Strangely I thought this morning "nobody's done an expanded Canada recently", great minds thing alike. Will Minnesota also be in it?
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KolyenuKS
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Minnesota will be in it, ye, and they're probably have at least 1 unique party (i like the dlf, they're interesting in terms of history)
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Edward Heath
Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
David Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak is a British-American businessman and financier, who has since 2012 served as the founder and CEO of Yavin Capital.
Born in Southern England, Sunak studied at Oxford and then at Stanford on a Rhodes scholarship, earning an MBA in 2004. Marrying Stanford classmate Akshata Murty, daughter of Indian tech billionaire Narayana Murthy, Sunak initially worked for Goldman Sachs in London, but settled America in 2008 after a secondment to their New York headquarters. He became a naturalized American citizen in 2014.
In 2012 he confounded venture capital firm Yavin Capital (named after the fictitious home base of the Rebel Alliance in the cult animated series Star Wars) alongside veteran tech entrepreneur Roelof Botha, the grandson of former South African President Pik Botha. He and his firm quickly gained prominence for being the key investors in the Minitel networking site Samsara, with Sunak's initial $20 million investment growing to over $2 billion within five years. He joined Forbes magazine's list of the world's billionaires in 2018.
More recently, Sunak has come under media scrutiny for many for his investment in failed start-ups such as Andromeda Finance - which has since come under criminal investigation - his enthusiasm for private jet usage over short distances and his public opposition to high speed rail. A series of hostile and uncomfortable interviews and public interactions over the 2022-23 period caused him to become a Minitel replica, and he has the distinction of being the person who had lost the most money in history (more than $40bn following the 2022 Minitel Crash).
Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
David Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak is a British-American businessman and financier, who has since 2012 served as the founder and CEO of Yavin Capital.
Born in Southern England, Sunak studied at Oxford and then at Stanford on a Rhodes scholarship, earning an MBA in 2004. Marrying Stanford classmate Akshata Murty, daughter of Indian tech billionaire Narayana Murthy, Sunak initially worked for Goldman Sachs in London, but settled America in 2008 after a secondment to their New York headquarters. He became a naturalized American citizen in 2014.
In 2012 he confounded venture capital firm Yavin Capital (named after the fictitious home base of the Rebel Alliance in the cult animated series Star Wars) alongside veteran tech entrepreneur Roelof Botha, the grandson of former South African President Pik Botha. He and his firm quickly gained prominence for being the key investors in the Minitel networking site Samsara, with Sunak's initial $20 million investment growing to over $2 billion within five years. He joined Forbes magazine's list of the world's billionaires in 2018.
More recently, Sunak has come under media scrutiny for many for his investment in failed start-ups such as Andromeda Finance - which has since come under criminal investigation - his enthusiasm for private jet usage over short distances and his public opposition to high speed rail. A series of hostile and uncomfortable interviews and public interactions over the 2022-23 period caused him to become a Minitel replica, and he has the distinction of being the person who had lost the most money in history (more than $40bn following the 2022 Minitel Crash).
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Steve Brinson
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I take it this means something like "Internet meme"?
Love the callback to Andromeda Finance.
That's probably the most obvious one of the whole series - I imagine there would be more variations possible in years to come once we're farther away from Sunak's premiership. I do enjoy the Star Wars references though.
You could apply this to US presidents (etc) as well, not necessarily in the same shared universe.
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Yeah, the Truss and Sunak (and May) ones were harder because unlike a lot of the earlier PMs they don’t really have hinterlands to speak of. Truss’s post-premiership has revealed her comfort zone to be that of a reactionary talking head, but I was genuinely struggling to think of what Sunak would do other than “politics” or “make vast amounts of money”.
There is going to be one final entry for Starmer; I don’t think I’m tempting fate with that one.
Yeah, based on past experience only @Meadow has the power to accidentally deny the future accession of an inevitable future political leader in that manner.
You do make a good, if depressing point about the lack of hinterlands for modern politicians. I feel that's a more nuanced way of expressing the point usually simplified into NEVER HAD A PROPER JOB.
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Hillary is still younger than both candidates this year.
It's the way it happened twice with both Shuffling the Decks.
@Redolegna will pay you to write a shuffled French presidents list TLIAD which treats Marine Le Pen as an inevitable future president.
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And she helped pen the impeachment memo that would have been used (and still is nowadays!) in a theoretical impeachment if he didn’t resign in ‘74.
In fact I think Tricky Dick resigning is what led to her marrying Bubba-the easiest way to have her remain Miss Rodham,Future Supreme Court Judge,is just have Nixon refuse to resign and thus be impeached.
