Mr. Scorpio
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Scenario: 2013 - Mitt Romney is President of the United States of America
Due to four years of President Obama's successful war against the terrorist group, al Qaeda, the United States if finally putting an end to it's terror war. Al Qaeda finds themselves greatly weakened and the US undergoing a withdrawal of military forces from the Middle East.
The War on Terra looks to be a thing of the past, unless…
They can attack the United States again, force the country into spending an inordinate amount of money that it can ill afford on a new Middle East war, while destroying its good will in the Islamic World.
Their plan: Provoke President Romney into restarting The War on Terra.
You have the three following choices that al Qaeda could use to provoke President Romney into action:
Plan 1. Trap Sandra Bullock on a cruise ship and crash it into a port, a al "Speed 2: Cruise Control":
Plan 2. Trap Gene Wilder in the "Silver Streak" train and crash it into a train terminal:
Plan 3. A "Blues Brothers 2" type carmageddon:
The choose is yours.
Ratings
Specifically ratings on election night.
The media yearns to keep everyone on the edge of their seats until the last possible moment, killing everyone with the suspense, projecting themselves into the fray, if possible.
We call the election for….
BIG RATINGS!
Tumblr is down: Sorry, no political cartoons, memes or gifs from me right now…
In the meantime, I leave you with these animated smilies:
Talk Talk - It's My Life (Live at Montreux 1986)
How long would slavery had lasted if the South decided NOT to secede?
Let's say that Fort Sumpter was never attacked, that the Confederacy had never been founded and that Lincoln had not freed the slaves in response to the Union finding themselves in the predicament that they had.
Clearly, the slave owning states thought that Lincoln's election was the end of their world. Their worst fears were going to be realized if he declared slavery illegal and marched the troops into the South to free all of the blacks. And it's not like the South had even given him a chance to fail in dissolving slavery through due process, because they launched their attack one month after he was inaugurated.
Outside of the Southern propaganda of the time, where was the proof that Lincoln intended to unilaterally end slavery without a response to a secession? Was it even possible without the war that began from the South's attack? Was Abolition as inevitable as soon as it was?
Outside of the newly established states where slavery was prohibited, how secure was the institution in the old slave states?
In attacking the North, the Slave States eventually brought about the realization of their own fears. The South created the monster in Lincoln that they feared and through their own action, that monster came to life.
I think about the people today who are driven to create a Barack Obama that doesn't really exist. So far, they haven't acted on their fears and thus, there's no real reason to believe that those fears can be realized. All they have to do is compare the list of fears they issued four years ago in the even of Obama's election and find out that not one of them have come true.
The South in 1861 poked a bear and the bear got back at them. If they had not poked that bear, what would America look like today?
Today's Navy can kick the 1917 Navy's ass even if it has twice as many 1917 era ships
Why can't Romney figure that out?
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