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Quebec_Dave
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They could make Johnson Trump's VP
Ummmmmmm... No, they can't...
The House would choose between Clinton, Trump and Johnson. Each of the fifty state delegations will have one vote and the state must have a majority (not plurality!) of its members vote for one candidate. If the candidate with the most votes has. Take for example, Texas. Texas sends 36 members to the House of Representatives. There are 25 Republicans and 11 Democrats. 19 members must vote for the same candidate. If the Democrats all vote for Clinton and 7 or more of the more libertarian leaning Republicans vote for Johnson, Texas will be counted as an abstention. A candidate must win a majority of 26 states to be elected president.
Meanwhile, the Senate elects the Vice President. Each senator gets one vote. The Senate must choose between the top two candidates for Vice President in terms of electoral votes. As such, Weld is eliminated. Assuming senators vote along party lines, the party that holds a majority of seats in the Senate will elect their nominee as Vice President. If the house stays deadlocked, the person elected by the a Senate will remain Vice President but serve as Acting President unless and until the House elects a President. If the Senate is itself deadlocked 50-50 and no senators defect to the nominee of the other party, the Speaker of the House will becoming Acting President assuming he or she (probably a he, as in Paul Ryan) until either the House elects a new President or the Senate elects a new Vice President. Unlike a Vice President serving as Acting President, Ryan would have to resign as Speaker AND as a member of Congress to serve as Acting President and will be out of the job as soon as the new President or Vice President cum Acting President has been selected.
Quebec_Dave
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Actually, no. The Senate can only choose among the top two electoral college vote getters for Vice President. Johnson is eligible for selection, Weld isn't.
Why are so many people unaware of how the electoral college works? Is it out of denial because they want to forget just how much of a constitutional ticking time bomb it is?
Quebec_Dave
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Don't forget that some of those Republicans, particularly in some of the Western "At-Large" states have Republicans of a more Libertarian bent. If the Senate stays Republican and elects Pence, they could vote for Johnson. Trump would actually want the a Senate to stay Democratic to scare enough of the wavering Republicans to vote for him to prevent Warren from becoming Acting President. If Johnson gets the popular vote percentage that is shown in the wiki box, he probably performed very well in some of those a Western states that Trump won. Voting for Johnson and to block Trump would be political suicide if it results in Acting President Warren but not if it results in Acting President Pence. After all, many of those Western states benefit from trade and many of those congressman are the beneficiaries of largesse from agribusiness and the fossil fuels industry. That, combined with a stron libertarian bent among some quarters and an undercurrent of social conservatives make either Pence or Johnson more in tune with the people of those states than a Trump does. Remember, they were actually some of Trump's worst states in the primary season. Even after Cruz and Kasich dropped out, he got less than 2/3rds of the vote running essentially unopposed in Nebraska!
Watchmen itself is technically that for at least the first 20 years after Hooded Justice's debut. Dr. Manhattan is either the first or second character with posthuman capabilities. depending whether you consider Ozymandias' intellect posthuman (the Original Writer leaves that as open to reader interpretation as the final panel).
Cross-posting from my Morgenthau series.
My first attempt at making a map. This one is for Indonesia, a large chunk of which remains with the Netherlands ITTL.
My first attempt at making a map. This one is for Indonesia, a large chunk of which remains with the Netherlands ITTL.
Completely Done with a Computer,Vol 1 is the debut double album by American artist Easy Man released on September 24,2018.
The album first came to fruition when Easy Man,real name Daniel James Hallason,first got a Apple computer in 2016. After that,he discovered the Apple-created system Garageband. Hallason was completely fascinated by Garageband,and his goal was to create a whole album from a computer.
In this album,Easy Man creates songs of bunches of genres,like EDM (Daybright),Krautrock (Evolution of Ages),Progressive Rock (Guardian Angel),modern Pop (Hit Those Dance Moves),classic rock and roll (Shaking It Up) and R&B "Please Stay".
In the end,he had enough material to release it as two discs. And on September 24,Easy Man released his creation to the world following heavy promotion from Apple,the makers of Garageband,who declared the album "the beginning of Top 40 computer music".
