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You're supposed to ~roleplay~. Do whatever that means for you!
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i put on my robe and gipper hat
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Feb 9, 2016 03:57
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Feb 9, 2016 08:23
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rudatron posted:You're supposed to ~roleplay~. Do whatever that means for you! Voting for "shoot myself" then.
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Feb 10, 2016 17:00
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CB
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Feb 10, 2016 23:22
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The X-man cometh posted:Voting for "shoot myself" then. you're gonna love my next reagan suicide
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Feb 11, 2016 00:27
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Yeah, you take Reagan wherever you want. I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been a pool of suicide votes that won yet. I had planned something out for the inauguration but I don't how I'd kill him right now. Sorry for the delay. I'm trying to put together something involving all the budget cuts, but it's hard to summarize how much awful happened. Worse, Reagan doesn't make any of the decisions, so I'm having to figure out how to involve him directly instead of deferring it all to this Stockman rear end in a top hat. Homework Explainer posted:you're gonna love my next reagan suicide You know it baby.
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Feb 11, 2016 06:18
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don Jaime posted:Yeah, you take Reagan wherever you want. I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been a pool of suicide votes that won yet. I had planned something out for the inauguration but I don't how I'd kill him right now.
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Feb 11, 2016 06:46
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Grouchio posted:You could let him get shot in the head instead of the chest by that crazy stalker. Or get shot square in the heart instead of next to it. There'll be a choice: A man steps out of the crowd, and you see a flash of metal as his hand stretches out towards you. A: Continue walking, it's probably just a camera. B: Cower behind the nearest secret service agent. C: Dive headfirst towards him, longing for the sweet, sweet embrace of death.
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Feb 11, 2016 16:48
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vyelkin posted:There'll be a choice: D Take a white little girl as a human shield, cower fearfully and scream in a feminine voice as tears are streaming down your face.
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Feb 13, 2016 15:45
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How is getting shot by an assassin a suicide?? Sit tight, I'm dumping something out tonight even if it is half-assed.
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Feb 14, 2016 06:19
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quote:What is your position on Iraq? El Salvador’s chief of state, Jose Napoleon Duarte, sends you a heartfelt letter for the aid and declares that his country will be free of Communism soon. President Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti of Iraq accepts your offer of arms and training with a terse note of thanks and the gift of a cuneiform tablet the size of your fingernail. Smithsonian experts inform you that the tablet details tax receipts made in the city of Uruk four thousand years ago. They also think it’s a fake. You wish you could have cut taxes for Uruk. February 12, 1981 - the Troika.  You have a brief meeting with your three most important aides, White House Chief of Staff James Baker (one hand in his pocket), Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver (both hands in his pockets), and Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese (hands where you can see them), about the budget cuts you will propose to Congress next week. “Dave Stockman is making great progress,” Baker says. “He’s on track to trim 5 percent of the total budget just in social spending cuts – a savings of 30 billion dollars.” “Good. Should I be involved in choosing what gets cut?” “You already are,” Meese says. “After the reductions have been determined, Stockwell sends you a memo with a box you can check to show your approval. That’s all you need to do.” “Is that all, Ed?” you ask. “Don’t I need to talk with the cabinet, or something?” “It’s not necessary. None of the cabinet secretaries are really involved, either. Stockman preps what cuts he wants to make to their outlays, and then he joins Regan and the budget working group, including Jim and me, and we meet one-on-one with each cabinet secretary to push the cuts. Once we get them to agree to Stockman’s plans, all that’s left to do is write the memo. They don’t always like it, but they always agree.” “That sounds simple.” Maybe too simple. Maybe you should be supervising this process more closely. “How are they spreading the cuts? There’s nothing too harsh, is there?” “They’ll be spread across all agencies, except Defense, of course,” Baker says. “It’s all things you like, Mr. President. Carter’s synthetic fuel program, completely gone. Aid to Families with Dependent Children has been slashed, so we should have 400,000 families off welfare and 875,000 off food stamps, plus big reductions on those that remain.” “That’s a lot, Jim.” Inwardly, you cringe. All those people might blame you instead of the government. “CETA grants for job training are getting eliminated. A cap is going on Medicaid. Social Security will have no minimum benefit payment to meet. Education aid goes down by a quarter….” “What about the Department of Education itself? Or the Department of Energy? I promised to get rid of them during the campaign. They’re just another layer of unnecessary bureaucracy. We could fold Energy’s functions into Defense and Education into Health and Human Services.” Baker and Meese exchange worried looks. Mike Deaver answers for them: “He’s not targeted an entire department yet, but that could be arranged.” How do you want budget cuts to proceed? A: Check Stockman’s little boxes. Spread the cuts across all the agencies. It’s time for Americans to learn to