"What Madness Is This?" Volume I: The Union Forever

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Sunstone77

President Earl Warren said:
You know it’s going to be satisfying when the American Boom comes crashing down...
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If it’s anything like 1.0, it’s going to take a surprisingly long time for the good times to end.

Maybe when Steele kicks the bucket, the vacuum creates a panic and instability that Oswald can use to his advantage and sweep to power and crack down on everyone.

Napoleon53 said:
You guys want cultural updates. We're not gonna stop till we know what the average Yankee eats for lunch, what he wipes his butt with an hour later...
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What hes’s reading on the crapper, what age restricted movies his son is sneaking into, what patriotic heartthrob mom and daughter have the hots for...;)
Seriously though, the cultural updates are some of my favourite chapters in 1.0 and the Redux, especially the one about the classic movies of the Madnessverse.

I also just learned that Walt Disney’s father was from modern day Ontario, Irish Protestant, and a proud socialist (Walt’s mother was German-English). I kinda want to see the Disney family fleeing the encroaching RU army to Ireland and becoming involved in their propaganda ministry, creating movies espousing the glories of king, Celtic heritage, and collectivisation
 
Born in the USSA

Born in the USSA

Here's one for the RU: what if Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote some sort of CS Lewis Space Trilogy-esque version of his John Carter books? You could combine the religion metaphors of the former with the racialist metaphors of the latter.
 
Time Enough

Time Enough

Sunstone77 said:
I also just learned that Walt Disney’s father was from modern day Ontario, Irish Protestant, and a proud socialist (Walt’s mother was German-English). I kinda want to see the Disney family fleeing the encroaching RU army to Ireland and becoming involved in their propaganda ministry, creating movies espousing the glories of king, Celtic heritage, and collectivisation
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Say no more:

Colleague Disney, Minister of Entertainment for the Collins administration on the streets of Dublin, 1938. Devote Catholic, Loyal EireSoc Member and Friend of the Royal Family.
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Time Enough

Time Enough

So after these Anti-Fascist demonstrations in Britain I would suspect a cabinet change, particularly for the post of Director of Interior Affairs (essentially all the various police forces and Fascist enforcers) and really I can see only one man for the job:

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Having Attlee as the head of authorities (including Secret Police) would be amusing especially if you kept the same mild mannered nature (inviting Churchill's political opponents to tea and biscuits before adding there name to a purge list).

Also he would be friends with Churchill, mirroring Attlee's own odd relationship with Churchill.

Churchill's is the man with disturbing vision, Attlee is the man who gets it done.
 
Murica1776

Murica1776

Napoleon53 said:
Interestingly enough, when the Illuminists came precariously close to taking over Germania, it would not be the Yankees that would respond to the call to arms against Otto Werner, but it would be some down-home boys from the Confederation of the Carolinas
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EVERY KRAUT A CORPSE!!! HARK THE SOUND OF FREE MEN'S VOICES!

Hm? No, I'm not excited for this at all. Why would you think that?

Napoleon53 said:
Oh, and we'll be seeing an appearance from the Murica's EU characters known as the "Jehovah's Witnesses." It'll be related to the original story he came up with, but I have something a little different planned. Wait and see!
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I'm honored! I can't believe I've even been able to give you one idea to incorporate here, much less two! That being said, here's another idea:

I like the idea of Dick Nixon being a John Smith style character. Smith is an obergruppenfurher in Amazon's adaptation of The Man in the High Castle who is a ruthless American Nazi from 9-5, then comes home and is basically the perfect 50's father and husband. Him and his wife even have shades of a Frank and Claire style relationship. I think this could be a good way to demonstrate how relatively speaking, Nixon is the most moral and sane man in the late Union a la Classic. During work hours he will murder you without a second thought if necessary to secure his position. But he'll have to make it quick so he can get to his darling daughter's piano recital!
 
Murica1776

Murica1776

Also:

The Remainers Hymn


This land is my land
This land ain't your land
I've got a shotgun
And you don't have one
This land was made for only me

I got my horse and went patrolling
And heard some land grabber moaning
I stopped the bank-man, and all his loaning
This land was made for only me
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naraht

"But, behold, the judgments of God will overtake the wicked; and it is by the wicked that the wicked are punished; for it is the wicked that stir up the hearts of the children of men unto bloodshed."
 
Murica1776

Murica1776

Question time: Are we going to see a Bonny and Clyde style crime duo? They're too iconic to neglect.

EDIT: Maybe instead of being a "modern day Robin Hood" like OTL, the RU's fucked up ideas about Pinnacle Strong Men and Women get caught in the mix somehow.
 
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