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The Democrats losing but still winning Utah is so weird by modern standards.
While, among uplift organized crime, the cephalopod mafia isn't as powerful or as old as orangutan, canine or feline mafia, it is certainly one of the most organized, ruthless and efficient. In cephalopod organized crime, there are two most powerful syndicates: the Pacific-centered Seigi no Gakko and the Atlantic-centered Great Kraken.
Great Kraken was founded by Levak (b. 2148). Born on the coasts of Faial Island, Levak was kidnapped by poachers in his youth. With a sharp wit and inflexible will, he managed to escape after two months of captivity, where he fled into the seas. He spent his life in Lieba, a particularly humanophobic community of cephalopods. There, he studied and received news from the Upper World (read: the surface). At the age of 15, Levak moved to New Venus, a bigger, more coastal cephalopod community, where he, while low on money, founded the Great Kraken syndicate.
One of the most powerful cephalopod crime bosses, Levak and his men were the perpetrators of the infamous 2185 Miami Seaquarium explosion, during which at least 168 people died. Levak hasn't been caught since then.
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I. America's future is the Moon, in an absolute sense that isn't true for the Russians and Mercury, or the Chinese and their precious Venusian aerostats. There are no doubt millions of Americans (self-identified or not) roaming the solar system on their own, but Real America and her citizens are isolationist, militarist, and deeply xenophobic. While the Chinese and Nigerians both spread across the solar system like locusts in search of hidden riches and truths, America was content to sit on its patch of lunar space and obliterate any foreign vessel that even looked suspect. The core values of lunar America are conservatism, pragmatism, and preparedness. Ironic, that the same circumstances that drove Americans to space also made them suspicious of exploration. Most young Americans accept that Manifest Destiny was a cruel lie told by a cruel God, and it's just common sense to let existential threats come to you rather than going out and looking for them like a fool. Who needs Earth? America is forever, and it doesn't need to go anywhere else to be a better America than it already is. Out of many, one. We'll strive wherever we stay.
II. The Moon is just a big barren rock. It does not provide anything, its soil does not grow anything, there is nothing beautiful about its empty, rocky surface. There are no landmarks or wonders that can compare to Earth. The Moon is poor in resources, and what little that can be extracted has already dwindled. America is dying a slow death because the old guard can't -or worse, refuse to- see that forty years ago they made the wrong choice and now every American is paying the price. There are children growing up now who don't know anything of the place they came from. Right now, America is in limbo. Extraterrestrial living is a parasitic existence that other nations might gladly join, but America's national destiny is encoded in the DNA of her citizens. How can the administration continue to lie to the people its sworn to protect? Low-gravity living has made humanity weak-willed and selfish. We need the feel of good, solid ground beneath our feet again. We need to breath air that's real again, even if it's sick. We can fix our mistakes... on Earth. That's what America needs: a strong foundation, one the Moon will never, ever be able to provide.
III. "And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?" The plain sad truth is that America has forgotten God. If we still minded Him, perhaps we wouldn't be cursed by such dismal leadership. The Republicans are cowards, and the Reclaimers are hopeless materialists with rhetoric bordering on Fascism. The American government has always concealed its true intentions, and from the beginning of our Republic's history there have been those who have fought special interests and worked to preserve democracy in the face of tyranny and complacency. But this new threat makes the Illuminati and the InterstellarJewMF look like playground bullies. We have hard evidence that sapient extraterrestrial lifeforms have infiltrated our solar system, and that this administration knew of this and consciously chose to keep it from their citizens. What don't you want us to know about them, Buchanan? About you? What really happened to our boys out there on 7041 Iphis? Who've you been keeping quiet for? I thought we lived in the United States of America, not the United States of Spooks!
