Headlines from An Alternate Universe

[MineralMan]

McCain Inaugural Plans Take Shape

McCain Inauguration Marked by Protests; Supporters Rally

VP Palin Shocks Solons in Speech to Religious Leaders

Nation Mourns Untimely Death of President - Mystery Illness Fells McCain

President Palin names Limbaugh as VP Choice

President Palin Fires McCain Cabinet

President Palin Taps Buchanan for State Department

President Palin Chooses Randall Terry for HEW Post

President Palin Selects Erik Prince To Head Defense Department

President Palin To Shift Military Academies to Private Ownership

Air Force Academy Changes Name to Colorado Christian Military Academy

Palin Outsources Most Military Units to Xe

Plane Carrying Democratic Senators Crashes in Atlantic - 14 Dead

National Science Foundation Renamed as National Creation Foundation

Tehran Vaporized in Mystery Nuclear Event

Palin Orders UN out of New York

Palin Declares National State of Emergency

[Nite Owl]

1. And your point is?

[MineralMan]

2. No particular point. Just a little mental exercise this morning.

Take it any way you like. It's fiction.

[TheWraith]

3. Somebody unrecced you. I countered it, but there may be more. nt

[MineralMan]

4. It doesn't matter, really. I don't post for recommendations, and

never look at the Greatest Page anyhow. It'll rise or fall in GD, depending on how many people post in it.

[TheWraith]

8. Yeah, but this deserves to be read.

By the people who are clueless enough not to realize that it would pretty much be the case.

The "They're all the same, vote Nader" people haven't left, they've just changed clothes.

[MineralMan]

15. It's being read. As long as it's bumped, it will continue to be read.

DU's great that way. It doesn't matter how many recs/unrecs a post gets. As long as people are reading and replying, it will continue to be read.

That's why I pay no attention whatever to the recommendation counts.

[TheWraith]

24. Which is why I'm here replying. nt

[MineralMan]

27. And thanks to you for that!

[metapunditedgy]

5. Unfortunately, the false dilemma is all too present in THIS universe. n/t

[asdjrocky]

6. More pure propaganda.

[MineralMan]

7. I like pure things. They are exactly what they are, and nothing

else. This is pure fiction.

[asdjrocky]

9. Sure, a pure fiction designed to promote fear and apprehension.

When we are left to two bad, corporate choices, then is there really a choice to make any more?

[MineralMan]

12. There are always choices. We made one.

That's this universe. I wrote about a fictional universe. You may take it as you choose. I write, you reply. That's DU.

[TheWraith]

14. Why don't you just put on the damn Nader 2000 shirt and get it over with?

After the Bush administration, it shocks me that there is ANYONE who remains insane enough to seriously believe that there's no difference between electing a Democrat and electing a Republican.

[MineralMan]

17. I don't believe that's the point that poster is trying to make.

I could be wrong, though. :rofl:

[asdjrocky]

32. I'm serious.

That is hysterical. Most of the people I know are in the exact same shape they were in now, as they were in the Bush administration.

Out here in the real world, things are tough, and it hasn't mattered a bit who the boss is.

[MineralMan]

39. Weather and climate are two different things, you know...

[HughMoran]

53. So if Dems are no better than Republicans

why post on a Democratic board?

[asdjrocky]

55. Actually, I'm a socialist.

Is that okay with you?

[HughMoran]

57. Most Democrats favor socialist policies

Are you also a Democrat?

[asdjrocky]

58. Really, it's none of your business. nt

[MineralMan]

20. How so? The election is over. McCain/Palin didn't win.

How can there be fear of what didn't happen?

[treestar]

25. Did you read those headlines?

Do you really think they are off the mark?

What a ridiculous assertion. You are claiming that McCain would have tried HCR, would not have kept the war in Iraq going and attacked Iran, that there was no chance he would die in office and that word salad idiot be our President.

Are you seriously claiming Palin or McCain would do the same things as Obama? What are you smoking?

[asdjrocky]

38. Where did I claim McCain would have tried HCR?

I read my post twice now, and I can't even find HCR in the post.

Really, you are just too much. The people in my neighborhood are in exactly the same shape they were in 2 years ago, and by the way, no one has gotten health care, since you decided to bring it up.

[MineralMan]

41. Hasty Generalization logical error, I'm afraid.

[treestar]

43. You claimed there was no difference, blah, blah, blah

Quit trying to dodge the implications.

[asdjrocky]

44. Quit trying to make shit up.

How's that?

[MineralMan]

45. You tell 'em!

There's a good lad...

[truedelphi]

63. I am on your side, except -- Don't you understand that under President Palin -

We would have the government attempting to make us work until we are seventy in order to get Social Security? With continual threats to us that we the middle class need to be on an austerity program.

We would have a lame and pathetic response from the Oval Office were there to be any emergencies (such as a catastrophic Oil Spill in an ocean off our shores.) Whatever Oil Company screwed up would be left in charge of the Cleanup, with Homeland Security hassling any members of the press who get too close to the "Cleanup" efforts.

We would continue to be fighting two separate and unending wars for profit, with devious and mercenary firms like Blackwater and DynCorp charging such fees as one hundred bucks per load of GI laundry, while the military families at home live on food stamps.

Wall Street and Big Pharma would be the beneficiaries of many "back room" agreements. The jobless rate would be 20% in all areas of the nation where there are not big defense contract jobs. And the unemployment insurance normally relied on while the economy is bad would be threatened by officials in Washington DC.

On the plus side, were Palin in office while all of happened, people might be taking to the streets.

