ITTL, how would someone get from Auburn to Seattle by using public transit? Soundrail or bus?
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The CSA may have some cities with some kind of rail transport, though it def won’t be as robust as anything OTL without all them sweet federal dollars
Soundrail is definitely the move. Think the Sounder, but S-Bahn quality/frequency
How many Soundrail lines are there? Also, are Everett-bound trains still susceptible to cancellations due to landslides?
We’ll cover that here soon and the answer is no… because they’re using a different route between Everett and Seattle 😎
I think Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston might have a limited system.
But that's not CSA. I *think* the Author has had 202X event with Texas independent.
Inés Arrimadas
Inés Arrimadas (born 3 July 1981) is a Spanish lawyer and politician who is currently serving as the Prime Minister of Spain, after her appointment to that position by King Ferdinand VIII of Spain on July 2, 2023. A member of the National Liberal Party (PLN), Arrimadas served as the party's leader in the Commonwealth of Catalonia from 2014 until 2015, when she was elected to the Cortes Generales, and was the Foreign Minister in the government of Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon until his resignation on May 28, 2023, after which she was elected Prime Minister by a vote of the parliamentary group on June 30 and invested by the King two days later.
Born in Asturias, Arrimadas worked professionally after university in Barcelona, and as such is the first National Liberal Prime Minister since Juan Prim to be associated with Catalonia either by birth or residency and the first National Liberal Prime Minister to speak Catalan with any degree of fluency. A member of Liberal Youth, she was first elected to the regional assembly, the Parliament of Catalonia, in the 2011 regional elections after failing to qualify in 2007, and following the resignation of Alicia Sanchez-Camacho in November of 2014, she was elected at the age of only 33 to be the head of the PLN's Catalonian branch. In a province traditionally hostile to the party, Arrimadas led a moribund party organization from the fourth-largest party to the second-largest party in the May 2015 regional elections to become the official opposition to the ruling PSOE-led coalition that had been in charge since 2003. Springboarding off of these efforts, Arrimadas led the PLN to be the largest party in Catalonia at the federal elections of October 2015 by one seat ahead of the PSOE in the left's heartland, and she was elected to the Cortes Generales on the same ballot, rapidly emerging as a rising star within the party organization. In opposition, she held the critic portfolios of Labor, Women's Issues, and finally Foreign Affairs. In the 2018 party leadership elections she declined to run; she was regarded as a favorite of many party members, but was disliked by the more conservative MPs and regional caciques whose support was required to go to a membership vote. She supported Inigo de la Serna in the initial race but endorsed Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon, the former Mayor of the City of Madrid and President of the Madrid Region, ahead of the member vote after de la Serna was eliminated.
The PLN won the 2020 federal elections after fifteen years in opposition, defeating the PSOE-led coalition government of Beatriz Corredor. Arrimadas was made Foreign Minister by Prime Minister Ruiz-Gallardon. As Foreign Minister, Arrimadas returned to an Amerophile posture in contrast to the Europhile policy of Josep Borrell and Corredor. The priorities of the Spanish government were re-enforcing ties to the Spanish Caribbean and reinvigorating the broader Hispanidad; Arrimadas also made it a priority to enhance Spanish relations with the United States, which shortly before the successful formation of the Ruiz-Gallardon government elected its first-ever President of Hispanic descent, Brian Sandoval. In her capacity, in addition to spearheading negotiations on trade agreements between the United States and Spain as well as the broader Hispanidad, Arrimadas made a record number of foreign trips during her first year in the job but scrutiny was applied as part of the broader government expenses scandals of 2022 that badly hurt the Ruiz-Gallardon cabinet and saw multiple resignations. Arrimadas' lack of input on domestic policy, however, preserved her personal popularity both with the party membership and the general public as the Ruiz-Gallardon's austerity policies and shift right on social matters damaged it, and the potential of her to be appointed Prime Minister arose in the January 2023 government crisis following the resignation of Finance Minister Luis Garicano and several other Cabinet members and junior ministers; her decision not to resign was seen as preventing the collapse of the government.