II. The Moon is just a big barren rock. It does not provide anything, its soil does not grow anything, there is nothing beautiful about its empty, rocky surface. There are no landmarks or wonders that can compare to Earth. The Moon is poor in resources, and what little that can be extracted has already dwindled. America is dying a slow death because the old guard can't -or worse, refuse to- see that forty years ago they made the wrong choice and now every American is paying the price. There are children growing up now who don't know anything of the place they came from. Right now, America is in limbo. Extraterrestrial living is a parasitic existence that other nations might gladly join, but America's national destiny is encoded in the DNA of her citizens. How can the administration continue to lie to the people its sworn to protect? Low-gravity living has made humanity weak-willed and selfish. We need the feel of good, solid ground beneath our feet again. We need to breath air that's real again, even if it's sick. We can fix our mistakes... on Earth. That's what America needs: a strong foundation, one the Moon will never, ever be able to provide.
III. "And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?" The plain sad truth is that America has forgotten God. If we still minded Him, perhaps we wouldn't be cursed by such dismal leadership. The Republicans are cowards, and the Reclaimers are hopeless materialists with rhetoric bordering on Fascism. The American government has always concealed its true intentions, and from the beginning of our Republic's history there have been those who have fought special interests and worked to preserve democracy in the face of tyranny and complacency. But this new threat makes the Illuminati and the InterstellarJewMF look like playground bullies. We have hard evidence that sapient extraterrestrial lifeforms have infiltrated our solar system, and that this administration knew of this and consciously chose to keep it from their citizens. What don't you want us to know about them, Buchanan? About you? What really happened to our boys out there on 7041 Iphis? Who've you been keeping quiet for? I thought we lived in the United States of America, not the United States of Spooks!
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I guess I should have clarified that "low-effort" means that I didn't really go out looking for an interesting premise and just picked a relatively easy thing to do like a different OTL election.
Utah had a sixteen-year period where they forgot they were a solidly Republican state and became friendly to Democrats. The Democrats nominating an un-charismatic "egghead" snapped them out of that.
Pls explain.
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In which Glenn Quinn gets drug help before his untimely death and Charisma Carpenter doesn't get pregnant in 2002
The episode begins as it did IOTL but as Conner and Cordelia reach the alley where Conner was born a massove earthquake hits the city of LA, opening a crack in the alley way. Smoke emerges, shrouding a figure emerging from the crack, who runs into the night. The pair give chase, but loose the figure in the chaos of a disaster plauged city. Similar scenes with Gunn, Wesley and Fred occur. When Angel returns from Wolfram and Hart he admits Lilah refused to give him anything and thinks Wolfram and Hart are behind the apocalyptic events across LA. He orders Wesley to remain with the group, remarking that they need all the help they can get and has Lorne begin to map out where the calls are coming from, revealing that they are centered at the old location of Caritas. The group rushes there to find Conner and Cordelia already there and the ruined club surrounded by police. Suspicious of the fact that the LAPD is getting involved with supernatural events the group investigates and discovers the "police" are actually Wolfram and Hart employees. A fight scene ensues into the building and the team bursts in to find Lilah directing a team of demons struggling to remove a flailing figure, Doyle. The long dead Angel Investigations member.
Wallace does it!
Wallace: +332,000 (+0.5%) (+50,000 in TN, +32,000 in SC, +100,000 in NC and +150,000 in FL. All taking away from Nixon)
Nixon: -332,000 (-0.5%)
Senate vote for VP:
43 Republican senators + Sparkman, Fulbright, McClellan, Hollings, Russell, Stennis, Eastland, Holland, Byrd=52 for Agnew, 48 for Muskie
Wallace: +332,000 (+0.5%) (+50,000 in TN, +32,000 in SC, +100,000 in NC and +150,000 in FL. All taking away from Nixon)
Nixon: -332,000 (-0.5%)
Senate vote for VP:
43 Republican senators + Sparkman, Fulbright, McClellan, Hollings, Russell, Stennis, Eastland, Holland, Byrd=52 for Agnew, 48 for Muskie
Humphrey sneaks by with 26 House delegations. The votes of a couple Southern Democrats switched those delegatins
This is a backstory for House of Cards (the American version).