As in both Miliband and Clinton?
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Edward Heath
Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
David Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Rodney Starmer, best known by his stage name Rod Starmer, is a British flautist and jazz musician. Starmer is also a professor at the Trinity College of Music.
Educated at Reigate Grammer School, Starmer studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was taught by professor Geoffrey Gilbert and enrolled in the newly-established jazz course at the Guildhall, studying under Lionel Grigson. He counted jazz musicians such as Huw Warren and Courtney Pine as classmates. As well as regularly collaborating with many of his fellow Guildhall alumni, Starmer has played in the bands of Ronnie Scott, Arturo Sandoval, Pat Metheny and Oscar Peterson.
In addition to his work with jazz bands, Starmer has played with the London Symphony Orchestra and has regularly collaborated with former high school classmate indie rock artist Wheatstraw (Norman Cook).
A lifelong republican and socialist, Starmer publicly declined an offer of an OBE in 2013. He is active member of the Labour Party, and has performed fundraising concerts for the Labour Party in 2012 and 2015, and for the unsuccessful leadership candidacy of Frances Curran. He participated in demonstrations for the pro-immigration "All Are Welcome" movement and against UN intervention in Ethiopia.
Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
David Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
Keir Rodney Starmer, best known by his stage name Rod Starmer, is a British flautist and jazz musician. Starmer is also a professor at the Trinity College of Music.
Educated at Reigate Grammer School, Starmer studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was taught by professor Geoffrey Gilbert and enrolled in the newly-established jazz course at the Guildhall, studying under Lionel Grigson. He counted jazz musicians such as Huw Warren and Courtney Pine as classmates. As well as regularly collaborating with many of his fellow Guildhall alumni, Starmer has played in the bands of Ronnie Scott, Arturo Sandoval, Pat Metheny and Oscar Peterson.
In addition to his work with jazz bands, Starmer has played with the London Symphony Orchestra and has regularly collaborated with former high school classmate indie rock artist Wheatstraw (Norman Cook).
A lifelong republican and socialist, Starmer publicly declined an offer of an OBE in 2013. He is active member of the Labour Party, and has performed fundraising concerts for the Labour Party in 2012 and 2015, and for the unsuccessful leadership candidacy of Frances Curran. He participated in demonstrations for the pro-immigration "All Are Welcome" movement and against UN intervention in Ethiopia.
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As I mentioned before, this excellent series was the direct inspiration for my series.
I missed that comment earlier, so I'll have to check out Gorrister's series as well.
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Now that I've done a couple more small leagues, time to return to a bigger league. In fact now we go to the second entry in the Big Six, Ohio!
The notes:
I felt like the major top flight teams should be fairly evenly divided between Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland. A few of the teams are from OTL or closely based on OTL teams. Cleveland Inter and Magyar Buckeye are loose continuations of early soccer teams Inter-Italian SC (and a bit of the Cleveland Internationals) and Magyar-American FC, centered around the Italian and Hungarian communities in Cleveland respectively. The other OTL-inspired teams are the Dayton Dutch Lions, a USL2 team who I mainly included because I like the name and because they're probably the most well known lower league team in Ohio, and the Cincinnati Rovers, who I based on the Cincinnati Comets and played in a few stadiums during their brief four year existence in the 1970s.
For the Magyar Buckeye stadium, I had to give a shout out to two of the most influential soccer players in the OTL US, brothers Pete and Charlie Gogolak, who migrated to the US after the Hungarian Revolution and changed the NFL forever by showing Americans how to kick a ball.
One major city left out of the top flight is Canton. This is intentional. As the city that is known for being the birthplace of the NFL, I decided to give Canton an irrational dislike of soccer ITTL.
The "GZ" in GZ Akron stands for Goodyear Zeppelin.
Olentangy Scioto United is named after the two rivers, the Olentangy and the Scioto, that flow through northwest Columbus. The fact that Ohio State University is nearby and the club's acronym is OSU is definitely just a coincidence according to the team owners.
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8 years later...
Absolutely enormous collage of the first few weeks of 2032 in We Shall Overcome. Credit to, in no particular order, @ZeroFrame, @allthepresidentsmen, @Orchard (on AH.com), and @Whiteshore (on AH.com) for some of the ideas.
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Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley (17 October 1769 — 19 February 1837) [1] was a politician and landowner who served as Member of Parliament for Cheshire and succeeded his father as High Sheriff of Cheshire. Although elected as an independent, Darcy was broadly allied to the Whigs, as he was also a distant relation of William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam.
Darcy made little mark in Parliament, and was viewed by his contemporaries as a diffident and difficult character[Citation needed].