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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Mirrored Britannia: or, what if 'Neoliberalism' meant something rather different?

1979-1990: Shirley Williams (Labour)
1979 - Anthony Barber (Conservative); David Steel (Liberal)
1983 - Keith Joseph (Conservative); David Steel (Liberal)
1987 - Geoffrey Howe (Conservative); David Steel (Liberal)


1990-1997: Robin Cook (Labour)
1992 - Geoffrey Howe (Conservative); Alan Beith (Liberal)

1997-2007: Ken Clarke (Conservative)
1997 - Robin Cook (Labour); Alan Beith (Liberal)
2001 - Harriet Harman (Labour); Menzies Campbell (Liberal)
2005 - Bryan Gould (Labour); Menzies Campbell (Liberal)


2007-2010: Oliver Letwin (Conservative)

2010-2016: David Miliband (Labour)
2010 - Oliver Letwin (Conservative); Vince Cable (Liberal)
2015 - William Hague (Conservative); Vince Cable (Liberal)


2016-2019: Diane Abbott (Labour)
2017 - Peter Bone (Conservative); Jenny Tonge (Liberal)

2019-0000: Ian Hislop (Labour)
2019 - Peter Bone (Conservative); Ed Davey (Liberal)

(Yes, I will admit that I came up with the final entry first and kind of reverse engineered the rest but what can you do...)
 
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Governors-General of the Canadas

1811-1815: Sir George Prévost

1815-1816: Sir George Drummond

1816-1818: Sir John Coape Sherbrooke

1818-1819: Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond

1820-1827: George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie

1827-1829: Sir James Mackintosh

Lords Commissioner to the Canadas

1829-1832: Sir James Mackintosh

Premiers of Upper Canada

1832-1832: Joseph Willcocks (Reformer)

1832 def. John Strachan (Bureaucratic)

1832-1833: William Warren Baldwin (Moderate)

1833-1833: William Lyon Mackenzie (Radical)

1833-1834: William Warren Baldwin (Moderate)

1834-1835: Thomas David Morrison (Radical)

1835 def. William Warren Baldwin (Moderate), Allan Macnab (Bureaucratic), Daniel Tracey (O'Connellite)

1835-1835: William Warren Baldwin (Moderate)

1835-1836: James Lesslie (Radical)

1836-1836: William Lyon Mackenzie (Coalition Radical - O'Connellite - Reform Bureaucratic alliance)

Governors of Upper Canada

1836-1842: William Lyon Mackenzie (Radical)

1836 def. William Warren Baldwin (Moderate), George Gurnet (Loyal Bureaucratic), Robert Baldwin Sullivan (Reform Bureaucratic)

1842-1847: William Warren Baldwin (Moderate)
1842 def. William Lyon Mackenzie (Radical), George Gurnet (Loyal Bureaucratic), Robert Baldwin Sullivan (Reform Bureaucratic)

1847-1848: Francis Hincks (Moderate)

1848-1860: William Henry Boulton (Bureaucratic)

1848 def. Francis Hincks (Moderate), William Hume Blake (Radical)
1854 def. Francis Hincks (Moderate), Peter Perry (Radical)


1860-1866: Charles James Fox Bennett (Radical)
1860 def. William Henry Boulton (Bureaucratic)

1866-xxxx: J. Sanfield Macdonald (Bureaucratic)
1866 def. Charles James Fox Bennett (Radical)

In 1791, after a generation of British rule, the Crown finally gave the Canadas a modicum of representative government. Upper and Lower Canada were detached from one another, and were given Legislative Assemblies and Councils in a facsimile of the Parliament in Westminster. However, newer innovations in British government, such as parliamentary responsibility, were denied; instead, the governor-general was to negotiate supply with the legislatures. The granting of representative government was immediately regretted when the legislatures attempted to flex their muscles, and the Governor-General and his Lieutenant-Governors found it very difficult to order the legislatures pass supply. The administration quickly formed oligarchies around them with control over the upper houses and executive councils; in particular, in Lower Canada, this oligarchy was Anglophone in contrast to the Francophone composition of the Legislative Assembly. As such, the election of new Upper and Lower Canadian Parliaments proved a chaotic affair which many Governors-General grew to regret.

In 1818, out of a desire to assimilate Francophones and to diminish legislative unity, Parliament in Westminster passed a bill to unify the Canadas, while Anglophone Upper Canada was given an equal number of representatives despite having a population much, much smaller than Francophone Lower Canada. Despite Canadians hating this measure, Lower Canadians seeing through this attempt at assimilation and Upper Canadians not wanting to share a legislature with French speakers, it was passed anyways. In the first few years, this measure proved a success, as the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada broke into deep infighting on linguistic lines. But over the 1820s, Upper Canadian Reformers aligned themselves with the Parti Canadien of Lower Canada in the name of a common platform which included the end of the Union. In 1822, the Reformer Joseph Willcocks was made Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Governors-General found it increasingly impossible to manage the passage of their preferred supply bills. As British Radicals faced increasing political persecution over the 1820s, this altered the mood of reformers in Canada, as they became more combative with a regime they viewed as illegitimate. Furthermore, the 1820s saw the Great Irish Famine. Over one million Irish people emigrated, and a large fraction of them moved to Canada, particularly Upper Canada. This forever altered the demography of Upper Canada, as the bulk of these emigrants were Catholics unlike with previous waves of Irish immigrants. These emigrants made their mark particularly in Toronto, which afterwards had a 45% Catholic plurality; it would come to be known as the "Dublin of Canada" for its high Irish Catholic population and its rising industry.

