/r/PoliticalWhatIf
For all your hypothetical political scenarios.
What would happen if Ross Perot had actually won the 1992 election? What if Roosevelt had died in 1939? There are so many possibilities, let's try to think of how things may have been different.
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Please try to include actual possibilities, but think outside of the box.
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Basically the name. What would the new government/surrounding politics be like?
So let's say that mexico wants to show that it doent speak English unlike the other 2 powers in north america and quebec also wishes to be distinct from anglophones so the two unite to become distinct from the english of usa and canada, with quebcois french and mexican spanish being the offical languages. What would life in this new country be like? How would canada react to losing quebec to mexico? How would the quebecois and Mexicans get along with each other in the union?
He wants to be #1 at everything, why not as the most litigated human on Earth? It would make great headlines.
Would trump have remained the Teflon orange? How would the nation and world react and respond. Would Trump still be able to run in 24? And how do you think Trump would have responded?
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I'm not sure if this really belongs here, so sorry in advance.
To be more specific, about 1,300 legionaries.
After tests are taken, studies completed, vaccines given, and the Romans given a very thorough history lesson, what would happen to them? Would they become citizens of some country? Which one? Or would some country cede them a small piece of land? What do you think?
Thanks in advance, I'm writing a book with this scenario.
With all the terrorist attacks that are going on at this moment in the UK and Europa as a whole. I often think Europe is way to soft. And often wonder how someone like (iron) Lady Tatcher would tackle the problems we face today mostly terrorism.
Lets say in 2020 Trump doesn't run for re election and the republicans have to pick a nominee.Who would win out of these candidates however likely they are to run.VOTE
Rand Paul-Kentucky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul
Marco Rubio-Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio
John Kasich-Ohio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kasich
Mike Pence-Indiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence
Ted Cruz-Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
Vice President: Rahm Emanuel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
Secretary of State: Robert Gates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates
Secretary of Treasury: David Adelman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Adelman
Secretary of Defense: Michèle Flournoy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Flournoy
Attorney General: Ted Wells
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Wells
Secretary of the Interior: David J. Lane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Lane_(ambassador)
Secretary of Agriculture: Eric Lander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lander
Secretary of Commerce: Regina E. Dugan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan
Secretary of Labor: Bernie Sanders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Josette Sheeran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Sheeran
Secretary of Education: Ronald Lauder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Norman Foster (let’s just say he’s American citizen)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank
Secretary of Transportation: C. David Cush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._David_Cush
Secretary of Energy: John Holdren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: John McCain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain
Secretary of Homeland Security: Porter Goss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_Goss
Chief of Staff: Elizabeth Warren
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Gina McCarthy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_McCarthy
Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Gail J. McGovern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_J._McGovern
Ambassador to the United Nations: Max Baucus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Baucus
United States Trade Representative: Michael Froman
Pot, meth, heroin, lsd, molly, acid, etc.
These are billion dollar industries almost entirely because the government doesn't think we're smart enough to decide what we put in our bodies, but if we just suddenly changed that, the value of the drugs would drop like a rock. it might single-handedly cripple the business of dozens of drug lords in a single day.
Sure consumption would probably go up for a while, but nowhere near enough to cover the drop in price from everyone freely being able to sell it (assuming a system where they receive a license and a marked territory to punish those dispensing deadly doses).
Imagine it like prohibition. Saying no one can have it and making it so only criminals can get it for you, makes money solely for criminals and puts people in places where illegal stuff happens, but if there's no profit to be made by sneaking it across the border or avoiding cops, use and deaths caused by it could decrease by a wide margin.
Honestly, I'm not even sure by what right the government has to tell us we can't have pot.
more specifically, who do you think would run this year?
If this happened, could they affect the outcome of the election? Would the Clinton campaign have any recourse?
The Office of POTUS becomes so tainted with scandal and corruption and also, the people running for President are all so venal and deceptive, that the Armed Forces take over the running of the country.
In the event of severe climate change and sea level rise, millions of people are going to be on the move. These people will include many who were the populations of states (e.g. Florida) that are going to be almost completely annihilated by sea level rise. If they migrate en masse into another region, do they thereafter establish a new state of Florida in the recently occupied territory?
However, it's just a clever plan to provide voters an option so as to deny either Clinton or Trump 270 electoral votes -- so that the decision for who is to be President is thrown into the Republican-dominated House of Representatives -- where the Republicans can decide directly who will become President...