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W. (Video Game)

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W. (Video Game)	comment	W. (pronounced "Dubya") is a Game Mod for the browser game The New Campaign Trail. In it, you play as George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States of America, in an alternative timeline in which the September 11 Attacks and the subsequent War on Terror never took place. Consequently, Bush never benefits from a popularity boost from its fallout, and finds himself in a difficult position as he emerges bruised and battered from the 2002 midterm elections. From there, you will need to maneuver in the next two years, to push your agenda through, choose whether to pursue war or peace abroad, and secure your re-election at home. It can be played here on the Campaign Trail Showcase site.In contrast with the game's usual, relatively neutral writing style, W. is written from the perspective of a 2000s-era liberal, serving as both a scathing critique on Bush's presidency and as a broader reflection on 2000s politics.
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W. (Video Game) / int_132e865c	type	Earn Your Bad Ending
W. (Video Game) / int_132e865c	comment	Earn Your Bad Ending: Because of Robert Byrd's combination of elderly age, past Klan membership and anti-war beliefs which appeal to no demographic in particular, it takes much effort and creativity to actually lose to him. Doubly so if you fired Cheney, stopping a third war that tanks your poll numbers from occurring. Losing to Byrd without starting a third war even gives you the "Losing America" achievement. Winning against the Clinton/McCain unity ticket while running an all-out smear campaign against them is very hard, as the last minute reveal of Bush's role behind the obscene attacks against his opponents destroys much of the support he had up to that point. Even if you perfectly optimize your answers by the end, the actual outcome is still very much a Luck-Based Mission.
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W. (Video Game) / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
W. (Video Game) / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: Averted with Dick Cheney (for most of the mod). Despite the Democrats joking about President Bush merely being a puppet of the much more experienced Cheney, this isn't shown to be the case in the mod. Bush can make decisions contrary to Dick's wishes and even has the option to drop Cheney from the ticket against his will (gaining the achievement "SAM239" in the process). In fact, it takes a large number of people in Bush's cabinet to actually convince the president to start a third war and Dubya can choose to invade another country instead of Cheney's preferred target Iran. This is played completely straight in one route of the mod, however. If Bush gives too much influence to Cheney, he will create a shadow administration using his network of political connections and control the Presidency behind Bush's back. If the player chooses to ignore Ted Kennedy's warnings, Cheney will snatch control away from Bush while he is going through surgery, escalating a political crisis with Russia and causing the The End of the World as We Know It. In one of the endings if Bush drops Cheney, it's stated that this is still the case. Despite not even being VP anymore, Cheney continues to run the admin, kicking Bush out of his own office and keeping him entirely out of the loop. May be subverted since this ending is likely intended to be satirical exaggeration and probably doesn't represent real events within the mod.
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W. (Video Game) / int_143919ff	type	Heroic BSoD
W. (Video Game) / int_143919ff	comment	In the ending where Bush loses all 50 states against Gephardt and Ventura, he suffers a humiliation of historic proportions that leaves a permanent stain on the reputation of his family and all his close associates. However, being disillusioned by the sheer absurdity of his failure and having nothing to lose anymore, George, for once, finds inner strength to defy Poppy's authority and continue living as his own man, free of his father's oppressive shadow. Word of God even said that there was a planned ending slide that showed Bush retiring to Crawford, becoming an amateur painter just like he did in his OTL post-presidency, and enjoying life finally free from the expectations of his Poppy.
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W. (Video Game) / int_145490c6	type	Still Wearing the Old Colors
W. (Video Game) / int_145490c6	comment	Still Wearing the Old Colors: In Byrd's Iran war ending, a pro-Rumsfeld Republican hit piece argues that Byrd's seeming unwilligness to confront the Islamic terrorism and protect American security abroad can be understood by viewing him as a resentful Lost Causer who is attempting to arrange the return of the Confederate States of America. The ending is accompanied with a photo of Byrd playing a Confederate officer in Gods and Generals.
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W. (Video Game) / int_169d22e6	type	Villain Team-Up
W. (Video Game) / int_169d22e6	comment	Villain Team-Up: For a given definition of "villain", the secret path for Hillary Clinton (achieved by the only success of Bush's administration being the Grand Bargain over Social Security) has her team up with Bush's old 2000 primary rival John McCain as "co-presidents". The Clinton/McCain ticket serves as the hardest ticket for Dubya to beat in the mod, not helped by dirty tricks against them always backfiring on Bush when it's discovered that his campaign is spreading slander.
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W. (Video Game) / int_1722aaf	type	Hitler Ate Sugar
W. (Video Game) / int_1722aaf	comment	Hitler Ate Sugar: The icon for the A Fren For The End Of The World achievement is a Conservative macro comparing Hillary Clinton to Adolf Hitler because of their vaguely similar quotes about prioritizing society before the individual's interests.
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W. (Video Game) / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
W. (Video Game) / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Dubya is portrayed as desperately craving his father's respect and affection of his father, while never managing to get it. This fits into the broader style of the mod being written in the style of a 2000s hit piece on Bush, with it being one of the common tropes in Bush caricatures.
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W. (Video Game) / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
W. (Video Game) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: In his Low Jingoist ending, Lieberman is more than happy to court Bush, his former presidential rival, at the public appearances. It helps that in this ending, Bush is kicked out by the radicalized Republican Party.
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W. (Video Game) / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
W. (Video Game) / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: During his smear campaign against the Hillary/McCain ticket, Bush himself is surprised how little guilt he came to feel over seeing the posters of Hillary Clinton framed in crosshairs and John McCain hanging from a tree that become a common sight at his campaign rallies.
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W. (Video Game) / int_1bd4c0bf	type	Unwinnable by Design
W. (Video Game) / int_1bd4c0bf	comment	Unwinnable by Design: The "Back Home in New Haven" (which entails making Poppy proud) achievement is unobtainable for the player no matter what they do and has no trigger in the code. The only way to get the achievement is to obtain it using a console cheat.
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W. (Video Game) / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
W. (Video Game) / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: Bush can end up firing a large number of his cabinet over his first term. These include Secretary of Defence Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld, Special Assistant Bob McNally and Vice President Dick Cheney (if doesn't resign in disappointment at a lack of wars that is). Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz and White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer can also Resign in Protest if Bush fails to or outright stops Congress from authorizing an invasion of Iraq. Unfortunately for Bush, firing all of them in one run leads to Ted Kennedy (one of the stronger potential opponents for Bush) becoming the Democratic nominee. It's even worse if Bush fueled enough Jingoism to invade Iraq and antagonized China at every turn, which could cause a Third World War if Dubya chooses to refuses to engage in dialogue with China.
