Well not really my life as a teenage robot but what you think a batch of sequels to the cornetto trilogy would be in your mind while still keeping the homage style and also what custom flavours you think will be in each film
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I'm curious how close Texas was in this election. Have the demographic shifts been so intense even in TTL that Richards had little chance of winning it, or was it a swing state?
I imagine it being about a 4-or-5-point loss for Richards. That's about what Dole carried it by in 1996.
Romney is not as conservative as Bush, nor does he have a home state advantage like Richards does ITTL/Bush did IOTL, so that helps him, but I think Richards would be tied to Cuomo who, while popular, was more liberal than Clinton and would be viewed less favorably than he was in the South.
Relly cool, been meaning to do this wikibox for a week, you beat me to it. Just a tiny quick note, it’s confirmed in one of the “filling the gaps” news reports that Reagan’s 1976 running mate in the show was Richard Schweiker.
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It is interesting that despite Reagan's conservatism and Kennedy's liberalism, Kennedy is still sweeping the South.
Maybe Reagan ran a libertarian campaign that pissed off SoCons in the South?
Pretty good, but i think thz 1976 is based on the 2000 one so perhaps the PV is a lot closer
I’m thinking maybe some leftover Southern Democrat sentiment, since Nixon’s southern strategy didn’t pay off enough in 1972 in this timeline. I didn’t think about it much, I just gave Carter’s tipping point states to Reagan
Jim Jones was a preacher and politician best known for leading the People’s Temple and serving as Mayor of San Francisco from 1976 to 1982. Jones was ordained in the 1950’s and had a reputation as a leading advocate for racial integration and civil rights prior to moving to San Francisco, where he set up the People’s Temple. Jones, while in San Francisco, helped turn the People’s Temple into a powerful political machine thanks to his efforts on behalf of public welfare and staunchly left-wing politics earning him the friendship of many members of the New Left. Jones also was rather well-aligned with Governor Jerry Brown after his victory in 1974. Jones was not without his critics, however, as some claimed the People’s Temple had been involved in emotional, physical and even sexual abuse. Jones, however, was able to largely keep these claims under wraps and managed to, in a shocking upset, triumph in the 1975 mayoral election as a member of the Democratic Party.
Jones on taking office proved to be quite a controversial mayor. On the one hand, he cultivated a committed following owing to his advocacy for public housing programs, limits on evictions, free school lunches and other anti-poverty measures in the city. On the other hand, his tactics to implement these were decidedly corrupt. Jones used the People’s Temple as a cudgel against political rivals, who often were former allies of his. It is believed that the harassment that drove Board of Supervisors member Diane Feinstein to resign her position was carried out by members of the People’s Temple on the orders of Jones. While this remains unconfirmed, it is known Jones was not above threatening, blackmailing or physically intimidating members of the city government to get his way. Jones also was known to take city funds and put it in the hands of the People’s Temple, which had grown drastically to a congregation of nearly 20,000 confirmed members under his leadership.
However, Jones’ triumph would not prove immutable. Federal investigation of Jones began in 1980 and in 1982, Jones would be indicted on corruption charges. The mayor and preacher claimed that he was being falsely accused and that the Reagan administration was targeting him as part of a step to purge all left-wing voices from America. In March of 1982, Jones and a number of his loyalists barricaded themselves within the People’s Temple proper as federal agents arrived to arrest him. What followed was a nearly monthlong siege in which Jones (still nominally the mayor) continued to resist federal authorities, to the condemnation of other Democratic politicians. On April 21st, police forces finally decided to storm the compound, where they met stiff resistance from Jones’ supporters (including a mix of members of the People’s Temple and non-members who nonetheless sympathized with Jones). Nearly 4 dozen were killed when the Temple was stormed. Jones himself committed suicide in the back room of the People’s Temple along with his wife rather than surrender.
The aftermath of Jones’ death was highly polarizing. Nearly a full week of riots ensued over the failure to charge the police involved in killing members of the Temple and even those who had distanced themselves from Jones like his successor Harvey Milk demanded that the response to his actions be investigated. It is speculated that the fallout of the raid on the People’s Temple may have played a role in Reagan’s defeat in the 1984 election at the hands of Walter Mondale, though others have pointed to the anemic economic recovery and Reagan’s mental lapses during the debates as bigger contributing factors. Jones’ legacy is viewed somewhat complexly. On one hand, Jones undeniably was paranoid and the People’s Temple under his leadership seems to have been a de facto cult of personality. On the other hand,, Jones’ mayorship did leave behind a number of successful programs to combat poverty within the city and provided a model several other cities (most notably Denver, Detroit and Boston) have chosen to implement as well. For all that right-wingers deprecate these policies, labeling cities adopting them ‘Jonestowns’, they do for all intents and purposes seem to work quite well.
