Given the fact that the hyperpartisanship it kicked off is still going on I'd say so unless you use entirely different people
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I think it depends on who is running in the timeline, @Hulkster'01 . John McCain died back in 2018, so he should probably be fine. Barack Obama IMHO is in a gray area. He's been out of office for 5 years yet he's still pretty relevant.
So Wanted to do something new for my timeline.
It's far from perfect but still learning.
It's far from perfect but still learning.
I wouldn't chance it. If you're using anyone who was in office within the last 10-15 years you will probably get flagged for it.
@Born in the USSA said it better than I can.
Looks pretty interesting, @The-English-Alexander , but that looks like that BPBC News thing it might count as "current politics" since Niki Haley is mentioned and she's pretty relevant.
Do Tom Ridge and Jay Rockefeller count then? I just picked them (and Jay was VP in my prev wikibox)
That's more of photos from alternate worlds IMO
Richard John “Dick” Grayson was an American businessman, diplomat, political advocate, and superhero. Grayson was born November 11, 1932 to circus performers John and Mary Grayson, with whom he'd serve as one of the Flying Graysons. At the age of 8, his parents were murdered by agents of gangster Tony Zucco, who had demanded extortion money from them and the circus. Shortly afterwards, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne, the original Batman, and became his sidekick, Robin, the Boy Wonder.
In 1954, after the retirement of Bruce Wayne as Batman, Grayson took up the mantle, juggling between it and his original identity as Robin for many years. In 1964, he and two other former sidekicks, the original Kid Flash and original Aqualad, formed the Teen Titans, an organization meant for younger superheroes and sidekicks to fraternize and learn from one another. While initially thought of as a “junior Justice Society” or “Justice League for kids”, the Teen Titans (later the Titans) became one of the most prestigious and expansive superhero organizations in the United States.
In 1970, as a thanks to his father for his help in electing him, President Richard Nixon nominated Grayson, a Democrat, serve as the American ambassador to the United Nations, where he would meet his future wife, the then-Tamaran Ambassador to Earth, Princess Koriand'r. After the election of fellow Democrat Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, Grayson retired for several months before being nominated to serve as the second United States Ambassador to post-Apartheid South Africa. As a private citizen, he managed his father's business, Wayne Industries, and remained a popular figure around the city. Like his father, he also spoke out for various political causes and candidates, with one of his last major public appearances being a speech at the 1992 DNC introducing Prez Rickard.
He died in 2006. Publicly it was said to be from a chest infection, but after the Batman Leak of 2020, it was revealed his death was caused in part by tortured-related injuries he had received from a kidnapping by Jeremiah Valeska, one of the Jokers, in 1988. After that incident, Jason Todd, his successor as Robin, also succeeded him as the Batman of Gotham City.
He is survived by his wife Koriand'r and their daughter Mari Grayson.
Bruce Wayne (Batman I)
Jay Garrick (Flash I)
Albrecht Krieger (Captain Nazi)
Doomsday Event (The Death of Superman)
1988 Gotham diplomatic incidents
Sandra Knight Borden (Phantom Lady)
Dudley H. Dudley ("Uncle Marvel")
Arkham Asylum
Atomic Bombing of Iraq
Justice Society of America
Steel (John Henry Irons?)
Harold "Tex" Thompson (Mr. America/Americommando)
Jong Li (Dragon Lord/Green Lantern)
Jimmy Olsen
Jack Napier (The Joker)
Jay Garrick (Flash I)
Albrecht Krieger (Captain Nazi)
Doomsday Event (The Death of Superman)
1988 Gotham diplomatic incidents
Sandra Knight Borden (Phantom Lady)
Dudley H. Dudley ("Uncle Marvel")
Arkham Asylum
Atomic Bombing of Iraq
Justice Society of America
Steel (John Henry Irons?)