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W. (Video Game) / int_258a5cfe	type	Different World, Different Movies
W. (Video Game) / int_258a5cfe	comment	Different World, Different Movies: If the player in fuels enough jingoism to launch a war against Iran, the Revenge of the Sith will turn into an explicit attack against the Bush administration, with George Lucas (who in Real Life never acknowledged that any American president influenced Palpatine's depiction other than Richard Nixon) outright stating that the movie is about Bush while presenting the final cut to the Cannes Film Festival. If Bush defeats the Clinton/McCain ticket through extreme mudslinging, a third Charlie's Angels film gets made as part of Hollywood leaning into superficial "girlboss" feminism to capitalize on backlash to the administration. In one of Gary Hart's endings, Lin-Manuel Miranda at The Colbert Report pitches his idea for a hip-hop musical about the life of one of the America's Founding Fathers... though unlike the real Hamilton, this one is about Thomas Jefferson, perhaps reflecting the Jeffersonian aspirations of Hart's presidency.
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W. (Video Game) / int_2629c82a	type	Breaking the Glass Ceiling
W. (Video Game) / int_2629c82a	comment	Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Plenty of potential examples. Hillary Clinton as the first female president, Al Sharpton as the first black one, and either Joe Lieberman or Paul Wellstone as the first Jewish POTUS. NoteWesley Clark's father was Jewish, but his ancestry was hidden from him until his adult years to protect him from the Ku Klux Klan antisemitic attacks in the 40s, and he is confessionally a Catholic.
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W. (Video Game) / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
W. (Video Game) / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: This is the case for a Kennedy won against a Bush who has antagonized China enough (causing WW3). Kennedy has finally become president after his failed 1980 presidential bid and can finally pass Universal Healthcare with Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress... and then 500 Chinese warheads fall on the US.
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W. (Video Game) / int_286eaf85	type	Dragon Ascendant
W. (Video Game) / int_286eaf85	comment	Dragon Ascendant: In Hillary Clinton's High Jingoist ending, blogger Andrew Sullivan shares a rumor that Dick Cheney is planning to launch his presidential run to unseat Clinton in the aftermath of the latter's disastrous war in Libya, promising to "clean up the mess left behind by his two predecessors".
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W. (Video Game) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
W. (Video Game) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: President Wellstone's North Korea war ending screen is an untranslated People's Daily article in Chinese, documenting the joint statement of Wellstone and Chinese President Hu Jintao to assure peace in the Korean peninsula.
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W. (Video Game) / int_2a035a26	type	Allohistorical Allusion
W. (Video Game) / int_2a035a26	comment	Allohistorical Allusion: In the ending where WW3 starts while running against Ted Kennedy, Dubya gets a "strange sense of deja vu" from being in an elementary school classroom while the missiles fly.
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W. (Video Game) / int_2ea22847	type	That One Boss
W. (Video Game) / int_2ea22847	comment	Averted for McCain in the secret Clinton/McCain ticket, which sees him be acknowledged by Hillary as a fellow "co-president" despite their differences. Should they win (which they almost always will), McCain actively helps Hillary run her administration.
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W. (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
W. (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Usually, who is exactly "evil" depends on the player's interpretation, but there are some characters who fit the mold decently. Dick Gephardt is an opportunistic schemer that helps start the Iraq War and suppresses dissent to it if his ending is anything to go by, but even he is disgusted if Bush completely defends Hastert, with it being implied he tanks Bush's proposed tax cut because to it. Dick Cheney is a manipulative war hawk that pushes Bush into starting more and more wars and can even start World War Three, but Bush's refusal to even slightly compromise on gay marriage makes him genuinely disgusted, due to having a lesbian daughter. This is admittedly slightly downplayed, since Bush isn't accepting of it by any means even in his most positive answer choices, but it's there.
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W. (Video Game) / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
W. (Video Game) / int_32da91b8	comment	The same goes for many Democratic vice presidents, obscure governors or senators that are mostly Out of Focus in many endings where Bush loses re-election and the Democratic Party regains the presidency.
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W. (Video Game) / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
W. (Video Game) / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Everything surrounding Governor Lawton Chiles, who is briefly alluded to ("The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.") in the Byrd route and serves as the ending image if Bush loses to Byrd, which the player can only understand if they're familiar with the politics of Florida and how Jeb Bush's loss to Chiles is what led to Dubya becoming president.
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W. (Video Game) / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
W. (Video Game) / int_3763bcf8	comment	Downplayed with Al Sharpton and his home state of New York. Sharpton polls well in New York despite his past controversies and involvement in the Tawana Brawley case (where a young black woman falsely accused four white men of kidnapping and raping her)... but the state is well within the reach of the Bush campaign and Sharpton usually loses the state whenever Dubya pulls off a landslide.
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W. (Video Game) / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
W. (Video Game) / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Senator John McCain, already in a strained relationship with the sitting president following their bitter rivalry during the 2000 Republican primaries in which Bush made several attacks on McCain's character and used under-handed tactics to destroy his credibility, can end up at odds with his party's direction under Bush in several scenarios. If Bush attacks McCain for his alleged collaboration with Lieberman's presidential campaign and then loses the re-election, McCain leaves the Republican Party for good and eventually becomes a Democratic president. If Bush's domestic agenda collapses in Congress besides a watered down Social Security reform bill and he doesn't engage in any war, McCain becomes Hillary Clinton's running mate with the intent to save the Republican Party from a "hostile takeover" by the Christian right and reinforce the American security interests abroad. Resigning from his Vice Presidential position after Bush's failure or unwilligness to launch military conflicts in the Middle East, Cheney becomes the Secretary of Defense for Bush's presidential rival Joe Lieberman in the latter's High Jingoist ending, going as far as joining Lieberman's effort to create the Forward! Party as a bulwark against the two-party duopoly that drifted too far away from the center and became captured by their voter base's whims.
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W. (Video Game) / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
W. (Video Game) / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Some of the online bloggers employed by the Al Gore campaign have made blog posts about various conspiracies, chief among them being a conspiracy about George H. W. Bush being somehow involved in JFK's assassination. Bush and Rove can expose this, which shifts the discussion away from the controversial 2000 election's result in Florida. Jesse Ventura occasionally mixes in some JFK assassination theories with his usual anti-establishment rhertoric and readings of Smedley Butler during rallies. Fittingly enough, the song playing during the "Red Pill" ending is "Clubbed to Death", a song that appears in and is mostly associated with The Matrix, and all side pop-up ads will change to that of the Matrix merch. Subverted with Ted Kennedy if Bush gives Cheney too much power in the administration. Bush can ignore Ted's borderline conspiratorial warnings about Cheney setting up a parallel government and that the Veep could seize power from Bush if the president were even just incapacitated, dismissing it as the result of Kennedy watching too many spy thrillers and jokingly inviting him to watch Zoolander at the White House instead. Then the ending comes along and it's confirmed that Ted was completely right about Cheney....
