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I read almost nothing this week but a few pagea of Ben Wilson's Metropolis. But it didn't stop me from buying this when I went to the bookstore last Sunday
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I don't know if audiobooks count, but I'm relistening to a 2012-ish podcast called "My Book of Mormon Podcast." Some random dude decided to read the Book of Mormon out loud and give his honest reactions as he went through it. He then went on to do a couple of other Mormon scriptures.
This was the era of Mitt Romney running for US President.
Anyway the show is so fun, and early on he incorporated a drinking game for when the book uses its most repetitive phrases, so you can get drunk to Mormon scriptures.
!christians !mormons !boozers
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Thoughts on Mitt Romney?
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Decent guy, kind of a dork. Despite his handicap he probably wouldn't have done a bad job.
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!neolibs alternate timeline where Romney was President between 2013-2021, how different would the world be?
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There would have been no President Trump, for one. Putin would have been more heavily countered.
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Russia wouldn't be in Ukraine.
Obama is simultaneously underrated and overrated as a President. But one area he was definitely overrated was foreign policy. His quip in the debate about the 80s calling when Romney said Russia was a major geopolitical threat has aged so poorly.
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I'd bet Trump would have never run.
I like to imagine the amazing South Park content we'd get out of it. They love to rip on Mormons, and they did a good job with President Garrison arc with Kaitlyn Jenner as his VP. I wonder if they'd have Joseph Smith reappear to be Romney's running mate.
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Hillary would still run in 2016 (and lose) and maybe Trump would run in 2020 but then lose after 8 years of GOP fatigue.
Romney's FoPo would be interesting, he's a Russia hawk and I wonder how differently would the Ukraine situation had played out with him as President.
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Obama should have nipped that shit in the bud in 2014 for Crimea.
You wouldn't get a more anti-Russia candidate than a devout Mormon born in 1947. He would have been raised in and embraced the Church's McCarthyism.
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No 2nd term Obama
No Trump
No Biden/Kamala
Maybe no Ukraine war???
I'm having a hard time thinking of Downsides.
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I don't think it would have been much different. The real fundamental change that happened in American politics in those years is that the leftoid activist class saw a black president get elected and they hated it. It proved that whites racists are a very small fraction of the population with no political power. And the black president didn't immediately solve all their problems that they blamed on white racists. This led to the really extreme BLM shit of burning down cities.
Under Romney I think this would have happened a little later, but it would have happened. You had a generation of people in the black and white upper middle class who were taught to believe that race riots are a good thing. They were going to do it sooner or later.
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