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Cedric Levon Richmond (September 13, 1973 – July 26, 2055) was an American politician who served as the 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2023 to 2031 and again from 2033 to 2035. A member of the Democratic Party, Richmond was the U.S. Representative from Louisiana's 2nd district for 34 years from 2011 to 2045, a district that included most of New Orleans.

Richmond served as House Minority Leader for the 117th Congress from 2021 to 2023, succeeding Nancy Pelosi, who stepped down when faced with devastating losses in the House in years otherwise successful for Democrats. Richmond was thrust into the position of Speaker when Democrats took the House in the 2022 midterm elections. Despite holding the majority, Richmond and the Democratic Party did not formally support impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump even in the face of massive public support for impeachment. However, under Richmond's leadership, several Trump appointments were subject to impeachment, most famously Rex Tillerson, Steven Mnuchin, and Wilbur Ross. Richmond was then Speaker for the first six years of Joseph Kennedy's presidency before losing the House in 2030. After serving as Minority Leader for another 2 years, Richmond unexpectedly became Speaker again after Democrats won a narrow majority of 2 seats in the House, boosted by the landslide victory of Vice President Kander in the presidential election. After losing the House again in 2034, Richmond served as Minority Leader for 6 years before resigning in favor of his deputy, Democratic Whip Jerry Martinez. Richmond retired from Congress in 2044 despite calls for him to return to leadership after the unexpected and sudden death of Jerry Martinez. He was succeeded by State Senator Lewis Galt.

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Huh, I just had a timeline using him as a speaker and president.
 

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The 1991 Aberdeen South by-election was a by-election held in Scotland on 7 November 1991 to elect a new Member of Parliament for the House of Commons constituency of Aberdeen South. The seat was rendered vacant following the resignation of the previous MP, David Templeton (SNP), in the aftermath of the Aberdeen Oil Scandal. The by-election was the penultimate by-election of the 1988 Parliment and was won by Dr. Liam Fox, the Conservative Party candidate, in a shocking victory over both Labour and the SNP. It was the first by-election victory in Scotland for the Conservative Party since 1967, and saw a swing of 11.1% from the SNP to the Conservative Party. The by-election is often heralded as the 'strange revival of Conservative Scotland', as well as the 'last rites of the Liberal Party', with the Liberal Party suffering the humiliation of failing to retain their deposit, and ultimately dissolving within the decade.

Aberdeen South was traditionally a Conservative leaning Con-Lab marginal, from 1918 through to 1984 having elected Unionist and Conservative candidates, barring a brief four-year period in 1966-1970 when the seat was held by Labour's Donald Dewar. Considered to be something of a stronghold, the seat was narrowly lost to the SNP in 1984, with the Conservative Party sinking to fourth place in 1988, overtaken by the incoming Labour Government and the Liberal Party. Templeton had held the seat in 1988 with a majority of 14.8%, proving the seat to be a reliable and safe SNP seat.

However, in June of 1991, The Guardian ran an expose revealing that Templeton had been taking money from Occidental Petroleum Executives in exchange for questions in Parliment. The scandal deepened when it was suggested that Templeton had also given false information at a parliamentary inquiry regarding the Aberdeen Oil Disaster, which involved an Occidental Petroleum rig. He ultimately stepped down as Member for Aberdeen South 6 September 1991, just after the end of the 1991 Summer Recess.

The SNP candidate was Brian Adam's, leader of the Aberdeen City Council. Labour selected local journalist and campaigner, Andrew Gove, whilst the Conservative Party selected Dr. Liam Fox. The recently formed Scottish Socialist Alliance stood Deputy Chairman Alex Salmond. The Scottish Green Party stood future leader Susan Nash, and the Liberal Party re-selected Malcolm Bruce, who had contested Aberdeen South in 1988. Jane Pearson, a local Teacher, ran for the Jacobite Party.

Due to the context of how the by-election was called, the campaigns on all sides were heated and aggressive. The Conservatives attacked the SNP as corrupt and Labour as politically impotent, Labour attacked the SNP for much the same reason, but also accused the Glaswegian Fox of 'carpet-baggery', and the Conservatives of being out of touch. Meanwhile, the SNP were forced to defend their party from allegations of corruption whilst campaigners were attacked by locals in the streets, and endured in-fighting (in one notable case, literal fighting) due to the then still unclear legitimacy of the allegations made against Templeton. The SSA would also attack the SNP, painting themselves as the only viable and honest alternative to the party, and an alternative to the more aggressive and 'Westminister bound' Conservative and Labour, making heavy use of leafletting and canvassing, exploiting unofficial campaigners as a way of sidestepping campaign limits. The Liberals were squeezed as a result, often overlooked and struggling to get attention.

