#blotus

After the Pius Dea Crusades, the Republic stagnated, forced to rebuild alliances Pius Dea had damaged. However, during the Rianitus Period, the Republic began to enjoy prosperity again under a new Supreme Chancellor, Blotus the Hutt.

Blotus had been the administrator of a network of mining worlds that split from the remnants of the former Hutt Empire. He and his worlds applied for Republic membership, and although tensions between Hutts and the Republic remained, Blotus proved both competent and popular in the Galactic Senate. He was eventually elected Supreme Chancellor by an overwhelming majority, and his position was solidified when his tax breaks for independent traders brought Coruscant into an economic boom and improved trade throughout the Core Worlds.

Blotus served a 275-year term and died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 912. His rule would be remembered with affection for centuries; even today, his favorite chair in the Senate tower's lounge is traditionally left empty.

If Kim Jong-un dies, and if Kim Yo-jong takes over, and none of the generals try to oppose her, then the best case scenario will be status quo; the forced labor camps will stay open, people and their families will be unpersoned for thought crimes as part of the Orwellian surveillance state, the nuclear arsenal won’t be dismantled, etc.  The only difference would be that Donald Trump would almost certainly want to fuck her.  She’d be one of the most powerful women on the planet, and he thinks he deserves some tail after the last four years he’s been through; I don’t think he would come right out and proposition her directly, but I know for a fact that he would try to do something horrible in the face of the Me Too Movement, like “at our next summit, why don’t you and I have a private dinner at my hotel room?  Have some wine, listen to some music, just talk, maybe see whatever happens, you know?  It sure is hot in here, I’m gonna take off my suit jacket, unbutton my shirt, get nice and comfy.  You can get comfy too, if you want.”

This is getting pretty close to the slippery slope fallacy or a straw man argument, getting mad at a hypothetical, but every assumption is grounded in reality.  Everything I predict he will do is based on that which he has already done and reacted under similar circumstances.  This is the guy who says exercise is bad for you, suggested injecting people with soap to kill the virus, complained that a journalist he hates should return their Noble Prize when he meant to say Nobel Prize when he actually meant to say Pulitzer Prize, bragged that the thing he and his daughter have most in common is sex, and made a joke about fucking supermodels in the same breath as talking about deaths from coronavirus.  We know exactly who this man is.  We know how he acts.  We know what he wants and what he’s willing to do to get it.