In 1827, the British government was overthrown in the Popular Revolution. The new Convention Parliament immediately ordered the dismissal of the Canadian administration and its replacement by one led by the Whig Sir James Mackintosh. Despite some attempts at resistance by people loyal to the deposed King Frederick, ultimately few believed the Canadas could exist except aligned to the British Isles, and the Canadas accepted British rule. Following the end of the Convention Parliament in 1829, the Althorp administration made Sir James Mackintosh the Lord Commissioner to the Canadas, with the power to negotiate a new constitutional settlement. The Canadas were thus swiftly separated, and both were given responsible government.

However, in Upper Canada, responsible government proved a failure. Administrations lasted for only months at a time, before being defeated in votes of no confidence. Furthermore, politics grew increasingly fragmented; beyond the tory Bureaucratic Party's perpetual opposition to every faction in power, Reformers divided between Moderates and Radicals, while Irish Catholics assembled into their own party with politics inherited from the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell. This division often sparked political violence, much as existed in the metropole in this period. Many asked, was this truly the responsible government they desired? Politicians looked to the United States, where popular control of government was moderated by the existence of a directly-elected executive branch seemed like a stabilizing politics. The American constitution, they reasoned, was the British constitution adapted for the egalitarianism of the New World.

And so, one one side Radicals who found an appointed executive undemocratic, and on the other moderate Tories who wanted to balance popular control of government with stability, converged on a belief in a directly-elected Governor. In 1836, certain Radicals, Reform-minded Tories, and O'Connellites formed a government, and passing a petition on the subject, they were able to force the British government to amend the colonial charter to establish a Governor elected by popular vote for six year terms. However, at the same time, responsible government was to stay, and the executive council would remain responsible to the Legislative Assembly by convention; this therefore established a mix of the Westminster and Washington systems of government where the Governor would provide direction, but would not head government. Furthermore, the veto, once an absolute power held by the Governor, was now made merely suspensive and held by the Council of Revision, a body consisting of six members of the executive and six Judges of the (British-appointed) Supreme Court. The British government now established a Lord Lieutenant, a new agent who would liaise with the Upper Canadian government.

The first Canadian gubernatorial election was won by William Lyon Mackenzie, who established a spoils system on the American model, and he enacted new laws which severely restricted all banks beyond the local level. These restrictions on banking caused a severe financial panic, and the 1839 midterms saw a Moderate victory. The new Premier who Mackenzie was forced to appoint, William Warren Baldwin, implemented reforms which restored the banking system. By 1842, the economy recovered, but the Moderates under Baldwin gained the credit, and the 1842 election saw a Moderate victory. In 1843, following the British model, a secret ballot was established, and this cut down on electoral violence dramatically. In 1847, Baldwin died, viewed a success; his Lieutenant-Governor Francis Hincks was a non-entity who faced defeat.

The victor of the 1848 election was William Henry Boulton, a former Mayor of Toronto who, despite being a member of the often anti-Catholic Bureaucratic Party, was able to win Catholic support. Despite being a monarchist who hoped for the restoration of the Hanoverians, he nevertheless avoided discussion of the enthronement issue; his tenure was instead a period of stabilization. He passed policies which aimed at attracting the common farmer to his platform, such as internal improvements and development. As a result of this, he won a then unprecedented second term in office. However, the Radicals, smarting from their defeat, sought to regain their base of support; to that end, they brought up the issue of acquiring the Rupert's Land territory, giving Upper Canada a vast territory to expand. This issue won the Radicals a majority in the Legislative Assembly in the 1857 midterms, and Charles Gavan Duffy made history by becoming Upper Canada's first Catholic Premier. Subsequently, the cabinet attempted to push the purchase of Rupert's Land, though these negotiations with the Hudson's Bay Company proved failures. The 1860 election, therefore, saw Boulton and the Bureaucratic Party defeated and the rise to power of Charles James Fox Bennett to the governorship.

Immediately, Bennett implemented a string of radical reforms. Democratic institutions were expanded. Primogeniture was abolished. Universal male suffrage became law. And finally, the government entered in negotiations with the Hudson's Bay Company for acquisition of Rupert's Land. In 1864, the two sides finally came to an agreement, and the vast north-west now became Upper Canadian soil. However, the Hudson's Bay Company maintained special privileges in fur trapping for the next ten years. However, at the same time, the Metis bristled under these new institutions, under the new county sheriffs appointed centrally from Toronto. This resentment caused a rebellion, which ended with Metis leaders executed under orders of the Upper Canadian government; nevertheless concessions for unofficial autonomy were given. However, even as Upper Canadians now settled Assiniboia, even as Selkirk became a Canadian town, the Radicals were divided at the gubernatorial convention over how best to settle the newly acquired territories; it was because of this that Bennett was defeated.
 
1912:Theodore Roosevelt Progresive Hiram Johnson
def:
woodrow Wilson Democratic Thomas R. Marshal.
def:
William Howard Taft Republican Nicoloas Butler
def:
Eugene Debbs Socialist's Emile sciber

1916: Theodore Roosevelt Progresive Hiram Johnson
def;Champ Clark Democratic Judson Harmon
def:
Charles Evans Hughs Republican Charles W. Fairbanks

Teddy Roosevelt was not pleased with how President Taft is running the party .Rosevelt narrowly wins over the Democratic canidate and President Taft.
Rosevelt is remembered as a anti trust breaker and repealing the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act
of 1909.u.s. enters world war 1 a year sooner then otl.
 