Following the May 28, 2023 regional and local elections in which the PLN had the worst performance by an incumbent party since the introduction of the fixed regional and local elections in 1975 - in which the PLN lost six regional governments and retained only two and lost strongholds including the Madrid Region Assembly which they had held since 1995, the Madrid City Council, which they had held since 1983, and the Region of Valencia, which they had held since 1991 - Ruiz-Gallardon announced shortly after results began trickling in that he would resign as Prime Minister and leader of the PLN effective immediately. Several major PLN figures declined to run and endorsed Arrimadas on the 30th, leading to speculation that Arrimadas had planned for this eventuality and secured support since January, including that of Garicano, who was the first to announce his support. Arrimadas defeated Juan Marin, Francisco Igea and Albert Rivera in the MPs vote with 60.2%, thus securing the three-fifths majority needed under party rules to avoid a vote of the membership. She appointed Garicano Foreign Minister upon her investiture by King Ferdinand on July 2 as her replacement but otherwise retained the Ruiz-Gallardon Cabinet; on November 1, 2023, she dramatically reshuffled her Cabinet and reduced the number of portfolios from twenty to fourteen, the smallest Cabinet since 1925. Since coming to power, Arrimadas has reversed several austerity measures of the Ruiz-Gallardon government, and during the October 2023 Bolivian-Argentine border crisis, her government along with that of Cuba and the United States attempted to act as mediators, favoring the Argentine position.
Born in Asturias, Arrimadas worked professionally after university in Barcelona, and as such is the first National Liberal Prime Minister since Juan Prim to be associated with Catalonia either by birth or residency and the first National Liberal Prime Minister to speak Catalan with any degree of fluency. A member of Liberal Youth, she was first elected to the regional assembly, the Parliament of Catalonia, in the 2011 regional elections after failing to qualify in 2007, and following the resignation of Alicia Sanchez-Camacho in November of 2014, she was elected at the age of only 33 to be the head of the PLN's Catalonian branch. In a province traditionally hostile to the party, Arrimadas led a moribund party organization from the fourth-largest party to the second-largest party in the May 2015 regional elections to become the official opposition to the ruling PSOE-led coalition that had been in charge since 2003. Springboarding off of these efforts, Arrimadas led the PLN to be the largest party in Catalonia at the federal elections of October 2015 by one seat ahead of the PSOE in the left's heartland, and she was elected to the Cortes Generales on the same ballot, rapidly emerging as a rising star within the party organization. In opposition, she held the critic portfolios of Labor, Women's Issues, and finally Foreign Affairs. In the 2018 party leadership elections she declined to run; she was regarded as a favorite of many party members, but was disliked by the more conservative MPs and regional caciques whose support was required to go to a membership vote. She supported Inigo de la Serna in the initial race but endorsed Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon, the former Mayor of the City of Madrid and President of the Madrid Region, ahead of the member vote after de la Serna was eliminated.
The PLN won the 2020 federal elections after fifteen years in opposition, defeating the PSOE-led coalition government of Beatriz Corredor. Arrimadas was made Foreign Minister by Prime Minister Ruiz-Gallardon. As Foreign Minister, Arrimadas returned to an Amerophile posture in contrast to the Europhile policy of Josep Borrell and Corredor. The priorities of the Spanish government were re-enforcing ties to the Spanish Caribbean and reinvigorating the broader Hispanidad; Arrimadas also made it a priority to enhance Spanish relations with the United States, which shortly before the successful formation of the Ruiz-Gallardon government elected its first-ever President of Hispanic descent, Brian Sandoval. In her capacity, in addition to spearheading negotiations on trade agreements between the United States and Spain as well as the broader Hispanidad, Arrimadas made a record number of foreign trips during her first year in the job but scrutiny was applied as part of the broader government expenses scandals of 2022 that badly hurt the Ruiz-Gallardon cabinet and saw multiple resignations. Arrimadas' lack of input on domestic policy, however, preserved her personal popularity both with the party membership and the general public as the Ruiz-Gallardon's austerity policies and shift right on social matters damaged it, and the potential of her to be appointed Prime Minister arose in the January 2023 government crisis following the resignation of Finance Minister Luis Garicano and several other Cabinet members and junior ministers; her decision not to resign was seen as preventing the collapse of the government.
