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I'm now picturing Sisko but he acts exactly like Malcolm Tucker, and honestly, I struggle to imagine how any single casting choice could've changed the show more.
"Major, we had a deal, remember? When I need your advice, I'll give you the signal. Which is me being relieved of command after being infected by fucking neural parasites."
[POSTS BOX OF GILBERT GOTTFRIED AS WORF]
OK, because I saw a painting and thought "that's exactly what he looks like", I was essentially forced to find paintings for the other three of them. Turned out pretty decent, I would say.
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Out of all the Lagellian elections, the 1910 one would prove quite transformative. The main issue dominating the country was the incoming war in Hennodia and if Lagellania should join the war, or stay out of it. The incumbent president, William Royce, was steadfastly in favour of staying isolationist, arguing that the war was none of their business. Meanwhile, the maverick former President Jacob J. Valentine was becoming all things to all people. To the Teutonic-Lagellian people, he was promising to side with their old country. To the Narsenian-Lagellian people, he was perceived as promising to stay neutral. And to the many hawks [and of course the Gallican and Azalish immigrants] he was a belligerent man ready to go to war for their side.
The "two Democratic Parties, both alike in extremism", the southern-based right-wing Democratic Party and the urban-based left-wing Social Democrats, were both arguing non-interventionism for different reasons, the Democrats because "America shouldn't send young boys to die for other countries", the Social Democrats because it was an imperialist war. Their nominees Senator Hollis Johnston and Representative Myron Lundain were basically sticking to the party platform on this.
With the mood of the country being decidely against war, Royce sought to use Valentine's ambiguity on the issue as an attack point. Unfortunately, Valentine was quite charismatic and beloved by the people who refused to believe that he could disagree with them on this important matter. Thus he managed to keep his "all things to all people" status all the way up to October, where he cleaned up house.
The Progressives swept back to office that year, regaining the House [albeit with a shaky coalition with the SDP] and decidely winning the Senate. Valentine would later lead Lagellania into war on the United Powers side due to a combination of Azalaia calling in the considerable debt Lagellania owed to it as a result of the "Occidental Division" decades before and Teutonia sinking an Lagellian trade ship in 1913. He would win a landslide in 1914 on war fervour, but would end up the Progressives' last president as he was blamed for not getting what Lagellania was "owed" for the war.
Anyway...
Out of all the Lagellian elections, the 1910 one would prove quite transformative. The main issue dominating the country was the incoming war in Hennodia and if Lagellania should join the war, or stay out of it. The incumbent president, William Royce, was steadfastly in favour of staying isolationist, arguing that the war was none of their business. Meanwhile, the maverick former President Jacob J. Valentine was becoming all things to all people. To the Teutonic-Lagellian people, he was promising to side with their old country. To the Narsenian-Lagellian people, he was perceived as promising to stay neutral. And to the many hawks [and of course the Gallican and Azalish immigrants] he was a belligerent man ready to go to war for their side.
The "two Democratic Parties, both alike in extremism", the southern-based right-wing Democratic Party and the urban-based left-wing Social Democrats, were both arguing non-interventionism for different reasons, the Democrats because "America shouldn't send young boys to die for other countries", the Social Democrats because it was an imperialist war. Their nominees Senator Hollis Johnston and Representative Myron Lundain were basically sticking to the party platform on this.
With the mood of the country being decidely against war, Royce sought to use Valentine's ambiguity on the issue as an attack point. Unfortunately, Valentine was quite charismatic and beloved by the people who refused to believe that he could disagree with them on this important matter. Thus he managed to keep his "all things to all people" status all the way up to October, where he cleaned up house.
The Progressives swept back to office that year, regaining the House [albeit with a shaky coalition with the SDP] and decidely winning the Senate. Valentine would later lead Lagellania into war on the United Powers side due to a combination of Azalaia calling in the considerable debt Lagellania owed to it as a result of the "Occidental Division" decades before and Teutonia sinking an Lagellian trade ship in 1913. He would win a landslide in 1914 on war fervour, but would end up the Progressives' last president as he was blamed for not getting what Lagellania was "owed" for the war.
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The New Granadan presidential election of 1988 was the first presidential election held in the Commonwealth of New Granada, the only New Granadan presidential election in which the victor was elected for a five-year, rather than a six-year, term, and the first election in New Granada conducted under the new Commonwealth Constitution. On June 1, voters elected a 669-member Electoral College by statewide Party-List Proportional Representation; the electors were forbidden from pledging to vote for any candidate. As only one candidate - Grand Marshal of the Republic Yehoash Vasilian - stood nominated on Nomination Day, a popular vote for President was not held. The college then elected the President on June 22.
The contest's outcome, the election of Grand Marshal Vasilian as President and of the former Navy Chief, Jean-François Cresson, as Vice-President, surprised no one, yet in the 21-day period between the Election and the Electoral College meeting, new candidates were nominated by the Electors - most notably among them, communist-era dissident Manny Strauss.
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I think this is fine since this isn't a current American governing system, even if it includes current politicians.
Zachary VIII
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Except that it depicts current political factions and ideologies let by OTL members of those factions.
No it isn't.
As a general reminder:
It has been a while, so I did not take a formal action against the member who posted. If this returns as an issue here I will have to resume taking actions.
Please don't force my hand here. I won't like having to do it and I presume y'all won't either.
Bhangbhangduc
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America must grow larger.
Only thing I would suggest is making the map of Italy greyed out like the rest of the countries.
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