i was right, though

everything is the same plot wise except bartlet was elected in 2020

“president bartlet and his staff answer questions with puppies” buzzfeed videos

ginger set up a public west wing spotify playlist and toby immediately added the jackal 17 times in a row, one old town road, and then another 5 jackals. toby is no longer welcomed on the playlist.

josh almost gets fired after he hosts a DISASTEROUS ask me anything on reddit in which he manages to deeply offend two monarchs, the entire state of ohio, and women drivers 

sam stan twitter accounts are so popular that they’re getting on secret service’s radar, so now stans have to put weird disclaimers in their bios like “i have no physical intentions toward any member of the us government” or else they get put on a watchlist 

for some reason, unbeknownst to all laws of common decency, josh has access to the white house instagram and accidentally goes live while sitting in on a meeting with potus and the joint chiefs

donna is personally responsible for pronouns being added to all official white house/potus communication, she has cute little buttons and everything 

instead of lemon lyman, smutty josh lyman/self-insert fics become really popular on wattpad. several have been published as YA novels with minor name changes, and one even getting a feature length movie deal. josh is equally flattered and horrified by this. cj has the movie poster hanging in her office.

while campaigning in LA, bartlet refuses to go on James Cordan’s show for reasons and it turns into a whole Thing so after he’s elected they decide to send toby who somehow ends up in the backseat of a country singers’ carpool karaoke in the name of bipartisanship 

donna is obsessed with making dancing tiktoks with sam and they get so popular that someone (read: cj) insists on getting the first lady involved 

as a way of enacting violence, whenever danny is pissed at cj, he makes sure to crop the twitter picture of her press conference to cut off her head like so

Ways to approach the poll if the character isn’t a royal:

THE WEST WING (1999-2006) 2x22: TWO CATHEDRALS