Following the May 28, 2023 regional and local elections in which the PLN had the worst performance by an incumbent party since the introduction of the fixed regional and local elections in 1975 - in which the PLN lost six regional governments and retained only two and lost strongholds including the Madrid Region Assembly which they had held since 1995, the Madrid City Council, which they had held since 1983, and the Region of Valencia, which they had held since 1991 - Ruiz-Gallardon announced shortly after results began trickling in that he would resign as Prime Minister and leader of the PLN effective immediately. Several major PLN figures declined to run and endorsed Arrimadas on the 30th, leading to speculation that Arrimadas had planned for this eventuality and secured support since January, including that of Garicano, who was the first to announce his support. Arrimadas defeated Juan Marin, Francisco Igea and Albert Rivera in the MPs vote with 60.2%, thus securing the three-fifths majority needed under party rules to avoid a vote of the membership. She appointed Garicano Foreign Minister upon her investiture by King Ferdinand on July 2 as her replacement but otherwise retained the Ruiz-Gallardon Cabinet; on November 1, 2023, she dramatically reshuffled her Cabinet and reduced the number of portfolios from twenty to fourteen, the smallest Cabinet since 1925. Since coming to power, Arrimadas has reversed several austerity measures of the Ruiz-Gallardon government, and during the October 2023 Bolivian-Argentine border crisis, her government along with that of Cuba and the United States attempted to act as mediators, favoring the Argentine position.
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Indeed entirely possible!Cuba is mentioned as a separate government, just as the US is. So eventually Cuba goes its own way. Also, with the Chilean peace treaty, it is entirely possible that the Border Crisis is entire within OTL Chile.
A good comp, since by present day the National Liberals are meant to be a less-unhinged People's Party
Peter MacKay
Peter Gordon MacKay (born September 27, 1965) is a Nova Scotian diplomat, lawyer and politician who is the incumbent Prime Minister of Nova Scotia. A member of the Conservative Party, MacKay was the first, and to date only, Nova Scotian to have also served as Chairman of the Atlantic Council (the de facto executive of the supranational Atlantic Union) and previously served as the Foreign Minister of Nova Scotia. Upon the conclusion of his time as head of the Atlantic Council in Saint John, he was elected as head of the Conservative Party upon the resignation of Karla MacFarlane.
MacKay's father Elmer was a judicial figure and Cabinet officer in the provincial government of John Buchanan in the 1980s and was an aide in Buchanan's negotiations with the Canadian government and the Liberal Cabinet of Frank McKenna in New Brunswick to exit Confederation in 1992 following the Quebec independence referendum. MacKay was elected to replace his father from his New Glasgow-based seat in the 1998 Nova Scotia elections, and the Tories won government in 2000 after seven years out of power under John Hamm. MacKay was invited to enter Cabinet in early 2002 as Minister of Economic Development, and was widely praised for his role there in helping Nova Scotia navigate the 2002 financial crisis and early 2000s global recession; despite his efforts, deindustrialization and rural flight continued. MacKay was thought of as a likely successor to Hamm and throughout 2006 was held up as the longtime leader's likeliest replacement; however, he backed Foreign Minister Gerald Keddy to the surprise of many in the Februay 2007 leadership contest and was appointed to replace Keddy at the Foreign Office soon thereafter. As Nova Scotia's chief diplomat, MacKay continued Keddy's policy of building further ties to the United States and was crucial in negotiating the 2008 free trade agreement between the Atlantic Union and the United States and helping advocate, along with Atlantic Council Chair Trevor Holder, the accession of the entire AU to the North American Free Travel Area in 2011, which came into effect on January 31, 2014. Upon the end of Holder's five-year term in 2015, MacKay was voted as Chair of the Atlantic Council even though it had been suspected he was planning to replace Keddy within the next 18 months.