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W. (Video Game) / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
W. (Video Game) / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: Byrd is an old man whose voter "base" more accurately resembles a house of cards, and as such serves as Bush's weakest opponent. All that doesn't stop Byrd from going across the country and delivering rapturous speeches to enthusiastic audiences about Bush's misdeeds Ã la Truman in 1948. This arguably doubles as Villainous Valor, and foreshadows how intelligent Byrd actually is beneath all his odd quirks and signs of senility if he somehow gets a hold on power.
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W. (Video Game) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
W. (Video Game) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Needless to say, Jesse Ventura's presidency in the "Red Pill" ending is nothing short of chaotic. Being an anti-establishment third-party candidate with no allies outside of the Reform Party, his agenda gets stalled by Congress. He is thus forced to rely on Executive Orders to fulfill his lofty campaign promises of pulling out from the wars and passing his "VA for All" healthcare bill. By the end of his first term, a recent Gallup poll has shown Ventura's support to be at a mere 39.2%... even if Ventura himself doesn't care that much about it.
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W. (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
W. (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In many endings, Bush achieves reelection, partly securing his legacy as more than a lame duck, but he still doesn't get the approval of his domineering father, George H. W. Bush, leaving him to feel empty inside as he goes to greet the ecstatic crowds. In the ending where Bush loses all 50 states against Gephardt and Ventura, he suffers a humiliation of historic proportions that leaves a permanent stain on the reputation of his family and all his close associates. However, being disillusioned by the sheer absurdity of his failure and having nothing to lose anymore, George, for once, finds inner strength to defy Poppy's authority and continue living as his own man, free of his father's oppressive shadow. Word of God even said that there was a planned ending slide that showed Bush retiring to Crawford, becoming an amateur painter just like he did in his OTL post-presidency, and enjoying life finally free from the expectations of his Poppy.
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W. (Video Game) / int_4128bc77	type	Broken Tears
W. (Video Game) / int_4128bc77	comment	Broken Tears: Bush sobs his eyes out in any ending where loses in a landslide to the Democratic nominee, not helped by Poppy chewing him out for the outcome. The same goes for the unique ending where Robert Byrd somehow manages to win. In the ending where WW3 starts under Bush, Dubya starts to cry after seeing Des Moines, Iowa get destroyed by a missile strike while he and a few of his campaign staff escape on Air Force One.
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W. (Video Game) / int_42a95f60	type	Taking Up the Mantle
W. (Video Game) / int_42a95f60	comment	Taking Up the Mantle: Ted Kennedy occupies the same role of continuing his family's legacy, but this time it's against a George W. Bush who has fired a large part of his cabinet and whose tenure has been ravaged by scandals. If he manages to live up to his brothers' legacies after winning against Bush is another story though. Without any wars going on, Ted Kennedy manages to preside over a triumphant first term where he implements many of his signature policies and the Republicans sink further into extremism (nominating Ron Paul as their presidential nominee) with seemingly no chance of turning their fortunes around... only for Senator Sanders to warn about the popping of the housing bubble (the OTL precursor to the Great Recession)- ending on an ominous Cliffhanger. If there's one war going on, Kennedy slips further and further into the role of a Puppet King as his cabinet starts to take advantage of his failing health to continue the war. If there's two wars ongoing, Kennedy's term is a complete failure as he fails to end the wars and is unable to pass any legislation (including Universal Healthcare, now watered down to an Obamacare-style bill). With the president largely absent from the public eye, a much more aggressive Bush snatches the nomination from Ron Paul with the election looking lopsided in his favor.
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W. (Video Game) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
W. (Video Game) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Dick Cheney is a manipulative war hawk that pushes Bush into starting more and more wars and can even start World War Three, but Bush's refusal to even slightly compromise on gay marriage makes him genuinely disgusted, due to having a lesbian daughter. This is admittedly slightly downplayed, since Bush isn't accepting of it by any means even in his most positive answer choices, but it's there.
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W. (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
W. (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The "Here to Serve" ending initially appears to be yet another ending from Bush's perspective... until the final line of the second paragraph confirms that, yes, Ted Kennedy's warnings about Cheney growing too powerful were all too true.
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W. (Video Game) / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
W. (Video Game) / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Joe Lieberman launches his presidential bid against Bush expecting it to be a friendly competition between ideas, not personalities. Bush can choose to disregard such etiquette and launch a thrashing campaign to tarnish the reputation of Lieberman among the voters. In that case, he will feel betrayed and can even break down into tears after the debate. Wesley Clark is a Democratic nominee, despite being a frequent guest at Republican fundraisers and praising his current opponent on several occasions. Bush can exploit this to drive a wedge between Clark and the liberal voters who, already somewhat put off by Clark's militarist attitude and his shallow domestic agenda, have to ask themselves if they want to vote for the man who once called himself a friend of Bush.
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W. (Video Game) / int_52475ffd	type	Cutting Off the Branches
W. (Video Game) / int_52475ffd	comment	Cutting Off the Branches: The "Historical Result" section in the ending screen shows Ted Kennedy winning against Bush in a sweeping 451-87 landslide, confirming this as the "canonical" outcome.
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W. (Video Game) / int_585db628	type	Vote Early, Vote Often
W. (Video Game) / int_585db628	comment	Vote Early, Vote Often: Heavily implied by the DC staffer in the 50 state victory against Byrd ending, who states that they couldn't let Washington D.C. get embarrassed by being the only state Byrd wins and claims that "Lyndon Johnson was one of our greatest presidents and he did it all the time" (a reference to LBJ using voter fraud to win in large landslides back during his earlier days).
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W. (Video Game) / int_5a371c8f	type	Opportunistic Bastard
W. (Video Game) / int_5a371c8f	comment	Opportunistic Bastard: Richard Gephardt independently guides the Democratic congressmen to vote for the Iraq War resolution if he smells an opportunity to snatch the presidential nomination, and, as a candidate, he tries to make his way to the White House by mimicking Bush's rhetoric on war and taxes rather than standing by his party's platform, much to the displeasure of the hardcore liberal voters. Further, Gephardt's pre-W+ teaser profile documents his long history of flip-flopping on various issues throughout his career.
