The Republic of Texas

by on April 18, 2020 at 12:01 am
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When President Samuel Mateo Lopez went home to his cattle ranch in Texas after the United States Senate confirmed his Impeachment, few people could have guessed where the future would lead us. He was an extremely popular ex-governor of Texas and they had been proud when he won the previous national election. They were also proud to vote for him in the current election, in spite of the ban against him running and the massive voter intimidation campaign that raged all over the media. He did not actually run for President, but many seeking other offices asked for him to come and stump for them. And when Samuel Lopez answered those calls from all over America, he did not wear the business suit and tie popular in Washington. He wore the finest of Texas fashion as he had during his term as governor, complete with cowboy boots, bolo tie, and cowboy hat, in a renunciation of “Corrupted Washington and its Ivory Tower Rulers.” It was an extremely popular campaign all the way to Election Day and beyond.

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The Republic of Texas

by on April 17, 2020 at 12:01 am
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After Impeaching the last elected two Presidents, the new President and Congress quickly packed the Supreme Court with friendly judges to counter the previous administration’s “bigoted and backwards” picks. They also changed election laws to make sure those as deplorable as the previous Presidents would be blocked from ever winning another national election. The new President used the federal military and law enforcement branches to crack down on all who had colluded with the previous Presidents’ “Criminal Administration,” and handed down dozens of decades-long prison sentences for White House staffers, campaign consultants, and department heads. And he parlayed media support for his “Truth and Justice in America” campaign into a dominant electoral and popular vote win stretching from sea to shining sea.

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The Republic of Texas

by on April 16, 2020 at 12:01 am
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The American Congress had been a thorn in the President’s side since he was elected. His party had won both houses on Election Day, but the majority was slim and the other party united to resist him. They could not abide that someone like him had been elected by those too stupid and irredeemable to understand what was best for them. They ran against his “racist and bigoted administration” in the midterms, and won both houses in minor landslides filled with rumors of voter fraud that gave them slim majorities. They used those majorities to quickly start numerous investigations into him and those who dared to work for him. The economic war with China proved to be the perfect nail beneath their political hammer, and they charged him with incompetence and/or outride collusion with the enemy to weaken America. They Impeached both the President and the Vice President that took his place in a one-two political punch that raised the Speaker of the House to the Presidency of the United States of America, heralded by the new President and his media allies as a day of “Truth and Justice in America.”

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The Republic of Texas

by on April 15, 2020 at 12:01 am
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International chaos erupted as the long-running Chinese-American Cool War escalated into a full-scale economic war. Most of it involved no violence all, with either the Chinese or the Americans simply walking in and declaring they now owned whatever facility they were claiming that day. Often the local operators running it remained at their posts contingent upon background investigations. But sometimes they included special action teams and weapons fire, and sometimes those resulted in shed blood. People died all around the world as the economic superpowers tore at each other. Foreign countries stopped lending to either America or China, and the global economy simply came apart. So it was that the Second Great Depression came upon us all.

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The Republic of Texas

by on April 14, 2020 at 12:01 am
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When China called in the American debt, the President went on live television and read their demand, word for translated word, to all of the American people who had tuned in. Then he added up the costs of the various Chinese pandemics of the last few decades that far outweighed those debts. He declared those debts annulled by that Chinese biological terrorism and announced he would not give the Chinese Communist Party “One Red Cent.” It scored as one of the greatest political speeches of the decade. Full of Rah Rah American gusto and patriotism. Political polls forecasted that he won reelection with that speech. And those polls did not dip “One Red Percent” when China declared America in default and began gobbling up every American interest they could secure in their sphere of influence. America could not allow that to stand of course, and returned by nationalizing all Chinese interests within America’s sphere of influence. Thus a full-scale economic war between the two richest nations in the world began.

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