Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes V (Do Not Post Current Politics Here)

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From the 1900 Map Game which is now finished

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Shane Jefferson Bishop (born March 3, 1990) is an American politician currently serving as the 92nd United States Attorney General, having been appointed to that role on October 13, 2029. He has been a Member of the House (MH) for Nevada since the 2016 general election; currently representing the 3rd district, Bishop originally was elected to the 2nd district prior to redistricting done following the 2020 census.

Bishop is a self-identifies with "populist socialism" and has earned a reputation for tackling corruption in the federal government. He introduced the 29th Amendment, which triggers a special election for any member of Congress, or a of state legislature, who is found guilty of a felony, and the 32nd Amendment, which introduces a five-year moratorium on former members of Congress from serving as lobbyists at the state or federal level. Bishop has championed the 3rd STEP ACT, seeing it enacted into federal law, and has advocated for marijuana legalization at the state and federal level; during his first year as Attorney General, nearly 800 individuals were pardoned for marijuana-related offenses at his recommendation. He has also issued a number of investigations into major corporations and banks within the United States, primarily for tax evasion and bribery. Bishop also defended the Equality Act in the Supreme Court case Missouri v. Blecker, which would see same-sex marriage affirmed at the federal level for the third time, following the 2017 Gonzalez-Baird v. Houser & Associates decision.

While closely aligned with Silverman in government, Bishop ran against Silverman for the Socialist Party leadership in 2020 while in opposition, finishing last in a field of four candidates; Bishop's campaign was bogged down by a number of high-profile gaffes, namely the "Spartacus" speech given at his campaign kickoff. Bishop was one of thirty-two Socialist MHs to vote for Silverman during the 2025 confidence vote for the Socialist leadership and actively campaigned for Silverman in the subsequent leadership election. Following the Socialist Party's win in 2026, Bishop would serve a brief tenure as UN Ambassador before being named chairman for the House Committee on Oversight, a position he would hold until his appointment to Attorney General in 2029. Bishop is seen as a potential future leader for the party.

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2020 Liberal Party of America Leadership Election
On January 8, 2020, at the Liberal Party Caucus meeting, MP Al Johnson (Lib- Queens Northeast) challenged incumbent Liberal Party Leader Rob Portman (Lib- Clermont-St. Clair) for the leadership of the party. Even though Portman defeated Johnson more than 2 dozen votes in the Caucus Vote, no candidate received more than 3/5's of the vote, triggering a Members' vote.

Johnson in his campaign attacked Portman over the Liberals' loss in 2019 and blamed the loss on Portman's ineffective opposition to Labor. Instead, Johnson claimed that the Liberals needed to reunite with the Democratic People's Party in order to form an effective opposition against the new Labor-Progressive-Green Government. The former NYC mayor argued that a strong DPP showing has always led to a Labor government and a united Liberal-DPP front would be unstoppable against Labor.

Portman however argued that the Liberals should not sacrifice their values to the DPP and doing so only would cause a worse electoral defeat. Portman also consistently linked Johnson to the divisive DPP leader, Sarah Palin (DPP- East Central Cascadia), and said that she should never be given the reigns to the Liberal Party. Portman defended his electoral record saying that even though the Liberals did not form a government, they gained enough seats to prevent Labor from forming one as well (although every party other than Labor gained seats).

In the end, Johnson managed to handily defeat Portman to gain the position of Leader of the Opposition. Poll data showed that Liberal Party members have grown tired of a fractured right, and they decided that beating Labor is issue number one for them. Portman who lost by nearly 15 percent and only won 11 provinces resigned from Parliament shortly after the results of the election were announced. Johnson will take his position as Opposition Leader once Parliament comes back into session next week and has reportedly already begun talks with DPP leadership to reach a settlement.

















2020 Labor Party Leadership Retention Election
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In a much less contentious election, Prime Minister Maura Healey (Lab- Lowell, MA) went up for a Members' retention election in January 2020. Healey was elected in December 2019 by a Caucus Vote to replace PM Mike Madigan (Lab- Southwest Chicago) who resigned after it became clear he would not be able to form an government in the wake of losing his majority in the 2019 federal election. However, Labor Party rules dictate that all leaders must go before a Members' vote either by a standard election or a retention election.

Healey since her election to the leadership was able to form a coalition with the Progressive Party and the Green Party, and so far, has been able to keep the arrangement fairly strong. However, the Progressives and the Greens have begun to demand that electoral reform be brought up form debate in Parliament, causing strain with the Labor Party.

Healey easily won her retention election to stay on as Leader of the Labor Party and as Prime Minister winning by nearly 60 percent and only getting below 70% of the vote in a handful of provinces.
 
