For all of Rumsfeld's talk of freedom, he creates the most repressive regime in American history, and allies himself with Magnus Malan. Not to mention imprisoning Ted Turner for violating business regulations that are in the process of being dismantled on behalf of Rumsfeld's corporate supporters. Coca-Pepsi, Inc.: Marvel Comics, having gone bankrupt at the end of The '70s, has been bought by DC Comics and the two are to merge their universes. Also an example of For Want Of A Nail, as in OTL Marvel was kept afloat by its Star Wars comics—in Gumbo, Star Wars only exists as an obscure animated film, and though Marvel still produces comics based on it, they're not popular enough to save it. Foreshadowing: Some posters think the economic, military, and social breakdown of China under Lesser Mao foreshadowed what would happen to America under Donald Rumsfeld. It turns out to be half-right: while America does follow China's example, including the government using nukes on its own people, this is only after Rumsfeld is impeached, superseded by the even more insane Douglas Coe. By 1990, much of the country has been taken over by a theocracy ruled by Douglas Coe. Many cities have been nuked by Coe, and whole states have broken off. At the stroke of midnight in Washington, a drooling red-eyed beast with the legs of a man and a head of a giant hyena crawls out of its bedroom window in the South Wing of the White House and leaps fifty feet down to the lawn...pauses briefly to strangle the Chow watchdog, then races off into the darkness...towards the Watergate, snarling with lust, loping through the alleys behind Pennsylvania Avenue, and trying desperately to remember which one of those fore hundred identical balconies is the one outside of Martha Mitchell's apartment....Ah...Nightmares, nightmares. But I was only kidding. The President of the United States would never act that weird. At least not during football season.

I was ready for all the standard-brand Secret Service bullshit. The only thing that worried me was that maybe some of the SS boys might have seen the current Rolling Stone-which was available that week at newsstands all over Washington. It contained, along with my calm and well-reasoned analysis of the recent GOP convention in Miami, some of the most brutal and hateful caricatures of Richard Nixon ever committed to print, in this country or any other. Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004) [ edit ] I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. The city's frightening now. That's the basis of my reaction to Las Vegas. It's not the city I wrote about. It's not the same place at all. You'll notice that even the — what do you call them? — milestone or trademark casinos are now gone. Balkanize Me: Happens to mainland China after the fall of the Lesser Mao. It's also implied that this will happen to India sometime before 2000, but the timeline has not reached that point yet. Satan's Slaves, number three in the outlaw hierarchy, custom-bike specialists with a taste for the flesh of young dogs, flashy headbands and tender young blondes with lobotomy eyes.Quotes [ edit ] Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of "the rat race" is not yet final. 1950s [ edit ] The "Democrat Killer" claims that Abraham Lincoln was a Democratic mole in the Republican Party because he was responsible for the end of slavery in America, ignoring the fact that the Democrats of the time were largely pro-slavery. But considering who this is, that’s probably intentional.

Now, years later, I still have trouble when I think about Chicago ('68). That week at the Convention changed everything I'd ever taken for granted about this country and my place in it... Everytime I tried to tell somebody what happened in Chicago I began crying , and it took me years to understand why... Chicago was the End of the Sixties, for me. South Africa under Apartheid is a fully fledged Neo Nazi state in all but name, and wields an arsenal of WMDs including dirty bombs which it hurls at its neighbours with wild abandon and is fully protected by President Rumsfeld as a "bastion of freedom" due to the increasing insanity of his anti-communist paranoia.After the Christian Value's party takes power, Alaska, Texas, Oregon, and Washington all secede as well. The United Nations also seize control of America's overseas territories as Trusteeships.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. The Dragon: Cheney was this for Rumsfeld. After Cheney defects to the resistance, Timothy LaHaye replaces him. Word of God states that the Sequel Series is meant to be this to American conservatives' hero-worship of Ronald Reagan, by having a President in The '80s with policies more reminiscent of modern-day Tea Party conservatives (or at least the author's interpretation) than those that Reagan actually professed and pushed while in office. Football season is over. No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt. If any part of it doesn’t seem to make sense, by all means call it to my attention. I’m not trying to send you out “on the road” in search of Valhalla, but merely pointing out that it is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it. There is more to it than that— no one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.Foregone Conclusion: When the CV takes power, Alabama under Wallace refuses to follow their policies, causing the federal government to place the state under siege. The flash-forward map in "Rummyhorror" shows Alabama firmly under the control of the Christian States of America, so it's safe to say that Wallace lost. Kangaroo Court: Under Rumsfeld, the justice system becomes his means of imprisoning any Democrats who would oppose him. Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl" ( Rolling Stone #155, (28 February 1974); republished in Gonzo Papers, Vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (1979), p. 49 I had a soft spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth, and also because his wife gave the best head in Hollywood. By the time we got to the street, I could see the first rays of the sun, a cool pink glow in the eastern sky. The fact that I’d spent all night in a cell and a courtroom made that morning one of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. There was a peace and brightness about it, a chilly Caribbean dawn after a night in a filthy jail. I looked out at the ships and the sea beyond them, and I felt crazy to be free with a whole day ahead of me.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives. Companion Cube: The Lesser Mao, imagining himself as a new Emperor Qin Shi Huang, surrounds himself with the Terracotta Army statues. A large theme of the timeline is the fall of the two-party system in the US, desired by many people in real life, which causes almost all of the timeline's suffering in one way or another. Also, Word of God specifically invokes this in regards to the hinted military coup being planned against Rumsfeld. Mankiewicz had nothing to claim. He has learned to travel light. His "baggage," as it were, consisted of one small canvas bag that looked like an oversize shaving kit.

Hunter was an enigma all his life. He puzzled his mother, who wondered why he did the things he did. But she understood that her eldest son had magnetism. After he became famous, she was saying his charisma was there all along, although he was difficult from the moment of his birth. Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast. Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.