8 songs from the abum were released as singles:
"Daylight" (#18 on Hot 100)
"Rule the Lies" (#35 on Hot 100)
"Hit Those Dance Moves" (#6 on Hot 100)
"Please Stay" (#3 on Hot 100)
"To the End" [Cover of Blur song] (#27 on Hot 100)
"Self Hell" (#14 on Hot 100)
"Hit Parade" (#5 on Hot 100)
"In the Ghetto" (#32 on Hot 100)
The album topped the iTunes chart within hours and opened up at #8 on the Billboard 200.
Within 13 weeks,it found itself on the top of the 200 and stayed there for 10 weeks.
The album was a critical and commercial success,with one critic calling Easy Man "a master of music for his time",calling his blends of music "perfect and smooth",calling it the best album since Definitely Maybe.
On Metacritic,the average score for the album is 94/100.
The album has been called one of the greatest albums of all time and "introduced people to what computers can do" and a "whole bunch of new ideas".
Rolling Stone called it the 3rd best album of 2018 and ranked it at #8 on the Best albums of the 2010's.
Rolling Stone,on its 2022 update of the 500 Greatest Albums of all time,ranked the album the 163rd greatest album of all time.
This isn't from my previous Socialist America thing.
Americo-Africans are the descendants of Blue emigres from the former United States in the aftermath of the Second Revolution. While the revolutionary government claimed control of all former American territories, they had little naval capability at the time to enforce these claims and had little reach beyond the shores of North America. The Congo Free State was at the time held in trust by the United States, after the revelations of the Comber Report saw that colony stripped away from the Belgian King Leopold. It was sufficiently for away from the newborn International Republic of Workingmen for the Blue emigres to find a safe home here.
A government in exile was swiftly established after the end of the Civil War, and the modern Congo Free State exists as a technical client of the United States. The President is in effect ceremonial, their power limited to foreign policy, and appointing the more powerful Governor who presides over the Congress. The institution of Congress is still composed of representatives of the many states of the Union, elected only by naturalised citizens of the United States, who are in effect purely Americo-Africans, excluding the native population from any part in the political sphere. The Congo Free State is a white minority democracy, and a brutal dictatorship for the non-white majority.
Americo-Africans are numerous in other parts of the old American Empire, including Liberia and the Pacific equivalent of the Congo Free States, the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Many Americo-Africans have returned home to North America, a generation or more after their forefathers fled. There is a great deal of controversy regarding the relationship between the Congo Free State and the IRW, notably the internment and 'harmonisation' of returnees.
Americo-Africans are the descendants of Blue emigres from the former United States in the aftermath of the Second Revolution. While the revolutionary government claimed control of all former American territories, they had little naval capability at the time to enforce these claims and had little reach beyond the shores of North America. The Congo Free State was at the time held in trust by the United States, after the revelations of the Comber Report saw that colony stripped away from the Belgian King Leopold. It was sufficiently for away from the newborn International Republic of Workingmen for the Blue emigres to find a safe home here.
A government in exile was swiftly established after the end of the Civil War, and the modern Congo Free State exists as a technical client of the United States. The President is in effect ceremonial, their power limited to foreign policy, and appointing the more powerful Governor who presides over the Congress. The institution of Congress is still composed of representatives of the many states of the Union, elected only by naturalised citizens of the United States, who are in effect purely Americo-Africans, excluding the native population from any part in the political sphere. The Congo Free State is a white minority democracy, and a brutal dictatorship for the non-white majority.
Americo-Africans are numerous in other parts of the old American Empire, including Liberia and the Pacific equivalent of the Congo Free States, the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Many Americo-Africans have returned home to North America, a generation or more after their forefathers fled. There is a great deal of controversy regarding the relationship between the Congo Free State and the IRW, notably the internment and 'harmonisation' of returnees.
Lost the game
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Iron Lady overseas
In December of 1957, Charles de Gaulle was involved in a traffic accident which resulted in a compound fracture of the distal end of the left radius. After checking himself into the emergency room, it was decided that the wrist would need to be set in place with pins in order to heal properly. Unfortunately, during the surgery contaminated pins were used, and a few days later de Gaulle was checked into the hospital once again due to a resulting staph infection. A new antibiotic, erythromycin, was used to treat this infection. de Gaulle complained several days later of faintness and shortness of breath, and it was determined that the erythromycin had led to tachycardia. To treat this, they prescribed another new drug, dispoyramide. A few hours later, the interactions of the two drugs led de Gaulle to go experience a myocardial infarction. After several attempts to revive him, time of death was called at 14:31.
