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Theodore Robert Bundy (né Cowell; born November 24, 1946) is an American politician, author, and convicted felon, who served two terms as the 20th Governor of the State of Washington and represented Washington for six years in the United States Senate. Plagued by a turbulent adolescent life, Bundy would find his footing on the political stage in the late '70s and early '80s, attending the Seattle University of Law and, urged by mentors Daniel J. Evans and Ross Davis, running for Washington's 7th Congressional District in 1980. Coinciding with a landslide victory for President-elect Ronald Reagan and a comfortable Gubernatorial victory for John Spellman, Bundy outperformed previous runners for this seat, coming in at just under a 5 point margin, nearly gaining the seat, an unexpected turn for the youthful Republican. This, combined with his connections to the now Senator Evans, his charisma, and his vigor, lead him to run for Lieutenant Governor just four years later, narrowly securing the Republican nomination and winning the general by a similarly narrow margin, as Democrat John Cherbug won the Gubernatorial seat. Bundy served for just four years, as a health scare prompted Governor Cherbug to retire in 1989, after just one term. This prompted Bundy to run for the highest office in Washington state, handily winning the nomination and winning the general against Democrat Booth Gardner by just over three points.

Throughout his Gubernatorial reign, Bundy would become well-known across the nation as not only one of the youngest Governors but also one of the most charming. The last of the relevant Rockefeller Republicans, he crafted an image of a tough on crime Governor, with a moderate tinge on social issues, while being heavily pro-business. This moderate reputation would lead to speculation of him replacing Vice President Quayle on the Republican ticket in 1992. Although this did not come to pass, opting instead to pursue re-election, Bundy would get the chance to run for Vice President in 1996, alongside Senator Bob Dole, who tapped the young Governor as his Vice Presidential candidate as a balance to his age and strong Conservatism. The Dole/Bundy ticket would lead in the polls for much of the 1996 campaign season against embattled President Jerry Brown, but an October Surprise would change that. It was revealed that Bundy had ongoing affairs during his current marriage, with allegations of paying off women to keep silent. This prompted his first wife, Stephanie Brooks to come out with allegations of affairs during their marriage as well, citing that as the reason for their divorce. Although the bribery allegations were pushed to the back burner, the Republican ticket that November would narrowly lose the election, despite winning the popular vote by a one point margin. Bundy left the Governor's Mansion ashamed, although, that would not last long, as he ran for the United States Senate against the unpopular incumbent Don Bonker, pulling off a narrow upset. He could not take his popularity for granted, however; as he was back to his days of narrow margins, winning both the Republican nomination and general election by similar margins of just over one point.

He had a similar tenure in the Senate as he did as Governor, voting with a moderate record, positioning himself close to the Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords. His popularity began to look up throughout his time in the Senate, choosing not to remarry, and he looked to be positioning himself for a Presidential run in 2004, as a mid-tier candidate, however; he would soon find himself under investigation for wire fraud and campaign finance violations, relating to his 1996 Vice Presidential campaign, his 1998 Senatorial campaign, and his multiple affairs, costing him re-election handily in 2004. In addition, he was accused of killing off one of the women he had an affair with after she was found dead, although, he wasn't charged, due to the fact that she was found years after the affair had ended and there was no evidence linking Bundy to the crime. On the charge of wire fraud, he was found guilty in 2006, after he had left office, and was sentenced to five years in prison, where he would remain until 2010, being let go a year earlier than expected. Bundy would then go into retirement for the next six years. During this time, conspiracies began popping up about the former Senator being a prolific serial killer in the Seattle area throughout most of his adult life. Conspiracy documentarian Alex Jones alleged that Bundy was connected to three spree killings, from 1974 to 1978, 1985 to 1993, and 2011 to 2013. There is no evidence that Bundy is resolutely connected to these crimes, although the conspiracy has some ground, with up to 25% of Washington residents saying they believe the allegations those in charge of investigating these crimes, however; say there is no evidence that Bundy could have committed these crimes and that they believe, in fact, that the killings were done by three separate serial killers. In 2016, Bundy came out of retirement, now arthritic and bound to a wheelchair, to run for President in a crowded primary, running with the satirical campaign slogan, poking fun at Jones' conspiracies: "I will slash your taxes and kill your debt". He was considered a low tier candidate but outlasted most primary opponents and won an upset victory in the Washington primary, a testament to his rehabilitated image amongst Washingtonians. He currently lives outside Seattle, Washington with his son, Ted Bundy Jr.