MacKay's Amerophilic foreign policy continued at the Atlantic Council and he was regarded as a more low-key figure than predecessors such as McKenna or Brian Tobin; he was the first Nova Scotian in the role, and was controversial both for decisions that drew the AU further from its position within the Commonwealth and towards the United States, and for decisions perceived as favoring Nova Scotia at the expense of the other three members of the Union. At the end of his five years in Saint John, he returned to practice law in Halifax and was unanimously elected as the new head of the Conservative Party in December 2021, running in a by-election two months later to reclaim his old seat. In the 2023 Nova Scotian elections, MacKay moved the Tories back to their traditional ground of the center and defeated the incumbent center-left government of the Social Democrats' Gary Burrill on a populist campaign manifesto promising tax rebates for poor Nova Scotians, investments in housing, hospitals and renewable energy, a moratorium on school closures and thousands of dollars in road reconstruction.
MacKay's father Elmer was a judicial figure and Cabinet officer in the provincial government of John Buchanan in the 1980s and was an aide in Buchanan's negotiations with the Canadian government and the Liberal Cabinet of Frank McKenna in New Brunswick to exit Confederation in 1992 following the Quebec independence referendum. MacKay was elected to replace his father from his New Glasgow-based seat in the 1998 Nova Scotia elections, and the Tories won government in 2000 after seven years out of power under John Hamm. MacKay was invited to enter Cabinet in early 2002 as Minister of Economic Development, and was widely praised for his role there in helping Nova Scotia navigate the 2002 financial crisis and early 2000s global recession; despite his efforts, deindustrialization and rural flight continued. MacKay was thought of as a likely successor to Hamm and throughout 2006 was held up as the longtime leader's likeliest replacement; however, he backed Foreign Minister Gerald Keddy to the surprise of many in the Februay 2007 leadership contest and was appointed to replace Keddy at the Foreign Office soon thereafter. As Nova Scotia's chief diplomat, MacKay continued Keddy's policy of building further ties to the United States and was crucial in negotiating the 2008 free trade agreement between the Atlantic Union and the United States and helping advocate, along with Atlantic Council Chair Trevor Holder, the accession of the entire AU to the North American Free Travel Area in 2011, which came into effect on January 31, 2014. Upon the end of Holder's five-year term in 2015, MacKay was voted as Chair of the Atlantic Council even though it had been suspected he was planning to replace Keddy within the next 18 months.
MacKay's Amerophilic foreign policy continued at the Atlantic Council and he was regarded as a more low-key figure than predecessors such as McKenna or Brian Tobin; he was the first Nova Scotian in the role, and was controversial both for decisions that drew the AU further from its position within the Commonwealth and towards the United States, and for decisions perceived as favoring Nova Scotia at the expense of the other three members of the Union. At the end of his five years in Saint John, he returned to practice law in Halifax and was unanimously elected as the new head of the Conservative Party in December 2021, running in a by-election two months later to reclaim his old seat. In the 2023 Nova Scotian elections, MacKay moved the Tories back to their traditional ground of the center and defeated the incumbent center-left government of the Social Democrats' Gary Burrill on a populist campaign manifesto promising tax rebates for poor Nova Scotians, investments in housing, hospitals and renewable energy, a moratorium on school closures and thousands of dollars in road reconstruction.
A timeline Peter MacKay is happy?
Granted I only saw him in like three timeline (with all being from test threads) but this is a shock for me!
*things go well for Peter MacKay*
“Well now i know this is an alt-hist!”