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King Joseph III of the Kingdom of Louisiana and the Francophonie nations
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The House of Bonaparte has ruled what was once New France since the year 1804 when Napoleon Bonaparte was deposed by the powers of Europe and fled to the French American Colonies. While Napoleon had once considered selling Louisiana to the Americans, it was pure luck that the meeting of the American and French diplomats missed each other by minutes, leading to France holding the Louisiana Territory. French Republicans fled to the Americas alongside their leader. This begins the creation of the Kingdom of Louisiana. The Emperor now surrounded by more potential enemies, allied with the United States of Amerika. The USA allowed each state to choose their own governments. This led to the state of New York to grant land titles to some of their more popular leaders. This includes US President Alexander Hamilton, who for his service during the Revolution, was granted the title of Tribune of New York in 1800 and the title of Prefect of Amerika in 1832, whose descendant would eventually marry into the House of Bonaparte.
The Kingdom of France would return to the control of the House of Bourbon who would rule it until 1889 when the peasantry and workers of France rose up, creating the French People's Commonwealth. The House of Bourbon rules over Northwest Africa, The FPC rules the mainland, the House of Bonaparte rules the New World, and the House of Bourbon-Bhopal rules parts of central India.
 
I’ve been compiling this list and re-updating it (every 50 pages or so) for quite a while now, and was originally going to post it at the start of the next wikibox thread as a sort of “best of” review thingy. But under this site’s new format/style/set-up (mini-rant: it’s hard on my eyes, I can’t tell where boxes/posts end and others begin; it’s clunky, hard to navigate through and even harder to look at; a huge mess all around), it’s now impossible for me to finish this, or for me to ever do such a thing like this ever again, for that matter. So, yeah, this is what I had so far:



A Look Back at AH Wikibox Thread V

(the Top 15 posts, ranked by number of likes (as of page 401))​

#15: Blair’s 8/6/2018 post on page 168: Presidential Elections in Reds! A Revolutionary Timeline https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-168#post-17415054 – 59 likes

#14 (four-way tie): Erinthecute’s 12/29/2018 on page 222: Prussia https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-222#post-18137383 – 60 likes

#14 (four-way tie): Georgepatton’s 4/3/2019 on page 267: Addison Quick https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-267#post-18721147 – 60 likes

#14 (four-way tie): Excelsior’s 8/1/2019 on page 329: Pandora’s Box https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-329#post-19272166 – 60 likes

#14 (four-way tie): Roberto El Rey’s 1/6/2019 on page 226: Ignateff v Ignatieff v Ignatieff v Ignatieff v Ignatieff 2015 https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-226#post-18190441 – 60 likes

#13 (tie): Erinthecute’s 12/17/2018 post on page 218: 2018 German General Election https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-218#post-18069127 – 61 likes

#13 (tie): Kanan’s 10/31/2018 post on page 202: Sodor Uprisings of 1937 https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-202#post-17820841 – 61 likes

#12: King_of_the_Uzbeks’s 2/19/2019 post on page 249: Clark Joseph Kent https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-248#post-18489080 – 62 likes

#11 (three-way tie): Oryxslayer’s 5/2/2018 post on page 127: Saint Humphrey of Minnesota (Patron Saint of This Website) https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-127#post-16952474 – 63 likes

#11 (three-way tie): Kanan’s 12/22/2017 post on page 38: Brooklyn Mayoral Election, 2012 https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-38#post-16237678 – 63 likes

#11 (three-way tie): Erinthecute’s 4/10/2019 post on page 270: Texas American Union membership referendum https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-270#post-18753919 – 63 likes

#10 (tie): JoeyB2198’s 10/24/2018 post on page 200: Alternate 2005, 2008 and 2016 Elections https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-200#post-17786406 – 67 likes

#10 (tie): gap80’s 3/18/2019 post on page 262: Biden, And His Son Barack: Part 1 (of 3) https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-261#post-18636928 – 67 likes

#9 (tie): Kanan’s 1/14/2018 post on page 53: Provinces of New England https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-53#post-16354747 – 68 likes

#9 (tie): Turquoise Blue’s 3/30/2019 post on page 265: List of Confederate Prime Ministers https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-265#post-18701028 – 68 likes

#8 (tie): True Grit’s 1/7/2019 post on page 227: Ignatieff (Legendary Creature) https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-227#post-18196601 – 69 likes

#8 (tie): DrBobBobson’s 5/26/2018 post on page 136: Richard Nixon the Music Producer https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-136#post-17060047 – 69 likes