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W. (Video Game) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
W. (Video Game) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Neither Bush nor Gephardt expected former Governor Jesse Ventura, an anti-war third-party candidate, to actually climb to high levels of support let alone qualify for the debates. Unfortunately for Bush, Ventura's presence means that the debate will always end in him losing support (whether it be Ventura calling out Bush for his many misdeeds or Bush just ducking the debates entirely). If the race is close enough, Ventura can deadlock the election and (if Bush had good relations with Congress) become president in the ensuing contingent election.
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W. (Video Game) / int_6454966e	type	World War III
W. (Video Game) / int_6454966e	comment	World War III: Narrowly averted, if you have a particularly hawkish presidency as Bush, you get the option to launch missile strikes against North Korea. Doing so results in outright war being only narrowly avoided through the intervention of the South Korean president. As this is followed by heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Bush at one point proposes dropping a nuke on North Korea, with the only thing stopping him being the intervention of Colin Powell. No longer averted in W+. Three candidates have paths leading to a third world war scenario between the US and Russia or the US and China, all of which give achievements. In Wesley Clark's Third World War path, his hawkish campaign is paired with Bush provocatively deploying ships to the Baltic and instructing the Taiwanese to seize some neighboring islands, leading to a three-way world war scenario once Bush loses the election. In the centuries after WW3, the war comes to be known as the "Great Deluge". In the Ted Kennedy path, Bush takes provocative steps against Russia while emptying the administration of anyone who could tell Bush when to pump the breaks. Nuclear brinksmanship collapses into a civilization-destroying war. Finally, in the Al Sharpton Path, Bush eliminates multiple missile ban treaties via aggressive foreign policy while pushing jingoism to a maximum and empowering Cheney in the administration. Cheney eventually seizes full control of the administration, leading to a nuclear exchange with Russia under his leadership.
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W. (Video Game) / int_66c725b6	type	Inconsistent Spelling
W. (Video Game) / int_66c725b6	comment	Inconsistent Spelling: Because they never become household names in this universe, the names of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda are spelled inconsistently across different endings, with the former's name sometimes written as "Usama Bin Ladin" and the latter as "Al-Qaida". In one of the Hillary Clinton endings, political blogger Andrew Sullivan even dares the reader to spell "al-Qaeda" without looking it up, showing how obscure it remains. Similarly, Muammar Gaddafi name is written differently each time it's mentioned. In Al Gore's Syria war ending, his name is spelled as "Qaddafi", "Kadafi", "Gaddahfi", "Qadafy" and "Gaddafi", all in the same text.
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W. (Video Game) / int_6aa5bcb8	type	Vice President Who?
W. (Video Game) / int_6aa5bcb8	comment	Vice President Who?: Averted with Cheney as always but played straight with Bill Frist, the Senate Minority Leader who becomes Bush's Vice President if Cheney retires or is forced to retire. Unlike Cheney, Frist doesn't appear to have a major say in the decision-making of the Bush administration and is only picked to be Bush's lifeline to Congress. The same goes for many Democratic vice presidents, obscure governors or senators that are mostly Out of Focus in many endings where Bush loses re-election and the Democratic Party regains the presidency. Averted for McCain in the secret Clinton/McCain ticket, which sees him be acknowledged by Hillary as a fellow "co-president" despite their differences. Should they win (which they almost always will), McCain actively helps Hillary run her administration.
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W. (Video Game) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
W. (Video Game) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Despite being a generally unlikeable and verbally abusive old man, Poppy makes a few solid points during some of the endings (even if they're buried behind his usual vitriol for Dubya). If Bush barely manages to eke out a narrow victory against Robert Byrd, Poppy will call Dubya lucky because the Democrats didn't decide to run a real presidential candidate and speculates that Hillary Clinton would batter him in the general election if she were the candidate. Clinton was indeed the hardest candidate Bush could face prior to the W.+ update, with the spot instead being taken by the Clinton/McCain unity ticket. Poppy is horrified at the prospect of Jesse Ventura becoming president in the "Red Pill" ending, shouting at Dubya to not be a "goddamn child" and "own up to the situation" to prevent Ventura's ascension to the Oval Office. The ending slide concerning Ventura's presidency shows that he was right about being worried, with President Ventura getting into regular fights with the press and having his agenda stalled by Congress (causing large amounts of Government gridlock, necessitating Ventura's frequent use of Executive Orders to get things done) during his first term.
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W. (Video Game) / int_6bcecad1	type	Make the Bear Angry Again
W. (Video Game) / int_6bcecad1	comment	Make the Bear Angry Again: While the relations between the United States and Vladimir Putin's Russia are mostly cordial at this point in timeline, Moscow can rebuke Bush's foreign policy if he tries to aid the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan or attempts to authorize the Iraq War resolution through the UN vote. The relations between the US and Russia quickly reach the nadir if Wesley Clark wins the presidency and can result in a World War 3 if Clark enters the office at a particularly tense moment. The nuclear war with Russia in the aftermath of the Russo-Georgian War also turns out to be Dick Cheney's endgame if he successfully takes over the Bush's administration behind the curtains.
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W. (Video Game) / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
W. (Video Game) / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Although he remains a popular politician despite of that, the reputational impact of the Chappaquiddick incident never truly escapes Ted Kennedy. In one of his endings, while discussing the faults of armored vehicles that keep falling off the road and have its doors shut during the emergency situations, McCain tries to make a crude joke about Kennedy driving the country into a ditch in more ways than one.
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W. (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
W. (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: It's possible to pass Social Security reform, Bush's tax cuts, and the AUMF, but it requires a specific set of choices, many of which aren't intuitive (such as allowing an investigation of Hastert's scandals, holding back on condemning Lawrence v. Texas, and pushing Cheney to find firmer intelligence on Iraq's WMDs rather than leaking to the New York Times).
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W. (Video Game) / int_80360df0	type	Dark Horse Victory
W. (Video Game) / int_80360df0	comment	Dark Horse Victory: Some of the Democratic nominees are noted as such, either in-game or supplementary material. Wellstone takes the world by surprise with his win, Sharpton wins unexpectedly because all other major candidates sat the race out because of Bush's popularity, and Byrd wins due to his only major opponent being the jingoistic Wesley Clark. Jesse Ventura can deadlock a close race between Bush and Gephardt if he wins in Minnesota and Alaska and thus deprives both candidates of the needed 270 electoral votes to win. If this happens after Bush maintained good enough relations with the Congress, Ventura is unexpectedly elevated to the Presidency in the aftermath of the constitutional crisis and Bush's failed attempt to reclaim his office from Gephardt.