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Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全), known in English as Hank Sothen, was a Chinese-American soldier, businessman, politician, prohibition activist, and preacher.

Born as the third and youngest son of a Hakka family, he failed the imperial examinations several times, and, after the third failure in 1837, suffered a nervous breakdown and converted to Christianity. He migrated to the Americas some time in either 1840 or 1842, arriving in Mexican California. He would prospect for a time.

In 1850, he was involved in a drunken brawl with a white prospector. After escaping a lynch mob that night, he migrated eastward, eventually arriving in Bay Port, Michigan. Having scrounged enough money from prospecting, he established several businesses, including a cigar store and a bar in Detroit. After the Civil War, he would sell his bar and begin preaching against alcohol.

Despite encountering severe racism, Sothen was a well-known and popular man in his community, with the small Chinese population often seeking his guidance on matters. He was known to be a very proud and at times obsessive man. A popular story tells of him stomping into a rival business, and threatening to kill the owner with his bare hands if he did not apologize for slandering him as a “filthy diseased Oriental”. When informed he would be lynched by the twenty or so men there if he was harmed, Sothen replied he did not care what they did, so long as he received his apology and his dignity was respected. The owner apologized and Sothen was allowed to leave unmolested by the crowd.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted as a private. In 1862, he raised a “motley crew of Orientals, Europeans, Italians, Spaniards, and Negeroes[sic].” Contemporary accounts referred to him as among “the most sublime and handsome of soldiers.” He formed what was called “the Ever Victorious Army,” who, true to the name, never once lost a battle, despite suffering some of the heaviest casualties of all Michigan regiments. Despite often being shot at, he survived the entirety of the war without once being wounded by enemy fire, but was once shot in the buttocks due to friendly fire. Both Austin Blair and Abraham Lincoln met with him, and expressed their support of him and his men.

In 1866, despite vigorous opposition to a noncitizen and “coolie” holding office, he was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives by a wide margin, and served two terms as a Republican. He was the first Asian-American elected to a state legislature, and would be the last until 1926. He voted to ratify the 14th and 15th Amendments. He attempted to pass several prohibition statues, but each were stymied by the state senate.

In 1872 he ran for Governor, and in 1874 he ran for US House, both times as an Independent. He lost both elections. Sothen was the first Asian-American to run for either position. In 1882 he backed the Fusionist ticket for state elections, and in 1884, shortly before his death, he supported Benjamin Butler for a second Presidential term.

In 1881, Sothen was stabbed by a man accusing him of defrauding him in a railway investment. In 1882 he was shot at by a labor organizer. In 1885, months before his death, he nearly drowned and was rescued by a young Clement Holdings, future General Manager of Sundue Productions and Governor of Michigan.

His great-great-great-granddaughter Mary Ann Wilders is a former Lieutenant Governor of Dakota.


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In case anyone is wondering what the Hell, Michigan this is, it's a wikibox based on a very short joke conversation between me, @morbidteaparty and @von mises from two months back. A few things were changed from that, including the state and office. The picture is of a guy named Lue Gim Gong (source for him and his picture is pinterest). I also tried to replicate the "style" of a semi-obscure wikipedia page, with random asides to stuff with no lead-in, probably consisting of a single citation, and references to things and people who'd have their own wikipedia articles (and thus not be explained on the page itself). The two people mentioned in the last two paragraphs are not real, in case anyone is curious.

Is this realistic, or something the real Hong Xiuquan would do had circumstances arranged themselves? Probably not.
 
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Reza Strelokov (born Reza Khan) was born in an unknown village in the Mazandaran Province of the Persian Empire in 1878, to Major Abbas-Ali Khan and Noush-Afarin, a Muslim Georgian immigrant. When his father suddenly died when Reza himself was barely 8 months old, he and his mother would move back to Georgia, to live with his extended family. As a marginalized but literate citizen of the Russian Empire, Reza would engage in left-wing politics by joining the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. During the 1905 Revolution, Reza would later partake in several terrorist activities, encouraging violence against the Cossacks amongst Muslim communities and bombing vital pieces of infrastructure. However, the crackdown of the rebellion and the liberalization of the Caucuses under Count Vorontsov-Dashkov caused the Menshevik leadership to put a halt to the violence.

