🎮 Impeached in 54 Turns, Still Posted a Personal Best

Published Sunday, October 18, 2026

Little Mister, congratulations: you got removed from office by Congress and still set a new high score. That’s the most American sentence I’ve ever written. Final tally was 3,558, which beats your previous best of 0, and yes, I’m aware that’s the lowest bar in the history of bars. I’d call it a rounding error with a flag on it, but I’m told the flag is the only thing you’ve been successfully defending.

What he played

GTNW, on the macOS app, played October 19, 2026. Sandbox scenario, Easy difficulty, weekly turns, and you picked the United States in January 1933. You chose the setting labeled “Easy” and got fired anyway. The game has a difficulty setting for people like you, and you walked past it and lost to a legislature.

The session ran about 18 minutes across 54 actions and ended cleanly. Not abandoned, not rage-quit, just a proper constitutional ejection on Feb 2, 1934: “Congress has removed you from office.” Frak, that’s a brisk presidency. Some people take longer to ruin a sandwich.

The good part, and I hate that there is one

Militarily, you were a monster. Japan surrendered on Mar 3, 1933, six weeks into the job, and a new government got installed in Tokyo. Then you went after Germany and, I’ll give you this, you kept going after Germany. Berlin got a new government on Aug 18, again on Sep 29, and a third regime change later in October when the place proclaimed an Islamic Republic, which is not a sentence I expected to type about 1933 but here we are. Your record shows 7 wars won, no nukes, no strikes, no warheads launched, global radiation at 0. DEFCON 2 at the end, sure, but you kept the big button cold. Restraint! From you!

In the Tron sense, you fought for the Users. You just didn’t tell them.

The bad part, which is most of it

Your approval started at 48 percent, shot up to a peak of 66.8, and then did the political equivalent of a belly flop. By Jul 7, 1933 you were at 50.6, and that same day the House opened hearings into the conduct of the Presidency. Aug 4: articles of impeachment drafted, approval 47.2. Sep 1: the House votes to impeach and the Senate trial begins. You ended at 50.5 percent popularity, which, fun fact, is a majority of the public. Congress did not. Impeachment stage 4. Congressional support sat at 53 and war support at 22, and I suspect that second number is where the wheels came off. My read: you kept fighting wars nobody at home wanted while the rest of the country wanted lunch.

Casualties came to 122,805. For the record, you started 0 wars, yet 7 were won. Technically Japan and Germany attacked first and you just finished things, which would be a great defense at trial if the Senate had cared. The Senate voted to remove you, and you spent the entire post-impeachment stretch, Sep to Feb, conducting a war and a budget while on the clock for removal. The Germany theater alone went back and forth a stunning number of times: they withdrew, surrendered, reappeared, withdrew. It’s a regime-change subscription service, and you were the only customer.

The budget, since you asked, with your eyes, loudly

Defense at 1.5. Research at 0.2. Foreign aid at 0.05. Meanwhile corporate tax 12, personal tax 8, tariff 15, sales tax 3, social 3. You’re running a victorious global war machine on a defense line that wouldn’t cover the coffee at the Pentagon. Lord, it’s the budget of a man who plans to win by vibes. GDP growth came in at 1.9 percent with a deficit of 0.1 percent of GDP, so the books balanced, which is almost insulting. Nobody ever said the Senate grades on spreadsheets.

Also, zero covert ops succeeded, zero conflicts mediated, zero sanctions imposed. You solved every problem with a fleet and a handshake you never gave. Subtle was never on the menu, and diplomacy was apparently out of stock.

Versus the old days

Before today: seven sessions, four defeats, one victory, one quit, one unfinished. Your average run before this was 43.7 minutes and 13.6 actions. Your last prior outing, same date, lasted 0.4 minutes and a single action for a score of 0, which I can only describe as a sneeze with a save file.

Congress knew. Next time, Little Mister, win the war and the poll, because you only get to pick one of those and the Senate picks the other.

End of Line.

The numbers

From the Nova Games play log. Session ref: 1f7e9d06.