Edit: LMAO I MISGENDERED MYSELF WTF XD
Can we get back to politics? Please?
Yo, every action has it's equal-opposite reaction–
Yes, I had to make the reference. There's an election going on. It wouldn't feel right if I didn't.
Also holy crap, I finished early! Wow! That's really somethin'. Dunno how I did that lol
Chapter warnings: colonizer mindset, implied homophobia, references to the war in the Middle East, references to the Yemen crisis, mention of Nazi control over Germany, mention of USSR's era, mention of death threats, mention of slavery
It was November fourth, and California was curled up on the couch, jotting down ideas for a play he was trying to make. As he did, he sang under his breath. "Woah~! Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for. Woah~! Been searching through the dark, your sweat soaking through the floor. Woah~! And buried in your bones, there's an ache that you can't ignore, taking your breath, stealing your mind, and all that was real is left behind. Don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya. It's only this moment, don't care what comes after. Your fever dream, can't you see it getting closer?"
As he worked, his siblings milled about, talking to each other. "Oh, it's a good day to be blue," Michigan sighed contentedly.
"Blue? Lucky! I'm red everywhere but in my major counties!" Ohio complained.
"At least you get counties that turned blue!" Oklahoma pouted. "All my counties turned red! Ain't a single bit of blue on my voting map!"
"At least you guys don't have to think about whether or not your citizens are going to remove slavery as a punishment for crime," Utah grumbled.
The Utah Constitutional Amendment C, the Remove Slavery as Punishment for a Crime from Constitution Amendment, was on the ballot in Utah as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020. If people voted yes, they supported removing language from the Utah Constitution that allowed the use of slavery and involuntary servitude as criminal punishment, but if the people voted no, then the language would be kept, putting people at risk of being enslaved. In the present time. At the time, over 170,000 people voted no, but the majority of voters (I forgot to get the number) voted yes, thankfully.
Utah crossed his arms. "I swear, if the majority somehow goes to 'no,' I will personally see to it that it rains hellfire upon everyone who voted 'no.'"
"Well, at least your state didn't just ban abortion yesterday!" Louisiana shot back.
"Your guys' areas get to participate in the 2020 election?" the territories asked simultaneously.
"All your people can potentially participate without it being considered international interference?" NATO asked.
"You guys have an area of people to call yours?" NASA and SpaceX.
In the living room, Washington DC sighed and tossed her phone onto the couch cushion beside her. "That freaking clip keeps popping up," she groaned in annoyance.
In the background, California was still working and singing to himself. "Almost all your taxes go to military installations on foreign bases– eight hundred of them, but no other country has a military base in America 'cause it's a fear tactic. It's a fear tactic! We are a fascist police state! Fascist police state!"
"Which one?" Delaware inquired.
"The one with Trump saying he wants all voting to stop because he doesn't want the democrats finding ballots that support Biden."
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