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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 5, 2021 5:01:29 GMT
Most of SE Asia is forced to acknowledge the Spratlys as Chinese territory, except for the Philippines. I doubt that Canton would be a good target for the Philippine Navy, unless they could establish a foothold in Vietnam instead, despite the ideological differences. And that's why the US can't exactly secure the area - they are not interested to, and China's pride won't exactly let them. I think that the Tadiar regime would do everything not just to hamper China, but also to get some Dollars. I won't put it above them to also use Renminbi since they could still use it to bribe off officials in Southern China into looking away from their operations. I could also totally see them getting along with some of the Vietnamese once the navy realises that in spite of the country's communist ideals, many of the country's elements are just as enthusiastic in terms of owning China, that even without official relations due to Tadiar's irate hate boner towards communists of all stripes. True, and historical weirdness often occurs (see Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). I might retcon the events in Vietnam, since the humiliation that the Vietnamese government had suffered might be good enough to create some disillusionment within Vietnam. However, one of China's demands regarding the peace treaty with Vietnam will be covered in the next update, but it will involve the former Soviet base in Cam Ranh Bay. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 5, 2021 7:30:59 GMT
True, and historical weirdness often occurs (see Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). I might retcon the events in Vietnam, since the humiliation that the Vietnamese government had suffered might be good enough to create some disillusionment within Vietnam. However, one of China's demands regarding the peace treaty with Vietnam will be covered in the next update, but it will involve the former Soviet base in Cam Ranh Bay. By then, I must ask you this question: Tadiar has an ideological fixation against communists of all stripes. He disliked Marcos, and there's a good chance that he may have likewise disliked his neutral policy towards Vietnam. Is he willing, let alone capable of working with Vietnam's Communist government? Or, is he that ideologically fixated and fund a gun-running campaign and arouse a right-wing insurgency/revolution? Eventually, at some point he might have to move away from the conventional anti-communist mindset when he realizes that Vietnam is a flawed ally that he will have to work with. That might involve his flunkies telling him that he will need allies, and even Nicanor Faeldon’s experiment with Falangism is basically National Syndicalism, wrapped in either fascist rhetoric, or left wing rhetoric. One might also assume that if Faeldon was successful in his Falangist experiment, he could use Vietnam as a laboratory for the National Syndicalist experiment, although like Tadiar, Faeldon’s experiment would probably end in disaster. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 6, 2021 4:49:57 GMT
Chapter Fifty: The Changing of the Guard
JACK KEMP STUNS NATION WITH OVERWHELMING WIN OVER JESSE JACKSON IN 1996 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Washington Post
November 6, 1996
![]()  ![]() Former US President Bob Dole congratulates eventual 1996 US Presidential Election winner Jack Kemp, in an election that stunned the nation, as Jesse Jackson's unorthodox approach to politics was rejected by the more conservative voters, not only in the Deep South, but most shockingly, in California.(Washington, DC) – In a stunning development, President Jesse Jackson was defeated in this year’s US Presidential election to firebrand candidate Jack Kemp. Kemp, who campaigned on the platform of a more proactive foreign policy, as well as carrying out the economic and social reforms of former US President Bob Dole, has won the support of many voters, particularly in the South, where divisions remained over President Jackson’s policies. However, the biggest surprise in the 1996 US Presidential Election is in California, where many Californians had voted for the Republican Party. It is not surprising, given that California’s economic rebirth was mainly due to former President Dole’s huge investment in the reconstruction of the San Francisco Bay area after the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. However, another key factor in the swing towards the Republican Party lay with the voters, many of whom are of Filipino and Vietnamese heritage, who saw President Jackson’s appeasement of Communist China as a deal killer for them.
“I once voted for Jesse Jackson, partly because I saw the Republican Party as the faction that allowed Artemio Tadiar to rise to power. After seeing my homeland get blown to bits and my family dead, I decided to vote for Jack Kemp, just to get Jackson out of office,” comments local Filipino American voter Tyler Santos. “Although maybe after 2000, I will try to vote for a different candidate.”
The biggest surprise was the increase in support for the Social Progressive Party, which had captured a few more seats in Vermont and Maine. It almost captured enough seats in Washington State, but the voters there had elected to keep it a Democratic stronghold. The main reason for the slight increase in the popularity for the Social Progressives is because of Lyndon LaRouche’s criticism of President Jackson’s inept foreign policy and what he sees as Jack Kemp’s platform that will end more in bloodshed than what is acceptable. In addition, LaRouche’s growing criticism of Jack Kemp’s proposal to help the Mexican government with the ongoing civil war in the Mexican southeast as raised fears of a return to the Cold War era policy of supporting right-wing death squads against the growing communist insurgency there.
