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Post by Zyobot on Feb 19, 2020 17:25:46 GMT
‘WI Everyone Had An Eidetic Memory?’.
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 21, 2020 22:32:10 GMT
'Gary Johnson Wins The 2012 Election'. Preferably by getting the largest share of both the popular and electoral vote, as opposed to only the latter.
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 23, 2020 14:05:40 GMT
‘Real Perpetual Motion Machines’.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 23, 2020 14:17:57 GMT
‘Real Perpetual Motion Machines’. Is that even possible. |
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 23, 2020 15:54:25 GMT
‘Real Perpetual Motion Machines’. Is that even possible. Not according to modern science, it's not. Which is why I placed it in the ASB board, due to the fact that it screws with the very laws of the universe to make perpetual motion machines a reality. |
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 25, 2020 0:23:49 GMT
'2040 Western US To 1960'.
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 26, 2020 19:28:17 GMT
'1964 Lyndon Johnson Vs. 1984 Ronald Reagan' in yet another cross-time presidential election. As usual, it'd start with the western half of the 1984 US getting sent twenty years back in time, with Gipper representing the uptimers as he gears up to challenge LBJ, the incumbent POTUS who won 486 electoral votes and over sixty percent of the popular vote IOTL.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 26, 2020 19:58:14 GMT
'1964 Lyndon Johnson Vs. 1984 Ronald Reagan' in yet another cross-time presidential election. As usual, it'd start with the western half of the 1984 US getting sent twenty years back in time, with Gipper representing the uptimers as he gears up to challenge LBJ, the incumbent POTUS who won 486 electoral votes and over sixty percent of the popular vote IOTL. Ronald Reagan would win, but that is what i think. |
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 26, 2020 21:46:26 GMT
'1964 Lyndon Johnson Vs. 1984 Ronald Reagan' in yet another cross-time presidential election. As usual, it'd start with the western half of the 1984 US getting sent twenty years back in time, with Gipper representing the uptimers as he gears up to challenge LBJ, the incumbent POTUS who won 486 electoral votes and over sixty percent of the popular vote IOTL. Ronald Reagan would win, but that is what i think. Yeah, I’m leaning towards that verdict myself. Though he won in a landslide IOTL, LBJ’s popularity will probably plummet thanks to his escalation of the Vietnam War despite his original campaign promises to withdraw. Not to mention other, more personal quirks of his that’ll likely surface as the election cycle progresses, i.e. LBJ making crass sexual comments and whipping out ‘Jumbo’ in very public places. On the other hand, though, Reagan’s a septuagenarian running for office, which would raise concerns that he’s too old for a second term (which was shown in the first round of 1984 debates IOTL). Plus, he’s harbinger of a right-wing paradigm shift that 1964 America might or might not be ready for. Depending on how much news of late-‘70s Stagflation and its challenge to Keynesian economic theory sways public opinion, maybe Reagan will win enough of EUSA’s votes to earn another four years in the White House. |
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 27, 2020 23:47:16 GMT
'1972 George McGovern Vs. 2012 Mitt Romney' in a special cross-time presidential election featuring candidates who both lost in their respective races.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 28, 2020 14:39:22 GMT
Margaret thatcher versus Theresa May in the battle for leadership of Conservative Party.
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Post by Zyobot on Feb 28, 2020 18:38:47 GMT
Margaret thatcher versus Theresa May in the battle for leadership of Conservative Party. I'm not as knowledgeable about either of them, but I'm guessing that as a historical conservative icon, Margaret Thatcher would win quite handily. Theresa May doesn't strike me as a very strong competitor, meaning that this matchup is probably an uphill battle for her. In the vein of cross-time inter-party struggle, I'd offer a 'Donald Trump Vs. Ronald Reagan For GOP Nomination' matchup, but then that's way too political to discuss anywhere but 'Politics and Current Affairs'. Still, maybe we could see this happen in a future 2020-to-1980 ISOT scenario, though that's an ASB TL for at least a few years down the road. |
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Post by stevep on Feb 29, 2020 11:32:50 GMT
Margaret thatcher versus Theresa May in the battle for leadership of Conservative Party. I'm not as knowledgeable about either of them, but I'm guessing that as a historical conservative icon, Margaret Thatcher would win quite handily. Theresa May doesn't strike me as a very strong competitor, meaning that this matchup is probably an uphill battle for her. In the vein of cross-time inter-party struggle, I'd offer a 'Donald Trump Vs. Ronald Reagan For GOP Nomination' matchup, but then that's way too political to discuss anywhere but 'Politics and Current Affairs'. Still, maybe we could see this happen in a future 2020-to-1980 ISOT scenario, though that's an ASB TL for at least a few years down the road.
I would agree. For all the damage she did to Britain the current Tories see her as a success and also the very rich who dominate the party and the country were greatly helped by her social engineering to boost their position and undermine opposition. May would be widely seen as a failure so she's unlikely to get any real support.
A more interesting comparison, if we're assuming the current Tory party might be Thatcher v Johnson, at least before his bubble bursts. Even then since icon is a good word for how she's seen by the party I would suspect she would still win. Unless possibly its the 1990 Thatcher, obsessed with the Poll Tax.
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Post by Zyobot on Mar 1, 2020 17:29:48 GMT
I'm not as knowledgeable about either of them, but I'm guessing that as a historical conservative icon, Margaret Thatcher would win quite handily. Theresa May doesn't strike me as a very strong competitor, meaning that this matchup is probably an uphill battle for her. In the vein of cross-time inter-party struggle, I'd offer a 'Donald Trump Vs. Ronald Reagan For GOP Nomination' matchup, but then that's way too political to discuss anywhere but 'Politics and Current Affairs'. Still, maybe we could see this happen in a future 2020-to-1980 ISOT scenario, though that's an ASB TL for at least a few years down the road.
I would agree. For all the damage she did to Britain the current Tories see her as a success and also the very rich who dominate the party and the country were greatly helped by her social engineering to boost their position and undermine opposition. May would be widely seen as a failure so she's unlikely to get any real support.
A more interesting comparison, if we're assuming the current Tory party might be Thatcher v Johnson, at least before his bubble bursts. Even then since icon is a good word for how she's seen by the party I would suspect she would still win. Unless possibly its the 1990 Thatcher, obsessed with the Poll Tax.
Okay, then. As another non-frivolous ASB scenario, '1956 Adlai Stevenson Vs. 1996 Bob Dole' in another presidential election matchup between two candidates who both lost their respective races. |
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Post by Zyobot on Mar 2, 2020 19:14:35 GMT
As a presidential rrace between two losing candidates who got crushed by the incumbents, '1964 Barry Goldwater Vs. 1984 Walter Mondale'.
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