[color=lime][b][u]Impact on Society[/u][/b][/color] -------------------- Super C here. How do you think Leo the Patriotic Lion did in his first and only term as President of the United States? (He did not win the second term, but he wasn’t bothered by that.) He and his administration helped to set the gold standard of how a society should operate, and with his parallels running their respective nations, they have been changing their governmental structures to match the U.S. structure, although without making any changes to the full system of government. (The United Kingdom, for example, will always have its royal family, and will always be a constitutional monarchy, but its constitution made multiple amendments to follow the example of the U.S., without losing any parts of what makes the U.K. unique.) Even Canada was doing this under Levi the Mountee Lion, even though he had the two embarrassing slip-ups that ruined his political career. If you were to ask Canada’s population, however, according to a CBC report, 9 out of 10 people surveyed (assuming the poll is accurate) still said Levi handled the job better than anybody else ever did. He just let trivial things ruin it for him, and as a result, he spent his probationary period as a circus clown. (G-52 probation, I should say; I freed him from it on the day in October where Canadians celebrate their version of Thanksgiving, but I think I forgot to tell Levi.) As we saw, however, Levi showed signs of repentance, and is changing for the better, and the nation in return apologized to him for mocking him, although some went as far as to say they should have been the ones wearing clown makeup instead of him. Most importantly, Levi has reconciled with Rainier Belrose, the raccoon that saved his life after he was thrown in prison by fake R.C.M.P. officers because of how he handled the photo meltdown. (Levi has also reconciled with Justin Trudeau.) My focus is on Leo, but you can’t really speak about it without mentioning Levi, because both provided clear examples of what and what not to do when running a country. When apologizing to everybody, and learning about how he still did good things for Canada, Levi told his people that Leo was his biggest inspiration; when the Americans passed a new law, most often the Canadians followed suit. This covers everything from specific bylaws on firearms to circus troupes not allowed to use live wild animals for entertainment. Most of the popular circus troupes today are furry troupes, however, so there is no need for those acts. There will be more information revealed when comes time for Leo’s (and Levi’s) annual reviews given to them by the proper authorities, but what we do know for sure is that in spite of any mistakes Leo might have made (and all of them were minor; unlike Levi, he handled it with grace and professionalism), he went through an entire Presidential term without vetoing a single bill. (Part of that might be the fact we live in the age of “humans are out, furries are in,” as well as our 28th Amendment, which did away with all political parties, so that all politicians are punished for their wrongdoings equally. Additionally, once a Congressman or Senator hits 70 years of age or more, the law forces them to retire. No more gerontocracy problems like the ones we had before.) ------------- Leo and Tom now have the status of “lame duck,” the slang term used for a President still in office after the nation elects a new one to start the next term the next year. By no means can you call either one of them a lame duck, however; we saw this by the accomplishments they achieved, and even in the rare times where their superhero roles came into play. Leo’s trusty vehicle, the Patriotmobile, still came into play at times. “It’s a good thing I still remember how to do this,” Tom said when he had to operate the weapons systems found inside the car. (Note that some—if not all—of Leo’s parallels also have special vehicles. Leonidas the Hellenic Lion drives the Greekmobile, for example, while Lennart the Viking Lion has the Vikingmobile. Crush is the only other G-52 that can claim such a distinction, but he just calls his car the Lionmobile.) ------------ When we learned that Leo lost the election to his predecessor (Donald Trump), I made the comments that unlike the 2020 election, where I told my recruits not to vote for Leo because there were concerns about how it might affect his health (since we didn’t want him bellowing again), I did not have problems with them choosing him for the 2024 election. Even I voted for him, as did many of the American G-52s. However, he didn’t beat Trump. “This may be for the better,” I commented when a group of us watched the results from Cripto’s basement. “Leo has said that he wants to see the humans redeem themselves and get on the comeback trail, especially after all the harassment aimed at Levi. The best part? No supernatural influence.” “I bet it’s throwing a tantrum right now,” Doughty Dog replied. “It still wants to see Leo be the Emperor for real.” “It is going to have to cut it out at some point,” I added. -------------- When the news media asked the public why they chose