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

[Gar48]

And you know the craziest part? Hurricane Harvey's path actually skated around the Caribbean islands without seriously damaging any. It started in the Antilles, turned into a hurricane over the Yucatan, and then stayed far west of Cuba until it crashed into Texas. Something like that happens TTL, the Infees might take to calling it... a Divine Wind?

Better yet immagine the RU's reaction to this kind of event.
Considering the AFC believes that the conquest and destruction of South America is a divine mission, seeing an hurricane acts so strangely could actually cause a collective crisis of faith in the RU with many wondering if maybe the Columbians are the ones under divine protection.

 

[Napoleon53]

The Corean bits of the last chapter were based on Murica's fantastically weird Corean chapters in the Star Spangled Expanded Universe. https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...-madness-is-this.457877/page-27#post-19706360

Better yet immagine the RU's reaction to this kind of event.
Considering the AFC believes that the conquest and destruction of South America is a divine mission, seeing an hurricane acts so strangely could actually cause a collective crisis of faith in the RU with many wondering if maybe the Columbians are the ones under divine protection.

Nonsense. They would just blame good old

for testing their faith.

It's truly the ultimate smackdown ragnarok between Cthulhu and Nyarle- er I mean Jehovah and Satan. Hahah. ha.

 

[Gar48]

Well at least we know what happened to Korea.
At least the country is more or less indipendent unlike Japan

 

[RightWinger93]

On top of everything else in this TL, now the Congo is getting damned? Oh dear. ​

 

[Gar48]

Flag of Carolinian Jacksonland, and used for all Carolinian African holdings until 1944

So either the Carolinas will change the flag for stylistic reasons or some new development will hit Africa and/or the Carolinas in 1944.

On top of everything else in this TL, now the Congo is getting damned? Oh dear.

Maybe after this, France will be horrified enough to start treating its colonial subjects as actual human beings.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Maybe after this, France will be horrified enough to start treating its colonial subjects as actual human beings.

Good god, no, not a snowball's chance in hell.



The OTL horrors of racist imperialism in the Congo Free State didn't convince the evil-but-not-quite-that-evil racist imperialists in Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and France to be any nicer. On the contrary, it helped convince them that they were great guys, humane rulers to the primitive helpless pygmies, and they didn't need to change a thing.

 

[Christory]

Flag of the Confederation of Corea

When you copy your friend's homework but change it a little so the teacher doesn't notice

 

[dakkafex]

The South and the traditionalists were crushed for a final time in 1934 and Carolinian troops helped to set up a "Corean Confederation with Cokie characteristics." An Office of Public Virtue protected the public from subversive propaganda and crime, a House of Citizens legislated laws, while a Chancellor, the newly-elected war hero Kim Hyong-jik, led the country.

Casually thinking about a future Chancellor Sun Myung Moon for no particular reason.

It would even be the rather insane Carolinian scientist and geologist Dr. Herman William "Big Bill" Jennings who would first propose the "Congo Sea Project" to the Mittelafrikan government. Jennings wished to flood the Congo basin via an elaborate system of dams and create a "Mittelafrikan Sea." Not only would this supposedly provide a more temperate climate for the Dark Continent and enrich agriculture (as well as eliminate those pesky Congo tribes in a truly Biblical fashion), it would generate enough electricity to make the Reich and the Cokie African colonies energy self-sufficient forever. The Congo Sea Project will be covered in depth in a later chapter.

Oh no. Oh dear.

Speaking of quixotic mega-engineering ecological disasters-in-waiting, have the Europans thought about taking a whack at Atlantropa yet? It seems right up their alley as a prestige project to one-up the Kongomeer if it gets going in earnest.

 

[AHE]

So are we getting a TNO esque hole in Afrika? Oh god oh heck oh god oh

This is what Im talking about BTW

 

[Sunstone77]

Was everyone evil in 1.0 as well? I am interested. Also, is the wwii equivalent already occurring or will occur soon?

More or less. 1.0 was far more focused on the RU but also had less chapters, so we saw far less of the world and how big a bastards they might have been. I do remember Russia being just a big a monster if not worse (committing ethnic violence against Muslims on a gigantic scale)

And I believe Napo has already said that the WW2 stand-in will be many separate wars happening all over the globe rather then one big conflict, so the Neutrality Pact war is likely a facet of that

 

[HIM Dogson]

Well, Christian fundamentalist Kim Dynasty is so much worse than what i expected would happen to Korea, oh god oh fuck

 

[Joriz Castillo]

Guys, what's so bad about a Congo lake?

 

[Wolttaire]

You guys are all thinking too small why stop at the Congo? Why not lake Chad? Or should I say the Chad sea

 

[Born in the USSA]

Guys, what's so bad about a Congo lake?

You ever seen the end of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", it's like that if the TVA didn't warn anybody first.

 

[Gar48]

Guys, what's so bad about a Congo lake?

The fact it will probably cause a small genocide and an enviromental disaster is kinda bad if you ask me.

 

[Gar48]

Well, Christian fundamentalist Kim Dynasty is so much worse than what i expected would happen to Korea, oh god oh fuck

Considering what happened to the Mexicans, it is safe to assume it could have been worse

 

[Born in the USSA]

So two unrelated notes:

1. I think the story of Oswald making his bones in Manifest Climax should basically be Apocalypse Now: Madness Edition, with Oswald as Willard.
2. I think that Hunter S. Thompson should show up TTL as exactly like Hunter Gathers on the Venture Bros., the quotes are perfect for memes.

"What's this mamby-pamby feel bad about good wetworks boosh-wah?!"
"This is the Republican Union of Shut Your Third Fucking Eye for a Good Goddamn Reason!"
"You're beyond good and evil Strong Man, you work for the government."
"THAT DOG DON'T HUNT!"

 

[John Spangler]

Why is it that sane and competent men always get the short end of the stick? Now Carolina too will find itself engulfed in the quagmire that South America is going to become!

 

[sampleswift]

Why is it that sane and competent men always get the short end of the stick? Now Carolina too will find itself engulfed in the quagmire that South America is going to become!

So the PoD of this timeline isn't just "Constitution of the U.S. cannot be ratified, corrupt Federalists, and insane George IV". It's "Everything that could go wrong did" as well? So whenever there's a decision, usually the worst decision is made?

 

[John Spangler]

So the PoD of this timeline isn't just "Constitution of the U.S. cannot be ratified, corrupt Federalists, and insane George IV". It's "Everything that could go wrong did" as well? So whenever there's a decision, usually the worst decision is made?

This timeline is basically Murphy's Law made reality, then.