live within their means. B: Have Energy and Education defunded, then spread the remainder of the targeted cuts across the other agencies to lessen the shock on average Americans. C: Keep the planned cuts to other agencies, AND defund Energy and Education. We can really save money that way. Meese adds, “Stockman’s also working on saving another 20 billion dollars by closing tax expenditures for businesses, like eliminating the oil depletion allowance and reducing exemptions on industrial development bonds. He also wants to put a ceiling on home mortgage allowances and institute a user fee on private aircraft. And I think there’s a few defense cuts hidden in there, but it could build some liberal support toward balancing the budget. Should he proceed?” Do you support Stockman's plan to reduce tax expenditures? A: Sounds good. B: Kill that. Baker and Meese smile broadly and sidle towards the door. They seem to be trying to propel Mike Deaver forward with their minds. Deaver has a fixed grin and little beads of sweat glistening on his forehead. You can’t figure out why Mike would be afraid of you, until you remember who likes him better than Baker and Meese and why they would task him with criticizing her. “What’s Nancy done, Mike?” “Nothing, nothing! She’s doing a great job redecorating the White House. It’s just….” “She’s spending too much government money?” “No, the opposite. It’s all donations from corporate sponsors and rich individuals – tax deductible. Liberals are complaining they’re buying influence through her and dodging taxes at the same time. She’s not doing anything really wrong, it just looks wrong in public, sir.” Leave it to the liberals to complain that your wife isn’t spending government money! What are you going to do about Nancy’s redecorating efforts? A: Chew Mike out for criticizing Nancy. B: Chew the liberals out for criticizing Nancy. C: Politely suggest to Nancy that she should add some sort of social agenda to her calendar to shut these fools up.
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Feb 14, 2016 08:22
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C: Alright, time to get to the meat of the issue. By cutting government down to the bone. Then we can whack the Ruskies with that bone. This cannot fail. B: Woah ho ho, hold on here, getting rid of the oil depletion allowance? Tax on private aircraft? Ceilings on mortgage allowances? There's a name for this: class warfare. It's wrong to double-tax the hardest working people of all, billionaires. It's just not who we are. B: Look, all these Negatives against Nancy are totally misplaced. People give gifts to each other, that's as American as apple pie. If some nice, young, corporate sponsors want to donate art out of the kindness of their hearts, then who are we to say no? Leave it to liberals to complain about charity. I think it's time we made a speech about this, about how we're bringing back warm, hearty American values to the White house, maybe even show off these decorations to the US, so that everyone understands the family we're creating here.
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Feb 14, 2016 08:49
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A We must be starving, how long until lunch? Better just check those boxes so we can be quickly done with all of these cuts and eat a big hearty meal. B We are a jobs president, why would we do anything that might hurt the job creators? Nix this in the bud. B drat liberal communists are always attacking the family, something no true conservative would do. Time to put all our energy into fighting back. Zikan has issued a correction as of 09:54 on Feb 14, 2016 |
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Feb 14, 2016 09:11
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1: C We're here to cut the fat out of government and getting rid of the Dept of Energy/Education is a great place to start. More cuts will be necessary to remove the bloat that began when that socialist piece of trash FDR nearly sank the country, but this is a necessary first step. 2: B Trying to sneak in defense cuts is absolutely unacceptable. We are still surrounded by enemies we can see and enemies we can't see, and the only way to ensure our safety is with a strong, over-funded Dept of Defense. 3: A & B Who the gently caress is this rear end in a top hat to say what our wife can and can't do? Get up our of our president chair and sock this motherfucker right in his motherfucking nose and tell him to keep our wife's name out of his mouth. Then the next time we address the filthy communist rags, we'll give them whatfor for attacking the wife of the president, which is uncalled for and beyond the pale. If the press wants a war, we'll remind them not to bring pens to a gun fight.
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Feb 14, 2016 09:39
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D. Fire Stockman. B. gently caress Stockman’s plan. D. They want public spending? We’ll give ’em public spending. Use public funds to liberate the globe’s classiest art and antiques and bring them to America—temporarily on display in the White House, naturally.
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Feb 14, 2016 13:09
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B. Keep the pain behind the scenes for now. The longer the average American likes us, the more damage we can do. B. American industry is hurting bad enough as it is. C. Get Nancy out of the White House and your hair, maybe she can read to whales or save the ghetto kids or something.
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Feb 14, 2016 13:21
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Platystemon posted:D. Fire Stockman.
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Feb 14, 2016 17:37
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C: Of course. We are in favor of small government and people should learn to help himself. Those welfare queens will no longer be allowed to hold the rest of America back! B: We can not allow job creators and other fragile wealth makers to fall under the bus. They need our help now more than ever, or the commies will win! B: Nancy is a modest and tasteful woman, and not the kind of commie harlot the radical liberals seem to adore. Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda/ My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun... Where was I? Yes, of course. Nancy gets what she wants.
