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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

It’s a dystopia, this is an ATL that can’t even spell a black woman’s name right when she’s the most powerful person in the world.
Don't be mean.

@bionic_man are you writing these on your phone? And not to sound awful but is English your first language? The lists would be easier to read if you formatted them using the tools at the top of the textbox like Coloring. And write ups are good and useful too. I think I see where you were going by using Lovecraft as a President but its hard to quite get what the differences are in what might be a dictatorship? Or just a very racist Social Democracy?
 
1932-1972: H.P. Lovecraft (Socialists)

1972-1992: Shirley Chisholm(peoples)

1,In this world,H.p. Lovecraft did not become a horror writer as in real life. In this tl. Lovecraft became a journalist and obsessed with immigrants and very racist to words them . In 1932 America was in a severe depression .Love craft defeated both FDR and Hoover pledging to end the depression. although the recession did end America became a fascist state.

2.After many years of fascism the people rose up and over thre the government in a 2nd world war.1972 was first free elction since 1932.
 
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Would it be helpful if someone showed you what a formatted version of that list would look like?

Presidents of the United States of America

1932-1972: H.P. Lovecraft (Socialist)
1972-1992: Shirley Chisholm (Peoples')

And then in this section you talk about what happened in this scenario, and show why this is a dystopic America.
 
I’ve got a gimmicky write-up on the way, but here’s the list (for now);

Presidents of the United States, 1961 - present:
1961 - 1965: Richard Nixon / Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (Republican)

defeated, 1960: John F. Kennedy / Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1965 - 1969: George Wallace / Frank Lausche (Democratic)
defeated, 1964: Richard Nixon / Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican)
1969 - 1977: Gerald Ford / Howard Baker (Republican)
defeated, 1968: Frank Church / Ryan DeGraffenreid (Democratic), George Wallace / Frank Lausche ('American' Independent), Robert Scheer / Bill Moyer (Peace)
defeated, 1972: Jesse Unruh / Bill Proxmire (Democratic), George Wallace / Jim Johnson (American)

1977 - 1985: Birch Bayh / Reubin Askew (Democratic)
defeated, 1976: Bud Wilkinson / Melvin Laird (Republican)
defeated, 1980: Eliot Richardson / Nelson Gross (Republican)

1985 - 1989: Reubin Askew / John Brademas (Democratic)
defeated, 1984: Jack Kemp / Bill Saxbe (Republican)
1989 - 1993: Bob Dornan / Connie Marshner (Republican)
defeated, 1988: Reubin Askew / John Brademas (Democratic)
1993 - 1997: Jim McDermott / Bob Armstrong (Democratic)
defeated, 1992: Bob Dornan / Connie Marshner (Republican)
1997 - 2005: T. Boone Pickens / George Voinovich (Republican)
defeated, 1996: Jim McDermott / Bob Armstrong (Democratic)
defeated, 2000: Evelyn Murphy / Dave McCurdy (Democratic)

2005 - 2009: Jeff Bell / Tom Davis (Republican)
defeated, 2004: Eliot Spitzer / Evan Bayh (Democratic), Paul Soglin / Noam Chomsky (Independent)
2009 - 2013: Paul Soglin / Gloria Tristani (Democratic)
defeated, 2008: Mike Bloomberg / various (Independent), Jeff Bell / Tom Davis (Republican)
2013 - 2017: Joe Biden / Charlie Crist (National Unity)
defeated, 2012: Andrew Napolitano / Matt Bevin (Republican), Paul Soglin / Gloria Tristani (Independent Democratic)
2017 - 2021: Paul Soglin / Carmen Yulín Cruz (Democratic)
defeated, 2016: Matt Bevin / Joe Heck (Republican), Joe Biden / Charlie Crist (National Unity)
2021 - 2021: Carmen Yulín Cruz / Eric Garcetti (Democratic)
defeated, 2020: Ken Paxton / Carly Fiorina (Republican), Joe Biden / Phil Gordon (Unity)
2021 - present: Mike Pence / vacant (Republican)
 
bionic man is definitely making me consider writing a Deus Ex-verse presidents list, so there is that. But it'll probably never see daylight and I'm a little wary of writing for a universe which accepts a lot of conspiracy lore as fact anyway, particularly the world being secretly run by [[globalist businesspeople]].

