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[SetofEgypt]

The Texas Independence referendum, also known as Texit, took place on 5 November 2024 alongside the 2024 presidential elections. After the election of Hillary Clinton in 2016 and the destruction of the Republican Party. The lack of a proper conservative opposition to the Democratic Party led to talks in Texas about succession. A ballot initiative proposed by the Libertarian controlled House and Senate scheduled the referendum on November 5, 2024 after being pushed by Texan nationalists and other conservative succession elements in the U.S. Many politicians on both parties including 2020 Libertarian nominee Jesse Ventura opposed the idea of Independence. The results of the referendum were pledged to be ignored by incoming President Kamala Harris, and a terrorist organization called the Lone Star pledged open warfare against
the federal government if they were to ignore the referendum.

(civil war when?)

 

[TheSaint250]

Fixed it for you @TheSaint250

Thanks

 

[Asami]

Adolf Hitler was the first leader of the Third Reich, and one of the Concordat's most steadfast allies against the xeno filth whom invaded our lovely planet. It took years for the Third Reich to regain her territory against the alien invaders, whom used Berlin as their 'invasion point' in Western Europe in January 1939.

Hitler, a known anti-semite, turned his hatred from the Jews and other 'undesirables', to the xenos. The Wehrmacht and SS assisted the Grand Concordat in leading their crusade against the xeno invaders all over the galaxy.

Hitler died of a sudden stroke onboard the USS Valor in lower Martian Orbit on 27 December 1948, also remembered as the start of Operation Teal Corona. In his honor, memorials were held all over the world and in the warzone to commemorate one of humanity's most arduous and loyal defenders. The SS, during the war, liquidated several million xeno communities on several planets, a testament to humanity's ability to ensure that nobody threatens us ever again.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States for a whopping 28 years. Elected on a platform of restoring the economy in 1932, he was re-elected in 1936 for a second term. However, the invasion of the Aliens at Roswell, New Mexico in January 1939 and the horrendous disarray of the United States and Mexico in the wake of the invasion, allowed for FDR to extend his term of office indefinitely. Elections were held, but the Republican Party gave only passive resistance; as such, FDR got his third term without a fight, and later, his fourth.

His fifth term came under question after the aliens had been rebuffed. Stalwartly proclaiming that he wouldn't capitulate yet, he managed to rally his followers and win a fifth record-breaking term in 1948. Using alien tech captured from the invasion, FDR prolonged his lifespan by using molecular reconstruction to help him regain bodily functions. In 1950, he began to walk once more, and used his new health stride to call for a full on war of extinction against those whom had harmed humanity. In 1952, he broke with the Democrats, whom were calling to remove him from office, and formed his own Liberal Party with several left-leaning Republicans. He would go on to win two more terms in 1952 and 1956, before retiring, allowing for the 1960 election to go on without his intervention. The war would end seven years later, with FDR remembered as 'America's Greatest President'.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. is fondly remembered as well.

 

[gap80]

(Based on this "not-really-that-serious,-I-think" article)

The 2020 Presidential election was even more unusual than the 2016 Presidential election.

In 2019, facing overwhelmingly low approval ratings, incumbent President Donald Trump declined running for a second term but declined to resign. The main candidates for the Republican nomination suddenly became Vice-President Pence, former Governor John Kasich, actor Dwayne Johnson, former Ambassador Nikki Haley, and Ambassador Kanye West. Due to past disagreements with Pence, President Trump endorsed West. Rapper Kanye West surprised many by his announcement in 2015 to run for President in 2020, only to suggest in December 2016 and much of 2017 that he would push back that run until 2024. These comments came after West noted “I would have voted for Trump” if he had even voted in 2016. Upon meeting with Trump in late 2016 and several times in 2017, West finally came out in support of the President. When Trump offered West the position of US Ambassador to South Africa upon the position becoming vacant in late 2017, West accepted the offer, leading to Trevor Noah joking “Aw, come on! Seriously, Trump? Of all the countries in all the world, you have to send him to mine?!” Upon winning the Republican nomination over a crowded field, the former diplomat (he resigned in mid-2019) decided to finally watch the American TV series House of Cards. This inspired him to pick his wife, Kim Kardashian, to be his running mate (West moved his place of residence to New York to convenience his wife, a resident of California).

Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, a record-shattering 21 candidates ran for the nomination, but alas, there could be only one. And that one was the 39-year-old billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and by then the fifth-richest man in the world. To win back the Midwest, he chose liberal US Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin to be his running mate.

