much unadorned, “no,” but it’s exactly the kind of thing Time and the like love to put out there. There must be a Disney...

Oh right, I forgot about all of that somehow. :openedeyewink: What a strange place the internet is.

Care to to clarify your "even more openly"?

I think we'd have to look into some of the legislation that made it through Congress with a close vote during this period (or made it only tightly out of committee). It might cause him/the party to think more carefully about some of the provisions in the major crime legislation of the era...

I foresee a more energized Jackson campaign in ‘84, which in turn gives those campaign issues more exposure and prominence, even as Jackson is still likely to lose the nomination. It’s a broader base for the country to more seriously grapple with accusations of endemic racism in the new GOP in...

There's enough "on the other hand"ing in the OP to maybe make this work. "Makes Me Wanna Holler" was published in '94 and from what I remember it walked that line; injustice bad, the affected communities must also do better. And there's always been an undercurrent of respectability politics...

Lighter, often partially illustrated reads for older elementary students and young teens were a thing when I was growing up in the 90s. And Bev Cleary’s books at least fit those specs from an earlier era. Only thing missing is the serial publishing and physical size requirements. Maybe comics...

Sorry for the trivial response, but Al Franken's Paul Tsongas was one of my favorite SNL presidential impressions back when. It might up Franken's entertainer profile while at the same time giving him a slightly different personal political trajectory. (I already had this sketch in my head...