Washington 2017: The U.S. Political RP IC-Volume II (OPEN)

[Main Nation Ministry]

McGareth considers. "That is possible. But it also might be that if some of any followers I have do not like you then they would become more disappointed with me. I would need more details."

Taylor Cox
GOP Fundraiser, Newport Beach, California

"Don't like me?" Cox heard McGareth say, which he did not take it kindly. "McGareth. Your followers value how you run the islands, not by who you shake hands with. No one is going to dislike you for being with another Republican."

[Tallahassee News Station]

Before Flores could figure out what she wanted to say a waitress came by

"Can I take your order?"

"I'll take a lettuce wrap" Anderson said looking at the menu,"And just some water to drink"

"A third pounder with grilled onions, mushrooms, and pickled jalapenos. Orange juice to drink." Flores ordered. Once the waitress left she turned back to Anderson. "So that's a good question for the open book. You come to a burger joint and order a lettuce wrap?"

[Dentali]

"I'll take a lettuce wrap" Anderson said looking at the menu,"And just some water to drink"

"A third pounder with grilled onions, mushrooms, and pickled jalapenos. Orange juice to drink." Flores ordered. Once the waitress left she turned back to Anderson. "So that's a good question for the open book. You come to a burger joint and order a lettuce wrap?"

"Health nut" Anderson said with a shrug "Always have been"

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Fredrick Williams
@GovMS
Scientology be an evil organization that is involved baby murder! There be proof that they done pressured the women into having the abortions. They be no better than the Nazis. Such an evil organization should not be getting our tax money. The only thing that they should done receive be a noose for their crimes against the innocent!

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[Tumblrena]

Newport Beach, California
Republican Party Fundraiser
2038
Saturday
2 September
2017

"We will have to see." McGareth says vaguely.

"I don't run the islands so I may be judged by my friends. Kramer is ruined because he shook hands with Noble." He reminds.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Taylor Cox
GOP Fundraiser, Newport Beach, California

"Noble is still around? I thought she was rotting in jail? I'm nothing like Noble or Williams. Any times someone shake hands with me, they don't immediately run to sanitize their hands. Kramer probably was just supporting Noble. Shaking hands with me isn't going to be the end of the world." Cox told McGareth to ease him from any tension.

[Tumblrena]

Newport Beach, California
Republican Party Fundraiser
2039
Saturday
2 September
2017

"Do you have any competition for the position inside of the party?" McGareth asks.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Taylor Cox
GOP Fundraiser, Newport Beach, California

"Yes." Cox said, where he tried to look for Cao in the crowd. "Syndey Cao.." Cox said her name, where the way he said it, made it sound like he was full of dread. "Don't let Cao convince you. Her ego is going to ruin this state and the reputation of everyone in California." Cox whispered to McGareth, toning down his voice.

[Tumblrena]

Newport Beach, California
Republican Party Fundraiser
2039
Saturday
2 September
2017

McGareth notices Cox's odd reaction that seems to sound like he is intimidated. "What do you think that she is going to do that will be so damaging?"

[Main Nation Ministry]

Taylor Cox
GOP Fundraiser, Newport Beach, California

"She's so focused on trying to make me look like Hitler. Her own behavior is enough to get rid of any new Republicans in the state. She is being so cutthroat right now before the campaigning has even started. She wouldn't even bother to listen to me or anyone afflicted with me." Cox told McGareth, hoping that he will listen to him, now that he explained about Cao.

[Tallahassee News Station]

"A third pounder with grilled onions, mushrooms, and pickled jalapenos. Orange juice to drink." Flores ordered. Once the waitress left she turned back to Anderson. "So that's a good question for the open book. You come to a burger joint and order a lettuce wrap?"

"Health nut" Anderson said with a shrug "Always have been"

"People get too wrapped up in that old fogie Popeyes or Woodstock remix thinking that the only way to be healthy is eating things that are green. There's nothing there that you can't get in supplements, just check your boxes wherever you want and burn off the rest. Protein is protein if I'm getting it here or in powder."