“Many more Mexican refugees are fleeing from their homeland because of the fascist reactionaries there. However, it is deplorable to see some of our own people choosing to deny the refugees entry into the United States and escorting them into Cuban territorial waters. Let me also add that these vigilantes are delivering the refugees straight into the arms of Fidel Castro, who will then use them for whatever he is cooking up,” comments LaRouche when asked about the Mexican refugee crisis. “This is the only time that Jack Kemp and I agree on one issue.”
--- Excerpts from “Cue for Conspiracy: The Rise and Fall of Senator Alex Jones”
By: Isaac Feldman
University of California Berkley Publishing Press
Chapter Eight: The Libertarian Revolution
By the time I saw Alex again, it was months before the 1996 US Presidential Election. Although he has not yet decided to run for political office, I was stunned to hear that he was considering the option to join the Libertarian Party. The idea of joining the Libertarians is not a bad one, mind you. It is just that Alex has hedged his potential political career on what is basically a third party, and a minor one to boot. Then again, my views eventually became more libertarian myself, so my decision to join the Libertarian Party might not be as bad as Alex joining it after all. I ran into Alex that one afternoon in Austin, where he was still working for The American Cause, although he is now a paid documentary filmmaker. Much of his documentaries, like ‘Corporate America’s Dirty Little Secret’, was a bombshell in the libertarian world. I can see why people like Mark Skousen are interested in talking to Alex. We both sat down in a nearby coffee shop, sipping our coffee away.
“Isaac, how are you doing these days?” Alex asked me. “Has Mr. Castle talked to you yet about your decision?”
I shrugged. “I am not sure yet. I have also become a documentary filmmaker, but not yet interested in politics.”
“I thought you were going to become a lawyer?” Alex asked again. He remembered my plan to become a corporate lawyer, from our days in college.
“I was, until I had to switch programs to filmmaking. My parents were stunned at the development, but they understood that I was becoming more politically outspoken. We are more aware of the emerging danger that poses a threat to the world,” I answered. It was true that being a corporate lawyer would mean representing certain dubious people in the corporate world. “Anyways, do you have any more ideas for future documentaries?”
Alex laughed lightly. “Well, I was going to cover the post-civil war period in Russia, but I doubt that I would be allowed to go there. Ukraine, on the other hand, might be an interesting trip.”
“How so?” I asked. Ukraine would have been the last thing on our minds when it comes to making documentaries there.
“The president there is adopting certain tenets from libertarianism, even though his government is anything but libertarian,” Alex commented. “I am worried however, because he has this perception that the Jesuits are trying to take over his country.”
I winced at his comment, but at the same time, it was not surprising. Some of my relatives came from the former Russian Empire, in what was then the Pale of Settlement. The idea of the fanatic Orthodox Christian raising fears of a Catholic takeover, or even more farfetched, a Jewish takeover, is ingrained in their narrow minds. Still, I nodded in agreement and continued to talk. It was not until one of the strangers from a large group approached us, with a brochure in his hands. I can tell that he is a member of the Libertarian Party, due to the brochure that we were given. Alex looked up to see Harry Browne and Jo Jorgensen approach us.
“Have you two thought about whom you will vote for this year’s election?” Browne asked first.
I shook my head. “I do not know who to vote for, at first. Do you guys take applications for new memberships?”
“And may I ask who are you two?” Jo Jorgensen asked us. It was Alex who answered.
“I’m Alex Jones, and he is Isaac Feldman.” The libertarians in the group were stunned at who they are seeing.
“Hey! It’s the guy who made the film Corporate America’s Dirty Little Secret!” one of the libertarians exclaimed. He approached Alex and shook his hand. “I liked your film! I think it is a mind opener about what is happening right now.”
Alex smiled. “Maybe I should write a book on this whole topic. It is interesting as a topic.”
No one would believe us when we say that the origins of the Libertarian Revolution lay in a coffee shop in the middle of downtown Austin. The fact that the Libertarians were small seemed to be a pessimistic fact, but we eventually grew in strength when it became apparent that the efforts to remove Jesse Jackson from the Presidency opened a door for renewed Republican shenanigans, especially with Jack Kemp’s later endorsement of the CIA Corsairs’ activities in Latin America and the Philippines. We did not anticipate that the disillusioned Filipino Americans who were horrified that they made a deal with the proverbial devil and could not back out of the deal, will become the core supporters of our movement, although there were some desperate people who were naïve enough to join that new party that James Traficant had set up four years down the road. However, we are proud to say that we played a role in the emerging Libertarian Revolution, as the American Cause had seen the Libertarian Party as a potential movement that would allow the recruitment of its members into the party.