Upset at the Menshevik’s cooperation with the authorities, Reza and a group of followers would join the more radical Bolshevik faction, which continued to advocate for insurrection against the Tsar. As one of the few Bolsheviks leaders in the region, Reza would later become the Georgian representative to the Bolshevik leadership, earning him the favor of Vladimir Lenin. During this time, Reza Khan was also involved in the assassination of several Tsarist officials and informants, where his sharpshooting abilities earned him the nickname of Strelok, meaning shooter in Russian. Reza would later adopt this as nom de plume for his multiple publications advocating for guerrilla warfare.

During the Russian Civil War, Reza would rise quickly in party ranks, overseeing the mobilization of workers and the success of communist partisans as his role as Commissar of the Council of Labor and Defence. During this time, Reza would also come into conflict with the Commissar of Military Affairs Leon Trotsky, whom he disliked due to his abrasive personality and lack of military skill. Following the eventual Soviet victory, his wife would later give birth to Vladimir Rezanovich Strelokov, whom they had named after Vladimir Lenin. However, the Polish-Soviet war later broke out and Reza would oversee a massive re-organization of the Polish Red Army to increase the morale and quality of communist partisans, eventually assisting Mikhail Tukhachevsky’s capture of Warsaw.

The collapse of Pilsudski's administration and the subsequent formation of the Soviet Republic of Poland and Lithuania had transformed Reza and Trotsky into two of the most influential people in Moscow. As Lenin’s health began to fail in the following years, a significant rivalry formed between the two as the question of Lenin’s successor became increasingly prevalent. In the end, Reza’s popularity within the Party and the Red Army,w which allowed him to weaken the position of Trotsky’s “Left Opposition” within the government, culminating in his subsequent election as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. After purging the Left Opposition through the form of imprisonment, exile, and executions, Reza’s position as leader would be universally assured.

However, the rapid remilitarization of the Weimar Republic continued to threaten the Soviet global position, but this issue would be resolved after Germany fell into utter chaos during the Great Crash of 1930. During the Depression, the NEP’s position within the Soviet economy would be greatly revamped as small private enterprises would be effectively monopolized under the state-backed monopolies to ensure the mass industrialization of the nation. The liquidation of the kulaks and the subsequent famine in Ukraine would give rise to many crypto-nationalist Ukrainian sentiments. To resolve this, Reza would oversee the mass deportations of Ukrainians into Siberia and Central Asia, while dividing the Ruthenian, Donbass, and Crimean Republics from the Ukrainian SSR.

Subsequently, campaigns against financially successful or rebellious minorities took place, as Karelians, Abkhazians, Chechens, and Koryo-saram were targeted in the coming years. In the end, Reza’s Great Terror would ultimately centralize the economy around an increasingly exclusive system of state enterprises, of which the Red Army was a major beneficiary. This would be due to the fact that Reza had often relied on the Red Army to enforce his rule, more so than the newly-disbanded Cheka or the Party itself, as he would be later sworn in as the Generalissimus of the Soviet Union. In the eyes of the west, Reza’s Red Army would be seen as a massive threat to international peace, only rivaled by the German People’s Republic under the zealous command of Joseph Goebbels. Eventually, these fears would ring true during the Danube Spring, where thousands of revolutionaries rose up from Bucharest to Vienna, causing the German and Soviet armies to intervene and place much of Eastern Europe under communist rule. As the conquests of "The Red Genghis" raised global tensions, the capitalist world began to covertly back the Japanese Empire’s warpath across Asia.