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W. (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
W. (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In Gephardt's Low Jingoist ending, the Anonymous group in its YouTube message threatens to dismantle not only Gephardt's rule, but also his tools of violence - the US military, CNN, the Federal Reserve... and ESRB.
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W. (Video Game) / int_8344716e	type	WW3
W. (Video Game) / int_8344716e	comment	In Wesley Clark's Third World War path, his hawkish campaign is paired with Bush provocatively deploying ships to the Baltic and instructing the Taiwanese to seize some neighboring islands, leading to a three-way world war scenario once Bush loses the election. In the centuries after WW3, the war comes to be known as the "Great Deluge".
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W. (Video Game) / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
W. (Video Game) / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Former Colorado Senator Gary Hart, whose loud calls for America to stop growing complacent and be prepared against terrorist attacks get him called as such by the mod itself.
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W. (Video Game) / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
W. (Video Game) / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: While Bush is capable of crushing most of his opponents by a comfortable margin with a good combination of choices, facing Robert Byrd gives him the opportunity of achieving one of the biggest landslides possible in The New Campaign Trail without using cheats. Byrd's unpopularity due to his past as a KKK member, his anti-war tendencies, and his advanced age can allow Bush to win not only the fifty states, but also the heavily blue city of Washington D.C as well. Doing this would make him the first president since George Washington to win every single electoral vote.
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W. (Video Game) / int_8b8b0ac5	type	Resign in Protest
W. (Video Game) / int_8b8b0ac5	comment	Resign in Protest: If Bush doesn't invade Afghanistan and either blocks or fails to get congress to vote for invading Iraq, an embittered Dick Cheney resigns his Vice Presidential office in disappointment and is replaced by Bill Frist. The same goes for Paul Wolfowitz and Ari Fleischer.
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W. (Video Game) / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
W. (Video Game) / int_8e04fdd7	comment	Averted with Cheney as always but played straight with Bill Frist, the Senate Minority Leader who becomes Bush's Vice President if Cheney retires or is forced to retire. Unlike Cheney, Frist doesn't appear to have a major say in the decision-making of the Bush administration and is only picked to be Bush's lifeline to Congress.
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W. (Video Game) / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
W. (Video Game) / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: The mod's interface is made to resemble the websites of early 2000s, with cheesy pop-up ads adding up to the nostalgic feel of the Bush-era Internet.
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W. (Video Game) / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
W. (Video Game) / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: John Edwards is portrayed as faking a folksy, charming demeanor despite being a prick who cheats on his cancer-ridden wife. One ending sees him cutting funding to PEPFAR, Bush's federal program aimed at combatting AIDS in Africa, which Edwards calls "wasteful and bloated". Bush can even air targeted ads in the Midwest and Great Plains exploiting how people there are uncomfortable with his image as a "man of the people".
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W. (Video Game) / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
W. (Video Game) / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: If Al Gore wins the Democratic Party nomination for a rematch against Bush, the party colors on the election map will switch the other way around (with Bush states as blue and Gore states as red), alluding to the period when the party color identification didn't become standardized until after the first Bush-Gore election in 2000. Thus, it can come across as confusing at first to the player if they don't pay enough attention.
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W. (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f	type	Luck-Based Mission
W. (Video Game) / int_98b1dc8f	comment	Winning against the Clinton/McCain unity ticket while running an all-out smear campaign against them is very hard, as the last minute reveal of Bush's role behind the obscene attacks against his opponents destroys much of the support he had up to that point. Even if you perfectly optimize your answers by the end, the actual outcome is still very much a Luck-Based Mission.
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W. (Video Game) / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
W. (Video Game) / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: A particularly awful example in the ending where Bush causes a nuclear war with China but loses to Ted Kennedy. Ted (who at this point is technically the president-elect) and his staff are rushed into an old mailroom under Fanueil Hall by the Secret Service, which accidentally leads to their deaths by suffocation when the whole building collapses on themselves. Not only does Ted's death inadvertenly come at the hand of the Secret Service which failed to protect his brother, but he dies in the same place where he announced his first presidential candidacy back in 1979.
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W. (Video Game) / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
W. (Video Game) / int_9c47b23b	comment	In Wellstone's three wars ending where Bush invades Venezuela, Wellstone, while organizing a summit for peace in Latin America, strikes up a tenuous alliance with Fidel Castro, who promises to send assistance to post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. This, quite obviously, sends Conservative America into a furious assault on Wellstone's "socialist agenda".
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W. (Video Game) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
W. (Video Game) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Jesse Ventura in the original release merely appears as one of the many potential third-party candidates in the election, posing no threat against Dubya or the Democratic candidate and almost always falling short of the 5% popular vote needed for the Reform Party to gain federal funding. While this remains the same for nearly all other routes following the W.+ update, this changes if Richard Gephardt becomes the Democratic nominee. Channeling the rage of the anti-war movement who have now come to support his third-party candidacy, Ventura becomes a genuine threat to both Bush and Gephardt. He even has questions dedicated solely to stopping him like the Democratic candidate has, and his unexpected qualifying for the debates throws a wrench in Bush's plans. It's taken even further in the unlikely scenario where the election is deadlocked but Bush has good relations with Congress, in the chaotic aftermath Ventura becomes president when Bush deliberately refuses to make a deal with Gephardt in the contingent election. Dick Gephardt himself also counts. In the original release of W. Gephardt was merely Speaker of the House, serving as a representation of Congress' relationship with the president. In W+, Gephardt is now a possible opponent who becomes the Democratic candidate if Bush's domestic achievements are blocked by Congress, even going so far as to authorize an invasion of Iraq whether Bush wants to or not to create a national situation beneficial to his presidential run.
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W. (Video Game) / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
W. (Video Game) / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Wesley Clark is a retired general and an ultra-hawkish presidential candidate who attacks Bush for being too soft on the growing Axis of Evil between China, Russia, and Iran. Clark is the only other President who can launch a World War 3, if he enters the office after Bush escalates tensions with both Russia and China amidst the high jingoist mood. Fittingly enough, his World War 3 achievement icon is a photo of the actual General Jack D. Ripper during his infamous Motive Rant. If Clark does not start World War 3, his victory ending shows The Economist unqualifiedly lauding him for standing up to the evil, Kremlin-aligning treachery of San Marino.
