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* CelebrityCasualty:
** [[spoiler:Al Franken]] is assassinated in Sarajevo.
** [[spoiler:Dick Cheney]] suffers a fatal heart attack after an ugly argument with Newt Gingrich.



** [[spoiler:Rudy Perpich and Al Franken]] are assassinated in Sarajevo.
** [[spoiler:Dick Cheney]] suffers a fatal heart attack after an ugly argument with Newt Gingrich.

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** [[spoiler:Rudy Perpich and Al Franken]] are Perpich]] is assassinated in Sarajevo.
** [[spoiler:Dick Cheney]] suffers a fatal heart attack after an ugly argument with Newt Gingrich.
Sarajevo.



** Also inverted with Creator/PhilHartman, who lives to at least 2002 rather than being murdered by his wife in 1998.



** Seeing the United States stronger, Sadaam Hussein does not invade Kuwait but rather a disastrous war with Iran. This leaves him barely clinging to power and a PaperTiger until he dies of cancer in the 2000s.

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** Seeing the United States stronger, Sadaam Saddam Hussein does not invade Kuwait but rather wages a disastrous war with Iran. This leaves him barely clinging to power and a PaperTiger until he dies of cancer in the 2000s.
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added Jim Wright resigning from an ethics scandal occuring in this timeline as it did in real life

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** Speaker of the House Jim Wright is still implicated in an ethics scandal resulting in his resignation.

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* FictionalizedDeathAccount:
** [[spoiler:Rudy Perpich and Al Franken]] are assassinated in Sarajevo.
** [[spoiler:Dick Cheney]] suffers a fatal heart attack after an ugly argument with Newt Gingrich.
** Inverted with Lee Atwater, whose brain tumor is discovered before it becomes inoperable, and who therefore survives.



* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: George W. Bush, [[spoiler: Secretary of Energy to the Richard Thornburgh administration]]

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* RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: George W. Bush, [[spoiler: Secretary of Energy to the Richard Thornburgh administration]]administration]].
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thought of another trope related to the Cheney-Gingrich exchange in this timeline

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Hearing Creator/NewtGingrich talking only about trying to make hay of William Gray - an African-American - [[spoiler:being Acting President via President Biden suffering a brain aneurysm and the Vice-Presidency vacant due to Gingrich having earlier convinced the Republicans to slow walk the nomination of Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell to the Vice-Presidency after Rudy Perpich was assassinated]] proves too much for even House Minority Whip UsefulNotes/DickCheney to stomach, and he blasts Gingrich for this stunt.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: In the section following [[spoiler:President Biden suffering a brain aneurysm]]; House Minority Whip UsefulNotes/DickCheney; following a heated conversation with UsefulNotes/NewtGingrich in which Cheney angrily blasts Gingrich for talking him into stalling the hearings on the nomination of Claiborne Pell to the Vice-Presidency after Vice-President Rudy Perpich and his party were [[spoiler:assassinated]], attempts to light one up when he suffers a fatal heart attack.

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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: In the section following [[spoiler:President Biden suffering a brain aneurysm]]; House Minority Whip UsefulNotes/DickCheney; following a heated conversation with UsefulNotes/NewtGingrich Creator/NewtGingrich in which Cheney angrily blasts Gingrich for talking him into stalling the hearings on the nomination of Claiborne Pell to the Vice-Presidency after Vice-President Rudy Perpich and his party were [[spoiler:assassinated]], attempts to light one up when he suffers a fatal heart attack.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: In the section following [[spoiler:President Biden suffering a brain aneurysm]]; House Minority Whip UsefulNotes/DickCheney; following a heated conversation with UsefulNotes/NewtGingrich in which Cheney angrily blasts Gingrich for talking him into stalling the hearings on the nomination of Claiborne Pell to the Vice-Presidency after Vice-President Rudy Perpich and his party were [[spoiler:assassinated]], attempts to light one up when he suffers a fatal heart attack.

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