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Visits: 7 to IA, 7 to IN

1. We know who the holdouts are.

2. We'll have to cut back on aid until this new government acquiesces to our goals.

3. Nothing can prepare the public for this... atrocity.

4. Pat is a dear friend.

5. We've gotta neuter this thing, cut the balls off of it, it's irresponsible, completely unworkable.

6. We get it.

7. If the CBO confirms what these estimates are saying the bill is as good as done for.

8. Jack took years to get the ball rolling on civil rights, he thought it'd be political suicide but I talked him into it!

9. Those protesters, both sides, have forgotten what we as a country can be when we work together.

10. We have seen time and time again how the conditions at home inspire urban unrest of all kinds.

11. I made my reputation as America's chief law enforcement officer, and I won't abandon it.

12. This entire Reagan situation should knock the Republicans back for a good bit.

13. Cocksucker.

14. No! No!

15. Damn it, we need these elections.

16. John. Look, I don't care what you do.

17. It's our chance to get a leg up on him.

18. This shit could blow up in my face if we don't act.

19. It's not like they have the votes to do anything.

20. He's been a pain in my ass for nearly a decade now, and I've had about enough of it.

21. What we need now is loyalty.

22. We need to talk about how we've moved beyond what my successors tried to do.

23. Four years ago, we didn't really have a plan for this, because the idea that Rockefeller could ever get the nomination seemed out there...

24. Ah, well, have him go out there and... er... rally Democrats out on the hill for us.

25. I take great pride in being able to stand in the lineage of this party and its commitment to expanding opportunity to the less fortunate.

26. Fuck 'em, we'll go the other way around.

27. If Rockefeller had it his way, we'd be right back into the Vietnam quagmire that this administration promised to end.

28. I'm not the type to look a gift horse in the mouth.

29. Roy Wilkins at the NAACP's been good to us.

30. These Midwesterners are a plain-spoken people.

N.B.: The mod doesn't specify that Shriver gets the Secretary of State job if Connally moves over to Treasury, or that Humphrey was elected to the Senate in 1970 as he was in OTL, but both seem like reasonable assumptions to me.

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Does anyone know why S2E3 "The Matchmaker" isn't there?

So, I bought the Definitive Edition last time it was on sale on PlayStation Store and I've just gotten around to playing it.

My understanding is that, unlike Baldur's Gate 3, you can only recruit three of the Origin characters into the party (four, if you play an Origin character instead of a custom character).

So, assuming I play as an Origin character instead of making a custom, which four Origin characters should I pick for the party if it's my first time playing the game? And which one should I main?

You're given the option of replacing Lloyd Bentsen as your running mate, but as far as I can tell there is no scenario where keeping him isn't objectively the best strategy.

Also, getting the achievement for "put[ting] your VP to good use" requires you to make suboptimal choices that result in losing the midterms. If you're better off not putting him to good use, how good is it anyway?

This guide will get you the "Dickey Flattened," "Robert Reich DOGE," "Stone Cold Killer," and "Ahab's Revenge" achievements and allow you to dance to the Spaceballs theme as you savor your victory.

Visits: Split between MS and ND

1. There are a lot of great minds we've surrounded ourselves with over the course of this campaign, both new and old.

2. I can practically smell the stench of corruption and decay from the Reagan administration.

3. Just lower the topline defense appropriation.

4. Don't forget 1982 that easily.

5. I've heard a few interesting ideas about this from Ira Jackson and Felix Rohatyn.

6. Gorbachev claims to be about peace, perestroika, glasnost, all that stuff; this is his chance to prove it.

7. We've got to keep it simple.

8. I'm not sure if this is politically feasible right now.

9. I don't see any reason why we can't try to meet somewhere in the middle.

10. We're looking at this the wrong way; it'd be lunacy to tighten our belts in the middle of a recession like this.

11. I've seen a few of the studies published by Bob Reich about how much we could save in overhead costs if we established a body to coordinate infrastructure across the federal departments and with the states.

12. This is a clear indication of how the country is feeling.

13. These gun organizations, they use publicity and scaremongering.

14. I'm not the type of person to engage in this game of political brinkmanship.

15. For three years, I've watched the Fed choke this recovery to death in the name of fighting phantom inflation.

16. I'm not exactly comfortable talking to the Saudis, but certain sacrifices must be made to secure our trade position; peacetime gives Saudi Arabia a very good outlook going into this decade.

17. I appreciate the thought. I really do.

18. This is a great opportunity to knock out some of those campaign promises of mine that fell through the cracks during the honeymoon.

19. It's paramount that we work to preserve stability in the region.

20. Let's start the campaign as early as possible.

21. I won't stand for grandstanding on issues of personal morality and personal conscience, on both moral and political grounds.

22. We need to establish that anarchy and lawlessness will not be tolerated.

23. Can you really take this guy's word at face value?

24. Together, we can be the bulwark against extremism.

25. I know that Lloyd Bentsen isn't the most riveting man in the world, but he doesn't need to be.

26. Vice President Bentsen has valuable local connections in the South, particularly Louisiana, and could really help get relief to the areas.

27. I can't stand it when these types of people position themselves as the morality police.

28. I believe we must do more to protect the most vulnerable Americans in our country, those who would slide into destitution if not for Medicaid and Medicare.

29. This is great news.

30. I think that the Republicans are taking states in the Sun Belt for granted, states like Nevada, Arizona, and Florida.