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Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
1997-2008: Tony Blair (Labour) [1]

1997 def: John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
2001 def: William Hague (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
2005 def: Michael Howard (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)

2008: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2008: Gordon Brown (Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition) [2]

2008 def: David Cameron (Conservative), Ming Campbell (Liberal Democrat), Nick Griffin (British National Party)
2012: David Cameron (Conservative) [3]
2012 (May) def: Diana Tinkman (British National Party), Gordon Brown (Labour), Ming Campbell (Liberal Democrat)
2012: Diana Tinkman (British National Party-Labour coalition)
2012 (June) def: David Miliband (Labour), Ken Clarke (Conservative), Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)
2012-2022: Diana Tinkman (British National Party) [4]

[1] - Blair is remembered mostly for his slick media profile, his invasion of Iraq, and the massive suppression of civil liberties during the War on Terror, as well as for beating a man to death in a fit of rage in the last grandiloquent days of his premiership. Finally, he resigned, but only after promising seventeen separate people that they would be his successor. Cue a race to Buckingham Palace to kiss hands with the Queen, during which Gordon Brown drove around a roundabout for an entire day while Blair stalled for time, and David Miliband was delayed by a bomb scare that was later revealed to be phony. Blair disappeared off the face of the earth shortly after switching off Geoff Hoon's life support machine in 2010 (to rapturous public applause), although a dishevelled man has latterly been seen muttering about weapons of mass destruction in the dystopian streets of downtown Baghdad.

[2] - Gordon Brown, somehow even more loathed than Blair had been by the end, still clung on to power for four years as a result of calling a snap election in which his humility garnered him a narrow lead over the Tories in terms of seats. Brown was seen as a joke - his official portrait in 10 Downing Street actually bears more of a resemblance to Tony Hancock - while events surrounding the War of Terror became ever more serious. At one stage, Al-Qaeda flew a plane into the Victoria Tower, and a series of rapidly resigning Home Secretaries banned rucksacks, planes, vans, and even fear itself, leading to embarrassing scenes as police left the premiere of Paranormal Activity 2 empty-handed. The final months of Brown's premiership revealed him to be entirely powerless, as he did nothing to prevent Tesco's from prosecuting a savage war of expansion against the sovereign nation of Denmark - for which Britain was thrown out of the EU. This utter lack of leadership saw Labour, and their coalition partners, defeated in a landslide while the newly environmentalist and media-savvy BNP made huge inroads.

[3] - David Cameron, a socially liberal and desperately needy politician, had made a name for himself by copying Tony Blair's mannerisms, appropriating the reflected glamour of the celebrity class, and doing deeply misguided public stunts, for instance his controversial decision to live as a black man for a month. It is no wonder that he failed to keep the Right loyal to the Conservative Party despite his success in becoming Prime Minister. As to his performance in the role, however, he is now either forgotten or reviled, lasting only 20 days until he went mad and began a deeply offensive ritual which it pains this writer to even describe, although suffice to say that Ming Campbell became inextricably implicated through no fault of his own, and that Cameron himself was so tarnished that he was forced to hold an immediate election. Needless to say, the Tories were crushed.

[4] - The story of the BNP's time in Government is often told, and it is, again, rather distressing to go into all the gory details. However, in the first month it was revealed that the London Olympics had in fact been an elaborate prank perpetuated by Justin Lee Collins, who was promptly hounded through the city by a mob and savagely beaten to death by Sebastian Coe, now a national hero and leader of the New Conservative Party from his prison cell. It is perhaps a blessing that we were saved the ignominy of the opening ceremony, which would have involved ten thousand children doing the David Brent dance. The mob was then used to forcibly dissolve Parliament, obviating Tinkman's need to co-operate with coalition partners.

Apart from all the overtly racialist legislation, Tinkman's government remained substantially within constitutional norms until 2018, when Queen Elizabeth II passed away and her unpopular son, Charles III, played the good sport and arranged with Tinkman to hold a referendum on the rightful occupant of the throne - although beating the Duke in Bavaria, Charles came a poor third behind Helen Mirren and the Memory of Princess Diana. Diana's reserve powers were, naturally, used by her Executors to radically reshape the British state in the image of the BNP's fascist wet dreams.

Nowadays, even after being 'liberated' by an alliance between 'Soupy' Leo's Ireland and the Freestate Tesconia, Britain has been indelibly remade in the BNP's image - linked by a footbridge to Jenna Bush's USA, cowed by Terror both real and state-confected, and entirely bent on the suppression of unpalatable races and religions. But at least the TV documentaries are quite good.
 
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
1997-2008: Tony Blair (Labour) [1]

1997 def: John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
2001 def: William Hague (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
2005 def: Michael Howard (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)

2008: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2008: Gordon Brown (Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition) [2]

2008 def: David Cameron (Conservative), Ming Campbell (Liberal Democrat), Nick Griffin (British National Party)
2012: David Cameron (Conservative) [3]
2012 (May) def: Diana Tinkman (British National Party), Gordon Brown (Labour), Ming Campbell (Liberal Democrat)
2012: Diana Tinkman (British National Party-Labour coalition)
2012 (June) def: David Miliband (Labour), Ken Clarke (Conservative), Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)
2012-2022: Diana Tinkman (British National Party) [4]

[1] - Blair is remembered mostly for his slick media profile, his invasion of Iraq, and the massive suppression of civil liberties during the War on Terror, as well as for beating a man to death in a fit of rage in the last grandiloquent days of his premiership. Finally, he resigned, but only after promising seventeen separate people that they would be his successor. Cue a race to Buckingham Palace to kiss hands with the Queen, during which Gordon Brown drove around a roundabout for an entire day while Blair stalled for time, and David Miliband was delayed by a bomb scare that was later revealed to be phony. Blair disappeared off the face of the earth shortly after switching off Geoff Hoon's life support machine in 2010 (to rapturous public applause), although a dishevelled man has latterly been seen muttering about weapons of mass destruction in the dystopian streets of downtown Baghdad.