Harold "Tex" Thompson (Mr. America/Americommando)
Jong Li (Dragon Lord/Green Lantern)
Jimmy Olsen
Jack Napier (The Joker)
Richard John “Dick” Grayson was an American businessman, diplomat, political advocate, and superhero. Grayson was born November 11, 1932 to circus performers John and Mary Grayson, with whom he'd serve as one of the Flying Graysons. At the age of 8, his parents were murdered by agents of gangster Tony Zucco, who had demanded extortion money from them and the circus. Shortly afterwards, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne, the original Batman, and became his sidekick, Robin, the Boy Wonder.
In 1954, after the retirement of Bruce Wayne as Batman, Grayson took up the mantle, juggling between it and his original identity as Robin for many years. In 1964, he and two other former sidekicks, the original Kid Flash and original Aqualad, formed the Teen Titans, an organization meant for younger superheroes and sidekicks to fraternize and learn from one another. While initially thought of as a “junior Justice Society” or “Justice League for kids”, the Teen Titans (later the Titans) became one of the most prestigious and expansive superhero organizations in the United States.
In 1970, as a thanks to his father for his help in electing him, President Richard Nixon nominated Grayson, a Democrat, serve as the American ambassador to the United Nations, where he would meet his future wife, the then-Tamaran Ambassador to Earth, Princess Koriand'r. After the election of fellow Democrat Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, Grayson retired for several months before being nominated to serve as the second United States Ambassador to post-Apartheid South Africa. As a private citizen, he managed his father's business, Wayne Industries, and remained a popular figure around the city. Like his father, he also spoke out for various political causes and candidates, with one of his last major public appearances being a speech at the 1992 DNC introducing Prez Rickard.
He died in 2006. Publicly it was said to be from a chest infection, but after the Batman Leak of 2020, it was revealed his death was caused in part by tortured-related injuries he had received from a kidnapping by Jeremiah Valeska, one of the Jokers, in 1988. After that incident, Jason Todd, his successor as Robin, also succeeded him as the Batman of Gotham City.
He is survived by his wife Koriand'r and their daughter Mari Grayson.
Bruce Wayne (Batman I)
Jay Garrick (Flash I)
Albrecht Krieger (Captain Nazi)
Doomsday Event (The Death of Superman)
1988 Gotham diplomatic incidents
Sandra Knight Borden (Phantom Lady)
Dudley H. Dudley ("Uncle Marvel")
Arkham Asylum
Atomic Bombing of Iraq
Justice Society of America
Steel (John Henry Irons?)
Harold "Tex" Thompson (Mr. America/Americommando)
Jong Li (Dragon Lord/Green Lantern)
Jimmy Olsen
Jack Napier (The Joker)
Good work on this general project. Interesting to see how things might be different with the actual timeline progressing in the DC Universe. Especially with all the superheroes, which would be hard to juggle. Such snippets help get a general idea and be fun to see how this goes on in the future.
I haven't really considered much about the present day. I've mostly been interested in filling out the backstory, in fitting together decades of published materials (plus the occasional reboot), and in digging up the most obscure possible corners of DC before returning to the safe confines of franchises like Batman and Superman.
I will consider it, but I cannot make any promises.
This was definitely worth the nearly year and a half wait. Great work as always, @Nofix
Richard John “Dick” Grayson was an American businessman, diplomat, political advocate, and superhero. Grayson was born November 11, 1932 to circus performers John and Mary Grayson, with whom he'd serve as one of the Flying Graysons. At the age of 8, his parents were murdered by agents of gangster Tony Zucco, who had demanded extortion money from them and the circus. Shortly afterwards, he was adopted by Bruce Wayne, the original Batman, and became his sidekick, Robin, the Boy Wonder.
In 1954, after the retirement of Bruce Wayne as Batman, Grayson took up the mantle, juggling between it and his original identity as Robin for many years. In 1964, he and two other former sidekicks, the original Kid Flash and original Aqualad, formed the Teen Titans, an organization meant for younger superheroes and sidekicks to fraternize and learn from one another. While initially thought of as a “junior Justice Society” or “Justice League for kids”, the Teen Titans (later the Titans) became one of the most prestigious and expansive superhero organizations in the United States.