The death of the lion of the French right exacerbated problems in that country, as the right now had no leader. At that point the Fourth Republic had largely lost credibility to those on the right, as a revolving door of Prime Ministers led to disorder at home and humiliation abroad.
The greatest issue at hand was that of Algeria. Many on the right were categorically opposed to any withdrawal from that country despite the cost of maintaining a French presence there. After all, for more than a century the territory had been a part of Metropolitan France. What made things worse was the humiliating pullout from Indochina, especially as the North Vietnamese seemed set to take the South and the Pathet Lao had effectively seized control of the east of that country.
in 1960, after Parliament voted to withdraw from Algeria, a military coup occurred, as Algerian paratroopers seized control in Oran, Constantine, Algeirs, and Paris. Parliament was dissolved and a state of emergency was declared. Members of the communist party were arrested immediately, and over the next few years even MPs and members of SFIO came under suspicion. All elections were canceled and a military junta reestablished l'Etat Francais.
Among the knock-on effects of this was largely scuppering plans for a European Economic Community. The European Coal and Steel Community was dissolved as well. In its place, a European Free Trade Area was established between the remaining members of the ECSC and Great Britain. Within the Council of Europe a European Community was established in 1966 with greater international cooperation. This led to the concept of a "multi-speed Europe," in which certain countries enjoyed greater levels of integration, while others (namely the UK,) stayed more distant. It was the consensus of both the Conservative and Labour Parties that Britain's place was as a conduit between Europe and the Western Hemisphere, connected to both but fully integrated into neither.
France's economic isolation led to high inflation and high unemployment. By 1967, the situation had become untenable. In order to maintain control of Algeria, widespread conscription was taking place. Many poor and working-class french who might normally be swayed by the cultural conservatism of the Junta instead opposed it as they watched their sons get sent across the Mediterranean to die. On December 28th, the first demonstrations against the Junta began.
These initial demonstrations were quickly and brutally suppressed, as blood spattered the snow along the campus of the University of Paris. However, this only enraged the public, and prompted greater demonstrations. On January 3rd, 1968, despite the cold, three million people showed up to protest the Junta along the Champs Elysee. In response, army units entered the city and cleared the protesters.
It was on January 4th that Howard Kelleher, an Associated Press photographer, captured the iconic image of the Second French Revolution. As a convoy of tanks rolled down the Boulevard de Raspail, an elderly woman out shopping stood in front of the tanks and refused to allow them to pass. In response, a pair of soldiers took the woman into custody. Kelleher captured the moments in a series of photographs as he slipped through the city unescorted.
By January 22nd, the demonstrations had been going on for nearly a month. CIA and MI6 sources claimed that Anarcho-Syndicalist and Communist sympathizers were among the major organizers of the demonstrations. On January 24th, one of the battalions that rolled into Paris was made up of conscripts from the local area. After being given orders to fire live rounds into the crowd occupying the Champs du Mars. Instead, the battalion erupted into open revolt and joined the protesters. Tanks rolled up to the Elysees Palace and soldoers entered to arrest General Maurice Challe, Chairman of the National Salvation Council and Interim President of France. He was eventually shot while attempting to escape. The rebels established the National Transitional Assembly as a provisional government and freed many of the regime's political prisoners, some of whom then joined the NTA.
Other units mutinied as well all over France, and soldiers in Algeria refused to leave their barracks. The Oran Mutiny on January 27th led to the conscripts in Algeria arresting or killing their own officers and inviting the Provisional Algerian Republic to take control of the city.
With the 24 Janvier movement in control of Paris and the Junta fled to Lyon, NATO decided to get ahead of the situation. President Smith, along with West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and British Prime Minister Frederick Lee, recognized the NTA as the legitimate government of France. On February 2nd, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Lyman Lemnitzer, gave the order, and NATO forces crossed from Belgium into France. Fighting was scattered, as many French Army units simply joined the NATO forces and seized control. Lyon fell to combined Revolutionary and NATO.