[2] - Gordon Brown, somehow even more loathed than Blair had been by the end, still clung on to power for four years as a result of calling a snap election in which his humility garnered him a narrow lead over the Tories in terms of seats. Brown was seen as a joke - his official portrait in 10 Downing Street actually bears more of a resemblance to Tony Hancock - while events surrounding the War of Terror became ever more serious. At one stage, Al-Qaeda flew a plane into the Victoria Tower, and a series of rapidly resigning Home Secretaries banned rucksacks, planes, vans, and even fear itself, leading to embarrassing scenes as police left the premiere of Paranormal Activity 2 empty-handed. The final months of Brown's premiership revealed him to be entirely powerless, as he did nothing to prevent Tesco's from prosecuting a savage war of expansion against the sovereign nation of Denmark - for which Britain was thrown out of the EU. This utter lack of leadership saw Labour, and their coalition partners, defeated in a landslide while the newly environmentalist and media-savvy BNP made huge inroads.

[3] - David Cameron, a socially liberal and desperately needy politician, had made a name for himself by copying Tony Blair's mannerisms, appropriating the reflected glamour of the celebrity class, and doing deeply misguided public stunts, for instance his controversial decision to live as a black man for a month. It is no wonder that he failed to keep the Right loyal to the Conservative Party despite his success in becoming Prime Minister. As to his performance in the role, however, he is now either forgotten or reviled, lasting only 20 days until he went mad and began a deeply offensive ritual which it pains this writer to even describe, although suffice to say that Ming Campbell became inextricably implicated through no fault of his own, and that Cameron himself was so tarnished that he was forced to hold an immediate election. Needless to say, the Tories were crushed.

[4] - The story of the BNP's time in Government is often told, and it is, again, rather distressing to go into all the gory details. However, in the first month it was revealed that the London Olympics had in fact been an elaborate prank perpetuated by Justin Lee Collins, who was promptly hounded through the city by a mob and savagely beaten to death by Sebastian Coe, now a national hero and leader of the New Conservative Party from his prison cell. It is perhaps a blessing that we were saved the ignominy of the opening ceremony, which would have involved ten thousand children doing the David Brent dance. The mob was then used to forcibly dissolve Parliament, obviating Tinkman's need to co-operate with coalition partners.

Apart from all the overtly racialist legislation, Tinkman's government remained substantially within constitutional norms until 2018, when Queen Elizabeth II passed away and her unpopular son, Charles III, played the good sport and arranged with Tinkman to hold a referendum on the rightful occupant of the throne - although beating the Duke in Bavaria, Charles came a poor third behind Helen Mirren and the Memory of Princess Diana. Diana's reserve powers were, naturally, used by her Executors to radically reshape the British state in the image of the BNP's fascist wet dreams.

Nowadays, even after being 'liberated' by an alliance between 'Soupy' Leo's Ireland and the Freestate Tesconia, Britain has been indelibly remade in the BNP's image - linked by a footbridge to Jenna Bush's USA, cowed by Terror both real and state-confected, and entirely bent on the suppression of unpalatable races and religions. But at least the TV documentaries are quite good.

I mean, I was one of the few people who actually felt slightly uncomfortable with the rape element. I mean, I loved the makeover, I loved the sketches... It was just the end rape...
 
Monroe (@moth) asked me to post this – so, without further ado:

A HOUSE OF CARDS DIVIDED CANNOT STAND, Part One
By Monroe

Based on the novel series House of Cards by Michael Dobbs, and its adaptations by the BBC and Netflix.

2013—2013: Gov. Andrew Navarre (MI)/Sen. Hal Colson (FL) (Democratic)
def. 2012 (345): Pres. Frank Mystrom (WI)/Veep Lewis Hart (UT) (Republican) - 193, Mayor Russell Young (CA)/Sue White Hawk (SD) (Green Party) - 0
2012 Senatorial elections: Democrats - 57 (+9), Republicans 43 (-9)
2012 House elections: Democrats - 263 (+22), Republicans - 172 (-21), Independent - 0 (-1)


It began on New Year’s Day, 2013. The Democratic Party was flushed with triumph, Michigan Governor Andrew Navarre winning the Presidency while the party seized both Houses of Congress. For Senator Frank Olsen of Alaska, Democratic Whip in the Senate whose endorsement had secured Navarre his primary win, this trifecta was a prime opportunity to radically transform America. An admirer of FDR and LBJ, for Olsen there was but one truth: that if the holders of power do not wield it for progress, then they may as well not wield it. For his part in securing Navarre his victory, Olsen was promised to be made Secretary of the Treasury, a power that he planned to wield gladly. “I’m sorry, Franky,” he was told by the President-elect at a special conference of the Transition Team on New Years Day, “but you’re more important to me in the Senate.” To be passed over is one thing; to be passed over for Francis Mayfair, a bland Keynesian economist, Navarre campaign donor, and, importantly, a man whose vision to wield the awesome might of the U.S. Treasury was no more inspired than that of his Republican predecessor was an insult. When Olsen would rage to his wife, Jane, about this injustice she simply asked: “and what are you going to do about it?”