Jones on taking office proved to be quite a controversial mayor. On the one hand, he cultivated a committed following owing to his advocacy for public housing programs, limits on evictions, free school lunches and other anti-poverty measures in the city. On the other hand, his tactics to implement these were decidedly corrupt. Jones used the People’s Temple as a cudgel against political rivals, who often were former allies of his. It is believed that the harassment that drove Board of Supervisors member Diane Feinstein to resign her position was carried out by members of the People’s Temple on the orders of Jones. While this remains unconfirmed, it is known Jones was not above threatening, blackmailing or physically intimidating members of the city government to get his way. Jones also was known to take city funds and put it in the hands of the People’s Temple, which had grown drastically to a congregation of nearly 20,000 confirmed members under his leadership.
However, Jones’ triumph would not prove immutable. Federal investigation of Jones began in 1980 and in 1982, Jones would be indicted on corruption charges. The mayor and preacher claimed that he was being falsely accused and that the Reagan administration was targeting him as part of a step to purge all left-wing voices from America. In March of 1982, Jones and a number of his loyalists barricaded themselves within the People’s Temple proper as federal agents arrived to arrest him. What followed was a nearly monthlong siege in which Jones (still nominally the mayor) continued to resist federal authorities, to the condemnation of other Democratic politicians. On April 21st, police forces finally decided to storm the compound, where they met stiff resistance from Jones’ supporters (including a mix of members of the People’s Temple and non-members who nonetheless sympathized with Jones). Nearly 4 dozen were killed when the Temple was stormed. Jones himself committed suicide in the back room of the People’s Temple along with his wife rather than surrender.
The aftermath of Jones’ death was highly polarizing. Nearly a full week of riots ensued over the failure to charge the police involved in killing members of the Temple and even those who had distanced themselves from Jones like his successor Harvey Milk demanded that the response to his actions be investigated. It is speculated that the fallout of the raid on the People’s Temple may have played a role in Reagan’s defeat in the 1984 election at the hands of Walter Mondale, though others have pointed to the anemic economic recovery and Reagan’s mental lapses during the debates as bigger contributing factors. Jones’ legacy is viewed somewhat complexly. On one hand, Jones undeniably was paranoid and the People’s Temple under his leadership seems to have been a de facto cult of personality. On the other hand,, Jones’ mayorship did leave behind a number of successful programs to combat poverty within the city and provided a model several other cities (most notably Denver, Detroit and Boston) have chosen to implement as well. For all that right-wingers deprecate these policies, labeling cities adopting them ‘Jonestowns’, they do for all intents and purposes seem to work quite well.
One more wikiboxe frome my Decembrist Victory TL. Now episode the French history TTL - Second French Republic
Same wolrd as these:
First Russian Republic
The Jewish Republic
List of presidents of the Jewish Republic
[NB: due to French Intervention into the Russian Civil War, OTL July Revolution was shifted to a year]
Second French Republic was product of the May Revolution of 1831 - second of the Great European Revolutions of 1820-1830s. Revolution ended the rule of the ultra-conservative King Charles X, and the Bourbon dynasty rule in France at all [as would been seen later, finally]. There was an ideas between the Conservative wing of the revolutionaries to allow the Monarchy to survive, and give the throne to Louise-Philippe, Duke of Orleans. But Republicans won, and France was proclaimed the Presidental republic, with Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, hero of the American ad the First French Revolutions, became the first President.
Second republic was a very hard and turbulent period of the French history. Yes, it was moderate successful war in Algeria, and French help to the Belgian Revolution, ended with proclamation of the Federal Republic of Belgium in 1833. Also, slavery was abolished in French colonies in 1833 [OTL, in 1848] But in the internal affairs all was not so good. Socialist revolts of the southern cities such Marseille and Toulon, second Civil war with royalists in Vendee and Normandy until 1834, Paris protests of 1833, 1834, and 1837, Panic of 1835 –life of the new republic looks like this. End was more or less natural – in 1837 President Casimir Perrier made the coupe, dissolved the National Assembly and restored the Bonaparte dynasty rule in France. At first, there was an idea to give the throne to the Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Emperor Napoleon I, but Joseph gave way to his nephew – son of Louise Bonaparte, Louise-Napoleon. 2 December 1838 Louise-Napoleon was crowned as Emperor Napoleon III. Second Empire starts.
