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2004-2007 Traian Băsescu (Yes Alliance,PD by 2007)
2007-2007 Nicolae Văcăroiu (PSD,interim President)
2007 Presidential Impeachment Referendum: 75,06% No,voting presence 44,45%-APPROVED
2007-2013 Traian Băsescu (PD-L)
2008: Emil Boc-PD-L (167),Mircea Geoană-PSD+PC (167),*Călin Popescu Tăriceanu-PNL (87),Béla Markó-UDMR (32)
2009 Euro Elections: PSD+PC (10),PD-L (10),PNL (6),UDMR (3),PRM (3),Elena Băsescu-Independent
2009 Presidential Election First Round def: Mircea Geoană (PSD+PC),Sorin Oprescu (Independent),Teodor Meleșcanu (PNL),Corneliu Vadim Tudor (PRM)
2009 Presidential Election Second Round def: Mircea Geoană (PSD+PC)
2012: Liviu Dragnea (replacing Adrian Năstase)/Crin Antonescu/Dan Constantin/Gabriel Oprea-USL (415),Dan Diaconescu-PPDD (87),*Mihai Răzvan-Ungureanu/*Vasile Blaga-ARD (41),Kelemen Hunor-UDMR (28)
2013-2017 Crin Antonescu (USL,PNL by 2016)
2013 Presidential Impeachment Referendum: 85,19% Yes,52,35% voting presence-APPROVED
2013 Presidential Election First Round def: Dan Diaconescu (PPDD),Eugen David (Independent),Gheorghe Falcă (PD-L),Kelemen Hunor (UDMR)
2013 Presidential Election Second Round def: Dan Diaconescu (PPDD)
2014 Euro Elections: USL (23),PD-L (5),UDMR (2),PPDD (2)
2016: Liviu Dragnea/Neculai Onțanu/Călin Popescu Tăriceanu-PSD+UNPR+PLC (250),Nicușor Dan-USR (55),Ludovic Orban-PNL (53),Gheorghe Falcă-PD-L (31),Kelemen Hunor-UDMR (31),Dan Diaconescu-PPDD (20)
2016 Constitutional Referendum Regarding Gay Marriage: 93,54% For,38,10% voting presence-APPROVED
2017-2017 Călin Popescu Tăriceanu (PLC,interim President)
2017 Presidential Impeachment Referendum: 57,98% Yes,51,59% voting presence-APPROVED
2017-2017 Nicușor Dan (USR)
2017 Presidential Election First Round def: Liviu Dragnea (PSD+UNPR),Crin Antonescu (PNL),Călin Popescu Tăriceanu (PLR),Andrei Volosevici (PD-L)
2017 Presidential Election Second Round def: Liviu Dragnea (PSD+UNPR)
2017-2018 Călin Popescu Tăriceanu (PLC,interim President)
A scenario that stayed in my head for a while,basically most of the big names of PNL in 2008 narrowly lose their seats like they nearly did OTL (it cannot be stated how tight that election was) and Meleșcanu becomes PNL leader for a while by default. The big names flock desperatly to get a seat in the EU Parliament or the Romanian one via byelections but this doesn't stop the fact that Meleșcanu is an old fosil that attracts no real electoral supports. During the debates on TVR (again,also something that narrowly happened in 2009) his faults gets evidenced more and Oprescu narrowly wins the third place,which doesn't really change the final result but more the narrative as a whole. Antonescu soon replaces him after this humiliation.
Ponta gets in a car accident during a rally and is temporaly unavailable,forcing Năstase to stay in the race and rebecoming PSD leader,creating an awkwark situation when he is convicted of corruption like OTL. Ponta's plagiarism is still revealed but he can't use his power as PM to get away with it and thus can't follow as Năstase's succesor and Dragnea becomes undisputed leader of PSD and later Romania earlier. Due to Ungureanu narrowly managing to remain in power a while longer (again,narrow thing,hence the title),PD-L sufferes more electorally and almost all big names get wiped out in the local and later parliamentary elections and Băsescu's impeachment is easier to do and with less external backlash (for a while at least).
Due to being more to be Dragnea's puppet than OTL,Antonescu is forced to approve almost all of the Black Tuesday's laws,more or less doing the OUG 13 earlier which makes the Roșia Montană protests last slightly longer but eventually fissle out due to a lack of leaders (Eugen David only runs as an Independent here to make more people notice). The Colectiv protests lead to a official breakup of USL,the anti gay referendum happens earlier and passes unfortunately and PNL is more weak due to PD-L not fusing with them. Dan Diaconescu is still around due to Black Tuesday making criminal investigations of politicians and all liberal professions futile and airs OTV online on Facebook but isn't as powerful as before. Impeaching Antonescu like Băsescu before,Dragnea and his cronies are now stuck in a new stalemate against Nicușor Dan,who both loses massively rigged impeachment referendums and wins the following span elections.
Only God knows how this will end.
2004-2007 Traian Băsescu (Yes Alliance,PD by 2007)
2007-2007 Nicolae Văcăroiu (PSD,interim President)
2007 Presidential Impeachment Referendum: 75,06% No,voting presence 44,45%-APPROVED
2007-2013 Traian Băsescu (PD-L)
2008: Emil Boc-PD-L (167),Mircea Geoană-PSD+PC (167),*Călin Popescu Tăriceanu-PNL (87),Béla Markó-UDMR (32)
2009 Euro Elections: PSD+PC (10),PD-L (10),PNL (6),UDMR (3),PRM (3),Elena Băsescu-Independent
2009 Presidential Election First Round def: Mircea Geoană (PSD+PC),Sorin Oprescu (Independent),Teodor Meleșcanu (PNL),Corneliu Vadim Tudor (PRM)
2009 Presidential Election Second Round def: Mircea Geoană (PSD+PC)
2012: Liviu Dragnea (replacing Adrian Năstase)/Crin Antonescu/Dan Constantin/Gabriel Oprea-USL (415),Dan Diaconescu-PPDD (87),*Mihai Răzvan-Ungureanu/*Vasile Blaga-ARD (41),Kelemen Hunor-UDMR (28)
2013-2017 Crin Antonescu (USL,PNL by 2016)
2013 Presidential Impeachment Referendum: 85,19% Yes,52,35% voting presence-APPROVED
2013 Presidential Election First Round def: Dan Diaconescu (PPDD),Eugen David (Independent),Gheorghe Falcă (PD-L),Kelemen Hunor (UDMR)
2013 Presidential Election Second Round def: Dan Diaconescu (PPDD)
2014 Euro Elections: USL (23),PD-L (5),UDMR (2),PPDD (2)
2016: Liviu Dragnea/Neculai Onțanu/Călin Popescu Tăriceanu-PSD+UNPR+PLC (250),Nicușor Dan-USR (55),Ludovic Orban-PNL (53),Gheorghe Falcă-PD-L (31),Kelemen Hunor-UDMR (31),Dan Diaconescu-PPDD (20)
2016 Constitutional Referendum Regarding Gay Marriage: 93,54% For,38,10% voting presence-APPROVED
2017-2017 Călin Popescu Tăriceanu (PLC,interim President)
2017 Presidential Impeachment Referendum: 57,98% Yes,51,59% voting presence-APPROVED
2017-2017 Nicușor Dan (USR)
2017 Presidential Election First Round def: Liviu Dragnea (PSD+UNPR),Crin Antonescu (PNL),Călin Popescu Tăriceanu (PLR),Andrei Volosevici (PD-L)
2017 Presidential Election Second Round def: Liviu Dragnea (PSD+UNPR)
2017-2018 Călin Popescu Tăriceanu (PLC,interim President)
A scenario that stayed in my head for a while,basically most of the big names of PNL in 2008 narrowly lose their seats like they nearly did OTL (it cannot be stated how tight that election was) and Meleșcanu becomes PNL leader for a while by default. The big names flock desperatly to get a seat in the EU Parliament or the Romanian one via byelections but this doesn't stop the fact that Meleșcanu is an old fosil that attracts no real electoral supports. During the debates on TVR (again,also something that narrowly happened in 2009) his faults gets evidenced more and Oprescu narrowly wins the third place,which doesn't really change the final result but more the narrative as a whole. Antonescu soon replaces him after this humiliation.
Ponta gets in a car accident during a rally and is temporaly unavailable,forcing Năstase to stay in the race and rebecoming PSD leader,creating an awkwark situation when he is convicted of corruption like OTL. Ponta's plagiarism is still revealed but he can't use his power as PM to get away with it and thus can't follow as Năstase's succesor and Dragnea becomes undisputed leader of PSD and later Romania earlier. Due to Ungureanu narrowly managing to remain in power a while longer (again,narrow thing,hence the title),PD-L sufferes more electorally and almost all big names get wiped out in the local and later parliamentary elections and Băsescu's impeachment is easier to do and with less external backlash (for a while at least).
Due to being more to be Dragnea's puppet than OTL,Antonescu is forced to approve almost all of the Black Tuesday's laws,more or less doing the OUG 13 earlier which makes the Roșia Montană protests last slightly longer but eventually fissle out due to a lack of leaders (Eugen David only runs as an Independent here to make more people notice). The Colectiv protests lead to a official breakup of USL,the anti gay referendum happens earlier and passes unfortunately and PNL is more weak due to PD-L not fusing with them. Dan Diaconescu is still around due to Black Tuesday making criminal investigations of politicians and all liberal professions futile and airs OTV online on Facebook but isn't as powerful as before. Impeaching Antonescu like Băsescu before,Dragnea and his cronies are now stuck in a new stalemate against Nicușor Dan,who both loses massively rigged impeachment referendums and wins the following span elections.
Only God knows how this will end.
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Members of Parliament for the Constituency of Bishop Havel (1950 - 1983):
1950 - 1955: George F. Smith (Labour)
1950 def. Cpt. Gregory Jones (Conservative), David McCombs (Communist), Lionel Carpenter (Liberal)
1951 def. Cpt. Gregory Jones (Conservative)
1955 - 1959: Lance Balfour (Conservative & National Liberal)
1955 def. George F. Smith (Labour)
1959 - 1961: George F. Smith (Labour)†
1959 def. Lance Balfour (Conservative & National Liberal)
1961 - 1970: Arthur Redford (Labour)
1961 def. David Bowen (Conservative), James Goldsmith (Liberal), Cpt. Gregory Jones (Economic Freedom)
1964 def. David Bowen (Conservative), James Goldsmith (Liberal)
1966 def. Nigel Livesey (Conservative), André Poulson (Liberal)
1970 - 1974: Roger Mills (Conservative)
1970 def. Rory Charlesworth (Labour), Laurence Fleming (Liberal), Cpt. Gregory Jones (Independent Conservative)
Feb 1974 def. Maureen Miller (Labour), Laurence Fleming (Liberal)
1974 - 1979: Maureen Miller (Labour)
Oct 1974 def. Roger Mills (Conservative), Elizabeth Poulson (Liberal)
1979 - : Greg Clifford (Conservative)
1979 def. Maureen Miller (Labour), Roy Templer (National Front), Elizabeth Poulson (Liberal)
1983 Constituency Folded Into Mid Derbyshire Constituency
George F. Smith: A former Miner and Junior Minister for the Attlee Government, he become the new MP for the Bishop Havel Constituency in Derbyshire. Smith, a firm member of the Labour Right he would spend much of the Fifties fighting Bevanites within the local party and supporting Hugh Gaitskell, though he would repudiated his support in 1960 when the Clause Four debacle made Smith declare Gaitskell as a ‘fool and a traitor’. He would die of a heart attack whilst on holiday in Skegness.