It's really a Trumppunk game two decades early. It even has a far-right insurgency in the north west. For years I thought that made fuck-all sense, but now I'm less sure.
 
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Eagle Creek Fire gets out of hand in 2017, everybody dies, my buddy Jim from Metro emergency preparedness rebuilds the city out of earthquake resistant flexible wood laminate and requires everyone to wear hard hats at all times
Nice
 
Thinking about doing an Algeria as an independent commonwealth within the French Union framework independent in the late 40s- early 50s in a "communism semi-wins in continental Europe but a bit more nuanced" scenario*. The semi-permanent PCF- SFIO majority governs France, grants independence - after much agitation from the Algerians and increasing pressure from the Soviet Union- to Algeria and other African colonies as a "fraternal republic" of sorts. Would be an interesting subject to ponder next couple months.

Chef d'État du République Populaire d'Algérie
1949 - 1957 Ferhat Abbas (Front Nationale Démocratique Algérien; UDMA-PCA-SAIO-AOMA Coalition (1949- 1953))

defeated, 1949: Messali Hadj (Parti Populare Algérien), Henri Fouques-Duparc (Rassemblement des Republicains et Paysans pour l'Algérie Française)
1953: "The National Democratic Front takes the leading role in the governance of the republic"

1957 - 1961 Krim Belkacem (Front Nationale Démocratique Algérien)
1961 - 1964 Hocine Aït Ahmed (Front Nationale Démocratique Algérien => Parti de la Révolution Socialiste (1963- 1964))
1964 - 1965 Ahmed Ben Bella (Parti Populaire Arabe - Association des Oulémas Musulmans Algériens Coalition)

defeated, 1964: Henri Alleg (Parti Communiste Algérien), Hocine Aït Ahmed (Parti de la Révolution Socialiste), Jean-Jacques Susini (Parti Démocrate)

Chef d'État du République Algérienne Démocratique et Populaire
1967 - 1973 Bachir Hadj Ali (Parti Communiste Algérien)
1973
- 1976 Henri Alleg (Parti Communiste Algérien)
1976 - 1991 Sadek Hadjeres
(Parti Communiste Algérien)
1991 - 1995 Mohammed Harbi (Parti Communiste Algérien)


*Don't want to do "Soviet just liberates the whole of Europe" thing as Meet the New Boss did, for example. Henry Wallace presidency? Soviet troops at the Rhine? No De Gaulle figure? Even more comprehensive Vichy collaboration that just destroys the political right?
 
PORTLAND BURNING

The Fall of House Freeland

Rulers of the Duchy of Portlandia
2661-2680: Kaitlin Freeland

2680: Haida Conquest sees First Sack of Portland
2680-2691: Hluuwee Tlgunghung
2691: The Great Gaian Groundswell sees Second Sack of Portland
2691-2716: Penny Freeland
2716-2724: Melanie Freeland

2724: Novorusskiy Invasion sees Third and Final Sack of Portland, Namestnik Oleksandr Menshikov abandons the city in favor of Seattle
 
A man's thoughts and dreams

1905-1917: Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive)
1904 (with Joseph Carey) def. Mark Hanna (Republican), Alton B. Parker (Democratic)
1908 (with Hiram Johnson) def. William H. Taft (Republican), William J. Bryan (Democratic)
1912 (with Hiram Johnson) def. Philander C. Knox (Republican), Champ Clark (Democratic)

1917-1921: William J. Bryan (Democratic / 'Peace' Progressive / Socialist - Peace Coupon)
1916 (with Hiram Johnson) def. Theodore Roosevelt ('War' Progressive), Charles E. Hughes (Republican)
1921-1929: Franklin Roosevelt (Democratic)
1920 (with Champ Clark) def. Theodore Roosevelt (Republican), William J. Bryan (Progressive / Popular Democratic / Socialist - Peace Coupon)
1924 (with A. Mitchell Palmer) def. William C. Sproul (Republican), Robert LaFollete (Farmer-Labor / Socialist / Regional Labor Parties - United Front), William J. Bryan (Christian Labor)