In 1970, as a thanks to his father for his help in electing him, President Richard Nixon nominated Grayson, a Democrat, serve as the American ambassador to the United Nations, where he would meet his future wife, the then-Tamaran Ambassador to Earth, Princess Koriand'r. After the election of fellow Democrat Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, Grayson retired for several months before being nominated to serve as the second United States Ambassador to post-Apartheid South Africa. As a private citizen, he managed his father's business, Wayne Industries, and remained a popular figure around the city. Like his father, he also spoke out for various political causes and candidates, with one of his last major public appearances being a speech at the 1992 DNC introducing Prez Rickard.
He died in 2006. Publicly it was said to be from a chest infection, but after the Batman Leak of 2020, it was revealed his death was caused in part by tortured-related injuries he had received from a kidnapping by Jeremiah Valeska, one of the Jokers, in 1988. After that incident, Jason Todd, his successor as Robin, also succeeded him as the Batman of Gotham City.
He is survived by his wife Koriand'r and their daughter Mari Grayson.
Bruce Wayne (Batman I)
Jay Garrick (Flash I)
Albrecht Krieger (Captain Nazi)
Doomsday Event (The Death of Superman)
1988 Gotham diplomatic incidents
Sandra Knight Borden (Phantom Lady)
Dudley H. Dudley ("Uncle Marvel")
Arkham Asylum
Atomic Bombing of Iraq
Justice Society of America
Steel (John Henry Irons?)
Harold "Tex" Thompson (Mr. America/Americommando)
Jong Li (Dragon Lord/Green Lantern)
Jimmy Olsen
Jack Napier (The Joker)
The 2008 Czechoslovak parliamentary election was held on the 28th September 2008 to elect 300 members to the Czechoslovak National Assembly. Prime Minister Iveta Radičová was running for re-election to a third term.
The ČSSD leader Robert Fico had refused to resign after the party’s defeat in 2004, citing its increased seat total compared to 2000, but he was convinced to stand down to run for the 2005 Slovak election, which he won; his protégé Monika Beňová was elected the new party leader, making the 2008 election the first time a Czechoslovak election would see the two main parties led by women.
Despite this change in leadership and the economic downturn emerging by the time of the election, Beňová and the ČSSD were not very popular. Czechoslovakia had weathered the storm of the Great Recession better than several countries in the Eurozone like Spain or Greece, Radičová remained fairly well-liked by the public, and most significantly the left-wing parties were clashing more than the right-wing ones. ČSNS leader Jíři Dienstbier Jr had finally withdrawn support for a ČSSD government and condemned the party under Beňová as ‘only moving further down the path of Fico’ due to its continued antagonism of Hungarians in Slovakia and Russophilia.
This caused significant damage to the ČSSD’s credibility, though the OLS had also lost some popularity due to Rudolf Schuster being succeeded by Václav Klaus, who narrowly won the 2005 presidential election against the corruption-tarnished Jiří Paroubek. Klaus and Radičová worked together to continue the austere and neoliberal economics of her first term, but clashed somewhat over some social policies. Klaus vetoed implementing civil unions and linguistic protections for Hungarians despite these being crucial policy concessions from Radičová to the Greens and Coexistence and the Assembly passing them; this led the Greens to leave the government, and this allowed the Greens to secure their best result and voteshare ever with Coexistence also doubling its seats.
Despite this, and despite bleeding some votes to both the minor parties that had been its coalition partners and the SNS of Ján Slota, which returned to the Assembly after an eight-year absence, the OLS won a second plurality. This time, the coalition it built was less stable as Bursìk refused to back it; Radičová secured the support of the ČSL and Coexistence on confidence, but was unable to come to a coalition agreement with the latter, giving her government a minority of Assembly seats.
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California and southern Oregon secede at beginning of Civil War to form the Pacific Republic. A better explanation can be found on the TL's test thread.
