The absolute disrespect to the Man in Black. Johnny's catalogue was and still is miles better than Elvis.
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I can name like three Cash songs and like five hundred Elvis songs, I love Johnny but no one on earth is better than Elvis
Okay, but like, I can name like 10 Lemon Demon songs, 4 Taylor Swift songs and only three Elvis songs from the top of my head (Blue Suede Shoes, Jailhouse Rock, I Can't Help Falling in Love With You). (Mind you, I grew up listening to old rock-and-roll music.) By that logic, Lemon Demon >Taylor Swift > Elvis.
Here's a wikibox on the JSP from Japan in my China TL.
The Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党, Nihon Shakai Tō), also known by its acronym the JSP, is a centre-left political party in Japan. It was founded in 1945, making it the oldest major political party in the country that is still active.
The JSP was founded by the members of numerous proletarian parties that existed prior to World War II, including the Social Mass Party, the Labour-Farmer Party, the Japan Labour-Farmer Party and the National Masses Party. It briefly held power from 1947 to 1948, but was divided from 1951 to 1955 into the Left Socialist Party (know in English as the Socialist Party) and the Right Socialist Party (known in English as the Social Democratic Party). After the 1955 election, while the Liberal and Democratic Parties merged into the modern Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Socialists also merged back into one party, forming what was known as the ‘1955 system’ of electoral politics in Japan, with the LDP holding government and the JSP as the opposition in a dominant party system.
In 1960, some members of the right of the JSP split off into the Democratic Socialist Party, a more reformist and moderate party than the JSP, which had a moderate faction but also an orthodox Marxist one. Despite this, the JSP and its allies generally held about a third of the seats in the National Diet under the 1955 system, preventing the LDP being able to revise the Constitution of Japan.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the party started to take a more moderate track under the leadership of Takako Doi, the first woman to lead a major Japanese political party. Doi was a popular leader and managed to start to heal the divisions between the party and the centre-left Democratic Socialists and Socialist Democratic Parties. When the financial crisis of the early 1990s started to cause the LDP to fracture, Doi aligned the JSP with the parties and leaders splitting off from its rival party, allowing it to avoid being drowned out by them and reinforcing the view of her as a potential Prime Minister. The 1993 election saw the LDP lose its majority and the JSP continue to increase its seat total in what commentators termed the ‘Great Reversal’. Doi secured the support of the opposition parties to replace Keichii Miyazawa, and became the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Japan.
Doi would only serve as Prime Minister for about a year, as in mid-1994 a conflict between her and Cabinet members Ichirō Ozawa and Tsotumu Hata led them to leave the government and put the LDP’s Toshiki Kaifu back into power. She stood down from the leadership and was replaced by Tomiichi Murayama, under whose leadership the party won the 1995 House of Councilors election and completed the merger with the minor parties. Murayama stood aside for Doi to run as Prime Minister candidate in the 1997 House of Representatives election, and under her leadership it won its only ever majority (as of 2021) and first victory in 50 years in the lower house.
The JSP would govern Japan for 14 years after this, under Doi (1997-99), Murayama (1999-2001), Naoto Kan (2001-7) and Yukio Hatoyama (2007-11). Among other reforms, it oversaw the introduction of large-scale protections of women’s rights, expansions of labour rights and safety standards, healthcare reforms, public spending increases and efforts to atone for Imperial Japan’s war crimes through the Murayama Statement and the Comfort Women’s Fund. Many of these reforms proved greatly divisive with Japanese conservatives, while those on the left of the party frequently lobbied for it to go further, but it did well enough to secure re-election in 2000, 2004 and 2007 with the support of the centrist Liberal Party of Japan (LPJ) and Kōmeitō.
However, the onset of the Great Recession in the late 2000s and early 2010s severely undermined the JSP, which was further hurt by its efforts to pass a consumption tax and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The 2011 election saw the Socialists fall to their worst performance since 1949 and come third behind both the LDP, which regained power under Tarō Asō, and the far-right Restoration Party of former Mayor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara.
