This blog is fiction, but every single link this week is real. This blog describes the events of the fictional presidency of John McCain, after the first electoral college tie in history.
North Korea test fired four medium-range ballistic missiles last Sunday into the sea of Japan. President McCain, who was already in Asia on a tour of the western edge of Crimea, flew to Beijing to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday. Although the negotiations were allegedly very tense, President McCain apparently agreed to withdraw support for the USA to sign on to the TPP, the trade deal with most of the pacific nations other than China in exchange for China's support in the UN security council.
The talks with Russia were even more tense, and President McCain appears to have left frustrated. McCain offered to slow or stop investigations into Russian hacking which influenced the election, as well as a reduction of sanctions placed on Russia in response to their hacking and their invasion of Crimea, Ukraine. The Kremlin refused to budge unless the US officially recognized Crimea as a part of Russia now.
It appears that this stalemate will lead to a milquetoast resolution at the UN Security Council, asking North Korea politely to stop building bombs.
The Republican party is torn on the repeal of ObamaCare, between members of the party who are opposed to reducing the number of insured, such as Senator Rand Paul, and the members of the party who want the price of healthcare to go down, and are willing to allow sick people to die in order to do that. This division in the party is making it very difficult for House Majority Leader Paul Ryan to defund planned parenthood, give a tax cut to the very rich, and cut medicaid.
President McCain weathered criticism this week for his expanded deportation arrangements, in which state and local governments are asked to voluntarily aid ICE, Border Patrol, and DHS services. Stories about of Families torn apart, parents being arrested after dropping their children off at schools, and racist statements against Mexican Americans run rampant. A district court in California found the immigration actions constitutional, after Google and Apple sued over the detainment of some of their employees.
In a strange bit of news, the CIA's portfolio of hacking techniques has been leaked to WikiLeaks. President McCain announced an investigation, calling the leak an act of treason.
Hard to imagine all this all happened in such a short time. You should be a writer. Oh wait you are!
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to imagine, and I can't even cover everything that happens. There is just too much which hard to even correlate to what would happen if someone serious were president.
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