Lance Balfour: Elected due to Liberal Support, this former Merchant Banker would find himself very much at odds with the Eden and Macmillan Government. An early member of the Institute of Economic Affairs he would support the British Response to the Mau Mau Uprising and the Suez Crisis, decrying the retreat as ‘conceding to the Egyptian Socialist hordes’. Upon losing his seat in 1959, Balfour would go back to banking, writing several books on Hayekian Economics and would be an economic advisor to the Pinochet Government in 1973 before dying mysteriously in a car accident in 1978.
Arthur Redford: Previously a member of the Communist Party in the 1940s, Redford would win a seat after being a worker at the department of Labour Party Research and Planning. A firm supporter of Harold Wilson, as Junior Minister Redford would oversee the response to the 1966 Seaman’s Strike and would be a firm supporter of asset stripping ‘inefficient industries’ and nationalising them. Given a job on the National Railway Board he would oversee British Railways for the rest of his life in some capacity. A long rumoured affair with Michael Redgrave in the 1940s would be proven true in 2004 after his death.
Roger Mills: Very much a Heathite individual, Mills was the son of a Green Grocer and had flirted with becoming a member of the Labour Party in his youth before working at Lloyds Bank and becoming friends with the Young Conservatives. Mills habit of being a believer in Keynesian economics and Pro-European ideals angered his local Conservative Association but despite an independent run by Captain Gregory Jones, Mills would surprisingly gain Bishop Havel, signifying the raise of places like Bishop Havel as Commuter belt for Derby and Sheffield. Mills would stridently support the Heath Government for the most part, though he would call the Selsdon Manifesto ‘an awful and regressive plan that fails to address the problems at hand in Britain’. Mills would lose his seat in October of 1974 after a surprisingly strong Liberal campaign under Mrs Elizabeth Poulson. Mills would leave the Conservative Party in 1980 citing its ‘loathsome adoption of free market economics’ and would join the Social Democratic Party a year later. Mills would eventually gain a job working in the European Parliament as an advisor on Trade which became his post parliamentary specialty. He would join the Labour Party in 1996 and proclaimed his support for Tony Blair becoming a loyal Blairite as a result, he recently support Jo Swinson in the 2019 Election Campaign at the age of 94.
Maureen Miller: A former Economics lecturer, writer for the Tribune and Television Broadcaster presenting the Thames Television Show ‘Kitchen Economics’, Miller’s victory was a surprise win for the Labour Party. Politically on the Left of the party, and a member of the Tribune Group, Miller would support Michael Foot in 1976 and would briefly work as his Private Parliamentary Secretary. Her campaigns in support of leaving the EEC, Gay Rights, Troops Out of Ireland Movement and Feminism put her at odds with a local party, leading to an attempt to deselect her in 1978. Losing in 1979 in another upset, Miller would progress along to being a speech writer for Michael Foot whilst he was leader. Afterwards she would become a member of European Parliament for the East Midlands, and would present a Channel Four documentary series on the European Union. Recently she has contributed extensively to the Tribune and Red Pepper and in 2015 would support the Jeremy Corbyn campaign for leadership at the age of 73. Her son Laurence, is a Treasurer for Momentum and current candidate for the 2024 Bishop Havel Constituency Seat.
Greg Clifford: Clifford had in his youth had been a Labour Councillor, but joined the Conservative’s due to Labour’s ‘Inconsistent belief in Individualism and the Role of the State’. Having been a Conservative Councillor for about a decade before being elected to Parliament, Greg Clifford was an initially a proud Thatcherite. Briefly a Junior Minister, he would resign in 1981, citing a combination of economic mismanagement and inability to support Nuclear Power fully, and would be friendly with Peter Tapsell. He would fail to get selected for the new Mid Derbyshire seat and would in time become a member of the European Parliament before resigning to head up a building business. He would rear his head in 2014 being a UKIP candidate for Derbyshire at the age of 81, he would win but his death a year later would lead to an awkward by-election.
1950 - 1955: George F. Smith (Labour)
1950 def. Cpt. Gregory Jones (Conservative), David McCombs (Communist), Lionel Carpenter (Liberal)
1951 def. Cpt. Gregory Jones (Conservative)
1955 - 1959: Lance Balfour (Conservative & National Liberal)
1955 def. George F. Smith (Labour)
1959 - 1961: George F. Smith (Labour)†
1959 def. Lance Balfour (Conservative & National Liberal)
1961 - 1970: Arthur Redford (Labour)
1961 def. David Bowen (Conservative), James Goldsmith (Liberal), Cpt. Gregory Jones (Economic Freedom)
1964 def. David Bowen (Conservative), James Goldsmith (Liberal)
1966 def. Nigel Livesey (Conservative), André Poulson (Liberal)
1970 - 1974: Roger Mills (Conservative)
1970 def. Rory Charlesworth (Labour), Laurence Fleming (Liberal), Cpt. Gregory Jones (Independent Conservative)
Feb 1974 def. Maureen Miller (Labour), Laurence Fleming (Liberal)
1974 - 1979: Maureen Miller (Labour)
Oct 1974 def. Roger Mills (Conservative), Elizabeth Poulson (Liberal)
1979 - : Greg Clifford (Conservative)
1979 def. Maureen Miller (Labour), Roy Templer (National Front), Elizabeth Poulson (Liberal)
1983 Constituency Folded Into Mid Derbyshire Constituency
George F. Smith: A former Miner and Junior Minister for the Attlee Government, he become the new MP for the Bishop Havel Constituency in Derbyshire. Smith, a firm member of the Labour Right he would spend much of the Fifties fighting Bevanites within the local party and supporting Hugh Gaitskell, though he would repudiated his support in 1960 when the Clause Four debacle made Smith declare Gaitskell as a ‘fool and a traitor’. He would die of a heart attack whilst on holiday in Skegness.
Lance Balfour: Elected due to Liberal Support, this former Merchant Banker would find himself very much at odds with the Eden and Macmillan Government. An early member of the Institute of Economic Affairs he would support the British Response to the Mau Mau Uprising and the Suez Crisis, decrying the retreat as ‘conceding to the Egyptian Socialist hordes’. Upon losing his seat in 1959, Balfour would go back to banking, writing several books on Hayekian Economics and would be an economic advisor to the Pinochet Government in 1973 before dying mysteriously in a car accident in 1978.
Arthur Redford: Previously a member of the Communist Party in the 1940s, Redford would win a seat after being a worker at the department of Labour Party Research and Planning. A firm supporter of Harold Wilson, as Junior Minister Redford would oversee the response to the 1966 Seaman’s Strike and would be a firm supporter of asset stripping ‘inefficient industries’ and nationalising them. Given a job on the National Railway Board he would oversee British Railways for the rest of his life in some capacity. A long rumoured affair with Michael Redgrave in the 1940s would be proven true in 2004 after his death.
Roger Mills: Very much a Heathite individual, Mills was the son of a Green Grocer and had flirted with becoming a member of the Labour Party in his youth before working at Lloyds Bank and becoming friends with the Young Conservatives. Mills habit of being a believer in Keynesian economics and Pro-European ideals angered his local Conservative Association but despite an independent run by Captain Gregory Jones, Mills would surprisingly gain Bishop Havel, signifying the raise of places like Bishop Havel as Commuter belt for Derby and Sheffield. Mills would stridently support the Heath Government for the most part, though he would call the Selsdon Manifesto ‘an awful and regressive plan that fails to address the problems at hand in Britain’. Mills would lose his seat in October of 1974 after a surprisingly strong Liberal campaign under Mrs Elizabeth Poulson. Mills would leave the Conservative Party in 1980 citing its ‘loathsome adoption of free market economics’ and would join the Social Democratic Party a year later. Mills would eventually gain a job working in the European Parliament as an advisor on Trade which became his post parliamentary specialty. He would join the Labour Party in 1996 and proclaimed his support for Tony Blair becoming a loyal Blairite as a result, he recently support Jo Swinson in the 2019 Election Campaign at the age of 94.
Maureen Miller: A former Economics lecturer, writer for the Tribune and Television Broadcaster presenting the Thames Television Show ‘Kitchen Economics’, Miller’s victory was a surprise win for the Labour Party. Politically on the Left of the party, and a member of the Tribune Group, Miller would support Michael Foot in 1976 and would briefly work as his Private Parliamentary Secretary. Her campaigns in support of leaving the EEC, Gay Rights, Troops Out of Ireland Movement and Feminism put her at odds with a local party, leading to an attempt to deselect her in 1978. Losing in 1979 in another upset, Miller would progress along to being a speech writer for Michael Foot whilst he was leader. Afterwards she would become a member of European Parliament for the East Midlands, and would present a Channel Four documentary series on the European Union. Recently she has contributed extensively to the Tribune and Red Pepper and in 2015 would support the Jeremy Corbyn campaign for leadership at the age of 73. Her son Laurence, is a Treasurer for Momentum and current candidate for the 2024 Bishop Havel Constituency Seat.
Greg Clifford: Clifford had in his youth had been a Labour Councillor, but joined the Conservative’s due to Labour’s ‘Inconsistent belief in Individualism and the Role of the State’. Having been a Conservative Councillor for about a decade before being elected to Parliament, Greg Clifford was an initially a proud Thatcherite. Briefly a Junior Minister, he would resign in 1981, citing a combination of economic mismanagement and inability to support Nuclear Power fully, and would be friendly with Peter Tapsell. He would fail to get selected for the new Mid Derbyshire seat and would in time become a member of the European Parliament before resigning to head up a building business. He would rear his head in 2014 being a UKIP candidate for Derbyshire at the age of 81, he would win but his death a year later would lead to an awkward by-election.
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This is a lovely collection of characters @Time Enough
Mills appears to have done a reverse Owen in his party affiliations
Your autocorrect having a nice day of it?
These facts are clearly connected.
Mills appears to have done a reverse Owen in his party affiliations
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Thank you, it’s always fun to write these very Post War characters. It’s always just incredibly amusing to do.
Autocorrect and Dyslexia, a match made in heaven.
Chilean Secret Police claims no connection to the death of Balfour…despite a Chilean Police Office being caught with wire cutters near Balfour’s house.
He has, Mills is one of those aggressively Pro-European, Incredibly Keneysian Tories Ala Christopher Brocklebank Fowler who pop up occasionally. Mills was probably the most fun to write, I could even imagine what he looks like.
To be fair I can imagine what they all look like;
- Smith; Balding Middle Aged Man with a moustache in a tweed suit that’s decade older than it seems with a perpetual look of tiredness.
-Balfour; Looks like a crow, quite thin with a surprisingly slicked back black hair, always looks like he’s leering over people. Wears a bow tie.