Same wolrd as these:
First Russian Republic
The Jewish Republic
List of presidents of the Jewish Republic
[NB: due to French Intervention into the Russian Civil War, OTL July Revolution was shifted to a year]
Second French Republic was product of the May Revolution of 1831 - second of the Great European Revolutions of 1820-1830s. Revolution ended the rule of the ultra-conservative King Charles X, and the Bourbon dynasty rule in France at all [as would been seen later, finally]. There was an ideas between the Conservative wing of the revolutionaries to allow the Monarchy to survive, and give the throne to Louise-Philippe, Duke of Orleans. But Republicans won, and France was proclaimed the Presidental republic, with Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, hero of the American ad the First French Revolutions, became the first President.
Second republic was a very hard and turbulent period of the French history. Yes, it was moderate successful war in Algeria, and French help to the Belgian Revolution, ended with proclamation of the Federal Republic of Belgium in 1833. Also, slavery was abolished in French colonies in 1833 [OTL, in 1848] But in the internal affairs all was not so good. Socialist revolts of the southern cities such Marseille and Toulon, second Civil war with royalists in Vendee and Normandy until 1834, Paris protests of 1833, 1834, and 1837, Panic of 1835 –life of the new republic looks like this. End was more or less natural – in 1837 President Casimir Perrier made the coupe, dissolved the National Assembly and restored the Bonaparte dynasty rule in France. At first, there was an idea to give the throne to the Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Emperor Napoleon I, but Joseph gave way to his nephew – son of Louise Bonaparte, Louise-Napoleon. 2 December 1838 Louise-Napoleon was crowned as Emperor Napoleon III. Second Empire starts.
Most of the South realistically would have left the Democratic column if Ted Kennedy was at the top of the ticket, though that would have been rectified somewhat by greater gains in the Northeast. Hubert Humphrey for example was usually losing the South by a little over ten points to Ford in the Gallup Regional polls, and it would probably be even worse for Kennedy given he wouldn't have softened his rhetoric the way Humphrey did on issues like Civil Rights. Reagan himself would also have had some pull in the region, but it seems as though it was more from voters being alienated from the Democratic candidate(s) rather than having a preference for Reagan.
At the end of it all, the 1976 Presidential Election was actually rather strange ideologically.
A component of Chairman Johnson's governmental reforms was the creation of a theoretically autonomous black republic in the South. Southern whites were enticed North with healthy checks, while poor whites were given resettlement vouchers and no choice (the 1967 Constitution may have guaranteed housing, but it did not guarantee choice of location). The Autonomous Negro Republic of America would be modeled after its grandfather republic, with a unicameral legislature and appointed Senate, a civil and economic Bill of Rights, and judicial, planning, and regulatory branches. Martin Luther King was appointed as interim President before elections could be organized, and founded the democratic socialist, pro-integration Humanist Party.
Malcolm X, searingly radical, pledged total independence and alliance with the Comintern. King was endorsed by a gallery of names: Chairman Lyndon Johnson, former Presidents Ickes, Tugwell, and Douglas, and Secretary of Equity James Farmer. X was politically isolated and his campaign was undermined by intelligence agencies. Historians endlessly debate whether or not votes for King were manufactured, or whether X really did authorize the bombing of polling stations by renegade BPP militants. Ultimately, however, the results speak for themselves.
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It's hard to resist because Jones was actually someone with political clout for a good amount of time.
Now if I wanted to be truly cliche and grimdark I would have made an infobox about a presidential election between Democratic Party elder statesman Jim Jones and Republican freshman Senator Ted Bundy in 1992.
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William Langer (September 30, 1886 – November 8, 1959), often referred to by his nickname "Wild Bill", was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1949 until his death in 1959. A member of the Republican Party, he won three presidential elections (which was a record up until Blythe). Langer directed the federal government during most of the Great Recession, implementing his Fair Deal domestic agenda in response to one of the worst economic crises in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he was one of the leading causes to the Granger/Moralist factions essentially complete control of the party until the 1980s. He was also known for strongly opposing any American military involvement in world affairs.
Langer was born on September 30, 1886 near Casselton, Dakota Territory, to German Americans Frank and Mary (Weber) Langer. His Catholic father, Frank Langer, was a member of the first legislature of the state of North Dakota. William, who spoke German fluently, was valedictorian of Casselton High School upon graduation in 1904. He obtained a bachelor of law from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, but was too young upon graduation to practice law. He therefore continued his undergraduate education at Columbia, where he graduated at the top of his class in 1910. Although he was offered a position at a prominent New York law firm, he elected to return to North Dakota, where he practiced law in the town of Mandan before starting his career in politics. Langer married Lydia Cady, the daughter of New York architect J. Cleaveland Cady, while in 1918, and they eventually had four daughters, Emma, Lydia, Mary, and Cornelia (who became a wife of abstract painter Kenneth Noland).