With the two largest parties seeking to repeal Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and re-establish the right of the country to declare war, the JSP proceeded to start to vocally advocate for pacifism both on ideological grounds and to avoid severe damage to Japan’s international relations with its neighbours. Its leader, Banri Kaieda, seized on the opponents of Article 9 reform and gave it the name the ‘pacifist coalition’, forming a united front with the LPJ and Kōmeitō against it. The 2015 election saw the JSP significantly improve its showing in the House of Councillors, end the LDP’s supermajority and massively slash the Restoration Party’s seat count.
The party looked potentially able to unseat the LDP and regain power after this, but when Asō stood down as Prime Minister in favour of Shinzō Abe, Abe shifted the focus of the LDP away from constitutional reform and attacked Kaieda as being pro-Communist and pro-China. Despite the dubious accuracy of such claims, they stuck and Kaieda ended up resigning in early 2017.
His replacement, Yukio Edano, had been a key player in the JSP’s response to the Fukushima disaster and was well-liked among the party’s left, though he did not stop the JSP from struggling to overcome Abe. In the 2018 election it lost seats, but performed significantly better than feared, allowing Edano to remain leader.
For much of the time until Abe resigned in 2020, the JSP were continuing to struggle in the polls, but during the summer of 2021, Edano regained personal popularity by vocally criticizing new PM Yoshihide Suga for his poor handling of safety precautions during the Tokyo Olympics causing COVID rates in Japan to rise. This culminated in August with a motion of no confidence being called which Suga lost, and with the LDP squabbling over who should replace him, a general election was forced for the 4th October. Presently, the JSP are leading in the polls, Ozawa has declared the LPJ will not support a government led by Suga, the Kōmeitō have pledged to support whichever party secures a plurality and the LDP has already begun to infight over who ought to replace Suga as leader; consequently, it is seen as very likely that the JSP will return to power after a decade in opposition.
The Japan Socialist Party (日本社会党, Nihon Shakai Tō), also known by its acronym the JSP, is a centre-left political party in Japan. It was founded in 1945, making it the oldest major political party in the country that is still active.
The JSP was founded by the members of numerous proletarian parties that existed prior to World War II, including the Social Mass Party, the Labour-Farmer Party, the Japan Labour-Farmer Party and the National Masses Party. It briefly held power from 1947 to 1948, but was divided from 1951 to 1955 into the Left Socialist Party (know in English as the Socialist Party) and the Right Socialist Party (known in English as the Social Democratic Party). After the 1955 election, while the Liberal and Democratic Parties merged into the modern Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Socialists also merged back into one party, forming what was known as the ‘1955 system’ of electoral politics in Japan, with the LDP holding government and the JSP as the opposition in a dominant party system.
In 1960, some members of the right of the JSP split off into the Democratic Socialist Party, a more reformist and moderate party than the JSP, which had a moderate faction but also an orthodox Marxist one. Despite this, the JSP and its allies generally held about a third of the seats in the National Diet under the 1955 system, preventing the LDP being able to revise the Constitution of Japan.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the party started to take a more moderate track under the leadership of Takako Doi, the first woman to lead a major Japanese political party. Doi was a popular leader and managed to start to heal the divisions between the party and the centre-left Democratic Socialists and Socialist Democratic Parties. When the financial crisis of the early 1990s started to cause the LDP to fracture, Doi aligned the JSP with the parties and leaders splitting off from its rival party, allowing it to avoid being drowned out by them and reinforcing the view of her as a potential Prime Minister. The 1993 election saw the LDP lose its majority and the JSP continue to increase its seat total in what commentators termed the ‘Great Reversal’. Doi secured the support of the opposition parties to replace Keichii Miyazawa, and became the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Japan.
Doi would only serve as Prime Minister for about a year, as in mid-1994 a conflict between her and Cabinet members Ichirō Ozawa and Tsotumu Hata led them to leave the government and put the LDP’s Toshiki Kaifu back into power. She stood down from the leadership and was replaced by Tomiichi Murayama, under whose leadership the party won the 1995 House of Councilors election and completed the merger with the minor parties. Murayama stood aside for Doi to run as Prime Minister candidate in the 1997 House of Representatives election, and under her leadership it won its only ever majority (as of 2021) and first victory in 50 years in the lower house.