--- “Post-communist Eastern Europe after the Second Russian Civil War was an area where lustration was the official policy. All the former communist regime officials were banned from participating in the political affairs of their respective nations, with the post-communist governments putting them on trial for various crimes that were committed during the communist period. It is hypocritical for the targeted communists to complain about the political witch hunts when they were the ones committing the same thing against perceived anti-communists. In Romania, the rise of Corneliu Vadim Tudor was tied to the speech he gave in the Romanian parliament back in 1995, a few days after the Second Russian Civil War had ended, condemning the crimes of former strongman Nicolae Ceausescu and his predecessors, as well as listing of other political crimes that were committed during that time. In March of 1996, Yugoslavia was the second nation to elect a non-communist government, with the ascension of Vladan Batic as the first post-communist President. His imposing of the lustration policy against former communist officials were not as successful as that of Romania’s, or even that of Bulgaria, primarily because of the political power that former junta leader Veljko Kadijevic held, back when Yugoslavia was run by a junta. In addition, Batic managed to successfully sideline Slobodan Milosevic, his political rival, by appointing him as Yugoslav ambassador to the Federal Republic of Georgia, while promoting other figures like Filip Vujanovic, who became the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia. It was at this period that Vladan Batic started his controversial negotiations with his Albanian counterpart, Sali Berisha, on the status of the autonomous province of Kosovo, which although it played a major role in medieval Serbian history, had a 90% Albanian population. Included in the talks between Batic and Berisha were the Kosovar Albanian pro-independence group, the Albanian Organization of Kosovo, led by Hashim Thaci, and Vladimir Dobricanin, the representative of the Kosovo Serb community, on a possible partition of the province, and a proposed Treaty of Friendship between Yugoslavia and Albania. The result was that northwestern Kosovo, including the province of Pec, where the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Patriarchal seat was located, was ceded to Yugoslavia, in return for the evacuation of Kosovo Serbs from the provinces of Gracanica, Novo Brdo, Ranilug, Partes, Klokot, and Strpce, which would be ceded to Albania, and the area around Presevo Valley, which had a noticeable Albanian population. The policy of ethnic co-existence championed by both Batic and Berisha, had been unpopular with the more radical extremists of both ethnic groups, and as a result, both men were nearly assassinated by a rogue faction of Thaci’s Kosovar Albanian community. Luckily, the captured party was tried and executed by a joint Yugoslav and Albanian firing squad, but unfortunately one of the offenders who was executed on Thaci’s orders was the infamous would-be mass murderer, Aziz Kelmendi, the former JNA conscript whose plot to kill his fellow soldiers was foiled by Riza Alibasic. While Yugoslavia and Albania managed to solve their ethnic issues, the same thing could not be said of Bulgaria, whose Turkish minority was subjected to a controversial policy of forced assimilation or expulsion from the country. The Great Excursion of 1989 was an event where Bulgarian Turks went to Turkey but could not come back to Bulgaria after their weekend trip. It was this event that inspired Artemio Tadiar’s regime in the Philippines to pull off the same stunt, against its Chinese minority, but the result was that not only did the entire population opposed such a move, but it also allowed the Tadiar regime to confiscate the entire wealth of notable Filipino Chinese families, contributing to the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis in the process. The Balkans after 1997 had struggled to transition their economies from state-owned enterprises to a free market, normally with the bankrupted state-run companies being purchased by foreign oligarchs. In Romania, many of the oligarchs who purchased the former state-owned firms were from Germany, while French oligarchs purchased 24% of Bulgaria’s bankrupted state-owned firms. However, Yugoslavia’s bankrupted state-owned firms were purchased by Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, many of whom were tied to arch-oligarch Boris Yeltsin.” Excerpts from “The History of Post-Communist Balkans”, released by Russia Today, October 15, 2016.
--- Treaty of Berlin (Signatories: People’s Republic of China and Socialist Republic of Vietnam)
I: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam cedes the islands of Hoang Sa to the People’s Republic of China.
II: The territories of Vietnam populated by the ethnic Khmer minority is to be ceded to the People’s Republic of Cambodia, with any Vietnamese population inside the new borders to be evacuated.
