Living in a Plutocracy

[TheOlderGuy]

“Most of you probably already know why I’ve asked you here today. I am announcing the formation of an exploratory committee to determine the feasibility of running for President of the United States as the Literotica Party candidate. While this move is, strictly speaking, not synonymous with declaring myself as a candidate, I think that it is clear to all of us that we want to move this forward as quickly as possible, and I’ll be counting on the support of each of you, as well as whatever time and money you can contribute to make this trip to the White House successful.

“We live in dangerous times. We have a monkey in the White House now who believes that distracting us with constant threats of war and terrorist activity will keep us from noticing that he and his cronies are robbing the working class of every dime they’ve earned, and redistributing that wealth to the richest few. We’re going to change all that. We will have the first truly successful grass roots campaign for the office of PODUS.

“I will be announcing our platform in stages, as well as announcing my choices for a vice presidential running mate, and for cabinet positions. I want our plan to be out in the open, for all to see, for the electorate to be able to judge in full, before casting their votes on Election Day. I have not yet settled on a Vice President, although I am leaning towards Lavendar if she will join me. But I will tell you now that I have chosen former Texas Governor Jim Hightower to head the Treasury Department. Jim will bring the kind of fiscal responsibility and integrity to our country that we have been lacking for a long time.

“I want to invite all of you now to give us any questions you might have about the future of this campaign, and to offer whatever help you can be in this endeavor. We will get back to you with answers as quickly as we can. And thank you, one and all, for joining us here today.”

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

Reporter on the first row from CNN:

The list of prepared questions is passed up to you as they're called out for all to hear non-stop before he sits again to await your replies.

"Mr. Candidate, will you see a return to the separation of church and state as meant by our Founding Fathers?
"Will you tax all church income other than that which is derived from the collection plate as it was in the past?
"Will you remove the tax exempt status of all church properties other than the church and pastor/minister/rabbi, etc's residence?
"Will you strike all of the insane and inane and hypocritical sex laws from the books and ask the govenors to do the same in their states as a show of enlightened solidarity?
"Will you support the 2nd Amendment as it was written and not as it's erroneously being 'interperated'?
"Will you remove the corporate welfare from the books and level out the taxes income and other wise so that it's shared evenly; so the burden no longer falls on the middle and lower classes rather than on the wealthy and ulra wealthy?
"Will you stop what's happening with the "Tail Wagging the Dog" as you pointed out is currently occuring?
"Will you stop the economic colonialism that the oil companies use in the Middle East and instead of kowtowing to Big Oil work to find alternative sources of power so oil becomes just a lubricant and no longer a fuel?
"Will you abolish the new secret police and their Constitution violating powers?
"Will you return to our Constitutional form of government and not the abridged form with secret trails, arrest without being formally charged, held without a hearing, denial of habeus corpus, illegal wire taps and search and seizure, etc that is currently in effect under the guise of 'fighting terrorism'?"

 

[TheOlderGuy]

"Well my respected colleague in the front row . . .

You've asked some very astutue, AND complicated questions. But the short answer is --- yes. We will be doing all of that, and more, and we will be trying to do it in a way that brings the least amount of disruption to the lives of everyday working folk, because, make no mistake about it, it will be a painful process, to return this country to the people. But, yes, most emphatically YES, we will. The details, I'm afraid, will have to follow."

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

OOC:

I've PM'ed a link to this thread to all on my PM list and will pass it on to more.
FYI, all the responses I've received thus far are politically favorable and wonder where you plan on taking the thread.

 

[TheOlderGuy]

Re: OOC:

I've PM'ed a link to this thread to all on my PM list and will pass it on to more.
FYI, all the responses I've received thus far are politically favorable and wonder where you plan on taking the thread.

OOC: excellent question from my esteemed friend in the front row. just between you and me (please don't let this get around), i have no fucking idea. but sex and politics are always a good match, and i thought we could hit some hot topics along the way. mostly i want to have fun, and hone our writing skills, and maybe, just maybe (this is really unlikely) we can raise some consciousness at the same time. i'd like to keep it open to all, unless we start attracting some of dubya's trolls

thanks for joining in, and even recruiting

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

OOC:

Be very danged interesting to see how any respond to logic and reason other than in a lock stepping, or should it be goose stepping, party line. *LOL*

All for it. Hope it runs through the elections and if not you need to start it all over again. Hmmm, wonder if a list The Resident's verbal and otherwise faux pas should be assembled, i.e. "This would be so much easier if it was a dictatorship."