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W. (Video Game) / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
W. (Video Game) / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: The ending slide for Paul Wellstone defeating Bush with an ongoing war in Afghanistan depicts an unusually close relationship between President Wellstone (a left-wing academic and anti-war activist from the Sixties) and David Petraeus (a long-serving US Army general) as they together develop a new United States counterinsurgency doctrine that would shift its focus to low-intensity conflicts and psychological warfare. In Wellstone's three wars ending where Bush invades Venezuela, Wellstone, while organizing a summit for peace in Latin America, strikes up a tenuous alliance with Fidel Castro, who promises to send assistance to post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. This, quite obviously, sends Conservative America into a furious assault on Wellstone's "socialist agenda". Robert Byrd, the ex-Klan member moderate (even leaning conservative) Southern Democrat, and his running mate, John Conyers, the left-wing African American who had previously been active in the 1960s civil rights movement.
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W. (Video Game) / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
W. (Video Game) / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While Robert Byrd is an almost nonagenarian politician with signs of senility who is despised by the leaders of both parties, he is still capable of using all his experience and knowledge from decades of serving in Congress to get his way. If he is elected President without Bush engaging in a third war, his political agenda to balance the budget by cutting the defense spending will be blocked by both parties, who threaten government shutdown as they vote to raise the debt ceiling. His solution? Mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin using a legislative loophole from a 1990's law to pay the debt, making it unnecessary to raise the debt ceiling and taking power away from his opposition.
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W. (Video Game) / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
W. (Video Game) / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: If Wesley Clark is the Democratic nominee, Bush can attempt to reach out to the anti-war youth who dislike Clark's jingoistic rhetoric. This results in a very awkward scene of Bush trying to orient himself at the youth gathering behind some rock concert in Seattle and even getting a hug from a bystanding Emo girl, much to the horror of his security detail.
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W. (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
W. (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Bush's reaction to Byrd gaining momentum, turning the election from a sure win against an old man into an actual competitive election.
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W. (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
W. (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The second ending slide in every WW3 ending serves as the player's final glimpse at the world in its final moments before nuclear armageddon. The final post of the r/politics subreddit seen in the second ending slide where WW3 starts under Wesley Clark has the manager of a Dominos Pizza branch in Washington D.C. note the alarming number of pizzas being delivered to the Pentagon, and correctly predicts that this means something big is about to happen. The comments range from fear to outright denial before ominously ending with a redditor commenting that his TV is doing that "weird emergency test sound". The second ending slide from Dick Cheney's WW3 ending takes the form of a letter Cheney sends to his grandchildren, detailing how he is going to war with Russia over their invasion of Georgia and that he has the right to do so given his status as Acting President while Dubya is having surgery. The second ending slide from Bush's WW3 ending (if he wins against Ted Kennedy, that is) briefly shows how US defenses weren't enough to stop the 500 warheads! headed towards America before revealing the aftermath of the "On the Frontlines" ending, showing how Des Moines was utterly destroyed by a Chinese missile while Dubya escaped on Air Force One with the Secret Service, his campaign staff, and a few journalists. Alternatively, if Bush lost to Ted Kennedy but still started WW3 then the second ending slide takes the form of a radio transmission by a young Kennedy campaign volunteer named Mary Jones where she desperately begs for help as she, Ted and the rest of his campaign staff slowly suffocate to death beneath Fanueil Hall. It's just as horrifying as it sounds.
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W. (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
W. (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: The Democratic Party's status as the heroic face may be questionable, but they certainly can turn heel. In the Hillary/McCain path, one of the endings sees them embrace dog-whistling and birtherism against the liberal opponent of the Clinton/McCain administration Barack Obama.
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W. (Video Game) / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
W. (Video Game) / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Byrd's solution in his ending to prevent a default as a hostile congress votes to raise the debt ceiling? While the Treasury is limited by law on how much paper money and gold, silver, and copper coins it can circulate at once, an obscure law from the 1990s dictates there is no limit on how many platinum coins it can circulate, or on their value as well. Naturally, Byrd just prints a platinum coin worth 1 trillion to pay the debt. Minority Leader Rick Santorum even lampshades it.
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W. (Video Game) / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
W. (Video Game) / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: Robert Byrd, added as an anti-war candidate during the W. + update, is the oldest serving senator in the mod at a whopping 87 years old and becomes the oldest person ever to be nominated. To say that Byrd's old age is the butt of many jokes is an understatement (Bush even quips about it when he visits the 175-year old tortoise Harriet during a diplomatic trip to Australia), and the so-called "Goldwater Rule" (an ethical rule preventing psychologists from diagnosing public figures without their consent) goes right out the window with many even openly speculating just how long Byrd can stay in office as POTUS before he inevitably dies.
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W. (Video Game) / int_b4696332	type	My Greatest Second Chance
W. (Video Game) / int_b4696332	comment	My Greatest Second Chance: Al Gore tries a second go around as a Democratic presidential candidate against the backdrop of Bush's congressional failures and growingly unpopular wars. If Ted Kennedy enters the presidential office with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ongoing, Bush and Cheney reunite for a rematch against the old man, running a much more belligerent campaign and entirely abandoning the show of "compassionate conservatism".
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W. (Video Game) / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
W. (Video Game) / int_ba236071	comment	Jesse Ventura occasionally mixes in some JFK assassination theories with his usual anti-establishment rhertoric and readings of Smedley Butler during rallies. Fittingly enough, the song playing during the "Red Pill" ending is "Clubbed to Death", a song that appears in and is mostly associated with The Matrix, and all side pop-up ads will change to that of the Matrix merch.
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W. (Video Game) / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
W. (Video Game) / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: At the international stage, President Wellstone barely can hide his scorn for Tony Blair in public because of the latter's close partnership with Bush and the efforts the British Prime Minister put to make a phony justification for the war in Iraq. Blair, in his turn, is dismissive of Wellstone's ambitious social agenda.
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W. (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
W. (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The ending slide for the Gephardt candidacy which reimagines the resulting election as an In-Universe vanilla Campaign Trail scenario has its description directly borrowed from the 1972d mod for the game, with only names and candidate's characteristics changed. It even mentions Gephardt, like John Connally in the original scenario, having "a bit of a trust problem with the left", foreshadowing the ascendancy of a powerful third-party anti-war contender (Ventura in W., Gus Hall in 1972d).
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W. (Video Game) / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
W. (Video Game) / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Like in real life, George W. Bush is very fond of referring to the people around him by nicknames. Examples include Turd Blossom (Karl Rove), Pootie-Poot (Vladimir Putin), Vice (Dick Cheney), and of course Poppy (George H. W. Bush).