Matthias ‘Matty’ Baxter was the new political correspondent for the District Observer, a second rate outfit for second rate journalists. Having stepped off the train from Bismarck, North Dakota, he would live in the suburbs with his uncle, DNC Vice Chair (and cocaine addict) Roger Baxter. With the self-imposed millstone of securing a career establishing scoop around his neck, Matty attended party functions with his uncle, making a steady living reporting on the (sanitised) minutiae of the Democrats election campaign and its victory. At the DNC New Years eve party his uncle introduced him to Sen. Frank Olsen and Marty was smitten. A few days later, Olsen asked him to come to his townhouse- alone. Jane Olsen had left D.C. to attend to relatives in Alaska for the new years.

Over vodka and tonics, Olsen admitted to being an admirer of Matty’s work, a keen reader of the Observer ever since he first landed in Washington. Flattered, Matty admitted that he is in turn an admirer of Olsen’s, recalling his record on the Committee of Appropriations, and citing his support for the social welfare programmes that allowed his family to escape poverty. That night they made love, and over pillow talk Olsen offered to give Matty a scoop: that the Class 2 Democratic Senator from Texas, Lawrence Rust, had conducted insider trading.

Passing Matty whispers over the pillow, Olsen turned his attention to Roger Baxter. His newfound relationship with Matty is not one sided; as much as he may have given to Matty, Matty returned the favour in the form of revelations over Roger’s addiction. Although it was known he had been a coke fiend in the 90s and 00s, it was largely unknown that he had failed to kick his habit. At the DNC’s Inauguration Eve soiree, Olsen confronted Roger over his addiction, and blackmailed him into sabotaging the Senate hearing of Burt Taney, Navarre’s choice for Secretary of State, by leaking potential conflicts of interests to the Washington Post (Roger forgoing the District Observer in an attempt to hide his tracks). As Taney withdrew his nomination, Olsen pushed for Roger to suggest the Democrats retiring Senate Leader (and an ally of Olsen) Art Meier, who Navarre accepted.

With his pieces now in play, Olsen began his real manoeuvres: to depose Vice President Hal Colson. Although a close friend of Colson’s from their time in the Senate- indeed, it was on Olsen’s advice that Navarre choose Colson as his running-mate- Olsen had no scruples in doing what he felt he had to do. Colson’s brother, Chris, was an alcoholic who had spent the better part of a decade in a rum fuelled haze. While never publicly embarrassing Colson, privately between Senator and Whip, Olsen had become aware that Colson found himself personally responsible for Chris’ addiction, and feared that his taking of the Vice Presidency would only push Chris deeper into troubles.

Through a liqueured Meier, Olsen learns that Navarre had informed his Cabinet that he was planning on issuing a federal grant to the chemical company EcoLake. Posing as as Chris Colson under order of Olsen, Roger bought stocks in EcoLake. Olsen would in turn make Matty aware of this, with the District Observer implicating the Vice President in insider trading. With a firestorm of a scandal brewing, and feeling personally responsible although not guilty, Hal Colson resigned in disgrace. He would be the shortest serving Vice President to neither resign in office or ascend to the Presidency.

2013: Pres. Andrew Navarre (MI)/vacant (Democratic)

With Hal Colson gone, under the 25th Amendment Navarre had to nominate a candidate for the Office of Vice President. Although any selection would pass through Congress with ease, Navarre still sought counsel. Through Meier and Roger, Olsen was made a prime candidate. But Mayfair dissented, distrusting the Alaskan and instead naming of Ernest Fox, a moderate Senator from Pennsylvania. Made aware of his competition by Roger, with the help of his senior advisor, Jim Stamper, Olsen made his move against Fox, pressuring Roger into persuading his personal assistant, Patricia Washington, to having a one-night stand with Fox. Washington did so, and Olsen passed a recording of the two to Matty before he left for Camp David. But feeling a sense of loyalty for Washington, and disgust at how he was being used, Matty instead destroyed the tape. Olsen would only become aware of this betrayal once, arriving at Camp David on Navarre invitation, he saw Ernest Fox smoking by the pool.

The night prior, Olsen had opted to close the ‘loose end’. After arriving at Jim Stamper’s apartment with the tape of Washington and Fox, Roger was inconsolable. He had hurt a woman he cared deeply for, and pressured her into sex for the political gain of a man who never intended to let him go. Stamper consoled him, but Roger was furious. He knew what Olsen was doing, and no longer wanted any part of it. Always the image of the Samaritan, Stamper allowed him to stay for the night, and encouraged him to secretly spirit himself to Stamper’s holiday home in Cape Cod to detox. And while Roger was sleeping, Stamper found the cocaine in his belongs and laced it with rat poison. The next day, as Olsen travelled into the Catoctin Mountain Park, Roger stopped at a gas station in New Jersey. Cause of death was written off as a junkie’s misadventure. As police peeled Roger’s body off the toilet stall floor, at Camp David Olsen was in distress. On the cusp of being only a heartbeat away from the Presidency, and now his lover had betrayed him. All his plans, all his hopes, it was over.

And then something odd happened: Fox declined. While flattered by the President’s offer, he would feel that there was only one man who could take the mantle of the Vice Presidency: Frank Olsen.

With Fox departing, Navarre and a stunned Olsen sat down in private. Naverre revealed that he suspected Olsen was somehow behind the fall of Colson. Although he had no proof, he knew that what had happened to Hal was somehow this Alaskan’s doing, and that it would be better to keep Olsen close under a more watchful eye than to allow him to run amok in the Senate. Officially asking Olsen to become his Vice President, Olsen accepted, with a plan quickly made for him to resign that evening with his nomination declared for the morning.