The JSP would govern Japan for 14 years after this, under Doi (1997-99), Murayama (1999-2001), Naoto Kan (2001-7) and Yukio Hatoyama (2007-11). Among other reforms, it oversaw the introduction of large-scale protections of women’s rights, expansions of labour rights and safety standards, healthcare reforms, public spending increases and efforts to atone for Imperial Japan’s war crimes through the Murayama Statement and the Comfort Women’s Fund. Many of these reforms proved greatly divisive with Japanese conservatives, while those on the left of the party frequently lobbied for it to go further, but it did well enough to secure re-election in 2000, 2004 and 2007 with the support of the centrist Liberal Party of Japan (LPJ) and Kōmeitō.
However, the onset of the Great Recession in the late 2000s and early 2010s severely undermined the JSP, which was further hurt by its efforts to pass a consumption tax and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The 2011 election saw the Socialists fall to their worst performance since 1949 and come third behind both the LDP, which regained power under Tarō Asō, and the far-right Restoration Party of former Mayor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara.
With the two largest parties seeking to repeal Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and re-establish the right of the country to declare war, the JSP proceeded to start to vocally advocate for pacifism both on ideological grounds and to avoid severe damage to Japan’s international relations with its neighbours. Its leader, Banri Kaieda, seized on the opponents of Article 9 reform and gave it the name the ‘pacifist coalition’, forming a united front with the LPJ and Kōmeitō against it. The 2015 election saw the JSP significantly improve its showing in the House of Councillors, end the LDP’s supermajority and massively slash the Restoration Party’s seat count.
The party looked potentially able to unseat the LDP and regain power after this, but when Asō stood down as Prime Minister in favour of Shinzō Abe, Abe shifted the focus of the LDP away from constitutional reform and attacked Kaieda as being pro-Communist and pro-China. Despite the dubious accuracy of such claims, they stuck and Kaieda ended up resigning in early 2017.
His replacement, Yukio Edano, had been a key player in the JSP’s response to the Fukushima disaster and was well-liked among the party’s left, though he did not stop the JSP from struggling to overcome Abe. In the 2018 election it lost seats, but performed significantly better than feared, allowing Edano to remain leader.
For much of the time until Abe resigned in 2020, the JSP were continuing to struggle in the polls, but during the summer of 2021, Edano regained personal popularity by vocally criticizing new PM Yoshihide Suga for his poor handling of safety precautions during the Tokyo Olympics causing COVID rates in Japan to rise. This culminated in August with a motion of no confidence being called which Suga lost, and with the LDP squabbling over who should replace him, a general election was forced for the 4th October. Presently, the JSP are leading in the polls, Ozawa has declared the LPJ will not support a government led by Suga, the Kōmeitō have pledged to support whichever party secures a plurality and the LDP has already begun to infight over who ought to replace Suga as leader; consequently, it is seen as very likely that the JSP will return to power after a decade in opposition.
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Since Phil Crane is such and underrated figure in 1980's politics I made this.
Since Phil Crane is such and underrated figure in 1980's politics I made this.
Okay then."Ask not what your cult can do for you, ask what you can do for your cult!"
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American cult leader, political activist, preacher and faith healer who lead the religious institution known as the "One True Kingdom of God" (later renamed to the Kingdom of Heaven in 1963). He was well regarded for his vehement Isolationism prior to the Attack on Perry's Squadron in 1940, which culminated in the "Bayonets or Bread" speech to the American Constituent Assembly. He was also controversially known for his staunch pro-british sentiments, in opposition to the policies of American Chancellor Ernest King, a known Anglophobe. His political relationships with the Dixiecrats did lead to South Carolina Senator Ellison Smith eventually recommending him for a naval posting at the American Caroline Islands. During World War II (also known by the Anglophobic "War of British Oppression" by members of the north, who were embittered following the Treaty of Vichy which granted the Confederacy it's independence from the United States.