[Dentali]

"Health nut" Anderson said with a shrug "Always have been"

"People get too wrapped up in that old fogie Popeyes or Woodstock remix thinking that the only way to be healthy is eating things that are green. There's nothing there that you can't get in supplements, just check your boxes wherever you want and burn off the rest. Protein is protein if I'm getting it here or in powder."

"I'm not a vegetarian or anything, but I like to know what i'm putting in my body. I don't know this place and haven't researched the dishes, so i'm staying on the side of caution. Besides a lot of it is about body discipline, good habits and routines... I'd rather not break the habit if I can help it."

[Tumblrena]

Newport Beach, California
Republican Party Fundraiser
2040
Saturday
2 September
2017

"That is very interesting. What has she done that has been so cutthroat?" McGareth asks in a deliberately neutral tone.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Taylor Cox
GOP Fundraiser, Newport Beach, California

"She was running for Lieutenant Governor, where she would endorse me as Governor for my campaign. However, she was difficult to work with, since both of us didn't have the same agenda in mind. Then, she starts sprouting nonsense on Twitter, where it made it look like she was supporting the other side, where I demanded that she deleted that blasted Twitter of hers. Then, she suddenly announced that she was now running for governor, even after all of the bullshit I had to do to please her!" Cox explained towards McGareth, venting his frustration with Cao.

"To make matters worst, she's making sure I'm inexperienced early on to drive off my voters. Just like Scotty, they are going to use every mistake I make to hound me towards oblivion."

[Tallahassee News Station]

"People get too wrapped up in that old fogie Popeyes or Woodstock remix thinking that the only way to be healthy is eating things that are green. There's nothing there that you can't get in supplements, just check your boxes wherever you want and burn off the rest. Protein is protein if I'm getting it here or in powder."

"I'm not a vegetarian or anything, but I like to know what i'm putting in my body. I don't know this place and haven't researched the dishes, so i'm staying on the side of caution. Besides a lot of it is about body discipline, good habits and routines... I'd rather not break the habit if I can help it."

Flores shrugged. "More chance of E Coli than something in the beef but you do you" she said with a smirk. "But I'll stop teasing you, and let's skip past the fishing and be direct. What are you looking for here?"

[Dentali]

"I'm not a vegetarian or anything, but I like to know what i'm putting in my body. I don't know this place and haven't researched the dishes, so i'm staying on the side of caution. Besides a lot of it is about body discipline, good habits and routines... I'd rather not break the habit if I can help it."

Flores shrugged. "More chance of E Coli than something in the beef but you do you" she said with a smirk. "But I'll stop teasing you, and let's skip past the fishing and be direct. What are you looking for here?"

"I wanted to know the best way to get entrepreneurs to Pennsylvania, you have a unique experience starting up an entire brand. How do I facilitate that in my state."

[Tumblrena]

Newport Beach, California
Republican Party Fundraiser
2043
Saturday
2 September
2017

McGareth listens closely but does not show his opinion in his expression.

"Did you have a formal agreement for her to endorse you that she broke or did you just expect that?" He asks.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Taylor Cox
GOP Fundraiser, Newport Beach, California

"We met at Spago and everything! She seemed willing to endorse me, then after some fights, she just ditched me to be by myself." Cox explained to McGareth.

[Tumblrena]

Newport Beach, California
Republican Party Fundraiser
2044
Saturday
2 September
2017

"Hmm" McGareth considers while stroking his stubble.

"Did she desert you before or after you lost your reelection for Mayor?" He asks.

[Main Nation Ministry]

Taylor Cox
GOP Fundraiser, Newport Beach, California

"I didn't lose the re-election. I left, so I can run for governor. Who said I lost? I made an announcement and everything. Even after I made an announcement, she deserted me so she can run for governor. She indirectly was harming my political career with what she convinced me to do."