A civil rights bill. Health care reform. Financial reform. Gun control. Winning the midterms. Bouncing Greenspan out of office. Planned Parenthood v. Casey goes the other way. The first female vice president. And a full recovery from the recession. Just a very successful Dukakis presidency overall.

This guide should get you the Dickey Flattened and Ahab's Revenge achievements and, if all falls into place with the RNG, over 400 electoral votes in 1992.

Visits: All to TX

1. We're not making the same mistake as the last Democratic administration.

2. House Democrats want to turn the page? Great. I do too.

3. Just lower the topline defense appropriation.

4. I'm sorry, John, but you know how the game is played.

5. This is a good opportunity to push for structural economic reform.

6. Gorbachev claims to be about peace, perestroika, glasnost, all that stuff; this is his chance to prove it.

7. If I said it was similar to the Kennedy-Waxman bill, that's because it is.

8. I'm not sure if this is politically feasible right now.

9. The real power center in the Democratic caucus isn't Mitchell, it's Byrd.

10. We're looking at this the wrong way; it'd be lunacy to tighten our belts in the middle of a recession like this.

11. I've seen a few of the studies published by Bob Reich about how much we could save in overhead costs if we established a body to coordinate infrastructure across the federal departments and with the states.

12. I'm mighty proud of what we accomplished out there.

13. These gun organizations, they use publicity and scaremongering.

14. I'm not the type of person to engage in this game of political brinkmanship.

15. For three years, I've watched the Fed choke this recovery to death in the name of fighting phantom inflation.

16. It's imperative that our allies know we're present in whatever strife they might be going through, and it's also important that the American people see it.

17. Treasury is yours, don't even worry about it.

18. It's time to take the big steps in going after drug abuse.

19. It's paramount that we work to preserve stability in the region.

20. Okay, look, don't get too cheeky.

21. Lean all the way into it, there's no way I'm getting any of these pro-lifers back when it was my justices who did this.

22. We need to establish that anarchy and lawlessness will not be tolerated.

23. He's not real. He doesn't exist.

24. Just a couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to deliver an address marking President Kennedy's 75th birthday.

25. She's everything I'm not, which is everything we've been hoping for.

26. It's not like me being there will have a significant impact on the recovery effort, but it's important to show these people that I see their suffering and understand what they're going through, that they're not suffering in silence.

27. When Gramm talks about "reducing waste," that's code for cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, make no mistake about it.

28. I believe we must do more to protect the most vulnerable Americans in our country, those who would slide into destitution if not for Medicaid and Medicare.

29. All part of the plan.

30. If we play our cards right, we could definitely pull out a few states in the south.

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I'm having trouble consistently clearing 150.

Why do I need quick reflexes for a point-and-click browser game? 😭

Yes, you can lose to Marianne Williamson in Infinite Carnage. Yes, on Normal.

Visits: All to WY

1. So important, we've got to have unity.

2. So important. It's about our promises.

3. It's unfair—a totally uneven field we're playing on with the terrorists.

4. I put out a list, a great list, and the Republicans, these conservatives, really went wild.

5. Comey, he’s a third rater, Obama guy who let Hillary Clinton completely off the hook, people are saying I should fire him.

6. These loser Republicans, they can't get it done—weak in the knees.

7. You know, Afghanistan, my original instict was, to pull out, and historically, my instincts have been 100%.

8. You know in China and the Filipinos, they had a big problem with drugs.

9. Frankly, I don't think we say anything, we have nothing to do with this, these people they don’t speak for us.

10. It's time to take our country, completely out of the worst deal in all history.

11. We need to slash taxes, cut to the bone.

12. Everyone comes to me, talking about regulation—too much, strangling our great businesses.

13. Frankly there's only one reason the United States is even in Syria, the oil.

14. We should be looking at frankly, Anti-Trust, years ago we were talking about the same subject—monopoly.

15. We're on track, I'm saying it strongly, we're getting great deals, and our numbers are the best we've ever seen the GDP is very high right now and the trade deficit, very low.

16. Everything Mueller is doing is a completely illegal abuse of office.

17. Forget Congress, total wasters.

18. Iran came after us, attacking our embassies, and now I hear planning possibly much worse.

19. We need to hit these Senate Republicans; I'm not going down because of those losers.

20. The economy is in great shape—excellent, the best we've seen.

21. How did she do it? Mystic Marianne must have hypnotized the Democrats.

22. My economy is rock solid, we're in a hump, a Covid hump which is why we're preparing to get back to business on our America First Agenda, we've put our wonderful workers ahead and done so many amazing deals and gone after the horrible Open-Borders Globalists who want to send your jobs to China and Mexico.

23. We have the greatest military on the planet.

24. We've got to rally, these are my people, they need me, we've got experts that say it's fine, look at Dr Tony, he gives great reviews—five stars.

25. She's got to stay in the race, she's so good for us.

26. Back the Blue, that's what it's all about.

27. Democrats are running scared right now, running away from Mad Marianne, scared to death.

28. She would be the worst President in history.

29. It's the greatest fraud, mail-in ballots, possibly the greatest fraud in the entire history of our country ...

30. The Democrats, they're crazy, they think they can win Texas, they can't win Texas, they can't.

Supposedly you can only get him without cheating if you have all achievements unlocked...but I'm like 99% sure three of the four achievements I don't have ("Ass Backwards," "Grave Danger," and "Trump of the Will") require getting him to begin with.