See my main mini-TL on the other side.
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Presidents of the United States of America:
2029-2033: Former Governor Ron DeSantis (Republican—Florida)
-28 (with Iowa Senator Joni Ernst): def. Kamala Harris / Andy Beshear (Democratic), Andrew Yang / Beth Fukumoto (Forward!)
2033-2041: Governor Bruce Wayne (Democratic—New York) [1]
-32 (with Massachusetts Senator Michelle Wu): def. Ron DeSantis / Joni Ernst (Republican)
-36 (with Vice President Michelle Wu): def. Christian Walker / Christopher Rufo (Republican) [1a], Greg Locke / J. R. Majewski [replacing Matt Walsh] (Constitution) [1b]
2041-2045: Vice President Michelle Wu (Democratic—Massachusetts) [2]
-40 (with Florida Senator Cameron Kasky): def. Mike Gallagher / Kyle Kashuv (Republican) [2a], Eddie Gallagher / Jackson Hinkle (National Alternative) [2b]
2045-2049: Governor Adam Andrzejewski (Republican—Illinois) [3]
-44 (with Mississippi Senator Jansen Owen): def. Michelle Wu / Cameron Kasky (Democratic), Marc Luna / Jaymi Sterling (Alliance 2050), Ethan Nordean / Tom Woods (National Alternative)
[1]: Bruce Wayne — the 47th President of the United States — is remembered for a few things: being the first openly-gay [well bisexual but married to a man, god that's clunky] man elected president, an aggressive, bellicose personal style, ramping up the Sino-American Cold War, and the passing of Medicare For All, as well as for (allegedly) beating a man into a coma in a fit of rage in the final grandiloquent days of his administration. Term-limited, he would release his grip on the deadlocked Democratic primary, but only after privately assuring thirteen separate people that he would make a formal endorsement at the Chicago DNC, which in turn triggered a race to Museum Campus to deliver the keynote speech, during which Michelle Wu drove back-and-forth between Toldeo and Middlebury for 19 hours and Wes Moore was forced to miss a connecting flight thanks to a bomb scare that was later revealed to be the byproduct of Wayne's (surprisingly-not-literal) train-wreck of a time-stalling detour. Wayne would serve out his term, switch off Rand Paul's life support machine in 2043 to rapturous applause, and then promptly disappear off the face of the earth. However, a slightly-insane cloaked man in combat gear and a pointy-eared mask has lately been seen in the war-torn streets of Hong Kong, raiding government convoys and assaulting police units...
[1a]: The Republican's choice of Christian Walker was meant to be some kind of counter to Bruce Wayne - after all, how to better counter a progressive gay* president than with a hyper-conservative gay** activist? The one problem with that was that Walker is (to be polite) a condescending twat with an ear-shattering voice. The selection of Christopher Rufo — or as First Gentleman Ian Clarke dourly noted, "a twinkified, tee-totaling Bannon" — for Vice President did nothing for the GOP's dismal polling numbers.
[1b]: What helped the GOP even less is the far-far-right rebellion that ensued. Pastor, alt-right commentator and possible slavery-apologist Greg Locke, raging against the "homosexual [redact all of this] conspiracy" in the halls of government, would hijack the Constitution Party for a third-party bid. While he led Walker for some three months — at least his voice doesn't make the idea of disembowelment via rusty spork appealing — his campaign, too, would collapse. You know you've fucked up when the war-record-embellishing QAnonite is a step up.
[2]: Michelle Wu, somehow enjoying approvals even lower than those of Trump and DeSantis by the bitter end, still managed to seize a term of her own as a result of a Republican campaign seemingly possessed by the ghost of Jeb Bush (1953-2039, RIP) and a National Alternative splinter that somehow exceeded 2% of the vote. Wu was often seen as a seat-warmer — her official portrait actually resembles Awkwafina moreso than herself — while the Quiet War grew louder in the background. At one point, the Taiwanese totally-not-an-embassy in Washington was leveled by a "tankie" National Alternative militant, which led to a series of increasingly-insane executive orders from the Oval Office until the Secretary of State seemingly went mad and began a deeply offensive ritual which pains this writer to even describe, although suffice to say that Carrick Flynn became inextricably implicated through no fault of his own, and the Democratic Party itself was so tarnished that its congressional caucuses were reduced to their Gingrich-era nadir. Wu somehow survived the '44 primaries — though it was more likely that no one was particularly eager to commit electoral seppuku — and was promptly defeated in a landslide by ...
[2a]: On paper, a ticket of Mike Gallagher — a moderate-ish electoral titan with the potential to finally turn the Midwest red — and Kyle Kashuv — a conservative firebrand with the ability to counter Florida Senator Kasky's gun control bona-fides — was perfect for 2040. In reality, a ticket of a wishy-washy moderate and an offensive-for-offensive's-sake asshole went down like a cold cup of aerated sick.
[2b]: The "patriotic" "communitarian" ticket of a war criminal and a "peacenik" commentator would garner 5.3% of the popular vote, but mostly serve as an offensive sideshow.
[3]: Adam Andrzejewski, a socially-liberal* politician and desperately needy man, had made a name for himself by winning the '38 gubernatorial race in Illinois, rebranding himself from an "anti-woke" turbocunt to a moderate, libertarian business-type, and doing deeply misguided public stunts — his decision to only wear a gimp outfit for a week "in solidarity with kink advocates" isn't even the worst thing he thought of in 2046 alone. It is no surprise that the right would be in a state of insurrection by April despite Andrzejewski winning the largest Republican landslide since Poppy Bush. As the Quiet War finally went loud with the Chinese declaration of war against the American-aligned Second Russian Republic, Andrzejewski would just about manage to prop up the Yekaterinburg government just long enough for a nuclear reactor meltdown in Sichuan to trigger the quiet collapse of the CCP. Things came apart at the seams soon after — for instance, the revelation that the Salt Lake Winter Olympics had in fact been an elaborate gag plotted by Lucas Dobre for the sake of a 30th-anniversary YouTube special led to his being browbeaten across the city by a mob and savagely beaten to death by Ben Romney, now a Utahn hero and the junior Senator for Utah from a Club Fed cell. It is most likely a blessing that we were spared the shambolic charnel-house charade of the opening ceremony, which would have involved ten thousand children dancing to WAP, something even Max Karson described as "too much".
