You know a scene in Vice got me thinking, the part where Cheney asks Rumsfeld, “what do we believe?” and Rumsfeld laughs as though it’s the funniest thing he’s ever heard. With most of the people who worked for the Rumsfeld Administration either dead or recovering from being in bedlam house or...
If you see it that way... I’m still of the belief that the United States is either going to break up (more than California and Texas) or someone is going to pull of the Articles of Confederation to build a government free of the possibility of ‘Federal Tyranny’.
I think the post-Second Civil War (or whatever catchy name is coined by historians) solution to education might lay in a Yes Prime Minister episode; abolish the Department of Education and establish a ‘National Education Service’. Transfer the administration to the town halls, allow parents the...
I kinda want the role of V for Vendetta’s Guy Fawkes masks to be fulfilled by the Joker ITTL, as what protestors use a symbol of liberating chaos and rightful rebellion against oppressive governments and their heavy handed enforcers.
I do have to wonder on one future event shown in the Rummyhorror segment. What causes the Black Panthers, the Jewish Defence League and the KKK to team up against the CSA? The closest example of something like that in real life was the alliance of radically ideological opposing groups against...
It’s a sad state of affairs, when I consider that a military junta ousting Rumsfeld, might have been better for the USA in the long term than Rumsfeld’s lackies performing a palace coup when they realised how insane his plans were. There’s no easy way to heal America post-1988 while working...
The CV never did understand the lesson of Sir Humphrey.
While the fanatic is the desired follower (in one how spreads the faith, obeys the priests and turns up at church every Sunday to put money in the collection plate), it’s leadership should ideally be composed of modernists (an internal...
My guess the American troops turn on the Holy Battalions and join up with Castro to liberate America from the CSA as he’s the one willing to supply them with equipment that isn’t crap. The Fundies recognise the threat posed by a well-trained, well-armed, battle hardened and highly motivated...
It won’t be American guns, from the future post it’ll be Japan cashing in on the conflict by selling arms to California in exchange for influence over the Pacific. Maybe working in conjunction with the Soviets who are looking to empty their old third-tier equipment. I imagine the militas end up...
I believe that Rumsfeldia Economics failed because Rumsfeld never quite understood economics or more specifically how the relationship between Government and Corporations worked. TRW and its allies thought Rumsfeld was taking them back to the Guilded Age, were government and big business worked...