Correct
UEFA Euro 2018 - Introduction and Group Stage
Group A
The hosts opened play at the Deutsches Stadion in Berlin with the Imperial family in attendance over a hapless Romania, whom they defeated 4-0, setting the stage for what would be an absolute boatracing of their group in taking full points on 11 goals for and 0 against. Denmark, despite a 3-0 loss to the hosts in the final match of the group in Hamburg where a massive Danish contingent was present, was able to squeeze out quality results in Leipzig against Romania and defeated fellow Scandinavian rival Finland 3-1 after falling behind at the 5th minute to advance out of the Group Stage for the first time in twenty years.
Group B
Still smarting from their devastating semifinal loss on home soil to Germany in the 2016 World Cup, France entered the tournament with the No.3 world ranking behind Germany and the 2016 runners-up Italy ready to deal out a comeuppance to both of their archrivals, an endeavor made difficult early with a 1-0 loss to Poland in their opening match at Munich off a Robert Lewandowski goal. France recovered in their next two games, however, allowing no goals and putting a cumulative nine points past not only a weak Greece but defeating an otherwise stout Croatian midfield; indeed, the 4-0 annihilation France but upon the Croats in Frankfurt represented the only goals allowed by Croatia in the entire group stage. Despite their early showing against France, however, injuries accumulated in that match and against Croatia saw once-sturdy Poland falter and collapse into the final match, and a scoreless draw between Greece and Croatia in the first match proved decisive as Croatia advanced on goal difference.
Group C
Despite a disappointing early exit in 2016, Great Britain entered the 2018 Euros with endless ambition, thanks to the striking duo of Gareth Bale and Harry Kane and a tough defense anchored in by Andy Robertson, Kyle Walker and Harry Maguire. And indeed, save for a 2-2 draw to a strong and young Spain side in Dresden, Britain looked back on dominant form for most of the group stage, taking clean sheets against the 2016 fourth-place Swedes and Austria. Spain, for its part, also took care of business, defeating both Sweden and Austria 1-0 with both of the decisive goals in each match courtesy of Alvaro Morata. Sweden's second-match win over Austria in Munich in what can charitably be called a very hostile environment secured them third place in the group.
Group D
In a tournament missing traditional powers like Bohemia, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal and Russia, sides like Serbia (having missed 2010 and 2014) and Iceland (debutants) qualified and were both drawn into a group with defending silver medalist Italy from the 2016 World Cup and No.2 FIFA ranked side. Italy proved why it held said ranking in decisively blasting its way through Group D, taking a 10-0 goal differential - topped only by Germany's 11-0 - and full points as it never once looked threatened by the competition. For the other three teams, it came down to who could scrap out in a fairly even trio, and Serbia surprised to the upside, scoring three goals against Iceland in its opening match and being the one team to play a relatively competitive 2-0 match against Italy. After a dire 0-0 draw between Switzerland and Iceland, Serbia was guaranteed to go ahead with its defeat of Switzerland in Cologne, and it advanced to the quarterfinals of the European Championships for the first time in the history of the national side.
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(Special thanks to @NTF aka Seb for helping and explaining to me in detail how to actually make these kinds of Group Stage wikiboxes!)
The hosts opened play at the Deutsches Stadion in Berlin with the Imperial family in attendance over a hapless Romania, whom they defeated 4-0, setting the stage for what would be an absolute boatracing of their group in taking full points on 11 goals for and 0 against. Denmark, despite a 3-0 loss to the hosts in the final match of the group in Hamburg where a massive Danish contingent was present, was able to squeeze out quality results in Leipzig against Romania and defeated fellow Scandinavian rival Finland 3-1 after falling behind at the 5th minute to advance out of the Group Stage for the first time in twenty years.
Group B
Still smarting from their devastating semifinal loss on home soil to Germany in the 2016 World Cup, France entered the tournament with the No.3 world ranking behind Germany and the 2016 runners-up Italy ready to deal out a comeuppance to both of their archrivals, an endeavor made difficult early with a 1-0 loss to Poland in their opening match at Munich off a Robert Lewandowski goal. France recovered in their next two games, however, allowing no goals and putting a cumulative nine points past not only a weak Greece but defeating an otherwise stout Croatian midfield; indeed, the 4-0 annihilation France but upon the Croats in Frankfurt represented the only goals allowed by Croatia in the entire group stage. Despite their early showing against France, however, injuries accumulated in that match and against Croatia saw once-sturdy Poland falter and collapse into the final match, and a scoreless draw between Greece and Croatia in the first match proved decisive as Croatia advanced on goal difference.