Polling day was Thursday 7 November. The results were declared shortly after 3:00 on Friday 8 June by the returning officer for Aberdeen City Council:
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The Fall of the House of Saud
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I was going to do a nationbox and then realized I have no idea how to do stuff like GDP and Gini and HDI. Not a lot of visible differences, but basically the Hashemites unite Arabia instead of the Sauds and also get Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. After a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis, a war of Kurdish independence backed by Russians, and a close call with revolution, Arabia transformed into a parliamentary democracy. Today Arabia is one of the key allies of the United States in the Cold War.
 
The Fall of the House of Saud
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I was going to do a nationbox and then realized I have no idea how to do stuff like GDP and Gini and HDI. Not a lot of visible differences, but basically the Hashemites unite Arabia instead of the Sauds and also get Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. After a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis, a war of Kurdish independence backed by Russians, and a close call with revolution, Arabia transformed into a parliamentary democracy. Today Arabia is one of the key allies of the United States in the Cold War.

Wouldn't this result in OTL Jordan remaining within the Mandate for Palestine, and therefore, eventually becoming part of the State of Israel?
 
Based on his infobox, I think Jordan would became part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia
That's what i'm contesting - No House of Saud dominating Arabia, no Trans-Jordan emirate established separately from the Palestine Mandate:

Unless, of course, the Arabians conquered Trans-Jordan in '48 and Israel conquered it back in '67 but returned it as part of a Peace Treaty.
 
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The Philadelphia Stars are the City of Brotherly Love's golden boys. Notable for being the only USFL team to consistently outsell its' counterpart in the NFL, the Philadelphia Stars are "the winningest team in the USFL" and have been for nearly a quarter-century now.

In 1984, Leonard Tose, then owner of what were then known as the Philadelphia Eagles, was in debt to the tune of 40 million dollars. To cover his debts, he sold the franchise to developer James Monaghan, who moved the franchise to Phoeniz. The Arizona Eagles then went on to have a continually lackluster record, at its height making it to the 2004 Superbowl before going down in defeat.

The city was therefore without a football team aside from the Stars, and Stars owner Myles Tannenbaum took full advantage of this fact. Philadelphia was then the fourth-largest media market in the country, and with the advent of cable television options were expansive. New Jersey Generals owner Donald Trump, still smarting from his failed bid to convince league owners to launch an antitrust lawsuit against the NFL, was able to get the first contract with newly-established network ESPN in 1987. That same year that the second NFL players strike occurred. For an entire year, the USFL was the only game in town nationwide, and it had an exclusive cable tv contract to go with it.

That year the most televised football game of the year would be the USFL Championship, in which the Stars would win a 52-21 victory against the Orlando Renegades.

The 1990s were a decade of expansion for the League, and it was a decade in which the Stars got used to being in a bigger pond. The 1999 Championship would be the only victory for them that decade, after the 1996 decision to expand the League to twenty teams.

1996 was also the year that the city's 12-year NFL orphanhood ended, when the NFL made the decision to expand. The city outbid Jacksonville, Florida, to establish the Philadelphia Founders, a team that would consistently underperform its rival in the USFL in terms of fan enthusiasm, wins, and ticket and merchandise sales.

In 2000, billionaire businessman and Pittsburgh native Mark Cuban bought the Stars from Tannenbaum.

Cuban was also the main driver behind the replacement of the aging, decaying Veterans Stadium with a new field at the site of the old Schmidt Brewery in the Northern Liberties. The state-of-the-art facility would draw crowds of tens of thousands regularly, a feat matched by it's counterpart Schuylkill Banks, the Phillies' new home stadium at the corner of 31st and Walnut in University City. Liberty Yards, unlike Schuylkill Banks, however, would not be plagued by the chronic parking problems that the Phillies' home stadium suffered.

The breeze coming off the Delaware River, moreover, would be a source of continual controversy for the Stars, as many claimed that the breeze favored them. Inn the 2016 playoff season, when many claimed a strong breeze was what enabled the 60 yard pass that won them the game, "Breezegate" became a source of controversy for the team that persists to this day.
 
Wouldn't this result in OTL Jordan remaining within the Mandate for Palestine, and therefore, eventually becoming part of the State of Israel?

Based on his infobox, I think Jordan would became part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Arabia

That's what i'm contesting - No House of Saud dominating Arabia, no Trans-Jordan emirate established separately from the Palestine Mandate:

Unless, of course, the Arabians conquered Trans-Jordan in '48 and Israel conquered it back in '67 but returned it as part of a Peace Treaty.

In this world, the UN plan for the Partition of Palestine is adopted, and Transjordan is separated from Palestine and given to Arabia. Israel and Palestine basically end up becoming North Korea and South Korea (without the North Korean government of course), with demilitarized zones and walls everywhere.
 
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