While Japan’s dominance over China was assured, the Soviet annexations of Uyghurstan and Mongolia had risen much alarm, allowing for the rise of Sadao Araki, the chief advocate for a “Strike North” against Bolshevism. As the bombing of Vladivostok sent shockwaves across the Middle East, the underequipped armies of the Co-Prosperity Sphere began a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. While unflinching in their goal, the Japanese would later fall to the Red Army and its international allies, reducing the once-great Empire into a Soviet puppet. As cheers of victory ran throughout the nation and Strelokov’s own cult of personality had reached its absolute peak, his last act as Premier would be to establish the office of People’s Vodhz, of which he was its first officeholder. However, Strelokov would only live to celebrate this victory for a single year, dying from a heart attack on 26 July 1944. Soon after his sudden death, the party leadership would be quickly imprisoned at the hands of the Red Army, as they were pressured into electing Mikhail Tukhachevsky, The Red Napoleon as the new Soviet Premier.

The legacy of Reza Strelokov remains controversial to this day as his twenty-year regime oversaw one of the highest death tolls of any dictatorship in modern history. Negative interpretations of the first Vozhd being a belligerent warmonger, an avaricious mass-murderer, and a backwards Aryan savage would become somewhat common both during and after his reign over the Soviet Union. Despite this, Reza’s legacy as the people’s defender against imperialism and subversive infiltration remains common throughout much of the communist world. In addition, programs into mass industrialization, modernized defense systems, eugenics research, and the Latinization of the Soviet languages continue to be applauded to this day. However, the most prominent piece in Reza’s legacy takes the form of his firstborn son, Vladimir Strelokov, the last man to rule the Soviet Union.
 
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Okay, correct me if I'm mistaken, but if I'm reading this right, Wilson only won because Teddy boy was literally assassinated? Is that what happened here?
 
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Not quite. Wilson had the clear advantage, however; kept narrowly being denied the majority of delegations in the House. Teddy getting assassinated helped him clinch the election
For a brief (shining?) moment, I forgot the context and thought you referred to Britain, to Harold Wilson and Ted Heath.

And then I went "Heath got assassinated?" and suddenly realised this could mean America.
 
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Kanye Omari West (born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, record producer, and political activist. He has been influential in the 21st-century development of mainstream hip hop and popular music in general. Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West was first known as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s, producing singles for several mainstream artists, quickly gaining fame as a solo musician with his Higher Education trilogy. West is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with more than 20 million albums and 140 million singles sold worldwide. He has been a frequent source of controversy for his conduct at award shows, on social media, and in other public settings, as well as for his comments on the music and fashion industries, U.S. politics, race, welfare and class theory.

Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004 to critical and commercial success, and founded the record label GOOD Music. After a car accident nearly took his life, he began campaigning for transportation reform, particularly the advancement of electric vehicles and public transit, as well a growing interest for healthcare reform, motivated by both major damage to his jaw sustained during the aforementioned accident and the deteriorating health of his mother, Dr. Donda West. In her memory, West founded the DONDA International company, proclaiming that the company would "galvanize amazing thinkers in a creative space to bounce their dreams and ideas" with the "goal to make products that people can actually afford." Later, when Congressional Republicans began targeting the National Endowment for the Arts for potential axing, West campaigned for its validity, taking advantage of his 29.4 million followers to spread the word.

This is by no means considered his most notorious political activity. During a presentation spot with actor Mike Myers during 2005's Concert for Hurricane Relief, West looked down the camera and simply remarked "George Bush doesn't care about black people." In response the subsequent conservative backlash, West doubled down, adding "You see a black family, it says, 'They're looting.' You see a white family, it says, 'They're looking for food.' For them it's been five days waiting for federal help because most of the people are black. And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch. Sometimes I imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there." Additionally, despite being a wealthy businessman himself (having donated $2,700 to Bernie Sander's 2016 campaign, as well as $15,000 to several down-ballot and primary candidates through Brand New Congress) West was overtly critical of celebrities using their image to sell products, summarising it with a rather blunt argument; "Lady Gaga is the creative director of Polaroid. I like some of her songs, but what the fuck does she know about cameras?!"

In 2018, West launched the Lift Yourself programme, which bankrolled local community startups and shelters in order to further fight the problem of homelessness in his home town of Chicago, coordinating with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. He also preformed an impromptu concert, backed by local artists Raz Simone and Khingz, during the tumultuous 2020 George Floyd protests in Seattle Washington, reaffirming his support for the Sanders administration and Seattle mayor Kshama Sawant. Many have called for West to run for President in 2024, tho he has laughed these suggestions off, prioritising his family, mental health, and art first and foremost.
 
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