The Fifth Republic would largely be a continuation of the Fourth. A ceremonial President would be elected every ten years but would have very little power. Elections would take place along mixed-member proportional lines.
The discrediting of the French righ would have far-reaching effects. Despite the best efforts of NATO to pull France more in line (French membership in NATO was restored in 1970), France pursued a policy of conciliation with the USSR and the Eastern Bloc. With the rise to power of reformist Soviet Premier Alexei Kosigyn in 1969, French policy centered around le Politique Est, which would ultimately be the catalyst for the end of the Cold War and the Final Detente.
1960 United States Presidential Election
Assassination of Richard M Nixon
1964 Presidential Election
1964 Congressional Elections
1968 Presidential Election
In December of 1957, Charles de Gaulle was involved in a traffic accident which resulted in a compound fracture of the distal end of the left radius. After checking himself into the emergency room, it was decided that the wrist would need to be set in place with pins in order to heal properly. Unfortunately, during the surgery contaminated pins were used, and a few days later de Gaulle was checked into the hospital once again due to a resulting staph infection. A new antibiotic, erythromycin, was used to treat this infection. de Gaulle complained several days later of faintness and shortness of breath, and it was determined that the erythromycin had led to tachycardia. To treat this, they prescribed another new drug, dispoyramide. A few hours later, the interactions of the two drugs led de Gaulle to go experience a myocardial infarction. After several attempts to revive him, time of death was called at 14:31.
The death of the lion of the French right exacerbated problems in that country, as the right now had no leader. At that point the Fourth Republic had largely lost credibility to those on the right, as a revolving door of Prime Ministers led to disorder at home and humiliation abroad.
The greatest issue at hand was that of Algeria. Many on the right were categorically opposed to any withdrawal from that country despite the cost of maintaining a French presence there. After all, for more than a century the territory had been a part of Metropolitan France. What made things worse was the humiliating pullout from Indochina, especially as the North Vietnamese seemed set to take the South and the Pathet Lao had effectively seized control of the east of that country.
in 1960, after Parliament voted to withdraw from Algeria, a military coup occurred, as Algerian paratroopers seized control in Oran, Constantine, Algeirs, and Paris. Parliament was dissolved and a state of emergency was declared. Members of the communist party were arrested immediately, and over the next few years even MPs and members of SFIO came under suspicion. All elections were canceled and a military junta reestablished l'Etat Francais.
Among the knock-on effects of this was largely scuppering plans for a European Economic Community. The European Coal and Steel Community was dissolved as well. In its place, a European Free Trade Area was established between the remaining members of the ECSC and Great Britain. Within the Council of Europe a European Community was established in 1966 with greater international cooperation. This led to the concept of a "multi-speed Europe," in which certain countries enjoyed greater levels of integration, while others (namely the UK,) stayed more distant. It was the consensus of both the Conservative and Labour Parties that Britain's place was as a conduit between Europe and the Western Hemisphere, connected to both but fully integrated into neither.
France's economic isolation led to high inflation and high unemployment. By 1967, the situation had become untenable. In order to maintain control of Algeria, widespread conscription was taking place. Many poor and working-class french who might normally be swayed by the cultural conservatism of the Junta instead opposed it as they watched their sons get sent across the Mediterranean to die. On December 28th, the first demonstrations against the Junta began.
These initial demonstrations were quickly and brutally suppressed, as blood spattered the snow along the campus of the University of Paris. However, this only enraged the public, and prompted greater demonstrations. On January 3rd, 1968, despite the cold, three million people showed up to protest the Junta along the Champs Elysee. In response, army units entered the city and cleared the protesters.
It was on January 4th that Howard Kelleher, an Associated Press photographer, captured the iconic image of the Second French Revolution. As a convoy of tanks rolled down the Boulevard de Raspail, an elderly woman out shopping stood in front of the tanks and refused to allow them to pass. In response, a pair of soldiers took the woman into custody. Kelleher captured the moments in a series of photographs as he slipped through the city unescorted.