Gore wins a couple thousand more votes in Florida, winning him the election. His term is quite controversial, and sees fights on whether Bill Clinton and the Democrats are to blame for not figuring out that 9/11 was going to happen, and also whether or not a war in Iraq is justified, with Gore firmly opposed to it. In 2004, Rudy Giulani wins the Republican nomination on an anti-terrorism platform. However, ignoring social issues proves to alienate many voters who saw the economy as an important issue, allowing an unpopular Gore to narrowly win the election despite controversially losing the popular vote. His second term grows even more controversial, and Gore's popularity further recedes. The 2006 midterms makes Congress extremely red, far redder than ever before, and the subprime mortgage bubble pops, bringing about a massive recession. In 2008, Howard Dean, perceived as a radical leftist (further amplified by his running mate's support of gay rights) loses in a massive landslide to Mitt Romney. Despite lowering taxes substantially and eliminating the estate tax, the recession continues at full throttle.
Garrett Walker, a fairly right-wing Democrat and a former CEO, narrowly beats Romney in 2012 in an election that further stratifies the right-wing politics of the US. His term goes fairly disastrously, and a scandal leads to his resignation. Frank Underwood (who replaced Jim Matthews as Vice President) proves to be just as controversial, seen as a machine politician. Heather Dunbar, a progressive Democrat famed for her opposition to corruption, attempts to primary Underwood. However, when Underwood gets shot and nearly dies as a result, Dunbar's opposition to Underwood is seen as treasonous, resulting in her defeat. At the Democratic National Convention, the vice presidency is deemed an open convention by Underwood, where, in a bizarre moment in American history, his own wife is nominated as his running mate. Despite polls suggesting him losing in a landslide to the media-savvy and youthful Republican candidate Will Conway, ultimately a series of scandals as well as many other unfortunate gaffes working against Conway results in Underwood winning the election despite losing the popular vote by almost four million votes, alleged fraud by Underwood's campaign notwithstanding.
Gore wins a couple thousand more votes in Florida, winning him the election. His term is quite controversial, and sees fights on whether Bill Clinton and the Democrats are to blame for not figuring out that 9/11 was going to happen, and also whether or not a war in Iraq is justified, with Gore firmly opposed to it. In 2004, Rudy Giulani wins the Republican nomination on an anti-terrorism platform. However, ignoring social issues proves to alienate many voters who saw the economy as an important issue, allowing an unpopular Gore to narrowly win the election despite controversially losing the popular vote. His second term grows even more controversial, and Gore's popularity further recedes. The 2006 midterms makes Congress extremely red, far redder than ever before, and the subprime mortgage bubble pops, bringing about a massive recession. In 2008, Howard Dean, perceived as a radical leftist (further amplified by his running mate's support of gay rights) loses in a massive landslide to Mitt Romney. Despite lowering taxes substantially and eliminating the estate tax, the recession continues at full throttle.
Garrett Walker, a fairly right-wing Democrat and a former CEO, narrowly beats Romney in 2012 in an election that further stratifies the right-wing politics of the US. His term goes fairly disastrously, and a scandal leads to his resignation. Frank Underwood (who replaced Jim Matthews as Vice President) proves to be just as controversial, seen as a machine politician. Heather Dunbar, a progressive Democrat famed for her opposition to corruption, attempts to primary Underwood. However, when Underwood gets shot and nearly dies as a result, Dunbar's opposition to Underwood is seen as treasonous, resulting in her defeat. At the Democratic National Convention, the vice presidency is deemed an open convention by Underwood, where, in a bizarre moment in American history, his own wife is nominated as his running mate. Despite polls suggesting him losing in a landslide to the media-savvy and youthful Republican candidate Will Conway, ultimately a series of scandals as well as many other unfortunate gaffes working against Conway results in Underwood winning the election despite losing the popular vote by almost four million votes, alleged fraud by Underwood's campaign notwithstanding.
Whenever 2016 is getting me down, I thank my lucky stars we don't live in House of Cards.
Obviously this is your own interpretation here, but wasn't Walker supposed to be hugely popular before the events of the series? Underwood mentions that he won over 70 million votes in the 2012 election, or something along those lines.
Would explain how South Carolina elected a white Democrat to Congress.
I'm sick and I hurt all over and I can't think so if there's any mistakes I blame that
The main reserve currency of an interplanetary union that speaks English for some reason
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Based on those nicknames, the coin sounds quite...large
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