 

[TheOlderGuy]

Re: OOC:

Be very danged interesting to see how any respond to logic and reason other than in a lock stepping, or should it be goose stepping, party line. *LOL*

All for it. Hope it runs through the elections and if not you need to start it all over again. Hmmm, wonder if a list The Resident's verbal and otherwise faux pas should be assembled, i.e. "This would be so much easier if it was a dictatorship."

you know, under the Patriot Act you might just find yourself facing a tribunal if you don't get an attitude adjustment

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

OOC: Nah, this is America. The land of freedoms, including Free Speech, right? Yeahhhhhh, riiiiiiight.

Read my signature. *L

 

[TheOlderGuy]

i did

OOC: Nah, this is America. The land of freedoms, including Free Spech, right? Yeahhhhhh, riiiiiiight.

Read my signature. *L

and i almost commented on it when you first showed up here
i love it
sadly ben and company are not here now to save us
and most of us are asleep at the wheel

but we digress -- out of character

 

[Kandi]

yo -- TOG

OOC sounds as if you're
playing here with
a bunch of republicans

you might be outta your league

 

[chanaud]

<sneaking in>

OOC: Missed you, TOG! Tell me - Are you back? <grin>

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

CNN Lead reporter who asked the series of questions:

When the press conference is over I quietly and unobtrusively hand you a note.

"Let me know if you do choose to run. If so and you wish someone to fill the job of Press Secretary please consider me for the post.
"I've had that drunken frat boy to my eyebrows and will leave CNN in a heartbeat to fill the post, as long as there's straight talk between us and if you're ready for the Federal heat your running will bring on all involved. Being unmarried and with no relatives to use as leverage I say 'Screw 'em if they can't take it'.


[OOC: If the story moves forward I'll supply a name and bio.]

 

[TheOlderGuy]

Winton Peoples

The questions were grueling, the audience mostly hostile. He hadn't expected so many sheep in this pasture. The young man from CNN who had seemed to understand his mission came up to him as the throngs were dispursing and handed him a crumpled note. He looked at the note, still folded in his hand, and looked back up at the reporter. He could see clearly in the man's eyes that he no longer enjoyed his work, or believed in the ultra-conservative menu CNN had been selling.

To his credit, he did not look away, even tho Win could usually stare down the best of them. Extending his hand "We'll talk, soon - I think." Win turned and left before the crowd could descend upon him He was in no mood for a one on one feeding frenzy.

In his car driving back to the hotel he carefully opened the note and read it: "Let me know if you do choose to run. If so and you wish someone to fill the job of Press Secretary please consider me for the post.
"I've had that drunken frat boy to my eyebrows and will leave CNN in a heartbeat to fill the post, as long as there's straight talk between us and if you're ready for the Federal heat your running will bring on all involved. Being unmarried and with no relatives to use as leverage I say 'Screw 'em if they can't take it'.

"Hmmmmm," Win thought to himself, "I could sure use a man with a mouth who isn't afraid to use it. They seem few and far between. Note to self: 'Call that boy later' "

Once in the hotel, he laid down to rest his tired back, and passed out narcoleptically for about half an hour. Waking with a start he pulled the note from his pocket, and called the number.

"Hello?"

"Win Peoples here. You got time to talk?"

"Yes, sir. Yes, I do."

"Listen, son. That's the right answer for now. But are you going to be one of those guys that tries to 'Yes' me to death?"

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

Ripley Taylor:

"Well, I'd suggest you not hold your breath if that's what you'd expect. I don't think blue is a good complexion color for a potential Presidential Candidate," chuckling.

"I was just raised to be polite is all and as yet we haven't reached a first name basis."

 

[TheOlderGuy]

"Well, you can call me Win. And I sure as hell hope that you help me win as well. I'm not in this for the exercise. You got time for a drink, Taylor? We could meet in a dark corner of the bar here at the West Wing Hotel."

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

Ripley Taylor:

"See you there in twenty minutes Win. I'll be the one wearing sunglasses with the fedora pulled down low in the dark back corner facing the door," I chuckle.

Fifteen minutes later I walk in and spot you where I said I'd be sitting. Reaching the table, "Hey, you've taken my seat Win," with a chuckle as I pull out a chair next to you so my back's to the wall.

 

[Annabelllee2003]

Lane McDonald

Her duty is unspecified. She's to "watch for an opening and use your wits and what-have-you to move toward a satisfactory outcome." Those were the exact words of her assignment. She’s on her own. If she gets into trouble, well, she’s on her own.

Watching the Candidate move to a dark table at the back of the lounge, she is startled when the CNN reporter, Rip Taylor, joins him. Hmm. She’d seen the interview of course, she never would have imagined the two were friends. The biased reporting of CNN makes her teeth ache so she naturally hasn’t much respect for Taylor but still, their meeting seems strange at best, and suspect at worse.