As he returned home, Jane called ahead to tell him that she was coming home as well. Secretly Olsen met with Matty in the D.C. Metro, hiding from the cameras. Matty would break the news of Rogers death, and that he knew that Olsen was responsible, Washington having spilled her heart to him and revealed how Roger made her sleep with Fox. He also reasoned that it wasn’t simply the recording that made Olsen kill him, but that he was involved in the Colson brother’s insider trading scandal. With the truth out Matty made his own play: that he would keep it all a secret if Olsen left his wife for him, tonight. At first, Olsen seemed to agree, embracing his lover in a deep kiss. But this would be a ruse. With Matty’s guard down, and a train coming into the platform, Olsen pushed him onto the tracks and to his death.

Returning home, with Jane by his side Olsen announced his resignation as a Senate Whip. In turn, Navarre announced his nomination. Congress would for its part overwhelmingly approve. Matty’s death was ruled a suicide, likely caused by the loss of his uncle. Washington fled D.C., fearing for her life. Some time later, on the car to his inauguration as Vice President, Olsen reflected to Jane the whole affair, and his hopes for the future.

She replied: “No house of cards can stand forever.”

2013—2015: Pres. Andrew Navarre (MI)/Sen. Frank Olsen (AK) (Democratic)
2014 Senatorial elections: Democrats - 51 (-8), Republicans - 49 (+8)
2014 House elections: Republicans - 231 (+59), Democrats - 204 (-59)

It had been a year into Olsen’s term as Vice President, and he now comprehended what Navarre meant by keeping him close. As President of the Senate, Olsen has little power. The Democrats comfortable majority negating the necessity of tie breaking votes, while the new traditions expected him to be largely uninvolved in the legislative process. As Navarre’s proxy, Olsen chaffed under collar, resenting having to speak in favour of the moderate positions that Navarre pursued as President. As a Governing partner, clashed frequently with the man holding his lead, demanding a more progressive administration. All was not well for the erstwhile Senator, both in public or in private. The revelation of his affair with the late-Matty Baxter saw Jane become estranged from her husband. It wasn’t simply that he had slept behind her back; but she was smart enough to know that Olsen was responsible for Matty’s death. Although Olsen spoke against corruption and pivoted himself as someone who would clean the swamp of Washington, as an insider it was hard for people to take him seriously. And indeed his own scandals would hurt his reputation, such as when he was hot mic’d demanding Navarre remove his EPA Administrator Bart Scott. Jim Stamper, longtime crony, would lose his job as Chief of Staff over this incident, replaced by Susan Harding under the direction of Navarre.

Not everything was as it seemed. Appearing neutralised and weak, Olsen began to move in earnest against Navarre. There was only a heartbeat between him and the Oval Office, and no matter how weak he looked, power was only held by the throb of a vein. Although increasingly estranged, Jane was still loyal to Frank- she felt that she owned him that much. In a rare moment of pillow talk she passed on that the First Lady resented her husband for focusing on his career and found their marriage loveless, instead conducting an affair with Jacobi Hart, a House Representative from Michigan, who Navarre had spent some years given political support atop hush money in an effort to keep discreet.

As pillow talk became plotting, Harding became detective. A friend of Patricia Washington's, she began to investigate the disappearance of her friend, now living off-the-grid in the Appalachian Mountains. The connection between the Baxter’s was simple enough. The connection between Roger and Jim Stamper came as a suprise. Confronting Stamper, he would tell her to ‘follow the money’ around Baxter’s death, and then quickly informed Olsen of Harding’s investigation. Weary of his flank, Olsen ordered Stamper to blackmail Rep. Hart with knowledge of his affair with the First Lady, passing Stamper substantial written knowledge. Stamper in turn used this to exchange a one-time-payment of $10,000 for silence from Rep. Hart, who after a (recorded by the Secret Service) phone conversation with the First Lady- who bemoaned that Hart couldn’t simply kill the blackmailer, but would pay half the blackmail- paid up. After delivering the blackmail money to Corder, Olsen’s bodyguard, Stamper was murdered and dumped in the Chesapeake Bay."


A few weeks would pass, Navarre and Olsen busying themselves with the mid-term. But in October, Stamper’s body was discovered on the East Virginia coast. Police believed it to be a hired killing, and were quick to link the murder to Rep. Hart and the First Lady. Although they believed that Stamper had blackmailed Hart- after all, a recently unemployed insider of the White House court is not someone who would reliably be described as a paragon of virtue- Stamper’s whereabouts during the alleged period money was handed over was covered by Olsen and Corder, who claimed that Olsen had been entertaining Stamper and considering a new position for him in the Vice Presidents staff. And with the money unaccounted for, the apparent professionalism of the murder clear to the coroner, and a recording of the First Lady ‘joking’ that Hart should have killed their blackmailer before giving him half the blackmail money, the dots were as clear as day. Both Hart and the First Lady were arrested on conspiracy to murder. With murder and infidelity wrapped in the White House, the Democrats took a bloody hammering in Congress, losing the House and only barely holding the Senate.

With his wife arrested and questions of his personal reputation now being discussed daily, Navarre became isolated and embattled in the Oval Office. Questions of Navarre’s involvement in the death of Stamper became popular speculation. The Republicans promised impeachment hearings would begin against Navarre; the Democrats remained silent, waiting to see who would break the cordon sanitaire. At a speech at a trade show in Des Moines, Olsen did just that. Emerging to a stage, Olsen’s speech- a fluff text on the importance of economic growth- was met with booing and jeering by the hostile audience. Olsen himself appeared to become agitated and combative, until he finally shouted “Fuck Andy Navarre”. To the shock of the trade hall, Olsen launched into what became the speech of his career and a defining moment of contemporary American politics, cursing out Navarre and the apparent corruption that surrounded the Oval Office and his predecessor, and the culture of corruption in Washington that he claimed had enabled Navarre, before moving his attack towards a broader range of targets, such as agricultural monopolies, private healthcare providers, and big banks. The crowd was ecstatic; Olsen appeared to them like Jesus walking. In Washington, Navarre and the senior Democratic Leadership went ballistic. Betrayed, hurt, and realising that his misfortunate was Olsen’s, Navarre pleaded with Harding to help him bring down his turbulent deputy. She refused, believing now that Navarre was responsible for the deaths of the Baxter’s.