In 1950, he would find the "Kingdom" in Charleston, South Carolina. While he would not join the Klan for fear of political backlash, he would run for local office multiple times, without much success. He did, however, start to garner more and more of a following for the Kingdom, officially hiring his wife, Marylin Monroe as a second in command. The teachings of the Kingdom were, in Kennedy's words, : "A simple guide to living the best life that god has granted us mortal beings". However, there were multiple allegations of abuse by the higher ups and rumors of numerous affairs, including a vow for "celibacy for all except the 'enlightened one'". Members were expected to not marry and never interact with the opposite sex, except in the most dire circumstances. In 1955, the Kingdom would report a following of 449 members. Four years later, Kennedy ended up on the Chancellor's radar with his efficiency in managing the Kingdom, with him giving frequent interviews that appeared genuine. He would be Appointed by Chancellor Adalai Stevenson as the Governor-General of the Johnstown Colony. For the President, it was simply a political matter of removing vocal Democratic-Republican critic Chester Nimitz from his post as revenge.
In 1970, there had been rumors flying out from Johnstown that Kennedy had been complicit in numerous crimes against humanity, including the prohibition of food and drink for any who needed to be "retaught". Brutal pictures had been smuggled out by dissenters of children being beaten by guards for speaking out against the leadership. Accounts by ex-members told a picture of "five minutes of hate" for those that had "forsaken god and the almighty leader". There had even been issues with the locals on Johnstown, with members robbing and stealing what they could from the locals in order to bring them back to the community. These allegations reached all the way up to Parliament, with MP Lawton Chiles (DIX from Seminole), John Ashbrook (WHG from Iroquois) and Ronald Reagan (FED from Nuavoo) deciding to investigate the affairs themselves. On November 16, 1970 they arrived in a four seat nuclear powered Zeppelin to investigate. Tensions were generally high, but Kennedy did dispatch a welcoming committee to walk them through the camp, headed by his second in command (and oldest son) James Monroe Kennedy. The conditions were generally poor, but Kennedy blamed it on not enough supplies being brought forward or on corruption of the local officials. The politicians did have a keen note of whenever a member of the community would be asked a question, Kennedy himself insisted that the member would not speak, arguing there was no need for it. This raised suspicions, and the committee eventually ended up telling Kennedy that they would like to open up criminal charges against the religious leader for "poor...everything".
When the party got back to the airport the next day, a few trucks loaded with men ambushed them and their flight, killing the pilot and forcing Reagan to take the controls in order to get the Zeppelin away from the camp's dirt air strip. Shortly afterwards, Kennedy would tape himself going on a rant against the "tyrannical machine that wanted to take all the kids and turn them into communists." He would vow he'd rather kill himself than let the "commies win against this country". He passed on orders for everyone to drink large vats of cyanide laced Pez-Cola, commonly referred to today as "Drinking the Pez". In total, 1,089 bodies (213 of them identified as children) ended up being discovered by the Jamestown colonial police during investigations of the crime scene, with the body of Reverend Kennedy found, slumped over a desk with a .38 caliber pistol on it. The Johnstown incident remains the largest single mass suicide to this day. Controversially, his body was taken to be buried in the South, and is currently located at the Vicksburg National Cemetery in the Confederate States of America. The body has been the source of recent tensions between the United States and the Confederacy, with the CSA refusing to exhume his remains for shipment back up to Boston., in spite of repeated attempts by surviving family members of Kennedy to grant the body a proper burial in Northern soil.
I used Faceapp to thin his face out, make his face frown a bit more, and thin his hair out too.
Seriously? I guess they must think they can get the cast back? Although unless they're bringing back Chris Noth to be lead detective that bodes ill for the Flash as Jessie L Martin had that position last.
That said can it escape the shadow of Lennie Briscoe this time?
I like the infobox, but I think Reagan would have replaced Bush with Jack Kemp by 1993, because Baker retired from being Chief of Staff in early July 1988. Reagan and Kemp may both be supply-side conservatives, but if Bush (and by extension Bob Dole) demanded Reagan to step aside in 1992, Reagan could dump him and groom a successor whom he could trust to continue his legacy.
A little while ago, I learned that the finale episode of the 11th season of the Tv series King of the Hill Lucky's Wedding Suit was originally written as the series finale of the show before Fox decided to renew King of the Hill for its two finale seasons. This infobox is basically a "what-if" scenario if Fox decided to have King of the Hill end after 11 seasons and 213 episodes instead of 13 seasons and 259 episodes.
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