III: The People’s Republic of China will gain control of the former Soviet naval base in Cam Ranh Bay, and the lease will last for 99 years. In addition, the Chinese government will agree to pay the amount of US$42,900,000 as rent, to help offset any Vietnamese war indemnity.
IV: Northern Vietnam will remain under Chinese occupation until 2010, when Chinese occupational troops will withdraw after the occupation period is over.
V: The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is forbidden from seeking diplomatic and military alliance with any other foreign nation with hostile intentions towards the People’s Republic of China.
VI: The People’s Liberation Army will have uninterrupted access to all land, sea, and air routes operated by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for a period of 25 years.
VII: Finally, the Government of the People’s Republic of China will have the power to approve or reject any official appointed by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for positions related to national security.
Signed:
Qian Qichen (Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China)
Nguyễn Mạnh Cầm (Foreign Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam)
--- POPULAR FILIPINO COMEDY GROUP IN LEGAL TROUBLE OVER SOTTO BROTHERS’ ARREST OVER VICTIMS’ CLAIMS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Seattle Times
July 31, 1996
(Seattle, WASHINGTON STATE) – A popular Filipino comedy group, consisting of two prominent former Philippine politicians, Vicente ‘Tito’ Castelo Sotto III, and Vic Sotto, and an obscure exiled comedian, Joey de Leon, had been detained by Seattle Metropolitan Police over accusations of sexual harassment, and other notable sex crimes. The victims who filed the charges, 21-year-old Santana Madrigal, who worked as a server in the Seattle pub where the comedic group held their shows, and 23-year-old Angela O’Halloran, claimed that the three men were making inappropriate gestures while they were on a break. The incident had occurred the night before, with the servers being subjected to all kinds of sexual harassment before a customer told the three comedians to cease and desist. The customer’s intervention allowed the servers to call local police, who then took their statements as the three comedians were handcuffed and escorted into the car. Additional witnesses also stated that the three comedians were already over the limit in their alcohol intake, as evident by Joey de Leon’s failed attempt to grope Ms. Madrigal.
“It is disgusting that the three ‘comedians’ thought it was funny to make a sexual joke. After hearing about the rape case of Pepsi Paloma, I want to make sure that these animals are kept behind bars,” comments Madrigal, who was given a one-week stress leave by her manager. “My father was friends with Pepsi Paloma’s mother, and he also knew her late boyfriend, who eventually joined the military during the Filipino Civil War and fought on the side of Artemio Tadiar’s dictatorship against Fabian Ver and Ferdinand Marcos.”
The infamous 1982 rape case of former actress Pepsi Paloma had shocked the Philippines when it was first reported, and while the punishment for rape during the Marcos regime was death by electric chair, the three accused men (although it was not Joey de Leon who was among the accused trio in the rape of Pepsi Paloma, but rather, Ricardo Reyes) had made a public apology while they were on their knees. However, when Pepsi had allegedly signed an Affidavit of Desistance, pledging to not take the case to court, it became controversial, as it was revealed that Pepsi’s mother had signed the Affidavit on her behalf. Yet, within the year after the rape incident, Pepsi Paloma had committed suicide over personal issues that threatened to boil over into the open. The recent incident at a Seattle pub had aroused protests against the Tito, Vic, and Joey comedic group, mainly from within the Filipino diaspora residing in Seattle, as they denounced them as ‘disgraceful idiots’ whose behavior is abhorrent.
Although the three accused men could potentially lose their political refugee status due to the crime they committed, the Jackson administration is hesitant to deport them from the United States, as it would mean delivering them straight into the arms of Artemio Tadiar and his dictatorship. A few months ago, the Tadiar regime had passed the Villanueva-Montes Act (named after the rape victim Beatrice Villanueva, who was raped at gunpoint by convicted and executed felon Sergio Montes), authorizing the death penalty for rape, but in Tadiar’s case, it would be through either a firing squad, or impalement. Even more so, US Republican Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp had added into his campaign platform, the promise to enforce good behavior policies at the exiled ethnic diasporas residing inside the United States, and if any member of the political exiled community commits any crime, even if it were a minor crime, they would lose their political refugee status and will be liable for immediate deportation. Human rights activists criticized Kemp’s promise as giving enough ammunition to authoritarian regimes that continue the policy of the death penalty.
