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  1. Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the story.

    Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the story.

  2. Gipper vs Gonzo or: Freak Power Storms America

    Part Two: The Great Gonzo of American Freak Power Ronald Reagan was sworn into office on noon, January 20th, 1969. Receiving him was a very tired and gray Lyndon Johnson. The outgoing President showed Reagan to the Oval Office, then wished the Californian good luck and left the White...

  3. Gipper vs Gonzo or: Freak Power Storms America

    Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying the story.

  4. Gipper vs Gonzo or: Freak Power Storms America

    This is a 'mini'-timeline (it's still about twelve thousand words long), mostly focused on the doings of Hunter S. Thompson throughout an alternate 1968 and beyond. There will be two parts; one today, the finale posted tomorrow. This first chapter focuses on events in 1968, up to the election...

  5. Who could have been the most chaotic, insane and "lost" American president ever if elected?

    William Hale Thompson, who was Mayor of Chicago from 1915-1923, then again from 1927-1931. Most famous for being hilariously corrupt and wholly owned by Al Capone during his final term as mayor. Also for enforcing a censorship regime over the Chicago Public Library which specifically banned...

  6. The most ASB moments to happen in history... that still happened (Pre-1900)

    Bernadotte becoming King of Sweden is one of those events where the wider framing of things is completely nuts, but the smaller details all make a curious sort of sense. After all, the situation was that the Swedish government wanted to head off a potential succession crisis by electing a...

  7. HBO's The Plot Against America

    I'm getting major McCarthyism vibes off of Lindbergh's antics, especially with him using the FBI and other state organs to harass enemies of the administration. It's all a lot more slow moving and quietly insidious than what I thought would happen, which was the USA turning into Germany 2.0...

  8. President Elect 1988 - Megathread

    No Lyndon - Part II Despite the optimism and promise that accompanied President Kennedy's reelection, it soon became clear that the administration was in for a troubled second term. Martin Luther King Jr., already disgruntled by what he saw as purposefully slow action from Kennedy on Civil...

  9. President Elect 1988 - Megathread

    Not Lyndon It wasn't a huge surprise when, just ahead of the 1964 Democratic Convention, incumbent President John F. Kennedy announced that he would not be retaining Lyndon Johnson as his running mate/Vice President. The two men had always shared a rather contentious relationship (fueled at...

  10. The Chennault Affair and Beyond

    3. “Of all the myriad takes I’ve heard on the Chennault mess, there’s always very little attention paid to how Brezhnev and the Soviets have profited from it. It was only due to Soviet pressure that the North Vietnamese ever attended the Paris talks in the first place, and this was a very...

  11. The Chennault Affair and Beyond

    Yes. Nixon is probably very lucky that Johnson will be leaving on January 20th, replaced by the much more mild mannered Hubert Humphrey. And what consequences there will be. This probably won't go super in depth as to all of the minor figures indicted or imprisoned as a result of this, but...

  12. The Chennault Affair and Beyond

    2. “What I hate is that they all gave him so much flak for not conceding. Would you concede a stolen election?” Nixon associate Fred LaRue, quoted in ‘The Rise and Fall of Tricky Dick’ by Roger Stone “Lyndon Johnson has never been the sort of person to take a slight and do nothing about it...

  13. The Chennault Affair and Beyond

    Thanks. My best assumption for RFK is that the assassination never happened and he lost to Humphrey at the convention. So now he's alive and well to take part in the upcoming Chennault investigations. The investigators don't have Haldeman's notes (yet) but they do have some other things...

  14. The Chennault Affair and Beyond

    So, this is the first timeline I've written in almost three years. It's mostly about LBJ and Humphrey deciding to make Nixon's sabotage of the Paris peace talks public. 1. “Do you solemnly swear that you will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?” “I do.”...

  15. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    I decided to run for the presidency as Al Gore trapped in George W. Bush's body. I denounced coal extraction, said the US should join the Kyoto Protocol, defended Social Security and I still won. I did lose the popular vote by nearly two million ballots, but who cares about the will of the...

  16. President Forever and other 270soft games Megathread

    They became aware of the simulation and want you to know. Or the game is just weird sometimes. I choose to believe the former.

  17. President Elect 1988 - Megathread

    Seven Shots: Part III [This part is very long and mostly about alt-universe Ted Bundy. Clearly I listen to too many true crime podcasts.] It remains nearly impossible, even today, to speak about the Evans administration without bringing up Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy joined the Evans campaign in...

  18. President Elect 1988 - Megathread

    Seven Shots: Part II It wasn't exactly a surprise to see the House elect Hubert Humphrey and Fred Harris to the presidency. Not only had Nixon probably colluded with a foreign government in service of getting elected, he'd also lost the popular vote by about eight hundred thousand ballots...

  19. President Elect 1988 - Megathread

    Seven Shots: Part I Senator Robert Kennedy had been shot, that was about all anyone could agree on for the first few chaotic hours after the kitchen of Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel turned abruptly into a shooting gallery. There had been shots fired, a suspect had been arrested, and the...

  20. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    The closest state here was Tennessee, which went to Bush by about eight hundred votes. I'm actually kinda genuinely upset right now.
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