-Redford; Chubby Young Technocrat, think Richard Marsh combined with Walter Padley, had a natty moustache when elected that is rapidly shaved off. Always wears a Macintosh, and hair gets progressively longer and whiter as the Sixties continue.
-Mills; Tall, Dark and Handsome, has a mop of hair on top and perpetual five o’clock shadow. Looks a decade ahead of his Seventies brethren with his double breasted suits and the like.
-Miller: 30 somethingish woman with short dark hair and a pair of Audrey Wise glasses that makes her look a bit like librarian. Constantly has a thick dark coat on.
-Clifford: Big Handlebar Moustache, looks like the stereotype of a drill sergeant, looks older than he actually is.
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White Castle soda bet
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1989-1993: Joe Biden / Bess Myerson (Democratic)
1988: Bob Dole (Republican)
1993-1997: Ted Kaczynski / Dick Lamm (Freethinkers)
1992: Joe Biden (Democratic) , Orrin Hatch (Republican)
1997-2001: Mitt Romney / Dan Lungren (Republican)
1996: Bill Clinton (Democratic), Jesse Jackson (LEAD)
2001-2009: Ted Turner / Richard Trumka (Liberal Socialist)
2000: Mitt Romney (Republican), Bob Kerrey (Democratic)
2004: John McCain (Republican)
2009-2013: Charles Barkely / Maureen Reagan (Republican)
2008: Robert Kennedy Jr. (Liberal Socialist), Lawrence Lessig (New Way)
2013-2021: Kevin Nash / Jesse Jackson Jr. (Liberal Socialist)
2012: Charles Barkely (Republican), Robert Kennedy Jr. (Freedom!), Kevin Sorbo (Christian)
2016: Scott Walker (Republican), Robert Kennedy Jr. (Freedom!)
2021-2025: Matt Lieberman / Peter Thiel (No Labels)
2020: Mike Render (Liberal Socialist), Mitt Romney (Republican), Nancy Cartwright (American Happiness) , Larry Elder (War On Woke)
2025-: Michael Imperioli / Stacey Abrams (Liberal Socialist)
2024: Pete King (Republican),Matt Lieberman (No Labels),Nancy Cartwright (American Happiness), Sir Maejor (War On Woke)
Biden is generally well liked although a perceived Anti-Semitic comment led to taking on the much more controversial Myerson as veep and his response to the recession is the reason we had President Kaczynski.
Kaczynski was a "academic bad boy" who was popular in right wing circles for his social views and in left wing ones for his environmental policies. The right turned when Russia went Communist again and Teddy didn't do shit about it and the left turned when he said abortion was the only answer to "crime" in "major cities".
Romney's election was thought as a new dawn for America but he was closer to Harding than Reagan. Look up Jeffrey Epstein. Although if you're a Scientologist that just makes you love him more.
Turner was a weird rich guy who was the only non-racist Kaczynski supporter so when Kerrey was getting hammered for war crimes and Romney for the mentioned.
Charles Barkely was the Republicans' last great hope and he more or less succeeded but the economy wasn't great, he was Black,the Ebola pandemic was still sort a thing, and Kevin Nash HATED his ass.
Kevin Nash was a wrestler and sports commenter who had a large fanbase and a chill attitude. 40 states won
I hate politics don't you too ? Let's all vote for this self-hating Jewish guy and German who promised to end all this capital hill bullshit.
FUCK THEY DIDN'T END IT
Although much closer than excepted due to Pete King owning Nasty Anglo Jeremy Clarkson after he disrespected Ireland and Caartwright was photographed with pro-incest activist Toby Fox. Imperioli became the first president since Kaczynski to know the capitol of Brazil.
1988: Bob Dole (Republican)
1993-1997: Ted Kaczynski / Dick Lamm (Freethinkers)
1992: Joe Biden (Democratic) , Orrin Hatch (Republican)
1997-2001: Mitt Romney / Dan Lungren (Republican)
1996: Bill Clinton (Democratic), Jesse Jackson (LEAD)
2001-2009: Ted Turner / Richard Trumka (Liberal Socialist)
2000: Mitt Romney (Republican), Bob Kerrey (Democratic)
2004: John McCain (Republican)
2009-2013: Charles Barkely / Maureen Reagan (Republican)
2008: Robert Kennedy Jr. (Liberal Socialist), Lawrence Lessig (New Way)
2013-2021: Kevin Nash / Jesse Jackson Jr. (Liberal Socialist)
2012: Charles Barkely (Republican), Robert Kennedy Jr. (Freedom!), Kevin Sorbo (Christian)
2016: Scott Walker (Republican), Robert Kennedy Jr. (Freedom!)
2021-2025: Matt Lieberman / Peter Thiel (No Labels)
2020: Mike Render (Liberal Socialist), Mitt Romney (Republican), Nancy Cartwright (American Happiness) , Larry Elder (War On Woke)
2025-: Michael Imperioli / Stacey Abrams (Liberal Socialist)
2024: Pete King (Republican),Matt Lieberman (No Labels),Nancy Cartwright (American Happiness), Sir Maejor (War On Woke)
Biden is generally well liked although a perceived Anti-Semitic comment led to taking on the much more controversial Myerson as veep and his response to the recession is the reason we had President Kaczynski.
Kaczynski was a "academic bad boy" who was popular in right wing circles for his social views and in left wing ones for his environmental policies. The right turned when Russia went Communist again and Teddy didn't do shit about it and the left turned when he said abortion was the only answer to "crime" in "major cities".
Romney's election was thought as a new dawn for America but he was closer to Harding than Reagan. Look up Jeffrey Epstein. Although if you're a Scientologist that just makes you love him more.
Turner was a weird rich guy who was the only non-racist Kaczynski supporter so when Kerrey was getting hammered for war crimes and Romney for the mentioned.
Charles Barkely was the Republicans' last great hope and he more or less succeeded but the economy wasn't great, he was Black,the Ebola pandemic was still sort a thing, and Kevin Nash HATED his ass.
Kevin Nash was a wrestler and sports commenter who had a large fanbase and a chill attitude. 40 states won
I hate politics don't you too ? Let's all vote for this self-hating Jewish guy and German who promised to end all this capital hill bullshit.
FUCK THEY DIDN'T END IT
Although much closer than excepted due to Pete King owning Nasty Anglo Jeremy Clarkson after he disrespected Ireland and Caartwright was photographed with pro-incest activist Toby Fox. Imperioli became the first president since Kaczynski to know the capitol of Brazil.
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List of Presidents of the United States (In Reverse)
1789-1793: Joseph Biden/ Kameron Harris (Independent)
1789 def. unopposed
1793-1797: Joseph Biden/ Barry O. Dunham (Pro-Administration)
1772 def. Ronaldo de Santis/ Nicolas Haley (Constitutional-Republican), Donald J. Trump/ Kevin Lake (Democratic-Republican)
1797-1801: Donald J. Trump/ Michael Pence (Democratic-Republican)
1796 def. Hillary Rodham/ Timothy Ryans (Pro-Administration), Garrison Johnson/ William Weld (Confederalist), Julian Stein/ Adam Barajas (Radical Liberal)
1801-1809: Barry O. Dunham/ John Kerry (Liberal)
1800 def. Milton Romney/ Paul Ryan (Republican)
1804 def. John McCain/ Sam Palin (Republican)
1809-1817: George W. Bush/ Richard Cheney (Republican)
1808 def. John Kerry/ John Edwards (Liberal)
1812 def. Albert Gore/ Joseph Lieberman (Liberal), Ralph Nader/ William “Wawatam” LaDuke (Radical)
1817-1825: William Clinton-Rodham/ Albert Gore Jr. (Liberal)
1816 def. Robert Dole/ Jackson Kemp (Republican), Henry R. Perot/ various (Non-Partisan)
1820 def. George H.W. Bush/ Daniel Quayle (Republican), Henry R. Perot/ James Stockdale (American)
IDK this was a dumb idea I'm gonna drink rat poison now
1789-1793: Joseph Biden/ Kameron Harris (Independent)
1789 def. unopposed
1793-1797: Joseph Biden/ Barry O. Dunham (Pro-Administration)
1772 def. Ronaldo de Santis/ Nicolas Haley (Constitutional-Republican), Donald J. Trump/ Kevin Lake (Democratic-Republican)
1797-1801: Donald J. Trump/ Michael Pence (Democratic-Republican)
1796 def. Hillary Rodham/ Timothy Ryans (Pro-Administration), Garrison Johnson/ William Weld (Confederalist), Julian Stein/ Adam Barajas (Radical Liberal)
1801-1809: Barry O. Dunham/ John Kerry (Liberal)
1800 def. Milton Romney/ Paul Ryan (Republican)
1804 def. John McCain/ Sam Palin (Republican)
1809-1817: George W. Bush/ Richard Cheney (Republican)
1808 def. John Kerry/ John Edwards (Liberal)
1812 def. Albert Gore/ Joseph Lieberman (Liberal), Ralph Nader/ William “Wawatam” LaDuke (Radical)
1817-1825: William Clinton-Rodham/ Albert Gore Jr. (Liberal)
1816 def. Robert Dole/ Jackson Kemp (Republican), Henry R. Perot/ various (Non-Partisan)
1820 def. George H.W. Bush/ Daniel Quayle (Republican), Henry R. Perot/ James Stockdale (American)
IDK this was a dumb idea I'm gonna drink rat poison now
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- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I really like this actually
this is genuinely a cool idea, would W bush still be HW's son? would be kind of an interesting reverse of adams and JQA where the son gets elected first
Ooh this is fun
Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
- Location
- Banned from the forum
- Pronouns
- He/Him
It is done! This is, I swear, the last part of my stupid giant anime fanfic list thing, and hopefully it's a satisfying finale. Or at least one that's not actively offensive.
(Spoilers for the BNHA manga in this one as well.)
Chairs of the NPSC's Special Subcommitte on Altered Individuals [1]
2051-2075: Tsuruoka Tatsumi [2]
2075-2078: Keito Nimoda [3][#]
Presidents of the Hero Public Safety Commission
2078-2108: Keito Nimoda [4]
2108-2113: Kitani Sayuri [5]
2113-2128: Orito Otojiro
2128-2150: Matsutani Shozaburo
2150-2178: Yasunaga Chisato
2178-2193: Iida Tenichi
2193-2219: Uon Akuta [6][*]
2219-2237: Hayashi In [7][**]
2237-2240: Mera Yokumiru [8]
2240-2243: Wakasaki Umisenro [9][***]
2243-2243: de jure Wakasaki Umisenro, de facto no overall control [10]
2243-2248: Meru Yokumiru (as proxy for World Heroes Association-imposed transitory administration) [11]
Chairs of the Heroics Oversight Board [12]
2248-2250: Yagi Toshinori (honorary position)
2250-2261: Tatsuma Ryuko
2261-0000: Yaoyorozu Momo
[8] As an organisation, the Hero Public Safety Commission had always done very well out of crises. They had, after all, been created in the wake of one. A crisis meant the failure of civilian authorities. It meant emergency action, harsh but necessary measures, money diverted towards society's defenders. The presumption of most of the Commission's deep bureaucracy was that after the current crisis, all the uncomfortable questions from the public about "prisoner rights" and "abuses of power" and "hey, why do I need a license for my internal organs" would be easily crushed as sedition, and that the organisation could solidify control of Japan for the next generation. This assumption appeared to be correct, and was on course to be proved so, right up until the point where Re-Destro's double slaughtered nearly all the Commission's boardmembers in a matter of seconds.