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W. (Video Game) / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
W. (Video Game) / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Although his calls for national security are resonant with the public, the rest of Gary Hart's presidential program, with his prolonged lectures about the ward republics organized along the Jeffersonian ideals, is incomprehensible to the regular Americans. Robert Byrd's uncompromising anti-war stance can draw some begrudging support from liberal voters, but his ramblings about obscure constitutional trivia and Roman history attract few eager listeners. One particular example is his Syria war ending, where Byrd, justifying his refusal to support the anti-Assad insurgents, spontaneously starts to talk about Pompey's arrogant folly of conquering Provincia Syria and forewarns "the citizens of Rome" of the dangers coming from her legions. Republicans don't know what to make out of it other than to embrace their call as Romans and cosplay as legionaries at the official Republican events to mock the sitting president.
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W. (Video Game) / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
W. (Video Game) / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Some of the Democratic nominees are noted as such, either in-game or supplementary material. Wellstone takes the world by surprise with his win, Sharpton wins unexpectedly because all other major candidates sat the race out because of Bush's popularity, and Byrd wins due to his only major opponent being the jingoistic Wesley Clark.
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W. (Video Game) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
W. (Video Game) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Bush can attack John Edwards for cheating on his cancer-ridden wife, but this ends up backfiring because his claim is seen as completely baseless by the public. The adultery scandal is in real life what ended Edwards' political career and what he is most known for today.
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W. (Video Game) / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
W. (Video Game) / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Despite being written from an anti-Bush liberal perspective that spares no expense in depicting Dubya as an arrogant "Well Done, Son" Guy warmonger, George W. Bush comes across as a blend of the Well-Intentioned (genuinely believes in keeping America safe from terrorism and staying true to conservative values) and Woobie (has been trying to gain his abusive father's approval his entire life) variants.
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W. (Video Game) / int_d207556f	type	Scare Campaign
W. (Video Game) / int_d207556f	comment	Scare Campaign: One route the player can take against the Clinton/McCain ticket is running a vicious campaign of personal smears and outright conspiracy theories about both candidates. It's also a Luck-Based Mission as the Bush campaign's involvement in the mudslinging gets exposed near the end, causing him to take a massive and usually fatal hit in the polls. There's even an achievement for pulling it off.
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W. (Video Game) / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
W. (Video Game) / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: Despite 9/11 and The War on Terror never happening, it's still possible for the United States to end up at war in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In Gore's North Korea war ending, the conservative newsletter contributor proclaims his support for Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign against the Democratic candidate J. R. Biden... in 2008, while Biden is the incumbent Vice President for the Gore administration.
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W. (Video Game) / int_d28d210a	type	Daydream Believer
W. (Video Game) / int_d28d210a	comment	Daydream Believer: In a Wesley Clark ending, there is a group of liberal web activists called "Dumbledoreâ€™s Online Army" who regard Harry Potter as a guide to life and liken the real politicians to the characters from the book - thus Bush is seen as Cornelius Fudge, Cheney as Dolores Umbridge, Clark as Albus Dumbledore and Putin as Voldemort.
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W. (Video Game) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
W. (Video Game) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: If Dubya chooses to start a third war in Syria, one of the reasons he gives for the toppling of Bashar Al-Assad is that he only became Syria's president due to his father also being president. This coming from a "Well Done, Son" Guy.
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W. (Video Game) / int_d5d34629	type	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil
W. (Video Game) / int_d5d34629	comment	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: John McCain becomes a pariah among the right if he decides to share the presidential ticket with Hillary Clinton to unseat his fellow Republican from the White House. Bush himself can echo this hatred by launching a grotesquely vicious campaign against the pair and calling McCain "Komrade McLame".
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W. (Video Game) / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
W. (Video Game) / int_d71d51fd	comment	This is played completely straight in one route of the mod, however. If Bush gives too much influence to Cheney, he will create a shadow administration using his network of political connections and control the Presidency behind Bush's back. If the player chooses to ignore Ted Kennedy's warnings, Cheney will snatch control away from Bush while he is going through surgery, escalating a political crisis with Russia and causing the The End of the World as We Know It.
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W. (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
W. (Video Game) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In his High Jingoist ending, Joe Lieberman, faced by the competetive challenge from John Edwards in the primaries, decides to abandon his Democratic Party membership altogether and runs for re-election as a third-party candidate.
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W. (Video Game) / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
W. (Video Game) / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: The mod depicts George H. W. Bush as a borderline abusive father who was greatly irritated by his son being president, to the point that no matter if or how he wins, even if you win all 50 states, he will still be disappointed in him in the ending. In real life, even with the inevitable rifts, Bush Sr. supported his son's presidency overall; his last words were even an "I love you too" directed at Dubya. In our timeline, Hillary Clinton openly supported gay marriage and recognized climate change as a reality by 2010. Here, if Bush loses to Byrd after trying to pass a gay marriage amendment, she will denounce homosexuality as an "abomination" and dismiss the existence of climate change after being elected President.
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W. (Video Game) / int_e27693	type	The Coup
W. (Video Game) / int_e27693	comment	Subverted with Ted Kennedy if Bush gives Cheney too much power in the administration. Bush can ignore Ted's borderline conspiratorial warnings about Cheney setting up a parallel government and that the Veep could seize power from Bush if the president were even just incapacitated, dismissing it as the result of Kennedy watching too many spy thrillers and jokingly inviting him to watch Zoolander at the White House instead. Then the ending comes along and it's confirmed that Ted was completely right about Cheney....
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W. (Video Game) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
W. (Video Game) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Gary Hart tried to run as a presidential candidate in 1984 and 1988 (losing to Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis in the primaries, respectively) before finally getting his chance as a Democratic frontrunner if he finds a willing audience for his doomsaying about the imminent terrorist attacks and decaying national security. In a unflattering example, President Ted Kennedy in his 2-war ending decides to stand for the re-election against the energized and much more antagonistic Bush-Cheney duo, despite his increasingly poor health, failing grasp of the foreign affairs and abysmal political performance.
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W. (Video Game) / int_e73f9ae5	type	Accuser of the Brethren
W. (Video Game) / int_e73f9ae5	comment	Accuser of the Brethren: Bush, and by extension the rest of the Republican Party, serve as this to former Klansman Robert Byrd when he becomes the Democratic presidential candidate, rejecting any notion that he had "reformed" and put his days as a Klansman behind him. This continues even if Byrd won the election, with one ending seeing his unwillingness to confront Islamic terrorists being misconstrued by a Republican hitpiece as him still clinging onto the Klan's "Lost Cause" ideals and that Byrd ultimately wants to reform the CSA.
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W. (Video Game) / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
W. (Video Game) / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: If Bush chooses to avoid dealing with a bipartisan bill to supersede his 2001 directive cutting off federal support for human embryonic stem cell research by holding a meeting with Putin, his questions about whether his not vetoing it will doom his soul are met only with confusion by the opportunistic strongman, who seemingly can't comprehend a head of state sincerely clinging to Christian morality.