Trump and not Leo, mentioning foreign criticism demanding to know “why the Americans suddenly dumped their trusted Emperor for a convicted felon that glorifies the worst man that ever lived (Adolf Hitler),” the people said that they had a change in attitude and perspective. Originally, they were all for Leo serving the maximum of eight years. As time went on, though, they began to gradually feel that Leo needed a break from the job, since nobody can be in the White House forever. “Leo misses his marching bands and his drum and bugle corps too much,” said one citizen. “At least it seems that way.” “Washington, D.C. is a perfect setting for someone whose name is ‘Leo the Patriotic Lion,’” said another, “but his true home is Wildcat City, and we miss him so. He will still go down as the GOAT (greatest of all time) of Presidents the United States has ever had. Besides, Donald Trump has enough people to keep him in line, and Leo’s parallels still in office will also do that.” “Leo got more done in four years than all other Presidents did in a lifetime,” a third added. “His work here is done.” ----------------- Some of the states Leo won were (notably) states that used to vote predominately left-wing, but were convinced of just how poisonous it can be to the brain. This also includes the District of Columbia; Leo won that by a landslide. Those people didn’t want him to leave just yet. “We hereby acknowledge that Wildcat City is his real home,” said one D.C. human resident, “but he is welcome here anytime he wants to visit.” “It used to be that the GOP was color-coded red and the Democrats blue, but since the 28th Amendment did away with all political parties, sometimes different colors come into play,” another lion resident commented. “We used green to represent Leo because green is the traditional color for the drum major uniforms he wears. I should know; I am in the U.S. Lion Corps Band myself. However, we still used red to represent Donald Trump, and as you can see, the red team wins this time.” (This lion plays the clarinet.) “What’s your fondest memory of Leo being in office?” the press asked. “I would say the day we beat the AIRAF in space when they had that giant mech going for them. Then we landed an asteroid they would have used. That was big. That was where the whole idea of Leo as our Galactic Emperor really took off. Pun not intended.” (The resulting celebrations inspired other countries that did not have a Space Force at the time to create one. Most people got irritated about Trump taking credit for certain things, especially if he had nothing to do with it, but the idea of a Space Force was his idea. All Leo did was boost it to new heights.) ---------------- In short, Leo’s impact on society today is way better than the impacts he was placing on us when CNG was controlling him like a puppet. With him out of the White House, though, maybe the supernatural will get its act together and calm down. Even though IC2 is dead, just as CNG is, there are still forces out there trying to torture the humans into surrendering themselves, and continuing the fad of “humans are out, furries are in.” That’s not what we want. We want to see the humans make a comeback. How do they make a comeback in 2025? Well, for one thing, they should stop showing contempt to the G-52s and their allies. Lakhdar the Maghrebi Lion, Leo’s Algerian parallel, once made the following comment to his people: “Do you want to know why we don’t have supervillain attacks anymore? Because you yourselves are the supervillains!” In other words, the biggest enemy the G-52s and their allies have right now is the very people we are sworn to protect. Apart from the Gibraltar battle, the supervillain organization known as the F5 Terror Force hasn’t even bothered to attack the world, because the world is attacking itself for them. The second thing humanity needs to do is to get themselves to trust themselves again in the many areas we’ve seen furries dominate for many years now, and it’s not just politics. It’s also show biz, the modern music industry, public works jobs, the sports world, you name it. All areas that put certain people in the spotlight all the time, whether they want it or not. (In the U.S., NCAA college marching bands and pep bands are also predominately furry, but that is probably just a coincidence. There are more humans doing this now, however, so that’s helping. Not everybody is fit to play a musical instrument, but the ones who do would tell you it is a much better way to train your brain than those other brain training methods and apps.) Third, humanity needs to prove to us they are worthy of doing these things. --------------- Leo’s Armenian parallel, Levon the Christian Lion, wrote the following words in a guest newspaper column that was published: [quote][color=gold][i]“The only thing that won’t change is the fact the aftereffects of CNG and IC2 will take tens of thousands of years to wear off, assuming the Lord lets the world live that long before He decides it is time to send His Son, Jesus, back to Earth. As a result, we will never truly be free of this supernatural curse placed on the world, which many pastors (including the one of the church Cripto and his family attend) credit to being another consequence of sin entering the world when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit (which wasn’t necessarily an apple). With the era of Leo coming to an end (sort of), I am hoping that the supernatural will calm down, because it has tortured humanity to an extreme for far too long, and it accomplished absolutely nothing in the process.”