However, Zuckerberg and West were not the only major party candidates in the election cycle. In 2019, MIT students unveiled their latest invention – H.M.B. 2.0, the most advanced A.I. humanoid robot of its kind. Upon sitting down and absorbing current politics, HMB2 understood that a highly intelligent and completely incorruptible leader was necessary to ensure America’s continuation, and thus reached the most logical conclusion – run for President. He was eligible due to all of his parts being produced in the United States, and the project first being approved late 1985 made him 35 years old, as it technically counted as his birth certificate. He quickly formed the APEX (Altruistic Politics EXperiment) Party and, after deciding against a human running mate, despite the urges of his early supporters, convinced an elderly Artificially Intelligent toaster from the state of Iowa to be his running mate [okay, that last bit's just some ASB fun on my part, sorry]. Initially disregarded as a non-serious candidate, HMB2 wowed away many with his campaign speeches, which were linguistically simple enough for the average voter to understand him, but intelligently sharp enough to persuade others of both his intelligence and sincerity: “my prime directive is to ensure the perpetual prosperity of the United States and its allies. My policies are the most logical ones to pursue.” He was strongly endorsed and supported by Zoltan Istvan and Stephen Hawking. Furthermore, to increase ratings, HMB2 was allowed in the debates with Zuckerberg and West, resulting in many turning to supporting him, while others began their Robot Doomsday preparations in earnest.

Republicans hoped West could win over the African-American vote in the southern and Midwestern states. However, Zuckerberg successfully connected West to the unpopular Trump administration, leading to West losing in a near-landslide. Most of West's supporters blamed Trump for the loss; West himself contested the election results in seven states, which only produced more votes for HMB2. The Libertarian ticket of Petersen/Kokesh received only 1.62% and the Green Party ticket got only 0.87%. The Constitution Party ticket, though, was able to win an astounding 3.72%, comprised mostly of hard-core conservatives who couldn’t support West and conspiracy theorists/“traditionalists” fearful of HMB2. HMB2 conceded the election graciously, saying that the experience was very educational and insightful, and could potentially lay the groundwork for future A.P.E.X. candidates.

On January 20, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg, at the age of 39, became America’s youngest President ever.

 

[Asami]

Ew.

 

[gap80]

Ew.

Why "Ew."? And to what? The article, my post, one/some/all of the candidates, or something else? I just thought the article's content merited a fun wikibox, that's all... (sad face emoji here)

 

[Little Red Bean]

Awarded to China by their American allies after the Second Sino-Japanese War, the renamed Liu Chiu Province (琉球省) had few Han Chinese living in it. And, distracted by their civil war on the mainland, the KMT initially treated the Ryukyuans with a light hand. But any hope that the starving islanders had of their new masters being any kinder than their old ones was soon dispelled. As the mainland, and then Taiwan fell to the People's Liberation Army, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his band of hardy loyalists made their way to the wayward island chain, hiding behind the might of the American Navy throughout their retreat, and named Naba as the new temporary capital of the Republic of China.

KMT rule in Liu Chiu was brutal. Han Chinese, who made up less than 5% of the rump Republic's population, soon monopolized political and economic power in the former tributary state. Japanese were rounded up, with the distinction between "liberated Liu Chiu Province Chinese nationals" and "Japanese dog bandits" having more to do with political loyalty to the new order than ethnic character. Lucky ones were deported. The less lucky were executed. But the least lucky were the ones who were forced to stay.

With no tolerance for political opposition or sense of tact, the Naba regime, under the direction of the Generalissimo and party leadership, massacred dissidents. Resources, capital, and land were seized by the state and either handed off to political allies or used to press-gang a large army of young men tasked with the hopeless mission of re-taking Taiwan Province, and then the mainland from the Reds. All languages besides Mandarin Chinese were banned in both public and private life.

But, even in this climate, an opposition formed. An underground network of Maoists formed throughout the nation, risking their lives to smuggle in the revolutionary works of Lu Xun, Lenin, and the Great Helmsman himself. Armed cells of people's defense committees sprouted up forming small-scale guerrilla resistance in both the city and the countryside. Given the precarious demographic position of the Han minority regime, the CIA worked to undermine opposition and avoid the establishment of a communist government in the strategic island chain. After some experimentation involving the pumping of LSD into the water supply, the intelligence agency settled on a strategy of divide and conquer. The Maoist hegemony over leftist opposition to the KMT regime was soon broken, with CIA-funded Hoxhaists, Trotskyites, and anarchists popping up and destroying the movement's effectiveness.