Still, the organisation could adapt to losing a helmsman. At the end of the day, the Commission was bigger than any one man or woman, and the work could go on unimpeded no matter who was at the top. It really didn't matter who it was that survived the Keito Nimoda Plaza Incident, just so long as they were a creature of the bureaucracy--and in his own way, Mera Yokumiru was a creature of the bureaucracy. Just an unusual one.
People like him can be found, scattered like confetti, throughout any large organisation. They're efficient at their jobs, they seem satisfied in their positions, and they tend not to actively make a fuss, which is why their unusual quality goes unnoticed. They believe, denying the evidence of their own eyes, that the stated goal of their organisation is its actual goal. That rather than preserving the organisation as it exists, their job is primarily to provide an honest accounting of a firm's finances, or to tend to the spiritual needs of their parishoners, or, in the case of Mera Yokumiru, to protect the people of Japan from the chaos of the era of quirks. Like the lamedvaniks of Judaism, if they were to fail at their posts and not be replaced, their organisations would perish utterly, untethered from reality, yet they remain totally unknown throughout their working lives. At least, they normally remain totally unknown.
Mera had spent most of his career wearily overseeing the licensing exams, kvetching over the changes his bosses brought in and trying to bodge in workarounds like community service for the higher-profile failures. None of this prepared him for leading a war effort, so he did what seemed best to him in his tired mind--he delegated to civilian authorities as much as he could, and took as much time off as he could get away with. He focused mainly on things he felt were in the Commission's remit, like regulating pro heroes (and wasn't it their job to make sure bad behaviour was punished, even for the most high), controlling villains (and didn't the situation demand they give out second chances, because the tent needs as many people pissing out as they can get), and preventing vigilantism (and some level of self-defense is worth tolerating, given that we can get more done sending heroes to train the militias than to arrest them).
From a temporary desk in the basement of the ruins of Aldera Middle School, Mera led the Commission through the War, through the fallout of Endeavour's and Hawks's and a whole society's dirty laundry being aired, through Japan being all but abandoned by an international community prepared to break bread with a self-described Demon King, and through the highest national death toll--from starvation and disease as much as from villainy--since the Special Period. By the end of it, in defiance to the laws of political gravity, his organisation was less powerful than when he had started. All he did was sleep, sit, and push paper, in the service of a set of ideals that had long since been broken.
In his own way, he was a hero too.
[9] Eventually, of course, the war ended. The League of Villains, uniquely for a Japanese anti-government organisation, were taken alive, talked down, and (depending on your point of view) saved. Rebuilding began in the devastated areas, its pace accelerating the more people were freed up from living in shanty-towns. Aid began to pour in, largely from an United States vaguely guilty over abandoning their No1 Hero to die. There was no need for any sort of emergency measures, such as, say, the one that allowed the Assistant Vice-Chairman of the Department of Licensing and Examination to serve in the role of President. So, Mera did what he always did--the easiest and most procedural thing--and stepped aside for a successor to be nominated from within the ranks.
If Mera Yokumiru had demonstrated that a righteous man could work wonders at the top of an organisation, then the rise of Wakasaki Umisenro demonstrated why said righteous men were very rarely the ones in charge of said organisations. Wakasaki had been right round the Commission, starting off as a specialist in charge of training a higher caliber of Tartarus guards, then as an overall manager of Uon's wetwork teams, and finally as a regulator, whose role was to keep heroes in line using...various incentives. During this time, Wakasaki had demonstrated his two main skills--adapting to the demands of new bosses, and deflecting blame for his failures onto others.
When two of his trained guards were caught trying to kill an investigative journalist using techniques they'd learnt from their training seminars, their unit was purged and Wakasaki pleaded his total ignorance before Uon. When the wetwork department was downsized under Hayashi to a few small teams, Wakasaki parroted enough of the language of efficiency to get a better posting. Once the War revealed just how rotten many of his heroes had become, staying out of prison just so the Regulatory Department could cash in their blackmail, Wakasaki was the first to heartily apologise and to hand a list of subordinate names to Mera. At no point did Wakasaki demonstrate any paticular abilities of leadership, or administration, or even basic human virtue. Yet he ended up at the top, because he knew how to climb.
Despite the later analysis of history, Wakasaki's attitude towards his job was, in fact, very similar to his predecessor's. Both he and Mera accurately assessed their own abilities and willingness to lead as low, and decided to let a larger interest group take the reins for them. The difference was only in which interest group they served. Mera's was outside of the Plaza, and Wakasaki's was inside. The Paranormal Liberation War had changed everything, except the Commission's way of thinking. Japan was recovering from a crisis, and all this talk of relaxing regulations and publishing files was just rot that'd undermine the foundations of a new nation. It was the job of the Commission to once again lay those foundations, and to not worry about the bodies that needed to be hidden in them. Reformism was all just a bad dream, and it would surely, if ignored, go away.
[10] Reformism did not go away.
It's difficult to say what the crucial factor was. Maybe it was Mera's work, or rather lack thereof, letting civil society grow like weeds through concrete to fill in gaps the Commission left empty, or the continued influence of the bright young things of the "Aldera Faction" who were already used to working without head-office support. Maybe it was the long-standing opposition blocs in hero society finally cohering, agencies used to co-operating teaming up for better conditions, with tacit backing from Nezu's new co-ordination centres. Maybe it was the historical forces that ground on outside the HPSC's walls, an increasingly empowered news media that had previously only lacked focus, an international community thoroughly sick of the Commission's excuses, and a general populace who felt empowered by the PLW's freedoms and wanted control of their destinies back.
Maybe, just maybe, it was because of the time the HPSC vastly underestimated the cohesion of the former Class 1-A. Specifically, the Department of Pre-emptive Countermeasures assumed they'd happily write off the former Can't Stop Twinkling as "collateral damage" if it meant the death of Shigaraki Tomura and not bother to look deeper at the "mysterious" explosion that wrecked U.A.'s temporary holding cells during a routine visit. The discrepancies began to pile up, old wounds began to be remembered, and thirty-nine pissed-off young heroes (and their many, many friends) made their move.
There are three defining images of the Battle of Avicii Prison. The first is that of Deku, the young Symbol of Hope, carrying a near-skeletal Shigaraki out on his back, shattered walls all around them. The second is that of serried ranks of heroes and prisoners--led by a finally returned-to-active-duty DynaMight, armour glowing over his artificial heart, and the ragged form of the former vigilante Danjooru Tobita--staring down a squad of Commission "contractors" and brought heroes, daring them to make a move. The third appeared all over Japan, on their TV screens, for a few brief minutes before Hatsume Mei Productions lost control of the emergency broadcast system.
"...what has gone on is something that we have tolerated for far too long. As we speak, heroes--heroes I would trust with my life--are moving to cut this cancer out of our society. And they can only do it with your help! Stand up for what is right, all around you! Don't let propaganda divide you against your neighbour, or make you believe you're worthless and without power! Don't submit to the Commission's boot again! Above all, stay calm, and stay hopeful. It's alright. Why?"
(He might have lost his strength, his health, even his Era, but Toshinori Yagi's smile still holds all the power and promise it once did.)
"Because I Am Here...and You're Next!"
[11] This time, Japan wasn't going to be allowed to work things out on their own. As the only tenable leader was dragged into office against his will, heroes and bureaucrats from all over the world flocked to Japan, policies and suggestions in hand. This time, the logic went, the institutional stain of the Dark Age of Quirks couldn't escape--not if the whole world was watching.
The problem was that the world had already spent a considerable amount of time watching Japan, just not doing anything about it. With its unique mix of pre-Quirk-Era authoritarian institutions and Quirk-Era law enforcement celebrity culture, the country had been an object of deeply fascinated horror for decades. Rhode-Island-model nations like the United States, Egypt, and the Trimarium Commonwealth blamed societal repressiveness towards quirks and "collectivist cultures", even as they consumed highly-packaged Japanese HeroTube videos or tie-in media, while nations with more centralised systems, such as China, Great Britain, and Vijaynagar blamed unrestricted hero competition and "Yankee individualism" despite importing techniques of social control and training based on the Special Subcommittee. The reluctance to aid Japan wasn't merely out of fears of what All for One might do when presented with more powerful quirks--the international community was long-used to decrying Japan with one hand while borrowing from it with another, and ignoring the nation's second fall into chaos was the logical extension of that. A third fall, however, hot on the heels of the second, couldn't quite be ignored--it merely meant that the mix of condemnation and voyeurism had to be redirected.
As one might expect from a temporary administration that was set up by the World Heroes Association, heavily influenced by pro heroes and heroics educators, and in a nation where heroics-adjacent industries represented a significant percentage of GDP, it was quickly agreed that there would continue to be a pro hero system. For all but the more desperate remnants of the Hearts and Minds Party, it was clear that anything like the Imperial Kongolese model of total freedom of quirk usage was a non-starter. The transitory authorities, meeting in a carefully neutral hall built in the ruins of Jakku City, had vivid examples of Destroism's failures visible all around them. At the other extreme of quirk control, the only credible contender was the "barracks heroics" model of Great Bharat, based around conscription of stronger quirk users into an anonymised "civic service force". Despite some prominent supporters, most notably the latest Ingenium and his family, it was ultimately too similar to some of the Commission's more grandiose programs to gain any traction. The question still remained, of course--what kind of hero system would it be?
Celebrity culture was, to a certain extent, out--although how this ideal would actually be enforced was as of yet unclear. Business licensing for quirk usage was, thanks to Uravity's dogged campaigning, in--but with substantial caveats thanks to investors worried about markets fluctuating in response to the genetic lottery. The single-hero "face" agency was out--as it mostly was already, thanks to the realities of the PLW hitting an individualised heroics system in much the same way a car hits a blancmange. Villain rehabilitation was in--even if it was still an open question how the public would take peaceful retirement for men and women who tore Japan apart. Quirk-based social stratification was definitively out--and, for once, social programmes that could keep it out were thoroughly in.
After years of grinding deliberation, the new model of quirk regulation for Japan that resulted was...alright. Aside from firmly avoiding the possibility of creating another Commission by splitting the hero system's decision-making body from its internal regulation one, the Rusan Charter was a document that ended up taking no particular definitive position on anything. Nezu advocates condemned its additional restrictions on hero schools, and child safety advocates wanted those restrictions to be harsher. Not enough cases were reviewed for villain advocates, and not enough people were killed for those who wanted blood. Even the new team-agencies model, one of the only things the Charter actually mandated, was an awkward halfway house between the American-style one-hero-with-sidekicks approach and the Chinese use of vast agencies with smaller specialist teams within them. The new model was very far from perfect. It was still an astronomical improvement over the old one.