[Main Nation Ministry]

Epilogue

Taylor Cox
An Unspecified Date in 2017

Cox was checking the news on his laptop, where he gotten a phone call from his cellphone. He answered it, where he recognized the caller. "Hello?" he asked, when the voice of Sinclair came up. "Cox? I got a call from some woman named Amanda? She wants to talk with you?"
"What does she want?"
"She says that she wants to talk to you at this party downtown? She has something she wants to ask?
"Text me the address. I think I pay a little visit to her." Cox said, being uncomfortable. However, he might as well get it off his chest.

Heading to the address of the party, he took an Uber, where he was starting to reminiscence about the time back in 2016. When he was reaching his last days of being mayor. He didn't know who would truly be mayor. Could have been Marlowe. Could have been someone sent by Walton. However, it was somewhat inevitable. Cox found it ironic, because despite the fact that the whole Democratic party was in shambles, he was starting to realize that it was heal up eventually. He was still surprised he won being mayor in the first place. Yet, the whole Red age he noticed after Reed became president could only last until 2020.

Getting dropped off in front of the apartment building, he went through the revolving doors to the elevators. 10th floor, the address said. He wondered how Amanda would react to seeing him arrive. She probably expected him to not show up. Some drunken party-goers were in the hallway of the building, where he used as directions. Amanda's door was wide open. There was loud music and a mix of random people Cox didn't know. He looked for Amanda, where she was chatting with some random man that looked like him. Upon seeing Cox, Amanda was somewhat neutral.

"Oh! Well, hello Cox!"
"And hello Amanda.."
"Want some vodka?"
"I'm good. I had enough drinks already."
"..."
"...Been a while." Cox said, trying to not get controlled by Amanda.

"So I heard that you running for governor?"
"I been for a while. Things are still being fine. I kinda thought it would be much easy, but I wish that is what happens when you have multiple candidates fighting over the last piece of candy. So how is your life? It's been a while, so I was meaning to hear how happy your life is."
"Oh, I'm planning on moving to Florida. I have an actual job now."
"Actual job? I thought you always worked a job?" Cox said, suspicious where he noticed that Amanda was now nervous. Something was up.

"Tell me about this job you getting at Florida?"
"I work on location at a magazine called Bright City. Very highbrow. You probably heard of it."
"Never heard of it? What you do there? Journalism?"
"Not quite." Amanda let out a nervous giggle, where he didn't say a word. "How about we take this conversation in a private place? If it means so much to you, I guess I want you to tell me in secret." Cox said, where Amanda started to frown, where Cox waited for an answer. Eventually, she succumbed. "Alright.."

Both of them went upstairs to an observation deck, where there was a view of the city, showing off it's glory. Cox crossed his arms, as he asked Amanda again. "So tell me. What do you work as?" Cox demanded. "A fact-checker. I'm being paid a good amount."
"A fact-checker? That's nothing. You aren't going to take a good income from that."
"How do you know? I heard they paid fact-checkers 100 of dollars a week!"
"..." Cox didn't say a word, because he knew that was a blatant lie.

"So who's the spud you were with? Married, I bet?"
"Come on, Cox! There isn't anything wrong with him. He's a widower. My other husband-"
"Other husband?"
"Oh please. He was just bitching and moaning everyday. It was normal for me to leave him!"
"I get it now..." Cox said, as he started to smile at Amanda.

"You're a fucking tramp, aren't you?" Cox declared to Amanda, as he started to recognize that she was still wearing the same pink outfit from the day he ran into her in November. "I have a place to live, don't I?!" Amanda started to scowl at Cox, but Cox didn't want to hold back. "What happened, Amanda? Didn't you have a job? You told me back in college. Back while we were in New Hampshire. In 1998. Around those years after 1998, you told me you managed to get a degree in interior designing. If so, why are you having a party at your friend's apartment?"
"How did you-"
"Come on, Amanda! You honestly thought that you were living here?" Cox said, where his accent started to turn somewhat British.
"What-"
"Amanda. You greet me with open hands, despite the fact that you didn't go down with the ship that I was chained to!"
"You tried to post that article in September! Of course, you deserved it!"
"True. But it never went into publication. The only reason of why I got burned was because I told you what happened. And you went loose lips to everyone I knew. Then, you took my money, because you only take advantage of naive people like me, so you can just spend it on things that you know aren't going to work for you."

