The Fall of the American Empire (2016-)

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2016 UNITED STATES PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

269 - 269

Governor Christopher J Christie (NJ) / Governor Susana Martinez (NM)
45.0123% PV 269 EV
Governor Martin O' Malley (MD) / Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
45.0122% PV 269 EV
Senator Rand Paul (KY) / Fmr Senator Russ Feingold (WI)
8.4% PV 0 EV

For the first time in American history, a Presidential election would result in a deadlocked tie. Not since 1824 had one been decided indirectly in the House of Representatives. A handful of votes would disallow Maryland Governor Martin O' Malley the office while only a handful more in Ohio would hold it from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

US SENATE RESULTS

53 - 44 - 2 - 1

In yet another historic turn of events, a sitting Senate majority Leader is ousted from power while his party regain dominance of the upper legislative body. Harry Reid will lose the election to Governor Brian Sandoval by a margin of one percent. Gabrielle Giffords will be elected to succeed John McCain in Arizona, becoming the first cognitively-impaired person to take a seat in the Senate. The Libertarian Party will achieve a breakthrough, winning Lisa Murkowski's Senate seat in Alaska and Rand Paul will change his party affiliation to Libertarian, becoming the Party's leader in the upper legislative body.

US HOUSE RESULTS

224 - 208

 After a dramatic primary season which saw favourite Hillary Clinton bowled out early on thanks to heavy 'Stop Hillary' internet-based SuperPac campaigning and a decidedly undramatic 'No' from former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the field was blown wide open for competitive races in both parties. The long wait for safe second-termer O' Malley allowed for him to get a head start on fundraising and more focus to raise a national profile than incumbents such as Tim Kaine, Maggie Hassan and Andrew Cuomo. His steady lead throughout would attract negative GOP ads attacking him as a friend of 'illegal aliens' and soft on crime for his opposition to and abolition of the death penalty in Maryland. On the Republican side, a highly competitive four-way race between Christie, Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and former Vice-Presidential candidate and Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would culminate in a comfortable victory for the relatively moderate Christie against two hardened neo-conservatives and someone of a libertarian. Paul would in the end refuse to endorse the nominee and split to run on a third-party Libertarian Party-endorsed ticket with former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.

 At the GOP convention in Cleveland, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez would be nominated for VP easily despite her career's similarities to Christie's and Hispanic heritage. She would prove a fiery maternal presence on the campaign trail. In Colombus, the Democrats would nominate New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, some thought for her similarities to Clinton and moneyed family. Ohio was the battleground state in most contention form the offset of the fall campaign.

 With the Afghanistan War over, the election was mainly fought on the grounds of the ever-ballooning national debt, trade issues with the Eurasian Union and mass immigration from Mexico following the devastation along the Gulf of Mexico wrought by Hurricane Abigail the year prior.

 President Obama's expansion of the War on Drugs into Afghanistan, his privatization of Social Security, provision of citizenship to Mexican refugees following Hurricane Abigail and raising of taxes on upper incomes would incense all voters across the spectrum and erode his popularity with much of America. His and Vice President Biden's presence would be kept to a minimum due to this.

 O' Malley would rally against Christie's unfair treatment of New Jersey teachers. Touring Newark streets with former Mayor Corey Booker to survey economic decline attributed to Christie's state policies would deal a devastating blow to the Republican ticket. The Toll Plaza scandal which occurred two years previously would linger on the political airwaves even as the investigations ostensibly cleared Christie's name in 2014. The firebrand maverick would light up the stage in the three Presidential debates against the squeaky-clean but relatively uncharismatic O' Malley. Many pundits opine that it was Christie's obnoxious commoner spiel which many Americans identified with, thusly giving him the popular vote...

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2016 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VOTE

461 - 77

State Voter ID Laws as well as the passage of the National Popular Vote Compact were attributed to Christie's narrow clinching of the popular vote from Democrat O' Malley and subsequent landslide election in the House of Representatives while O' Malley's running mate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is easily confirmed as Vice President in the Senate, making history as the first female to hold the office.

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20/01/2017

"Now, I would like to give thanks to President Obama, for his service to our country and his defense of our interests at home and abroad, regardless of partisanship. Let us continue to bridge the divide between Democrat and Republican and work together in the coming four years. For the great debt we owe is not merely a monetary one but one we owe to the American people to serve them faithfully. God bless you and God bless the United States of America"

-President Christopher J Christie

The newly appointed President must contend with a House, Senate and even Vice President of the opposite political stripe as well as a national debt of 18 trillion dollars and counting...

An increasingly economically dominant India will conduct it's first manned space flight, fuelling what will be dubbed a Space Pace, due to US indecision to commit to new NASA missions. Hong Kong's first government elected by universal suffrage will demand separation from the mainland, straining Sino-American relations further. Tensions with Mexico over the previous administration's admission of residency to thousands of Mexican refugees fleeing the devastation left by Hurricane Abigail, will lead to renewed calls for a proposed wall along the border by the Tea Party Caucus. The deployment of Anti-Ballistic Missiles, said to protect the US from North Korean attacks, along the Pacific coast will lead to mass protests by the Occupy Movement and other modern liberal West Coast organizations.

At home, as part of the central aim of his administration to halt the rising national debt Christie will approve bills raising the federal income tax for high-income earners and implement the full privatization of social security, and de-funding of Medicaid as part of a series of Grand Bargains to close the deficit. Demands for transparency in government will be raised by groups representing the entire political spectrum after the JFK assassination files are released to the public, proving an assassination conspiracy between the Mafia purportedly in response to Bobby Kennedy's crackdown on organized crime.