[12] There is much one could write about the first people to head up the Oversight Board. The old man selected as a temporary figurehead, who despite his health and his own feelings of inadequacy could never prevent himself from giving a job his all. The younger ex-heroine, one of the few pre-War Top 50 heroes with the necessary qualifications, who guarded and evaluated the heroes under her like a hoard of gold. The heiress, a creature of the uppermost echelons of Japanese society, something which paradoxically made her one of the only people both willing and able to challenge that layer's belief that laws were for other people. The successors after them, good and bad by turns in their own ways.
But if the Rusan Charter's reforms meant anything, they meant the end of that singular perspective. An end to a history that could be charted by summing up a line of singular exceptional individuals, Tsuruoka against Nana, Nimoda with Shigaraki, Uon and All Might. The destruction of that single mechanism of control at the centre of Japanese society. It would do the Oversight Board's staff a disservice to include them in that blood-and-ink-stained lineage. We should end our narrative here, at that fateful moment when nearly 200 years of iron control crumbled into dust, and the citizens of Japan, talented or Talented, quirky or Quirked, had nothing dividing them except each other's reluctance to stretch out a hand.
From a certain point of view, Japan was right back where it had started from, at the dawn of the Age of Quirks. Except this time, it wasn't a dark age. It was one illuminated by the light of hope.
(Spoilers for the BNHA manga in this one as well.)
ATLF/B: All For The Sake of a Correct Society
I'm a massive weeb--and what's worse, a normie weeb
Chairs of the NPSC's Special Subcommitte on Altered Individuals [1]
2051-2075: Tsuruoka Tatsumi [2]
2075-2078: Keito Nimoda [3][#]
Presidents of the Hero Public Safety Commission
2078-2108: Keito Nimoda [4]
2108-2113: Kitani Sayuri [5]
2113-2128: Orito Otojiro
2128-2150: Matsutani Shozaburo
2150-2178: Yasunaga Chisato
2178-2193: Iida Tenichi
2193-2219: Uon Akuta [6][*]
2219-2237: Hayashi In [7][**]
2237-2240: Mera Yokumiru [8]
2240-2243: Wakasaki Umisenro [9][***]
2243-2243: de jure Wakasaki Umisenro, de facto no overall control [10]
2243-2248: Meru Yokumiru (as proxy for World Heroes Association-imposed transitory administration) [11]
Chairs of the Heroics Oversight Board [12]
2248-2250: Yagi Toshinori (honorary position)
2250-2261: Tatsuma Ryuko
2261-0000: Yaoyorozu Momo
[#] This is a Japanicised version of “Cato Neimoida”, the homeworld of the Neimoidans of Star Wars—a planet of scheming politicians in hock to monied interests. It just wouldn’t be BNHA without a Star Wars reference, would it?
[*] This is written as 王 握大, or literally "King with a large grip". Yes, this is a very generic pun name for me to give him, but he only exists to die and set up Lady Nagant's backstory, and all we know is that he was a prick. I'm not going to bring my A-game here, he's getting a generic Evil Overlord name.
[**] This is written as 速司 隠, or literally "Speedy director Conceals", referencing her swift rise to the top, Hawks' repeated saying that he'll make the HPSC's perfect society happen "at his trademark top speed", the information she conceals from the public, and the general malaise in Japanese society from quickly hiding away society's problems rather than grappling with them.
[***] This is written as 若 海千郎, or literally "Youthful Thousand mountains son". The "youthful" bit represents him being a fresh face for the system and general quirk-naming, since he is the baby-looking guy in this meeting. The "thousand mountains" is a reference to a Japanese idiom derived from a Chinese myth about a snake becoming a dragon from living 1000 years in the mountains and 1000 years in the sea, so Umisen Yamasen metaphorically means a wily old person, or a warning not to underestimate someone due to advanced age. Since he's representing the adaptational ability of an old system, and (thanks to a filler kanji that makes it a male name) is metaphorically the son of such a system (especially in his given name, which can represent stuff played closer to your chest) this definitely fits.
No, this was not a productive use of my listing time, but it wouldn't be true to the text if I left this sort of thing out.
I am also aware that the title is Stain's theme, but the HPSC don't have one as far as I'm aware and IMHO the phrase fits them very well.
[*] This is written as 王 握大, or literally "King with a large grip". Yes, this is a very generic pun name for me to give him, but he only exists to die and set up Lady Nagant's backstory, and all we know is that he was a prick. I'm not going to bring my A-game here, he's getting a generic Evil Overlord name.
[**] This is written as 速司 隠, or literally "Speedy director Conceals", referencing her swift rise to the top, Hawks' repeated saying that he'll make the HPSC's perfect society happen "at his trademark top speed", the information she conceals from the public, and the general malaise in Japanese society from quickly hiding away society's problems rather than grappling with them.
[***] This is written as 若 海千郎, or literally "Youthful Thousand mountains son". The "youthful" bit represents him being a fresh face for the system and general quirk-naming, since he is the baby-looking guy in this meeting. The "thousand mountains" is a reference to a Japanese idiom derived from a Chinese myth about a snake becoming a dragon from living 1000 years in the mountains and 1000 years in the sea, so Umisen Yamasen metaphorically means a wily old person, or a warning not to underestimate someone due to advanced age. Since he's representing the adaptational ability of an old system, and (thanks to a filler kanji that makes it a male name) is metaphorically the son of such a system (especially in his given name, which can represent stuff played closer to your chest) this definitely fits.
No, this was not a productive use of my listing time, but it wouldn't be true to the text if I left this sort of thing out.
I am also aware that the title is Stain's theme, but the HPSC don't have one as far as I'm aware and IMHO the phrase fits them very well.
[8] As an organisation, the Hero Public Safety Commission had always done very well out of crises. They had, after all, been created in the wake of one. A crisis meant the failure of civilian authorities. It meant emergency action, harsh but necessary measures, money diverted towards society's defenders. The presumption of most of the Commission's deep bureaucracy was that after the current crisis, all the uncomfortable questions from the public about "prisoner rights" and "abuses of power" and "hey, why do I need a license for my internal organs" would be easily crushed as sedition, and that the organisation could solidify control of Japan for the next generation. This assumption appeared to be correct, and was on course to be proved so, right up until the point where Re-Destro's double slaughtered nearly all the Commission's boardmembers in a matter of seconds.
Still, the organisation could adapt to losing a helmsman. At the end of the day, the Commission was bigger than any one man or woman, and the work could go on unimpeded no matter who was at the top. It really didn't matter who it was that survived the Keito Nimoda Plaza Incident, just so long as they were a creature of the bureaucracy--and in his own way, Mera Yokumiru was a creature of the bureaucracy. Just an unusual one.
People like him can be found, scattered like confetti, throughout any large organisation. They're efficient at their jobs, they seem satisfied in their positions, and they tend not to actively make a fuss, which is why their unusual quality goes unnoticed. They believe, denying the evidence of their own eyes, that the stated goal of their organisation is its actual goal. That rather than preserving the organisation as it exists, their job is primarily to provide an honest accounting of a firm's finances, or to tend to the spiritual needs of their parishoners, or, in the case of Mera Yokumiru, to protect the people of Japan from the chaos of the era of quirks. Like the lamedvaniks of Judaism, if they were to fail at their posts and not be replaced, their organisations would perish utterly, untethered from reality, yet they remain totally unknown throughout their working lives. At least, they normally remain totally unknown.
Mera had spent most of his career wearily overseeing the licensing exams, kvetching over the changes his bosses brought in and trying to bodge in workarounds like community service for the higher-profile failures. None of this prepared him for leading a war effort, so he did what seemed best to him in his tired mind--he delegated to civilian authorities as much as he could, and took as much time off as he could get away with. He focused mainly on things he felt were in the Commission's remit, like regulating pro heroes (and wasn't it their job to make sure bad behaviour was punished, even for the most high), controlling villains (and didn't the situation demand they give out second chances, because the tent needs as many people pissing out as they can get), and preventing vigilantism (and some level of self-defense is worth tolerating, given that we can get more done sending heroes to train the militias than to arrest them).
From a temporary desk in the basement of the ruins of Aldera Middle School, Mera led the Commission through the War, through the fallout of Endeavour's and Hawks's and a whole society's dirty laundry being aired, through Japan being all but abandoned by an international community prepared to break bread with a self-described Demon King, and through the highest national death toll--from starvation and disease as much as from villainy--since the Special Period. By the end of it, in defiance to the laws of political gravity, his organisation was less powerful than when he had started. All he did was sleep, sit, and push paper, in the service of a set of ideals that had long since been broken.
In his own way, he was a hero too.
[9] Eventually, of course, the war ended. The League of Villains, uniquely for a Japanese anti-government organisation, were taken alive, talked down, and (depending on your point of view) saved. Rebuilding began in the devastated areas, its pace accelerating the more people were freed up from living in shanty-towns. Aid began to pour in, largely from an United States vaguely guilty over abandoning their No1 Hero to die. There was no need for any sort of emergency measures, such as, say, the one that allowed the Assistant Vice-Chairman of the Department of Licensing and Examination to serve in the role of President. So, Mera did what he always did--the easiest and most procedural thing--and stepped aside for a successor to be nominated from within the ranks.
If Mera Yokumiru had demonstrated that a righteous man could work wonders at the top of an organisation, then the rise of Wakasaki Umisenro demonstrated why said righteous men were very rarely the ones in charge of said organisations. Wakasaki had been right round the Commission, starting off as a specialist in charge of training a higher caliber of Tartarus guards, then as an overall manager of Uon's wetwork teams, and finally as a regulator, whose role was to keep heroes in line using...various incentives. During this time, Wakasaki had demonstrated his two main skills--adapting to the demands of new bosses, and deflecting blame for his failures onto others.
When two of his trained guards were caught trying to kill an investigative journalist using techniques they'd learnt from their training seminars, their unit was purged and Wakasaki pleaded his total ignorance before Uon. When the wetwork department was downsized under Hayashi to a few small teams, Wakasaki parroted enough of the language of efficiency to get a better posting. Once the War revealed just how rotten many of his heroes had become, staying out of prison just so the Regulatory Department could cash in their blackmail, Wakasaki was the first to heartily apologise and to hand a list of subordinate names to Mera. At no point did Wakasaki demonstrate any paticular abilities of leadership, or administration, or even basic human virtue. Yet he ended up at the top, because he knew how to climb.
Despite the later analysis of history, Wakasaki's attitude towards his job was, in fact, very similar to his predecessor's. Both he and Mera accurately assessed their own abilities and willingness to lead as low, and decided to let a larger interest group take the reins for them. The difference was only in which interest group they served. Mera's was outside of the Plaza, and Wakasaki's was inside. The Paranormal Liberation War had changed everything, except the Commission's way of thinking. Japan was recovering from a crisis, and all this talk of relaxing regulations and publishing files was just rot that'd undermine the foundations of a new nation. It was the job of the Commission to once again lay those foundations, and to not worry about the bodies that needed to be hidden in them. Reformism was all just a bad dream, and it would surely, if ignored, go away.