In 1914, Langer was appointed state's attorney of Morton County. He was then elected state attorney general. In 1920, Langer ran in the Republican Primary for Governor after incumbent Asle Jorgensin Granna did not run for re-election. He succeeded and went on to run in the general election. He would win that as well, and throughout his tenure, he became well known for his colorful and his hard-fought fight for the farmers of the state, along with his work to aid the rural population during the drought that occurred. He also became known for his support for prohibition. Anyhow, during this time, he became incredibly popular among North Dakotan voters. After winning one election after another, Langer ultimately decided to run for Senate in 1932. He was nominated and won against the Democratic Candidate P. W. Lanier in a landslide.
He stayed in the Senate (where he would push for non-interventionism) until 1946 when the Great Recession just began under President Kaiser. He decided to run for Governor once again because he believed the farmers of his state needed him during the economic downturn, especially as farmers were getting kicked off their farms due to unpaid debts. So he ran for Governor once again, defeating incumbent T. H. Thoreson in the primary, and he went on to win the general election. As soon as he was inaugurated, he went to work and spent his time in office working on reparations to farmers who were suffering during the Great Recession. His work as Governor led to him being convinced to run for President in 1948, which he did.
He won the primaries, and then the general election in a surprisingly close match against Democratic incumbent Kaiser, most likely due to Kaiser's personal popularity. Langer took office in the midst of the Great Recession, one of the worst economic crisises in U.S. history. During the first 100 days of the 73rd United States Congress, Langer spearheaded unprecedented federal legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the Fair Deal — a variety of programs designed to produce relief, recovery, and reform. He created numerous programs to provide relief to the unemployed and farmers while seeking economic recovery with the National Recovery Administration and other programs, alongside one of his major campaign focuses, universal healthcare. He also instituted major regulatory reforms related to finance, communications, and labor. With the economy having improved rapidly from 1949 to 1952, Langer won a landslide reelection in 1952. However, only a month after the election, a whole slew of scandal accusations arisen surrounding Langer. The main accusation was that as President, Langer had been forcing many White House employees to donate part of their annual salaries to The Granger, a pro-Republican newspaper whose owners were closely associated with Langer's administration. This accusation was incredibly similar to one that had been thrown around during his time as Governor, though that one did not gain enough traction to actually send Langer to trial.
Though, this time, after a long investigation, and a trial in the House, Langer was impeached. There is a common rumor still around that originated from that time, that after his impeachment by the House, Langer had actually barricaded himself in the Oval Office upon hearing the news. Anyhow, he was acquitted by the Majority Republican Senate, on the grounds that 'moral turpitude' is not grounds in of itself for impeachment. It is still disputed whether or not Langer was truly guilty of the accusations, though after some discoveries of corruption among the committee that investigated Langer, among other evidence, many historians, such as Presidential Historian Lawrence Larsen, agree that Langer was not guilty of most of his accusations that came from "those who held grudges against 'Wild Bill' Langer".
Langer's second term was mostly continuing his policies from his first term. Though one issue that was starting to grow even further that worried many citizens and politicians was the situation in Europe. His predecessor, Kaiser, had been an interventionist and wanted to aid the countries in the struggle against authoritarianism. But unlike Kaiser, Langer was an isolationist, and though while he was a German-American who extremely disliked the French, he stood firm to his election promises of staying out of the world's business. While this was popular among the rural population and Republicans, it was controversial among Democrats and the Liberals who had been taken over by the rabid anti-communist faction led by Welch after the party's founder Taft's death (Taft had been an isolationist). After his second term came to an end, Langer broke Washington's precedent and ran for a third term. He actually met some hard-fought opposition from inside his own party but was able to pull through.
Langer won reelection in 1956, but with his physical health declining during his second term, he died in November 1959, only three months after his wife died from cancer. He died from advanced diabetes, a disease he had not disclosed to anyone that he had, not even his cabinet members, causing much suprise and mourning from even those closest to him in both his personal and his political life. His vice-president, Frank Carlson, succeeded him and went on to continue Langer's policies, including passing the Civil Rights Act of 1959, a bill which Langer had been pushing for up until his death, alongside a list of reforms focused on mental health.
Langer is usually rated by scholars among the nation's greatest presidents, with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but has also been subject to substantial criticism.
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