[/i][/color][/quote] --------------- Levi also wrote the following in his personal journal (just this morning): [quote][color=white][i]“Dear diary: “I got a taste of the real world and what humanity experienced from IC2 torturing it when it decided to go full throttle on me, which is ultimately what killed it. This did not start until after my snap decision to cede Machias Seal Island to the U.S. permanently, which I did as a way to punish those Olympic coaches for using drones to spy on New Zealand. Was our women’s soccer team that desperate for gold? Did they learn nothing from Tonya Harding’s plots to attack Nancy Kerrigan? The answer is the same as the answer to the question, ‘Did I learn anything from the photo meltdown?’ No. “It was appropriate that I got a taste of my own medicine in Zanta’s world, and I can understand why those therapists were angrier with me than the people of Earth. Even the folks of Eterna are not perfect, however. There were two wolf brothers that were chosen to whip me back into shape so that I would not be such a wimp, but the wolves—enough to make Dark Wolf furious because his whole species is stereotyped with the bad qualities instilled on us by pop culture’s portrayals of them—were as heartless as it gets without actually becoming heartless. “The older brother was the ringmaster of the circus I was originally assigned to, while the younger brother actually had the name Drill Sergeant McNasty. He fit the stereotypes and tropes to a T. He screamed at me constantly. He carpet bombed my ears with profanity, which made me feel as if I was listening to Morse Code because Cripto’s powers bleep-censor everything for us. He made me do the Krieglandonian marching bass drum routine for 1,000 miles, all the while shouting more insults at me. He made scrub the floors with a toothbrush. At random intervals, I had to drop and give him 250. Nothing I ever did was ever good enough for him, however, and he made it clear that I had made the mistakes of using that approach in my days as a police officer. All he did was follow his own orders to rub it in, but he took it too far and cranked it up to 11. “I must remember to say thank you to the royal family of Eterna, as well as Cripto, because they intervened when Drill Sergeant McNasty, upon completion of all the things he had me do, ranted about how I was never good enough for him, and he wanted to give me 40 lashes with a whip. That’s not an exaggeration; his twisted mind told him to crucify me. Let’s be grateful that never happened. “In the end, he got what was coming to him, and then some. The same is true for his older brother, because the things he would have had me do as a circus clown were outside the borders of good taste as well. He wanted it to appear as if I was dead, and wanted his audiences to celebrate my death. When it would become apparent that I survived, he’d scream at me in the same manner as Drill Sergeant McNasty, and have me drummed out with the ‘Rogue’s March.’ Of course, this same act would happen every time. “Both wolves are now dead, having broke magical cardinal law (whatever that is), and as a result, I ended up in Circus Delights instead. I thank God for giving me a second chance at life, for helping me see where I blew it and for letting me have a chance to right the wrongs, and for protecting me in the form of me being transferred to Circus Delights. I thank Him for the friendships I made in that circus, all of which will continue since I am now playing trumpet in the brass bands. In fact, many performers from the wolf’s circus, including the acrobats, are now in Circus Delights. It shows that God works in mysterious ways, and He was looking out for everybody. “Soon I will send thank you notes to everybody, including Cripto and the royal family, but most notably, the heroic and courageous Rainier Belrose. He did save my life, after all, when the fake R.C.M.P. officers threw me in prison during the tragic later half of 2019, when Canada as a whole became the biggest clown show on the planet. Now, here we are in 2024, and I still hadn’t shown gratitude for him doing that until now. (I may have unconsciously thought I did, but I hadn’t done so.) Obviously, I have now, and he and I have reconciled. That meant more to me than anything. “Yours truly, Levi the Mountee Lion Written 11/8/2024.”[/i][/color][/quote] ------------ After finishing the entry, Levi went over to a nearby Tim Horton’s for a cup of coffee and some breakfast. ----------- Let’s all make 2025 a better year for all of us, but let’s also have us a happy Thanksgiving, calm Black Friday, and a Merry Christmas to end 2024 on a good note. Thanks; have a good evening. ------- [color=yellow][b]THE END[/b][/color]