When the new House assembled, non-partisan articles of impeachment were drawn up against Navarre. Meeting with Navarre, Olsen made him an offer: that if Navarre went now and spared the nation a drawn-out impeachment procedure, then he would issue him a Presidential Pardon when the ‘time was right’. Navarre accepted. Frank Olsen became the 45th President of the United States of America.

2015—2015: Veep. Frank Olsen (AK)/vacant (Democratic)

Olsen would speak with Harding at the Rose Garden after his inauguration, planning to reward her loyalty by making her Chief of Staff. Discussing what had happened, Olsen admitted he had no intention of issuing Navarre a pardon if he was found guilty of any crime. When asked why he waited until the mid-terms to spring his plan against Navarre, Olsen would admit that much of it was down to serendipity, and that he was now free to become the longest serving President since FDR.

Harding simply remarked: “Nothing lasts forever.”
 
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Bill Clinton sex scandal first term.

1996:Bob Dole Republican Jack Kemp
Def:
Bill Clinton Democrat Albert Gore J.R.

Bob Dole chooses not to run in 2000
2000: Bill Bradley Democrat Joe Leiberman

Def: George W. Bush Republican Richard Cheney
 
First time on this thread and I'm noticing that, understandably, it's very doom and gloom right now lmao. I was the "redeemable future utopian" before I was banned off of Ah.com, so I thought I might as well keep that spirit up here with my first post.

Your Sons and Your Daughters Are Beyond Your Command (Part One)

2021-2023: Joe Biden/Kamala Harris (Democratic)

2020 Def. Donald J. Trump/Mike Pence (Republican) [306-232]
-Amid the poorly-handled Covid-19 Pandemic and the incumbent's own personal unpopularity, Fmr. Vice President Biden expectedly defeats President Trump
by a narrower than expected, but still respectable margin (2020)
-Right-Wing Militants assault Congressional Chambers before being pushed out; Subsequent Federal Investigations begin en-masse (2021)
-Accused stock manipulation by redditors forces bailout of Credit Lending Industry (2021)
-1,400 checks passed through reconciliation in March; Rising cases of Covid-19, the continued spread of the New York Variant along the East Coast, and pressure from both the CPC and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy convinces Biden to reluctantly order national lockdown until August (2021)
-Reinstation of DACA and the path to citizenship for DREAMERs.
-2021 Budget includes increased funding for Education, Healthcare, and Defense (2021)
-The police murder of an unarmed mixed-race Iroquois and White man named Jay Zesse in Maricopa County, AZ sparks renewed protests against police violence by groups like Black Lives Matter and the recently formed People's Defense Against Bigotry that last until the late summer (2021)
-Moderate climate bill, drafted by John Kerry, passes the Senate; sweeping new powers are granted to the EPA and a 15% Carbon Tax is finally implemented, but not much else (2021)
-After reportedly being quietly threatened with investigation and impeachment by Vice President Kamala Harris, Justices Gorsuch, Coney Barret, and Thomas join Liberals on the Court in declaring mandatory ID voting unconstitutional in arguably the biggest victory of the Biden Administration (2021)
-90 million Americans entirely vaccinated by September, largely along East Coast in effort to fight spread of the New York Variant of Covid; Biden lifts lockdown later that month (2021)
-A 22-year old paranoid scitzophroneic man inspired by QAnon sets off a homeade bomb in a mall in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Christmas Day, believing it to be a "Meeting ground for pedophilic elites"; The bomb kills 27 and injured hundreds, sparking an FBI investigation that identifies the man almost three weeks later, the time length being the subject of much controversy (2021)
-Schools open for the first semester of the 2022 School Year as State Governments report close to 140 million completely vaccinated following massive Federal vaccination push after Thanksgiving (2022)
-Justice Steven Bryer retires from Supreme Court, being replaced fairly smoothly by Former Alabama Senator Doug Jones (2022)
-29 Right-wing militants attempt to siege Joe Biden's First State of the Union Speech, most thinking it was the coming of the "Storm", a near mythical event in the QAnon lore; The militants are subsequently shot dead by Secret Service Agents and the multiple National Guardspeople deployed to the capitol (2022)
-The First minimum wage raises, averaging at about +2.50$ per hour nationally, come into effect (2022)
-Joe Biden Suffers first non-fatal stroke, where he is rushed to a military hospital and saved after several hours of surgery; Polls show up to a 20% rise in voter concerns about Joe Biden's health (2022)
-Bi-partisan Infrastructure bill, totalling near 150B$ and including massive funding for Public-Private Partnerships to construct renewable energy centers, passes the Senate in February (2022)
-Renewed mass protests against police violence begin again for the second year in a row (2022)
-SDF and FDA forces begin eventually successful two-year offensive to destroy ISIS completely and push Turkey out of Syria; U.S forces supply aid for the first half of the offensives against ISIS, including the widely publicized and highly controversial airstriking of a school in late June (2022)
-298 million complete vaccinations by June and the American economy continues to stabilize post-Covid despite the continued presence of recession level-conditions in most parts of the country; President Biden declares the Covid-19 Pandemic "Basically over" (2022)
-Attempted Federal gun buy-back program fails to even pass congress; An admittedly substanital Democratic immigration reform bill meets a similar fate (2022)
-Federal agency begins massive raids against right-wing militant groups like the Proud Boys starting in September (2022)
-Increased sanctions against Venezuela following personal feud between Presidents Biden and Maduro (2022)
-Republicans take back Congress in 2022, campaigning heavily against Democratic immigration policies (or lack thereof, unafraid of hypocrisy, driving down Hispanic turnout) and the "Inability of their Socialist economic program to revive the American economy after the Chinese virus", to quote Senator John Cornyn; In total the Republicans win 53 seats in the House while the Democrats wins 6 and 5 in Senate [NV, NH, CO, AZ, and GA] to the Democrat's 1 [PA], resulting in a total gain of R+47/4 (2022)
-Over 150,000 EMTs vote to Unionize with the AFL-CIO in November (2022)
-Chinese military exercises in South China Sea spark standoff with American and Japanese forces (2023)
-President Biden suffers second non-fatal stroke, surviving much more easily this time due to medical precautions, but still showing clear signs of both physical and mental decline (2023)
-With great reluctance and fear, the Biden Cabinet envokes the 25th Amendment, removing the President from office on the grounds that he is no longer mentally fit to serve in office; Kamala Harris is sworn in as the 46th President (2023)