Taking her drink, she meanders across the bar, unobtrusively watching them, finally sliding into a booth with an unobstructed view. Her mind working and scheming as she watches. The contrast in the two men is striking although complimentary. If she weren’t here to do a job, she could find herself attracted to either. She shrugs it off, no matter; attraction wasn’t wanted or needed for her to …move toward a satisfactory outcome.
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OCC - hope you don't mind me jumping in here... It was too much a challenge for me to refuse.

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

OOC: And the 'thick plottens' as a mysterious femme fatale arrives on the scene. *BG

 

[TheOlderGuy]

Re: Lane McDonald

OCC - hope you don't mind me jumping in here... It was too much a challenge for me to refuse.

OOC: mind? not at all. thanks for the help
i'll be back as soon as i can

 

[TheOlderGuy]

Winton Peoples

I was ready for a drink. The buzz of the press conference still echoed in my head, and so I headed off to the hotel bar post haste. As I walked in the The Watering Trough a lady catches my eye - can't even tell you why. I'd seen her here before, but there was nothing remarkable about her. She was neither ugly nor gorgeous, but she was unforgetable, maybe because unlike most of the women (and men for that matter) in this town, she looked me straight in the eye, unafraid and uninhibited.

I proceeded to the far corner, and settled in the best seat I could find to take in the action. Rip arrived shortly thereafter, and I could see that the dame took notice of him as well. This kid had chutzpah, and he made me laugh, but I really had to be careful at this point, at every point from here on out. Indulging my impulses wouldn't work, not with him, not with the dame. I had to be damn sure who my friends were, and who was out to break my knees.

"Hey, you've taken my seat Win," the kid said with a sly grin.

"Yeah, I'm gonna need you to taste my drinks, too, kid. How the hell did you end up at CNN, if I might cut right to the chase?"

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

Ripley Taylor:

"I graduated from Columbia cum laude with a dual major in journalism and broadcast media.
"I got a job at a local TV station as an investigative reporter and uncovered a local corruption-kickback scam and it caught the eye of someone at CNN.
"They made me an offer and I took it.
"I've travelled a lot on their wallet, was in Bagdad during Desert Storm and other places.
"However, now it seems we can't report the news any longer in any objective way. We've got to follow guidelines laid down by the government or risk investigations, perhaps loss of credentials, etc and I'm not going to be just another of their talking heads spouting the clap trap they pass off as news and facts."

"Now how about you Win. Why choose to run against the Power Brokers?"

 

[TheOlderGuy]

Win

"Me. Sheeeeeeet, I've got nothing to lose. I've watched the bullshit so long, it makes my skin crawl. And while I can usually find more about the Democrats to agree with, when you get right down to it, they're all working the same corporate corner. They are no better than the whores, not that there's anything wrong with that, as Jerry used to say, but I expect more from our public servants, and it ain't gonna happen as long as the two-party system prevails."

I was scanning the room as I spoke, and I couldn;t help but notice that the lady across the room was getting me hard just with her furitve stares. "Who's the dame?" I poked at Taylor for some useful info. "And WHAT in the world do you think you have to offer me?"

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

Ripley Taylor:

"The only thing that will save our Constitutional form of government is a third party that isn't in anybody's pocket at all and leaders willing to be honest enough to take any heat that comes around and tell the Corp Fat Cats to screw off that this is the People's Government.
"I have no one they can lean on other than me and fuck 'em if they try.
"I don't have any skeletons in my closet they can uncover and if I did fuck 'em anyway.
"If this country doesn't wake up soon we'll all be cogs in the Big Business/Military-Industrial Complex machine and it'll own the government lock, stock and barrel.
"I've had it up to my eyebrows."

Glancing over at her, "I don't know Win but she is striking isn't she?"

 

[spicydish]

Madaline Snow

Character: Madaline Snow is a 28 year old female with a Masters Degree in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University. Unable to find work in her field as of yet, she has taken a job as the bartender for the hotel.

IC: I noticed Win Peoples as he walked into the bar. I had just turned off the television that hangs in the corner after his press conference. Thinking to myself, this is a man I must meet, I start to walk out of behind the bar, when Rip Taylor from CNN walks in the door and sits at Win's table. Wondering what is going on and why these two are together, I pick up my tray and start to walk across the room.

Once again the door opens, and a mysterious lady walks in. She looks somewhat familiar, but I can't place where I have seen her before. I motion that I will be with her in a moment as she takes a seat.

Turning back around, I stop in front of Win and Rip's table.
Smiling my best smile, I ask "What can I get you gentlemen?"


OOC: After getting your pm pp, I knew I just had to join in. Makes me long for those college days and those debates in Government class, lol.

 

[PhoenixPrime01]

Ripley Taylor:

"Well other than an Old Forrester and Ginger Ale what time you get off would be nice good looking," I say with a big grin.

OOC: Very glad you did *G*. Hmmm, sociologist huh? A good addition to a campaign.