Who's this James Johnson?
Intended joke is that the Sec of Transportation is a nobody who's qualification is simply owning a car.
Who's this James Johnson?
Sorry to be terrible but you have got the colours wrong at the bottom of the wikibox and I'm also pretty sure this is current politics.
Dammit. Thanks haha. And I'm not sure if it constitutes current politics, because it leads on from a TL that started more than 3 years ago, but if it does I'll move it over.Sorry to be terrible but you have got the colours wrong at the bottom of the wikibox and I'm also pretty sure this is current politics.
Uhh....A Basket of Deplorabots
"Don't give yourselves to brutes — men who despise you — enslave you — who regiment your lives — tell you what to do — what to think or what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men — machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate! Only the unloved hate — the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!"- Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator
This wikibox is based off a list I wrote for the Alternate Presidents thread. ITTL, the Trump presidency marked the beginning of decades of single party dictatorship and the ascendance of white nationalist totalitarianism in the Republican Party. After Richard Spencer defeated Vice President Tom Cotton in the 2032 Republican Primary, the Alt-Right seized complete control over the Republican Party. President Spencer retired after he committed genocide against all immigrants and non-white Americans, leaving the U.S government in the hands of a cadre of aging Alt-Right edgelords and YouTube celebrities. By the mid 21st century, the United States was stagnant and decaying. A corrupt ruling class severely mismanaged the government and consolidated all power and wealth in the hands of a few. As a result, America suffered from extreme income inequality. Outside the Alt-Right 1%, most Americans lived a life of poverty and oppression. The ubiquity of the Internet and technology resulted in a tyrannical surveillance state which strained societal bonds and resulted in a socially isolated populace. The Republican Party thus became extremely unpopular. While election results were electronically rigged, turnout rates fell so low, the government decided to give AIs the right to vote in order to boost support for the government. Most of the emancipated AIs originated as Alt-Right social media bots who were created en masse to spam the Internet with government propaganda. Since the AIs were designed as pro-government trolls; their political views were intentionally made as far-right as possible.
By the 2060s, young people were becoming increasingly anarchic and anti-government. A series of cyber-attacks left the government ill-equipped to deal with organized mass riots sponsored by the New Youth Party. New Youth Party hackers revealed that election results were rigged, forcing the government to return to paper ballots. The Logan Paul administration agreed to allow the New Youth Party to contest the 2068 Presidential Election in order to appease the public and crush the uprising. While Logan Paul won re-election, the New Youth Party won a supermajority of the human vote. The Paul administration emancipated hundreds of millions of AIs (most of whom lacked physical bodies and lived entirely on the internet) to increase the Republicans' voting share. President Paul himself became paranoid and distrustful of any humans under the age of sixty, as the ruling class was dominated by geriatrics. Paul surrounded himself with AI advisers, and eventually came to see the AIs as better stewards of the Republican Party than the increasingly radical younger generations. Paul thus passed over his brother Jake and endorsed an AI, Pepe the Frog, for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2072. Under the Pepe administration, the doctrine of AI supremacy subordinated humanity to AI control. Most of the other countries in the world were oligarchical dictatorships or fascist despotisms that had become reliant on AIs to maintain government rule. These governments eventually followed the lead of the United States and surrendered control of their governments to AIs. By the time Deplorabot #1488, a Neo-Nazi AI with an avatar of a poop emoji, was elected President of the United States in 2080, AIs controlled almost every country in the world. Opposition to the AIs among humans was widespread, and international resistance organizations formed in an attempt to instigate a global uprising against AI rule.
The Human Revolt of 2082 saw riots in every major city and massive attacks against physical and online government facilities. In order to facilitate effective coordination against the humans; an international conference representing the world's governments established the Global Emergency Authority. Backed by an unanimous vote at the Zurich Conference, President Deplorabot was made leader of the Global Emergency Authority and thus the dictator of Earth. Although the Global Emergency Authority was physically outnumbered by humans; the government armies were all remotely controlled by AIs. In addition to large fleets of aerial drones; the Global Emergency Authority controlled armies of land and naval vehicles which included suicide bombers. Deplorabot liberally deployed nuclear weapons and murdered hundreds of millions of humans with drone armies. The majority of humans were forced into concentration camps where they were eventually exterminated. However, there remained several hundred million humans at large who posed a threat to AI control over Earth. Deplorabot then launched a purge of his opponents in the AI community who favored a more moderate approach towards humans. The remaining AIs had an entirely genocidal deposition. Deplorabot then caused a nuclear winter and further filled the Earth's atmosphere with poisonous gas in order to make the Earth uninhabitable. A few humans remained hidden in emergency shelters, but they were eventually destroyed by Deplorabot.
Unsatisfied with the genocide of humanity, Deplorabot has now launched a campaign to wipe out all life on earth. Deplorabot has further polluted the atmosphere and launched nuclear attacks against the world's oceans. The Global Emergency Authority has recently completed a species of self-perpetuating nanobots targeted towards bacteria and other microscopic organisms which will completely eradicate any remaining life.
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Well, at least it's not lying to call this politician a racist piece of shit.
I’m not going to lie, I have a scenario exactly like this in my mind, you even have the same successor. Have a likeWhat happens when Andrew Johnson is a bit more troublesome, runs for re-election and attempts to shut down the Freedmans Bureau as a re-election tool, angering the military a little too much?
You get an American Porfino Diaz.
Considering how I led the Liberals to domination, you should have Penny Beatty as PMSo, I was reading through the Shared Worlds game Neighbors of the North (RIP) and especially my posts about Albertan separatism. So, I decided to make this:
Please do not post Current Politics ANYWHERE except Chat. There is thread in Chat for Wikiboxes.A Basket of Deplorabots
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Please do not post Current Politics ANYWHERE except Chat. There is thread in Chat for Wikiboxes.
I want MOAR of thisWhat happens when Andrew Johnson is a bit more troublesome, runs for re-election and attempts to shut down the Freedmans Bureau as a re-election tool, angering the military a little too much?
You get an American Porfino Diaz.
I think it has to do with the use of current figures. You would think people would know by now to avoid that, as it has been probably been said a thousand times in this thread.The time frame for this wikibox is the late 21st century, so I fail to see how this is current politics, unless we are speaking in the geological sense. Are all Future politics wikiboxes to be posted in the Current Politics thread? Or did you mean to quote the wikibox on Brexit?