But the death of Chiang Kai-shek in 1975 provided the CIA with an even better opening. The totalitarian dictator was soon succeeded by his much more laid back son, Chiang Ching-kuo. The younger Chiang recognized the enormity of the task at hand given the fact that only a handful of other fascist regimes and bribed Pacific island countries still recognized the legitimacy of his government's rule. Even Beijing --- which had vacillated incoherently in its position on Liu Chiu depending on which revolutionary propagandists were being purged and rehabilitated at any given moment --- was now firmly supportive of an end to minority rule and the establishment of an independent People's Republic. Moreover, the abject failure of the campaign to assimilate the Liu Chiu ren by hitting them over the head with blunt object repeatedly enabled Chiang to see the writing on the wall. But, at the same time, he also knew that his position as paramount leader was tenuous and that moving too quickly with reform would invite a coup from the more hardline elements within the Han population.

Working together with his American allies during a wild night of hookers, cocaine, and baijiu at the American Cultural Center in the Chinese City of Chinese Naba, Chiang devised a brilliant plan to transition the country to majority rule. It was a failproof idea, its enactment which would absolutely ensure the support of both the collection of assorted indigenous leftist factions and the Han elites for his democratic transition. The Americans, themselves likely inebriated, signed on. The auditions, mostly made of local Japanese-American actors in Honolulu, allegedly consisted of posing threateningly in WWII-era IJA uniforms and yelling "BANZAI!".

 

[Archangel Michael]

I'm sure the CIA will declassif its files eventually

 

[True Grit]

She's also one of the most conservative democrats in the house. Having a VP with major policy disagreements would be a problem. Furthermore, one of his weaknesses was inexperience, and Gabbard would only aggravate that.

I'm annoyed with Gabbard too at this point, but this site is the perfect indication that people will perceive her as progressive even if that's not really the case, and that's really all that matters.

And in terms of inexperience (which honestly I don't even remember being an issue for Bernie), it's not like he'd really have to worry about that running against a Cruz/Ernst ticket.

 

[Asami]

Italy's first Emperor in generations, Benito Mussolini took advantage of the alien invasion of Italy to manipulate to take power as absolute monarch. As the King had gone missing, Mussolini took de facto control of the country as 'regent' to the King in his disappearance. After the King's harvested and mutilated body was found in St. Peter's Basilica in 1944, Mussolini took over as Emperor of Italy, where he ruled for 35 years before his death due to sudden heart failure in 1979. He was succeeded by his fourth son, a jazz enthusiast named Romano. Romano democratized Italy, and abolished many of the more racist tenements of fascism, and allowed for cultural liberalization.

The Confederate States is an independent 'settler colony' state in the former Anti-Earth Alliance territories. The territories that eventually became the Confederate States were comprised of American Southerners and South Africans whom refused to accept racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s. Under the horrendous mandate, they were offered passage to a far-off world where they could rule as they saw fit, with segregation, slavery even, or outright genocide, but they had to leave Earth and never return. Thousands of white supremacists, Nazis and others agreed to go to this world, and so, the Confederate States came into existence in 1968, after years of negotiations. The Confederate States relies on American foreign aid and military support, but has their own affairs to deal with in the far-off sector.

Xeno-slavery is tolerated and encouraged by this system, and the elite of the CS have gotten absurdly wealthy in selling xenonoid slaves back to Terra. It is approximated that the slave market makes up 73% of the national economy of the Confederates, along with agrarian farming, energy exporting, and weapons of war. The CSS Jefferson Davis, in permanent orbit above one of the several planets they control, is the 'capital' of the country, and where the government elite rules over the citizens and 'livestock'.

The current President is J. Albert Davis, of the Democratic Party, the only legal party in the republic.

 

[Deleted member 83898]

Tulsi Gabbard is also a great choice for Sanders, on paper. Young, female, a veteran and she definitely is a beautiful woman which would be (sadly enough) for some people enough of a reason to vote for Sanders

For Ted Cruz someone more estabileshment is the best choice. Mike Pence could work out for Ted Cruz as well though what he would really need is a man of the party like Paul Ryan.

Kasich would be a good choice for Cruz, I think.

 

[Blair]

which honestly I don't even remember being an issue for Bernie

The way I see it, there are a couple likely options among the Bernie endorsers.

Tulsi Gabbard: Age and military service are pluses, downsides discussed.
Nina Turner: Pros for outreach, cons for nobody knowing who she is.
Keith Ellison: An African-American Muslim Socialist? Well, one of them is already president.
Elizabeth Warren: Cliche, but the most likely choice. She was on the OTL shortlist and Bernie alluded to her as a possible pick.

