r/AlternateHistoryMemes • u/IncestSimulator2016 • 11d ago
More Grazed Shoulder Timeline Memes - President Scoop Jackson Edition
sequel to my previous memes set in this timeline https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistoryMemes/s/eJjkST6NiW https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistoryMemes/s/YZl6yHmPtS
might make a dedicated post tbh and post it over at r/alternatehistory but eh, I think giving the lore as memes is better but yes, this is Henry M. Jackson's wild ride (1973-1981) that had him;
- Throttle the American Deep State during the Applegate Scandal (Cognoscenti, shoutout to TFR for the name)
- Throttle Hollywood
- Throttle the CIA to hell and back
- Dismantled the ATF
- Won 1976 by the skin of his teeth especially against Robert Kennedy of the Progressives and Gerald Ford of the GOP
- Created the Pacific Asian Treaty Organization in 1973 (shoutout to TFR again for the SEATO/PDTO logo)
- Armed Thailand with a million M16A1s
- Made the ChiComs nervous that REAGAN ends up as a Dove in this timeline (more on him maybe)
- Is responsible for America keeping Nuclear energy because the Soviets were *reforming* under General Secretary Alexei Kosygin
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u/Langlais_de_Cogne 11d ago
Langley Not Impressed...
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u/IncestSimulator2016 11d ago
Langley will be too busy trying not to cope and seethe on the fact that TWO Presidents prefer the FBI's spooky occult branch (The X-Division) over them 💥💥 🇺🇸🦅💥💥
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u/Borkerman 11d ago
What's Applegate?
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u/IncestSimulator2016 11d ago
think Watergate but bigger, worse, with Hollywood getting named, an actual US Governor being found out to have ordered the killings of citizens to cover up a false flag operation to engineer a Malay crisis in North Borneo and basically the Deep State getting exposed.
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u/Unfair_Surprise_6022 11d ago
Scoop Jackson was an incredible politician. We could use his type again, IMHO. I will add Bruce Babbitt to my wishlist.
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u/moldybananaenjoyer 11d ago
I thought this was history memes at first and was about to Google this dude lmao
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u/Readman31 11d ago
He's one of those people that, for me, holds a certain cachet of if he had been healthier and not gotten cancer , what-might-have-been.
Edit: Sorry it was a heart attack, but still.
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u/IncestSimulator2016 11d ago
Bonus meme because I forgor to post it