--- The Jack Kemp Administration (First Term – 1996-2000):
President: Jack Kemp
Vice President: Lamar Alexander
Secretary of State: Gary Bauer
Secretary of Treasury: Susan Schwab
Secretary of Defense: John Shalikashvili
Attorney General: Alberto Gonzales
Secretary of the Interior: John McCain
Secretary of Agriculture: Helen Delich Bentley
Secretary of Commerce: Barbara Cegavske
Secretary of Labor: Ann Veneman
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Pakkiri Rajagopal
Secretary of Transportation: Susan Gerard
Secretary of Energy: Rex Tillerson
Secretary of Education: Joni Albrecht
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Donald Rumsfeld
Domestic Security Council Chief: Dick Cheney (appointed in 1999, after the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Radio Tower attack)
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Al Gore
Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Michael Chertoff
United States Trade Representative: Henry Paulson
Chief of Staff: Norman Schwarzkopf
Counselor to the President: Oliver North
--- “From the moment Jack Kemp had selected his candidates to fill in the positions for his cabinet, the American political elite had become more aggressive and excited at the prospect of dragging American politics to an age not seen since the Herbert Hoover years, only this time there are no Kempvilles to be built because there was no Great Depression. No, what was worse for both the United States and the international community was that Oliver North had become the counselor to Jack Kemp, making his role somewhat like Madeleine Albright’s role when she was counselor to Jesse Jackson. Unlike outgoing President Jackson, who had to struggle with a looming crisis and a potential war in the horizon, President Kemp had a big ambition in his mind for when he will eventually take office in 1997. Being a progressive Republican who was ahead of his time, President Kemp would reform America’s immigration laws to meet the growing challenge coming from the Mexican refugees who were fleeing from war-torn southeastern Mexico due to the civil war there. Starting in his administration, President Kemp would pass Executive Order No. 13039, establishing special camps in the US Territory of Puerto Rico, where Mexican refugees would be vetted and interviewed before being allowed to legally enter the territory of the United States. President Kemp would also keep his promise and sign the Madrigal-O’Halloran Act, or more commonly known as the Political Exiles’ Good Manners and Right Conduct Act, which governed the behavior displayed by political exiles, with deportation as punishment if a political exile had been caught committing a crime, no matter how minor or major it is. Kemp’s promotion of tax cuts for businesses that invest in American infrastructure upgrades, including the research on earthquake resistant building techniques, was a huge boon for the West Coast, which had been given special attention due to the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Although Carly Fiorina would not join the federal government as a Senator for California until 2001, she had already made headlines as one of California’s most popular state politician, representing the electoral district of Gardena, California. Her constituents mostly included Filipino Americans, who had rejoined the Republican Party after outgoing President Jackson’s appeasement of Communist China, which played a role in the heavy bombing of the Philippines, and Vietnamese Americans who aligned themselves with the Republican Party for pragmatic, anti-China reasons. However, Oliver North would gain a bad reputation in Latin America, not only because of his previous role in the Iran-Contra Scandal and Tadiargate 1.0, but because under his leadership (Oliver North would later become the official head of the CIA in 1997, replacing John M. Deutch, making the official takeover of the CIA by the Corsair faction complete), Oliver North would sponsor more covert activities, targeting prominent foreign left-wing activists within Latin America, giving financial aid to anti-communist right-wing death squads, and even at one point helped Mario Chaparro come to power in Mexico on May 9, 1997, after a Popular Revolutionary Army terrorist attack that killed former Mexican President de Cevallos in the province of Oaxaca, by a car bomb. In addition, Oliver North would also play a role in engineering the downfall of former Texas governor George W. Bush, by sponsoring the rise of Ross Perot as a viable candidate. Perot would use his reputation as a businessman, and his outspoken opposition to the Bush family, to carry himself into becoming the Governor of Texas. Finally, it was under President Kemp, and with the help of North and Secretary of Defense John Shalikashvili, the United States would successfully foil China’s bid to keep the arms embargo on the Philippines, allowing the Kemp administration to officially send weapons to the Tadiar regime. The companies that would profit the most from the lifting of the arms embargo against the Tadiar regime were Northrop Corporation, which would create over 25,000 jobs in producing 5 F-5E/F Tiger IIs that the Tadiar regime had ordered, and Cessna, which would build 3 A-37 Dragonfly ground attack aircraft, though it would be for research purposes only. The Tadiar regime had learned its lessons from the arms embargo and had started to conduct research into developing their own military equipment. Moreover, the A-37 