#7: machinekng’s 3/3/2019 post on page 253: “Colossus Must Fall // Act ? – Preview” The US State of Sicily https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-253#post-18558801 – 70 likes

#6: gap80’s 5/3/2018 post on page 128: Just Some Futurama Write-Ups https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-128#post-16956923 – 71 likes

#5: et37’s 8/22/2018 post on page 175: Robbie Rotten https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-175#post-17491629 – 76 likes

#4: JoeyB2198’s 10/11/2018 post on page 195: US House of Representatives elections, 2018 https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-195#post-17727489 – 89 likes

#3: LeinadB93’s 11/11/2017 post on page 2: 2015 British Imperial Election (Hail, Britannia) https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-2#post-15996288 – 92 likes

#2: Kanan’s 11/24/2017 post on page 10: 2016 New England https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-10#post-16079280 – 139 likes

And Post #1: Kanan’s 12/5/2017 post on page 23: New England https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/alternate-wikipedia-infoboxes-v-do-not-post-current-politics-here.430177/page-23#post-16144326 – 168 likes



I don’t know if any posts beyond page 401 got (or will get) more than 59 likes, because now I can’t see the number of likes each post gets. It’s the end of an era; and it was good while it lasted. Ah well, that’s life I guess…

Thanks for the support, Marse Lee! :)

EDIT: as of 10:10 P.M. EST, 1/8/2020, 39 people have liked this
(I may just do this at the end of all my posts from now on)
You can see the like counter at the top of the post
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You can now, but at the time, the information was apparently completely hidden, and inaccessible except by a fairly arcane workaround that would have been impractical for gap80 to compile for every post in the thread.

I've also seen that some threads have the like counter listed, while some do not. The Current Politics version of this thread in Chat doesn't show the like counter - but that might be a general thing for the whole of Chat, post-update
 
Looks like there are three posts since the last update to @gap80's post that made it into the top 15:
 
Not to, uh, put too fine a point on it, but did you get inspired by anything in particular there or are you just gonna not acknowledge how similar your stuff is to Archangel Michael's

Like, I would have just thought "oh, similar inspirations leading to similar endpoints" but then, that last photo there especially

Edit: what I mean https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...t-politics-here.430177/page-166#post-17400977

I mean his stuff is excellent, it's great to be inspired by it, but, like, this is getting a bit much, you know?
 
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Not to, uh, put too fine a point on it, but did you get inspired by anything in particular there or are you just gonna not acknowledge how similar your stuff is to Archangel Michael's

Like, I would have just thought "oh, similar inspirations leading to similar endpoints" but then, that last photo there especially

I mean his stuff is excellent, it's great to be inspired by it, but, like, this is getting a bit much, you know?
I wasn't particularly inspired by anyone's work when creating this. I've definitely seen some of Archangel Michael's stuff, but I didn't really draw much inspiration from it (though I'm now realizing me using Jeff Bridges as Odysseus I was because he used him as a monarch, though to be fair the guy does give me "royalty" vibes, if that makes sense). If anything, I was more inspired by Osk's Union of American Realms, but my stuff's still... pretty different. I've made three or four posts about this world that I still consider canon, one of which is a world map. I created an entire alternate religion. But... I guess the idea of a powerful monarchy in the modern day just taken by someone else?

Let me tell you what my two biggest inspirations were: Bioshock Infinite and time spent in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Bioshock Infinite formed the foundation of Albionism, though I expanded far beyond what Irrational Games ever did. I also routinely travel up to D.C. and NYC in the summer, and after spending enough time there, you start to really see what's known as "American civil religion" in full force. The architecture of the two cities, the monuments of the National Mall and the exhibits of the Smithsonian, and the entire personality of New York broadcast the idea of American exceptionalism. And I just like overbearing monarchies as an AH concept, which you can see if you look back at a bunch of my old maps and half-finished projects.

Long story short, I've seen Archangel Michael's work, but I've drawn little inspiration from it, outside of Jeff Bridges as king.
 
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Let me tell you what my two biggest inspirations were: Bioshock Infinite and time spent in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Bioshock Infinite formed the foundation of Albionism, though I expanded far beyond what Irrational Games ever did. I routinely travel up to D.C. and NYC, and after spending enough time there, you start to really see what's known as "American civil religion" in full force. The architecture of the two cities, the monuments of the National Mall and the exhibits of the Smithsonian, and the entire personality of New York broadcast the idea of American exceptionalism. And I just like overbearing monarchies as an AH concept, which you can see if you look back at a bunch of my old maps and half-finished projects.

Long story short, I've seen Archangel Michael's work, but I've drawn little inspiration from it.


 
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