Group C
Despite a disappointing early exit in 2016, Great Britain entered the 2018 Euros with endless ambition, thanks to the striking duo of Gareth Bale and Harry Kane and a tough defense anchored in by Andy Robertson, Kyle Walker and Harry Maguire. And indeed, save for a 2-2 draw to a strong and young Spain side in Dresden, Britain looked back on dominant form for most of the group stage, taking clean sheets against the 2016 fourth-place Swedes and Austria. Spain, for its part, also took care of business, defeating both Sweden and Austria 1-0 with both of the decisive goals in each match courtesy of Alvaro Morata. Sweden's second-match win over Austria in Munich in what can charitably be called a very hostile environment secured them third place in the group.
Group D
In a tournament missing traditional powers like Bohemia, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal and Russia, sides like Serbia (having missed 2010 and 2014) and Iceland (debutants) qualified and were both drawn into a group with defending silver medalist Italy from the 2016 World Cup and No.2 FIFA ranked side. Italy proved why it held said ranking in decisively blasting its way through Group D, taking a 10-0 goal differential - topped only by Germany's 11-0 - and full points as it never once looked threatened by the competition. For the other three teams, it came down to who could scrap out in a fairly even trio, and Serbia surprised to the upside, scoring three goals against Iceland in its opening match and being the one team to play a relatively competitive 2-0 match against Italy. After a dire 0-0 draw between Switzerland and Iceland, Serbia was guaranteed to go ahead with its defeat of Switzerland in Cologne, and it advanced to the quarterfinals of the European Championships for the first time in the history of the national side.
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(Special thanks to @NTF aka Seb for helping and explaining to me in detail how to actually make these kinds of Group Stage wikiboxes!)
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Time to look for present-day spoilers!
The German Empire is still around, in case there was any doubt.
Poland and Finland are both mentioned. although it looks like Finland had its own team for some of the early Olympics OTL so I suppose it's possible the Tsarist Grand Duchy of Finland is still around. Notably *not* mentioned: Ukraine or any Baltic nations.
Other notable nations *not* mentioned. We still haven't seen mentions of either Slovakia or Slovenia (or equivalents) listed. Nor have we seen Bulgaria or Albania listed. (Or Belgium, though we already knew that one.)
The German Empire is still around, in case there was any doubt.
Poland and Finland are both mentioned. although it looks like Finland had its own team for some of the early Olympics OTL so I suppose it's possible the Tsarist Grand Duchy of Finland is still around. Notably *not* mentioned: Ukraine or any Baltic nations.
Other notable nations *not* mentioned. We still haven't seen mentions of either Slovakia or Slovenia (or equivalents) listed. Nor have we seen Bulgaria or Albania listed. (Or Belgium, though we already knew that one.)
Or Ottomans for that matter.
Also seems like Finlamd and Poland are fully independent instead of playing as Constituent nations in Russia(From flag having no Tsarist symbols.) ,so Russia has some domestic turbulance in the future?
Also what is the status of Cricket in modern day? Which countries play it?
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Everyone can choose to read into exclusions as they wish
Good q on cricket. It’s obviously huge in the subcontinent, Australia, etc. might have more of a Canadian following too with Canada staying culturally influenced by Britain for longer
This means *someone* in Edmonton will invent a version of Cricket with a puck, hockey stick and goal. (There isn't *that* much difference between the Pads for a Batsman and for a Hockey Goalie.Everyone can choose to read into exclusions as they wish
Good q on cricket. It’s obviously huge in the subcontinent, Australia, etc. might have more of a Canadian following too with Canada staying culturally influenced by Britain for longer