2023-2025: Kamala Harris/Stephen Lynch (Democratic)
-Harris makes multiple Cabinet shuffles, including; Buttigieg (Trans.->HHS), Whitmer (To Trans.), Beccera retires to run for Senate, Antony Blinken (State->Ambd. To China), Austin (Def.->State), and Gillibrand (To Def.) (2023)
-Planned Republican impeachment hearings against President Biden stonewall with Harris in office (2023)
-A Democratic bill that would institute a Public Healthcare Option obviously fails in the Republican Congress (2023)
-President Harris meets with Xi Xingping in Los Angeles in a widely publicized meeting in an effort to decrease hostilities (2023)
-U.S reaffirms commitment to NATO, U.N (2023)
-Second round of minimum wage raises come into effect, averaging at 1.75$ per hour nationally (2023)
-School shooting rate jumps through the roof following brief calming during 2022 (2023)
-A Democratic bill to band handguns incites resistance from not only Republicans, but from across the political spectrum; The bill dies in Comittiee (2023)
-President Harris shepards a bill assigning tens of billions of dollars for inner-city schools through congress, becoming her signature act to some (2023)
-Almost every American is completely vaccinated for Covid-19 by late 2023 (2023)
-Justice Thomas resigns, giving Harris an Empty Supreme Court seat and promoting a political conflict (2023)
-A bi-partisan bill Federally decriminalizing recreational marijuana use narrowly passes congress, going into affect in 2024 (2023)
-Members of the essentially defunct ISIS shoot up a shopping centre in New York during Black Friday, killing over 74 and prompting a month of national mourning (2023)
-Two separate infrastructure spending bills, most dedicated towards retrofitting Federal buildings with renewable energy sources, passes Congress (2024)
-2024 Republican Primaries: Fmr. Pres. Donald Trump (FL) Def. Sen. Mitt Romney (UT), Senator Tim Scott (SC), Mrs. Carly Fiorina (CA), Sen. Ted Cruz (TX)
2024 Democratic Primaries: Pres. Kamala Harris (CA) Def. Virtually Unopposed
-President Harris survives multiple assassinations attempts over the course of the campaign, most notably when a Neo-Nazi terrorist named Carlos Gutierrez detonated a bomb near enough to the President to throw her up against the wall and break her left arm; Gutierrez is shot dead by the Secret Service (2024)
-Ironically facing similarly low approval ratings to her predecessor, Harris would be defeated by her predecessor, albeit by a much narrow margin than most expected; Trump, older, meaner, and more insane than ever, would recapture most of the Rust Belt (with the exception of MI), Arizona, and Georgia and for the first time, winning the popular vote, albeit again narrowly (2024)
-Democrats actually make gains in the House in 2024, winning 17 seats and only loosing 4, but they still loose 9 seats in the Senate [
AZ, PA, OH, MI, WI, MN, MT, WV, and VA] while only winning one themselves [FL]; In total, the gains are D+14, R+8 (2024)
-2024 Los Angeles Winter Olympics; Germany, The United States, and Nigeria take home gold in several contests (2024)


2025-????:
Donald J. Trump/Paul Gosar (Republican)
2024 Def. Kamala Harris/Chris Murphy (Democratic) [302-235]
-Amid massive protests from both Liberals and Leftists, Donald J. Trump is inagurated for a second non-consecutive term (2025)
-Included in Trump's Second Cabinet are Matt Gatez (State), Marsha Blackburn (Int.), David Clarke (Def.), and Josh Hawley (Tres.)
 
-Democrats actually make gains in the House in 2024, winning 17 seats and only loosing 4, but they still loose 9 seats in the Senate [AZ, PA, OH, MI, WI, MN, MT, WV, and VA] while only winning one themselves [FL]; In total, the gains are D+14, R+8 (2024)
No way are the Dems losing VA and honestly MN too, AZ is a lock too for the Dems at this point given the state of AZGOP, while winning FL.

Also honestly, this doesn't seem very utopian to me
 
I do like how even in a supposedly utopian world Donald Trump becomes President again, there's enough terrorist attacks to count as a mini Years of Lead, and it takes until late 2023 for almost everyone to get vaccinated. I assume in the dystopian version of this Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes President, terrorists overthrow half of all state governments, and the pandemic mutates into a zombie virus.
 
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