"You...you asshole.." Amanda was starting to cry, which Cox started to smile in glee. "Of course, you could just kill yourself, but you know you can't because you're going to be forgotten. To be fair, your parents are in the retirement home somewhere, while my father is still rotting somewhere. He probably thinks I'm dead, but it doesn't even matter. What does matter is that I rejected money from him and I still won! Though, I would like to say that if I met someone different, I probably would still be a journalist. A shit one, but at least, it's the job I would want."

This caused Amanda to suddenly break down, where she knelled in front of Cox. "Cox please! I just some money! My parents didn't give me any inheritance money! They knew what I would do with it!"
"Even your parents wouldn't give you money?"
"I just need you to give me a couple grand and maybe-"
"No."
"I NEED THE MONEY!" Amanda lashed out at him, where Cox shoved her back, where he just stood there laughing. "And then what? I mean, you could just lie to everyone about me. But I had already learned something important. Consequences. That what being a mayor is for. I was aware of what I was doing, without realizing the scope of it. But now, I had began to know them. That's why I had been helping actual people. While you are just stuck here. Being nothing more than just a weak pathetic excuse of a human being. And you are going to have to live with it with the rest of your life."

"Get out! Get out get out get out!" Amanda started screaming at him, where he simply walked away, as Amanda had broken down crying. Cox had officially gotten his own revenge after nearly 3 decades. He could have just killed her, but it was much more better knowing that Amanda was actually suffering for once. He can hear her crying from the deck, as he started to go to the stairs. He felt better.

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“Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.” - Alan Moore

"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government." - Donald Trump

“After awhile you could get used to anything.” - Albert Camus

"I guess society is going to be doomed to repeat it's own mistakes, since reality is becoming more similar to fiction. Then again, most of us are miserable, because our lives are being screwed by people we don't know playing with fire. Along with the fact that we don't understand other people and respond with tossing salt in their eyes." - Main Nation Ministry

Cox sat on the corner of the city street, as he observed the city life around him. It was weird. He finally understood it all, yet it was all too new to him. All of this conflict. Yet, he's was unsure on what to do next. He guessed that since things were now normal, he didn't have to worry. What else did he miss? Cox got up and started to to walk and look around. What else was happening?

Cox found himself going upstairs towards a train station. He could just have Karen pick him up, but he felt an interest in taking the train home. At a bench in the middle of the night in front of the train tracks, he waited for the train, where some young girl sat next to him. Probably some college student, though she was busy checking her phone, possibly Twitter or Instagram. As he waited, he got a phone call from Karen. "Hello?"
"Cox. This is bad. Very bad."
"What is it, Karen?"
"Velma was at work and I got this knock on the door. There were several FBI agents out to look for you. I don't know what they want."
"...It's ok, Karen. I think they are there to ask me questions about the voting ballots."
"Cox.. I think you should-"
"Don't worry, Karen. If something happens, try to comfort Velma for me. I love you, sweetie. Bye." Cox said, before hanging up.

Cox knew they were probably trying to find him over the news that the voting ballots were hacked, however he already knew the truth. It was Cox's idea to call Amanda after all to meet with her.

Several days after the fundraiser, Cox had heard on the news that several scuba-divers had discovered a corpse on the sea floor near California. It turns out that Spin's body was still there, though even though he was now a skeleton with coral, they were able to identify him via dental records. Cox saw this as a sign. He wasn't going to actually die, but he realized it meant that God was practically fed up with dragging him through several messes, so he basically removed several seat belts from Cox, so he can go loose. To matters complicated, Karen had told him that the authorities were cracking down in Mexico, after they found evidence from a cartel that led to a suspicious car bombing on Baja. Death was one of the victims.

