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"ROTTEN TOMATOES WEBSITE CRASHES PERMANENTLY" - The Verge
"MAN BEATEN BY ANGRY CROWD FOR CALLING FILM 'PRETENTIOUS AND OVERHYPED'" - New York Times
"CLAIMS OF RIGGING AS ANDERSON SWEEPS FILM AWARDS" - CNN
"ARMOND WHITE NOT SEEN IN WEEKS, FEARED MISSING" - The Independent

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Made a remake of this infobox.

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The Lunarians, both human and humanoid, and the Earthlings had a rivalry as ancient as the foundation of the Lunar colonies. As Earth fell into several crises, Moon rose as the preeminent center of human society and culture, while historically poor regions on Earth, such as South America and Asia, took the mantle of dominance on the Blue Planet thanks to their economic potential and political control by unificationists as Europe, North America and Asia basked in violence.

The Latin American Union, one of the largest powers on Earth, turned to isolationism and protectionism following the introduction of the "White Cabinet" of the 2330s. This wasn't very well-liked by the Lunarian powers, whose trade unions and corporations held shares in the Andes Resource-Gathering Cooperative and the half-ruined Amazon. This disagreement between the expansionist Lunar powers and the conservative Latin American Union led to the beginning of the Crystal Wars.

The First Crystal War (2349-2352) began as a conflict over the unlawful attack of Yutuzhouan security corvettes on a Latin American satellite. In response, numerous citizens of Arequipa have dumped boxes of Yutuzhouan holophones into the Pacific Ocean. The war was primarily a Yutuzhouan-Latin American war, and ended with Yutuzhouan victory.

The Second Crystal War, on the other hand, began when Minister of Propaganda, Leandro Lemos, issued a decree of war against the "Lunarian tyrants" over a Gagarian attack on a Latin American cargo ship. The guerrilla militias, the cave systems containing hyperbombs and kinetic mines, and the sheer size of the Latin American soldiers terrified the Lunarian soldiers, but the Latin American soldiers were far too poorly equipped.

When the Latin American Army attacked a Venusian trade ship, the Venusians intervened on the Lunarians' side. Most notably, Lieutenant-General Alice Flynn, famous military figure and adventurer, brought her "friend" along for the ride. This friend was Colonel Gaz dess Rafosk, Chief of the Nokomis Nation and governor of Nokomis. While there were lots of cases of the "Lizard Regiments" being highly barbaric and unscrupulous, such as during the Battle of Arequipa, this was marked as one of the first times reptilian Venusians fought side by side with human Venusians.

Notably, this was the war in which Gems fought. The Gem Empire, an ancient state and a long-time enemy of humans, knew they could not let the Lunarians - the strongest humans at the time - expand their influence. After all, the Gems have already suffered during the End of the Diamond Authority and the following Organic Administration. Under the pretext of "protecting Gems on Earth", the Gems intervened on the behalf of the Latin Americans, with popular commander Jasper Facet-4D2L Cut-3WX, more commonly known as Iaspis Magna, leading the Gem Intervention Forces. Nonetheless, despite this massive advantage on the Latin American side, Changeguo and Magnipol still won, even if their troops got very negative memories from the war...

Thanks to Venusian manpower and technology, the Lunarian Defense Coalition won the Second Crystal War. During the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, Gagaria took West Guyana under its control, adding it to its large Protectorate of West Indies, infuriating the people of Berbicia who could trace their descent to the local Guyanans and Surinamese. The Latin American Union, suffering from the reparations and trade agreements imposed on it, needed quick reform, and newly elected President, Juan Esteban Yarleque, began a wave of administrative and military reforms...
 
Going into the 1938 Texas gubernatorial election, Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel was heavily favored to win.

Two years previously, Huey Long had asked him to serve as his running mate. That campaign - and the campaign to carry that campaign on after Long was killed - had won Texas's 23 electoral votes by a healthy margin of some two hundred thousand votes. That had raised his profile in Texan politics, to the point that he was seen as a likely future Governor even before the election.

O'Daniel was also what many would call a "natural politician". He had gotten his start as a salesman for Burris Mills, a flour manufacturing company in Fort Worth. In 1927, he got into the radio advertising business, sponsoring a band called the "Light Crust Doughboys" - and when the Doughboys' announcer was unable to appear, O'Daniel worked in his place, and discovered he had a knack for the job.

Before long, he was no longer advertising flour. The Doughboys no longer sang about flour - they sang about Texas, and motherhood, and old horses, and this and that and the other thing. But by 1936, the main part of O'Daniel's show's appeal was "Pappy" himself. And he was ready to capitalize on that.

Part of O'Daniel's appeal was the way he was viewed as "outside politics". In 1933, he had released a song called "On To Victory, Mr. Roosevelt", but since then he had been steadfastly apolitical. Even when campaigning for President, he had kept his platform to the Ten Commandments and vague support of some kind of Townsend-esque pension.

On April 10, 1938, he declared his intent to run. The first Belden poll to include him put his support at over 75%, although pure name recognition probably inflated his chances. Still, the mood in Washington was that O'Daniel was destined to win.

One man thought differently.

It was 1938. Lyndon Johnson was a freshman Congressman from the Texas Hill Country. He had no seniority and very little influence - and almost all of that influence came from his relationship with Sam Rayburn.

Yet he still did what nobody thought was possible. He raised tens of thousands from oil tycoons and garment unions alike. He set up a campaign headquarters in Austin, staffed it with some of the best people in Texas politics, and criss-crossed the state himself. All of this was to support a man who, as late as July, most Texans had never heard of.

But Ernest O. Thompson won the election in a squeaker of a result. And he, and the President who saw the result as a partial vindication, knew who to thank.

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[Hey, y'all. If you liked this, come check out Divided We Stand.]
 

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I had nothing else to do today, anyway. Hugh Hefner was the 39th President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. His rapid rise in politicians began when he was recruited by the California Democratic Party to run in 1970 for a Senate seat that had been held by the Republican Party. The famed 'crusader for sexual liberation' was a natural fit for the California Democrats and their emphasis on moving towards greater rights for women.

He won in a landslide and rose to notoriety as a passionate Senator. In a time where religious moralism was rising, Hefner was a natural fit for the Democrats who wanted to stick in the eye of Presidential candidate Spiro Agnew and his primary rival, Ronald Reagan, come 1976. Teaming up with Southern Democrat Jimmy Carter, Hefner cruised to a comfortable election day majority, stomping Reagan into the ground, and being sworn in as president on January 20, 1977.

He found the Presidency unfulfilling, and announced in 1979 that he would not be pursuing a second term, leaving the Democratic field to his Vice President, and challenger Ted Kennedy. It ended up seeing Ted Kennedy sweeping into the White House after trouncing John Connally in the general election.
 
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in which ww1 doesnt happen, ireland never becomes independent and the irish parliamentary transitions into a standard christian democratic party
 
That's *Montezuma's fault for being part of New Spain in the War of 1812 instead of part of the vast swathes of unorganized territory west of the Mississippi that Britain could demand the US to fork over.

Also because it would be weird to have a country whose symbols are maple leaves, moose and loons rule over a place that would kill any of those things within days because of the heat.
Hey, you could come to Texas! We have maples, loons, and, uh, elk! That's close enough to moose, right?

But seriously I really want to see Texas in Canada...
 
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