1929-1933: Andrew Mellon (Republican)
1928 (with Frank Lowden) def. Al Smith (Democratic), Norman Thomas (Socialist / Farmer-Labor / Regional Labor Parties - United Front)
1933-1945: H.P. Lovecraft (Socialist / Farmer-Labor / EPIC - United Front)
1932 (with Upton Sinclair) def. Newton D. Baker (Democratic), Andrew Mellon (Republican), A. Philip Randolph ('Civil Rights' Socialist)

“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
- President Howard P. Lovecraft
Mark Hanna lives and successfully primaries Roosevelt in 1904, only for the Bull Moose to split and form his own party eight years early and win the Presidential election. Untethered by tradition, he wins two more and takes the US into WW1 in 1915, only to lose in 1916 as the pro-war parties (Republican and 'War' Progressive) fail to reach an accord like the anti-war ones. Bryan, however, faces an internal coup by his own Secretary of the Navy despite his efforts to bring the war to an end (which he does in 1919), beginning eight years of conservative Democratic rule. Meanwhile, participation in the Peace Coupon allows the Socialists a national platform, and they are helped by their long-term alliance with Hiram Johnson's refusal to fold back into the GOP with the rest of the Progressives, and by the Bryanite Popular Democrats' refusal to support Roosevelt. With a United Front of leftist parties eventually rising to a clear third place in 1928 (despite the setback of Bryan's quixotic attempt to forge a distributist socially conservative party in the Western states at the end of his life), the Democrats lose enough urban voters in 1928 to let in a hardline Republican government. That same year, the Progressives and Popular Democrats from a new Farmer-Labor party, though this is soon dwarfed by the growing urban socialists after they absorb the CPUSA. as the Socialists grow in prominence, the journalist and horror writer Howard Lovecraft becomes increasingly prominent in the party, urged on by his ambitious wife. Lovecraft wins a seat in the 1930 house elections, and when the 1932 convention comes round, though inexperienced, Lovecraft is recognised as an enthusiastic activist with, unusually for the Socialists, a rural background, and wins the Popular Front nomination as a compromise between Thomas and LaFollete. Mellon is saddled with recovering the economy after an alternate crash, but his laissez-faire approach leads to a further collapse. When the 1932 election comes round, the economic chaos has discredited both parties, and despite a split in the Socialists over Lovecraft's somewhat outdated racial views, the United Front wins out. The new age of a democratic socialist America is dawning, but it remains to be seen if all shall share in its benefits.

(I've done President Lovecraft before, but seeing @bionic_man do a list on it, and having read recently about Lovecraft's eventual conversion to socialism, I decided to have another stab at it)
 
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Portland Burning

Kingdom of Great Britain

Lord Warden of the Cinq Ports:

Frederick, Lord North (1778-1792)
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1792-1796)

Cantiacian Republic

Post abolished (1796-1797)

English Republic

Keeper of the Coast:

Thomas Paine (1797-1802)
Vacant (1802-1803)
William Godwin (1803-1807)

Kingdom of Anglia

Lewis I (House of Bonaparte) (1807-1811)

1st French Empire

Napoleon Bonaparte (1811-1813)

Kingdom of Great Britain (Restored)

George IV (House of Windsor) (1813-1817)
Horatio Nelson, 1st Duke of Toulon (1817-1844)
 
no

I refuse to accept that name.

Great list.

Hey, Unthank is a British placename originally, y'all can

It is a great American name, though (and specifically black American, what with the French-influened forename).

And thanks, I know this one's a little niche but hopefully people find it interesting. IOTL (as I've mentioned on here before I think) Vanport was completely destroyed by the 1948 flood and its residents moved into Portland proper. I thought it would be interesting, not just in a local but an American context, to have a legally independent African-American polity at this time in history.
 
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Hey, Unthank is a British placename originally, y'all can

It is a great American name, though (and specifically black American, what with the French-influened forename).

And thanks, I know this one's a little niche but hopefully people find it interesting. IOTL (as I've mentioned on here before I think) Vanport was completely destroyed by the 1948 flood and its residents moved into Portland proper. I thought it would be interesting, not just in a local but an American context, to have a legally independent African-American polity at this time in history.
The Unthank sisters are quite major in the contemporary folk scene at the minute. As such, they are of course extremely white.
 
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