Nice! What's the party system look like?Just some Senate elections that I did. If there's any questions feel free to ask.
The 2012 Czechoslovak parliamentary election was held on the 26th February 2012 to elect the 300 members of the Czechoslovak National Assembly. It was the first snap election since 1996, and was called by the OLS-led government of Iveta Radičová, which was seeking a fourth term.
The Great Recession’s impact on Czechoslovakia had deepened since the 2008 election, and many voters had started to blame Radičová and the OLS’s continued austerity economics more for this, particularly after she started to vocally clash with new President Miloš Zeman once he was elected in 2010. Zeman advocated for more interventionist economics and against bailouts for banks and other large companies, claiming he supported ‘socialism for the poor’ while Radičová’s government was trying to implement ‘socialism for the rich’.
Radičová also faced challenges from within her party, most notably two leadership contests with ideological opponents. In 2009 she was challenged by Karel Schwarzenberg over what he saw as her ‘unreasonable closeness’ to President Klaus at the expense of the moderate wing of the OLS, and in 2011 Andrej Babiš challenged her after it became clear she had suppressed corruption allegations into the government and the OLS in particular. She survived both these challenges, but they led the two men to negotiate to form a new centrist coalition opposed to the two major parties, as the OLS had in the early 1980s.
Schwarzenberg and Babiš reached out to several other populist businessmen and politicians like Radek John, Richard Sulík and Tomio Okamura for their funding and support, and formed the Direct Democratic Party (Czech: Přímá demokratická strana, Slovak: Priama demokratická strana, PDS) in the summer of 2011. The DDS’s members differed in political views on a large number of issues (for example, Schwarzenberg and Babiš were adamantly pro-European while Okamura was vocally Eurosceptic), but were united by their support for direct democracy, as well as benefitting from a massive amount of funding from their extremely rich leadership.
The OLS was also significantly threatened from outside the government, as the ČSSD’s new leader Bohuslav Sobotka was far less antagonistic towards the more centrist and centre-left parties than his predecessors Fico and Beňová had been, but was also conciliatory towards Zeman even when they personally disagreed on political issues. This and the implosion of the OLS after the PDS’s formation allowed the ČSSD to establish consistent leads in the polls from late 2009 onwards.
A major event precipitating the election was the death of former Prime Minister and President Václav Havel in December 2011. After Radičová gave a very well-received speech at his memorial service in January 2012, she announced in the last week of that month that she had requested President Zeman dissolve the Assembly. Most observers expected Radičová to wait until the Assembly’s term expired in September to call an election, but her personal popularity had started to improve after this speech, and it was speculated she had chosen now to dissolve the Assembly because it would allow the party to incur the least losses.
Ironically, this speculation led to severe criticism from the opposition parties, with PDS leader Schwarzenberg giving an impassioned speech condemning her ‘opportunism’ over a man who he had always been closer to than her (having been a senior advisor to Havel during his presidency). The OLS’s polling numbers subsequently collapsed back to their previous lows, and in the last two weeks of the election the PDS overtook the OLS and started to close in on the ČSSD's lead.
The election saw a massive defeat for the OLS and ČSL after nine years in government. The OLS lost 69 seats and for the first time since it was founded was not one of the two largest parties in the Assembly, while the ČSL lost more than two thirds of its seats. The PDS took 95 seats, the best performance for a new party in Czechoslovak history, though the ČSSD emerged with 105, making it the largest party. Consequently, Sobotka claimed a mandate to serve as Prime Minister over Schwarzenberg (helped by the PDS’s acrimonious relationship with the OLS and ČSL), and was able to negotiate the formation of a ‘left coalition’ with the ČSNS, DSS, Coexistence and the Greens that controlled 150 seats, seeking support from members of the PDS and ČSL to provide a tiebreaking vote on certain issues. However, some members of the PDS, particularly Okamura, vocally opposed this settlement, which would cause the new opposition to fracture during the 2012-16 term.
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