[10] Reformism did not go away.
It's difficult to say what the crucial factor was. Maybe it was Mera's work, or rather lack thereof, letting civil society grow like weeds through concrete to fill in gaps the Commission left empty, or the continued influence of the bright young things of the "Aldera Faction" who were already used to working without head-office support. Maybe it was the long-standing opposition blocs in hero society finally cohering, agencies used to co-operating teaming up for better conditions, with tacit backing from Nezu's new co-ordination centres. Maybe it was the historical forces that ground on outside the HPSC's walls, an increasingly empowered news media that had previously only lacked focus, an international community thoroughly sick of the Commission's excuses, and a general populace who felt empowered by the PLW's freedoms and wanted control of their destinies back.
Maybe, just maybe, it was because of the time the HPSC vastly underestimated the cohesion of the former Class 1-A. Specifically, the Department of Pre-emptive Countermeasures assumed they'd happily write off the former Can't Stop Twinkling as "collateral damage" if it meant the death of Shigaraki Tomura and not bother to look deeper at the "mysterious" explosion that wrecked U.A.'s temporary holding cells during a routine visit. The discrepancies began to pile up, old wounds began to be remembered, and thirty-nine pissed-off young heroes (and their many, many friends) made their move.
There are three defining images of the Battle of Avicii Prison. The first is that of Deku, the young Symbol of Hope, carrying a near-skeletal Shigaraki out on his back, shattered walls all around them. The second is that of serried ranks of heroes and prisoners--led by a finally returned-to-active-duty DynaMight, armour glowing over his artificial heart, and the ragged form of the former vigilante Danjooru Tobita--staring down a squad of Commission "contractors" and brought heroes, daring them to make a move. The third appeared all over Japan, on their TV screens, for a few brief minutes before Hatsume Mei Productions lost control of the emergency broadcast system.
"...what has gone on is something that we have tolerated for far too long. As we speak, heroes--heroes I would trust with my life--are moving to cut this cancer out of our society. And they can only do it with your help! Stand up for what is right, all around you! Don't let propaganda divide you against your neighbour, or make you believe you're worthless and without power! Don't submit to the Commission's boot again! Above all, stay calm, and stay hopeful. It's alright. Why?"
(He might have lost his strength, his health, even his Era, but Toshinori Yagi's smile still holds all the power and promise it once did.)
"Because I Am Here...and You're Next!"
[11] This time, Japan wasn't going to be allowed to work things out on their own. As the only tenable leader was dragged into office against his will, heroes and bureaucrats from all over the world flocked to Japan, policies and suggestions in hand. This time, the logic went, the institutional stain of the Dark Age of Quirks couldn't escape--not if the whole world was watching.
The problem was that the world had already spent a considerable amount of time watching Japan, just not doing anything about it. With its unique mix of pre-Quirk-Era authoritarian institutions and Quirk-Era law enforcement celebrity culture, the country had been an object of deeply fascinated horror for decades. Rhode-Island-model nations like the United States, Egypt, and the Trimarium Commonwealth blamed societal repressiveness towards quirks and "collectivist cultures", even as they consumed highly-packaged Japanese HeroTube videos or tie-in media, while nations with more centralised systems, such as China, Great Britain, and Vijaynagar blamed unrestricted hero competition and "Yankee individualism" despite importing techniques of social control and training based on the Special Subcommittee. The reluctance to aid Japan wasn't merely out of fears of what All for One might do when presented with more powerful quirks--the international community was long-used to decrying Japan with one hand while borrowing from it with another, and ignoring the nation's second fall into chaos was the logical extension of that. A third fall, however, hot on the heels of the second, couldn't quite be ignored--it merely meant that the mix of condemnation and voyeurism had to be redirected.
As one might expect from a temporary administration that was set up by the World Heroes Association, heavily influenced by pro heroes and heroics educators, and in a nation where heroics-adjacent industries represented a significant percentage of GDP, it was quickly agreed that there would continue to be a pro hero system. For all but the more desperate remnants of the Hearts and Minds Party, it was clear that anything like the Imperial Kongolese model of total freedom of quirk usage was a non-starter. The transitory authorities, meeting in a carefully neutral hall built in the ruins of Jakku City, had vivid examples of Destroism's failures visible all around them. At the other extreme of quirk control, the only credible contender was the "barracks heroics" model of Great Bharat, based around conscription of stronger quirk users into an anonymised "civic service force". Despite some prominent supporters, most notably the latest Ingenium and his family, it was ultimately too similar to some of the Commission's more grandiose programs to gain any traction. The question still remained, of course--what kind of hero system would it be?
Celebrity culture was, to a certain extent, out--although how this ideal would actually be enforced was as of yet unclear. Business licensing for quirk usage was, thanks to Uravity's dogged campaigning, in--but with substantial caveats thanks to investors worried about markets fluctuating in response to the genetic lottery. The single-hero "face" agency was out--as it mostly was already, thanks to the realities of the PLW hitting an individualised heroics system in much the same way a car hits a blancmange. Villain rehabilitation was in--even if it was still an open question how the public would take peaceful retirement for men and women who tore Japan apart. Quirk-based social stratification was definitively out--and, for once, social programmes that could keep it out were thoroughly in.
After years of grinding deliberation, the new model of quirk regulation for Japan that resulted was...alright. Aside from firmly avoiding the possibility of creating another Commission by splitting the hero system's decision-making body from its internal regulation one, the Rusan Charter was a document that ended up taking no particular definitive position on anything. Nezu advocates condemned its additional restrictions on hero schools, and child safety advocates wanted those restrictions to be harsher. Not enough cases were reviewed for villain advocates, and not enough people were killed for those who wanted blood. Even the new team-agencies model, one of the only things the Charter actually mandated, was an awkward halfway house between the American-style one-hero-with-sidekicks approach and the Chinese use of vast agencies with smaller specialist teams within them. The new model was very far from perfect. It was still an astronomical improvement over the old one.
[12] There is much one could write about the first people to head up the Oversight Board. The old man selected as a temporary figurehead, who despite his health and his own feelings of inadequacy could never prevent himself from giving a job his all. The younger ex-heroine, one of the few pre-War Top 50 heroes with the necessary qualifications, who guarded and evaluated the heroes under her like a hoard of gold. The heiress, a creature of the uppermost echelons of Japanese society, something which paradoxically made her one of the only people both willing and able to challenge that layer's belief that laws were for other people. The successors after them, good and bad by turns in their own ways.
But if the Rusan Charter's reforms meant anything, they meant the end of that singular perspective. An end to a history that could be charted by summing up a line of singular exceptional individuals, Tsuruoka against Nana, Nimoda with Shigaraki, Uon and All Might. The destruction of that single mechanism of control at the centre of Japanese society. It would do the Oversight Board's staff a disservice to include them in that blood-and-ink-stained lineage. We should end our narrative here, at that fateful moment when nearly 200 years of iron control crumbled into dust, and the citizens of Japan, talented or Talented, quirky or Quirked, had nothing dividing them except each other's reluctance to stretch out a hand.
From a certain point of view, Japan was right back where it had started from, at the dawn of the Age of Quirks. Except this time, it wasn't a dark age. It was one illuminated by the light of hope.
- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
reminded of this and am updating it to bring it to the present day
Leaders of Lincolnshire County Council
1989-1993: Bill Wyrill (Conservative)
1989 (Majority) def. Labour, Social and Liberal Democrats, Independents, Social Democrats
1993-2001: Rob Parker (Labour)
1993 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def. Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Independents
1997 (Majority) def. Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2001-2005: Ian Croft (Conservative)
2001 (Majority) def. Labour, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2005-2009: Rob Parker (Labour)
2005 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def. Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2009-2021: Marianne Overton (Lincolnshire Independents)
2009 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats and Conservatives) def. Labour, Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Independents
2013 (Coalition with UKIP and Conservatives) def. Labour, UKIP, Conservatives, Independents, Liberal Democrats
2017 (Coalition with Conservatives) def. Labour, Independents, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats
2021-0000: 'Fair Deal' Phil Dilks (Alliance Lincs)
2021 (Coalition with Labour and Liberal Democrats) def. Lincolnshire Independents, Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Independents
- Location
- Op een dag, Nederland.
- Pronouns
- she/her & ne/nem
THE NEW AEON
David Lloyd George (Liberal leading Wartime Coalition, then National Liberal-Conservative coalition) 1915-1922
Bonar Law (Conservative minority, then majority) 1922-1923
George Curzon, Earl Curzon of Kedleston (Conservative majority, then minority) 1923
Ramsay MacDonald (Labour minority, then Labour-led National Government) 1922-1927
Philip Snowden (Labour-led National Government) 1927-1930
A. V. Alexander (Co-operative-led National Government) 1930-1931
J. F. C. Fuller (Military-led National Government, then National Salvation Government, then New Aeon majority) 1931-????
Perhaps it was a mistake to hand over emergency powers and the keys to Downing Street to Fuller.
But you do have to understand, things were falling apart. Rotha and Tom's mobs were fighting hard against each other, lots of paramilitary attacks by the Red Flag Brigades and British Fascisti, and going on since 1924 since the economy fell apart and the National Government was made.
They shot Ramsay Mac, for God's sake. He was the first Labour prime minister, and the Fascisti hated that. They saw the Tories working with him as a heinous betrayal of what made Britain Britain, and thus he had to go.
The violence grew more, of course. By the end, it was accepted that at least one MP would be shot per month. We tried our best, but with the economy stagnating - why did Curzon get persuaded by Churchill to reimpose the Gold Standard - the threats of a revolution grew even more.
That was why every National Government was Labour-led, get their hands dirty and keep the unions from threatening revolution. We had to give great concessions when they pushed for general strike, which only made the fascists even more enraged.
I will say this of Fuller, his belief that we're in a new age of self-realisation... does strike home quite a lot. Lots of the old ways are dead, and he promises a new path, which in his weird rhetoric means a 'new aeon', so to speak. The youth that aren't Brigade or Fascisti loves that.
But yes, Snowden was dead, Alexander was unable to fill his boots, and the King was more concerned. The National Government - a government above politics - wasn't working. Some may say it's time for more democracy, but he chose to appoint Fuller [some say after everyone else refused] instead. A military man can bring order, or so the King thought. Fuller did bring order, it is true.
The reorganisation into the National Salvation Government should have been a hint, granted, but everyone took it as him relinquishing the old ways and just pushing ahead with the full extent of the emergency procedures. But yes, we essentially killed Parliament for a time.
Order was restored, the economy was recovering in parts - turns out Fuller repealing the Gold Standard in 1932 helped - every Brigade and Fascisti member were dealt with, and Fuller called a new election. His New Aeon League won an easy landslide off people being grateful for that. They didn't really keep an eye on who they were electing, only that they were Fuller's men.
Oh dear. Oh very much dear. Fuller's more esoteric nature is starting to come out to play, and frankly, people are willing to accept their Prime Minister talking of avatars, aeons and whatnot as long as the country is stable and the economy prospering.
Things can't be that bad, they say, under Fuller.
Right?
