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The Ascension of the Daoguang Emperor in 1811 proved to be the turning point of Qing China, as the country reformed itself and became developed, industrialized and more educated. The 1849 Constitutional Act after 38 long years of reform saw Qing China turn into a Semi-Constitutional Monarchy.

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Note: Youlan Ya is otl James Angell, he immigrates as a child to China with his family for more monetary wealth. The name is a rough chinese transliteration
 
Hmm, interesting. Is this some sort of white supremacist version of ISIS? Taking over and establishing a protostate in Scandinavia?
That's exactly what it is. Though even within the white supremacist community they are controversial for their rejection of Christianity/push for a theocracy based on the Old Norse Religion.
 
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After the 2002 midterm victories, with the filibuster-proof majority in the senate retained, Gore and the Democrats moved to enact further policy action. The 108th Congress would subsequently take action on various issues, including expanding medicare to add a benefit to pay for prescription drugs (with a moderate proposal to deny medicare the ability to negotiate for prescription drugs, as medicare and other agencies can do for other programs, narrowly being defeated, to liberals' pleasure), increases in funds for k-12 education as well as Pell Grants, an increase in the minimum wage, and an expansion of the EITC. The Gore administration also carried out some tax increases, such as raising the cap on the taxable maximum in order to increase Social Security solvency, and other tax increases with the goal of helping pay for the war and rebuilding in Afghanistan to avoid the war from having an undue negative impact on the Clinton/Gore efforts to reduce the national debt (with the outbreak of the war in Afghanistan, efforts to continue the budget surplus seen in Clinton's last years were abandoned, but the Gore administration and Congress were able to keep the debt-to-GDP ratio on the decline that had started under the Clinton administration in the 1990s)

As the 2004 election approached, it began to look like it would be a close thing. On one hand, Gore's reforms and policies had decent approval (the predicted backlash to the carbon pricing and other climate policies of the GREENS Act never really precipitated at the national level, though it was seen in coal country and rural areas), as did the conduct of the war in Afghanistan (despite some grumblings about Bin Laden still not having been found). On the other hand, voters were increasingly feeling some Democrat-fatigue after 12 years of democrats in power, and the Gore tax increases weren't all that popular. Furthermore, the GOP nominated John McCain, who was seen on one hand as a fairly mainstream and acceptable conservative on domestic policy, and who on the other hand took a hawkish stance on foreign policy that many voters found appealing. The Gore administration had taken a cautious, diplomatic approach to conflicts with Iraq over suggestions that they had a WMD program as well as Iraqi refusal to allow international inspectors into the country, also taking a similar cautious approach with Iran - the administration wanted to avoid "biting off more than it could chew". McCain, on the other hand, advocated for a tougher stance against both countries, openly leaving direct military action and regime change on the table, which was fairly popular with the public at the time. Republicans also hit Gore over matters of Afghan rebuilding - claiming the administration was overspending American tax dollars and that the new Afghan transitional government, now freed of the Taliban, should be left with more responsibility to take care of itself without assistance, another idea that had some sway with swing voters

The 2004 election campaign saw the polls far narrower than they'd been in the past three presidential elections, with incumbent and challenger frequently trading the lead. And in the end, the election was the closest since 1976

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Gore did manage to pull out a win, making history as the first democrat to win a victory that ensured 4 consecutive presidential wins for the same party since Roosevelt's 1944 win. The results, however, saw the democrats essentially losing the entire south (including Gore's own home state), except for a (very narrow) win in Florida, and this was also the first time a democrat managed to win without winning the state of West Virginia since Wilson's 1916 win, as well as the first time that an incumbent won re-election with a smaller win than the first time around since Roosevelt's 1940 win

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The republicans got their first senate cycle of net gains since the 1994 elections, though their gains were quite small, a net gain of just one seat, and the democrats were able to maintain a supermajority, with their losses in the south being partially covered by gains in Alaska and Colorado. This would enable the democrats to replace a supreme court justice with a liberal if an opening were to emerge. It also would have enabled the passage of more liberal-leaning legislation - if it weren't for what went down in the house...

