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Barbara Lee came pretty damn close to becoming the #4 Democrat in the House…I don’t think she’s quite as toxic as you guys make her out to be.
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she's not toxic, Lee is goated is fuck. she's just far to progressive to get paired with Sanders on a Democratic ticket and not have half the party vote for the Howard Schultz/Bari Weiss third party ticket from hell
 
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> India and Pakistan being this close to war
Some things never change, huh?
> POTUS-assassin-would-be incel
Who's the president that nearly gets Kennedy-ed?

Also who's the communist-conservative?
 
Barbara Lee came pretty damn close to becoming the #4 Democrat in the House…I don’t think she’s quite as toxic as you guys make her out to be.

she's not toxic, Lee is goated is fuck. she's just far to progressive to get paired with Sanders on a Democratic ticket and not have half the party vote for the Howard Schultz/Bari Weiss third party ticket from hell

Karen Bass is probably who I land on for a palatable progressive VP pick, but @Comrade Izaac's pick of BWC is also pretty good.
 
The Kingdom of Ghosts

Leaders of the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea
1912–1994: Kim Il-sung (Eternal President)
1994-2011: Kim Jong-il (Eternal General Secretary)
2011-2027: Kim Jong-un (Supreme Commander of the KPA) [refused "Eternal" title by state]
2027-2028: [vacant]


One cold morning (1am GMT) in 2027, guards are seen being recalled from the DMZ in Korea. An hour later, distant red glows and billowing smoke can be seen over the hills.

Several hours later, a transmission breaks the deathly silence - a woman with a large diagonal scar across the width of her face announces that the Kim family, the ranking commanders of the military, and a majority of the Supreme People's Assembly have been executed, with hundreds more rounded up and due to follow suit. Ariel reconnaissance and media packets sent via satellite confirm this - several pikes stand in the middle of Kim Il-sung Square, each one with a head sat atop it. Further witness testimony from Blue Helmets deployed for reconstruction efforts elaborates that these heads seemingly belong to Kim Jong-Un, his wife, immediate family, and approximately 41 members of both the State Assembly and governmental cabinet. There are many cases of structural damage, with buildings either on fire or no longer standing. Citizens in haphazard brown fatigues standing idly at street-corners have replaced the coordinated military parades. This is North Korea under the Sae-kki.

Leaders of the State of Free Chosŏn
2028: Ku Hee-Ra (the Sae-kki)
2028-present: "Ku Hee-Ra" (Ki Chi'un, Ka Sun-Yung & Nu Ji-Tae)


Little was known about the new insurgent leader of the former DPRK. Not only was she not familiar to international intelligence databases, there are no surviving birth records with her name specifically - it is theorised these were destroyed, or never existed to begin with. The only information the world had to go on was from the mouth of the unofficial media spokesperson for the new republic, a man called Ho Seo-jun, identifiable by his one glassy eye, who appeared on a cluster of news outlets in the months following The Northern Purge. In Ho's words, Ku Hee-Ra was born to a pair of political dissidents inside one of the country's many reeducation camps. She remained there until the age of nine, where she escaped and fled across the Tumen River, after which she was captured by human traffickers and sold into child prostitution rings. By the early 2010s, Ku had fallen in with a network of street thieves linked to a Chinese triad. Some time after this, she had taken over the triad by either seducing or assassinating its ranking members, and began using the organisation to fund what would become the revolutionary movement. Her signature facial scar was never elaborated on, but nonetheless quickly became symbolic of the national struggle. The fact that many of the junta's inner circle sported similar scarring, as well has occasional amputations, led to the myth that the DPRK had been taken over by an 'army of angry spirits' who took out their rightful revenge on the North Korean ruling class.

While the Free Republic spoke in clear terms about their country's freedom, they maintained that "outside agitators", primarily American military personnel, will not be allowed past the border, and subsequently ruled out any possible reunification with their southern neighbours, holding no interest in what they called a 'puppet Korea'. While civilians and media were confused but optimistic about the regime change, inner machinations beholden to world governments were fuming. Their intelligence operatives were being found and subsequently dragged out of the country by force, potential investors scouting properties were mailed carbon copies of their bank records, all manner of shenanigans. At least they weren't dealing with a refugee crisis; new laws had been put into place to 'preserve national congeniality and scrub imperialist influence', meaning the long-standing rule of "nobody in, nobody out" was holding until further notice. You could understand what motivated these greedy, callous lobbyists to do some digging, least they lose out on an export deal of a lifetime.

Pundits and fringe theorists still debate on whether or not Ku Hee-Ra even existed to begin with. Other than her initial satellite broadcast proclaiming the death of the Kims, she hadn't been seen in person, presumably delegating through her three most trusted lieutenants, all three of whom weren't too pleased when they were found as the ones actually in charge. To the rest of the Free State, and the world at large, the thousand-yard stare of the Sae-kki was still at the drivers seat. To a select few, however, it's actually the Bukhan Triumvirate that gets negotiated with. If anyone outside this private sphere were to find out, the lies in which the new country was freed on could collapse at any given moment.

Unofficial Leaders of the Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea
2027-present: Ae Ho-Jin/"Kim Sol-ki"
2028-present: Kim Han-sol
2028-present: Rurik Cho


With great instability comes ample opportunity. China had claimed the 'last surviving heir' before anyone else, offering up a scruffy twenty-something they claimed was the bastard lovechild of Kim Jong-nam and a supposed mistress. He wasn't biologically related to the Kim dynasty, but actually a second-generation Korean immigrant born in Baishizhou. It was very entertaining when everyone found out, you should've seen the stock market. America had an ace in the hole on that one, showing off how they'd had Kim Han-sol in protective custody since 2013 and could, at any moment, return him to the seat of power he was now eligible for. Russia, not having any of that, offered their own lost Kim family member, an orphan boy with charcoal eyes and grubby hair who'd been left in an orphanage. He is very much the Young Griff of the three possible successors, with those following him defending him at every turn with no actual evidence. So what if he's keen on letting the Kremlin have as much oil as they want after he takes power?
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made something for an older concept
 
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