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Feb 14, 2016 17:55
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Forums Terrorist posted:B. Keep the pain behind the scenes for now. The longer the average American likes us, the more damage we can do. I was gonna go with C on choice 1 but you make a compelling argument. B. Woah woah woah, we can't just roll out our plan all at once. We have to lay the groundwork for Individual Americans before we lift the net away. Removing the Education and Energy departments sounds like a great first step. B. If we don't support business it could start to hurt! Don't the people know that when businesses do well, America does well? This plan is insane! Kill it. B. drat those liberals! How dare they raise a stink over a woman's god-given right to do with her home as she likes?
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Feb 15, 2016 20:31
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B — Hide it as much as possible, we need to project strength. A — We should get rid of all wasteful government spending and interference in trade, and that includes things that help big companies. Look into getting rid of farm subsidies. C — Get Nancy to do something out of the (white) house, it'll be good for her.
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There is a clear, consistent line of messaging we can achieve with all the of these if we just align our choices properly: 1. C - Government spending impedes prosperity and so with these cuts we are frankly partially erect at the prospect of how many poor people we will empower to do great things once we take this restrictive rug and pull it out from under them. 2. C - Stockman might mean well but he's got this one all turned around. Now that we've cut the budget so severely, we don't need to claw back extra money to the government, and can afford to further incentivize our economic powerhouse. Take all his proposals to pull back on incentives, tax expenditures etc. and go the complete opposite direction on each and every one of them. Development bonds should be a financial vehicle for tax exemptions, private jet usage is clearly a public service by freeing up seats on commercial airlines, so you should get a tax credit, and the DoD could use a few new programs because frankly we have not established a military presence in space that is sufficient for our safety (we have Big Ideas for this one and will need the budget to make it come true). Reverse as much of the $20b proposals Stockman gives us on this, we can write checks against it via the cuts in our previous decision. 3. B - This entire fuss should be framed as a shining example of a humble american family doing great things without a dime of government handouts. With the cuts above, many american homes will be Bhaal has issued a correction as of 23:01 on Feb 15, 2016 |
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Feb 15, 2016 22:58
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Feb 16, 2016 23:47
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C B A and B Reagan has such a poor reputation among the left because he didn't go far enough; this time around, we can achieve TRUE conservatism.
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Feb 17, 2016 00:18
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C B B Full accelerationism now
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Feb 17, 2016 00:23
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A pox on my staff! How clever they think they are, removing all wiring from electrical equipment in the White House. One step ahead, or so everyone believes. But they couldn't refuse my request to see Mount Rushmore, in all its majesty. I'd never been, and the photo op would be too good to pass up. "Let's go to the top," I begged. Everyone knew my love for North By Northwest, and for our dear departed Theodore Roosevelt. How could the fools refuse? Standing tall upon Teddy's massive visage, I felt serene for the first time in years. Imagine! Me, a humble actor, standing not on the shoulders of giants, but atop their heads. This will prove a fine comfort as I take one, two, three steps forward, toppling off Teddy's immaculately styled stone hair and into the welcoming embrace of the Black Hills below. "Terminal velocity" was never a more appropriate phrase.
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Feb 17, 2016 19:26
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Can't wait for the next few updates.
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Feb 21, 2016 07:02
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Okay seriously I hope this hasn't lost interest.
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Mar 3, 2016 17:34
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I'm sorry, man. I'm in the middle of a major job search all of a sudden. I'll try to get going again. I hope there's still some interest left.
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Mar 5, 2016 05:39
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don Jaime posted:I'm sorry, man. I'm in the middle of a major job search all of a sudden. I'll try to get going again. I hope there's still some interest left. Best of luck, definitely still interested.
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Mar 5, 2016 14:45
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don Jaime posted:I'm sorry, man. I'm in the middle of a major job search all of a sudden. I'll try to get going again. I hope there's still some interest left. Good luck with your job search. If and when you're ready to continue, I'll be there.
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Mar 5, 2016 15:25
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don Jaime posted:I'm sorry, man. I'm in the middle of a major job search all of a sudden. I'll try to get going again. I hope there's still some interest left. I came here because I heard of it from the LBJ CYOA, and I just want you to know that I was not disappointed. My vote, for whenever you have the time and energy to return to this: B, B, C.
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Mar 7, 2016 06:02
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What lengths I would go to resuscitate this CYOA. The things I would do...
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Mar 31, 2016 03:06
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i suppose this means the latest reagan suicide was a success. you're welcome everyone
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I have an interview in the morning, but I'm going to put something up tomorrow night to get Reagan moving again. You don't have to push anymore. Thanks.
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