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W. (Video Game) / int_ea3891de	type	Pop-Cultured Badass
W. (Video Game) / int_ea3891de	comment	Pop-Cultured Badass: President Clark can invoke this image in his low jingoism ending by acknowledging the Harry Potter-themed online liberal activist group that regards the ex-SACEUR as the real life Albus Dumbledore and comparing Vladimir Putin to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named after the Russo-Georgian War.
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W. (Video Game) / int_ebdb0292	type	A Hero to His Hometown
W. (Video Game) / int_ebdb0292	comment	A Hero to His Hometown: This being a mod of the The New Campaign Trail, many presidential candidates are naturally strong in their home states and have a hard time losing them. Robert Byrd is popular in his home state of West Virginia despite his senility and anti-war stance, but has a hard time remaining competitive there even among the Democratic stronghold states. While Gephardt's nomination allows Jesse Ventura's presidential campaign to gain a lot of momentum, his home state of Minnesota is the only state (besides the third-party stronghold of Alaska) he can win for himself. Downplayed with Al Sharpton and his home state of New York. Sharpton polls well in New York despite his past controversies and involvement in the Tawana Brawley case (where a young black woman falsely accused four white men of kidnapping and raping her)... but the state is well within the reach of the Bush campaign and Sharpton usually loses the state whenever Dubya pulls off a landslide.
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W. (Video Game) / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
W. (Video Game) / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Shockingly, war is not portrayed as a good thing throughout the mod, and the wars that Bush starts cause massive amounts of death and carnage in other nations. To say nothing of what going down any of the WW3 paths will result in.
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W. (Video Game) / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
W. (Video Game) / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: There's an underlying sense that the 72-year-old Ted Kennedy is way past his prime, especially when compared to his youthful self in 1972: Peace With Honor. He's in poor health, a lot less mobile than he used to be and way more decrepit-looking than Bush. The only reason why he serves as Dubya's strongest opponent is because of his first term being a complete failure that ends with Bush firing large swathes of his cabinet. If Bush has a successful first term (minus the cabinet firings), Kennedy becomes significantly easier to deal with provided you know how to successfully deal with his campaign's attacks.
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W. (Video Game) / int_fb2ff597	type	Last-Second Ending Choice
W. (Video Game) / int_fb2ff597	comment	Last-Second Ending Choice: Downplayed for Bush and Cheney's WW3 endings. While the player does have to make a very specific set of choices to push China to the brink of nuclear war and empower Cheney to the point that he starts to plan a coup respectively, the endings themselves are determined by Dubya's responses to the very last questions. Picking the options that do not cause World War 3 causes the endings to proceed as normal, without any unique ending slides. Pick the options that do, and well... Averted entirely for Clark's World War 3 ending, which requires the player to continually take hostile stances towards Russia and China before and during the election. Unlike the other two WW3 endings, it is not determined by a unique last question but instead whether or not Bush loses to Clark.
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W. (Video Game) / int_fcd993bd	type	Video Game Cruelty Punishment
W. (Video Game) / int_fcd993bd	comment	Dick Gephardt is an opportunistic schemer that helps start the Iraq War and suppresses dissent to it if his ending is anything to go by, but even he is disgusted if Bush completely defends Hastert, with it being implied he tanks Bush's proposed tax cut because to it.
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W. (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
W. (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: All Bush's personal ending slides are named with exempts from Poppy's remarks to members of the of the senior executive service he made 6 days into the term.
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W. (Video Game) / int_fe5e40e2	type	Gondor Calls for Aid
W. (Video Game) / int_fe5e40e2	comment	Gondor Calls for Aid: Wesley Clark alienating a myriad of factions within the Democratic Party doesn't stop him from still posing a big threat to Bush's reelection, so the latter has to woo one. This can include reconciling with the antiwar youth (not an absurd idea; Clark running against Bush is only possible if he took pains to avoid war at every turn) by going to a rock concert, which leads him to get hugged by one of the teenage girls in attendance. Who, apparently, is Emo. Picture that.
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W. (Video Game) / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
W. (Video Game) / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Whether or not Jesse Ventura is actually "evil" is up to the player, but in a petty act, President Ventura sends the Secret Service to a Washington Post reporter's house with the justification that he had "stolen dishware" from Air Force One and could either return it or expect a bill for tens of thousands of dollars. In truth, Ventura just really didn't like the guy. Unsurprisingly, the reporter is less than amused.
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W. (Video Game) / int_ff20bc04	type	Sucksessor
W. (Video Game) / int_ff20bc04	comment	Sucksessor: Dick Armey, the replacement House Minority Leader if Hastert is forced to resign, is completely loyal to the Bush Administration... and that's about the only good thing that can be said about him. If Bush instructs him to stop the stem cell research bill by holding it below a two-thirds majority, his weak control over the House rank-and-file means his attempt to stop the bill is mostly ineffectual. If Bush gets him to try to halt the Climate Security Act, Armey's attempt to kill the bill is leaked almost immediately, resulting in a bipartisan coalition getting the bill passed much to Bush's horror.
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W. (Video Game) / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
W. (Video Game) / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Despite the mod depicting Bush as a pathetic man who has very few good achievements under his belt, an unambiguously good thing that Dubya did is his launching of United States President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The program saved millions of lives that would've been lost to AIDS and while Bush's visit to Africa might've been initially a media ploy to boost his numbers, Dubya is genuinely awed by how much good PEPFAR has done. He's on the verge of tears when Condi makes him leave. Dick Cheney's support for same-sex marriage and genuine love towards Mary Cheney, his Lesbian daughter, is briefly touched upon despite his status as a Dragon with an Agenda. His letter to his grandchildren just before WW3 breaks out also has him reassure them that he will "minimize the loss of life for our patriotic men and women" while also praying that God will protect his grandchildren and keep them safe. If Gary Hart is the nominee and his proposals for the increased surveillance powers come into debate, Bush (who by this point hasn't launched any war in the Middle East) can insist that such policies, even if they come from good intentions, have been harmful to the Arab-American communities.
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W. (Video Game) / int_ff899947	type	Half-Baked Niceness
W. (Video Game) / int_ff899947	comment	Half-Baked Niceness: In the ending where Bush wins all 538 electoral votes against Robert Byrd, Poppy tersely compliments him on the historic nature (as they keep saying on TV) of his victory before starting a lecture about not letting it go to his head, finally driving it home that Dubya will never be able to make his father truly proud.
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