David Lloyd George (Liberal leading Wartime Coalition, then National Liberal-Conservative coalition) 1915-1922
Bonar Law (Conservative minority, then majority) 1922-1923
George Curzon, Earl Curzon of Kedleston (Conservative majority, then minority) 1923
Ramsay MacDonald (Labour minority, then Labour-led National Government) 1922-1927
Philip Snowden (Labour-led National Government) 1927-1930
A. V. Alexander (Co-operative-led National Government) 1930-1931
J. F. C. Fuller (Military-led National Government, then National Salvation Government, then New Aeon majority) 1931-????
Perhaps it was a mistake to hand over emergency powers and the keys to Downing Street to Fuller.
But you do have to understand, things were falling apart. Rotha and Tom's mobs were fighting hard against each other, lots of paramilitary attacks by the Red Flag Brigades and British Fascisti, and going on since 1924 since the economy fell apart and the National Government was made.
They shot Ramsay Mac, for God's sake. He was the first Labour prime minister, and the Fascisti hated that. They saw the Tories working with him as a heinous betrayal of what made Britain Britain, and thus he had to go.
The violence grew more, of course. By the end, it was accepted that at least one MP would be shot per month. We tried our best, but with the economy stagnating - why did Curzon get persuaded by Churchill to reimpose the Gold Standard - the threats of a revolution grew even more.
That was why every National Government was Labour-led, get their hands dirty and keep the unions from threatening revolution. We had to give great concessions when they pushed for general strike, which only made the fascists even more enraged.
I will say this of Fuller, his belief that we're in a new age of self-realisation... does strike home quite a lot. Lots of the old ways are dead, and he promises a new path, which in his weird rhetoric means a 'new aeon', so to speak. The youth that aren't Brigade or Fascisti loves that.
But yes, Snowden was dead, Alexander was unable to fill his boots, and the King was more concerned. The National Government - a government above politics - wasn't working. Some may say it's time for more democracy, but he chose to appoint Fuller [some say after everyone else refused] instead. A military man can bring order, or so the King thought. Fuller did bring order, it is true.
The reorganisation into the National Salvation Government should have been a hint, granted, but everyone took it as him relinquishing the old ways and just pushing ahead with the full extent of the emergency procedures. But yes, we essentially killed Parliament for a time.
Order was restored, the economy was recovering in parts - turns out Fuller repealing the Gold Standard in 1932 helped - every Brigade and Fascisti member were dealt with, and Fuller called a new election. His New Aeon League won an easy landslide off people being grateful for that. They didn't really keep an eye on who they were electing, only that they were Fuller's men.
Oh dear. Oh very much dear. Fuller's more esoteric nature is starting to come out to play, and frankly, people are willing to accept their Prime Minister talking of avatars, aeons and whatnot as long as the country is stable and the economy prospering.
Things can't be that bad, they say, under Fuller.
Right?
- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The End of History
1945-1949: Harry S Truman (Democratic)
1949-1957: Tom Dewey (Republican)
1948 (w. Earl Warren) def. Paul V. McNutt (Democratic), Henry A. Wallace (Progressive)
1952 (w. Earl Warren) def. Earl Long (Democratic)
1957-1961: W. Averell Harriman (Democratic)
1956 (w. Estes Kefauver) def. Happy Chandler ('Southern Manifesto' Democratic), Earl Warren (Republican)
1961-1969: J. Edgar Hoover (Republican)
1960 (w. Harry F. Byrd*) def. W. Averell Harriman (Democratic), Douglas MacArthur* (Conservative)
1964 (w. Strom Thurmond) def. Hubert H. Humphrey (Democratic)
1969-1970: Curtis LeMay (Republican)
1968 (w. Richard Nixon) def. Eugene McCarthy [replacing Bobby Kennedy] (Democratic)
1970-1981: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1972 (w. Nelson Rockefeller) def. Hubert H. Humphrey (Democratic)
1976 (w. John Connally) def. Scoop Jackson (Democratic), Tom McCall (Third), Jesse Helms (Conservative)
1981-1989: Adlai Stevenson III (Democratic**)
1980 (w. Bob Bullock) def. Strom Thurmond (Conservative), John Connally (Republican), John B. Anderson (Third)
1984 (w. Bob Bullock) def. Howard Baker (Republican), Lyndon LaRouche (Alliance**)
1989-1997: Joe Biden (Democratic)
1988 (w. Jesse Jackson***) def. Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1992 (w. Ron Daniels) def. Pete du Pont (Republican)
Truman gets injured by a chandelier, and his Presidency becomes a de facto Cabinet run affair. This leads to Democratic policy becomes sclerotic and reactionary, including a refusal to desegregate the military, refusal to recognise the State of Israel and only narrowly avoiding an atomic confrontation in Korea.
It was no surprise when the GOP triumphed with Dewey at the helm. While Dewey governed in the Liberal Republican tradition, he layed the seeds for future travails by appointing J. Edgar Hoover to the Supreme Court. Hoover soon earned a name for himself as the Vice President and the Justice butted heads over Brown v Board.
Warren was Dewey's annointed, and he had decidedly burnt his bridges with the South. This was hardly difficult ground for the Republicans, but the controversy of Warren's nomination and his bitter relationship with the Supreme Court was enough to see the GOP forced into the Liberal Northeast.
The Democrats equally proved they could not become complacent that they could not govern without the South. The 1960 election saw a write-n candidacy for Douglas MacArthur, which delivered a hung electoral college. And when given the choice, a great many Southern Democrats decided to go for Hoover rather than Harriman. The Conservative Coalition was made fact a few years later, with the aging Byrd leaving the ticket and Thurmond enthusiastically embracing the Republican label which a few short years had been politically toxic in Dixie.
Hoover governed as a kind of 'pragmatic fascist'. He never openly embraced segregation - an extremely watered down Civil Rights Bill entered the House, only to be shot down. His focus was law and order. And what order, as dirty tricks were used to undermine opposition Republicans and Democrats alike, surveillance became universal and the FBI swole in size.
Hoover never sought a third term, but the authoritarianism he had unleashed could not be tamed. The GOP nominated Curtis LeMay alongside California Senator Nixon. It was a ticket with heavy authoritarian credentials - and it proved it when LeMay nearly started WW3 in 1970. He was impeached and Nixon entered office to preside over a decade of stagnation. The extremes of the Hoover years were rolled back, to a degree, and something of the Liberal Republican tradition was resurrected. But Nixon had a tendency to poision the waters he swam in. He pulled every trick he could manage to get Connally the nomination. Only to see him go down in flames, with the GOP shattering apart from contradictions in opposition to Connally's corruption.
So ensued a Democratic 80s... and 90s... and beyond? The Cold War is de facto over, drowned as the FBI and CIA were opened up to internal investigation. The troops were brought home to pay for universal healthcare, and corporate corruption was displayed by workplace democracy. A whole host of state political parties affiliate to the Democrats and much of political debate take place during state elections and federal primaries rather than any competition between the Democrats and the hopelessly outmoded GOP which has become occupied by nostalgic middle aged men.
1945-1949: Harry S Truman (Democratic)
1949-1957: Tom Dewey (Republican)
1948 (w. Earl Warren) def. Paul V. McNutt (Democratic), Henry A. Wallace (Progressive)
1952 (w. Earl Warren) def. Earl Long (Democratic)
1957-1961: W. Averell Harriman (Democratic)
1956 (w. Estes Kefauver) def. Happy Chandler ('Southern Manifesto' Democratic), Earl Warren (Republican)
1961-1969: J. Edgar Hoover (Republican)
1960 (w. Harry F. Byrd*) def. W. Averell Harriman (Democratic), Douglas MacArthur* (Conservative)
1964 (w. Strom Thurmond) def. Hubert H. Humphrey (Democratic)
1969-1970: Curtis LeMay (Republican)
1968 (w. Richard Nixon) def. Eugene McCarthy [replacing Bobby Kennedy] (Democratic)
1970-1981: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1972 (w. Nelson Rockefeller) def. Hubert H. Humphrey (Democratic)
1976 (w. John Connally) def. Scoop Jackson (Democratic), Tom McCall (Third), Jesse Helms (Conservative)
1981-1989: Adlai Stevenson III (Democratic**)
1980 (w. Bob Bullock) def. Strom Thurmond (Conservative), John Connally (Republican), John B. Anderson (Third)
1984 (w. Bob Bullock) def. Howard Baker (Republican), Lyndon LaRouche (Alliance**)
1989-1997: Joe Biden (Democratic)
1988 (w. Jesse Jackson***) def. Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1992 (w. Ron Daniels) def. Pete du Pont (Republican)
Truman gets injured by a chandelier, and his Presidency becomes a de facto Cabinet run affair. This leads to Democratic policy becomes sclerotic and reactionary, including a refusal to desegregate the military, refusal to recognise the State of Israel and only narrowly avoiding an atomic confrontation in Korea.
It was no surprise when the GOP triumphed with Dewey at the helm. While Dewey governed in the Liberal Republican tradition, he layed the seeds for future travails by appointing J. Edgar Hoover to the Supreme Court. Hoover soon earned a name for himself as the Vice President and the Justice butted heads over Brown v Board.
Warren was Dewey's annointed, and he had decidedly burnt his bridges with the South. This was hardly difficult ground for the Republicans, but the controversy of Warren's nomination and his bitter relationship with the Supreme Court was enough to see the GOP forced into the Liberal Northeast.
The Democrats equally proved they could not become complacent that they could not govern without the South. The 1960 election saw a write-n candidacy for Douglas MacArthur, which delivered a hung electoral college. And when given the choice, a great many Southern Democrats decided to go for Hoover rather than Harriman. The Conservative Coalition was made fact a few years later, with the aging Byrd leaving the ticket and Thurmond enthusiastically embracing the Republican label which a few short years had been politically toxic in Dixie.
Hoover governed as a kind of 'pragmatic fascist'. He never openly embraced segregation - an extremely watered down Civil Rights Bill entered the House, only to be shot down. His focus was law and order. And what order, as dirty tricks were used to undermine opposition Republicans and Democrats alike, surveillance became universal and the FBI swole in size.
Hoover never sought a third term, but the authoritarianism he had unleashed could not be tamed. The GOP nominated Curtis LeMay alongside California Senator Nixon. It was a ticket with heavy authoritarian credentials - and it proved it when LeMay nearly started WW3 in 1970. He was impeached and Nixon entered office to preside over a decade of stagnation. The extremes of the Hoover years were rolled back, to a degree, and something of the Liberal Republican tradition was resurrected. But Nixon had a tendency to poision the waters he swam in. He pulled every trick he could manage to get Connally the nomination. Only to see him go down in flames, with the GOP shattering apart from contradictions in opposition to Connally's corruption.
So ensued a Democratic 80s... and 90s... and beyond? The Cold War is de facto over, drowned as the FBI and CIA were opened up to internal investigation. The troops were brought home to pay for universal healthcare, and corporate corruption was displayed by workplace democracy. A whole host of state political parties affiliate to the Democrats and much of political debate take place during state elections and federal primaries rather than any competition between the Democrats and the hopelessly outmoded GOP which has become occupied by nostalgic middle aged men.
