As the episode started with an extended intro, it begins as Bender jumps off the Planet Express Ship after seeing an ad for free beer.
As Earth's election time nears, President Richard Nixon's Head builds his reelection campaign platform on the promise to order the construction of a "Dyson fence" around the southern part of the Solar System, which will keep out illegal extraterrestrial aliens.
Although most of them simply cater to the crowd, she finds one, Senator Chris Travers, who appears honest and with strong ideals counter to Nixon, most of which are ridiculed by the audience.
Nixon then eliminates the remaining working class by turning them into canned "Soylent Majority" and assigns their tasks to the robots.
Leela realizes that this is a compelling story and arranges for Travers' birth to be broadcast live to the world to prove definitively that he was born on Earth.
However, while giving his victory speech, he begins to glitch away; Bender points out that because Nixon lost the election, the robot uprising will never happen, thus preventing Travers from being given a reason to be sent back in time in the first place.