[NJmaverick]

51. You seem to be suggesting helping dems is a bad thing

Main Entry: pro·pa·gan·da
Pronunciation: \ˌprä-pə-ˈgan-də, ˌprō-\
Function: noun

2 : the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person

[asdjrocky]

56. I'm not suggesting anything.

I'm saying, quite clearly, I don't like propaganda. You've posted one definition of the word, there are others.

I'm also saying I don't vote out of fear, not now, and not ever.

[LeftishBrit]

10. The very thought!

Every now and then people make the right political choice!

Your alternative reality could be the stuff of a horror film.

[piratefish08]

11. next campaign slogan:

"Obama/Biden - at least we weren't McCain/Palin"


hooray

[MineralMan]

13. Well, I have to say that I'm extraordinarily glad we didn't elect

McCain/Palin. Between the two available choices, I believe the right one was made. Do you disagree? We had two choices only. We chose.

[piratefish08]

22. I don't disagree - I voted for them last time and will again.

I just don't like to focus on how bad things could have been.

instead I get frustrated with how much better things COULD be.


paraphrasing from another poster on DU - I still support Pres. Obama's agenda 100%, I only wish that he did too.

[treestar]

26. No one is saying that

But even so, yes, it is a lesser of two evils always if you are at an extreme - the teabaggers feel the same way about McCain - too liberal for them.

[sandnsea]

62. Hooray Indeed! Double, Triple Hooray!!!

What the hell is wrong with that!

:crazy:

[leftstreet]

16. None of your links work n/t

[MineralMan]

18. The Internet hasn't connected to that alternate universe yet.

:rofl:

[Morning Dew]

19. Headline Next !

Palin Resigns.

Hopes to "effect change from outside Government"

[MineralMan]

21. Bwahaha!

I ended the headlines before that happened. Even in the alternate universe, she's only been in office for less than two years. Two years is her pivot point.

:rofl:

[Morning Dew]

23. that's the truth.

She wouldn't want to inflict "lame duckiness" on the American People.

[treestar]

28. She would rather inflict an Orange President on us!

Our first President of color!

[MineralMan]

30. Wasn't there a blue candidate once?

Papa Smurf for President!

[MineralMan]

29. How's that dopey strangey workin' out for ya?

[Jack Rabbit]

31. Whom did she name to head the White House Department of Law?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[MineralMan]

34. Orly Taitz -- I forgot to include that appointment, which was

approved by the Senate just six hours later. A couple of weeks after that, Barack Obama was deported. She's clearly being groomed for a Supreme Court nomination.

I can't put every headline in a short OP, you know. :shrug:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

33. Fear monger much? nt

[MineralMan]

36. Laugh often?

Satire is FUNdamental, but not for everyone. It's funny that way.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

40. This wasn't satire.

[MineralMan]

42. No? Hmm...

Oh, well...

sat·ire (str)
n.
1.
a. A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.
b. The branch of literature constituting such works. See Synonyms at caricature.
2. Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.

Latin satira, probably alteration (influenced by Greek satur, satyr, and saturos, burlesque of a mythical episode) of (lanx) satura, fruit (plate) mixture, from feminine of satur, sated, well-fitted; see s- in Indo-European roots.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/satire

It's ironic that people can't see the difference between the Obama administration and the administration that would have been McCain/Palin.

I'm just as sarcastic as I can be in suggesting a possible, exaggerated chain of events.

My wit is often caustic. It was intended to be caustic in this post.

[NJmaverick]

50. Would you call a waiter warning you that your plate is hot

"fear mongering"?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

64. The hot plate is a reality.

[ismnotwasm]

35. No one thing on that list

Is actually out of the realm of possiblity.

[MineralMan]

37. That's the first requirement of satire, really.

And we'll never know what the mystery illness was that killed John McCain, either, or what really happened to that plane full of Democratic Senators.

[RagAss]

46. I just got back from that Universe....

We installed Rachel and Olbermann after a bloody coup....we lost lots of good folks, but it was worth it !

[MineralMan]

47. Nice! I guess I didn't read far enough into the future...

It's all good, then...
:toast:

[RagAss]

48. Yeh...McCain and Palin high-tailed it to Argentina....

Where they are consoling Diego Maradona and his soccer team...who lost to Germany there too !

[NJmaverick]

49. A kick and return for a job well done!

:applause:

[tridim]

52. We would have probably never seen those headlines..

Because there would be no economy left, and thus no consumer services like the Internet and Newspapers.

Either that or Sarah's ministry of information would simply have censored them.

[Scurrilous]

54. K & R

:thumbsup:

[AnArmyVeteran]

59. All that and more would have happened with those 2 freaks.

[johnaries]

60. No headlines on the Liberal Internment camps?

Does that come after the State of Emergency, or does it just not get reported for some reason?

[pinboy3niner]

68. Of course not...

After the State of Emergency, the only "news" came from the Ministry of Propaganda (contracted out to Faux News, of course, with sub-sourcing to news organs of the Patriot Militias). All other news organizations were banned, their offices raided and closed, their personnel sentenced to re-education camps or 'disappeared'.

[Kind of Blue]

61. Nice to reflect sometimes that the Bush nightmare

will never be followed by the McPalin scenario above.

KnR

[proteus_lives]

65. Alternate history is fun.

Have you read any Turtledove?

[JackRiddler]

66. Well, now you convinced me to support Afghanistan, fire the teachers and cut Social Security.

And is there a bank bailout I can help with?

[JackRiddler]

67. President Palin would have lasted no more than nine months.

Also, note that McCain is still breathing in our own universe.

I find it interesting that in this alternate universe, people actually protest for their rights, instead of waiting patiently for a leader to one day start delivering for them, once details have been worked out to the Republicans' satisfaction.