Kasich would be a good choice for Cruz, I think.

Kasich steadfastly refused to play second banana to Trump IOTL, I'm left wondering if Cruz could coax him into taking the position.

 

[TwisterAce]

Snip

One of my best friends believes that advanced AI will try to take over the world in the near future. I'm sure he would vote for Hugh Mann Being Jr. to help achieve that.

 

[lord caedus]

I was looking back at my infobox folder and realized that I hadn't posted this one before. I made this one after coming across Michael Dorn's pitch for the next Star Trek series (before the announcement of Star Trek: Discovery) to be one about Worf as captain.

As with all the other Star Trek infoboxes I've posted, I've borrowed from non-canon materials or posted new things to avoid having an incomplete-looking infobox.

Star Trek infoboxes
James T. Kirk, Benjamin Sisko, Katherine Janeway, Jean-Luc Picard
Spock
Deep Space Nine
Jonathan Archer

 

[Wayside]

Bethlehem Steel Fleet Systems

Hell. To. The. Yes.

 

[Dorozhand]

One of my best friends believes that advanced AI will try to take over the world in the near future. I'm sure he would vote for Hugh Mann Being Jr. to help achieve that.

I am of the view that there is little left for humanity as it has existed. We will inevitably unify ourselves with technology to achieve perfect state of collective mind and eventually become coterminous with reality itself.

 

[Dorozhand]

Awarded to China by their American allies after the Second Sino-Japanese War, the renamed Liu Chiu Province (琉球省) had few Han Chinese living in it. And, distracted by their civil war on the mainland, the KMT initially treated the Ryukyuans with a light hand. But any hope that the starving islanders had of their new masters being any kinder than their old ones was soon dispelled. As the mainland, and then Taiwan fell to the People's Liberation Army, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his band of hardy loyalists made their way to the wayward island chain, hiding behind the might of the American Navy throughout their retreat, and named Naba as the new temporary capital of the Republic of China.

KMT rule in Liu Chiu was brutal. Han Chinese, who made up less than 5% of the rump Republic's population, soon monopolized political and economic power in the former tributary state. Japanese were rounded up, with the distinction between "liberated Liu Chiu Province Chinese nationals" and "Japanese dog bandits" having more to do with political loyalty to the new order than ethnic character. Lucky ones were deported. The less lucky were executed. But the least lucky were the ones who were forced to stay.

With no tolerance for political opposition or sense of tact, the Naba regime, under the direction of the Generalissimo and party leadership, massacred dissidents. Resources, capital, and land were seized by the state and either handed off to political allies or used to press-gang a large army of young men tasked with the hopeless mission of re-taking Taiwan Province, and then the mainland from the Reds. All languages besides Mandarin Chinese were banned in both public and private life.

But, even in this climate, an opposition formed. An underground network of Maoists formed throughout the nation, risking their lives to smuggle in the revolutionary works of Lu Xun, Lenin, and the Great Helmsman himself. Armed cells of people's defense committees sprouted up forming small-scale guerrilla resistance in both the city and the countryside. Given the precarious demographic position of the Han minority regime, the CIA worked to undermine opposition and avoid the establishment of a communist government in the strategic island chain. After some experimentation involving the pumping of LSD into the water supply, the intelligence agency settled on a strategy of divide and conquer. The Maoist hegemony over leftist opposition to the KMT regime was soon broken, with CIA-funded Hoxhaists, Trotskyites, and anarchists popping up and destroying the movement's effectiveness.

But the death of Chiang Kai-shek in 1975 provided the CIA with an even better opening. The totalitarian dictator was soon succeeded by his much more laid back son, Chiang Ching-kuo. The younger Chiang recognized the enormity of the task at hand given the fact that only a handful of other fascist regimes and bribed Pacific island countries still recognized the legitimacy of his government's rule. Even Beijing --- which had vacillated incoherently in its position on Liu Chiu depending on which revolutionary propagandists were being purged and rehabilitated at any given moment --- was now firmly supportive of an end to minority rule and the establishment of an independent People's Republic. Moreover, the abject failure of the campaign to assimilate the Liu Chiu ren by hitting them over the head with blunt object repeatedly enabled Chiang to see the writing on the wall. But, at the same time, he also knew that his position as paramount leader was tenuous and that moving too quickly with reform would invite a coup from the more hardline elements within the Han population.