* Byrd was Hoover's running mate in Southern states, as well as MacArthur's nationally. Byrd won the second most EC votes of any VP candidate and got over the line in the contingent election that confirmed the Republican led 'Conservative coalition'.
** Illinois Democrats voted for LaRouche in the primaries - an early sign of Stevenson's weakness. In Illinois, Stevenson ran as a 'Solidarity' candidate, while LaRouche ran as a Democrat. Following Stevenson's victory, efforts to crush far-right elements led to the dissolution of the Alliance Party.
*** The Illinois Solidarity Party was an early sign of the Democrat's apparent dominance leading to fragmentation. While the Illinois Democrats were tarred with the brush of LaRouchism, Solidarity persisted and soon face its most serious opposition in Jackson's Rainbow Coalition. Nevertheless Jackson sought the Democratic nomination in 1988. By 1992, the Democrats had several state level affiliates that spanned the political spectrum.
** Illinois Democrats voted for LaRouche in the primaries - an early sign of Stevenson's weakness. In Illinois, Stevenson ran as a 'Solidarity' candidate, while LaRouche ran as a Democrat. Following Stevenson's victory, efforts to crush far-right elements led to the dissolution of the Alliance Party.
*** The Illinois Solidarity Party was an early sign of the Democrat's apparent dominance leading to fragmentation. While the Illinois Democrats were tarred with the brush of LaRouchism, Solidarity persisted and soon face its most serious opposition in Jackson's Rainbow Coalition. Nevertheless Jackson sought the Democratic nomination in 1988. By 1992, the Democrats had several state level affiliates that spanned the political spectrum.
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The Abuja Shift
Major General (ret.) Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, 2015-2018
The former military leader assumed office as the democratically elected successor to Goodluck Jonathan, but after only one year, his administration was compromised by his poor health, absneting himself from cabinet for a third of the meetings in 2016. Buhari then spent much of 2017 out of the country, receiving medical treatment, before returning to Abuja in late November 2017. He then only resumed his duties on 3 January 2018 - but on 8 May, Buhari left Nigeria for London again, this time for what he claimed was a "medical check up", and the discontent over his health and absenteeism boiled over into demonstrations, initially mainly by students and street vendors, but progressing into a general strike on 20 May. Two days later, the military assumed power, and Buhari never returned to Nigeria.
Col. Olufunto Adegoke GCON, 2018-2020
The young commander of Fort Obasanjo in Abuja had held her forces aloof from the protests, even once troops from were deployed to break up demonstrations. However, when her sister Lola was arrested on the streets of Abuja, and taken to Yakubu Gowon Barracks, Col. Adegoke took a picked group of her soldiers and confronted the commanding officer. The situation escalated into a shootout, after which Col. Adegoke found herself in control of the barracks, and effectively in a state of mutiny. She quickly allied herself with four other military commanders in Abuja, and occupied Aso Rock.
Adegoke assumed the Presidency, dissolved the National Assembly, and promised elections "once stability had been restored".
Her administration is remembered for two things: the severe crack down on corruption, which was estimated to reduce losses to the fiscus by around US$ 3 billion per year, with the extention of the death penalty to certain cases of corruption, following the Chinese model, and secondly for a very hostile policy towards immigrants, notably refugees from crisis torn Niger and Cameroon.
Adegoke died suddenly on 28 May 2020, after contracting COVID-19, allegedly during inspection of migrant detention centre outside Benin City.
Col. Oluyinka Onasanya GCON, 2020-2022
British-born Onasanya had moved to Nigeria with her father in 1984, after her parents separated. She enrolled in the army straight after school, and was commanding Mogadishu Barracks at the time of the coup. The second of four commanders to back Adegoke, she was appointed Minister for the Interior in the military government.
After Adegoke's death, the military council selected Onasanya as president, and her administration was largely focused on handling the Covid pandemic.
She maintained Adegoke's crackdown on corruption, but in January 2022 rumours began to swirl about PPE procurement, and her brother, Festus, was often referred to. Things came to a head on 25 May 2022, when, instead of the expected Africa day address, Onasanya appeared on television to denounce her brother, who she then tearfully claimed had been shot "resisting arrest". However, the broadcast was suddenly cut and replaced by old footage of Burna Boy in concert.
Brig. General Harrison Umunna GCFR, 2022-present
Like Onasanya, Umunna had moved to Nigeria from Britain with his father (in 1980), and at the time of the coup was the officer commanding Aguiyi-Ironsi Barracks in Abuja. The first commander to join Adegoke's coup, he was rewarded with a promotion and made head of the army. Quiet and unassuming, Umunna remained in the background during both Adegoke and Onasanya's rule. Rarely seen in public, he was often spoken of as the eminence grise of the military government.
Umunna's intelligence had been working on the PPE case in the background, and on Africa Day, the general addressed the nation, saying that Onasanya, and not her brother, was behind the scandal, and she had tried to blame it on him in a desperate move to escape being found out. Umunna then promised elections would be held in 2024, and requested an African Union mission to play an advisory role in the transition.
Major General (ret.) Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, 2015-2018
The former military leader assumed office as the democratically elected successor to Goodluck Jonathan, but after only one year, his administration was compromised by his poor health, absneting himself from cabinet for a third of the meetings in 2016. Buhari then spent much of 2017 out of the country, receiving medical treatment, before returning to Abuja in late November 2017. He then only resumed his duties on 3 January 2018 - but on 8 May, Buhari left Nigeria for London again, this time for what he claimed was a "medical check up", and the discontent over his health and absenteeism boiled over into demonstrations, initially mainly by students and street vendors, but progressing into a general strike on 20 May. Two days later, the military assumed power, and Buhari never returned to Nigeria.
Col. Olufunto Adegoke GCON, 2018-2020
The young commander of Fort Obasanjo in Abuja had held her forces aloof from the protests, even once troops from were deployed to break up demonstrations. However, when her sister Lola was arrested on the streets of Abuja, and taken to Yakubu Gowon Barracks, Col. Adegoke took a picked group of her soldiers and confronted the commanding officer. The situation escalated into a shootout, after which Col. Adegoke found herself in control of the barracks, and effectively in a state of mutiny. She quickly allied herself with four other military commanders in Abuja, and occupied Aso Rock.
Adegoke assumed the Presidency, dissolved the National Assembly, and promised elections "once stability had been restored".
Her administration is remembered for two things: the severe crack down on corruption, which was estimated to reduce losses to the fiscus by around US$ 3 billion per year, with the extention of the death penalty to certain cases of corruption, following the Chinese model, and secondly for a very hostile policy towards immigrants, notably refugees from crisis torn Niger and Cameroon.
Adegoke died suddenly on 28 May 2020, after contracting COVID-19, allegedly during inspection of migrant detention centre outside Benin City.
Col. Oluyinka Onasanya GCON, 2020-2022
British-born Onasanya had moved to Nigeria with her father in 1984, after her parents separated. She enrolled in the army straight after school, and was commanding Mogadishu Barracks at the time of the coup. The second of four commanders to back Adegoke, she was appointed Minister for the Interior in the military government.
After Adegoke's death, the military council selected Onasanya as president, and her administration was largely focused on handling the Covid pandemic.
She maintained Adegoke's crackdown on corruption, but in January 2022 rumours began to swirl about PPE procurement, and her brother, Festus, was often referred to. Things came to a head on 25 May 2022, when, instead of the expected Africa day address, Onasanya appeared on television to denounce her brother, who she then tearfully claimed had been shot "resisting arrest". However, the broadcast was suddenly cut and replaced by old footage of Burna Boy in concert.
Brig. General Harrison Umunna GCFR, 2022-present
Like Onasanya, Umunna had moved to Nigeria from Britain with his father (in 1980), and at the time of the coup was the officer commanding Aguiyi-Ironsi Barracks in Abuja. The first commander to join Adegoke's coup, he was rewarded with a promotion and made head of the army. Quiet and unassuming, Umunna remained in the background during both Adegoke and Onasanya's rule. Rarely seen in public, he was often spoken of as the eminence grise of the military government.
Umunna's intelligence had been working on the PPE case in the background, and on Africa Day, the general addressed the nation, saying that Onasanya, and not her brother, was behind the scandal, and she had tried to blame it on him in a desperate move to escape being found out. Umunna then promised elections would be held in 2024, and requested an African Union mission to play an advisory role in the transition.
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TheKennedyMachine
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- she/her
1933-1949: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
1932 (with John Nance Garner) def. Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1936 (with John Nance Garner) def. Alf Landon (Republican)
1940 (with Henry Wallace) def. Wendell Willkie (Republican)
1944 (with Harry Truman) def. Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1949-1957: Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1948 (with Earl Warren) def. Harry Truman (Democratic)
1952 (with Earl Warren) def. Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1957-1961: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1956 (with Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.) def. Earl Warren (Republican)
1961-1969: Cord Meyer (Republican)
1960 (with Margaret Chase Smith) def. Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1964 (with Margaret Chase Smith) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1969-1975: Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic) †
1968 (with Ronald Reagan) def. Margaret Chase Smith (Republican)
1972 (with Ronald Reagan) def. George H.W. Bush (Republican)
1975-1981: Ronald Reagan (Democratic)
1976 (with Henry Jackson) def. Bob Dole (Republican)
1981 - 1989: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1980 (with George H.W. Bush) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1984 (with George H.W. Bush) def. Tom Hayden (Democratic)
1932 (with John Nance Garner) def. Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1936 (with John Nance Garner) def. Alf Landon (Republican)
1940 (with Henry Wallace) def. Wendell Willkie (Republican)
1944 (with Harry Truman) def. Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1949-1957: Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1948 (with Earl Warren) def. Harry Truman (Democratic)
1952 (with Earl Warren) def. Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1957-1961: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1956 (with Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.) def. Earl Warren (Republican)
1961-1969: Cord Meyer (Republican)
1960 (with Margaret Chase Smith) def. Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1964 (with Margaret Chase Smith) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1969-1975: Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic) †
1968 (with Ronald Reagan) def. Margaret Chase Smith (Republican)
1972 (with Ronald Reagan) def. George H.W. Bush (Republican)
1975-1981: Ronald Reagan (Democratic)
1976 (with Henry Jackson) def. Bob Dole (Republican)
1981 - 1989: Richard Nixon (Republican)
1980 (with George H.W. Bush) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1984 (with George H.W. Bush) def. Tom Hayden (Democratic)
TheKennedyMachine
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guess the lore lol
MachiavelliJr
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JFK killed in action during the war which is part of the Pacific overall going a bit worse for the US, Dewey defeats Truman because of dissatisfaction with him/FDR mishandling the war, Dewey governs as a liberal Republican and the Solid South stays that way under LBJ... and then I'm lost. RFK has been the Kennedy family hope for a long time, finally gets in, liberalises the Democrats a bit domestically but very hawkish on foreign policy to wipe out the lasting stain of Truman's failures as a war leader, gets shot (let's go for relative of someone killed in a Democrat war overseas by way of a change), succeeded by Reagan who in a wave of jingoistic spirit picks Scoop Jackson as VP on a platform of War With Everybody? And Hubert Humphrey is undead or something?