Don’t know you what lesser of evils are? Even though I wouldn’t really go as far to say Eastwoods bad.
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Clint "I am the living embodiment of a reactionary grandpa" Eastwood?
He would be profoundly cursed.
But the entire 2000s in this timeline are cursed. Imran ran a company which illegally exported weapons. Dornan is an demagogue ultra-conservative. Eastwood is a reactionary Libertarian, Blago is like a corrupt politician in a mob movie, and Hayes well, don't know much about her.
The 1999 Belarusian presidential election was held in two rounds on the 24th June and the 11th July 1999. Incumbent President Vyacheslav Kebich chose not to run for a second term, making the election an open contest.
Kebich had tried to pass substantive constitutional reforms as President that he put to multiple referenda, which would have made Russian an equal language in law to Belarusian and changed the country’s flag to a different design resembling the one it had as a Soviet republic. These were met with substantial protests and rejected by the public, hurting Kebich’s popularity and undermining his supposed neutrality on Belarus’s foreign relations.
His pro-Russia stance was further damaged by the economic hardship that country faced during the mid-1990s, which damaged the prospects of monetary union and caused many Belarusians to lose faith in the idea. This was reflected in the results of the 1995 parliamentary election, which the pro-Kebich parties such as the Agrarian Party and Republican Party of Labour and Justice lost decisively and the BSDH (Assembly) and BPF performed strongly in. Fighting with the new Supreme Council contributed to a continued fall in support for Kebich.
Despite their alliance during the 1994 presidential election, the Assembly and BPF made it clear they would not ally behind a single candidate again. This was partly down to Kebich’s absence, but also because they had been drifting away from each other ideologically during the intervening period; the BPF had doubled down on their social conservatism while the Assembly had entered talks with the anti-Kebich wing of the Belarusian Party of Communists (PCB) to form a joint candidacy.
The BPF re-nominated Zianon Pazniak while Assembly nominated Sergey Kalyakin, the PCB leader. Pazniak again ran on an adamantly pro-Western policy agenda, while Kalyakin took a moderate stance on foreign relations, not wishing to advance Belarusian ascension to NATO or the EU but also not wanting closer ties with Russia. On domestic affairs, Pazniak argued for economic liberalisation while Kalyakin pledged to continue state ownership of Belarusian industry and strengthen social security programmes.
Kalyakin beat Pazniak by a bigger margin than Kebich had in 1994, taking 56.1% of the vote to 41.5% for Pazniak.
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Uhm, so the trend seems to be political scandals. Though her's doesn't look half as bad as the others.
I am curious about the choices, the scandals seem like the only logical reason for their choices.
Not particularly, admittedly Blago is somewhat that for the fun of it (though a populist midwestern governor who in TTL has had enough buy-in from the state lege to get his programs through and then able to successfully weather a giant economic storm fits the bill of a Gephardtified Democratic Party) but also where a post-Reagan President Gephardt - this is, to say, a much more reflexively economically populist situation than New Democrats ever allowed - would drive the party to embrace and national discourse to focus on, what the reaction would be centered on, and so on.
Also, in Hayes’ case she hasn’t even met John Kitzhaber TTL (she met him in 2003 OTL, here he’s out of office and she’s in the state legislature by then) so that scandal is out the window
. Hey, in most cases where a Democrat wins 1988 the 1,322 votes needed to give Vinich the win against Malcolm Wallop probably show up off their coattails. From there, it’s anyone’s guess what his national career looks like, I personally went with “narrow Jon Tester-style re-election against a flawed, lazy Republican candidate” then a longshot presidential bid that works in the most Jimmy Carter of ways.
Fair enough. My comment wasn't a criticism of the choices btw, I was just curious because they were odly specific.Not particularly, admittedly Blago is somewhat that for the fun of it (though a populist midwestern governor who in TTL has had enough buy-in from the state lege to get his programs through and then able to successfully weather a giant economic storm fits the bill of a Gephardtified Democratic Party) but also where a post-Reagan President Gephardt - this is, to say, a much more reflexively economically populist situation than New Democrats ever allowed - would drive the party to embrace and national discourse to focus on, what the reaction would be centered on, and so on.
Also, in Hayes’ case she hasn’t even met John Kitzhaber TTL (she met him in 2003 OTL, here he’s out of office and she’s in the state legislature by then) so that scandal is out the window
Hey, in most cases where a Democrat wins 1988 the 1,322 votes needed to give Vinich the win against Malcolm Wallop probably show up off their coattails. From there, it’s anyone’s guess what his national career looks like, I personally went with “narrow Jon Tester-style re-election against a flawed, lazy Republican candidate” then a longshot presidential bid that works in the most Jimmy Carter of ways.
Could something similar to this happen if the plot to kill Andrew Johnson, William Seward, and Ulysses S. Grant along with Abraham Lincoln in April 1865? I've heard that if the plot went without a hitch then the Confederacy would rise again for a Second American Civil War.here's a confederacy that decided it would be a great idea to revolt against Union occupation following the end of the First Civil War.
It does not end well for them.
That's certainly what Booth and his conspirators had hoped for but it wasn't grounded on reapity. There was no organized conspiracy to resurrect the confederacy. Somethijf of that scale would need the involvement of many ofbits former political and military leaders, a large ammount of financial power, and incredible logistics. They had none of that. In fact the south was absolutely devastated.