Now, Cox realized that he was about to get found out, eventually. Unless luck was still on his side, though he wasn't paranoid. Who knew. Maybe he still be able to become governor of California. If not, he get a memoir or tell-all that will earn him several months on New York Times Bestsellers or even a movie adaptation starring some random A-List celebrity. Maybe it can outsell Helter Skelter? "Hey, excuse me?" the girl next to Cox said.
"Yeah?"
"Do you know when the next train is coming?"
"No, sadly."
"Right.."
"..."
"..."
"...Why you all out here? What's your name?"
"Penelope."
"Not doing any heroin or anything, right?"
"No, why?"
"Just making sure."

Cox took a moment to sit up from the bench to get his body moving again. He spied a small wall advertisement in front of him. The words "Disappear Here" were in red bold letters. Cox jokingly thought that he was now in a Bret Easton Ellis novel, wondering if someone got the reference. Then again, life was strange to the point it was fiction. The train eventually arrived, where on the train Cox checked the train schedule. Near the top of the map was the words:

END OF THE LINE

"And they said all stories end in death."

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

Taylor decided to rally his troops one last time, organising one of the largest rallies ever, just before the ALP Conference. He had something big planned, ready to make his biggest contribution to the world yet.

The day had arrived, as he signed on media networks and others to watch the great spectacle that was about to unfold. It was going to be grand. It would be the last thing he would ever do, but it would finally set him free, and perhaps even make him a martyr.

"My friends...my countrymen, the day has arrived."

He then pulled out a tank of gasoline and began to pour it all over himself.

"There is no more use for me in this world, for I may be able to do more in the next. I gambled everything I had to fight against the rich, the powerful, and yet I lost. But I wasn't lying when I said I'd die for the cause."

He lit himself on fire, raising his fist as he did so.

"Goodbye, my countrymen. It has been a pleasure to serve you."

And so, he stood there, frozen as the flames licked his soul. He stood there for a few seconds as his body turned into flames. Self-immolation, they called it.

And now, he was dead. Now, he was free. What he had failed to do in the woods he now did in front of the entire nation.

And that was the last thing he ever did.

[Alozia]

???
Hillary Clinton

The screams...

The screams woke her up.

She looked around...

but found nothing.

Silence.

She started crying.

All she wanted was to be President.

Even in her dreams a Republican won.

Is this the real life? she asked herself

Or is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide

No escape from reality...

OOC: This is the last post. Thank you. - Alozia; September 15, 2019

[Tumblrena]

Newport Beach, California
Republican Party Fundraiser
2045
Saturday
2 September
2017

"I must have seen you in the early polls." McGareth says as an excuse to cover his mistake.

"That does sound devious of her. Do you think that this is a personal grudge and gambit to hurt your career or do you think that it is a political strategy because she thinks you are an opponent she can beat and run well against?" He asks.

[Velahor]

Epilogue

Dr. Douglas Stephens, the Libertarian governor of Montana, passed away in mid-2017 due to complications from lung cancer. He had not seen a doctor when he began experiencing symptoms, and by the time he got checked out it was too late. His lieutenant governor was made governor for the remainder of his term.

Carter Roberts, the Connecticut basketball player turned Senator, moved back to his second home of San Antonio to be the head coach at St. Mary’s University in 2022. He served one term in the Senate. St. Mary’s went on to win 4 men’s NCAA Division II titles in the 2030’s with him as coach.

After a failed run for House in 2018, Jimmy Miles left Alaska for good. He now resides in Venice Beach, CA, and surfing and drinking and still not giving a sh*t. He never found a woman who made him feel like Penelope did, and he remained a bachelor for life.

Nicole Smith continued to serve in the US House of Representatives until she gave birth to a fair-skinned child in 2019. Life took her in a different direction than she had planned, and after raising her child alone, she returned to the non-profit which spurred her interest in public policy in the first place.

Cassie Torrisi continued to serve on the New York City Council for years, but as her youth faded, her national political ambitions did as well, as she soon could no longer fathom leaving the city she loved to spend time in a dump like Washington.

WNN became the target of campaign finance and corruption allegations in 2020, and closed its doors soon after. Kristina Chase was arrested that same year, and admitted to charges including blackmail, racketeering, fraud, and falsifying immigration documents. After serving a 5 year term in prison, she was deported to her home country of Australia. Her whereabouts after then have been unknown.