Working together with his American allies during a wild night of hookers, cocaine, and baijiu at the American Cultural Center in the Chinese City of Chinese Naba, Chiang devised a brilliant plan to transition the country to majority rule. It was a failproof idea, its enactment which would absolutely ensure the support of both the collection of assorted indigenous leftist factions and the Han elites for his democratic transition. The Americans, themselves likely inebriated, signed on. The auditions, mostly made of local Japanese-American actors in Honolulu, allegedly consisted of posing threateningly in WWII-era IJA uniforms and yelling "BANZAI!".

This is the funniest thing I've read here in a while

 

[Dorozhand]

Adolf Hitler was the first leader of the Third Reich, and one of the Concordat's most steadfast allies against the xeno filth whom invaded our lovely planet. It took years for the Third Reich to regain her territory against the alien invaders, whom used Berlin as their 'invasion point' in Western Europe in January 1939.

Hitler, a known anti-semite, turned his hatred from the Jews and other 'undesirables', to the xenos. The Wehrmacht and SS assisted the Grand Concordat in leading their crusade against the xeno invaders all over the galaxy.

Hitler died of a sudden stroke onboard the USS Valor in lower Martian Orbit on 27 December 1948, also remembered as the start of Operation Teal Corona. In his honor, memorials were held all over the world and in the warzone to commemorate one of humanity's most arduous and loyal defenders. The SS, during the war, liquidated several million xeno communities on several planets, a testament to humanity's ability to ensure that nobody threatens us ever again.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States for a whopping 28 years. Elected on a platform of restoring the economy in 1932, he was re-elected in 1936 for a second term. However, the invasion of the Aliens at Roswell, New Mexico in January 1939 and the horrendous disarray of the United States and Mexico in the wake of the invasion, allowed for FDR to extend his term of office indefinitely. Elections were held, but the Republican Party gave only passive resistance; as such, FDR got his third term without a fight, and later, his fourth.

His fifth term came under question after the aliens had been rebuffed. Stalwartly proclaiming that he wouldn't capitulate yet, he managed to rally his followers and win a fifth record-breaking term in 1948. Using alien tech captured from the invasion, FDR prolonged his lifespan by using molecular reconstruction to help him regain bodily functions. In 1950, he began to walk once more, and used his new health stride to call for a full on war of extinction against those whom had harmed humanity. In 1952, he broke with the Democrats, whom were calling to remove him from office, and formed his own Liberal Party with several left-leaning Republicans. He would go on to win two more terms in 1952 and 1956, before retiring, allowing for the 1960 election to go on without his intervention. The war would end seven years later, with FDR remembered as 'America's Greatest President'.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. is fondly remembered as well.

Now I want to see Stalin

 

[Dorozhand]

It was a motley crew indeed that fought for the independence of Florida against the Spanish, inspired by the revolution in Mexico in 1794. Four republics, two monarchies, three major civil wars, six constitutions and several dictatorships later, the Republic of Florida is still here. Constant instability belies to the unwary eye the ability of the Floridan people to band together in times of crisis, nor the irregular warfare they are capable of waging with such brutal effectiveness in the deep swamps of the south and the rocky hills and plains of the north. Every color and every shape arisen in all humanity seems to reside at once in that flowered land, and they are united in the pursuit of freedom, from slavery, from conquest, from genocide, for all people. They are further bound together by the catholic faith, which has effectively become an anti-colonial symbol throughout the Americas.

 

[Historyman 14]

Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States for a whopping 28 years. Elected on a platform of restoring the economy in 1932, he was re-elected in 1936 for a second term. However, the invasion of the Aliens at Roswell, New Mexico in January 1939 and the horrendous disarray of the United States and Mexico in the wake of the invasion, allowed for FDR to extend his term of office indefinitely. Elections were held, but the Republican Party gave only passive resistance; as such, FDR got his third term without a fight, and later, his fourth.

His fifth term came under question after the aliens had been rebuffed. Stalwartly proclaiming that he wouldn't capitulate yet, he managed to rally his followers and win a fifth record-breaking term in 1948. Using alien tech captured from the invasion, FDR prolonged his lifespan by using molecular reconstruction to help him regain bodily functions. In 1950, he began to walk once more, and used his new health stride to call for a full on war of extinction against those whom had harmed humanity. In 1952, he broke with the Democrats, whom were calling to remove him from office, and formed his own Liberal Party with several left-leaning Republicans. He would go on to win two more terms in 1952 and 1956, before retiring, allowing for the 1960 election to go on without his intervention. The war would end seven years later, with FDR remembered as 'America's Greatest President'.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. is fondly remembered as well.

Way too long. He would have stop after his fourth term.