american coup d'etat

REVAMPED

Okay, guys forgive me, I am new to this whoile Alternate history thing!! BTW what the hell is ASB?? okay heres a nice revamped american coup, with real people and I did my homework.



On December 13th 2020, President Jebb Bush is speaking to a rally in Ohio, he had just won the 2016 election and by expelling popular candidates from the race, he had recently won the 2020 elections, a flawed event by many standards. Now as the 46th President, he was even more unpopular than his brother, and a long way down from the late President Barack Obama, who was close to a saint after his assasination in 2011. Even former President Joe Biden who served from (2011-2016) was more popular then him. Bush only narrowly defeated Biden/Sebelius in 2016.

The more he spoke, the more Americans hated him. Even Sarah Palin was horrified when President Bush asked if South Africa was in South Mexico.
A man comes out of the crowd and attempts to assasinate Jeb Bush, but he fails. The President (fearing for his own life) declares martial law across 40 states, Alaska threatens to declare Independence if things arent sorted out, and America slowly descends into chaos. The Senate tries to impeach the President, but using Executive powers, he bars the Senate Impeach trial and rules directly from the white house. . It was time to act. General Patreus takes control of the US army, threatning a war with Bush if he dosent resign immediatley.

The militarya ttacks the white house were President Jeb Bush is colouring in his new jumbo colouring book, he is killed in the insuing violence and the Restored congress elects Patreus as the 47th President, stabllity returns a few months later..

and All is well


Bit better????
 
Still fanciful and beyond plausable, Jarrod (except perhaps to people who believe the "Bush family = HitlerEvilPowerCrazedDumbStupidOilHungryCrimeFamily" rhetoric). Bush's behavior here is beyond realistic as is your portrayal of the Constituitional process' inability to deal with a President who's apparently "gone off his rocker"

ASB (Alien Space Bats) refers to alternate history scenarios that involve time travel, magic, alien intervention, anything in the sea of time, and other such weirdness. Also alternate histories taking place in fictional universes (Star Wars, etc).
 
ASB (Alien Space Bats) refers to alternate history scenarios that involve time travel, magic, alien intervention, anything in the sea of time, and other such weirdness. Also alternate histories taking place in fictional universes (Star Wars, etc).
The term is also frequently used to refer to timelines that are not presented as requiring wierdness, but are so implausible that such wierdness would be required to make it actually happen.

I agree with Grattan's assessment of the TL; Bush would have been quietly carted off to an asylum under the 25th Amendement long before things reached the point of a coup.
 
america seems to be the land of paranoia, all the presidents are extremely well gaurded.

i have an assignment for a writers craft class to write about
if it would have been possible at any point in history to overthrow the american government in a coup.

Yes, all 300 million of us are quite paranoid. Uh-huh. In fact that's why the elected presidents are quite well guarded - because of extreme unreasonable paranoia. The paranoia also explains why the guy talking hope just won the election...oh wait, no it doesn't.

Moving on, I would say the best chance of a coup (and in the USA it would be quite different than elsewhere), would be if Nixon didn't resign in 1974. If he was impeached by the US Congress, and somehow refused to leave - and magically convinced the US Secret Service to defend him, then maybe the US military would remove him.

Mike Turcotte
 
Way I see this happening is something like a grossly blatant legal abuse occurring and someone struggling to hold to power exploiting legal resources at their disposal.

Consider:

Richard Nixon decides to Pardon Himself in lieu of facing impeachment, for any all crimes he may have committed. He also orders the US Army to disrupt the Senate proceedings and attempts to place the United States under Martial law so that he can remain in power.

Nixon's popularity is already in the 20% range, and this attempt to resist removal, while legal, is clearly in violation of the attitudes of the United States. At law, Nixon's actions are correct but this is a blatant abuse of Presidential Power.

At this point, removing Nixon through quasi-legal or outright illegal means would be a coup, and it would be supported by the United States if there was no real collateral damage. Figure that at this point, with Congress "Disrupted" Nixon can appoint anyone he wants to positions of government as a "Recess" appointment, so Nixon can attempt to build a "Counterrevolutionary" government.

This would not fly, but it would not be legal, and so it would be a coup. I would like to see a TL of that, too.

I still think this might be a serviceable idea, if the quasi-legal Nixon Presidential government can manage to remain in power for any period of time after Congress is disrupted and the Emergency Government remains in control...
 
Okay, guys forgive me, I am new to this whoile Alternate history thing!! BTW what the hell is ASB?? okay heres a nice revamped american coup, with real people and I did my homework.



On December 13th 2020,

Indeed you are new, but even new posters could notice there's a sub-forum titled "Future History". That's where something referring to the future should go. In this forum, the fiction one comes up with should be placed somewhere between 1900 and today.
 
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