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The house saw the democrats winning the popular vote by 2.6% and nearly three million votes. Despite that (and in part due to a controversial mid-decade redistricting operation in Texas that saw the republicans gaining 7 seats in that state alone), the results were extremely narrow, with democrats just winning a technical majority of almost the narrowest amount possible (218, though the independent who was also elected caucused with the democrats). A couple conflicts emerged.

The 107th and 108th congresses had allowed for some somewhat liberal-leaning policy to be passed, but a minority of congressional democrats were rather upset at the abandoning of the more conservative blue dog orientation that had emerged after the 1994 midterms. Speaker Dick Gephardt had managed to narrowly usher legislation through the house despite upset from that faction, but after the 2004 election, the elected democratic majority was so narrow that it simply wouldn't exist without some of the more hardcore blue dog holdouts, which essentially doomed Gephardt's chances at continuing the speakership. Immediately after the election, negotiations among the democratic caucus began, to figure out who would succeed Gephardt

But another development occurred. The matter of gerrymandering hit the news in a big way, with the Texas redistricting in particular (in addition to some other states and their own maps) getting a lot of liberal blame and media attention, for potentially being responsible for denying the democrats enough seats to elect a non-blue dog speaker of the house, and more generally cutting democratic numbers down. A group of liberal congresspeople made a proposal to remove the power of congressional redistricting from the state legislatures, and place redistricting instead under the control of nonpartisan redistricting commissions, to prevent districts from being drawn in a way to benefit one party unfairly in future elections. This proposal gained support among mainstream democrats, and the leadership even considered attempting to pass such a law in the lame-duck period after the 2004 election before the next congress was sworn in, taking advantage of the larger democratic majorities in the lame duck congress. But this generated sizable backlash, with many calling it a blatant act of sore losers attempting to ease their ability to take back control, and with some southern blue dogs in particular also considering it an unacceptable assault of the federal government against the right of states to control their redistricting (despite the constitution clearly stating that the federal government can regulate the redistricting process). The republican party saw an opening, and after some negotiations, a handful of blue dogs simply left their party, changing their affiliation to "independent", and when the next congress was sworn in, democrat-turned-independent Gene Taylor (one of those bolting blue dogs) managed to be narrowly elected speaker, with a majority attained via the republican caucus plus his own vote and the vote of the couple other blue dogs who bolted from the democrats with him

As such, Gore was left with a divided congress, allowing him to likely keep his existing reforms in place but also making any substantial second term liberal-leaning reforms rather unlikely (with both democratic and republican strategists agreeing that even if a 6-year itch didn't emerge to doom the democrats in 1998, and a "10-year itch" didn't do it in 2002, it was rather unlikely that a "14-year itch" wouldn't emerge in 2006 to save the democrats). Gore looked forward to a stormy relationship with congress, with the potential for some bipartisan governance but also the potential for substantial gridlock

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(And this will likely be the end of this scenario, because frankly I'm just getting kinda bored of it)
 
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Hello, everybody! I've been a lurker of this thread for some time now, and I wanted to make an infobox of my own!

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It's a pretty basic one; the fictional character shown is the Heavy Weapons Guy, from team-based multiplayer hat-simulating first-person shooter Team Fortress 2. Made without the use of any external website, only using Paint.NET, and with no template. I do apologize of it is not up to the standards of this thread.
 
Introduction: This is a wikibox series that i am going to be doing for the next few weeks focused on Nepal and subsequently Asia. The mini-tl has its pod in the 1951 Nepalese Revolution. Enjoy! (Note: All things not edited by me belong to Wikipedia, so all rights reserved by Wikipedia on those cases)

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Hello, everybody! I've been a lurker of this thread for some time now, and I wanted to make an infobox of my own!

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It's a pretty basic one; the fictional character shown is the Heavy Weapons Guy, from team-based multiplayer hat-simulating first-person shooter Team Fortress 2. Made without the use of any external website, only using Paint.NET, and with no template. I do apologize of it is not up to the standards of this thread.
Pretty good, but lorewise, it's said that Heavy was a child during the 30s or 40s so he would be in his thirties or forties during the events of TF2.
 
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