Perpahs news of the death of Lincoln and his entire upper echelon could've inspired a popular uprising among pockets of former confederate soldiers in the south (which is the kind of romantic aspiration Booth and his confederates probably thought could succeed), but it would quickly be crushed again due to the aforementioned lack of organization and logistical support.
500,000 former confederates emigrating to South America (I imagine primarily brazil, possibly Spanish Carribeans too) or (Russian) Alaska is something uh.here's a confederacy that decided it would be a great idea to revolt against Union occupation following the end of the First Civil War.
It does not end well for them.
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Before 1934 the prime minister's official residence and de-facto office was Number 10 Downing Street, a townhouse 100 metres South of the present-day location of Century House gifted by King George II to Sir Robert Walpole in the 1700s to be used as the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury. But by the early 20th century the residence was in a dilapidated state and was widely considered to be of inadequate size and scale for the growing scale and obligations of the British government and the British empire.
In 1923 Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who considered Downing Street to be a "miserable middle-class townhouse," commissioned Aston Webb to design a governmental headquarters modelled after the German Reichskanzlei (Chancellery) in Berlin. Built to the contemporary neo-baroque style, construction was delayed by the onset of the Great Western War; despite this the prime minister's office and residence moved to the partially completed Century House in 1928 after an aerial bombing raid severely damaged 10 Downing Street, which was demolished post-war to make way for the Treasury Extension.
In 1932 near-complete Century House was the scene of Henry IX giving Royal Assent to the Commonwealth Constitution Act which abolished the monarchy and his position, a symbolic location that was meant to demonstrate the supremacy of civilian government. The complex was formally opened by President Leo Amery in 1935.
The top floor of Century House has several grace-and-favour apartments which are used for the prime minister, senior cabinet members and official government functions, while the remaining floors house the Executive Office which supports the prime minister and the cabinet, as well as several agencies which report directly to the prime minister such as the Civil Contingencies Secretariat.
Since 1935 Century House has become a symbol of the British government; press conferences and functions are regularly held in Century House's courtyard while the famous arch that frames the entrance from Whitehall to the courtyard became a gathering place for protesters and an obligatory stop for tourists.
The Battle of Puerto Rico (November 18, 1943 - January 1, 1944) was a major battle in which the 14th United States Army, consisting of units from several nations of the Manila Pact landed on and eventually re-captured the island of Puerto Rico from its British and German garrison. The island had been captured in fall 1941 by a daring airborne assault by German and British paratroopers in the fascist blitz across the Caribbean in the weeks following the destruction of the US Atlantic fleet at Guantánamo Bay in June 1941.
The fascist positions on the island were heavily fortified and the local commanders chose to abandon the old strategy of trying to stop the enemy on the beaches, which had largely failed in preventing the capture of Jamaica and Bermuda earlier in the year, as those garrisons were heavily exposed to naval gunfire, close air support from carrier aircraft and heavy bombers operating from the continental US. The new tactics would only disrupt the landings at the water's edge and depend on an in-depth defense further inland. General Feldt used the varied terrain of the island in the German sector to his advantage, by constructing a system of heavily fortified bunkers, caves, and underground positions, all interlocked in a "honeycomb" system. Even with these extensive preparations, the fascist forces were subjected to nearly two weeks of round the clock bombing by both fighters and bomber aircraft and continuous shelling by the combined allied navies, which included the heavy guns of the battleships Shinano, USS Illinois, Nagato, USS Arizona, USS Nevada, Ise and USS South Dakota.
The allied landings were preceded by the insertion of US special units made up of Puerto Rican combat veterans who were given additional commando training by a team of Army Ranger and Marine Raider instructors. These units made contact with local resistance units and were able to accurately report the deployment of fascist troops on the island, even causing the location of the landings of the Commenwealth Corps to be moved after an number of the notorious British 25pdr anti-tank guns were discovered in the hills surrounding the original landing beaches.
The landings began in the early morning hours of Thursday, November 18, 1943 with the landings of V Amphibious Corps, (consisting of the 3rd, 7th and 10th Marine Divisions (USMC), the Second Kure Special Naval Landing Force (Japan) and the 1st Scout Ranger Regiment (Philippines)), at Sardine and Paradise beaches on the outskirts of San Juan. These were supplemented by the landings of the Commenwealth Corps (6th Canadian Infantry Division, 1st Special Service Force (US/CDN), 1st Free British Guards, 14th Canadian Hussars, 1st Armoured Regiment (Australia) and the Waikato Mounted Rifles (New Zealand)) at the Playa Al Mar on the outskirts of Ponce. The western portions of the islands were captured in under a week, but the street fighting in San Juan continued for nearly a month and the German garrison on the isle of Vieques did not surrender until New Year's Day.
The Presidents of the United States of America, from 1789 to 1820. Not intended to be taken particularly seriously.
The 1819 presidential election is more of a mess than usual for this unfortunate version of America. I didn't do a box for the VP election, but you can look at the numbers in the notes for Monroe above and get an idea of how messy it is.
The 1819 presidential election is more of a mess than usual for this unfortunate version of America. I didn't do a box for the VP election, but you can look at the numbers in the notes for Monroe above and get an idea of how messy it is.
Do you have any lore behind this TL? I‘m curious about the circumstances that would cause Imperial Japan to ally with the U.S while Britain sides with Nazi Germany.
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