speaking of Evan McMullin you remember how people had that galaxy brain scenario where he would win Utah in 2016 and Trump and Clinton would tie for delegates and then the Republican House would name him president How do you guys think that alternate universe is doing
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
what, the former CIA guy when a former KGB guy runs Russia? We're openly at war with Russia, obviously.
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Replying to @selahmorrigan
yeah that's really the only possible outcome, an alt-centrist fever dream that drowns the world in fire
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @selahmorrigan
I don't have any opinion about how he'd run the country but there is no way people would've taken the election being "stolen" lying down
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The Corrupt Bargain of 1824 led to widespread violence and was the core plank around which Jackson built a mass movement for the 1828 election to come back and dismantle the establishment
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Imagine the same thing happening today in a much bigger country with a much higher tech level With the Internet and with AR-15s everywhere
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JQ Adams is regarded as the most decent President of this era He believed in the Founders' vision of non-partisan government, he appointed positions based on merit, he swore his inaugural oath on the Constitution rather than the Bible despite being devoutly Christian
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He's basically if Mr Rogers were a politician That's why they put him in in the first place But the fact of the Corrupt Bargain meant none of that mattered and he barely accomplished any of his goals because that was the one thing hanging over everything
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It basically made it a certainty that Jackson would win the next election in a landslide, invite his hooting hollering mob to literally steal all the furniture in the White House, and then spend eight years vengefully wrecking up the place
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