By January 22nd, the demonstrations had been going on for nearly a month. CIA and MI6 sources claimed that Anarcho-Syndicalist and Communist sympathizers were among the major organizers of the demonstrations. On January 24th, one of the battalions that rolled into Paris was made up of conscripts from the local area. After being given orders to fire live rounds into the crowd occupying the Champs du Mars. Instead, the battalion erupted into open revolt and joined the protesters. Tanks rolled up to the Elysees Palace and soldoers entered to arrest General Maurice Challe, Chairman of the National Salvation Council and Interim President of France. He was eventually shot while attempting to escape. The rebels established the National Transitional Assembly as a provisional government and freed many of the regime's political prisoners, some of whom then joined the NTA.
Other units mutinied as well all over France, and soldiers in Algeria refused to leave their barracks. The Oran Mutiny on January 27th led to the conscripts in Algeria arresting or killing their own officers and inviting the Provisional Algerian Republic to take control of the city.
With the 24 Janvier movement in control of Paris and the Junta fled to Lyon, NATO decided to get ahead of the situation. President Smith, along with West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and British Prime Minister Frederick Lee, recognized the NTA as the legitimate government of France. On February 2nd, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Lyman Lemnitzer, gave the order, and NATO forces crossed from Belgium into France. Fighting was scattered, as many French Army units simply joined the NATO forces and seized control. Lyon fell to combined Revolutionary and NATO.
The Fifth Republic would largely be a continuation of the Fourth. A ceremonial President would be elected every ten years but would have very little power. Elections would take place along mixed-member proportional lines.
The discrediting of the French righ would have far-reaching effects. Despite the best efforts of NATO to pull France more in line (French membership in NATO was restored in 1970), France pursued a policy of conciliation with the USSR and the Eastern Bloc. With the rise to power of reformist Soviet Premier Alexei Kosigyn in 1969, French policy centered around le Politique Est, which would ultimately be the catalyst for the end of the Cold War and the Final Detente.
1960 United States Presidential Election
Assassination of Richard M Nixon
1964 Presidential Election
1964 Congressional Elections
1968 Presidential Election
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Accurateworldwar
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THE POWER OF THE ORDER PART I (THE WORLD WITHOUT KELLY):
Servant Paul had everything. Money, fame, the Presidency, the entirety of Congress in his bare hands...but Servant Paul made a fateful mistake. And he dearly, dearly paid the price of the order. May Kelly Himself never give such a cruel punishment to His Servant ever again, blessed may He be in our hearts and spirits.
It had all began and ended on a warm, calm day in August of 2016. Donald Trump, the cursed sinner who prayed to a false god and was an accursed and wicked man in his spirits, had the audacity of being the Republican Party's nominee for the presidency in that election year. But, of course, Kelly, may blessed He be, knew of this man's false beliefs and had even confronted him about the matter. But, alas, the Accursed Donald refused to agree to our deals. Back then, we were just a regional sect, a small and holy bud on a sinful flower known as the World Without Kelly.
But then, Trump's inner and outer demons came home to roost. Kelly, may blessed He may be in our souls, damned the man to eternity in the red spirit world of hell-fire and disgust on that calm August day. Kelly Himself, blessed He may be, finally gave the Accursed Donald his deserved punishment.
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The first rightful victim of the Blessed Kelly
Where did you find this picture? What is the original context of it?
I did a reverse image search, the original context is this:
I'm no WWE expert, but I'm pretty sure they had some sort of storyline where Donald Trump tried to buy the WWE or he owned it for a little bit and had this feud with Vince McMahon. Anyway, you can see the same color ropes in that picture and the video, and Trump is wearing the same clothes.
I'm no WWE expert, but I'm pretty sure they had some sort of storyline where Donald Trump tried to buy the WWE or he owned it for a little bit and had this feud with Vince McMahon. Anyway, you can see the same color ropes in that picture and the video, and Trump is wearing the same clothes.
Any map which makes Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida go Democratic but the rest of the South go Republican (or ACP) gets a thumbs-up from me.Something I was going to use as part of a mini-series, I'm not sure I even remember the context for this election.
Bhangbhangduc
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That's almost exactly what I expected. At what point will your insistence that every politician is a liberal shill drive you to join up with the commies?
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