TLIAPOT: Follow the Money: Fear and Loathing in Mecham's America

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Repeat after me.

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

But I wish it was Bush the Elder in 1980!

But I wish it was Bush the Elder in 1980!

I'm not gonna bother repeating it. Also, who's the British PM? Airey Neave, presumably? And I'm guessing the PM of India is Sanjay Gandhi?
 
Repeat after me.

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

Thank god Reagan was president instead!

I love how this TL is taking the same approach as Icarus Falls, Forward One and All, and my own No W:
  1. Take a controversial historical figure
  2. Remove him from the picture
  3. Watch the world burn
 
I love how this TL is taking the same approach as Icarus Falls, Forward One and All, and my own No W:
  1. Take a controversial historical figure
  2. Remove him from the picture
  3. Watch the world burn

And FLaG.

Anyways, I've been thinking about this, and the TL is a lot like Rumsfeldia. It shows what would have happened if, instead of Reagan, we got a Tea Partier. Mecham is insane, with stuff like hugely regressive tax cuts, totalitarianism, being a Christian Mullah, and other bad stuff.
 
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That doesn't exactly follow the same model, but the end game is the same.

Yeah, though I guess you could count George McGovern as a kind of controversial historical figure, and he did play a role in making several things once considered to be radical, such as the concept of the right to choose, a part of political discourse.
 
“Senator Dole, Mr. Chief Justice, President Carter, Vice President Brock, and my fellow citizens.

Today as we step forth into a new decade so we begin a new era in our country. For the best part of the last ten years our nation has been troubled by economic woes and uncertainty about our future. Today that stops. Today we renew the call to move America ahead as a leader of the world in economic prosperity and in the cause of global freedom. The nineteen seventies are done and with them we cast aside the gloom which has hung over them.

We all know too well the failures of the decade now closed; scandals, economic woes, a lack of clear direction at the head of our nation and a sense that the future was slipping through our fingers. These are the bad things. But let me remind you also of the good things of the decade now past, the things which speak to America’s resilience as a free and prosperous nation.

One of my predecessors once said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, and this is as true now as then. Only our own fear will stop us, for as a nation and as a people, we are unstoppable in the face of opposition or adversity. America is at its best when the odds are against us and the fight is righteous. So it has been throughout our past, and so it shall be again.

As I swear the time-honoured oath to assume this great office, I cannot help but be aware that these United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained recessions in our national history, unseen since the 1930’s. Some cry like Henny Penny that the sky has fallen and that this recession – or depression as they would have it – proves that capitalism has failed, and that free enterprise is dead.

To this negativism and Socialist babble I say – No!”
-Excerpt from the inauguration of President Evan Mecham in January 1981

Um, anyone else notice that Mecham's acceptance speech is basically a word-for-word lift of Rumsfeld's from Rumsfeldia?

The Inaugural Address of President Donald Rumsfeld

Senator Tower, Mr. Chief Justice, President Wallace, Vice President Edwards, President Truong and my fellow citizens.

Today as we step forth into a new decade so we begin a new era in our country. For the best part of the last ten years our nation has been troubled by economic woes and uncertainty about our future. Today that stops. Today we renew the call to move America ahead as a leader of the world in economic prosperity and in the cause of global freedom. The nineteen seventies are done and with them we cast aside the gloom which has hung over them.

We all know too well the failures of the decade now closed; scandals, economic woes, a lack of clear direction at the head of our nation and a sense that the future was slipping through our fingers. These are the bad things. But let me remind you also of the good things of the decade now past, the things which speak to America’s resilience as a free and prosperous nation.

We won the war in Vietnam. For too long many naysayers said the cause of freedom in Vietnam was impossible and our struggle for it unwinnable. Yet today the Republic of Vietnam is a free nation and we are joined here by the democratically elected President of that nation. The way was hard and the struggle long, but America’s fighting men perceived through the darkness and the turmoil to win for the righteous cause. This we accomplished in the so-called lost decade of the nineteen seventies.

Through the resolve of our leaders, and through the commitment of our people, we kept the Middle East free of Communist tyranny. Ordinary Americans, like New Jersey National Guard corporal Walter B. Willis – who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in Syria and for whom our joint services base there is now named – stepped forward to carry the struggle for freedom as their fathers and grandfathers had before them. Throughout the so-called lost decade, over-and-over again, ordinary, patriotic Americans showed the world of what stern and solid stuff this nation is made.

One of my predecessors once said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, and this is as true now as then. Only our own fear will stop us, for as a nation and as a people, we are unstoppable in the face of opposition or adversity. America is at its best when the odds are against us and the fight is righteous. So it has been throughout our past, and so it shall be again.

As I swear the time-honored oath to assume this great office, I cannot help but be aware that these United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained recessions in our national history, unseen since the 1930’s. Some cry like Henny Penny that the sky has fallen and that this recession – or depression as they would have it – proves that capitalism has failed, and that free enterprise is dead.

To this negativism and Socialist babble I say – No!

The bolded parts are literally identical. @Drew, did you give Gonzo permission to use these excerpts?
 

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“Senator Dole, Mr. Chief Justice, President Carter, Vice President Brock, and my fellow citizens.

Today as we step forth into a new decade so we begin a new era in our country. For the best part of the last ten years our nation has been troubled by economic woes and uncertainty about our future. Today that stops. Today we renew the call to move America ahead as a leader of the world in economic prosperity and in the cause of global freedom. The nineteen seventies are done and with them we cast aside the gloom which has hung over them.

We all know too well the failures of the decade now closed; scandals, economic woes, a lack of clear direction at the head of our nation and a sense that the future was slipping through our fingers. These are the bad things. But let me remind you also of the good things of the decade now past, the things which speak to America’s resilience as a free and prosperous nation.

One of my predecessors once said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, and this is as true now as then. Only our own fear will stop us, for as a nation and as a people, we are unstoppable in the face of opposition or adversity. America is at its best when the odds are against us and the fight is righteous. So it has been throughout our past, and so it shall be again.

As I swear the time-honoured oath to assume this great office, I cannot help but be aware that these United States are confronted with an economic affliction of great proportions. We suffer from the longest and one of the worst sustained recessions in our national history, unseen since the 1930’s. Some cry like Henny Penny that the sky has fallen and that this recession – or depression as they would have it – proves that capitalism has failed, and that free enterprise is dead.

To this negativism and Socialist babble I say – No!”
-Excerpt from the inauguration of President Evan Mecham in January 1981

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Plagiarism is utterly unacceptable here. You did a direct lift from another member's work and didn't even bother giving a nod in their direction.

This is a one offense violation. Next time you WILL be Banned.

Kicked for a week.

BTW: Thread is fruit of a poisoned tree. Locked.
 
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