With the necessary majority of 34 states as co-signatories, the Tea Party march on Washington to hold an Article V Convention to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. The law is implemented under Christie who will call on Congress to make further across-the-board cuts and raise taxes and surtaxes on corporations and high-earners.

[Yelnoc]

Your colors on wrong.

[Indy Prez]

Your colors on wrong.

These are the colors of today though.

[zorkpolitics]

In a tie, the House votes by state  not with Electoral Votes.
Your map shows a 25-25 ties, not a 224-208 result.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Bottom line, this makes no f#cking sense at all.

[Consciously Unconscious]

Bottom line, this makes no f#cking sense at all.

[Indy Prez]

In a tie, the House votes by state  not with Electoral Votes.
Your map shows a 25-25 ties, not a 224-208 result.

Noted, though it actually a 41-9 landlside. Read into the NPVA proposed after the disputed 2000 us election to understand y certain states would b obliged to vote for  Christie, the pop vote winner.

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With the Minsk ceasefire now upheld by Putin, who scolds the separatists in southeastern Ukraine, Crimea will be allowed a referendum on it's status to be observed by international representatives while Ukraine will be admitted into the European Union along with Poland as the 30th and 29th states respectively. This diplomacy will give the waning Christie administration a much-needed bounce in the polls.

At the UN, a grand coalition of China, the US, NATO, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, UAE, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan agree to fight ISIS on the ground, in the air and to support an independent Kurdistan in the aftermath of near certain defeat of the radical Islamic armies.


 The 2018 FIFA World Cup will prove diplomatically challenging, as the arbitrary arrests of several German players prior to a crucial match and the turning off of stadium lights during a Russia-Japan match will raise suspicions of a FSB conspiracy and an investigation by FIFA officials. The Russian law relating to sexuality will once again come under fire as it did in the 2014 Winter Olympics, and President Christie will call slow down the easing of sanctions on the government.

In Mexico, the Presidential election will result in a close first-time victory for the leftist PRD alliance. President-elect Jesus Zambrano, who ran on a campaign of ending the Drug War unilaterally, will be killed in a car-bombing before taking office. President Enrique Pena Nieto will call into session the Congress to arrange a new Presidential election and rewrite the Constitution to allow for an extension of his term. Riots will engulf the country and the contested election of PRI candidate Ivonne Ortega Pacheco will do little to assuage the violence. President Christie will call on Congress to authorize military force and a ground force will be deployed to the border...

The Embargo with Cuba will be completely lifted with the election of Vice President of Miguel Diaz-Canel, a man of significantly more leftward political views than his predecessor. China, Russia, the EU and a reluctant US embassy will congratulate Diaz-Canel on his ascension to power.

The US will begin to spend annually more on debt servicing than anything else and the Libertarian Party will emerge as a powerful third-party force in the midterm elections.

US SENATE RESULTS

44 - 43 - 11 - 2

US HOUSE

183 - 132 - 120

The Libertarian surge supplants the Republicans as the official minority while the Democrats hold enough seats in both legislatures to block any Republican/Libertarian coalition agenda. Dave Brat will lead the new Party power in Congress, as the Tea Party faction splinters forever...

Rand Paul will lead the Libertarians in the Senate and Bernie Sanders will break ties with Democrats.

The movement to get money out of politics, WolfPAC, will march in their hundreds of thousands on Washington to pass the 29th Amendment to the Constitution, proscribing the public financing of all campaigns, having attained a supermajority of states as signatories to their Article V call to convene. In the most expensive election yet, supporters agree it couldn't have come later.

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"It was in the stars. Nothing lasts forever."

"So this is how my Wikipedia entry'll go down: most remembered for handing the title of #1 to the Chinese. .
Now American kids grow up to see the world through slanted eyes."

"They'll blame the black guy. They always do. His legacy was securely sh**ttered by the time you were sworn in."

"Will the yellow man blame the black man though? What will hey prefer to write in their history books, huh?"

"History books? It's all online now. You're forgetting we still own the internet."

"For how long though?"

With the withdrawal of US troops, the aftermath of the War in Pakistan will spill over into India, triggering a war in which India will invade North-West Pakistan after several Islamic terrorist attacks spill over into the mostly Hindu nation's territory. The UN, US and China will call for an immediate ceasefire on both sides while Russia will side with the Indian government.
A Civil War will coincide in Afghanistan simultaneously. UN and NATO peacekeepers will be deployed to support the current government.
 
US military presence will continue to shrink abroad with the exception of military involvement in preserving the Interim state in Mexico and the Republican Party will refute President Christie, who confirms his intention not to seek another term in office. The 2020 Presidential Primaries heat up with contenders Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio and Prescott Bush vying for the Republican nomination. On the Democratic side, Tammy Baldwin, Julian Castro, Maria Cantwell and late-starter Tammy Duckworth. Rand Paul will runa gain as the Libertarian nominee. President Christie will meanwhile watch his world slip by...

 The US, now once again fighting two wars, will see it's stagnating economy dip into recession once again and the national debt will peak at 112% of GDP. Impeachment proceedings will be carried against President Christie on not drafting a balanced budget for three years running as per the recently amended Constitution. The few remaining Tea Party Republicans will attach various supposed felonies sucha s intelligence-sharing with the Chinese in the war against ISIS and expressing support for anti-American leaders in negotiations with Bolivarian states for freer trade.