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In a startling, last-minute revelation on the eve before this presidential election, alleged time traveler Weatherford Indigo Norvault announced that President Barack Obama would win the election. While his statements were controversial in nature, the final election results have shown that his prediction is 100% accurate, or that he is a good guesser. Anyone would have had a 50% chance of getting it right. However, Weatherford stated his account of the past (his past, and at the time, our future) with conviction. “President Obama’s re-election,” said Weatherford, “usher’s the country into a new, golden era and begins the healing process between the rich and the poor.”
Initial story: /u-s-politics/2012/11/are-time-travelers-claims-of-obama-win-tomorrow-true-2445002.html
Just who is this man, Weatherford Indigo Norvault?
Weatherford claims to have been a laboratory assistant to Nicholas Tesla (the man who invented the AC/DC power infrastructure that our modern electrical power grid still utilizes today). “Tesla invented so many things, and he wasn’t greedy like his funder J.P. Morgan. Tesla literally gave his patents to Morgan, trusting that the man would take care of him.” However, when J.P. Morgan “discovered Tesla’s intention of providing free, wireless electricity to everyone on the globe, that bastard [Morgan] pulled the plug on Tesla and sent him into poverty and obscurity.” It is a fact that the FBI confiscated Tesla’s research upon his death, and to this day, much of his work is still top secret. But why would Tesla’s research remain a government secret?
“Time travel,” answers Weatherford. “When the agents broke into Tesla’s Colorado laboratory during one his short jaunts away from work, I hid in a device that turned out to be a time machine. There was a lightning storm during the fire and arcs of electricity fanned everywhere. I shut the enclosure and accidentally triggered the device. When I woke up, I found myself in the care of people who somehow knew I was going to be there. I was in the same place, just in a future [undisclosed] future date.” These people got Weatherford back into tip-top shape, repaired the time machine and assisted him in exploring different eras. Weatherford enjoyed himself, perhaps a little too much, during the Renaissance era, where he claims to have fathered many children in different areas around the globe and time periods over the course of several hundred years. He was somewhat shocked when he realized that he might have become one of his own ancestors. However, he refused further details save that he made several bad decisions in Italy in the 1400s.
The alleged time traveler said he decided to come forth with this important news a day before the election to assure folks that America would re-elect a president who would be responsible for bringing the country into a new age of prosperity, a golden age where dreams would once again begin to come true for those less fortunate than the wealthy elites who had ruled the nation for so long. “The Capitol was ruled with capital,” said Weatherford. “The Rockefellers and Morgans of the early 1900s might have passed away, but their heirs and their new cohorts are still in power.” Weatherford stated so much disdain for the J.P. Morgans of our era that most of it could not be included in this article. “They just don’t give a hoot about the average person,” said Weatherford. “Unions are people. Corporations are not people. Corporations are businesses. Businesses employ people, are run by people, but they are emphatically not people. I had to come forward and assure the good masses that President Obama would win, and that his next term would change the country for good and forever.”
There you have it, again. The day before the election, Weatherford Indigo Norvault came out of obscurity to inform us of the election results. And, as predicted, he was 100% correct. Whether or not you believe him is up to you. However, the proof is in the proverbial pudding, and Weatherford’s assessment has proven true.
One last quote from our time traveler: “We’re Americans, no matter our era. I care about this country, in all of its time periods. This is a crucial time, more than any other. We have to set our differences and hatreds aside and embrace the destiny ahead of us. It will not be easy, but it will be worthwhile. I have seen where this will take us. And this is why I’ve chosen to remain in this time period. I want to be a part of the challenges, opportunities and successes to come. We have to be united as a nation to pull it off, and I will work in the background to help move the wheels forward. It is my destiny. It is our collective destiny.”
Believe it or not, this man claims to have knowledge of the future and has been 100% accurate. If what he claims is true, then the United States is due for prosperity once again, under the guidance and leadership of President Barack Obama. Whether or not we agree with the president’s leadership, Weatherford stresses that we are all Americans trying to make our country better –just with different strategies. If we cast our differences aside, then the nation can accomplish what seems to be impossible.
Originally posted by Ex_CT2
Well, yeah, I have thoughts on this. A single correct prediction is indeed a 100% prediction rate. But that hardly constitutes proof that the guy is a time-traveler.
I, for one, would like to hear a few more difficult predictions. Precise predictions, too--not just some vague jabber about prosperity and so forth.
Sounds like a lucky guess to me. And not even much luck was required....
Edit: if the American government has had time travel since 1943 (Tesla's Death), I would think they may have gone through time to change some things that have happened since then. Or even before then.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
I don't consider this story credible.
It seems so incredibly unlikely and contrived.
Of course I cannot prove such readily, but I am happy to trust my gut on this one.
So i assume its a complete work of fiction.
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by randomtangentsrme
Edit: if the American government has had time travel since 1943 (Tesla's Death), I would think they may have gone through time to change some things that have happened since then. Or even before then.
Thats the thing about time travel. In order for it to work we must assume that every time something is changed then all the changes that follow have to snap into place all through time from then on. And if that was the case, then reality as we know it would be changing all the time. Snap itty-snap. The only way to cancel that out is to cancel the awareness that any change suddenly occurred right before your eyes, and that is imposssible.
Particularly since I have been bored out of my mind for some time now.
If person A goes back in time to before person B was born, person B only experiences the altered timeline.
If person A goes back in time to after person B was born, person A returns to person B's alternate universe where the changes have always been.