Dragonfly would be studied extensively by the Royal Australian Air Force and the Indonesian Air Force, for the purpose of designing their own version of the A-37. In addition, the Tadiar regime had augmented their mediocre fleet of M551 Sheridan light tanks with the delivery of 12 M551A1s, which were upgraded. In addition, while President Kemp would make the appearance of imposing an arms embargo on Chile for its slightly larger role in the worsening of the conflict in Chiapas, the CIA Corsairs would smuggle 15 M551A1s into Chile, disguised as automotive spare parts. The prototype M8 Armored Gun System was redesigned into a mobile anti-air defense vehicle, with the Tadiar regime giving the blueprints for the controversially failed superweapons developed during the Marcos dictatorship. The M8 would eventually be redesigned into the M8AA (AA standing for anti-air) Paine, which was mocked as the Poor Man’s Tunguska, or the American Tunguska. The redesigned M8AA Paine would be resold back into the Philippines, while other nations were interested in the revamped design. Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Indonesia were interested in acquiring the M8AA Paine, but Russia was keen on getting its hands on the Paine, mainly because the M8AA Paine had multiple thin tubes that could carry the anti-air missiles. In addition, the Russian military leadership noticed the similarity between the rocket launcher from the aborted Project Santa Barbara and their arsenal of the Uragan missiles. American defense contractors, excited about their chance of being the first ones to improve and redesign the rocket launchers from the failed Project Santa Barbara, have jumped on the chance. It was because of the Tadiar regime’s role in giving the United States the contents of the failed Project Santa Barbara blueprints that eventually led to the restoration of diplomatic partnership between the Philippine and American governments, although President Kemp refused to reopen their embassy in Manila.” Alex Jones, from “Corporate America’s Dirty Little Secret”, sponsored by “The American Cause”.
--- Below, the electoral map of the 1996 US Presidental Election (BLUE indicates Democrats under Jackson-Brown ticket, GOLD indicates Social Progressives under LaRouche-Bevel ticket, and RED indicates Republicans under Kemp-Alexander): 
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 6, 2021 14:45:54 GMT
Luckily, the captured party was tried and executed by a joint Yugoslav and Albanian firing squad, but unfortunately one of the offenders who was executed on Thaci’s orders was the infamous would-be mass murderer, Aziz Kelmendi, the former JNA conscript whose plot to kill his fellow soldiers was foiled by Riza Alibasic. Sorry to nitpick, but I don't know how he could do the mass murder when he's already executed. Anyways though, by retconning much of the Filipino-Chinese's persecution into being somewhat enthusiastic supporters, is Jose Mari Chan now just killed solely due to his antigovernmental song? I bet that with their para-Integralist ideology, as well as their mellowing out with Vietnamese communism, it'll be weird if Tadiar was still petulant over his non-Hispanicised surname. Forgot about that, will fix that. I would think that it could be a combination of Jose Mari Chan getting killed for his antigovernment views and a vengeful assassin.
Ouch that is looking very bad for the US. A Reagan like strategy of transferring funds from the general population to the wealthy and pretty open support of international terrorism and neo-fascist regimes! 
I notice among the list of cabinet ministers you have Al Gore. Is he also a lot more right wing here as I can't see Kemp's Presidency being that interesting in the environment?
Steve
Al Gore is one of those Democrat in Name Only, though eventually he defects to Lyndon LaRouche’s faction later on, when it is revealed that Kemp might have committed a lot of offenses that would get him impeached, and even worse than President Jackson ITTL. |
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Apr 7, 2021 4:36:02 GMT
It's dead, thanks to Ross Perot's decision to support Jack Kemp in the 1996 Election, and opting to run for Governor of Texas. Social Progressives of TTL might have taken the role of the Reform Party, although TTL's 2000 would also see the National Revival Party emerge as the dark mirror counterpart of OTL Reform, with James Traficant as its Party Leader. I could see Alex Jones and James Traficant getting involved in a heated debate against each other. Due to the amount of butterflies produced in this timeline, what would become of Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, Trump, and Biden? Bill Clinton: I will probably address this in an upcoming update, since I wanted to touch base on North America, the Middle East (Iran will be one of the other main focus here) Bush Jr.: It is hinted that he would eventually lose the 1998 Texas Guberatorial Election to Ross Perot. It's how he would lose that would become the main issue in a future update. Obama: Unsure yet, though he could play a minor role in the Carol Moseley-Braun administration. Trump: Already hinted that he's purchasing lands in British Columbia ITTL, with the first Trump Tower to be built in Whistler, instead of downtown Vancouver. It will also be located close to both TTL and OTL Whistler Village, and TTL's headquarters of the Philippine government-in-exile. Biden: Unsure yet. |
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